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Judith
Ilium scammed the original Argos crew into joining the "mission", which was actually just an earthbound prototype for possible future space travel. Ilium eventually abandoned the project, germs breached the aging Argos structure, & only Konstance survived. We never find out exactly who or what Ilium is, it's role in eco-terrorism (if any), or the aftermath of the Argos debacle...but everyone seems to agree that's a gaping hole in an otherwise detailed & complex plot!
Emily Clement
Or maybe it was abandoned! We know Konstance somehow gets from the island to Qaanaaq. But it's a tiny village, and we know nothing about the rest of the world, except that it had suffered severe drought. There's a lot to suppose. I suppose that civilization suffered something of an apocalyptic setback, given the climate conditions, and Ilium probably did too, if it remained at all, in any form.
Maybe people were living in clustered villages and tribes, without the "benefit" of the massively tangled interweb we have now.
Hence, yes...the Argos project was probably forgotten, there being no one to tend to it. There is a statement that it was sort of a prototype experiment, to see whether people would manage in an interstellar scenario. Kind of like those "biodome" experiments of the 70s and 80s.
There is a sort of Truman Show aspect to that, although Truman was monitored.
Maybe people were living in clustered villages and tribes, without the "benefit" of the massively tangled interweb we have now.
Hence, yes...the Argos project was probably forgotten, there being no one to tend to it. There is a statement that it was sort of a prototype experiment, to see whether people would manage in an interstellar scenario. Kind of like those "biodome" experiments of the 70s and 80s.
There is a sort of Truman Show aspect to that, although Truman was monitored.
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