I can probably answer any question pertaining to the Star Wars expanded universe from the end of Return of the Jedi to the end of the New Jedi Order saga.
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Ooooh, in which case could you answer this for me then? I've never been majorly interested in the Expanded Universe much, but one thing has always bugged me. After the defeat of the Empire in ROTJ, how did the Rebellion end up becoming the New Republic? I mean, don't explain it fully, but did they have to clear up the remnants of the Empire or did they just send a fleet over to Coruscant or what? Surely it would take more than just killing the top brass to overthrow a galaxy-spanning empire, after all...?Amethyst Wind said:
Not quite. It's more they incorporate the questions into things so that you stop needing to ask them. Like, the big questions of the first season: What is the Island? What is the smoke monster? What are the numbers?Aby_Z said:
By the time season 3 comes around, NONE of that matters. It's a magic island. It's a smoke monster. They're magic numbers. There are more important things to ask. Is Desmond seeing the future? What are the Dharma stations for? Who are the Others?
Course, by the time THOSE get answered we end up pretty much where Machines describes.
I can answer any question pertaining to the Halo universe and/or Bioshock. I used to be quite the obsessive.
Of course, those few have been answered too by now. Warning, massive Season 6 spoilers ahead...StevieWonderMk2 said:
The island is apparently some sort of prison place where 'evil incarnate' (The Man in Black) is kept trapped and away from the rest of the world by a Guardian, formerly Jacob before his untimely (or possibly timely) death. However, the various scientific phenomena there that were explored by the Dharma Initiative are so far unexplained.
The Smoke Monster is one of the forms taken by The Man in Black.
The numbers refer to the remaining Candidates to succeed Jacob as Guardian of the Island. They are currently (Hugo 'Hurley') Reyes, (Jack) Shephard, (James 'Sawyer') Ford, (Sayid) Jarrah, and Kwan (either Jin or Sun), and formerly (John) Locke. The numbers also refer to the constants in the Valenzetti Equation, according to the ARG that accompanied Season 3. The equation predicts the end of the world and one of the tasks of the Dharma Initiative was to find a way to change any of these numbers and postpone the end of the world. Apparently, they failed.
Yes, he is. That was explained by a possible side-effect of what would later happen to him, where his mind kept travelling back to the past (as studied and experienced by Daniel Faraday).
The Dharma Stations were the remnants of the experimental stations set up by the Dharma Initiative, who were a group founded by the Hanso Foundation in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Apparently the Hanso family became curious some time in the Fifties or Sixties about their ancestor, Magnus Hanso, who was captain of a slave ship that was shipwrecked on the Island in the 1700s. Research meant they found the Island and so they set up the Dharma Initiative to study the curious scientific anomalies they found there, as well as other things. All that's left of the Initiative now is it's stations, plus the Lamp-post Station in LA which was used to keep track of the Island for the Initiative. One of it's objectives was also to change the constants in the Valenzetti Equation, as mentioned previously.
The Others are simply people brought to the Island by Jacob in an effort to prove to The Man in Black that humanity is not completely evil by default, and that humans are inherently good, not bad. However, the first people to be brought to the Island failed to show this, and only after Ricardo 'Richard' Alpert was brought there did other people start to show these traits and end up forming a community on the Island - The Others.
Hope all that clears up a few things for anyone curious
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Yes, it was.Totenkopf said:
In a couple of the audiotapes.
<spoiler=And when you confront him he says>"Now that I see you blood to blood, I know I could never kill you."
Another audiotape says that the Vita-Chambers are all keyed to Ryan's genetic code.
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It was said in an audio diary that Jack was the illegitamite son of Andrew Ryan and Jasmine something. They just took Jasmine's egg and biologically altered it
I haven't seen an episode that explains what happened to House's leg. Have they explained that?thecaptainof said:
I can't find a way to watch season 1-3 unless they come on Fox or something.
The Pearl? Monitoring station in theory. The people in The Pearl were presumably kept in isolation from the rest of the Dharma personnel at all times. They believed that they were conducting experiments into psychology there, when in fact they were the subjects themselves of a different experiment that was really being conducted. Imagine if the people who made the TV series Big Brother were being watched themselves, as part of a psychological experiment. That's what was happening at The Pearl. It was simply yet another Dharma experiment back in it's heyday.StevieWonderMk2 said:
Does Gordan have a family? I know that its never talked about in the game, but I distinctly remember seeing a picture of a child in his locker in the first game. You know, before he started the resident cascade. If he did have a family, why is there no mention of it in the second?
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I've seen a couple "zelda timeline theory" videos and stuff like that, but it still hasn't really answered my question about the "friend" Link was looking for when he walked into a parallel dimension, the world of Termina. Was it Navi? Why did Navi leave anyway? Sure, Link wasn't actually a Kokiri but there was no other reason for her having to leave him after Ocarina of Time... And why would Link go looking for her in the Lost Woods? That's a long-ass detour just waiting to happen (unless you use the internet as a walkthrough guide)
It's reasonable to assume that he does have a family somewhere, though there's no evidence to suggest that the child is Gordon's own. Remember, he's still in his twenties, he joined Black Mesa straight from his MIT postgrad degree, we're led to believe, so unless he got married and had kids while he was still at university then he doesn't have direct family. He probably has parents alive somewhere though, and maybe aunts or uncles. The child in the picture could be him when he was a kid, or a cousin, even. In any case, by the time he returns to Earth and 'normality' in HL2, it's been several years, and there was the Seven Hour War as well, so we can probably assume that he believes his family to be dead or missing. He knew people like Eli and Kleiner from Black Mesa, but there's nothing to suggest they knew his family too. Whatever the situation though, it's open for anyone to speculate. Until Valve chooses to define a family and personal life for Gordon, there's nothing canon about it and so we simply don't know.Snowalker said:
