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Ketrans: The uninet
« on: February 24, 2011, 08:14:38 AM »
Ellimist chronicles was my favorite Animorphs book of all time, so I thought I'd ask you guys some questions that I didn't get the answer too.

The ketran Uninet; in TEC Toomin says that the uninet is barely a century old, but it seems to me that most ketrans live in there heads. They talk via the uninet, learn via the uninet, and played via the uninet. All the ketrans needed real life for was feeding and docking to keep the crystals afloat.

That said, how do you think the uninet worked? What were, in your opinion, the specifics of it? Also, how did the game that the Ellimist so loved work?
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Re: Ketrans: The uninet
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2011, 10:28:06 AM »

I always assumed it was thought-speech later refined into a form of "Global Internet." That said, I love The Ellimist Chronicles too! How DID the Ellimist make himself into a machine?!

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Re: Ketrans: The uninet
« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2011, 01:09:03 PM »
Using the knowledge of all the technicians that were stored in his mind after he absorbed Father. You have to figure that some races are more advanced then others and that some races contain the missing puzzle pieces to the science of other races and vice-versa. Using the carefully combined knowledge of all the tecs that he had, he made himself into a machine. I could guess at the specifics of it, but I don't feel like writing an Ellimist paper right now...
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Re: Ketrans: The uninet
« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2011, 01:19:56 PM »

Do tell, do tell. I love hearing information in geekitude! ;D

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Re: Ketrans: The uninet
« Reply #4 on: February 24, 2011, 03:20:06 PM »
That's one of the reasons I love the game spore so much, I feel like the I'm the Ellimist or some other Ketran whenever I play it
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Re: Ketrans: The uninet
« Reply #5 on: February 24, 2011, 11:16:42 PM »
That is an interesting point, about the uninet being so ingrained in their culture despite being only a century old.  However, it's possible that whatever came before the uninet was something similar to it, maybe like our internet.  And even before that, I picture the early Ketrans as being a very imaginative, social, and interconnected race.  All they get to do all day is flap their wings, and that would get very boring very fast if they didn't have lots of people to talk to and stories to tell.

As for how the uninet actually works, it almost seems to connect through the crystals themselves (hence why crystal-to-crystal transmission is so difficult).  Perhaps the crystals have some sort of natural conductive properties?  Like, they have some sort of internal structure (possibly enhanced by artificial construction to improve the pre-existing natural network) that allows thoughts to be quickly transferred from Ketran to Ketran, a little like artificial thought-speak?  This would also explain why the uninet seems to be activated only when the Ketrans are docked with the crystal.