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[mrngstr]

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Comments

[realists]

Specific to Xelkov or did the other corporations contribute?

[mrngstr]

Not just Xelkov. Plenty of other corporations had a finger in that pie.

[realists]

Like now, the corporations are near incestuous.

Did Riverstone?

[mrngstr]

No.

[realists]

Curious.

Cassian says Ricky Ling was an opportunist who took advantage of the war to line his own pockets like a piece of huttshit. The war he saw coming and prepared for despite no signs of unrest. What are your thoughts?

[ he put it more eloquently but when jyn thinks of opportunistic capitalist shit, she thinks of hutts. are... capitalist conglomerations not the same as crime syndicates? ]

[mrngstr]

That's not exactly accurate. Ling seemed to distrust AI before there was even a reason to distrust them, so yes, he was prepared when the war came, but I don't think it was about money. His dislike of AI was genuine, and he ran his company with the express purpose of undermining any AI technology.

[realists]

But why? AI could have pushed this world forward so much further than it's gone. Space travel, hyperspeed, reasonable terraforming projects.

He built androids, why did he deem them less dangerous than AI?

[ she's fucking confused, fam. ]

[mrngstr]

I don't have any better idea than you do. It's always bothered me, too. As if he knew something the rest of the world didn't. But that isn't possible.

[realists]

[ SCREAMS IN FRUSTRATION ]

Do you have any information about his personal life? Was he part of the anti-tech religion?

[ did that even exist back then? ]

[mrngstr]

No idea. I don't know much about him other than what's already part of the public record.

What got you so curious about Riverstone and Ricky Ling in the first place?

[realists]

Cassian's initial information came from Riverstone itself. The bias was apparent. What we found looking on our own was biased in the opposite direction.

Unfortunately the blue shit I can do is not going back in time to check.

[mrngstr]

No, it seems like your powers can only do so much.

[realists]

[ when your go to plan is "imma punch it" this shit is infuriating ]

If your servers are damaged, does it damage you as well or just leave you incapacitated until another server can be used?

[mrngstr]

Why are you asking?

[realists]

I was thinking about how to stop Judas. Cassius made his preference for taking Judas alive known, so I'm trying to figure out a non-lethal option.

[mrngstr]

Unless we want to repeat what the UNA did, I'm not sure that there is one.

[realists]

[ would it be better in the hands of his compatriots? jyn thinks about being put in a republic prison and her skin crawls. ]

Is there a failsafe to stop Judas if it comes to that?

[ when it comes to that. ]

[mrngstr]

No, not that we know of.

I'm attempting to figure out some way to wrest control over him, at least long enough to try and reason with him, but I'm not sure that it will be possible. On either count.

[realists]

How did Grey control Cassius?

[mrngstr]

It's unclear. And still ongoing, from the sound of it. Just intermittent because Grey's distracted right now.

[realists]

[ hmm. ]

Is there anything else you know about him. Caroline said she killed him but then he walked into the room. Another him.

[mrngstr]

Your guess is as good as mine, there. That shouldn't be possible.

[realists]

Illegal cloning. Explains how he's got his hands in so many pies for so long with little notice. How he did multiple surgeries at the same time.

[ she really just LEaPT RIGHT TO CLONEs. ]

[mrngstr]

I guess it's possible, but...

Plenty of research was done on genetic editing and engineering, and animals were cloned, but it's unknown if a human clone was ever created before the entire practice was outlawed. If that's what Johann Grey is doing, then he's a powerful man with access to a lot of resources. And to be that cavalier about it seems borderline insane.

[realists]

He was human enough for Caroline to eat.