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WCDT Strips 3056-3060 (28 Sept. to 02 October 2015)

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St.Clair:

--- Quote from: snubnose on 01 Oct 2015, 23:28 ---
--- Quote --- It was a nickname given to me by the human members of my squad. I kept it to honor their memory.
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OUCH.

Wouldnt humans be banned from the frontlines if AIs would be that advanced ? Seriously, even if you assume AIs are "sentient", they are still programs and you can make a backup of the AI at any time ... of humans, not so much.

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I'm not sure exactly from where or why, now, but I've had the idea for a while that Bubbles was one of the first wave of combat units - if not prototypes, then the first series in mass production and service.  If so, she was at the center not only of whatever armed conflicts she fought in, but the world around her trying to figure this stuff out.  And now that it has, or at least is further along in the process of doing so, she may fit into this new world even more awkwardly than many human veterans.

Neko_Ali:
Keep in mind that AIs are a new race. As in, they just came into being in living memory. One of the first places that they would be pressed into service is in hazardous environments for humans, including combat. This would be especially true pre AI civil rights. But that doesn't mean the entire military structure is going to be dismantled in favor of a new, untested and unknown technology. Especially in the military which can be resistant to change when they have something that works. I also doubt that the introduction of AI combat units would mean they would immediately or even quickly retire their active duty soldiers. Given the relative youth of AIs as a species, then the most likely case scenario is that they would be assigned to existing squads of humans, as a training and monitoring tool, to see how they perform. And given the relative durability of an AI combat chassis, they are the one most likely to survive if something catastrophic happened to their squad. I imagine cases like Bubbles' are not at all uncommon. PTSD and survivor's guilt are very real and serious things. It can be hard to open up to people again. Especially people who don't and can't understand what it's like.

Perfectly Reasonable:

--- Quote from: Squiddlywinx on 01 Oct 2015, 21:33 ---
Seriously, that has got to be the most explicitly dark event referenced in QC

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This ^
And we know Jeph is not going to expand on it.

Storel:
Hannelore: "I'm sorry for your loss" is always a good start.

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