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2017-12-08

by shaenon on December 8, 2017 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Unsinkable
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  1. Robert Nowall
    December 8, 2017, 12:16 am | # | Reply

    What has Anasigma got against Rhodey?

    • dexitroboper
      December 8, 2017, 12:20 am | # | Reply

      They hate nonhumans.

      • Thenardyr
        December 8, 2017, 1:31 am | # | Reply

        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.”

        • Jim Baerg
          December 8, 2017, 12:03 pm | # | Reply

          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/

        • Robert Nowall
          December 8, 2017, 5:20 pm | # | Reply

          “He’s dead and I’m alive and that’s the way I want it to be.”

        • WJS
          August 3, 2019, 9:59 am | # | Reply

          People are rarely pleased when they discover they are being manipulated.

    • jdreyfuss
      January 31, 2020, 8:41 am | # | Reply

      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.

  2. Urlance Woolsbane
    December 8, 2017, 2:03 am | # | Reply

    inb4 Panoptica thinks she and Cerebriac are the only real things in the universe.

  3. Candace
    December 8, 2017, 2:08 am | # | Reply

    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.

    • Towering Barbarian
      December 8, 2017, 2:15 am | # | Reply

      But what if that’s only what Mr. Green *wants* us to think? >_>

      • ngmatt
        December 8, 2017, 3:30 am | # | Reply

        this is why I subscribe to unity’s logic of “punch things” in cases like this, much easier than thinking yourself into a corner.

        • Khno
          December 8, 2017, 8:32 am | # | Reply

          thinking yourself into a corner

          ….

          http://img.over-blog-kiwi.com/0/86/53/69/20140619/ob_64c6cc_tumblr-mdrmq2mfzk1qchfeio2-r1-250.gif

          • jdreyfuss
            January 31, 2020, 8:49 am | #

            Is your name not Bruce then?

  4. Jim McGrath
    December 8, 2017, 6:07 am | # | Reply

    I suspect this is rather going to interfere with Mr Green’s plans to have Skin Horse work on his side…

  5. Kaydrien Iceclaw
    December 8, 2017, 9:00 am | # | Reply

    That explains a lot.

    • MisterTeatime
      December 8, 2017, 2:42 pm | # | Reply

      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.

      🙁

      • BRGR
        December 9, 2017, 3:30 am | # | Reply

        There is a difference?

        • MisterTeatime
          December 11, 2017, 12:20 pm | # | Reply

          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.

  6. felbloodreaper
    December 8, 2017, 9:24 am | # | Reply

    Rhodey.

    Nobody named Rhodey ever lives.

    • Efogoto
      December 8, 2017, 2:55 pm | # | Reply

      As I recall, it was the goose that died, not Aunt Rhodey.

  7. Dr. Steve
    December 8, 2017, 11:03 am | # | Reply

    Good thing Tip is there.. with puppets, I hope!

    • Shadowmehr
      December 8, 2017, 9:41 pm | # | Reply

      Things haven’t gotten that bad yet, thank heaven.

  8. Ken
    December 8, 2017, 6:12 pm | # | Reply

    I never thought of Nick as that kind of black helicopter before!

  9. Shadowmehr
    December 8, 2017, 9:43 pm | # | Reply

    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?

    • Thenardyr
      December 9, 2017, 12:33 am | # | Reply

      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.

      • BRGR
        December 9, 2017, 3:35 am | # | Reply

        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.

  10. BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
    December 9, 2017, 5:27 pm | # | Reply

    We live on a spaceship, dear

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