Spoilers Pluribus

[plecostomus]

Yes, we know almost nothing.... I was looking for hypothetical ideas. Should have been more clear.

I assume they aren't joined with creatures on other planets, or they'd have a way to feed themselves. They don't seem to have brought knowledge of advanced technology with them? Like, do we think they only know what humans know on earth?

The virus is probably joined on every planet it colonizes. Otherwise it can't send the signal on to reach more planets. The behavior for hive created on Earth probably combines the knowledge of all the people it absorbed (including the knowledge that it got here via a signal sent into space) and its "biological imperative" to keep colonizing.

edit: If it hasn't already used technology we have, the hive is certainly thinking about or in the process of building some giant antenna somewhere to send the next signal.

 

[Morrus]

I assume they aren't joined with creatures on other planets, or they'd have a way to feed themselves. They don't seem to have brought knowledge of advanced technology with them? Like, do we think they only know what humans know on earth?

Well, the aliens aren't here, just the virus. The only info they transmitted was the formula to make the virus. So the 'they' on Earth are just humans with the virus, they aren't the aliens and don't have the aliens' knowledge. At least, not that we're aware of.

 

[Zaukrie]

Well, the aliens aren't here, just the virus. The only info they transmitted was the formula to make the virus. So the 'they' on Earth are just humans with the virus, they aren't the aliens and don't have the aliens' knowledge. At least, not that we're aware of.

Agreed. Which raises the question, why? What are they gaining? They aren't expanding their reach. They aren't escaping their solar system. They aren't really reproducing.

Are they trying to change others for moral reasons? If so, how do they expect them to survive?

 

[Stalker0]

Agreed. Which raises the question, why? What are they gaining? They aren't expanding their reach. They aren't escaping their solar system. They aren't really reproducing.

Are they trying to change others for moral reasons? If so, how do they expect them to survive?

Perhaps ifs a robotic species that sees organic life as destructive to the universe, and wants to quietly and mostly painlessly take them out

 

[Stalker0]

edit: If it hasn't already used technology we have, the hive is certainly thinking about or in the process of building some giant antenna somewhere to send the next signal.

The main issue with replication is, we really have no way to know how to build the virus for the next species.

To do what this virus does would require intricate knowledge of a species genetic code to allow for engineering.

I guess you could assume that the virus is so incredibly well made that it just adapts to whatever species it encounters…but the issue is that the message we got were earth based nucleic acids. So that means the signal was tailored to our biology…how did they know?

We may not get an answer to that which is honestly fine…the virus is already fully in crazy sci fi territory so if you accept the basic premise these kind of details are pretty minor

 

[Morrus]

Perhaps ifs a robotic species that sees organic life as destructive to the universe, and wants to quietly and mostly painlessly take them out

I dunno that starving to death is painless. It’s quite a horrible way to go.

 

[Stalker0]

I dunno that starving to death is painless. It’s quite a horrible way to go.

I’m not sure they still feel pain in the same way, they may just not care

 

[Zaukrie]

Perhaps ifs a robotic species that sees organic life as destructive to the universe, and wants to quietly and mostly painlessly take them out

A similar thought occurred to me, but I'm not sure that's a show that gets made?

 

[Morrus]

I’m not sure they still feel pain in the same way, they may just not care

I don't see anything to indicate they don't experience pain. But if that were the case, a "mostly painless" way take them out is therefore redundant. Why not just make it a lethal virus?

 

[Zaukrie]

How does a species that is 100 percent happy improve things? If you aren't dissatisfied, do you ever invent anything new? Most inventions solve a problem, but if you're always happy, what problem do you have other than eating?