Quote from: Russ840 on Apr 17, 2019, 10:43:40 AMI think HuDa is refereeing to the empathic ability.
Being a relative of Ripley 8 would be an easy way to explain said ability.
Being a relative of OG Ripley means humans would have to evolve this ability.
Yeah, pretty much.
There's also the fact there's infinite scope for Ripley 8 to have had children at some point, whereas we're specifically told Ellen Ripley had no living descendants by 2179.
It wasn't exactly ridiculous the way it was, I just thought there was an obvious and logical tally there that the book needlessly avoided.