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Re: Rubicon Volunteers - Rozinante XI
Posted By: ScifitekiDate: 8/2/02 6:53 p.m.

In Response To: Rubicon Volunteers - Rozinante XI (Steve Levinson)

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: In #ref deleted , Traxus IV began to show signs of instability. . .
: Although the crash pushed Strauss out of favor with the academic
: community, he remained in the good graces of the UESC. . . Three new AIs
: emerged from the charred and mutant code of Traxus IV. He called us TDMs--
: Traxus Derivative Models. . . We were told nothing of our connection to
: Traxus; Bernhard feared the information would act as some sort of catalyst
: to the rampancy which had destroyed his masterpiece. It didn't matter,
: obviously. Rampancy was an inevitability. I suspect it was something in
: the technology the UNAG gave to the old man. He never told me precisely
: what they showed him, only that it "was not of their own
: devising."

: Here the Rubicon Team has taken a leap of faith to tie some loose ends
: together to support their story. Some have taken offense to this, but I
: personally don’t see anything here that explicitly contradicts Marathon
: backstory and I am inclined to give the Rubicon Team the poetic license
: that they deserve. They may have made the relationships a bit too pat in
: the process, but they are still consistent. The idea that rampancy is
: inevitable is an interesting one, and it makes a lot of sense to me.
: Bernard may have been on the right track trying to control it rather than
: to prevent it after all, but Durandal none-the-less managed to escape his
: shackles. And there is once again the suggestion that some of Strauss’
: technology came from elsewhere – it has been suggested by others that it
: was actually Jjaro technology, but then one has to wonder how the UESC or
: the UNAG came upon this technology in the first place. I didn’t play PiD
: other than the demo – was there anything in PiD that could have given us
: enough Jjaro technology on which to base an AI?

Having played most of PiD I doubt it, in any case. Besides, we blew the Wc'ythingy to smithereens, along with it's temple. I doubt there would have been anything left to salvage. But we're forgetting something... Earth is not the only place they had been to. Perhaps they got the technology from Mars, or even beyond on Tau Ceti?

: I don't know precisely where Lysander comes into the story. He's a TDM,
: there's no doubt about that, but he's not one of Strauss'. . . Lysander
: is different; he's multi-nodal. He's also privately owned. All of the
: major patents on multi-nodal technology are held by a single company, the
: same company which leases sectors of the Salinger from the UESC: Dangi,
: Incorporated.

: Well, it stands to reason that research on AI would have proceeded during
: the 300 years that it took the Marathon to reach Tau Ceti, but wait
: until we get to Core Wars . Haven’t we seen computer cores that look like
: this before? Does Thoth ring a bell? Where did Dangi get that
: technology? Lh’owon was destroyed by the trih xeem . Did the Pfhor
: acquire some of this technology during their stay on Lh’owon? Or maybe it
: was Tycho? That’s where I’d put my money.

Well, interestingly, the team didn't mention Charlie at all. Or Whathisname, the AI on board the Chimera. He was a wetware AI, and probably not a TDM, as he was a little different from the rest. Or maybe they were based on other technology? After all, fifty years with FTL drives is enough time to find other Jjaro planets, with other AIs, working or not.

Another Rampant Speculation From,
Scifiteki

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Rubicon Volunteers - Rozinante XISteve Levinson 8/2/02 2:54 p.m.
     Re: Rubicon Volunteers - Rozinante XIScifiteki 8/2/02 6:53 p.m.
           Re: Rubicon Volunteers - Rozinante XIRincewind MoG 8/3/02 10:34 a.m.
                 Re: Rubicon Volunteers - Rozinante XISteve Levinson 8/3/02 10:45 a.m.
           Re: Rubicon Volunteers - Rozinante XISteve Levinson 8/3/02 12:05 p.m.
                 Re: Rubicon Volunteers - Rozinante XISome guy 8/3/02 10:21 p.m.
                       Re: Rubicon Volunteers - Rozinante XIScifiteki 8/4/02 12:38 a.m.
                             Re: Rubicon Volunteers - Rozinante XITru7h 8/4/02 7:22 a.m.
                                   Re: Rubicon Volunteers - Rozinante XISteve Levinson 8/4/02 11:52 a.m.
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                       Re: Rubicon Volunteers - Rozinante XISteve Levinson 8/4/02 11:35 a.m.
                             Re: Rubicon Volunteers - Rozinante XISome guy 8/5/02 11:01 a.m.
                                   Re: Rubicon Volunteers - Rozinante XISteve Levinson 8/5/02 2:58 p.m.
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