Post by satoh on Jul 11, 2013 21:54:30 GMT -5
We know the Master created the Betas, and that they became known as Carbons eventually, and also that they are the 'human' population of Terra.
What we don't know is whether or not the carbons have any human DNA at all, and here is the really interesting part:
We never hear anyone not part of the system refer to the species of the people of Terra. Or to put it another way, we don't know if these people even consider themselves human, or have ever heard of humans.
Sure we might assume they do and have... but isn't that because we are humans ourselves?
Back to the theory.
We do know they are not human as the system is concerned, which means they very likely do not contain 100% human DNA (Unless the system is just a butt and doesn't want to accept them... that's a different theory for another day).
So what are the carbons?
Lets look at some things we know about them:
They are adept at grafting mechanical parts onto their bodies, and it is completely common for ordinary people to have said mechanical bits. (This can be seen, but was also directly confirmed by devroom members, Carbons regularly give themselves implanted machine parts. It was implied that it was not limited to replacing injured parts either)
We know that when Trigger's 'parameters' were reset, he returned to child form, however this was not the case for Sera, meaning she was exempt from the process, or is of a different biiotechnological structure.
Carbons look very much like humans, reproduce like humans, and are flesh and blood(as far as we can tell) like humans.
So, on to the actual hypothesis:
Carbons are the evolutionary descendants of biomechanical androids, the betas. I say androids, because Trigger, who functions the same as the carbons, is treated like an android by the system units, and even has his memories and original "data" stored in a machine... called Data. (Original!Trigger doesn't sound very clever with names)
So, if we assume Trigger, who is apparently biological, is considered an android, we can assume that many of the system units were this way as well, including those that became the betas.
Even Yuna, Sera, Gatz and Geetz seem quire organic despite their mechanical functions and tranformations.
Now, all of this sounds like a massive set of contradictions, since a machine cannot simply be mechanical AND biological at the same time, right?
Wrong. The prequel series' actually establishes this as a possibility multiple times.
Megaman X: Reploids have DNA, and are even seen to breath and feel pain.
Megaman Zero: Reploids bleed, feel pain, have DNA, and can apparently even grow with age (which is confirmed in...)
Megaman ZX: Reploids can not only grow as they age, but even reproduce with humans apparently, as the 'line between reploid and human is practically nonexistant, and the distinction has dropped mainly, in favor of a joint term, "humanoid" to describe both species' to paraphrase.
What I'm leading up to, is that there were a few true humans left, who lived on elysium, and eventually one, the Master, decided to populate the lower world with beings that were greater than the sum of their function...
To do this, he gave free will to the existing android units on the surface, and a directive to simply do as they will. This led to civilizations that rose and fell, but also led to the system needing to purge the carbons (as they were not only taking up space intended for the human repopulation, but also they would be considered aberrant for their non-system-controlled behavior.)
Thus, carbons are neo-reploid-human-androids similar to but not necessarily the same as the humanoids from ZX.
This allows them to easily graft functioning mechanics to their bodies, without any nasty side effects that come from such attempts with ordinary living beings. (Real people have tried it, and it almost always ends up leaving the skin pretty irritated and invites infection...this is why prosthetics are almost always over-the-skin, not under it.)
We could even go one step farther and consider that all of Rock's armor and equipment is not simply worn, but attached and detached as needed (his arm doesn't even fit in half his weapons... not even a little bit in some like the vacuum arm.)
Now... This is an established fact, taht carbons do in fact attach things to their bodies, and it is normal for them and not given a second thought. A man with metal ears or cameras for eyes is about as out of place in on Terra as a man sitting on a chair... and as anime has told us, "people sit on chairs."
So that's my theory on carbons.
EDIT:
And a final piece of important support, we know for a fact that Yuna used her own abilities to not only fix Matilda's body, but also take control of her mind as well. (In the sense that Matilda is unable to interact with the world and Yuna has control over her every function)
What we don't know is whether or not the carbons have any human DNA at all, and here is the really interesting part:
We never hear anyone not part of the system refer to the species of the people of Terra. Or to put it another way, we don't know if these people even consider themselves human, or have ever heard of humans.
Sure we might assume they do and have... but isn't that because we are humans ourselves?
Back to the theory.
We do know they are not human as the system is concerned, which means they very likely do not contain 100% human DNA (Unless the system is just a butt and doesn't want to accept them... that's a different theory for another day).
So what are the carbons?
Lets look at some things we know about them:
They are adept at grafting mechanical parts onto their bodies, and it is completely common for ordinary people to have said mechanical bits. (This can be seen, but was also directly confirmed by devroom members, Carbons regularly give themselves implanted machine parts. It was implied that it was not limited to replacing injured parts either)
We know that when Trigger's 'parameters' were reset, he returned to child form, however this was not the case for Sera, meaning she was exempt from the process, or is of a different biiotechnological structure.
Carbons look very much like humans, reproduce like humans, and are flesh and blood(as far as we can tell) like humans.
So, on to the actual hypothesis:
Carbons are the evolutionary descendants of biomechanical androids, the betas. I say androids, because Trigger, who functions the same as the carbons, is treated like an android by the system units, and even has his memories and original "data" stored in a machine... called Data. (Original!Trigger doesn't sound very clever with names)
So, if we assume Trigger, who is apparently biological, is considered an android, we can assume that many of the system units were this way as well, including those that became the betas.
Even Yuna, Sera, Gatz and Geetz seem quire organic despite their mechanical functions and tranformations.
Now, all of this sounds like a massive set of contradictions, since a machine cannot simply be mechanical AND biological at the same time, right?
Wrong. The prequel series' actually establishes this as a possibility multiple times.
Megaman X: Reploids have DNA, and are even seen to breath and feel pain.
Megaman Zero: Reploids bleed, feel pain, have DNA, and can apparently even grow with age (which is confirmed in...)
Megaman ZX: Reploids can not only grow as they age, but even reproduce with humans apparently, as the 'line between reploid and human is practically nonexistant, and the distinction has dropped mainly, in favor of a joint term, "humanoid" to describe both species' to paraphrase.
What I'm leading up to, is that there were a few true humans left, who lived on elysium, and eventually one, the Master, decided to populate the lower world with beings that were greater than the sum of their function...
To do this, he gave free will to the existing android units on the surface, and a directive to simply do as they will. This led to civilizations that rose and fell, but also led to the system needing to purge the carbons (as they were not only taking up space intended for the human repopulation, but also they would be considered aberrant for their non-system-controlled behavior.)
Thus, carbons are neo-reploid-human-androids similar to but not necessarily the same as the humanoids from ZX.
This allows them to easily graft functioning mechanics to their bodies, without any nasty side effects that come from such attempts with ordinary living beings. (Real people have tried it, and it almost always ends up leaving the skin pretty irritated and invites infection...this is why prosthetics are almost always over-the-skin, not under it.)
We could even go one step farther and consider that all of Rock's armor and equipment is not simply worn, but attached and detached as needed (his arm doesn't even fit in half his weapons... not even a little bit in some like the vacuum arm.)
Now... This is an established fact, taht carbons do in fact attach things to their bodies, and it is normal for them and not given a second thought. A man with metal ears or cameras for eyes is about as out of place in on Terra as a man sitting on a chair... and as anime has told us, "people sit on chairs."
So that's my theory on carbons.
EDIT:
And a final piece of important support, we know for a fact that Yuna used her own abilities to not only fix Matilda's body, but also take control of her mind as well. (In the sense that Matilda is unable to interact with the world and Yuna has control over her every function)