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Alice Grove MCDT August 2015
Wimblesaurus:
You know, by all indications the praeses could just send down a few cyborgs right now and easily take over most of the populated earth, no overtures and no bullshitting around with diplomacy. In fact, it seems the only real complicating factor is Alice's presence in this part of the world.
So what if Ardent and Gavia are scouts? Unknowingly selected for their curiosity and awful temper respectively, to A) Find Alice, and B) Cause as much collateral damage as possible in the process.
I realize everything I've said has probably been said before, but this is where things get crazy:
What if Ardent and Gavia aren't the only Ardent and Gavia? They managed to find Alice, confirm she's a witch, and blow up a few buildings in the process almost immediately. If the Praeses knew beforehand that sending these two to the surface would work so well, they might be one of many pairs of clones of the original Gavia and Ardent, sent down to the surface to do basically the same thing in multiple settlements.
Of course, this is assuming the Praeses have the goal of taking over the world at all. Ardent and Gavia weren't TP'd back to the moon when Gavia requested it, despite having drawn out Alice. Them living among and becoming acquainted with humans for any length of time makes them a potential complication when the invasion comes, so it seems like it would have been more efficient to bring them back, if maybe only slightly. Assuming the Praeses are as wise and powerful and junk as they're supposed to be, even a minor potential setback, particularly one so easily avoided, would be unacceptable to them. That Ardent and Gavia aren't back on the moon might be an indication that the Praeses have other goals.
improvnerd:
Back to the moon? It seems pretty clear now that the spaceborne live in orbital habit.
mustang6172:
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--- Quote from: mustang6172 on 09 Aug 2015, 18:50 ---So a windmill doesn't cause an energy imbalance, but indoor plumbing does?
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The pump is nothing; Alice is just saying that it is a bad precedent that led to cultural and social (and, ultimately, economic and political) problems in the past. Specifically that too much technology-enabled wealth and ease can lead to a runaway chain-reaction of greed and acquisition that inevitably leads to a major war.
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Isn't it a basic rule of science fiction that every problem caused by technology gets solved by throwing more technology at it?
Is it cold in here?:
If Ardent is infested with undesirable nanobots, why would Alice think the bots would be affected by killing him?
"Ideological grudge"? Alice may be projecting here.
Method of Madness:
Well, fuck.
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