Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate…something like that.
Reminds me of the end of the TV series ‘Farscape,’ where a highly aggressive race nukes the entire planet of another race dedicated to manipulating civilizations away from wars and into peaceful coexistence. They had no weapons, no defenses. When asked why he did it, the leader of the aggressive aliens replies, “it was a precaution.”
They want to eradicate NHS’s. Presumably their goal is to prevent a second destructive war, so they’re working to eradicate them quietly and over a long enough term that by the time open war does break out the NHS’s won’t have the strength to oppose them.
This leads me to wonder if Project Skin Horse’s secret purpose (unknown to them, of course) was to attract/track down and create/maintain records on all non-human sapients, so that Anasigma would be able to find them all and destroy them later. Although, if this was Anasigma’s plan all along, it was probably hampered by the destruction of Skin Horse’s original offices, and destruction of some of the files by the Silverfish.
A real hero-team supercomputer would have access to a lot of protected information and a lot of processing power, which would be important to protect from hackers. Cerebriac sucks at network security (up until now) because it doesn’t actually have any resources worth protecting.
Cerebriac is behaving strangely since the blindness took hold because its users’ priorities have changed.
AG-I hires people like Red Knight and has an organizational culture like this because it’s never really been a superhero team, just a death squad with an eye for good publicity.
More seriously, I would say the two are distinct categories with room for overlap. For instance, Warren Ellis’s StormWatch is a UN peacekeeping task force composed of people with extraordinary abilities and unique code names, but they’re not shy about using lethal force in confrontation with extraordinary threats, and occasionally their commander deploys certain members on black ops for political reasons.
Willingness to use lethal force as the situation demands is a quality seen in all death squads and some superhero teams. Willingness to use lethal force as a first resort… YMMV, but in my personal estimation, that’s a disqualifier for the superhero category.
Sometimes I hate to be right. And as an extra bit of fridge horror, what happened to their old tech person? Did she leave, or was she removed to pave the way for A-Sig’s plan?
Electron Boy, the former I.T. guy, left to join Google. Of course he was either incompetent or an A-Sig plant if Cerebriac is just a terminal.
Just for giggles, I checked the shadow gov ‘flowchart’ to see if Google was part of it. It isn’t. Neither is Skin Horse…though there is that pesky question mark in the middle of the chart. My money is on Gavotte being the missing piece.
I think their sysadmin was neither a mole nor incompetent, but merely bored with maintaining the network security for a mere terminal, and therefore quit for a more challenging job at his earliest convenience.
That the other members of the team didn’t know that their celebrated supercomputer was just a terminal is easily explained by their not caring about such nerdy stuff at all.
That doesn’t make a lick of sense. Electron Boy would definitely have known that A: Cerebriac was not a supercomputer, and B: Cereriac was supposed to be a supercomputer. He must have been a mole, otherwise he would have pointed this out to the others.
What has Anasigma got against Rhodey?
They hate nonhumans.
Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate…something like that.
Reminds me of the end of the TV series ‘Farscape,’ where a highly aggressive race nukes the entire planet of another race dedicated to manipulating civilizations away from wars and into peaceful coexistence. They had no weapons, no defenses. When asked why he did it, the leader of the aggressive aliens replies, “it was a precaution.”
See these on how to increase or decrease hatred.
https://youarenotsosmart.com/2014/02/19/yanss-podcast-018-how-benjamin-franklin-dealt-with-haters/
https://youarenotsosmart.com/2011/10/05/the-benjamin-franklin-effect/
“He’s dead and I’m alive and that’s the way I want it to be.”
People are rarely pleased when they discover they are being manipulated.
They want to eradicate NHS’s. Presumably their goal is to prevent a second destructive war, so they’re working to eradicate them quietly and over a long enough term that by the time open war does break out the NHS’s won’t have the strength to oppose them.
It technically makes sense until you remember that A-Sig’s hostility is the biggest factor in provoking the second war that we’ve seen so far.
Best deterrent for a prolonged war is making it a very short one.
inb4 Panoptica thinks she and Cerebriac are the only real things in the universe.
This leads me to wonder if Project Skin Horse’s secret purpose (unknown to them, of course) was to attract/track down and create/maintain records on all non-human sapients, so that Anasigma would be able to find them all and destroy them later. Although, if this was Anasigma’s plan all along, it was probably hampered by the destruction of Skin Horse’s original offices, and destruction of some of the files by the Silverfish.
But what if that’s only what Mr. Green *wants* us to think? >_>
this is why I subscribe to unity’s logic of “punch things” in cases like this, much easier than thinking yourself into a corner.
thinking yourself into a corner
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http://img.over-blog-kiwi.com/0/86/53/69/20140619/ob_64c6cc_tumblr-mdrmq2mfzk1qchfeio2-r1-250.gif
Is your name not Bruce then?
I suspect this is rather going to interfere with Mr Green’s plans to have Skin Horse work on his side…
That explains a lot.
Yeah, I came here to say this.
A real hero-team supercomputer would have access to a lot of protected information and a lot of processing power, which would be important to protect from hackers. Cerebriac sucks at network security (up until now) because it doesn’t actually have any resources worth protecting.
Cerebriac is behaving strangely since the blindness took hold because its users’ priorities have changed.
AG-I hires people like Red Knight and has an organizational culture like this because it’s never really been a superhero team, just a death squad with an eye for good publicity.
There is a difference?
Zing!
More seriously, I would say the two are distinct categories with room for overlap. For instance, Warren Ellis’s StormWatch is a UN peacekeeping task force composed of people with extraordinary abilities and unique code names, but they’re not shy about using lethal force in confrontation with extraordinary threats, and occasionally their commander deploys certain members on black ops for political reasons.
Willingness to use lethal force as the situation demands is a quality seen in all death squads and some superhero teams. Willingness to use lethal force as a first resort… YMMV, but in my personal estimation, that’s a disqualifier for the superhero category.
Rhodey.
Nobody named Rhodey ever lives.
As I recall, it was the goose that died, not Aunt Rhodey.
Good thing Tip is there.. with puppets, I hope!
Things haven’t gotten that bad yet, thank heaven.
I never thought of Nick as that kind of black helicopter before!
Sometimes I hate to be right. And as an extra bit of fridge horror, what happened to their old tech person? Did she leave, or was she removed to pave the way for A-Sig’s plan?
Electron Boy, the former I.T. guy, left to join Google. Of course he was either incompetent or an A-Sig plant if Cerebriac is just a terminal.
Just for giggles, I checked the shadow gov ‘flowchart’ to see if Google was part of it. It isn’t. Neither is Skin Horse…though there is that pesky question mark in the middle of the chart. My money is on Gavotte being the missing piece.
I think their sysadmin was neither a mole nor incompetent, but merely bored with maintaining the network security for a mere terminal, and therefore quit for a more challenging job at his earliest convenience.
That the other members of the team didn’t know that their celebrated supercomputer was just a terminal is easily explained by their not caring about such nerdy stuff at all.
That doesn’t make a lick of sense. Electron Boy would definitely have known that A: Cerebriac was not a supercomputer, and B: Cereriac was supposed to be a supercomputer. He must have been a mole, otherwise he would have pointed this out to the others.
We live on a spaceship, dear