u/shadmere

Isn't it a fairly gigantic plot point that none of the Great Enemy has ever been captured by the Carryx?

I know that for awhile, all signs were pointing to the Great Enemy/Deathless Enemy being the primary human civilization. I think after the second book, it's at least possible that humans are only part of this enemy, or perhaps being used by the enemy as pawns against the Carryx, or something like that? But at the very least, we know that humans are part of the Enemy.

And it's a major, big, hush-hush secret, right? Main character research group can't let the Carryx know that they're from the same origin as The Enemy, right? I know that Dafyd and the Swarm have talked about how humans can't be the whole of the enemy, or at least they can't be the whole enemy throughout all of history, but they're certainly a major part of it, if they've just happened to be about in proximity to several places Main Character Research Group has stumbled into.

Maybe the Carryx are just lying about the "never caught one" thing, I guess? But they seemed extremely happy to capture anything they ever do capture. (I suppose I am assuming that the Livesuit they showed captured in book 1 had no human in it. During that book, I figured it was entirely artificial/grown, and after Livesuits, I'm assuming it was entirely . . . uh . . . mature? Whatever term you'd use for that.) But that still leaves a large number of standard humans we see in the novella "Livesuits" literally being led around in chains.

You'd think, "We found this group of human animals on this planet, and they're the same as other groups of human animals we've collected dozens of times before from planets defended by the Great Enemy" would have been something that would have come up, at least during Carryx POV segments. I suppose that sort of information hiding is not uncommon in fiction, so I can't be upset about it or anything. But still feels odd. So what's with all the humans being captured throughout the events of Livesuits? I must be just blindly missing something.

Edited to make clear "Humans in Livesuits" was meant as "humans in the book Livesuits," not "humans inside the Livesuit armor."

I'm using the GOG install of Under a Killing Moon. My guess is something to do with the DOSBOX it's running, but not sure.

This is completely inconsequential, I just found it weird and wondered if anyone knew why that happened. This community seemed like it might be likely to know some about that sort of thing.

Thanks!