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Yun Hee Ryeon
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Posted - 2013.12.06 04:53:00 -
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Mistaahh Juvenile wrote:But are you mortal?
We are serially mortal. We merely have a habit of coming back in a new hat. Hopefully, it's a habit we can avoid kicking for a while, but it is not clear how easily we can be disrupted.
From the point that it doesn't seem to have happened much, I might say, not very, but that's not the same as being impossible. If something were to corrupt whatever protocol is responsible for our transfer ... well, let's hope the system's decentralized, mm?
To that end, our "struggle," if we have wit enough to notice that it hasn't ended, needs to be focused on the long term: learning the details of our state and how we go about protecting those resources, or, alternatively, figuring out who holds the still-hypothetical, but likely, kill switch and ensuring that it's never thrown. |
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Posted - 2013.12.06 16:59:00 -
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Mistaahh Juvenile wrote:steadyhand amarr wrote:For example ninites that eat the brain that could do enough damage before the implant trigger leaving u as a vegtable in your new body due to your new brain being field with null data.
This is do thr implant taking a snapshot of the status of your brain. If its mush when the snapshot triggers voloa clone taken care of :-) I think the trigger implant is a bit more sophisticated then to fall for an obvious trick like this one.
It is. Otherwise death by 'Toxin' weapons would be a bit more of a problem: they induce the kind of nanite rebellion that steady is talking about. Their primary result is just excruciating pain.
Admittedly, they might just be configured to attack the bowels, but, also, please notice that you can get your head ventilated by a railgun flechette, which is just as destructive, and not only reactivate safely but remember the event.
It seems the Sleepers knew what they were doing. The question is, do we?
... Obviously not. Better question: do our handlers? |
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Posted - 2013.12.06 18:13:00 -
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Mistaahh Juvenile wrote:I know I need to be a nice merc to the suits, because, well, they're the only ones that can crush our very existence.
Mm. It's likely, but a curious thing:
A tool that can be used to destroy someone utterly, with no chance of escape, is most useful if that person knows about it. It's a sort of very high-grade form of blackmail: do what we say, or we enter the code and end you on the spot.
The curious thing is, if the means exist to easily erase us from existence, we haven't been told. This means one of three things: (1) the failsafe is far from foolproof, so if we learned about it we (or someone) would have a way to stop it; (2) the failsafe is all too easily triggered, so if its nature were known, our usefulness would be sharply curtailed; or ...
... (3) the secret of the failsafe is that there is no failsafe-- the back-end function of the Sleeper implant is as much a mystery to our handlers as it is to us. They don't know how it works, and they can't stop it working. They can deprive us of viable clones, but while that keeps us from coming back in the immediate vicinity, it's unclear where it actually leaves us.
That last option would suggest some very curious things about the purges. Perhaps we one day might have a bunch of crazed first-gens dropping out of the datasphere into fresh clones.
Hm. That could make for a decent holoflick, come to think of it. |
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Posted - 2013.12.08 16:25:00 -
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Mistaahh Juvenile wrote:Branded by: Mistaahh Juvenile and Yun Hee Ryeon, you mean?
Yeahh, no, **** that, I'm a merc, not a moviemaker.
Um. I wasn't really proposing such a thing. Just noting that it sounded like the plot of ... probably a cross-genre techno thriller / horror holoflick.
Advertising catchprase: "Round one went to us. It's time for round two...."
It's been a long time since I've seen one, but I did really used to like Gallentean holos. That was before I understood they were trying to sneakily adjust my cultural attitudes. |
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