Protegen feels unrealistically competent and careless?
I just finished leviathan wakes and was curious if anyone else thought that protegen was extremely unrealistic in its portrayal. On the one hand, they’re able to manipulate the entirety of a human civilization that is much larger and more sophisticated than the current one. They have ships and technology that nobody else does. They have the capacity to murder millions and think they have a good chance of covering it up.
But they thought it was a good idea to place a technology that they don’t understand but do know is incredibly powerful in a place where they know it will become much more powerful? Especially dumb when this technology uses biological material to network and increase complexity. I get that scientists losing control of their experiment with disastrous consequences is a trope as old as science fiction, but this one strained credulity for me.