I Truly Can’t Get Enough Of AL-AN’s Typing Animation. It’s Satisfying.

POV you are AL-AN

AL-AN activating the teleporter in the Phase Gate Facility

AL-AN stretch

I love how smooth his mechanical arms move

Closer look at the hologram AL-AN types on

I often wonder what it was like for the Architects in these zen gardens. Being sick and having to process the fact that a cure was not developed in time.

This specific Architect component: what was their assignment? What tasks they were preforming on 4546B before the quarantine was instated. Before they situated in the garden and most likely succumbed to Kharaa. AL-AN mentions that Architects don’t see endings as the same way humans do, so even though this mind is gone, their data and experiences are in the network. I wonder if their remaining goals were carried out by the collective, or if there was simply no time to do so given the 143 billion other Architect casualties.

At the very least every time I go to the deep lilypad caves cache in game I take a minute to think about things as I listen to the dialogue between Robin and AL-AN. I suppose even after a millennium abandoned the garden is still fulfilling its purpose as a place to reflect.

I really would love to learn about the other species that made up parts of Architects vessels. As well as learning a bit more about the planets and ecosystems they came from and how the Architects ended up coming across them.

AL-AN on the surface of sector zero

Floats away

Love his little head movements