Transformations

My wife and I were speculating on the nature of the clockwork when Going Rogue first came out.

I had remembered seeing this episode of "Sliders" where they went to a world where there were all these supposedly "robotic" servants who did all the menial service in that world. Turned out that they were actually human beings (of a race/class undesired by the authorities) that had been converted into these things. These "robots" were called "Edees" were blue skined and had no mouthes. It was discovered that these things were really processed humans when the 'Sliders' broke into a processing facillity and found the mother of a young man they met half converted to into one of these things. (She was supposedly Hispanic... so lots of social comentary was implied).

Additionally came to mind the episodes from Dr. Who where average people are captured by the Cybermen and turned into other Cybermen-- Borg like mechanical robo-cyborgs (their brains were implanted into the mechanical shell and were controled by the head cyberman). Also think Robocop.

I was sorta suspecting that the Clockwork were really going to be disidents who Cole had converted into cyberslaves. After all that would be one way of handling the disident problem. Without actually "killing" them, you turn them into useful members of society. I'm sure that would appeal to Emperor Cole... Of course that sort of conversion was hinted at with the Clockwork Seers, although the transfer was just their psychic entity rather than "wetware". And of course the conversion of the Ghouls... although they are actually Loyalists... makes one wonder if their induction into that program was entirely voluntary (certainly it could not be informed).

Transformation is of course a theme throughout COH and Sci-fi in general: warwolves, vamprires, Vazilok, Lost, etc. Even among Hero's and Villians: Kheldians, Spiders, etc. and of course the Incarnate system. Of course with the costume creator you can have different appearances to your character and simulate a transformation either to machine, or something biological. Occasionally a character can go through a transformation as part of a mission: the Vazilok Patient Zero arc comes to mind as does the Infiltration of the Freaks (via a Freak Disguise), or Aracnos (as in the Agent G missions), and of course my favorite... the secondary mutation malfunction (hey hey we're the Monkey's). Of course I think you should have melee and psychic abilities in that form so you're not totally useless.

It would be interesting to have more of that sort of thing going on...

Perhaps a story arc where you are turned into a clockwork and have to find your body and get restored to it. (The body could be preserved in Praetor Barrie's Lab somewhere). Or turned into a Ghoul--again having to find the means to undo what's been done to you.

The same could happen with the Rikti War Zone (single player mission possibilities)...think District 9. This could be a very cool way of getting into the Rikti Mother Ship and finding more out about the Rikti from a lore standpoint. We know we have a cure...

There are lots of possibilities.

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I was hoping they would be like this as well.

But with the number of them the resistance takes and reprograms with no mention of people bits I think it's not to be.

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Out of curiosity, do you have any idea which episode of Sliders that might be? I looked over the list of episodes, and didn't see any obvious "it's this one!" points in the plot summaries. (So whatever the main plot was, the creepy conversions apparently weren't it.)

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They done this before with the malta Robots,Arachnos and I think Council, I don't think they want to do Cyborgs humans again.

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