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::Perhaps the Wilderness comes from another world in our galaxy or physical universe. This seems more or less synonymous with "another universe" for most intents and purposes, but with the added point that we might be able to travel there some day. This notion takes on more significance if | ::Perhaps the Wilderness comes from another world in our galaxy or physical universe. This seems more or less synonymous with "another universe" for most intents and purposes, but with the added point that we might be able to travel there some day. This notion takes on more significance if the characters of Oni 2 are finally able to "send back" the Wilderness to where it came from. Knowing that the Wilderness came from a certain part of space would mean that, perhaps one day, if we're ready for it, we could travel there and learn from that world. On the other hand, if the Wilderness is here to stay, then its coming from another planet is not especially meaningful. | ||
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::The end of the story reveals, ''Planet of the Apes''-style, that the world of the Wilderness is our own world, after millennia of time has passed. The phase veil was a portal through time, whether intentional or not. The Wilderness is our unavoidable future. | ::The end of the story reveals, ''Planet of the Apes''-style, that the world of the Wilderness is <u>our own</u> world, after millennia of time has passed. The phase veil was a portal through time, whether intentional or not. The Wilderness is our unavoidable future. | ||
:Fictional scientists have been known to accidentally open gates to worlds with dangerous life forms, so this is possibly what Hardy was thinking when he introduced phase technology. The interesting question is, If a scientist one day opened a portal to another world, and bad stuff came through, wouldn't he have closed it? If he was killed before he could do so, wouldn't the portal have eventually ceased functioning if the lab got overrun by hostile life? If so, is life continuing to come through the phase veil on its own, and by what means, and in which places? Or is the spreading Wilderness simply reflecting the success of this foreign life in starting from a single point of introduction and rapidly invading our biosphere? | |||
===How bad is the pollution and how is the world dealing with it?=== | ===How bad is the pollution and how is the world dealing with it?=== | ||