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## Draft of the third chapter of the alternate Ra ending
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* Author: u/Empiricist_or_not *Aspiring polite Hegemonizing swarm**
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* URL: https://qntm.org/files/ra/end2/continuity.html
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* Score: 20
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* Created: 2018-04-26T23:22:04
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### Post:
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[Link to content](https://qntm.org/files/ra/end2/continuity.html)
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### Comments:
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> **u/Empiricist_or_not** [+3] *Aspiring polite Hegemonizing swarm* (3 minutes later)
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> I saw this yesterday, just remembered to check here, and saw it hadn't been posted or maybe only has made it to a weekly post I missed: anywho take a look at r/qntm qntm is smoothing out Ra's ending.
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> **u/hoja_nasredin** [+2] *Dai-Gurren Brigade* (a day later)
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> The thing I disliked most out of Range was the ending. It is good he is rewriting it but honestly I will not have time to read it.
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>> **u/Frommerman** [+5] (a day later)
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>> I liked the fatalistic end. Sometimes we *fail.* Utterly and completely. That was what happened in Ra, a cascade of failure after failure on the part of humanity against a threat they had created themselves. The fact that anyone survived at all is a miracle.
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>>> **u/Noumero** [+7] *Self-Appointed Court Statistician* (2 days later)
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>>> I think the thing most criticised about *Ra*'s ending isn't its downer nature — which is fantastic, I agree — but the way Rachel Ferno enters the plot at the last minute, shuffles everyone to the sidelines, and saves the day^(1) on her lonesome. Which is fixed here.
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>>> Actually, this ending is even a *more* complete defeat. In the old one, Actual Humanity lost the new war and was forced to flee into the unknown, but with nobody dying. In the new one, Rachel — the person resurrection of whom was the main goal of one of the protagonists — anticlimactically and irrecoverably dies after doing nothing of consequence, and Actual Humanity is uploaded into Ra, in a full surrender to the Virtuals' ideology.
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>>> It's perfect.
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>>> ___
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>>> ^(1. Figuratively speaking, of course. She *failed* to save the concept of a day.)
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