9/23/2024
Due to family medical issues, Requiem is on indefinite hiatus.
An elderly family member of ours took a bad fall on Labor Day night, and we’ve been dealing with the aftermath ever since. Hopefully, things will get sorted out, but as of right now, doing a daily comic is not something my schedule can allow.
Sorry to have this happen, but as everyone knows, real life comes first….and at least we don’t have too many running storylines on the backburner.
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.
Jeremy Haas, cosmologist. Creator of the Haas Deep Space observatory. One of the members of the original Crystal One development team with Clarence Gage,Edgar, Kathleen Adair, and James Thalim.
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.
Yes, these are apparently AI entities that operate on a level of forethought and probabilities that makes the Dweller look like a child seeing pretty pictures in the clouds, with an agenda they’ve never bothered to share or describe to anyone else before… But it appears that they want to talk to Our Heroes — and when they arranged matters to get the opportunity, they deliberately chose a method that minimized disruption to anyone else.
That’s a degree of thoughtfulness I appreciate in near-omniscient AIs.
General Eisenhower once said that those who fail to plan, plan to fail. Their plans may seem to be out the door, but I suspect their preparations may pay off in the end. They have one thing in their favor: the AI’s need them.
FWIW, in Word 2019, the three fonts that most closely match the tower voices are “Agency FB”, “Californian FB” and “Berlin Sans FB”, respectively. Not that it probably makes any difference to the plot, but just for trivia sake. In my head I heard the first speaker in Paul Bettany’s voice, since he was marvelous as ‘Vision’ in the MCU, and I had the second as William “Hal 9000” Daniels, with the third as Majel Barrett-Roddenberry (all Trek computer voices). If James has a different trio of voices for these AI, I’d love to hear who he hears when he writes.
Agency FB I hear in my head as actor David Hyde Pierce in ‘Abe Sapien Hellboy’ mode.
The second font is Adobe Caslon Pro…and the one who casually dropped the David Bowie reference in panel 2-3 is voiced by Nigella Lawson.
And Berlin Sans FB is voiced by actor Luke Goss
You are the pieces…
And you’ve always been the pieces.
Yes, these are apparently AI entities that operate on a level of forethought and probabilities that makes the Dweller look like a child seeing pretty pictures in the clouds, with an agenda they’ve never bothered to share or describe to anyone else before… But it appears that they want to talk to Our Heroes — and when they arranged matters to get the opportunity, they deliberately chose a method that minimized disruption to anyone else.
That’s a degree of thoughtfulness I appreciate in near-omniscient AIs.
At least three is correct.
Agency FB I hear in my head as actor David Hyde Pierce in ‘Abe Sapien Hellboy’ mode.
The second font is Adobe Caslon Pro…and the one who casually dropped the David Bowie reference in panel 2-3 is voiced by Nigella Lawson.
And Berlin Sans FB is voiced by actor Luke Goss