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Spec: on the results of the nebra puzzle
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talax
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 		Spec: on the results of the nebra puzzle
Okay... we got:

1) well, a seeming time travel hopper killing three people and only stealing a wallet. (I suppose it doesn't have to be a hopper, but then what is the relevance?)

2) Which timeline did this occur in? The current one (neotech), or the previous one (new river)? I thought that the current timeline the progress wasn't as far as the previous one. I know they are supposed to be"merging" but still. Jake supposedly had to help them a lot to make progress.

3) AS far as who the assailant was, it could be Becker or any of his flunkies, or someone affiliated with the HCRD?

4) And finally... why kill these three people? I assume that when caretaker finally gets back online, something in the story when we send it to him will trigger something in either his or Jake's memory.

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 		The only reasons I can think of to kill Mr. and Mrs. Holman are:

1. To prevent them from having a child who grows up to do something the assailant doesn't want them to do. This doesn't really work though because the assailant could have solved the problem by just killing one of the couple. Also, Mr. Holman was an older man (20 years of service), so unless his wife was much younger they were probably past having children.

2. Mr. and Mrs. Holman each did something in their time that lead to something the assailant didn't want to happen.

3. The assailant is a cold blooded murdering maniac who likes to kill people. He could have stolen the wallet without killing the couple.
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I have a feeling that there was something in the wallet of great importance. And what a better place to hide an object of great value than in the past?

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 		Re: Hidie Hole
MrDoug wrote:
I have a feeling that there was something in the wallet of great importance. And what a better place to hide an object of great value than in the past?


Another option: mistaken identity. Shot and killed those folks, checked the wallet for ID and found he'd made a mistake: hence, epithets.

Becker = Terminator
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If this was 1897, and they were up in age already, then they couldn't be the parents of anyone pertinent to our contemporary timeline. You figure their children, at that time, would be 30-40, maybe, and - at best - these victims would be grandparents of a child born at around this date.

THAT child (the murdered folks' grandchild, just born around that time) would be very old right now - in their 90s, let's say.

And, as has been pointed out, the killing of these people would not be stopping the birth of someone many generations down the line. These folks were too old and had already had their offspring.

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 		Re: Hidie Hole
dmax wrote:
MrDoug wrote:
I have a feeling that there was something in the wallet of great importance. And what a better place to hide an object of great value than in the past?


Another option: mistaken identity. Shot and killed those folks, checked the wallet for ID and found he'd made a mistake: hence, epithets.

Becker = Terminator


Laughing

I agree MrDoug that there was something important in the wallet but why kill the Holmans? They weren't armed. Mrs. Holman was on the ground and Mr. Holman had a stab wound...it didn't sound like they were resisting.
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 		I think the assailant, who seems particulary inept, killed to avoid discovery, and when unsuccessful with that, to escape. It sounds as if he was being chased by the unknown bystander whom he (the assailant) shot at and missed. In the account he sounds like a desperate, almost cornered man.

What paper could have been so valuable?

I think that Mr. Holman was the assailant's broker and Mr. Holman was suspicious of his knowledge of trading?? We know from the other time line that Becker [and others?] engaged in financial fraud and used the money to fund operations.

I think that Reggie has hidden more for us to find.
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I agree MrDoug that there was something important in the wallet but why kill the Holmans? They weren't armed. Mrs. Holman was on the ground and Mr. Holman had a stab wound...it didn't sound like they were resisting


If it was Becker he may be becoming unstable from all of the jumps we know he was not very stable to begin with and we know the problems Jake has had. Could he have been after one of the access cards to NRU or a key to the time machine?

One other thing is that we are assuming that the persons killed were from that time and not just hiding out in that time frame. I know it said Holman had a long career but for some reason it does not feel right.

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 		I agree that Becker had/has been going back in time to make investments to fund the HCRD (and any other black ops). What better time than to start before computers and other good permanent records. Better get out before 1929, though.

Maybe Jake was trying to stop Becker??
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