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Alice Grove MCDLT - June 2017
Daniel Patrick Moynihan:
--- Quote from: JimC on 29 Jun 2017, 09:39 ---Discontinuity is an interesting word to use for Ardent's upgrade capability isn't it? I wonder what's behind that.
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Since Laridia calls the interior of Cupressaceae a network and they emphasize stasis and sustainability as a lifestyle, the Praeses probably view all threats that throw off the careful tuning of the system in those terms. Or it could just mean foreign AI programming they can't understand.
I wonder what would happen if Ardent touched Laridia or other integrated Praeses-tech with malicious intent, like if she tries to kick them out. So far the ability has reflected his intentionality, maybe he could touch Church and imagine him made of marshmallow or something and his super-nanobots could overcome his nanobot resistance, or he could imagine his armor hardening to the point of immobility and trapping him inside it forever. Too many unanswered questions about how any of this works...
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: Daniel Patrick Moynihan on 29 Jun 2017, 11:18 ---
--- Quote from: JimC on 29 Jun 2017, 09:39 ---Discontinuity is an interesting word to use for Ardent's upgrade capability isn't it? I wonder what's behind that.
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Since Laridia calls the interior of Cupressaceae a network and they emphasize stasis and sustainability as a lifestyle, the Praeses probably view all threats that throw off the careful tuning of the system in those terms. Or it could just mean foreign AI programming they can't understand.
I wonder what would happen if Ardent touched Laridia or other integrated Praeses-tech with malicious intent, like if she tries to kick them out. So far the ability has reflected his intentionality, maybe he could touch Church and imagine him made of marshmallow or something and his super-nanobots could overcome his nanobot resistance, or he could imagine his armor hardening to the point of immobility and trapping him inside it forever. Too many unanswered questions about how any of this works...
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There are at least eight other Praeses in addition to Cupressaceae, yet that's where the Valkyrie-on-steroids delivers them when Ardent asks it to set a course to the nearest one. The best odds are one in nine and it goes down from there if there are more Praeses than the ones Gavia named. Interesting indeed.
Note also that asking someone a question when you already know the answer is a time honored interrogation method. We shouldn't let the Praeses off the hook eliminate the Praeses as suspects yet.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: OldGoat on 29 Jun 2017, 15:02 ---There are at least eight other Praeses in addition to Cupressaceae,
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They're listed in the next strip, here.
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 29 Jun 2017, 15:45 ---
--- Quote from: OldGoat on 29 Jun 2017, 15:02 ---There are at least eight other Praeses in addition to Cupressaceae,
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They're listed in the next strip, here.
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ACK!!! That's the one I meant to link to. Mea culpa. At any rate, we don't know if that's the entire roster, or if Gavia just gave up after that many non-responses.
It also raises another question - if going to the surface of the Earth is verboten, did she have any reason to believe just speaking aloud to a Praeses would work from there, or did she just expect it to work because it always had before, from inside the habitat? They may not have responded because they didn't hear her.
Kugai:
Not the nine?>
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