Vaults | Total Recall Vibe?
This just hit me like a ton of bricks.
The first vault on EOS, where you get a real good look at the massive structure inside that goes into the vault's operation and it's atmospheric processing (...
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I think it's a fair point to be connecting those two. Although it would seem the vaults aren't doing quite as massive a job as the total recall thing did.
Ancient alien terraforming hardware: Check!
Underground location: Check!
I think the intention was to actually do more to the planets, but it just wasn't possible visually. All the re-rendering that would have to happen, etc.
LOL The Citadel reminds me of Babylon5... And the Asari reminds me of the Delvians from Farscape. They are blue, have long lifespans, loves sex(in fact if I recall correctly think it's more mental than physical like the asari melding process), Zhann(the Delvian character in Farscape) uses the phrase "By the Goddess"... (farscape is aired in 1999, babylon 5 in 1994.)
http://aliens.wikia.com/wiki/Delvian
Found one more article,
http://sadgeezer.com/Farscape-Cultures-Delvians.htm
It's long so here's an extract:
"The man Zhaan killed was her lover – she killed him while in Union – a kind of merging of minds and souls which seems to be the Delvian equivalent to sex."
Errr... Reminds me of the Ardat Yakshi....
Fine line cutting across inspiration and plagiarism...
There's nothing new under the sun? It does have a Total Recall feel.
Most fiction borrows or builds on what came before it, with twists and interpretations that make it unique. It becomes harder and harder to think of something nobody has ever done before when you continually add to both the number of people creating things and the time they have been creating them. If you add the laws of physics in there, however loosely, there are only so many ways you can terraform without going completely alien or deux ex machina.
You have to have machines (something autonomous, capable of function in hostile environment, self repairing/replicating, doesn't care about time or scale) that do something, and on a gigantic scale (even if they were nanomachines), and they have to get power/material from somewhere. It is going to be advanced alien to us - if some undiscovered race did it and since we cannot do it ourselves.
