Re: Are legends humans?
@Palor0 I Like your line of thinking.
I Don't think they're clones though. That doesn't necessarily fit with any other details of the universe.
I personally have held the idea for a while now that the legends are "simply" subjected to a medical technology that can patch them up from recent death/near death.
In the beginning of Titanfall 2, Cooper is badly injured, and implied to be essentially near death. Lastimosa injects him with something telling him that "this will patch you up". Cooper later comes to, fully healthy again after the battle. I feel like it's this tech, perhaps refined over the span of time between games, that allows legends to fight to the "death" time and time again.
I feel this is backed up by a few loose threads here and there, and I feel as though this also could play a part in the larger lore and bits we've gotten so far.
For example....
I present the hypothesis, that upon dropping into the games, each legend is essentially "paired" with a medical device that will inject whatever nanobots/drugs/stem cells etc. necessary to revive a dead legend. I believe that upon death, an implant on the legends body detects death, and warps/teleports the legend to their assigned medical "pod" leaving behind only a death box with their gathered gear from the arena. Once out of the arena, the legend is revived/stabilized and kept on hold. Should that legends respawn banner be successfully taken to a beacon and used, the pod then fully revives the legend, and re-deploys them on a drop ship (caustic clearly gets a kick out of this). If the banner is not recovered, the legend is held until the end of the match (and possibly allowed to be revived slower after stabilizing).
I think this could be further evidenced by other bits of lore. In the first trailer it is said that the end of the frontier war brought chaos to the outlands and the "revival" of am old blood sport, the Apex Games. I think that the old games would have been permadeath, but in the rebooting of said games, the syndicate would have realized that the legends personas would be able to attract fans to their favorite legends and proved better potential to profit from the games. I feel as though this could have been a motivating factor behind the experiments performed on Wraith, as the syndicate could have been looking to perfect the tech that gets the legends out of the arena to be revived during the construction of Kings Canyon.
Furthermore, with the introduction of Crypto, and the season 3 trailer, I feel as though the plot thickens further as indicated by one simple line...
"Don't be an idiot"
Crypto says this to Mirage on the train after Mirage thought he was going to shoot him. While most I'm sure thought this was just a quip to show his disdain for Mirage, I think it goes deeper than that.
Crypto, being the hacker that discovered the prediction algorithm for the games, knows all this. I've seen videos saying he perhaps even worked for the syndicate on the systems for the games. As such, he knows the stakes having had his sister murdered after discovering something that could compromise the games profitability. As such, I think that crypto is uniquely aware that regardless of the technology used, it is ultimately up to the syndicate whether a legend lives or dies. By telling mirage to not be an idiot, he was advising him against flippantly chatting about kills as the dangerous Bangalore barrage came in.
TL/DR
Legends are people with advanced medical tech that essentially makes death reversible. The Syndicate holds control over a legends medical care however, and could allow them to permanently die if desired.
I Don't think they're clones though. That doesn't necessarily fit with any other details of the universe.
I personally have held the idea for a while now that the legends are "simply" subjected to a medical technology that can patch them up from recent death/near death.
In the beginning of Titanfall 2, Cooper is badly injured, and implied to be essentially near death. Lastimosa injects him with something telling him that "this will patch you up". Cooper later comes to, fully healthy again after the battle. I feel like it's this tech, perhaps refined over the span of time between games, that allows legends to fight to the "death" time and time again.
I feel this is backed up by a few loose threads here and there, and I feel as though this also could play a part in the larger lore and bits we've gotten so far.
For example....
I present the hypothesis, that upon dropping into the games, each legend is essentially "paired" with a medical device that will inject whatever nanobots/drugs/stem cells etc. necessary to revive a dead legend. I believe that upon death, an implant on the legends body detects death, and warps/teleports the legend to their assigned medical "pod" leaving behind only a death box with their gathered gear from the arena. Once out of the arena, the legend is revived/stabilized and kept on hold. Should that legends respawn banner be successfully taken to a beacon and used, the pod then fully revives the legend, and re-deploys them on a drop ship (caustic clearly gets a kick out of this). If the banner is not recovered, the legend is held until the end of the match (and possibly allowed to be revived slower after stabilizing).
I think this could be further evidenced by other bits of lore. In the first trailer it is said that the end of the frontier war brought chaos to the outlands and the "revival" of am old blood sport, the Apex Games. I think that the old games would have been permadeath, but in the rebooting of said games, the syndicate would have realized that the legends personas would be able to attract fans to their favorite legends and proved better potential to profit from the games. I feel as though this could have been a motivating factor behind the experiments performed on Wraith, as the syndicate could have been looking to perfect the tech that gets the legends out of the arena to be revived during the construction of Kings Canyon.
Furthermore, with the introduction of Crypto, and the season 3 trailer, I feel as though the plot thickens further as indicated by one simple line...
"Don't be an idiot"
Crypto says this to Mirage on the train after Mirage thought he was going to shoot him. While most I'm sure thought this was just a quip to show his disdain for Mirage, I think it goes deeper than that.
Crypto, being the hacker that discovered the prediction algorithm for the games, knows all this. I've seen videos saying he perhaps even worked for the syndicate on the systems for the games. As such, he knows the stakes having had his sister murdered after discovering something that could compromise the games profitability. As such, I think that crypto is uniquely aware that regardless of the technology used, it is ultimately up to the syndicate whether a legend lives or dies. By telling mirage to not be an idiot, he was advising him against flippantly chatting about kills as the dangerous Bangalore barrage came in.
TL/DR
Legends are people with advanced medical tech that essentially makes death reversible. The Syndicate holds control over a legends medical care however, and could allow them to permanently die if desired.
