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Is Spookybot a zombie?

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BenRG:
The Borg Queen was always a dumb idea. I think that they got the idea more right with Seven of Nine in Voyager - Just a regular drone being used as a single point of contact.

Mr_Rose:
No, Borg queens were a great idea. Making them unique and giving them egos was the mistake.
They were apparently originally supposed to be something like a network hub, simplifying the Colective’s network topology to one or two major links per vessel rather than one per drone wherever the drone is and allowing the drones more efficient access to the ship hardware by acting as local authentication servers. They should have been somewhere between ships captain and ships computer. What we got was… yeah.

Thrudd:
Even that approach to networking is,  dated.
Mesh networking has a higher level of required complexity per unit but does not require anything like central nodes, just enough nearby units to allow a path to the required system or data that the local unit requires to complete a task.

If I was designing a thing that was capable of being autonomous, yet being part of a whole, I would put in all required systems but in such a way that they could work on sync with neighboring units.
Add in a communication system that has zero delay [already demonstrated at the lab scale] and you get something that is truly terrifying in potential.

How small a package and what form should it take?
Well that depends on the systems incorporated and their inherent bulk.
Start with a positronic brain, add communications, sensors, tractor beam, deflector system, replicator, warp drive, gravity drive [how else do you get the damn things to float around in an atmosphere?]
I am thinking a cube is impractical, what with the issues of edges and corners, and a sphere as an inherently stable geometry.
How big? Now that is a good questions. Just how small could one reduce such systems and still have them be functional on a practical level?
I remember one star trek episode where it was pointed out that the not quite dead yet aliens with their tech could make an enterprise class warp drive the size of a walnut.
If the tech were that advanced I could see them as the size of a softball overall.

One unit would be the equivalent of a runabout or shuttle in capability. Cluster a few hundred and you get a cruiser. A cluster of a few million and you get a battle station.

.... Hmm, most of those systems would facilitate interactive holographic projection.
Now that could allow for some very interesting anthropological research and interaction with all sorts of intelligent species.
Or just hide as innocuous gas giants throughout the Galaxy and stay well away from those crazy bags of mostly water.

Kugai:

--- Quote from: Storel on 01 Aug 2017, 00:55 ---
--- Quote from: Kugai on 30 Jul 2017, 21:42 ---Spookie's a Hive Mind

Not entirely benevolent, but definitely no Borg Collective.

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What's the difference? I thought the Borg were a hive mind. They even have a queen, like all good hive dwellers.

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Spookybot doesn't try to assimilate you WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT!!

JimC:

--- Quote from: Thrudd on 01 Aug 2017, 07:49 --- I would put in all required systems but in such a way that they could work on sync with neighboring units.
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That presupposes that all systems could be installed in a single unit with the required level of capability. In human civilisation specialisation is everything. Would it not be appropriate to take the same approach to our hypothetical units, and have different units optimised for different capabilities?

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