But when she confronts Father, she’ll hear none of it. Making Father’s case more urgent, leading up to all of this Mother has been displaying signs that she is, indeed, breaking down. He makes Campion promise not to tell Mother-she won’t understand-but mother gets the truth out of him nevertheless.
What will happen when Mother and Father break down? He can’t live all alone in a harsh world. Campion, he believes, needs to be with his people.
When the Ark appears, Father tries to contact it to send them their location. We do know that they were in a massive battle against the atheists and that both sides took heavy, horrible losses, though the Mithraic appear to have come out on top. We don’t learn much about the Mithraic in the first episode. Moments later it cries out, miraculously revived. She clutches the child to her bosom and begins to hum to it. Despite being a robot, she has maternal instincts. Father wants to break it down to use as food to feed the others (very practical) but Mother has hidden depths. They’re tiny, and the sixth one is stillborn. Nine months later, Father takes each infant from their cube and places them in an incubator. Mother brings six of these children to term, hooking herself up to artificial umbilical cords that feed into small cubes where the babies will grow. “Belief in the unreal can comfort the human mind, but it also weakens it,” Mother tells her brood. It was, after all, the follies of religion (the belief in the unreal, as Mother terms it) that was the downfall of humankind. The duo’s creator, a man named Campion, has programmed the androids to raise these children as atheists. The two are Mother (Amanda Collin) and Father (Abubakar Salim), atheistic androids who escaped the devastation of Earth with a precious cargo: 12 human fetuses.
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