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How did protomolecule break containment to alter Duarte? (lemmy.nz)

submitted 9 months ago by florencia@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/theexpanse@lemmy.world

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At the beginning of Persepolis Rising Cortazar explains that the human stem cells injected into Duarte were altered by the proto molecule. I'm guessing they then removed the proto-molecule from the stem cells before injecting them into Duarte. This was to mimic the drone repairs on Laconia.

My question is: How did the proto molecule defeat this big constraint and mind control Duarte? Cortazar was explicitly removing it from the stem cells. The molecule could only "perfect" the stem cells in regard to efficiencies the ring builders knew of. But by Leviathan falls they definitely have full control of Duarte anyways.

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[–] jve@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

They don’t really get into the “how” of it all with the protomolecule, far as I can remember.

Duarte has them going full out with their experiments on him, and it’s frankly never really clear that it’s mind controlling him at all.

It “shows him” how great it will be if all of civilization is one big hive mind, during his big “sleep” in Tiamats wrath, and when he wakes up in Leviathan Falls, he’s like “oh yeah, I just wasn’t thinking big enough!”

Frankly it fits his narcissistic tendencies pretty well, especially since he gets to be the one to make it happen.