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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SKyOdin" data-source="post: 5177536" data-attributes="member: 57939">Okay, here is an alternative theory about the FTL drive sabotage incident. First off, we know that the FTL drive is full of safety features, to the point that the FTL drive blowing up couldn't be an accident. However, such safety features also should mean that sabotage should be very difficult. Logically speaking, performing sabotage like this requires access to either the ships core systems or direct access to the FTL drive in question (which was way outside the habitable area). It would probably also require time. Now then, the woman who blacked out and supposedly carried out the sabotage probably wasn't out for very long, and there isn't much evidence that she was in any of the control rooms or in a space-suit during that time. Certainly the alien signaled the other aliens during that time, but I am not convinced that it was able to carry out the sabotage.Now let's look at the results of the sabotage: the lost crew members are miraculously able to return and the ship's most inefficient engine is removed so that it can cross the void between galaxies. The total net result was positive for the ship and its crew. My bet, the Destiny sabotaged itself. It might have intentionally triggered the overload, and bet on the crew being able to fix the damaged section. It can respond to its own needs and the needs of the crew after all. At the same time, it is trapped following a fixed route and demanding schedule. It behaves somewhat like an Asimovian robot, trapped between the demands of conflicting Laws. For such a robot, blowing itself up is an acceptable solution to a complicated problem, and it makes sense that it couldn't use a more rational solution.The fact that Franklin suddenly became a bit more lucid in the immediate aftermath of the sabotage might corroborate this theory. He was needed in order to finish the repairs on the ship, and he seemed to know exactly what he was needed to do, even though no one told him what was going on in the ship.This is still all conjecture, but I think it is more likely than the Lucian Alliance theory at least.</blockquote>

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