Discussion thread for Agatha H. and the Clockwork Princess. Beware, Here There be SPOILERS

[hippogrif]

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Comments

Spark wasps

[claudeng]

The book complicates the question of whether there can be more Spark wasps. From the information in the comic, we assumed they'd need to reverse engineer Slarlantz' wasp (which was not used under controlled conditions as planned) to get more, which would be slow and difficult. However, in the book, Selnikov reveals that the fact that they don't affect Sparks is due to an agreement between Lucrezia and the Order, not an innate limitation. What I take from this is that Klaus' wasp is forever unique, but Lu could make Spark wasps whenever she chose. I wonder 1) if the uniqueness of this wasp is going to be significant and 2) what else was in Tarvek's spies' report about it.

Re: Spark wasps

[lightningnettle.livejournal.com]

I hadn't noticed that. I'll have to get my copy back from someone before I can check it. I wonder if it could have been a bluff by Lu?

Re: Spark wasps

[claudeng]

It also makes me wonder what Lucrezia knows about the nature of the Spark that nobody else knows, if she can design wasps to avoid them, and whether that has anything to do with Klaus' particular interest in the subject.

Re: Spark wasps

[bunnyjadwiga]

Actually, it raises the question of what the relationship between The Other and the Order was when it came to developing those wasps. Were wasps extant before Lucrezia? If not, was the Order involved in developing the Slaver wasps? Because if the spark-slaving-wasps are a new design, not a return to an old design, there may have been something in the original design process (or biomaterial) that prevented Sparks from being successfully wasped (though it's never been clear whether attempts to wasp a Spark don't happen, happen but fail, or happen but kill the Spark.)