My take is... without direction, a story is nothing. The SOS-dan provide one such that is at once clear and interestingly nuanced - and without them, so far as I can see, the setting itself lacks any such traits.
That said, I think that shoveling as much mud as possible over the basic, actual facts of the matter until the moment of final revelation comes is a very good idea.
I suggest that Nagato and Mikuru have information on our Black Ooze Boxes because I simply can't see any logically consistent way for them to lack it. DITE can identify details of an individual human's life from halfway across the bloody galaxy, as well as produce lesser agents capable of doing things like warping spacetime at will. And, unless Mikuru's people are from millenia ahead, past the other side of a serious technological fall, everything learned in 'the present day', in this time frame, is a matter of historical record, something they need only go look up.
IOW, I think that having them not know would be forcing them to act impossibly stupid for no other reason that allowing the plot to go forwards.
If you can come up with a convincing justification for such a lack, or, more likely, for their hiding said abilities, I'd be happy to hear it.
Ja, -n
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"Puripuri puripuri... Bang!"
That said, I think that shoveling as much mud as possible over the basic, actual facts of the matter until the moment of final revelation comes is a very good idea.
I suggest that Nagato and Mikuru have information on our Black Ooze Boxes because I simply can't see any logically consistent way for them to lack it. DITE can identify details of an individual human's life from halfway across the bloody galaxy, as well as produce lesser agents capable of doing things like warping spacetime at will. And, unless Mikuru's people are from millenia ahead, past the other side of a serious technological fall, everything learned in 'the present day', in this time frame, is a matter of historical record, something they need only go look up.
IOW, I think that having them not know would be forcing them to act impossibly stupid for no other reason that allowing the plot to go forwards.
If you can come up with a convincing justification for such a lack, or, more likely, for their hiding said abilities, I'd be happy to hear it.
Ja, -n
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"Puripuri puripuri... Bang!"