Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE
Alice Grove MCDLT - April 2016
BenRG:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 04 Apr 2016, 00:58 ---Why design a weapon that needs to sleep?
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A limit of the technology, perhaps? Note that, in QC, Bubbles (a weapon) still has to sleep; it seems to be a limitation of the AI processor that it needs downtime to recompile or something. Not knowing what Alice and Sedna are, apart from the fact they are nearly indistinguishable from human women to the naked eye, we can only guess why their brains/processors/whatever need 'sleep periods'.
Dagoonite:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 04 Apr 2016, 00:58 ---Why design a weapon that needs to sleep?
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Self maintenance cycle, a memory reallocation cycle, to make the weapon more human so that it can more easily associate with humans, a way to help jump the final uncanny valley hurdle, a low power usage mode due to the presence of people who need to sleep in the same building, ancient technology has encountered bugs over prolonged usage beyond warranty, some dorky designer decided that it was a character flaw and nobody is complete without a character flaw, they were originally flesh and blood people who volunteered for upgrades and it's a holdover from their mental patterns...
I could go on with possibilities all day!
Loki:
How are they powered anyway? Have we ever seen either of them eat?
Then again, Alice has an outhouse...
BenRG:
--- Quote from: Loki on 04 Apr 2016, 02:48 ---How are they powered anyway? Have we ever seen either of them eat?
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We saw Alice having breakfast with Ardent and Gavia (she likes her porridge plain). She also is partial to a foamy beer at the local pub. So at the very least, her body can store food without it coming into contact with sensitive systems until excretion. However, I find it more likely that they can process food into energy, most likely organically.
FWIW, my view of Alice has long been that she is an extremely-augmented vat-grown bio-bot. This may include high-strength composite bones, cybernetically augmented senses and brain and a nearly-indestructible synthetic skin. Underneath this, she has better-than-human meat and organs (including snap-reflex tendons and muscle fibres, vastly accelerating her movements). Overall, she's really a true bio-synthetic hybrid rather than a cybernetically-augmented human.
This raises the question about which faction made her. The use of genetic enhancements and biological material would lend itself towards the bio-tech faction. However, the clear possibility of synthetic components of some sort to increase her durability is an inconsistency. Is she the result of some attempt to find a 'third way'? Or (and this is much more likely) were the bio-tech faction more than willing to ignore their ideology's rejection of synthetic means when it came to building weapons?
Zebediah:
I'm still of the opinion that she was originally a normal human who got upgraded. Perhaps involuntarily.
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