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  • whisperorwhisperor Member Posts: 71 Arc User
    I recently played "Of Bajor" and I found something interesting. during one of the possible side missions, I was required to read some of Prylar's (Bajorian Priest) books to find a way to calm down the local population; they didn't like a joint task force setting up shop on the planet, even if it was temporary. most of the books were related to the teachings of the Prophets.
    One of the books talked about a high level official or even a prophet meeting someone important, looked weir but fancy. that same book had mentions about the Other and "The whole must be one". This had got me thinking that either Bajorians or the Prophets (more likely) had something to do with the Iconians

    I can't remember the exact words or the title of the book so you guys should pay a visit to Hathon's temple on Bajor and and do some research.
  • deaftravis05deaftravis05 Member Posts: 4,885 Arc User
    oh that sounds new
  • xarynn2058xarynn2058 Member Posts: 158 Arc User
    whisperor wrote: »
    I recently played "Of Bajor" and I found something interesting. during one of the possible side missions, I was required to read some of Prylar's (Bajorian Priest) books to find a way to calm down the local population; they didn't like a joint task force setting up shop on the planet, even if it was temporary. most of the books were related to the teachings of the Prophets.
    One of the books talked about a high level official or even a prophet meeting someone important, looked weir but fancy. that same book had mentions about the Other and "The whole must be one". This had got me thinking that either Bajorians or the Prophets (more likely) had something to do with the Iconians

    I can't remember the exact words or the title of the book so you guys should pay a visit to Hathon's temple on Bajor and and do some research.
    The thing to remember about the Prophets is that they exist outside of time. Given their lack of understanding of linear time when they first encountered Sisko it seems unlikely they had any contact with the Iconians (a species we currently understand to be extremely allergic to anything other than unmodified linear time) beyond mere observation. The "whole must be as one" line suggests restoration of a missing part of Iconian society rather than agency from an outside source.

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  • protogothprotogoth Member Posts: 2,369 Arc User
    xarynn2058 wrote: »
    whisperor wrote: »
    I recently played "Of Bajor" and I found something interesting. during one of the possible side missions, I was required to read some of Prylar's (Bajorian Priest) books to find a way to calm down the local population; they didn't like a joint task force setting up shop on the planet, even if it was temporary. most of the books were related to the teachings of the Prophets.
    One of the books talked about a high level official or even a prophet meeting someone important, looked weir but fancy. that same book had mentions about the Other and "The whole must be one". This had got me thinking that either Bajorians or the Prophets (more likely) had something to do with the Iconians

    I can't remember the exact words or the title of the book so you guys should pay a visit to Hathon's temple on Bajor and and do some research.
    The thing to remember about the Prophets is that they exist outside of time. Given their lack of understanding of linear time when they first encountered Sisko it seems unlikely they had any contact with the Iconians (a species we currently understand to be extremely allergic to anything other than unmodified linear time) beyond mere observation. The "whole must be as one" line suggests restoration of a missing part of Iconian society rather than agency from an outside source.

    And I'm now inclined to agree that "The Other" refers to male Iconians, in light of this:
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  • angrytargangrytarg Member Posts: 11,008 Arc User
    protogoth wrote: »
    And I'm now inclined to agree that "The Other" refers to male Iconians, in light of this:
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  • zedbrightlander1zedbrightlander1 Member Posts: 14,782 Arc User
    edited July 2015
    When was the last time you guys went through the Cardassian Struggle arc?

    When my DR went through it, recently, my Captain meet one of The Profits near the end. He had a chat on what seemed to be a tiny island. ( you know how The Profits love to use a persons memories as landscapes when communicating with us Temporal-Linear types ) Anyway, I cannot remember the conversation word for word, but the gist was that the Iconians would be stopped again the same way they were the last time. At the time I thought, "Oh, that will be the Preservers." And then - PWAMP!

    Now I'll not pretend to have figured it all out, but if my hunch is right, The Other is named Dante, and we can expect :: uses finger :: four more missions.

    Also, I suspect, at least one of the Devs is a reader. ;)

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  • mrspidey2mrspidey2 Member Posts: 959 Arc User
    protogoth wrote: »
    xarynn2058 wrote: »
    whisperor wrote: »
    I recently played "Of Bajor" and I found something interesting. during one of the possible side missions, I was required to read some of Prylar's (Bajorian Priest) books to find a way to calm down the local population; they didn't like a joint task force setting up shop on the planet, even if it was temporary. most of the books were related to the teachings of the Prophets.
    One of the books talked about a high level official or even a prophet meeting someone important, looked weir but fancy. that same book had mentions about the Other and "The whole must be one". This had got me thinking that either Bajorians or the Prophets (more likely) had something to do with the Iconians

    I can't remember the exact words or the title of the book so you guys should pay a visit to Hathon's temple on Bajor and and do some research.
    The thing to remember about the Prophets is that they exist outside of time. Given their lack of understanding of linear time when they first encountered Sisko it seems unlikely they had any contact with the Iconians (a species we currently understand to be extremely allergic to anything other than unmodified linear time) beyond mere observation. The "whole must be as one" line suggests restoration of a missing part of Iconian society rather than agency from an outside source.

    And I'm now inclined to agree that "The Other" refers to male Iconians, in light of this:
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  • sunseahlsunseahl Member Posts: 827 Arc User
    edited July 2015
    I really haven't been going over this thread.... do we have a current "list of suspects" ?


    My biggest thought is, because the Iconians escaped to outside out galaxy with the "Galactic Barrier" up. the Other that saved them could be 0(Zero). In one of the Trek books 0 and God got into all sorts of mischief in our galaxy and the Q got involved. "God" was imprisoned by the Q Continuum at the center of the galaxy and a barrier set up to prevent his escape, while his counterpart, 0, was exiled to outside our galaxy and the barrier there set up to prevent his entrance.
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  • thelordofshadesthelordofshades Member Posts: 258 Arc User
    edited July 2015
    sunseahl wrote: »
    the Other that saved them could be 0(Zero).
    No, it couldn't.
    As well as many other proposals in this thread this doesn't match a number of major properties that describe the Other:

    1) It must be part of the Whole. And as I have commented earlier in this thread, "House of Pegh" points that the Whole is some kind of community/society the Iconians created at the the time of their Empire and which they now seek to recreate. (It is possible that it was held together by more than just social ties - maybe some genetic bound or yet again some "supernatural" link).
    One of the important consequences of this that the Other as a space travelling entity must be ancient enough - more than 200 000 years old.

    2) The Other is important enough that without it the Whole cannot be "as One". Without it the Iconians consider themselves vulnerable.

    3) The Other must not be seen "since the Day of Fire" - apparently the day Iconia was hit by the rebel races. And we must remember that the Iconians while preparing to the current "war" gathered extensive intel on all the Quadrants.


    So this basically rules out:
    1) All the current known races and powers of Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta Quadrants, including "our" Alliance and the Dominion. If the Other was one of them - the Iconians clearly could not miss that the Other is out there (see property 3).
    2) The player character - if our "the conquering hero" ((c) Commander Locke) was that important to Iconians Heralds would not have tried repeatedly to finish him/her/it.
    3) Devidians, Prophets and other out-of-our-plane of existence beings we encounter in course of the game's events. First, due to their nature it is highly improbable that this entities ever were part of "the Whole". Second, they are quite active at the time of the events of the game, so it is very unlikely that the Iconians don't know about them and thus think that they were not "seen since the Day of Fire".
    4) 0 (Zero), Qs and other beings so developed that they seem supernatural also apparently don't fulfil the condition of being part of the Whole.


    Basically, it leaves
    1) A number of ancient and powerful races that were mentioned in Trek, but were not seen in game.
    2) Male Iconians - if they ever existed in the first place - also fit :):)
    3) Something completely new.

    Though there maybe something else that I've missed.
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  • thelordofshadesthelordofshades Member Posts: 258 Arc User
    edited July 2015
    Hmmm, suddenly had an idea.
    Maybe there are no male Iconians, after all.
    Because there are ... Heralds.
    Biologically they are quite clearly close to each other - maybe some time ago they were the same species. And it seems that, contrary to Iconians we see, all Heralds are male.
  • themetalstickmanthemetalstickman Member Posts: 1,010 Arc User
    Hmmm, suddenly had an idea.
    Maybe there are no male Iconians, after all.
    Because there are ... Heralds.
    Biologically they are quite clearly close to each other - maybe some time ago they were the same species.

    I'm pretty sure that the devs said that the Heralds are not and never were the same species as the Iconians. IIRC, they evolved on Iconia at the same time, but the Heralds are a less advanced, "simpler" race.
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    Hmmm, suddenly had an idea.
    Maybe there are no male Iconians, after all.
    Because there are ... Heralds.
    Biologically they are quite clearly close to each other - maybe some time ago they were the same species.
    I'm pretty sure that the devs said that the Heralds are not and never were the same species as the Iconians. IIRC, they evolved on Iconia at the same time, but the Heralds are a less advanced, "simpler" race.
    The way I remember it was along the lines of the Heralds had once been the pets of the Iconians.

    There were several races obliquely mentioned in TNG and TOS that COULD fit, but we have no idea really since there's no way to identify them.
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  • thelordofshadesthelordofshades Member Posts: 258 Arc User
    edited July 2015
    I'm pretty sure that the devs said that the Heralds are not and never were the same species as the Iconians.
    The original blog entry formulates it this way:
    They are not the Iconians themselves, but they are native to Iconia and probably share a common ancestor with the Iconians
    If this "common ancestor" was sentient - it essentially means that they were the same race.
    If they had extreme gender dimorphism and matriarchy, the female part of the species could have evolved to become the Iconians we know while the male remained less developed "Heralds".

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    They love the Iconians and the Iconians care for them in return. The Heralds are the personal guards and stewards of the Iconians and absolutely loyal. Perhaps the Heralds were a lesser species of Iconia – one who fell behind in technology. Perhaps they were pets at one time. Whatever they were, their relationship runs deep.
    The text is very vague on the Heralds' origins - only a number of propositions, nothing is stated for a fact. So this could be intentional on the Cryptic's writers part.

    Though it is a somewhat vague speculation of course.

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  • gulberatgulberat Member Posts: 5,505 Arc User
    edited July 2015
    You're basically thinking of the Iconians and Heralds as sort of being the Eloi and Morlocks, then? (Or...sorry to mention it, the Morg and Eymorg?)

    Alyosha's thoughts on the possibility of an Iconian-Devidian connection: "Please no. Finding out once in your life that your species is a mortal enemy of the Federation is enough. Finding out now I'm supposed to be an Iconian? I think not."
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  • berginsbergins Member Posts: 3,453 Arc User
    "all conquering hero" ((c) Commander Locke)
    You can't copyright that. First, a word or phrase can be trademarked, not copyrighted. Secondly, All Conquering Hero™ is already Trademarked.
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  • artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
    edited July 2015
    Floating matter that looks 'kinda like energy energy beings in primary colours?

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  • themetalstickmanthemetalstickman Member Posts: 1,010 Arc User
    But they aren't actually energy beings. The Devidians are from a separate time continuum and deal heavily with triolic waves. The Iconians, while they do seem to be infused with energy, are also made of matter.
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  • thelordofshadesthelordofshades Member Posts: 258 Arc User
    edited July 2015
    gulberat wrote: »
    You're basically thinking of the Iconians and Heralds as sort of being the Eloi and Morlocks, then?

    The principle is the same, but the Iconians are apparently not fitting sybarite aristocracy type the Eloi were (at least before Hollywood got to them, lol).

    More like insect type development, without being insects biologically. Iconians as queens, Heralds as workers, drones etc.
    The Heralds differentiation into several types also fits this hypothesis.
    Note how Harbringers - the most developed and powerful of all Heralds - are always tied to the exact Iconian - Harbringer of M'Tara, Harbringer of T'Ket...


    But, as I've said, it is just an idea - I would not promote it for a fact.


  • artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
    But they aren't actually energy beings. The Devidians are from a separate time continuum and deal heavily with triolic waves. The Iconians, while they do seem to be infused with energy, are also made of matter.

    Thanks, I made it much more snappy :p.
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  • themetalstickmanthemetalstickman Member Posts: 1,010 Arc User
    artan42 wrote: »
    But they aren't actually energy beings. The Devidians are from a separate time continuum and deal heavily with triolic waves. The Iconians, while they do seem to be infused with energy, are also made of matter.

    Thanks, I made it much more snappy :p.

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  • artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
    artan42 wrote: »
    But they aren't actually energy beings. The Devidians are from a separate time continuum and deal heavily with triolic waves. The Iconians, while they do seem to be infused with energy, are also made of matter.

    Thanks, I made it much more snappy :p.

    ???

    I changed the description in my post from 'energy beings' to 'matter beings that look 'kinda like energy'.
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    '...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
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  • themetalstickmanthemetalstickman Member Posts: 1,010 Arc User
    Ah. Didn't catch that.
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  • thelordofshadesthelordofshades Member Posts: 258 Arc User
    edited July 2015
    bergins wrote: »
    You can't copyright that. First, a word or phrase can be trademarked, not copyrighted. Secondly, All Conquering Hero™ is already Trademarked.

    I don't advise you to doubt Commander Locke's copyright on the phrase...
    :):):)
    (Though I mixed up the quote a bit, "all" is out of place there - shame on me...)

  • guljarolguljarol Member Posts: 980 Arc User
    The Iconians weren't always floating. In that recording we watch after completing Tier 5 of the Romulan Rep we see Dewans and Iconians, and Iconians clearly walk.

    I think they float thanks to those thingies they wear. It's all technology. Their looks - the same, either tech, or some genetic modifications, so a result of tech too.
  • artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
    guljarol wrote: »
    The Iconians weren't always floating. In that recording we watch after completing Tier 5 of the Romulan Rep we see Dewans and Iconians, and Iconians clearly walk.

    I think they float thanks to those thingies they wear. It's all technology. Their looks - the same, either tech, or some genetic modifications, so a result of tech too.

    That could just be the old state of the game, the model doesn't even have the same shapes as the new updated ones.
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    '...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
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  • guljarolguljarol Member Posts: 980 Arc User
    Maybe. Or back then they still walked.
  • gulberatgulberat Member Posts: 5,505 Arc User
    That, or wasn't that video partly reconstructed? Maybe the reconstruction didn't get everything right?

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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    guljarol wrote: »
    Maybe. Or back then they still walked.
    I'm sure they have the physical ability to walk. But they don't feel like it. Maybe the floating thing is a habit they picked up over the last few millennia?
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  • crm14916crm14916 Member Posts: 1,535 Arc User
    Wow, loving this discussion! Very little arguing but lots of good points! Until the last few posts above, I was going to suggest it be Data!

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