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The thirteenth cave of Toha Heavy Industries completes its teleportation, catastrophically embedding itself into another part of the City. As it begins to break apart, Cibo collapses from her wounds and fatigue. She and her data package are retrieved by Mensab’s Custodians.
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Mensab gives Killy a final message. She hovers near a vessel that contains the digitized minds of the humans of the eighth cave, for whom she had been responsible. Central had intended to transport their bodies and minds separately, reviving them at their undisclosed destination beyond the City. The bodies were destroyed after the teleportation, eliminating their genetic information. However, Mensab wishes to help Killy’s search for the net terminal gene.
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Mensab departs with Seu and the vessel into a timespace rift to await the revival of the digitized humans. Just as Toha finally destructs, she uses her remaining teleportation ability to move Killy outside, as well as her universal constructor. Within the constructor, Mensab has repaired Cibo, and given her a sample of Seu’s DNA.
   
 
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* In Log 17, Zuru describes a process formerly available to the her ancestors, the Planters of Toha Heavy Industries, in which a post-mortem data package is employed to revive a dead person. It is possible that Cibo’s resuscitation in the constructor is that very process, requiring the data package of her previous body, which she happened to have received in Log 34.
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Latest revision as of 08:38, 25 November 2018

"Disappearance" is the thirty-fifth chapter of Blame!, and the fifth chapter of Volume 6.

Synopsis

The thirteenth cave of Toha Heavy Industries completes its teleportation, catastrophically embedding itself into another part of the City. As it begins to break apart, Cibo collapses from her wounds and fatigue. She and her data package are retrieved by Mensab’s Custodians.

Mensab gives Killy a final message. She hovers near a vessel that contains the digitized minds of the humans of the eighth cave, for whom she had been responsible. Central had intended to transport their bodies and minds separately, reviving them at their undisclosed destination beyond the City. The bodies were destroyed after the teleportation, eliminating their genetic information. However, Mensab wishes to help Killy’s search for the net terminal gene.

Mensab departs with Seu and the vessel into a timespace rift to await the revival of the digitized humans. Just as Toha finally destructs, she uses her remaining teleportation ability to move Killy outside, as well as her universal constructor. Within the constructor, Mensab has repaired Cibo, and given her a sample of Seu’s DNA.

Character Appearances

Notes & Trivia

  • In Log 17, Zuru describes a process formerly available to the her ancestors, the Planters of Toha Heavy Industries, in which a post-mortem data package is employed to revive a dead person. It is possible that Cibo’s resuscitation in the constructor is that very process, requiring the data package of her previous body, which she happened to have received in Log 34.

Blame! - Volumes and Chapters
Volume 1 The Net's OffspringMemories of EarthTechno NomadsEX-LOGThe AuthoritiesEscapeSilicon SoulsThe Builders
Volume 2 EX-LOG - Nest RuineThe CapitolThe CorporationNet SphereSafety Guard
Volume 3 The Great SurfElectrosilos FishermenPlantersAwakeningAssaultBasic LanguageMassacre
Volume 4 Backup CyberspaceLimit CancelHybridToha Heavy IndustriesElectronic KnightThe Eighth Cave
Volume 5 HackingScattered SpaceGravity FurnaceVersionCave 13Cease Fire
Volume 6 Sanakan and CiboVibrationCollapseDissolutionDisappearanceBeautiful LifeUnofficial Megastructure
Volume 7 Central NexusClass 1 Critical Effect WeaponCaptureAnti-Intrusion Electron SpaceThe Megastructure's Internal FissureSpecial Safeguards
Volume 8 Inside the MegastructureMultiple Dispersion Molecule MovementProvisional Connection CertificationRaidUrgeLevel 9Far-Off
Volume 9 Parallel Electricity Storage Tank ClusterThe CallerLacking EscapeThe CaptorAnother MeetingPeopleThe Observer
Volume 10 Unified Metal BeamsContinuumOrganicBurning SiliconRescue of the ReceptacleExterminator, First ClassRetrieved ConsciousnessThe Edge of the City