A theory I'm tentatively playing around with is that the Illithid that took US is actually a rogue mindflayer (and there can easily have been fewer on the ship than it seems, since an illithid in control of a nautiloid has the ability to evoke duplicates of itself for combat purposes and other task managing; there may have actually been very few mindflayers on the ship to begin with). The Gith and everyone else aren't going to know the difference, of course, but I'm toying with the idea that this rogue ship was working against the overarching plans of whatever mindflayer structure is doing the tadpoles for everyone else and is behind the absolute cult... we're tangibly different from all of them because our implantations came from a very different source, with a very different goal, and will ultimately set us against absolutists and other people with tadpoles.
Last edited by Niara; 10/10/21 11:48 PM.
