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Scott <scott.kenny@gmail.com> on 2019-07-29 15:26:41 wrote:

Log-3 collateral budget? 10^3 Exvals? Ouch. They want this dude very, very dead.

Alistair Young <us@arkane-systems.net> on 2019-07-29 16:11:34 wrote:

Not exvals. A collateral budget is how much collateral damage in soph-mortality-equivalents you’re allowed to do in accomplishing the mission.

Max <maximiliancrichton512@gmail.com> on 2019-07-30 05:40:28 wrote:

That sounds even more expensive. What’s a ballpark for the collateral of the modal Third Directorate project?

Alistair Young <us@arkane-systems.net> on 2019-07-30 09:33:44 wrote:

About three orders of magnitude lower.

Scott <scott.kenny@gmail.com> on 2019-07-30 19:41:43 wrote:

That’s terrifying!

They want this soph dead so badly they’re willing to write off anything less than a thousand others as ‘acceptable collateral damage’?!?

Or is this a case of The Mechanic getting the 3rd Directorate to do his dirty work for him, given the name of the issuing individual?

driagledd <driagledd@aim.com> on 2019-07-31 04:04:12 wrote:

Terrifying as it may be, what’s worse is it seems it may be justified.

“activities in support of megacide”

When your target is attempting to kill millions, thousands becomes an acceptable alternative.

I certainly don’t think it’s a case of getting them to do his/her/their/etc. dirty work. I doubt they’d let someone like that into the Directorates. Then again… it would seem an instance of this person went rogue so…

Robert <sudragon2k3@gmail.com> on 2019-08-03 08:24:26 wrote:

Are we talking bodyloss or complete loss of personality/
personalities, including offsite backups?

equestriaverse <project9701@gmail.com> on 2019-07-29 19:43:38 wrote:

For some reason, I keep thinking of John Wick here. When the Eldrae say “a soph of focus. Commitment. Sheer will,” you know they are talking about someone very scary indeed…

MirrorField <mirrorfield@gmail.com> on 2019-08-01 05:21:40 wrote:

I’ve always thought that there are endpoints to focus and commitment. As in “This being is no longer able to voluntarily change, grow or evolve. It no longer has free will as the term is understood and it’s cogitation, while mostly rational and highly cunning, is not fully sapient as the term is understood. Even if tried by the Curia, it will be unable to comprehend it has done wrong without cognitive surgery it will automatically refuse.” Kinda similar to semi-slavery, except that cognitive blind-spots are in different places. You treat such beings like terminators and do not even attempt to take prisoners, because they will not allow themselves to be taken a prisoner… Well, exceptions being when Intelligence throws a snit and special ops are arranged to painstakingly acquire mind-state for terminal analysis.

equestriaverse <project9701@gmail.com> on 2019-08-01 21:47:23 wrote:

I prefer to think of it like this-he’s very good at doing a terrible thing, and he chains that terrible thing with the only leash that matters to creatures like him. The one built of self-discipline and self-control.

And, one day, he realized it was time to become something else. So, he did.

Then, what he changed into was threatened by an attack that he couldn’t kill. And, the promise that he wouldn’t turn back to what he used to be was strained.

Then, some idiot steals his car and kills his new dog.

You can hear the chains of self-control cracking in an instant…

Robert <sudragon2k3@gmail.com> on 2019-08-03 08:26:25 wrote:

And he goes out and buys a pencil.

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