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Posted By: Tru7h | Date: 5/25/02 7:42 p.m. | |
In Response To: Re: Political Structures in Marathon (Yossarian) : I don't think you'd be able to find any game text to substantiate this.
i was always under the impression that Durandal was a personality construct, and thus single minded. Durandal couldent talk to 2 people at the same time since it would mean 2 Durandals and ultimately lead to Schizofrenia (or the properly phrased version of it) : Former mechanical engineer on Tau Ceti is seems hardly the requirement for a
Durandal, being immensly inteligent, can easily find the best man for the JOB at hand. Somehow Blake was the best leader. Remember Strategy, as oposed to Tactics, has a non-ignorable, inate skill part (you might read Stung-zuu and stuff, but if you dont got it, you dont got it) Dont forget that 1 of the most important of a leaders Skill is getting other people to follow you. : This doesn't jive with the rest of the story. As quoted before, the BoB's
nope. besides you dont give a weapon to somebody that dosent want too, all sorts of absurd and dangerous things happen. At some point ther must be consent (even if its thinly veiled). : The way I see it, some funky stuff happened on the surface of Lh'owon, the
first part; Blake was definately Leader from day 1
: As opposed to: Durandal, short on processing power and general ability
hu? : to become Brigadier General of his scout ship and lead a brave assault on the
i never said he lead anything, think of him as a second in command with no ability to give his opinions to the hier ups. Durandal gives him the sour pill, and he makes the best of it : There's no dispute that he's commanding, I just don't think he was appointed. he was, and most probably in a very brutal fation.
: You just said it yourself, controlled by a computer. as a derogative statement, like a racist saying a black guy is commanding him. : Durandal was the only controlling force on Boomer. Now of course Durandal
he like all the Bobs were in stasis in transit. if he was awake he would of had total control over the infantry, wich in a ship equates too prir said latrine duty, equipment upkeep, eating, sleeping, work scedual (fixing stuff exercising) and uhhh.... uh.... thats about it:) in transit the captain of a vessel (in this case Durandal) has total discretionary control and could Kill you, hang you, trow you over board, rape your sister, scuttle the boat, veer off course, sail to the Maui islands and have a vacation, marry everybody on the ship (wether they want too or not). but if he did any of these without a good reason he would face either Court martial or mutiny or both! Durandal can do whatever he wants (no goverment can court-martial him and a mutiny in space is absurde) but he cant break the laws of physics. going bact to totalitarian Dictatorship, if you insist on putting a govermental structure on everything, you will quicly notice that we are constantly under a Dictatorship (wich is only as bad as the Dictator) (scool comes to mind) -Tru7h
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