they are NOT human. yes her outlook is very diffrent - she looks at humans as insects or rodents. she has no wish to bed them be firends with them, she has no more care of them than you would give a cow going to slaughter.
That would come from New Troy having a somewhat dominating AI in charge, I imagine.
If I remember correctly New Sparta has a more human-centric civil government and is somewhere between New Troy and Nova Roma in android relations.
One might assume that Maxus and Kali have moved to a state of readiness consistent with the escalating threat level. This would assume a Company size strike force of Cassians and Pratoriens who can work in sync and are prepared to hold open a safe passage for the current mixed guard detachment that will attempt to move the three ladies to a safe haven. While Princey-Poo shows up with a heretofore unknown Military Arm of his own. Curiouser and Curiouser said Alice to the White Rabbit.
Something been bugging me, may have been covered and I missed it. How did those Mercs know Lynn would be making the trip, where she would be to have the intercept and transport ready. Something smells rotten at home. Also how did they know she would not have a Guardian model Android with her as pilot and body guard?
I smell a spy and Boyfriend is coming up as a highly suspect item as is the Tokyo Rose avatar.
It's a grand conspiracy between CentComm, Tokyo Rose, Kali, and Maxus to get Aeneas fixed and drekhead removed. :D
So far, everything's going exactly according to plan (and ahead of schedule, even!), with the notable exceptions of drekhead's attempt on Acantha and the surprise reveal of Dolly's upgrade.
Plots within plots, plans within plans, schemes within schemes, as CentComm seems fond of saying. Though the plot (as I'm currently envisioning it) isn't *nearly* as deep and layered (yet) as this one Shadowrun game I played in for several years...
*wanders off to the next page, whistling old Deep Purple tunes*
Dragonrider - You need to ask who had knowledge of Lynn's travel plans in time to get a team together and in place to act.
To me, there are only two people that had the opportunity. CentComm and Calliope Taylor. She contacted Kyle just at lift off, an hour later she was attacked. NOT a lot of time to set something up, especially if you wanted to CAPTURE not kill the target.
Calliope and (presumably CentComm when Calliope contacted her to clear it) had the better part of a day to get something in place (over 8 hours anyhow).
I can't see Calliope putting her daughter in that level of danger no matter HOW important an end goal was.
CentComm, I can see doing it in a heartbeat, if the end goal was important enough.
Now what that end goal MIGHT be, I can't say, but I think the most likely 'informer' for starting this mess was CentComm herself.
there are explainations but Ill go ahead and clear two suspects. Calli had nothing to do with her daughters disapperarance. and Cent-comm would also have not allowed Lynns trip ( had she been informed ) Calli overroad Cent and Lynn was gone before she could stop her. remember the people that picked Lynn up were Mercs. and litteraly hired on the fly.
Too many pieces in place for me to believe that it was totally on the fly. You don't get that much equipment in place that fast. 8 hours would be rushing it, an hour... Sorry, no way in HE**. Not for an operation that important.
Just the travel time would do you in. I mean, it was an hour plus from New Rome and they were what 20 minutes from where Lynn was intercepted.
There may be a player we (the readers) don't know about, but to me, it looked like the communication links were minimal until the last second. Even DOLLY didn't know until then from the sound of it.
I would call foul if that was done in less than an hour with a remote turret, multiple vehicles and the assorted pieces needed to capture and restrain someone.
I will say that the "plan" had been in place long before Lynn decided to jump the gun as it were. they were expecting her to leave a day or two later. however comms are not always perfect. and Lynn was flying for more than 3 hours ( the time will be corrected in the rewrite ) the moble turret is a quick drop and set up. as well as the restraints. Gavin had most of his own equipment as did Dari. gutters try to be prepared to move quickly and take advantage of the situation.
there ARE other possablitys.. and Dari and Gavin are only two of the gutters on the Princes payroll.
Okay, if the time scale is off then I might be okay. I know the equipment is all mobile, but with the information I had 1 hour just was NOT enough to move those pieces.
And keeping gutters like that on payroll and pre-positioned would be difficult for too long. 48 hours, doable, 168 hours (one week)... more problematic.
They seem the kind that could get into trouble in that amount of time without something to keep them occupied. And no, I wouldn't trust their discipline for that long for a mission that important.
Still have to wonder though at the communications as there didn't seem to be much length to the links. There didn't seem to be a lot of people involved in the process where it could be intercepted.
I guess part of my thinking was from the comic of page 244 [http://datachasers.thecomicseries.com/comics/244] where CentComm was hoping they would forgive her if they found out what was really going on. WHAT had gone on that needed her to be thinking that? Up to that point, it was just Lynn's kidnapping... Sure sounded shady to me at least.
Directly proportional
To the momentary
Level of common interest
And the rank of the parties involved.
*(She certainly has a different psychological outlook from everyone else present.)
** At best they are "interesting" but thats all.
*(You could make a case for Aurelian's inherent mistrust and rigid control of the Cassian Androids.)
If I remember correctly New Sparta has a more human-centric civil government and is somewhere between New Troy and Nova Roma in android relations.
Hell they are assembled form 100% Creepy parts by creepy engineers who graduated top of thier classes from Creepy Tech!
I see a power shift coming very soon now. These are the moments before the storm.
I smell a spy and Boyfriend is coming up as a highly suspect item as is the Tokyo Rose avatar.
So far, everything's going exactly according to plan (and ahead of schedule, even!), with the notable exceptions of drekhead's attempt on Acantha and the surprise reveal of Dolly's upgrade.
Plots within plots, plans within plans, schemes within schemes, as CentComm seems fond of saying. Though the plot (as I'm currently envisioning it) isn't *nearly* as deep and layered (yet) as this one Shadowrun game I played in for several years...
*wanders off to the next page, whistling old Deep Purple tunes*
I loved Neuromancer. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, too.
To me, there are only two people that had the opportunity. CentComm and Calliope Taylor. She contacted Kyle just at lift off, an hour later she was attacked. NOT a lot of time to set something up, especially if you wanted to CAPTURE not kill the target.
Calliope and (presumably CentComm when Calliope contacted her to clear it) had the better part of a day to get something in place (over 8 hours anyhow).
I can't see Calliope putting her daughter in that level of danger no matter HOW important an end goal was.
CentComm, I can see doing it in a heartbeat, if the end goal was important enough.
Now what that end goal MIGHT be, I can't say, but I think the most likely 'informer' for starting this mess was CentComm herself.
Just the travel time would do you in. I mean, it was an hour plus from New Rome and they were what 20 minutes from where Lynn was intercepted.
There may be a player we (the readers) don't know about, but to me, it looked like the communication links were minimal until the last second. Even DOLLY didn't know until then from the sound of it.
I would call foul if that was done in less than an hour with a remote turret, multiple vehicles and the assorted pieces needed to capture and restrain someone.
there ARE other possablitys.. and Dari and Gavin are only two of the gutters on the Princes payroll.
And keeping gutters like that on payroll and pre-positioned would be difficult for too long. 48 hours, doable, 168 hours (one week)... more problematic.
They seem the kind that could get into trouble in that amount of time without something to keep them occupied. And no, I wouldn't trust their discipline for that long for a mission that important.
Still have to wonder though at the communications as there didn't seem to be much length to the links. There didn't seem to be a lot of people involved in the process where it could be intercepted.