As I said. That could be a plausible explanantion. The last thing Alex saw while being awake had been Fireblade and the other Loroi restarting their telepathic assault after him saying he considers himself as a prisoner of war. Or that scene itself was a part of the mind games they play. As in, humans may have an impressive resistence, but they eventually broke through with a concerted effort and everything happening after that had just been a giant mind game.Werra wrote:It's not quite so bleak. He knows that there was a battle in the system just when the Bell was shot down. He also knows that it took the Loroi several hours to find him. The predicament they're in righ now also definitely is real. So there are a lot of indicators that the story is true.
I mean, if we want to be negativ, Alex could wake up in the medbay during his interrogation.
And, sanzai may work that way that they can simply rifle through his memory. For Loroi, it wouldn't be browsing a library containing his knowledge and past experiences, sanzai is a means of communication. So they actually have to talk to him, put him through simulated scenarios and see how he reacts, much like putting a mouse in a labyrinth.
And, the chain of events with him getting in situations one considerably worse than the last, pretty much looks like a technique to break his resolve. They tried standard questioning (Tempo on the bridge), prolonged isolation (the brig), physical discomfort (the food/jump sickness), mortal danger (the ongoing Umiak invasion), base fears (fear of the dark, disorientation, fear of suffocating when the shuttle became dead in the water), and even playing on effects like the Stockholm Syndrome (adding Beryl and Talon to the mind game), then playing with the emotion of hope with the message on the PDA.