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Old 2011-03-10, 17:37   Link #1007
Rising Dragon
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Originally Posted by fukarming View Post
Really? It is the ELS who start "attacking" Earth with no warning whatsoever - way before Descartes show any hostile QBWs. I feel very bad for those with the innovade genes who become metal scrap (those people die, right? the highschool girl only got saved (did she even get saved?) because they rush her to the lab. I feel even worse when the alien cause the subway accident killing lots of innocent people.

We know that if you let the metal touch you, you got assimilated and thus, die. Descartes only fire when the metal stuff are chasing him. So he should just sit there and let the metal stuff eat him? Actually Setsuna did just that and almost die in the middle of the movie when he tries to communicate with the alien (If tierie did not sacrifice himself, Setsuna is already dead and Earth would be destroyed)
The ELS weren't attacking--they simply assimilated a derelict spaceship to use it as a research probe and sent it towards the only sign of life in the solar system. And then humanity blew it up--Descartes was the one to do that too. The incidents on Earth were just the surviving ELS continuing their mission, to learn, and they do that by assimilating. At that point it was the only method they knew about. As for the half-assimilated victims, no, presumably they are saved just as Amia was. In fact, supplementary materials reveal that after the war, many people became Innovators because of the partial assimilation by the ELS, and I doubt all of it was voluntary after the war. Amia's certainly wasn't. It started another war, too, but that's neither here nor now.

The ELS targeting the Ptolemaios II was the same deal--hell, they even took on the form of their research probe to do so. They were similarly attracted--after all, they had both an Innovator there, and two humans augmented to have higher quantum brainwave abilities than normal, never mind the rest of the crew, who may be in a similar boat due to their more frequent exposure to Trans-AM and the Trans-AM Burst.

And then when the ELS come out in force, humanity went to them, and what was the first thing they did? Descartes flew out and started blowing them up. While broadcasting all his frustration. At that point, the ELS had pretty much figured humanity to be a hostile force they needed to defend themselves from. Let us not forget that prior to that, the ELS weren't headed towards Earth, a detail mentioned in the ESF assembly scene.
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