| From: | "Paul J. Adam" <shadowtk@********.DEMON.CO.UK> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: An Answer |
| Date: | Wed, 1 Jan 1997 13:15:04 +0000 |
>>>>>[Okay, I told you my notion was kind of weird, but I'm seeing more
and more evidence to support it.
Thunda had a vatbody grown - DocWagon technique, clone a body to use as
a standing reserve for spare parts - and it was magically or otherwise
controlled. The vatbodies tend to be pretty good dittos - I know, I'm
wearing most of one's left arm - but have vestigial to no higher brain
functions. Easy to control, in other words.
Explains the near-perfect cleanliness of the blood, the glazed eyes, the
lack of cyber, the exact matchup between his records and the body, even
the fluids found in the area.
Cloning a _functional_ organism - in terms of intelligence, motor
function, whatever - everyone says can't be done. Cloning a physical
copy - a vegetative duplicate - is reputedly possible.
As for the bugs, we got a location on a tough hive, I got a team
together and went after them, they were gone by the time we got there.
And that's neither a common event nor a Good Thing, since we've got a
hivegroup mobile in the city looking for a new home.
I'd guess Thunda is still alive and Easy nailed a copy, a clone, a fake,
details not yet available. When he went down, his backers retrieved the
body because it risked giving that fact away: the fact that it not only
had no cyber, but appeared to _never_ have had cyber; I'd guess it was
missing the scars and other injuries Thunda had acquired during a busy
life too. No wonder they wanted it removed.
Might be worth grabbing all the footage we can find of the immediate
aftermath of the hospital bombing. Then check vehicles: make sure all
those ambulances and cop cars were really ambulances and cop cars, and
match the dispatch records. Long shot, maybe, but we might get something
on who or what extracted the body.]<<<<<
-- Lynch <13:15:34/01-01-57>
