#eligius 3

Where did the non-Prime people of Sanctum come from? I’ve always assumed that they are descendants of people who were initially grown from embryos that Gabriel brought from the Earth. 

However, in one of the recent episodes, Gabriel said that he destroyed the embryos 70 years ago - and that they had about a thousand embryos, genetically engineered to be Nightbloods. 

Does that mean all the embryos were genetically engineered to be Nightbloods? But then where did all those nulls and the gene carriers who are not Nightbloods come from? It was confirmed in 6x05 that Nightblood genes are recessive. So, the genetically engineered embryos would have to have a pair of Nightblood genes, right? I suppose everyone was meant to be a Nightblood because Becca and the Eligius Corporation thought it would be necessary due to radiation. So, why isn’t everyone on the planet a Nightblood?

The only people who wouldn’t have Nightblood genes would then be the original Primes, as they were artificial Nightbloods. But most of them died when Russell killed them, and it seems that none of the Primes never had any biological children other than those that they had already had before (Josephine, Kaylee, Daniel, Ryker).

And I for one cannot wait.

Imagine all of this tenfold:

Imagine all the gif worthy footage we're going to have (says me who still hasn't learnt how to make a gif for anything let alone Tumblr) that doesn't need to be brightened and colour corrected a million times.

I am so excited for binary sun lighting. Bring on season 6!

Anonymous said:*6x02 spoiler* We know the character who looks like Clarke is named Josephine & is one of the original Eligius III settlers. According to IMDb, the woman who led Raven & co to Sanctum is called Josephine VII. I’m guessing she’s a descendent of Josephine (7 generations in ~230 yrs checks out) but the “VII” in her name throws me off. Why would all of her descendants have the same name? I wonder if Eligius III has a similar chip technology as the flame (maybe Becca gave it to them) so once their...

Oh interesting.

There would be no flame there, because Becca developed the flame AFTER eligius 3 was lost. We saw her do it on the Polaris space station. It was her fix for ALIE, because she decided ALIE wasn’t human enough and needed to interface with a human in order to understand humanity. 

COULD she be just a descendent. Yes. It could indicate that Sanctum is unwilling to move on from their past and is so attached to their ancestor’s accomplishments that they want to recreate them with the same names/heritage/beliefs. That would actually NOT be a sign of a healthy society in my book.

So everyone on Eligius 3 has black blood, does that mean the planet they are on, that had two suns, the radiation level will be much higher?

Do you think before everyone can leave the ship they will have to all be made nightbloods?

Okay so, I noticed in that promotional poster for season 5, Raven is standing in Eligius 3 and it got me thinking.