Ideas (Jeffrey)
What if Jeffrey is a failed Titan? He Came Out Wrong, either because:
- The process was imperfect (which could be the result of TVs arrogantly assuming they know best and doing it Their Way instead of following the established method that the Cams and Soundkind already tried… or it could be that the TVs were actually the first to try, and by the time they'd sorted everything out, the other two factions had already deployed and built their Titans).
- Jeffrey was not a willing participant in the process. (Lesson learned: Titan candidates have to be volunteers.) The one part of Emergence that didn't suck farts out of dead rabbits was the Easter egg message that 'Jeffrey knows too much'. What does he know?
Jeffrey's original assignment was to be at the epicentre of a vast storage centre containing everything the Alliance (or humanity, if humans did this to him) could want. It was his job to send requested items through the void to their destinations, effectively giving the Alliance matter-replicators from Star Trek (except it's not a machine assembling the items; it's a mardy TV putting the already-made items in the equivalent of those pneumatic tube systems). Jeffrey either hated it and rebelled, or declined the 'honour' to begin with.
In areas with both elephants and people, elephants will sometimes block the road and not let you pass until you give them a banana or something. Maybe Jeffrey does that when he wants a snack or some affection. Blocks a void pathway and doesn't let TVs pass until they give him a screen-rub or a bit of oil for his joints.