We're functioning with only a very small portion of the puzzle. It's like trying to solve a murder case that's a decade old with only the barest of evidence remaining at hand.
What you've been able to accomplish with so little to work from is a marvel.
Yes, we're clearly missing something. And we can start chipping away at it, especially since we didn't know it was missing until now.
It'll come. It'll take a little longer than it would otherwise, because you're working with next to no resources, and we keep interrupting your work with various fires that need putting out which can't help. But you'll get it sorted. You will. I have every faith.
The sheer amount of energy that it took to put all those people to sleep in the first place is nearly unimaginable. We're dealing with things on a massive scale, things we've never encountered before.
We're also dealing with a paranoid, secretive lot who tend to create all sorts of modifications on things that make it difficult to replicate. They want control. They want it exclusive. That suggests they set it up to use materials only they can access, but the materials have to be plentiful enough to wake a few thousand people on fairly short notice. Or that it's a truly obscure solution that only a handful of people would have knowledge of to begin with.
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Re: Private message to Alice
Date: 2014-12-08 06:47 am (UTC)What you've been able to accomplish with so little to work from is a marvel.
Yes, we're clearly missing something. And we can start chipping away at it, especially since we didn't know it was missing until now.
It'll come. It'll take a little longer than it would otherwise, because you're working with next to no resources, and we keep interrupting your work with various fires that need putting out which can't help. But you'll get it sorted. You will. I have every faith.
The sheer amount of energy that it took to put all those people to sleep in the first place is nearly unimaginable. We're dealing with things on a massive scale, things we've never encountered before.
We're also dealing with a paranoid, secretive lot who tend to create all sorts of modifications on things that make it difficult to replicate. They want control. They want it exclusive. That suggests they set it up to use materials only they can access, but the materials have to be plentiful enough to wake a few thousand people on fairly short notice. Or that it's a truly obscure solution that only a handful of people would have knowledge of to begin with.