I'm with you. Throwing a lot of spaghetti at the wall is better than having nothing to work with. Besides, the theories aren't mutually exclusive. If it is VR, that doesn't change the fact that we're all from different worlds. If I were going to orchestrate something like this, pulling everyone to one central location and then popping them into a manufactured reality would be the best way to stay in control of the whole process.
[If he's right, that's simultaneously good news and bad news. Good news is that dying might not be literally dying. Bad news is that they have yet another layer of intense mystery to puzzle through, perhaps dramatically decreasing their chances of getting out of here without having to play it through.
He's going to focus on the good news! Up the mountain they go.]
Hm. Sort of. [Reasonable assumptions, though. As always, Hiro is one step ahead of the curve, even if the step isn't exactly right.] It's more symbiotic than co-dependent. The two brains can function independently, but they're stronger when working in tandem. Jaegers are these massive robots designed to fight the Kaiju, and the pilots drive them by functioning as the Jaeger's brain, essentially. The Jaeger taps into their mental functions, so when they move in the cockpit, the Jaeger moves with them. Problem is, that's too much strain for one human mind to handle. The two pilots share the load.
[...] So, yeah, sounds like the microbots you're describing. Anyway, point is, if one pilot's connection goes down, the other will still function, but the intensity of the connection with the Jaeger is usually too much for the other pilot to be of any real use. Most of the time, anyway.
[which FINALLY brings him to the important part.] And if that's the case... Shutting down one or both of the chiefs might disrupt the simulation.
science infodump oh boy
[If he's right, that's simultaneously good news and bad news. Good news is that dying might not be literally dying. Bad news is that they have yet another layer of intense mystery to puzzle through, perhaps dramatically decreasing their chances of getting out of here without having to play it through.
He's going to focus on the good news! Up the mountain they go.]
Hm. Sort of. [Reasonable assumptions, though. As always, Hiro is one step ahead of the curve, even if the step isn't exactly right.] It's more symbiotic than co-dependent. The two brains can function independently, but they're stronger when working in tandem. Jaegers are these massive robots designed to fight the Kaiju, and the pilots drive them by functioning as the Jaeger's brain, essentially. The Jaeger taps into their mental functions, so when they move in the cockpit, the Jaeger moves with them. Problem is, that's too much strain for one human mind to handle. The two pilots share the load.
[...] So, yeah, sounds like the microbots you're describing. Anyway, point is, if one pilot's connection goes down, the other will still function, but the intensity of the connection with the Jaeger is usually too much for the other pilot to be of any real use. Most of the time, anyway.
[which FINALLY brings him to the important part.] And if that's the case... Shutting down one or both of the chiefs might disrupt the simulation.