Educational General Academic Research Unit aka “Edgar” is part of the first production line of non-limited Artificial Intelligence’s. He is currently one of the House Tindal researchers, and is Professor Gage’s second-in-command. Also one of the members of the Crystal One development team.
Kathleen Adair, Theoretical Physicist and childhood friend of Hakon BlackAxe. Best friend of Clarence Gage, and primary member of the Crystal One team.
House Tindal. Physicist, Head of the Crystal One development team and all around curious man. A late term cancer patient, Dr. Gage heads out to Bellisarius Territory to settle his own curiosity about some flaws in the eyewitness reports. He now finds himself spending the last days of his life with his reformed team of Crystal One scientists in an attempt to prevent the literal end of the world.
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.
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.
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.
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.