Old Friends, Part 4 – Requiem: Silence

Old Friends, Part 4

Old Friends, Part 4

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by admin on July 21, 2011 at 12:00 am

Chapter: Day 24/25 Evening, Month of Darkness, 6563

Characters: EDGAR, Ena MacSwain, James Thalim, Kathleen Adair, Professor Clarence Gage

└ Tags: EDGAR, Ena MacSwain, James Thalim, Kathleen Adair, Professor Clarence Gage

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Warren Bonesteel

July 23, 2011, 9:38 am | # | Reply

Those towers would scare me…a lot. Essentially, it’s a huge computer. The computer is the tower, the tower is the computer. Nano-nano everywhere. Something like that is self-aware…and has defenses that could appear out of the walls, the floor, the ceiling. Defenses could indlude bio-nanotech, as well. No need to ‘hack’ the armor and weapons of the ‘infiltrators.’ ‘Hack’ the infiltrators.

Nuking this tower from orbit might not be the safest thing to do, let alone infiltrating it. It already knows that you’re coming, and knows what you’re trying to do. Chances are, you’re really doing exactly what it wants you do, for reasons known only to itself. Shades of Hari Seldon, anyone?

How this situation is resolved will be interesting.
- Rens
  
  July 28, 2011, 12:33 am | # | Reply
  
  Problem with the whole nuke-from-orbit thing is that they don’t actually want to destroy the tower, they want to find out more about what exactly it does.

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