The One [spoilers]

[Chad32]

If I was going to give the One a backstory, I'd probably have him be to the kelbrids what the Ellemist is to the Pamalites and Crayak is to the Howlers. And since no description is given for Kelbrids, they could be anything.

What do you think of him forming a mouth for Ax and speaking through it. do you think he's able to completely control Ax's morphing, or might it me something else?

[Azguard]

 yeah, that sounds about right. The One to the Kelbrids.

 Uh... what if its some hologram thingy and not actual flesh? Or maybe it is total assimilation with a corruption of the original creature's thoughts

[Chad32]

It can be anything really. Maybe that really was a corrupted Ax talking.

[bizarrocarlos]

i always thought that kaa wanted book 41 to be an introduction to a new villain (kinda like book 6 introduced crayak) then changed her mind( like how book 1 has jake using thought speak and morphing not healing injuries.) then threw in the ending with the one as a tease.
Post Merged: March 13, 2010, 10:09:10 PMwait i got it. back in book 25 (the extreme!!!!!11 ) ax is explaining how the venber went extinct, he says some race called "the five" was behind it. maybe the five were all absorbed by some reason or other and became "the one"
"maybe they live between the four and the five" said marco.
and to quote ax:"the five are no longer in existence. soon after we encountered them for the first time.....well, no one knows for certain what happened to the five."

[Azguard]

that would make sense!

 the One, then... the Five. Yes!

[Gafrash]

The link between The One and The Five is feasible in the Aniverse, me thinks. Weren't The Five extinct? One could say The Cryak was behind it and formed the creature we know of as The One?!?!!

[Azguard]

 it would make sense if the andalites didn't know what happened to them because....they crossed into Kelbrid space!

[Silk]

I'm just going to make a note about some common speculation.

Lots of people assume that The One was the being in book 41 (responsible for the alternate reality Jake saw). Well, recently, someone asked K. A. Applegate about that directly. She and Michael Grant answered that: "The One is a purely future creation/event, not entwined in the backstory." Source

Therefore, it was not responsible for the events of the 41st book.

[VisserZer0]

Well, that just plain sucks. Hard. And do you know why?? Because that means #41 was just another one of those pointless placeholder books that doesn't really serve a purpose. Man...

On a side note: NOOO! AFF has discovered our plans and is now attempting to copy the greatness that is RAF! Revolt, man the Hork-Bajir, get the Visser--lol I'll stop now.

[Alic]

What plans?

[Galladerotom]

Actually the animorphs article one wikipedia said it had to do with something that absorbed the Ellimist (turns out the bits about the ending with total bull some moron made up).

The problem with the one is that we know so little about it that we can only guess at what it is. Analyzing the animorphs is like trying to analyze a sitcom, their are masses of contradictions and things that don't make sense in the real world.

The only thing we can be sure of is that the one has a source of Kandrona as the yeerk homeworld was taken and all the other yeerks became nothlits. The one could produce kandrona naturally and the Yeerks came to worship it like the ancient cultures worshiped the sun.

Once again that is just my best guess.

[VisserZer0]

What plans?

I dunno, really. I was just shouting randomly.

[Silk]

Actually the animorphs article one wikipedia said it had to do with something that absorbed the Ellimist (turns out the bits about the ending with total bull some moron made up).

The problem with the one is that we know so little about it that we can only guess at what it is. Analyzing the animorphs is like trying to analyze a sitcom, their are masses of contradictions and things that don't make sense in the real world.

The only thing we can be sure of is that the one has a source of Kandrona as the yeerk homeworld was taken and all the other yeerks became nothlits. The one could produce kandrona naturally and the Yeerks came to worship it like the ancient cultures worshiped the sun.

Once again that is just my best guess.

That is as good a theory as any I've heard. The Blade ship presumably has its own pool and Kandrona generator, but the generators don't last forever. After three years in space, it'd probably run out.

[JFalcon]

The Blade ship presumably has its own pool and Kandrona generator, but the generators don't last forever. After three years in space, it'd probably run out.

I don't see why; if it were properly maintained (and let's face it, it would be, it's unlikely they wouldn't have had the means aboard the ship and if they did they could have stopped off at the nearest Yeerk stronghold for what they needed before the empire fully crumbled) its lifespan could easily be as long if not longer than the ship's. Unless it went without proper maintainance for years--maybe decades--three years seems ridiculously short for a ship that could spend that length of time on assignment away from resupply. On a Yeerk ship a Kandrona generator for the onboard pool would easily be as important as the walls, and they may have linked up with other Yeerk ships, allowing them to swap parts, or even build entirely new generators as needed.

In Visser they had portable generator that lasted them quite a long time and a portable model shouldn't last longer than one meant to feed an entire crew on a vessel. Even if we assume it came from their Bugfighter--before they destroyed it--a capital ship such as a Pool or Blade Ship should have a more durable model aboard I would expect.

[Silk]

The Blade ship presumably has its own pool and Kandrona generator, but the generators don't last forever. After three years in space, it'd probably run out.

I don't see why; if it were properly maintained (and let's face it, it would be, it's unlikely they wouldn't have had the means aboard the ship and if they did they could have stopped off at the nearest Yeerk stronghold for what they needed before the empire fully crumbled) its lifespan could easily be as long if not longer than the ship's. Unless it went without proper maintainance for years--maybe decades--three years seems ridiculously short for a ship that could spend that length of time on assignment away from resupply. On a Yeerk ship a Kandrona generator for the onboard pool would easily be as important as the walls, and they may have linked up with other Yeerk ships, allowing them to swap parts, or even build entirely new generators as needed.

In Visser they had portable generator that lasted them quite a long time and a portable model shouldn't last longer than one meant to feed an entire crew on a vessel. Even if we assume it came from their Bugfighter--before they destroyed it--a capital ship such as a Pool or Blade Ship should have a more durable model aboard I would expect.

I halfway agree with you. Three years is pretty short for a big-time Kandrona generator like the one the Blade ship probably has. But we don't know how long they've had that particular one. Maybe the Visser got a new one just before book 53. Or maybe he's been going on that one for the last ten years. We've really got no way of knowing.