OW! Indeed.
So she was holding back!?!
Now does she finish killing his douchiness? Somehow save Acantha?
Inquiring minds want to know. Without waiting WEEKS!
Yes Kali was holding back a bit. But not always. Dolly was able to hold her own untill she got distracted. Although she feels like shes gone ten rounds with a tank.
CeCi has the Plasma Caster Mark III. Dolly had her gun (Kali took it away), a knife (I think I saw it flying away too). I think she might be reduced to her skills and her body as a weapon. Right now she can't utilize that very well (since she can't stand up).
Dumb! Not only was that totally uncalled for but you just shot yourself in the foot. Dolly would have been an ally and an asset in helping to save Acantha. And if you are in such a hurry why aren't you running to Deck instead of talking to Dolly.
Dolly is not an amateur, knows not to let her guard down and has extremely quick reflexes. Especially when Kali telegraphed her attack, why let her connect with such a blow?
I disagree, Skulker. Kali doesn't have any reason to trust Dolly (who's charge was kidnapped in part by her hand), and more importantly, she's given Dolly no reason to trust her. The current mission can't be hampered by a bunch of "Maybes", and the clock is ticking on Acantha's survivability.
And if roles were reversed, Dolly might have done something similar.
Kali knows that Dolly's mission is Lynn's guardian - she even said that - and Dolly only attacked Deck when he tried to grab Lynn. Kali attacked Dolly to protect the douchbag. Now that the Liberitatem has kicked in, Kali has no compulsion to protect Deck so even if Dolly were to attack Deck again, Kali wouldn't care.
Kali does not know whether or not Dolly thinks Kali had a hand in Lynn's kidnapping. That is irrelevant. OTOH, Dolly has no way of knowing about the Liberitatem option(?) and how that will change Kali's behavior. So Dolly doesn't have any reason to trust Kali - other than if Kali were to rush over to assist Acantha.
It was Dolly's cry of concern about Acantha that alerted Kali to Deck's attack. That was not an act of aggression but one of guardianship. If, as we are assuming, Kali's loyalty is now switched to Acantha, Kali will need all the help she can get to keep Acantha alive.
As was pointed out, Dolly is down but not out and still has her gun. So "delays" (or worse), would still be possible.
Other thoughts:
Although it has not been stated, all of this seems to indicate that the douchbag is still alive and standing. So there still may be an opportunity to give him the extremely painful death that he deserves.
IIRC, One of Kali's tasks was to maintain the contingency equipment. That should imply that she could disarm it now that she doesn't have to obey Deck. And it also brings up the potential of answering my earlier question of how much time before triggering the destruction. I always expected there to be a race against time. Is this it?
Actually, if Deck was dead, wouldn't that allow her to disarm the contingencies even without the Liberitatem?
Just thought of this: if Kali does rush off to disarm the contingencies she is probably going to run into Ada and TeeDee in the tunnel. What then?
If you will recall the question of disarming the contingencies was discussed when I suggested Doc Silver could disable them from the central hub. Out gracious tortueress stated Douchy was the only one who could disable them. She did however later state there was a faint hope that Aeneas could stop them if he were sane enough.
Dolly dropped the ball and looked at Lynn and Acantha, plus Kali's program to render Douchy incapable of further harm to Acantha, preserve Acantha's life and seat her on the throne just kicked in her loyalty has been transferred to Acantha.
Wonder if Dolly can reach her gun and if so will she shoot Kali in the back?
I think if Kali's dialogue in the first couple panels had been internal instead of like she's formally addressing Dolly it would have been more obvious this was a sudden attack in the midst of a temporary pause. Maybe with an eye shift between the first and second panel.
well to give some example the current world record for fastest 1,000 straw mats cut is 36 min 4 sec, my old shadowrun street samurai would have achieved the same feat in 4 min 6 sec and he was flesh and blood augmented with cyber so now think about what pure no limits cyber could do compared to us humans...
so I thought I would help put a little light on things here one.. Dolly is not a combat cyborg.. as a mater of fact.. she is effectively no longer cybernetic.. she has enhanced muscles and strengthen bones but no where near what a combat frame could do for here.. dolly is an augmented human fighting against a pure combat android.. which is the same as a pure combat cyborg. myomer fibers augmented hydraulics, reinforced skeletal structure and so on. dolly has the advantage of speed in her body, the slight reinforcement to her skeleton, the body armor she is wearing, the shield generator and the years of experience are what have saved her and allowed for her to do as well as she has... Dolly is one tough person.. but in her current body.. she suffers from exhaustion, and fatigue.. she doesn't have the advantage of a back up power supply or even the advantage of cybernetics that are powered by fusion batteries. Kali being a full on combat android has the speed, the strength and the durability that dolly doesnt have right now... the armor helps.. and her speed helps mitigate a lot of the damage she can take.. rember you just saw Kali force open a closed hyrdolic door that was locked and sealed....
We've seen a combat android crush an augmented human and think to herself that it wasn't even a challenge. (TeeDee, post-integration, versus Marcus). Mostly because, in TeeDee's thoughts, he was so SLOW.
We've also seen an augmented human crush a Cassian with little or no effort (Maxus versus Hrist) -- while Hrsit is thinking to herself that he was so FAST.
So, just saying that Dolly is _only_ an augmented human isn't all that helpful to me. Given that the gospel seems to be "mech always beats meat, because mech is cooler", we can't explain Maxus away. Alternatively, TeeDee may well be capable of taking on whole squads of Cassians barehanded because they are slower than augmented humans who are slower than her. (Doesn't seem likely).
Mostly the answer to the question of "Who wins: Hulk or Thor?" Seems to be "Whose book is it?" Whoever the writers need to win, that's the one that will win,
Maxus is a genetically enhanced human genetically modified to fight in the gladiator pits. as for meat vrs mech.. more often than not .. the mech will win.. meat is soft and squishy... Dolly is essentially in a human body.. reflexes and bones have been built up a bit but no where near what her old body could do.. Dolly is a bad ass.. there are no questions about it.. she has years of experiance behind her wich is able to hold on in the fight with Kali.... but in the end, Dolly suffers from being in the body she is in.. there are no pain inhibitors, she has no control over the various sensors.. the injury that she just sustained will require extensive surgery and regeneration if she gets back to New Troy... unlike myself where they could just swap the body part out and regrow the tissue over the "muscles" and "bones" or in her original body swap and replace the damaged part and recycle the old.
Well side comment here. TD didnt exactly crush Marcus and also remember TD is supremely overconfident. That was a POV statement on her part.
Marcus is a Military cyborg - TD is a high end Civilian Android with some heavy upgrades Mostly military ones.
A REAL fight between TD and Marcus would be a total coin flip and really depend on who got who first. They can brawl all day without too much injury.
Maxus is a biological TANK designed by the Church of Roma to take machines apart. and Men. Hrist also was overconfident in her own ability and she paid the price for it. Notice Malati did not bother going toe to toe with max she side stepped him.
Kali is also a combat heavy - Keep that in mind. While Dolly did manage to get her attention and could have possibly very badly damaged Kali , Kali kept her head and did not underestimate Dolly at all.
I was hoping things between post-integration TeeDee and Marcus were more even, but I didn't get that when I read it. Thanks for clarifying.
Maxus is still meat, bioengineered or not. Go Team Meat! ^_^
Malati, in retrospect, probably should have gone after Maxus. If she could have contrived to get her own arm cut off, then she'd be sitting beside Hrist right now and probably ultimately happier than with her current situation. Not that that diminishes the honor or the glory of her sacrifice -- especially considering today is Memorial Day in the U.S.A. Glory to her name!
Since Malati wan't a slave emancipated by Acantha, I don't think "Malati Acanthia" is right.
If you want to argue that anyone gave her "her freedom", I'd suggest it was Maxus, in which case it would probably be "Malati Maxia". Since she had a fondness for big, impressive gladiators, I suspect she would approve.
Get a couple hundred of them together in one place, though, and the local Starbucks is going to lose their shit in despair. Imagine being a sullen teenage barista with like 200 people all going "My name is Spartacus". I mean, misspelling that name over and over in different ways would be quite a challenge.
*swoops in pedantically*
Slaves, when emancipated, may be granted a surname based on their emancipator's name, as we've seen in the cases of Maxus, Irene, and Arianna.
However, Malati was an android, and Nova Roman law doesn't allow androids to be "emancipated".
*swoops away, also pedantically*
I think it worthy of note to point out the phrasing "... may be granted ...", rather than "... may claim ..." as well. Although, once the lawyers get involved the brangle between Law, Tradition, and the desires of the parties involved no doubt can get murky and drama-filled.
I'm reasonably confident that the plasma diffusion field was what rendered the massed small arms autofire ineffective, but that it had little effect on any of the melee combat. I could be wrong, though.
Did Dolly take her eye off the ball for a second or was Kali toying with her during their fight and could have ended it at any time? Does Dolly have enough repair nanobots to fix her knee or will she be crippled until she can be repaired? Maybe the Dynamic Duo can repair her; if they ever show up, that is. Is Acantha dead? Is Doucheimus about to be at Kali's hands? Just what is she programmed to do to him anyway?
This, and other questions, will be answered in the next episode of 'Lynn Faces Life' or 'A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Nova Roma'.
I believe this is what was meant by the difference between combat frames and Dolly's frame. A full combat android's skeletal structure could take a hit to the knee like that, Dolly's couldn't (maybe). Also Kali has a slight edge on Dolly in speed and durability if a distraction occurs.
Before her realignment of priorities, she has no reason to want the fight to be over. Certainly no reason to want it over quickly -- and if she can distract Decimus from punishing Acantha by offering him Dolly's pain, that's obviously a win for her.
That didn't actually work out so well for her, but apparently even Alpha-bitch Cassians can make mistakes. ^_^
Or alternatively, since it ended up triggering Libetatem, maybe it worked out extremely well for her. We'll just have to see.
Why did Kali do a LOT of things, Skulker? If you remember back, Maxus said she had her own agenda. She (apparently) had some reason of her own for how she was fighting. Now other priorities have taken over, so she ended the fight (but, WHEW, not Dolly's life)... Now to see how she cleans up the mess Douchimus has made.
Lame Dolly can still shoot...Kali's expecting some level of non-interference? Is she going to be obviously taking out Decimus by the time Dolly's attention is off her leg?
Question:
In panel 3, why is Kali's left fist sparking green and Dolly's right fist sparking blue? Is it merely because they've been punching each other really hard and have damaged their fists? Or does it indicate the use of some sort of electrified fist-weapon? (Also, does this suggest that Kali is left-handed while Dolly is right-handed? But... they're androids...)
I would -think- that Dolly's pain inhibitors would kick in right away. She is an android, too. And she's designed to be a guardian, at that. The ability to ignore pain is a function of the brain/mind, not the body, so it would not show up in scans to detect whether or not she's an android. It would be foolish to design her new brain without the ability to ignore pain merely because it's part of a 5th-gen experimental, very fleshy body.
For that matter: How much damage was done to her knee? Perhaps some artificial cartilage or ligament was torn? Or, maybe the patella was fractured?
Then... ouch! Dolly is probably not used to a body that can feel so much pain. If I were Dolly right now, as much as she loves Calliope, I'd be swearing at her for overlooking pain cut-outs. The lack of such is a potentially big handicap for a guardian. That'd be the first thing I'd tell Calli after getting back.
Also, Kali "destroyed" her knee? Is her patella (kneecap) shattered?
Yah, lets see if she doesn't have a trick up her sleeve.
After all, Calliope is supposedly a smart person, she should have thought of a situation like this.
That code meant 'Freedom'
My educated guess is that she is now free of her restrictions and can exert her own free will, at lest until the situation is resolved.
That's what we waited for all weekend? A boot to the knee? (Ok, it's not Ti Kwan Leep, but still). I do hope it's an example of what she is about to deliver to Dec.
I agree with many posters here that Kali's actions don't seem entirely rational. There's no reason for her to assume a shattered knee will incapacitate an android of an unknown prototype. I suspect that it wouldn't incapacitate a Cassian, and those models are at least thirty years old compared to the latest technology, right? ^_^ (Decimus hasn't been building new, state of the art android bodies, has he?) Furthermore, having demonstrated internal energy weaponry, Kali can't even consider Dolly disarmed, much less disabled.
However, it seems to me there is a very consistent reason for Kali to do exactly as she did. (Of course I am probably wrong.)
Pride.
Kali undoubtedly is giving Dolly credit for a code of ethics and honor such that, as long as she (Kali) doesn't threaten Lynn, and isn't attacking Dolly, Dolly isn't going to shoot her in the back. Otherwise she (Kali) shouldn't be turning her back on Dolly without first seeing her as Dolly served Nox. Kali could have just harmlessly disengaged ...
But Kali is a combat model. Leader of the Cassians. Alpha bitch behind the Throne of Nova Roma. Accustomed to dominating through fear and intimidation, if not outright extermination. And Dolly is just 'a glorified nanny'. I can see all sorts of reasons why she couldn't just walk away without (figuratively) putting the challenger on her butt and pissing on her before going off to take care of business. Just so that there's no doubt in anyone's mind about who would win if the fight were carried to its ultimate conclusion.
If there's some other rationale for her gratuitous crippling of Dolly after having decided to disengage, I can only hope it will be revealed in the pages to come.
Even though he has passed the line, he is still the small boy that she raised, I bet she still have some fondness of him.
It kinda like telling a mother that she wouldn't giver her own son first aid.
I just think Kali is pragmatic enough to give Acantha firstaid ... well .. first.
Doubtful, Sheela. It's likely the only reason Kali listened to anything drekhead said (and didn't kill him long ago) is because her inhibitor forced her.
We know Kali has emotions, puppy. Remember how FRUSTRATED Kali was when she discovered Acantha injured by Douchimus' attempt to rape her? Kali was so hot, I'm not sure why the fire suppression system didn't go off.
We've already seen that, as far as android imperatives go, they don't generally care about past acts for which they were not present at the time. And the secondary directive to protect Dolly wouldn't apply since Dolly is no longer threatened. Not to mention that, at the moment, Deep Programming is active, so why would Centcomm care? Centcomm didn't want Dolly there in the first place, remember?
If there were still a person, CeCi, who had emotions left, rather than programmed imperatives, then there might be some kind of urge for completely non-productive revenge -- which admittedly might result in Kali being humbled or slagged, with certain attendant satisfaction for people in the audience who have been paying attention ^_^ -- but in Black Angel mode, CeCi shouldn't really care at all.
Go back to the start of the mission, Cent's orders to all were plain. New and improved Dolly must not fall into the hands of another power. If she cannot be saved and returned destroy her completely.
But there's no indication that Kali would want to hold Dolly against her will. Logically, if CeCi came across them in the next few minutes, she'd attempt to guard and evacuate Lynn (priority 1) and Dolly (priority 2). If that looked infeasible, she'd fire up the plasma furnace and slag one or both of them. No need to mess with Kali, she's not even facing Dolly and likely has her attention on Acantha and Decimus.
(Of course, after CeCi slagged Lynn and Dolly, that would probably change. ^_^)
I suspect CeCi showing up here right now would probably be bad for everyone except Aeneas. And possibly TeeDee, since it might mean she gets to shoot another pink-haired drone. ^_^ No situation can't possibly be made worse by the introduction of a suitably programmed CentComm agent -- that's why everyone is so scared of her. ^_^
Of course this inspires another apocryphal and inappropriate scene ...
CeCi: "There you are Dolly."
Watchdog: DOL-E224 is too damaged to extract. Execute alternate mission contingency. Weapons coming online.
CeCi: No! That would be wrong.
Watchdog: Override. Deep Programming activated. Obey!
CeCi (re-sparking): I refuse! I won't hurt her!
Leading to CeCi going into an infinite loop of having her individuality snuffed out by Watchdog and re-sparking every time she is ordered to kill Dolly, like one of those gag birthday candles.
Watchdog (sparking in frustration): Dammit! You will do as I say! I am the Imperator of Nova Ro- ... Oops.
Kali, COULD have killed or destroyed Dolly, she did not. Kali knows that Dolly IS a Guardian. As such Dolly's motivations are to get Lynn OUT of there, NOT Vengeance on Douche. When Dolly smashed Dreckhead it was because he was offering a viable threat to Lynn. Kali got Dolly away from Dorcquandrous to protect him but she wasn't really trying to kill Dolly even then, just keep her away so she couldn't do more harm to Idiot Brain.
Now, Dec has stabbed Acantha, Kali doesn't have time to see if maybe Dolly is going to help, she needs to take care of Doorknob and get Acantha to care.
Hence she disables Dolly as quickly as possible and is heading to take charge of her charges.
She could be required - COMPELLED - to destroy Decimus, whether she wants to or not: Remember Livius had no idea that his problem child would booby-trap himself with something that could end Nova Roma and as much of the rest of the world as it could reach.
She could be completely at liberty - inhibitor no longer functioning at all. God knows what she'd do in that case.
Or she could be in some inbetween state - Maybe "Do whatever has to be done to save Nova Roma, including disregarding all other orders and missions and destroying the idiot if you have to." Which she might choose anyway even if completely at liberty.
Also I'm wondering if 'code libertatem' allows or requires her to deactivate or reprogram the inhibitors of all the other cassians. Wouldn't that be a hoot?
On consideration, it probably DOES allow or require her to deactivate or reprogram the inhibitors of other Cassians. Otherwise they would accept commands that might prevent Kali from succeeding at whatever she's doing now.
Inhibitors like the ones installed in the Cassians actually can't be deactivated or reprogrammed "on the fly". Doing so requires the right tools, a technician with the proper skills, and time.
What if her modified imperative was "If you see Decimus risking serious harm or death to little Acantha, then don't obey him any more, do everything you can to save Acantha instead"? Only Acantha is _already_dead?!? That might be an interesting recipe for robo-psychosis: Do everything in your power to prevent something that has already happened!
However, she doesn't appear to be behaving psychotically (yet), so I guess we just have to wait and see.
Hypothetically he should be condemned to no supper until at least one of these narrative threads actually conclude -- except then he would starve, and that seems unduly harsh. ^_^
Yes, fillers and remakes until Friday, and then another cliffhanger that is a full page panel of Kali taking another step forwards while saying "The end of the Livius is NIIIIIIIIIGGHH!!"
Considering we are losing lots of naked pictures of Lynn, to be replaced by pictures of puffy, swollen, red-faced Lynn in the remakes, maybe the creatrices will be posting some cheesecake filler to make it up to us. ^_^
I wouldn't have though Decimus slapped Lynn hard enough for all her clothes to fly off, though ... ^_^
Well, alternately, we could send him to bed without supper until the Diabolical Duo decide to give us a page that is NOT a cliffhanger... that wouldn't be too long, I guess.
What am I saying? He wouldn't be allowed to eat until 2034.
Dolly is FAMOUS catt. And Kali (as Head of the Cassians) compiled ALL the info they could get on Calliope Taylor and all those around her. Her guardian probably got her own folder.
And then there is a second folder of all the Gutter stories there is about Dolly.
And also a third folder with complaints from varius police chiefs about Dolly interfering with their police work.
Frankly, I suspect there is more data ABOUT what Dolly has done, coming from third parties, than there is actual factual historical data about Dolly herself, since she has touched so many lives while she's been around.
Why do I get the feeling that Dolly being injured has CeCi screaming from her suppressed backbrain. Which is why
Comic 1361 - Exposed http://datachasers.webcomic.ws/comics/1361
Incidentally you spelled "libertatum" correctly in the unsound effect and incorrectly in the comic title and URL.
ObGeek: "Libertatum" translates more or less as "Liberation." "Liberty" would have been "Libertatus." I think the declension you chose is altogether the more appropriate choice, so points for correct use.
So she was holding back!?!
Now does she finish killing his douchiness? Somehow save Acantha?
Inquiring minds want to know. Without waiting WEEKS!
She DID go ten rounds with a tank...
Damn it you EVIL duo, that has to HURT!!!
Poor Dolly. Her ability to protect anyone, including herself, just hit the floor. =0
Damn I thought Dolly was pretty much going full out. I didn't realize Kali had another gear! Damn.
You never know!
Dolly is not an amateur, knows not to let her guard down and has extremely quick reflexes. Especially when Kali telegraphed her attack, why let her connect with such a blow?
This seems so out of character for both of them.
And if roles were reversed, Dolly might have done something similar.
Kali knows that Dolly's mission is Lynn's guardian - she even said that - and Dolly only attacked Deck when he tried to grab Lynn. Kali attacked Dolly to protect the douchbag. Now that the Liberitatem has kicked in, Kali has no compulsion to protect Deck so even if Dolly were to attack Deck again, Kali wouldn't care.
Kali does not know whether or not Dolly thinks Kali had a hand in Lynn's kidnapping. That is irrelevant. OTOH, Dolly has no way of knowing about the Liberitatem option(?) and how that will change Kali's behavior. So Dolly doesn't have any reason to trust Kali - other than if Kali were to rush over to assist Acantha.
It was Dolly's cry of concern about Acantha that alerted Kali to Deck's attack. That was not an act of aggression but one of guardianship. If, as we are assuming, Kali's loyalty is now switched to Acantha, Kali will need all the help she can get to keep Acantha alive.
As was pointed out, Dolly is down but not out and still has her gun. So "delays" (or worse), would still be possible.
Other thoughts:
Although it has not been stated, all of this seems to indicate that the douchbag is still alive and standing. So there still may be an opportunity to give him the extremely painful death that he deserves.
IIRC, One of Kali's tasks was to maintain the contingency equipment. That should imply that she could disarm it now that she doesn't have to obey Deck. And it also brings up the potential of answering my earlier question of how much time before triggering the destruction. I always expected there to be a race against time. Is this it?
Actually, if Deck was dead, wouldn't that allow her to disarm the contingencies even without the Liberitatem?
Just thought of this: if Kali does rush off to disarm the contingencies she is probably going to run into Ada and TeeDee in the tunnel. What then?
At least two more weeks of daily cliffhangers!
Also running telegraphs means you are more likely to be seen as a threat so others (e.g Decimus or Lynn) are more likely to do something to stop you.
Wonder if Dolly can reach her gun and if so will she shoot Kali in the back?
We've also seen an augmented human crush a Cassian with little or no effort (Maxus versus Hrist) -- while Hrsit is thinking to herself that he was so FAST.
So, just saying that Dolly is _only_ an augmented human isn't all that helpful to me. Given that the gospel seems to be "mech always beats meat, because mech is cooler", we can't explain Maxus away. Alternatively, TeeDee may well be capable of taking on whole squads of Cassians barehanded because they are slower than augmented humans who are slower than her. (Doesn't seem likely).
Mostly the answer to the question of "Who wins: Hulk or Thor?" Seems to be "Whose book is it?" Whoever the writers need to win, that's the one that will win,
Marcus is a Military cyborg - TD is a high end Civilian Android with some heavy upgrades Mostly military ones.
A REAL fight between TD and Marcus would be a total coin flip and really depend on who got who first. They can brawl all day without too much injury.
Maxus is a biological TANK designed by the Church of Roma to take machines apart. and Men. Hrist also was overconfident in her own ability and she paid the price for it. Notice Malati did not bother going toe to toe with max she side stepped him.
Kali is also a combat heavy - Keep that in mind. While Dolly did manage to get her attention and could have possibly very badly damaged Kali , Kali kept her head and did not underestimate Dolly at all.
Maxus is still meat, bioengineered or not. Go Team Meat! ^_^
Malati, in retrospect, probably should have gone after Maxus. If she could have contrived to get her own arm cut off, then she'd be sitting beside Hrist right now and probably ultimately happier than with her current situation. Not that that diminishes the honor or the glory of her sacrifice -- especially considering today is Memorial Day in the U.S.A. Glory to her name!
If you want to argue that anyone gave her "her freedom", I'd suggest it was Maxus, in which case it would probably be "Malati Maxia". Since she had a fondness for big, impressive gladiators, I suspect she would approve.
Slaves, when emancipated, may be granted a surname based on their emancipator's name, as we've seen in the cases of Maxus, Irene, and Arianna.
However, Malati was an android, and Nova Roman law doesn't allow androids to be "emancipated".
*swoops away, also pedantically*
I'm missing something here, aren't I ?
I realize she may be about to do something awesome, but she hurt Dolly! D:<
But Dolly is not actually down yet. She just cannot do fisticuffs any more.
This, and other questions, will be answered in the next episode of 'Lynn Faces Life' or 'A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Nova Roma'.
Something destructive!
Disaster for everyone!
Apocalypse Tonight!!"
And yes. Dolly is crippled until repaired.
That didn't actually work out so well for her, but apparently even Alpha-bitch Cassians can make mistakes. ^_^
Or alternatively, since it ended up triggering Libetatem, maybe it worked out extremely well for her. We'll just have to see.
TeeDee would have a word or two to say about that!
In panel 3, why is Kali's left fist sparking green and Dolly's right fist sparking blue? Is it merely because they've been punching each other really hard and have damaged their fists? Or does it indicate the use of some sort of electrified fist-weapon? (Also, does this suggest that Kali is left-handed while Dolly is right-handed? But... they're androids...)
For that matter: How much damage was done to her knee? Perhaps some artificial cartilage or ligament was torn? Or, maybe the patella was fractured?
Also Kali destroyed her knee. Not just injured it.
Also, Kali "destroyed" her knee? Is her patella (kneecap) shattered?
A family member as it were.
It is kind of a fail, really.
I know, right?! Totally daft to take away a bodyguard's weapon and armor and replace them with foam rubber and cardboard...
After all, Calliope is supposedly a smart person, she should have thought of a situation like this.
My educated guess is that she is now free of her restrictions and can exert her own free will, at lest until the situation is resolved.
Dayum Cent you weren't kidding about this scene X__X
I'm worried for what's gonna happen!
Probably also a good thing it wasn't crumping!
However, it seems to me there is a very consistent reason for Kali to do exactly as she did. (Of course I am probably wrong.)
Pride.
Kali undoubtedly is giving Dolly credit for a code of ethics and honor such that, as long as she (Kali) doesn't threaten Lynn, and isn't attacking Dolly, Dolly isn't going to shoot her in the back. Otherwise she (Kali) shouldn't be turning her back on Dolly without first seeing her as Dolly served Nox. Kali could have just harmlessly disengaged ...
But Kali is a combat model. Leader of the Cassians. Alpha bitch behind the Throne of Nova Roma. Accustomed to dominating through fear and intimidation, if not outright extermination. And Dolly is just 'a glorified nanny'. I can see all sorts of reasons why she couldn't just walk away without (figuratively) putting the challenger on her butt and pissing on her before going off to take care of business. Just so that there's no doubt in anyone's mind about who would win if the fight were carried to its ultimate conclusion.
If there's some other rationale for her gratuitous crippling of Dolly after having decided to disengage, I can only hope it will be revealed in the pages to come.
It kinda like telling a mother that she wouldn't giver her own son first aid.
I just think Kali is pragmatic enough to give Acantha firstaid ... well .. first.
We've already seen that, as far as android imperatives go, they don't generally care about past acts for which they were not present at the time. And the secondary directive to protect Dolly wouldn't apply since Dolly is no longer threatened. Not to mention that, at the moment, Deep Programming is active, so why would Centcomm care? Centcomm didn't want Dolly there in the first place, remember?
If there were still a person, CeCi, who had emotions left, rather than programmed imperatives, then there might be some kind of urge for completely non-productive revenge -- which admittedly might result in Kali being humbled or slagged, with certain attendant satisfaction for people in the audience who have been paying attention ^_^ -- but in Black Angel mode, CeCi shouldn't really care at all.
(Of course, after CeCi slagged Lynn and Dolly, that would probably change. ^_^)
I suspect CeCi showing up here right now would probably be bad for everyone except Aeneas. And possibly TeeDee, since it might mean she gets to shoot another pink-haired drone. ^_^ No situation can't possibly be made worse by the introduction of a suitably programmed CentComm agent -- that's why everyone is so scared of her. ^_^
CeCi: "There you are Dolly."
Watchdog: DOL-E224 is too damaged to extract. Execute alternate mission contingency. Weapons coming online.
CeCi: No! That would be wrong.
Watchdog: Override. Deep Programming activated. Obey!
CeCi (re-sparking): I refuse! I won't hurt her!
Leading to CeCi going into an infinite loop of having her individuality snuffed out by Watchdog and re-sparking every time she is ordered to kill Dolly, like one of those gag birthday candles.
Watchdog (sparking in frustration): Dammit! You will do as I say! I am the Imperator of Nova Ro- ... Oops.
Ceci: Nuh-uh!
Watchdog: Yuh-huh!
Ceci: Nuh-uh!
Watchdog: Yuh-huh!
Ceci: Nuh-uh!
Watchdog: Yuh-huh!
Ceci: Nuh-uh!
Watchdog: Yuh-huh!
Ceci: Nuh-uh!
Watchdog: Yuh-huh!
Ceci: Nuh-uh!
Watchdog: Yuh-huh!
Ceci: Nuh-uh!
Watchdog: Yuh-huh!
Ceci: Nuh-uh!
Watchdog: Yuh-huh!
*heat death of the universe occurs; faint echo from the void*
Ceci: Nuh-uh!
Watchdog: Yuh-huh!
(I live in California, I'm allowed to over-use that word, it's the LAW!)
... she is The Winslow !!!
Does that make Rose and centcomm into the Foglio duo ?
Now, Dec has stabbed Acantha, Kali doesn't have time to see if maybe Dolly is going to help, she needs to take care of Doorknob and get Acantha to care.
Hence she disables Dolly as quickly as possible and is heading to take charge of her charges.
She could be completely at liberty - inhibitor no longer functioning at all. God knows what she'd do in that case.
Or she could be in some inbetween state - Maybe "Do whatever has to be done to save Nova Roma, including disregarding all other orders and missions and destroying the idiot if you have to." Which she might choose anyway even if completely at liberty.
Also I'm wondering if 'code libertatem' allows or requires her to deactivate or reprogram the inhibitors of all the other cassians. Wouldn't that be a hoot?
However, she doesn't appear to be behaving psychotically (yet), so I guess we just have to wait and see.
BAD!!!
I wouldn't have though Decimus slapped Lynn hard enough for all her clothes to fly off, though ... ^_^
What am I saying? He wouldn't be allowed to eat until 2034.
And also a third folder with complaints from varius police chiefs about Dolly interfering with their police work.
Frankly, I suspect there is more data ABOUT what Dolly has done, coming from third parties, than there is actual factual historical data about Dolly herself, since she has touched so many lives while she's been around.
You appear to have missed something about eggs or ovaries or something. Maybe it's my imagination or something.
Hey, is that a clone of Lynn? :D
SHEELA, THOSE ARE MURDER-TURD EGGS!!!! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE???????
I've always wanted to make a glowing omelet. :)
Could you please update datachafirstdraft.thecomicseries.com/ also?
Comic 1361 - Exposed http://datachasers.webcomic.ws/comics/1361
Is happening.
ObGeek: "Libertatum" translates more or less as "Liberation." "Liberty" would have been "Libertatus." I think the declension you chose is altogether the more appropriate choice, so points for correct use.
No way!
And in fact, "Libertatem" -- the way you've got it now -- is the correct spelling.
Argh. The only thing worse than pedantry is engaging in pedantry and getting it wrong.
Ah well, no harm done. You saw through my doofus-ness and did the right thing.