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WCDT 8-13 December 2014 (Strips 2850-2854)
jheartney:
--- Quote from: Zandin on 11 Dec 2014, 00:26 ---
--- Quote from: jheartney on 10 Dec 2014, 23:35 ---From the National Reconnaissance Office website: "The NRO is the U.S. Government agency in charge of designing, building, launching, and maintaining America’s intelligence satellites. " This is not an agency that would launch an open enforcement action inside U.S. borders. For that you would see the FBI.
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Jeph would not use an already existing acronym for a new agency. It makes zero sense, and he puts too much effort into these for something that lazy. The NRO is an intelligence agency that uses satellites to spy, so we can either assume they were watching Emily, or that her AI tried to access the network. That would make it an NRO matter, no matter who they worked with to execute the shutdown order.
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The NRO is a satellite launch and maintenance agency, not an intelligence gathering operation. They send the hardware up and make sure it's running smoothly. CIA and NSA actually run intelligence gathering operations. The NRO is a glorified trucking company.
--- Quote from: Zandin on 11 Dec 2014, 00:26 ---
--- Quote from: jheartney on 10 Dec 2014, 23:41 ---Why in the world would they do that? In the U.S. you'd need a warrant at the very least, and afterwards they'd need to arrest Emily to justify the break-in. Much more likely you'd send a worm to quietly corrupt the project data. This would stop it from compiling and show junk data if you opened the project.
Of course the fictional "National Robotics Office" might not even be part of the U.S. government. If they're hiring the likes of Clinton, they're probably not.
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Absolutely zero evidence Clinton works for them at all, and a warrant is absolutely not needed for anything considered a national security threat or that infiltrates their system first. It clearly was not a virus or worm since Jeph said an EMP was used, ergo one was used. The title of the strip is "From Orbit, No less" so there's your satellite link if you need it. I'll admit that the tactical squad thing was mostly for my own headcanon, since I like the idea of big scary men ruining a science project, but the evidence obviously disproves that.
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If Clinton doesn't work for them, how did he know about the attack? Was it in the papers? WRT an EMP from orbit, that wouldn't just take out all the electronics in the class; it'd take out the whole eastern seaboard.
osaka:
--- Quote from: jheartney on 11 Dec 2014, 00:50 ---If Clinton doesn't work for them, how did he know about the attack? Was it in the papers? WRT an EMP from orbit, that wouldn't just take out all the electronics in the class; it'd take out the whole eastern seaboard.
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Maybe his hand went fuck all. Seems the most plausible explanation.
Loki:
--- Quote from: jheartney on 11 Dec 2014, 00:50 ---If Clinton doesn't work for them, how did he know about the attack?
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Clinton: "So how was your weekend?"
Emily: "Some men from NRO came and EMPed my final project ^_^"
Clinton: "...uh".
Emily: "I also learned some new facts about bunnies!"
Clinton: "..."
BenRG:
--- Quote from: osaka on 11 Dec 2014, 00:55 ---
--- Quote from: jheartney on 11 Dec 2014, 00:50 ---If Clinton doesn't work for them, how did he know about the attack? Was it in the papers? WRT an EMP from orbit, that wouldn't just take out all the electronics in the class; it'd take out the whole eastern seaboard.
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Maybe his hand went fuck all. Seems the most plausible explanation.
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To me, the simplest explanation is that the merry, merry funny men from the [Classified Alphabet Agency] burst into the lecture hall and used some kind of small-radius man-carried computer-killer (possibly a weapon designed originally to kill runaway military AIs) in front of everyone. Then, they apologised to Emily with a bogus-sounding explanation regarding 'national security', gave her a replacement laptop (which, mysteriously, had the same image as her last cloud backup, minus the class project) and everyone was informed "This never happened".
I'm hoping that, when Clinton is chivvied over to Emily (probably tomorrow), she'll call him "Mega Man". She'll then remind him of her question many months ago as to whether Robo-hand can shoot death rays and explain that this is how she remembers him. Clinton will then admit that this is the most complimentary nickname that he has ever had and the conversation will move forward from there next week.
I'm also predicting that Clinton will make a stuttering, stumbling mess out of asking Emily to a lunch date. Emily will say "Yes, please!" and Marten will tell Claire that Clinton did better than he did with his first GF back in California.
hedgie:
--- Quote from: Loki on 11 Dec 2014, 00:57 ---
--- Quote from: jheartney on 11 Dec 2014, 00:50 ---If Clinton doesn't work for them, how did he know about the attack?
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Clinton: "So how was your weekend?"
Emily: "Some men from NRO came and EMPed my final project ^_^"
Clinton: "...uh".
Emily: "I also learned some new facts about bunnies!"
Clinton: "..."
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I've got a theory, it must be bunnies. </Anya>
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