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| Posted By: William Spencer | Date: 4/1/02 1:12 p.m. |
| In Response To: Re: Why should he? (Boomer) : He should have been provided with a map. I'm not talking about experience,
1) Battle damage. The electromagnetic pulse burnt out most of the dataports on Marathon, because the UESC was too cheap to use optical. Or maybe the Iomega dataport extension file was corrupted, and there was no time to use the backup disks to reinstall it. 2) "Never forget your weapon was made by the lowest bidder." The suit was designed that way: If computer memory is cheap, less memory is cheaper. Maybe the computer simply doesn't support data uploads. Maybe the maps are hard-encoded on a chip, and the Marine didn't have the Marathon map chip installed, and didn't have time to find and install one. Terrain maps of the colony outskirts wouldn't be much help. 3) Need to know. The Marine wasn't cleared to have a complete map of Marathon, and Leela couldn't bend the rules and give him a copy because of her programming. (And Durandal? Keeping you in the dark kept you under his thumb...) And maybe this is operational doctrine for handling battleroids - if they don't know where they are, they can't kill as many people if they go berserk. (This happens in Masamune Shirow's comic _Black Magic_ - the humans have the plans to the building while the battleroid doesn't, giving them a greater advantage.) 4) Hardware incompatibility, intentional. The suit is only designed to accept data from secure UEMC military-grade dataports, and does not function with unsecure civilian public access terminals. Maybe it uses a completely different plug head, and would require an adapter that was unavailable. Not as dumb as it sounds - the military has done this before, I believe. 5) Hardware incompatibility, unintentional. I think of the Mars Lander, where Lockheed thought "inches" and NASA thought "centimeters". I think of Apollo 13, where the astronauts discovered the hard way that the power and air packs in the lunar module were incompatible with those in the command module. Maybe there was a screw-up, and the suits are just incompatible. Maybe Marathon's crew did an upgrade of the dataports mid-voyage, and didn't adapt the battle armor as well (it's not like anyone was using it during the voyage...). Maybe the battle armor was assigned at the last minute, with no time to check compatibility. Maybe archaic equipment was assigned to the ship (like those Gulf War Colt .45's), and the suits are too old to work with the modern hardware. Maybe the suit's dataport broke, and couldn't be repaired.
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| Replies: |
| AGAIN: WHY YOU/HE DIDN'T KNOW? | paolo | 4/1/02 7:52 a.m. |
| Re: AGAIN: WHY YOU/HE DIDN'T KNOW? | Cpt. Sqweky | 4/1/02 10:09 a.m. |
| Re: AGAIN: WHY YOU/HE DIDN'T KNOW? | D-M.A. | 4/1/02 10:20 a.m. |
| Re: AGAIN: WHY YOU/HE DIDN'T KNOW? | Boomer | 4/1/02 10:28 a.m. |
| Re: AGAIN: WHY YOU/HE DIDN'T KNOW? | paolo | 4/1/02 10:43 a.m. |
| Re: AGAIN: WHY YOU/HE DIDN'T KNOW? | Boomer | 4/1/02 11:27 a.m. |
| Re: AGAIN: WHY YOU/HE DIDN'T KNOW? | zudo | 4/2/02 3:46 a.m. |
| Why should he? | Dan Aris | 4/1/02 11:47 a.m. |
| Re: Why should he? | Boomer | 4/1/02 11:57 a.m. |
| Re: Why should he? | paolo | 4/1/02 12:31 p.m. |
| Some Explanations | William Spencer | 4/1/02 1:12 p.m. |
| Re: Some Explanations | paolo | 4/1/02 1:28 p.m. |
| Re: Why should he? | Tru7h | 4/1/02 12:36 p.m. |
| Re: Why should he? | Boomer | 4/1/02 12:57 p.m. |
| Re: Why should he? | paolo | 4/1/02 1:02 p.m. |
| Re: AGAIN: WHY YOU/HE DIDN'T KNOW? | Steve Levinson | 4/3/02 8:30 a.m. |
| Re: AGAIN: WHY YOU/HE DIDN'T KNOW? | [zudo] | 4/3/02 11:01 a.m. |
| One last idea.... | Flatman | 4/3/02 6:10 p.m. |
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