Been thinking about Ghosts of the Gyre.
We don’t know what Shalimanda was.
Beyond the story Chakas told to Vinnevra in Primordium.
BUT!
I think I have a hunch as to what those ONI research scientists THOUGHT they believed was Shalimanda.
Think about it. How is this being described?
A silver-grey construct with a circular disk shaped head, and three blue eyes.
With an assemblage of arms, grapplers and claws beneath, and two bipedal legs.
Tending to the ring’s biosphere and lands.
Now…
What does that sound like.
A steward sentinel and assembler sentinel respectively.
Both of which match that description the most.
Could it be?
It’s possible?
Even then we don’t know for sure.
But still.
Just something to think about.
Make of this what you will.














