Insect Wars: Dark Zone or Light Universe?
All right, I went to a transcript of Brigadoom. Here’s what the Master of Ceremonies had to say about the History of the Brunnen G.
MOC:The Brunnen-G turned inward, building a great defensive shield around
their planet, safe inside their sphere of silence, they directed their
fertile minds against the oldest enemy of them all…death. By
manipulating their bodies innermost cell structure, they unlocked the
secret of never-ending life. No Brunnen-G Would ever grow old again,
they thought by freeing their bodies of aging, that they would become
immortal gods at play, but humans are not designed to live forever,
their bodies did not age, but they became a feared of everything and
anything, for partaking in any activity at all could threaten their
precious and ageless bodies.
Now, this doesn’t say flat out that they
never ever went beyond the shield again, but
I would suggest that the reference to ‘sphere of silence’ was preffy close.
They’d cut themselves off from the Universe.
MOC: By Kai’s time, the defensive shields that protected Brunnis-2 from the rest of the universe were
thousands of years old. Kai and his new born friends discovered that the shields had over time developed
weak points. They allowed them to see into the universe beyond, and what they saw was not good. Their
universe was one of war and chaos, his Divine Shadow’s order was on the rise conquering and destroying
planet after planet. Kai knew that he had to travel beyond the shields to learn his planets fate,
This clearly implies that the shields worked both ways, consistent with the ‘sphere of silence.’ The Brunnen G could not see out,
and presumably could not leave at all. I can’t imagine them building doors into their shield but not building windows. Otherwise, they might risk leaving their planet open to a devastating military assault simply by going out for milk. There were no windows.
The newborns could only begin to see out when the shield had weakened in points.
MOC: The Brunnen-G were angry, angrier than anyone could
remember. Kai was accused of betraying them, by breaching the shields, of opening the door, to enemies
who could destroy them.
Again, this supports the inferences we’ve been building. It appears that the shield, by design or by the nature of its physics, prevented all travel. If someone could get out, then equally, someone could get in.
This view is supported by the Brunnen G singers who sang “He’s broken the shields, he’s broken the wall,” Simply by travelling
through them.
MOC: Knowing that their shields were breached, communicated with the outside world for the first time in
millennia, they realised that Kai was right
This doesn’t say exactly that there was no communication with the outside world since the shields went up. But the implication is there.
Ergo, there’s no suggestion that the Brunnen G ever went beyond their walls for any reason after their Shield went up, but plenty of references which support the notion that there was no communication or travel at all.
As to whether the memories could have been taken from immortal Brunnen G at the fall of Brunnis. There’s no indication that HDS killed any other Brunnen G personally, except for Kai. Most of them were vaporized by the Foreshadow’s planet destroying sheets, the ones that fought suicidally and died in space were newborns.
There’s also a big problem with that theory,
in that any other memories from the destruction of Brunnis 2 would have resided in the Divine Shadow who killed Kai, who became the Predecessor that Kai destroyed and whose memories, all of them, he took.
This Brain and those memories wouldn’t have survived to be in the group of Predecessors in Supernova.