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Nathan
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1091 posts		 Jan-23-14, 09:13 PM (EST)
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"Rereading the Last Two Chapters of Twilight"
 
   > "It happens," she said, "that an Earthman wrote a series of
> books back in the early twentieth century which involves a force of
> galactic police who had that very problem, and this was the device
> their hyperintelligent alien patrons came up with to solve it for
> them: the Lens. I made this one for a lark, back when I first read
> the books, never figuring I'd need it for anything... but after the
> battle, while I was working on the Engine restart code, I had a
> glimpse of what's to come, and realized it would be needed after all,
> so I brought it with me."

Emphasis mine.

Skuld thought of the Lenses... while she was programming reality.

Is that why she's so confident the Lenses can't be spoofed or copied? Because she integrated their workings at a level of reality that, if anyone else accesses it, Our Heroes have far greater problems than just fake Lenses? Why the Test Of Light is administered by the Lens itself, rather than being under Skuld's control, so that even if anyone does copy her access to that 'file' of Yggdrasil, it would still only produce 'real Lensmen'?

-----

"V, did you do something foolish?"

"Yes, and it was glorious."


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The Traitor
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632 posts		 Jan-24-14, 10:52 AM (EST)
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1. "RE: Rereading the Last Two Chapters of Twilight"
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   This might also explain why her error of judgement only happened once. Hotfixes to reality and all that.

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clg
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107 posts		 Jan-24-14, 07:34 PM (EST)
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2. "RE: Rereading the Last Two Chapters of Twilight"
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   > Skuld thought of the Lenses... while she was programming reality.

Well, no. She thought of them, and built the first one, when she first read the books that inspired them. She just dug them up again after the restart.

- Chad


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Gryphonadmin
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3. "RE: Rereading the Last Two Chapters of Twilight"
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   >> Skuld thought of the Lenses... while she was programming reality.
>
>Well, no. She thought of them, and built the first one, when she first
>read the books that inspired them. She just dug them up again after
>the restart.

You're kind of both right, depending on your interpretation of "thought of". She'd made the first one, more or less on a whim, quite some time before the Ragnarök. She was definitely thinking about the Lens concept, and the impending need for it, while she was reprogramming the Engine, though; and so the OP's thesis is far from out of the question.

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