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This is spoilers for the Broken Empire series.


At the end of the trilogy we find out that the Jorg telling the story is not Jorg himself (as he is dead) but a computer simulation of him. Jorg had spent enough time with the eyepiece and or the builders technology for the technology/ computer to upload his simulation/ personality or whatever you want to call it.

Abeth is not Earth. Taproot is a computer simulation/ total conscious uploaded in the computer thing just like Jorg. In TGATS Erris tells Yaz that some of the missing chose to live in actual buildings just like humans did. Erris also tells her that Taproot was ancient before he even arrived on Abeth.


The missing are just Artificial Intelligence based on real humans. I am assuming that is what Erris meant when he told Yaz some still lived like humans. Their conscious inhabited a body just like Erris' because they wanted a real world feel to their life and not just the virtual one.

After the Broken Empire books humans regain technology, or at least some do and many upload into virtual living. These upgraded AI/humans and their helpers (maybe actual humans and or artificial bodies like Erris') traveled to Abeth and possibly other worlds. The four groups that then beached upon Abeth are either aliens, humans from colony worlds that had tech just not as advanced as the missing/ AI, or humans from colony worlds that had left Earth before the nuclear war that broke the empire before Jorgs time.


This is the way I interpreted things. I may not be remembering broken empire very well though so if I am wrong I would like to know. As far as the missing and where they went I am assuming that they were originally human or chose to live as humanlike as possible but at some point they all chose to completely upload into virtual world and at that level of intelligence/ technology they traveled/ emailed/ downloaded/ whatever off of Abeth or got lost in virtual world. I do not have a theory on the shiphearts/ stars beyond the fact that they are technology. They allow the quantals to approach the level of the missing, but I have no clue how they can fracture your personality into the bad parts/ demons, or how those demons travel through the ice and are able to inhabit other bodies.
Anyway those are my scattered thoughts.

Taproot Taproot.

Mark have you been lying to us? Is Taproot your Hoid?