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   From: Obveeus@aol.com   
      
    wrote:   
      
   > As a further speculative exercise, the avatar was created from a   
   > search engine looking for all the information about Zoe it could find   
   > online.   
      
   Not exactly.  That is how the avatar-Tamara was created, but avatar-Zoe had   
   a more direct info feed from fleshy-Zoe.   
      
   >> She's going to Gemenon to find out what Zoe was going there for. No one   
   >> said anything about her imposing her beliefs on anyone. She wants to   
   >> know what was so important there that she would abandon her family for   
   >> it.   
   >   
   > Which is puzzling, since if she were created with all Zoe's knowledge   
   > and beliefs only a few weeks before Zoe left, she would have been   
   > expected to understand Zoe's mindset sufficiently to get some idea.   
      
   Why?  If fleshy-Zoe didn't know about STO plans for bombings or about some   
   other STO cell on Gemenon that had a different 'plan' at the time that   
   avatar-Zoe was created, it seems entirely possible that avatar-Zoe would not   
   be able to fill in all the gaps as to why fleshy-Zoe wanted to go to   
   Gemenon.   
      
   > As   
   > it is, we know more of Zoe's motives than the avatar, since we heard   
   > her say to Lacey that she was going to seek a new life where religious   
   > freedom was assured.   
      
   Was that freedom from the Caprica religion or freedom from the Clarice   
   religion?  We still don't know.   
      
   > Presuming the avatar knows both about Gemenon's   
   > reputation and Zoe's STO affiliation (and the STO's links to Gemenon),   
   > she ought to have worked it out long before now. Either this is very   
   > sloppy writing, and despite her curiosity she hasn't made any effort   
   > to think things through before getting her friend involved in things   
   > she knows to be potentially dangerous, or the avatar is lacking a   
   > basic understanding of Zoe's motivations or beliefs that would allow   
   > her to reach these conclusions.   
      
   For now, I'll believe that fleshy-Zoe learned something shortly before her   
   death that prompted her desire/need to go to Gemenon.  Also, I'll leave the   
   possibility open that avatar-Zoe may know slightly more than she is telling   
   Lacey, since Lacey is already exremely skiddish.   
      
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