Haha, yeah! Even the 'good version' of her origin that Blaze is attached to goes 'I was a killing machine who fought a losing war, then got raised from the dead to fight another endless war between powers none of us understand.' She doesn't need to add dubious corporate practices to that tally, thank you!
She absolutely does need to have that talk with Adia and Caspar someday, I'm so looking forward to all the Cylon revelations. :3
Ghost has a clear origin, though! So the whole Golden Age thing was kicked off/nurtured by the Traveler swooping in to gently uplift humanity, and then when things went to hell it fought the Darkness to defend them. A stalemate seems to have occurred: the Darkness didn't win outright, but human civilization essentially collapsed and the Traveler was grievously wounded. Its last action was spawning the Ghosts - their job is to seek out people with the strength/potential to wield the Traveler's power in its stead, thus creating Guardians. Said people are chosen almost exclusively from the ancient dead, but then that is the biggest demographic available...
Canon tells us that much, and that Ghosts have individual names they only seem to use among themselves. How they choose their Guardians is a mystery within the game, and there is a great deal of argument, but personal virtue is unlikely to be the only factor. It's not even clear if the Ghosts are consciously aware. No-one knows if new Ghosts are being created, but sad to say a portion of them never do find their Guardians. You find quite a lot of dead Ghosts scattered around the game areas...
I'm trying to play around more with the stark divide between 'Before Guardian' (centuries of lonely, obsessive searching and information gathering) and 'After Guardian', when suddenly it's all running into the battles and trying to counsel/babysit your new amnesiac soldier companion. Also Ghost doesn't know it yet, but if he ever watches human romances all those tropes about soulmates and finding 'the One' at first sight are going to hit such a chord. Sure, he knows it's not realistic for humans, but it is for him...
I AM *STILL* TALKIIIING... /Maui
She absolutely does need to have that talk with Adia and Caspar someday, I'm so looking forward to all the Cylon revelations. :3
Ghost has a clear origin, though! So the whole Golden Age thing was kicked off/nurtured by the Traveler swooping in to gently uplift humanity, and then when things went to hell it fought the Darkness to defend them. A stalemate seems to have occurred: the Darkness didn't win outright, but human civilization essentially collapsed and the Traveler was grievously wounded. Its last action was spawning the Ghosts - their job is to seek out people with the strength/potential to wield the Traveler's power in its stead, thus creating Guardians. Said people are chosen almost exclusively from the ancient dead, but then that is the biggest demographic available...
Canon tells us that much, and that Ghosts have individual names they only seem to use among themselves. How they choose their Guardians is a mystery within the game, and there is a great deal of argument, but personal virtue is unlikely to be the only factor. It's not even clear if the Ghosts are consciously aware. No-one knows if new Ghosts are being created, but sad to say a portion of them never do find their Guardians. You find quite a lot of dead Ghosts scattered around the game areas...
I'm trying to play around more with the stark divide between 'Before Guardian' (centuries of lonely, obsessive searching and information gathering) and 'After Guardian', when suddenly it's all running into the battles and trying to counsel/babysit your new amnesiac soldier companion. Also Ghost doesn't know it yet, but if he ever watches human romances all those tropes about soulmates and finding 'the One' at first sight are going to hit such a chord. Sure, he knows it's not realistic for humans, but it is for him...