Spoilers for 7.0 Alexandrian life style

[Hesitate89]

Whats with the Fortune Teller in S9? She has her own special room, any correlation to Astrologian?

It was interesting that the NPC says they are booked for next couple months, possibly next patch? almost like we will eventually be able to converse?

[SannaR]

Whats with the Fortune Teller in S9? She has her own special room, any correlation to Astrologian?

It was interesting that the NPC says they are booked for next couple months, possibly next patch? almost like we will eventually be able to converse?

What fortune teller?

[Cilia]

[G]iven Cahcuia had the ability to act against the AI, it's more likely she's not telling the truth to get us to turn off the machines without feeling like we've committed genocide because she believes they are morally wrong and wants them destroyed.

What's more likely, a rebel leader downplayed the personhood of the beings we were destroying because she wanted the job done or an AI whose directive for preservation was capable of overriding the queen's will, but not the will of a random person in it's system?

If the AI is controlling all of them making them act how they used to act, why give them self-awareness? Why do they know they are Endless? And who are they acting for? There usually are no living people in Living Memory. So it'd be a system making everyone behave like themselves for the benefit of no one. Seems to me like it was just them.

The only purpose-driven Endless is Sphene. She is hardwired to preserve Living Memory at all costs and cannot directly contradict that directive, but the others are not. If the AI modeling Cahcuia concluded that she would tire of eternal "life" as an Endless knowing the cost, she would then be compelled to find a way to shut down Living Memory... which is exactly what happened.

Other than Sphene the Endless have no purpose; they're just images acting out behaviors modeled on data. Living Memory is itself just a comforting lie about "eternal life," which is stripped away when we shut down the Terminals running it. Even Sphene's behavior is modeled on personality data (memories) from the Storm Surge era Sphene, albeit modified to have her love and compassion amplified by Preservation. The only time we talk to "Sphene" as her own independent self is in the moments after defeating her Queen Eternal form, as she is still shorn of Storm Surge Sphene's memories; and she concludes she never should have been created. (Harsh.)

What fortune teller?

There's a fortune teller in one of Solution Nine's buildings, directly behind the Neon Stein mini-aetheryte warp point. It's the building with the neon Yans on the outside. All the clerk says is that they're busy and will be for a long while, and to check back later.