Before entering the world of "Spirit Cage", Lin Yue saw questions from netizens when he was searching for information on the Internet, saying that NIRVAN company has been able to clone human cultured organs for various transplant surgeries, and has even achieved success in gene editing and recombinant engineering. With remarkable achievements, eternal life (also called ascension) has been put on the agenda and is no longer an unattainable fantasy.
However, when we get to the lighthouse, we have to build some kind of Dawn Hall to reproduce the population. It is so low that the screenwriter is writing the script with his forehead in mind.
It wasn't until he entered Carrie's office and decrypted the files on the computer that he realized it was all a conspiracy.
In other words, the entire lighthouse is just a corner of Truman's world.
In the first year of the Lighthouse, the prisoners of Tartarus Sky Prison reconciled with the prison guards, and the floating city was renamed the Lighthouse, and the era of "Spirit Cage" began.
What about people outside the lighthouse? Or what about people who have left the earth?
Considering the situation of the R49 interstellar spacecraft and the old-era slogans in the film, it can be seen that mankind has initially mastered interstellar colonization technology, and has exhausted the resources of the moon and caused disasters on the earth. It is absolutely unjustifiable to say that a base has not been established on Mars.
So here comes the question. As giant vines continue to encroach on the space for human activities, some people must leave the earth and go to live on Mars. The conditions may be more difficult, but it is better than living precariously on the earth.
Who are the people who have left the earth?
Obviously, only the rich, elites, and high-end talents can get tickets for "Arknights".
These talents are the symbols of human civilization. To put it bluntly, a university professor with a wealth of knowledge and an old bachelor who has never left the county in his life, who can best represent human civilization? Who is more valuable alive?
Although it is too dark and cruel to say this, in a doomsday environment, university professors are the spark for the reconstruction and continuation of human civilization, and the value of old bachelors is much lower.
Everyone has feelings about their hometown. Do these people stop paying attention to the ecological changes in their hometown after leaving the earth? How can it be!
Not to mention that Mars and the moon are not far from the earth, and there is a space station in low-Earth orbit. An air prison like Tartaro has farms to grow vegetables and fruits, raise livestock, etc., as well as huge complexes like space stations and even colonies. The technology is definitely higher and the conditions are definitely better.
The ground has fallen and has become a paradise for pole-devouring beasts. So where will the outpost for observing Mana's ecology be located? Low Earth orbit?
It's certainly a good choice, but what's even better? Do you have?
have!
lighthouse.
This floating city is the best observation window, a hub for integrating ground intelligence, and an excellent outpost laboratory.
For five years, the lighthouse was besieged by people on the ground and suffered heavy losses. Why did the people on the ground besiege the lighthouse? For food? For resources? The history teacher at the lighthouse couldn't explain it clearly either.
After twelve years in the lighthouse, Bai Yuekui saved Morgan, why did he leave the lighthouse again? There is no explanation in the film.
Here, everything is answered.
Survivors from outside the earth requested that the lighthouse become an outpost for human civilization to counterattack the Mana ecology. Morgan agreed with this decision, and the first city lord who promoted Morgan to be the city lord probably had the same idea. However, the ground Will the survivors stick with them?
The answer is impossible.
Those elites, rich people, and upper class pursued immortality and made a mess on the earth. When they were done, they walked away, leaving behind a bunch of Lutherers, diaosi, and ecological refugees lingering on the earth. Now this group of people suddenly jumped out and Are they pointing fingers at them from outside the earth and asking them to fight hard to rebuild their home and regain the earth and Mana ecology that belong to mankind?
Different values and life creeds form a tear in the lighthouse. Those who believe in sacrificing the individual for the sake of the greater self stay, while those who do not agree with this concept are forced to leave the lighthouse. There may be violent incidents, but there are far less historical records. So tragic, why fabricate history? It's just an excuse for the top management of the lighthouse to ban the reception of surface refugees and gather (brainwash) the lighthouse residents into like-minded people.
Later, when Bai Yuekui came to the lighthouse, it didn't matter how the conflict occurred. I think she had seen through the nature of the lighthouse. Although she had the same goal as Morgan and the late city lord, there were difficult differences in their attitudes towards heaven and humans. The reconciled contradictions left the surface of the earth in a fit of anger.
This is why at the end of the series, completely different technological trends develop in the sky and on the ground.
People on the ground have begun to adapt to the environment and use the various characteristics of Mana's ecology to rebuild their lives - although they are huddled under the surface like mice.
The lighthouse still maintains the technological style of the old era. Lin Yue has been thinking about a problem for a long time. Once something like civilization suffers a heavy blow - the industrial system will be devastated, the environment will be destroyed, elites will die in large numbers, and talent will be cut off... Even if there are survivors, it is basically impossible to rebuild civilization and improve the technology tree. Let alone the Sanxingdui civilization, can the war kill all the ancient Shu people? No, productivity was just like that at that time, and so-called "science and technology" were not too complicated. However, what was the result of a war? Ethnic civilization is buried by time, and history is dusty.
In a doomsday environment, senior engineers, scientists, industry leaders... can these leaders be encountered casually and recruited to the lighthouse? Without full coverage of talents in basic disciplines, how difficult would it be to build a community system that combines military capabilities, scientific research and development, maintenance management, comprehensive education, and overall planning with above-average capabilities?
Could a group of prisoners and guards do such a thing? impossible! The result of barbaric development can only be that things get worse day by day.
So...where do Lighthouse's various technological reserves and ethnic growth experience come from? Without a certain level of guidance, in 1951, it would have fallen into decline, instead of developing in a decent way. The hunters' collection of surface materials can only feed the mouths of the lighthouse residents, and it is impossible to bring tomorrow and hope. So why is Morgan so confident in resisting the Mana ecology? Looking forward to the day when you can return to the surface world and not become a slave to power like Charles?
Just because of Mark? From the plot point of view, it was not until Mark was parasitized by the spinal cord and mutated that he became a bridge. In the past, Mark was just a hunter, it was that simple.
Or...Morgan's pattern is huge? What is it that supports a person’s spiritual structure? ideal? Haha... An ideal without a sense of reality is called fantasy, and one of the characteristics of being a city lord is that he has a sense of reality far beyond that of ordinary people.
Therefore, it is obvious that the courage to counterattack Mana did not come from one person, let alone illusory spiritual wealth. Only the group of people living in the sky are qualified to be his solid backing.
Back to the settings of the Dawn Hall.
The purpose of cloning human bodies by NIRVANA is to harvest organs to treat patients. If the lighthouse population is all cloned, it will inevitably lead to genetic homogeneity, causing this small society to lack diversity and lose the possibility of evolution.
Things like genes determine human growth and individual differences. To edit them, it is not like creating a new drawing board and using the mouse to paint on it to create a painting. 99.9999% of the changes It will cause physical defects. What is the point of such cloning? It can only be a waste of resources.
Human reproduction, the union of sperm and eggs, is a small miracle like a stroke of genius. The process has a high error tolerance. In other words, the probability of deformity and premature death is very small, which cannot be simulated by gene editing technology.
This is why humans have mastered cloning technology, and why lighthouses have set up Dawn Halls. The real purpose of the breeding mission is not to increase the population, but to carry out survival of the fittest at the genetic level. The three laws are said to ensure the survival of human beings. In fact, This is all to turn the lighthouse into a practical genetic screening field to prepare for the future counterattack on Mana.
The biochemistry institute led by Dr. Carrie records the genetic data of all babies. These are the most valuable assets - the basis for mass production of Linyuans, because only the best genes can adapt to the Mana ecology.
Later in the series, Morgan said that the late city lord found Mark somewhere based on the prompts from the brain. He thought that Mark would lead the lighthouse to defeat the Mana ecology when he grew up, but he turned out to be a human being connected to the Mana ecology. Bridge, Mark became the first person to cross the abyss, although it was somewhat different from what he imagined.
In other words, the high-sounding things promoted by Morgan and the Light and Shadow Society he indulged are all to cover up this cruel fact. Just like what Downey said at the beginning when he was parasitized by the Spinal Gu, the body is all body...
Well, it would be better to say that they are all biochemical weapons. Everyone on the lighthouse is a clone mark with different faces and IDs.
Although everything done is for the great proposition of reviving mankind, or the great salvation.
(End of chapter)
