Silo [Drama, Sci-Fi] (Page 7 of 8)

Regarding this I'm 50/50 - it's either silo 1 had memory wipe + different set of instructions how to act or world for a long time goes on normal while they still are being kept in silos. Meaning, how do we even know that they are the only ppl alive not some underground human zoo? Because one bomb exploded somewhere in USA?

Well the senator and the CEO definitely seem on top of things; he clearly wants the engineer-congressman in the main silo, because he's useful, and the reporter not so much, probably because she opposed him. They also seem to have done something to the sister, who seems to be the wife of the senator's now mostly estranged daughter, so that the latter ends up in 1 and the former does not? Both is too convenient.

Whatever the social experment is about, they are clearly trying to prevent scientific advancements from derailing it; the ban on strong magnifying lenses is one example. The fact that they put all "advanced" technology into storage instead of allowing even simple manufacturing or even just encouraging repairs is another.

That's probably the trick though, isn't it? Set off a single nuke to scare everyone into the silos. Nukes are big and scary and everyone knows what they look like, unlike invisible nanites. But do it far enough away that it doesn't actually kill or irradiate anyone yet. Then you can keep them all inside for a good long while by threatening them with the fallout. And while you have them inside, they won't have any way to tell what is going on outside, so you can just spin a narrative of doomsday. At that point, introduce the memory drug while constantly repeating that outside is not safe, and you got yourself a population that will stay.

Then just introduce a way to ensure that everyone who walks outside will die, visibly to everyone, and even the idea of leaving will mostly disappear. That's what the nanites or whatever it is are for.

They probably did wipe out the world in one way or another, because otherwise somebody would have checked on the silos at that point, but they didn't necessarily do it with nukes alone. Silo 1 almost definitely never had their memories wiped. That would mean giving up control, and nobody who builds kill switches likes to do that.

All looked this way, except that it was not clearly shown that all organizers went into silos. Why I'm not fully convinced before it's confirmed - because that's one impressive party trick to probably level some city and then run for cover to sell the doomsday. Would be a bit more sane to do that speech inside.

And, yes, likely that nano stuff is what is killing them outside. A major question is the explosion was just a motivator to get them in silos or there full scale war started with some nano weapons and whole planet is wiped out. Meaning, both are plausible - that nano stuff is used as a fence and also that it's a legit contamination that can linger for centuries.

Also I think that magical nanobots will be riddled with logic holes - like for example before was shown that they can take out a fighter jet, meaning, pass metal. But some suit can stop them? Also was shown that if you are briefly exposed to whatever is outside, you can recover - that means human body somehow can metabolize that nano magic

The AI in the server room works with humans in Silo 1, but is still an AI.

Clearly AI had already taken over Earths weapon control systems, much like the story in Horizon Zero Dawn, nukes launched, nanobots/nanites deployed, game over for Earth, Per Stensen was probably responsible for it, just like RobCo OS in Fallout.

Horrifying watching Daniel mercilessly kill off thousands of people using a compound inside drones, and insane that this is exactly the kind of psychological experiment you think it is!  Controlling others leads to a need for freedom.  We'll never learn.  I was very wrong about it being AI, and very wrong about the importance of Daniel's backstory, relieved they weren't all for nothing like I presumed. To think they captured Daniel, drugged him with the forgetting drugs, brain washed him into believing the pact, forced him into working in Silo 1, somehow have the tech to cryogenically freeze him for years at a time (that's the part I dismissed existing in our day), and use him to exterminate thousands of people to keep the pact going over centuries, all for the purposes of keeping the cohesion and control of all Silo's under the thumb of Silo 1.  He's WAY more important than the backstory would lead me to presume.  We know he'd rather turn to grey goo than be in that Silo, so, Silo 18 will need the help of Daniel to defeat Silo 1, now that he remembers they separated him from Helen.  Daniel and Helen's love for each other now becomes very important.  Then somehow free the rest of the Silos, explain what happened to life outside, then determine whether it's possible to build a life outside.

Who set off the nuke?  Is Per Stensen in permanent cryostasis until life resumes outside or is he a worker too?  What happened to him?  What's up with the subterranean vault door?  Is it a connection to the other silos?  Who was smuggling goods out of critical supply?  Did they ever answer that?  Where did that many goods go, and who would need them?  Is there already a mine connection to an adjacent Silo?  Will Juliette tell the truth to the rest of Silo 18?  Will they go into IT and start reading books again, and teach them the truth?  Will they finally get rid of the Pact?

whether they would have stasis technology. They kinda would have to, for the whole project to work like that. Having your descendants a dozen generations down the line carry on that kind of work without going into the weeds with it is basically impossible; that's where an AI would indeed have made sense. Bringing up that, but never mentioning stasis, was probably supporsed to be a red herring here.

• Setting off the nuke right next to the silos suggests it's what I described last week. A big flashy light show to keep the people inside. Otherwise it would have simply been dropped directly on top, and not right after everyone already went inside. It was the "founders" who dropped it.

• Probably, yeah. He described how anxious he is about living in a world where anyone could have access to the kind of weapon he can't buy safety from. He wants to live in that new world. Maybe he takes one of the "shifts" as director every once in a while.

• The vault door leads to a tunnel that in turn leads to silo 1. Every silo has one of those, because they mention that 17 used to have one too until it got flooded.

• The smuggling was done by the mining chief guy and some of his folks. They basically just put the stuff somewhere else so that it wouldn't get lost during the rebellion. Seems that whole plotline was just a way to introduce the elevator into the story, and to show us that the silos were never meant to be able to run forever.

• There doesn't seem to be a mine connection yet, but they are planning to dig one towards silo 1 now, to go on the attack.

• Probably yes, yes and yes. Eventually.

They showed him staring fairly intently at that still of Juliette's face from the door camera, so that might be a family resemblance thing. But one additional detail to notice here, is that the recording from the dead guy said "her name is", not "her name was".

With what silos can contaminate each other? Except information - to have parallel branches of evolution or alike?

To me more and more feels like each silo is a lab - that also would explain why to wipe out 10k people is the right move. If you look at them as lab rats which broke out and risk to put in danger labs next to it, what would a scientist do? Save rats or the experiment?