Kouchuugun Shikan Boukensha ni Naru - Ch. 60

[Yazas]

they should learn more from The Imperium of Man

 

[Grikath]

Pulling Alan out of the story at this point makes sense, regardless of where the story is headed next there's about 0 tension left anymore in the short term. The empire is now obviously by far the strongest force on the planet and the bugs are potentially hundreds of years out so something has to fill time here. Outside of some complete switch in direction like fighting an evil god or something there's only really few ways to move forward at this point. You either kill Alan off or more likely put him in some cryopod so he can keep popping up later in the series and maybe show up in the finale and then do one of these things:

A) you end the series with some montage style view on the planets development, show how few of the characters did and how Alan's line does perhaps ending in the bugs attacking and being repelled as a sort of couple chapter send off to the series.
B) continue into the next story arcs as usual that basically follow A's story but flesh it out with several full arcs and multiple characters with time skips between major events. For instance we could have an Cleria arc here on how she handles things without Alan, then some post Cleria internal division arc where Alan's grandchildren fight it out between themselves when Cleria dies and then few more arcs in same vein with some kind of crisis that disrupts the plan (people losing faith in the bug killing mission, a civil war etc.) and how it's resolved, bit like how Foundation books go really, which then again ends when the bugs show up and get defeated. Alan can come up from the pod every now and then in this scenario, play the part of Hari Seldon dispersing wisdom and restoring faith in the mission before going back to cold sleep. If they really wanted they could invest into this whole humans turning into bugs thing too, perhaps as one of the later arcs or as the final arc post bug contact.

I could see either one happening, or really B pivoting into A as soon as the sales drop off. I suppose it ultimately depends on the series sales.
I really hope this isn't setup on Alan being the gods emissary and then fighting an evil god though but I give that solid 5% chances too.

Short version: The writers are pulling a Frank Herbert. ( or George R.R. "I didn't plagiarise a single thing! 'Onest, Guv' !!" Martin for the Kiddo's )
Get stuck with one character, kill him/her off [for reasons], move on to the next, rinse/repeat and call it a "Generational Epic".

Or in this case not even kill him off, but place him in suspended animation, so that they can always do a pre-prepped "hopeful resurrection" storyline should none of the Next Gen™ MC's take off..
Corporate Storywriting 101... I-can't-believe-it-s-not-Hollywood..

 

[elrorro]

So he's going the Walt Disney route of freezing yourself till they find the cure for (space) cancer huh?

 

[Holmes15]

TImeskip seems all but certain at this point

 

[Homura]

i like the idea of him going into cold sleep and waking a century later to fuck his great great grand daughter

 

[GryphusOne]

Timeskip feels like a cop out but the cryosleep part is pretty neat, the long ass timescales they're working with makes it nicely tragic.It would suck if they bullshit their way into keeping the main cast alive when he wakes up, I think it should be a whole different cast. Having the new main girl be kinda but not really a reincarnation of Cleria, a-la Utawarerumono, would be cool.

It's also interesting to consider that "hundreds of years" is a long ass time for things to change and for fuckups to happen. The empire can fall in that time, people can forget, they can even turn against the plan a few hundred years in cuz "no ones' showed up so far, no way anyone's coming right?" Heck, they might even fail to resist nuking each other before Alan wakes up when they reach nuclear age

 

[Udgard]

That's actually how Iris exists, her organic brain was hardwired into the ship so she can act as the main control system. I thought they were going to suggest the same thing for Alan, with him turning into New Starveek's master defense system.

I don't think that's how she works. In one of the earlier chapters its mentioned that it's a custom to carry living tissue of the person the ship's AI is based on, but it's actually against regulations and is based on some new-age religion's faith. If found out, it could actually lead to all AI of the series being deleted. So it's just an (illegal) custom and the AI tech itself isn't based on living brain tissue, at least based on the info presented in the manga (not sure if there's conflicting info in the original WN).

 

[Pyras]

Called it.

I'm fine with ending montage of Alan waking up every few yrs to make sure things progress accordingly, then back to cold sleep, over and over. Last frame would be the Intergalactic Empire fleet arriving, Alan getting knighted, and Areas planet got included in the Empire.

 

[zuflis11]

It'll be interesting to see what they come up with in regards to the cryogenic pods.

You'd think with the level of technology they have access to there'd be dozens of methods to repair his body.

maybe if alan back in his homeworld. but i think Iris imply that this cancer is unique since its not something the empire has ever treated before.

Cloning is taboo in the star empire and he ordered Iris to never do it again back in ch17. Also, there's no evidence they can transfer consciousness even if they did.

conciousness maybe not, but galactic empire can certainly "recreate" a person to certain extent as a sentient AI. Iris the proof of that since she was based on actual general from the empire. though theres little point to do that since Alan himself is not some genius that more of him will help the overall army.

or maybe they could just go the route of Mr House from Fallout new vgas. preserve his body while his mind oversees things. Cleria empire has galactic tech but lack its patriotic doctrine, surely someone in Alan descendant become a troublemaker

 

[seekermoc]

I'm going to be very disappointed if the space traveling, ultra nanobot supported, practically super human MC, that's impervious to nearly any injury or sickness, actually dies on some primitive planet from plant cancer.

 

[Szaal]

Feels like the og writer really hit the writer's block on this one, even as assisting role. As if he ran out of gas, so things get rushed and glazed over, while we actually--as a matter of fact--have some loose plot we can nicely explore:

• the assassin girl which obviously not from the Intergalactic Empire,
• the gods of the planet, which apparently there are multiple of them and is against each other, which obviously one of them is not a sentient AI or some form of high-dimensional being,
• how a man mutated himself into a Bug, which apparently is a power bestowed from one of said god,
• which can be tied into what humanity has been fighting for, or why the Bugs, which are originally of humanity themselves, fight non-bugs mankind,
• and finally, why his ship got intercepted in this star system and forced his landing to this planet. Who knows, maybe the friendly god, which is definitely not an AI, seeks help from the human-coalition of Intergalactic Empire, and she did it in the best way a god can be: sabotaging the ship as it passes the planet.

 

[MontDilanus1343]

they should learn more from The Imperium of Man

Magnus is a bitch. Had to say it.

 

[taerkitty]

Because Alan is a rule-abiding (even when the rules are actively fucking you in the ass) jap stand-in fuckwit so he's all squeamish about cloning people.

If I were fanficcing this, I'd have him become sort of nanom-based Force-ghost so he could still see the progress.

I'm with you. If Alan's out, this would be a lot less compelling for me.

 

[PoDH]

Oh damn, I think they just fast track literally the entire story lol. Cause I remember there was a whole ass war and the author stopped updating the web novel. But it was so popular that some fans create unofficial ending and fast forward the next hundreds of years after Alan died (of old age). With good ending of course.

 

[vangoz]

So incoming 500 years time skip it is.

 

[N2O]

Huh. I wonder where they will go with this timeskip; will he wake up in a now-sci-fi style world and be revered as "the progenitor" or something?

 

[Harukou]

Dude going to be woke up on a golden throne being worshipped.