[ thanks for doing that brain work fitz, now he can move on with his life put a temporary pause on starting to seriously consider the hyper-digitized nature of their lives to be anything other than a by-product of the times. ]
Both plausible working theories. Going forward, it may be best to account for the likelihood of the latter when trying to figure this out, until we can eliminate it completely.
We definitely weren't an accident in that there has to be an origin point for the arrivals, or we wouldn't need dropping to specific locations by a shady organisation who've already shaved us down and planted a chip in our heads. We'd just show up all over the city, heads empty of implants, starting little uproars as the numbers of unimplanted were seen to rise or scared people started lashing out at the natives. Of course, it's also possible that they're able to trace us - maybe they've got tech that can sense whatever it is that's granted us the empathy bond, the abilities, etc, if they weren't involved in setting us up with that too - and pick us up immediately for our random arrival points. But why would they have developed that technology, or known how to, without first having some link to the phenomenon?
So although we specifically may not have been the point, something was. Or something was discovered and has been made the best of subsequently, as you said, but somewhere on this Earth, presumably in this city, is the place we really arrive. Or the place they go to find us. Taking into account jacked Godzilla, on top of all of this, poor control seems an inevitable conclusion.
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Both plausible working theories. Going forward, it may be best to account for the likelihood of the latter when trying to figure this out, until we can eliminate it completely.
We definitely weren't an accident in that there has to be an origin point for the arrivals, or we wouldn't need dropping to specific locations by a shady organisation who've already shaved us down and planted a chip in our heads. We'd just show up all over the city, heads empty of implants, starting little uproars as the numbers of unimplanted were seen to rise or scared people started lashing out at the natives. Of course, it's also possible that they're able to trace us - maybe they've got tech that can sense whatever it is that's granted us the empathy bond, the abilities, etc, if they weren't involved in setting us up with that too - and pick us up immediately for our random arrival points. But why would they have developed that technology, or known how to, without first having some link to the phenomenon?
So although we specifically may not have been the point, something was. Or something was discovered and has been made the best of subsequently, as you said, but somewhere on this Earth, presumably in this city, is the place we really arrive. Or the place they go to find us. Taking into account jacked Godzilla, on top of all of this, poor control seems an inevitable conclusion.
[ tl;dr, do go on. ]