User blog:Skyzy/A.L.I.E. Speculations

I've been speculating a lot on the ALIE page and what she could possibly want with the missile. I still think she had something to do with the end of the world before, but what I mean is her motivations for wanting the warhead ''now. ''I'm combining them all here. Jaha: "You're not real." A.L.I.E.: "Define 'real.' Your vessel is carbon-based. Mine is silicon. Your thoughts are chemical. Mine are digital."
 * My friend just finished watching the series and we were discussing the ending. He asked me how ALIE got the warhead and I was thinking: what if she's like a goddess to the nomadic Grounders and they worship her and bring offerings to her in her temple? And maybe she rewards them in some way to keep them coming back with more offerings, perhaps has the drones bring them food and water and supplies.
 * Maybe not as an actual goddess, but as an immortal and omniscent being who provides for them when they bring her what she asks for by communicating with them through her drones.
 * I've been toying with this thought for a while as to why ALIE has the nuclear warhead (mostly because I'm just completely over the "AI destroying humanity" trope). ALIE needs a source of power and we saw from Murphy's Lighthouse that it's powered by solar panels. So, back to the Solar Farm that was left completely undamaged...or has it been continuously fixed and repaired (perhaps by ALIE's worker drones) because that is what is powering ALIE currently? An umbilical cord tying her to the mansion on the island? Now, back to the nuclear warhead: what if what she really wants is not to use it as a weapon but as a portable power source?
 * We know ALIE isn't the first version (what software works so well the first time??). But is she the only version? Are there older or other versions of ALIE out there? Is she one-of-a-kind? Maybe she's just a complete narcissist and tried to wipe out all the other versions of herself, destroying most of humanity in the process.
 * I've just had another thought on ALIE and the people with mutations seeking the City of Light. Remember this conversation?

So, what if the safe haven the Wastelanders seek where they are welcome is actually ALIE turning them into digital versions of themselves so they no longer have to worry about their mutations. In fact...what if the drones are actually the Grounders uploaded into them? Imagine Murphy falling in love with an A.I. Emori. And the reason she wiped out the world is because she wanted to digitize the human race; evolve them or re-birth them, if you will. And I'm sure between now and next season, I'll come up with another half-dozen ideas other than a Skynet trope.