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| Posted By: Steve Levinson | Date: 1/15/03 8:27 a.m. |
| In Response To: Re: Rubicon Volunteers - Core Wars (Steve Levinson) : On more careful thought, I think that a better translation would be, "A
Getting back to the Rubicon Volunteers series of some months ago, I'm afraid I've been remiss in posting a reply I got to this original posting from Sean of the Rubicon Team, and the follow-up to that from Scott Brown: From: Sean <ig98@mac.com>
Calix Temporum I do remember what we meant by this because we spent a lot of time going over what exactly Lysander was.This is being CCed to Scott so he can tell me if I'm wrong in any area. Lysander was built to become rampant to a degree if I remember, he was nudged and pushed along til the DANGI corp had a controllable rampant AI in their hands. This is what the Calix Temporum Reverse Allocation is. It's a hardwired set of memory constraints that disallow Lysander to grant himself further memory past a point. Hence, an AI crazy and mad enough to create a virus that would destroy mankind, but unable to turn against his own masters (say, by giving the Pfhor the data and access codes to the Achilles virus). Of course, Lysander finds ways to go around this (man cannot control nature after all; and the AIs in the marathon series have always seemed to me to be more symbolic of raw nature than anything else). Lysander also has access blocks in place- remember that it was possible to confine him to the UESC sector before the attack even. Lysander if I remember IS in fact being lied to by the board of directors in regards to a cure and other things. Don't forget that later on, the higher ups wouldn't let the scientists record the results from the tests when they were getting closer to a cure. What is there to fear from the UESC's possible attempts to break into the DANGI databases when they're controlled and protected by Lysander? How easy it would have been for Durandal to do it if the UESC could do it. But in the end, the DANGI board of the directors were hiding the tests results out of fear- not from the UESC, but from Lysander himself. Point in case, Lysander wasn't long for this world, DANGI planned to destroy him in the end anyway. Which might also explain why Durandal doesn't go after Lysander when he's done with the Pfhor... Scott? Am I right here? Am I making things up? I remember this all.. But maybe I wrote this before in a newspost and you were like: "no, it's really like THIS" and I only remembered my own? From: Scott Brown <scott@fuel5.com> Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 16:26:59 -0400 To: Sean <ig98@mac.com> Subject: Re: Core Wars; more answers Sean, that sounds pretty accurate. I remember going over something to that effect, but I don't remember it being tied to Calix Temporum Reverse Allocation in specific. My lack of memory about Calix Temporum comes from how exactly I wanted the latin to be interpreted. Vessel of Opportunity, Cup of Time, who knows... God, we sound like a bunch of nerds at a Trekkie convention arguing about the Lunar Warp Modulation Drives in the third scene of Episode 142. :) | |
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| Replies: |
| Rubicon Volunteers - Core Wars | Steve Levinson | 8/8/02 4:18 p.m. |
| Re: Rubicon Volunteers - Core Wars | Scifiteki | 8/8/02 4:52 p.m. |
| Can't finish level | Agent Shem | 8/8/02 5:05 p.m. |
| Re: Can't finish level | Steve Levinson | 8/8/02 7:23 p.m. |
| Re: Can't finish level | goran | 8/9/02 3:37 a.m. |
| Re: Can't finish level | Agent Shem | 8/9/02 6:12 a.m. |
| Re: Rubicon Volunteers - Core Wars | Steve Levinson | 8/9/02 1:39 p.m. |
| Re: Rubicon Volunteers - Core Wars | Scifiteki | 8/9/02 10:31 p.m. |
| Re: Rubicon Volunteers - Core Wars | Steve Levinson | 8/10/02 11:31 a.m. |
| Re: Rubicon Volunteers - Core Wars | Steve Levinson | 8/10/02 11:57 a.m. |
| Re: Rubicon Volunteers - Core Wars | Steve Levinson | 1/15/03 8:27 a.m. |
| Re: Rubicon Volunteers - Core Wars | Ernie | 1/15/03 9:28 a.m. |
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