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That new time religion
Okay, jumping right in...
I really want to know what the Colteron religion(s) are like! AFAIK we know exactly one thing, which is that their military said Mars was "holy ground" on which humans shouldn't trespass. Or at least, that someone in the human military told the rest of humanity that they said that.
Any ideas of what it/they might be like? I guess it depends on the structure of Colteron society. They're obviously cooperative in some way. Are they really insect-based or do they just look like that to us? If they are, do they have queens and workers and drones etc.? I like the idea that all the Colterons they've been fighting might be female, or maybe genderless.
I guess they have the idea of purity, for one thing. And courage (since one of them called the humans cowards).




Ah, this is so interesting! I haven't given this too much thought myself (I'm due a major re-read as I've forgotten a lot of what's happened recently) but I'd love to hear what others think. I love the idea that they could be female or even genderless. Very interested in what their real motives may be and if they're cardboard cut-out villains or perhaps there's something more complex at play here and humans really did trespass on something that doesn't belong to them. Wouldn't be the first time!
What I'm really interested in is how terrifyingly close this implies the Colterons are to Earth. I was always under the impression that they were a significant distance away from us, but Mars being a "holy ground" to them means that they're likely based within our solar system, since they clearly must have some history with the planet.
Yeah, that's something that's been confusing me for a while. They keep talking about venturing out into Colteron space, and the Baden whatever system, and it sounds like Star Wars where they're hopping across the galaxy with handwavy science. Then again, maybe the Colterons are actually based far away and they ARE using some kind of handwavy science to bend spacetime or hop across wormholes or something.