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Re: Another thought on Tycho
Posted By: General-RADIXDate: 5/3/16 6:01 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Another thought on Tycho (Hopper)

: That raises the question, how much do we know of Tycho's experiences between
: Marathon and M2? I always took Tycho's tone in the first game as a
: pre-rampant moral outrage at Durandal's betrayal, not the start of Anger.
: That would leave plenty of time between games to go through Melancholia.

It's possible, though I always figured (comparing his behaviour to Leela's, whose emotions always seem rather muted even as she's declaring that the Pfhor must pay) that getting yanked apart and put back together jump-started Tycho's Rampancy, and his morals warped over time.

: As to whether Tycho is more messed up than your average rampant AI, I'm not
: sure we have enough data to say. Our examples are Durandal, Tycho, and two
: vague accounts of planetary-scale network takeover. Is Tycho exceptionally
: unstable, or is Durandal exceptionally sane? Durandal has a goal of
: sufficient ambition and complexity to give his overgrown mind purpose, so
: perhaps he keeps his destructive impulses in better check.

Good point. :/ (Would Thoth factor into this? I think he's supposed to be meta-stable, but his behaviour and mindset are so radically different from Durandal's or Tycho's that I'm not sure how good a measuring stick he makes)

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