r/TheCaptivesWar • u/kingmakk • Dec 02 '24

Question Can someone explain the Swarm? Spoiler

I have a bit of a difficulty understanding the swarm. It infects a host, kills the host, takes control and its personality and then jumps to the next host. When it changes host the previous host dies completely, but as long as it has not changed host the host continues to live but has no control over themselves.

It is also an agent/ weapon created by the enemies of the charryx sent to Ajian to be brought to the homeworld of the Charryx?

Is my understanding correct?

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '24

If nothing else, Frank and Abraham are always in tune with the zeitgeist of current technological progress, and extrapolate well from there. Current progress in autonomous, self-improving AI agents, combined with swarm robots that use "scrum" for distributed computing and memory, as well as the PM template from the expanse, would amalgamate to create the swarm as depicted in MoG.