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The Long Journey Home
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J. D. Tsuba
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ah, morissettes apologies for my misinterpretation of events, maybe dissection was a rather strong word to use.
I did not mean for my words to be taken as insult to any of you I do not look upon soldiers in such a bad light as my words may insinuate, I merely mean that most of you are soldiers first, and bring other specialisms to the field second, which means a certain kind of mentality is required, neither better or worse than anyone else. Whereas I am a researcher first and a soldier second, so I have slightly different priorities. This does not affect my judgement in battle however. I just hope to bring a different viewpoint also.
As for what I have done to the captured robot shells, besides not showing any signs of life, i made sure there were no critical connections to the parts I removed, much like removing a chassis from a computer.
And regarding my oaths, the robots may not abide by the seven biological characteristics, but no robot would, marry that with an advanced AI, and I would not want to be the one to say it wasn't alive, but that is philosophy for another time, And for each among us to decide for ourselves.
I did not mean for my words to be taken as insult to any of you I do not look upon soldiers in such a bad light as my words may insinuate, I merely mean that most of you are soldiers first, and bring other specialisms to the field second, which means a certain kind of mentality is required, neither better or worse than anyone else. Whereas I am a researcher first and a soldier second, so I have slightly different priorities. This does not affect my judgement in battle however. I just hope to bring a different viewpoint also.
As for what I have done to the captured robot shells, besides not showing any signs of life, i made sure there were no critical connections to the parts I removed, much like removing a chassis from a computer.
And regarding my oaths, the robots may not abide by the seven biological characteristics, but no robot would, marry that with an advanced AI, and I would not want to be the one to say it wasn't alive, but that is philosophy for another time, And for each among us to decide for ourselves.
A smile appears on Ghosts face
Cover has never been a problem for me, but you're not all marksman. Seems we won't be able to agree unanimously so put it to a vote. So far I count four against two. One more vote for the radio planet and we'll have our decision so it falls to those that have not voiced their opinions yet. We do have the ability to process unrefined ores private, or were you not paying attention when I mentioned it earlier during my recount of the meeting with the commodore.
I still stand by that if they havn't engaged us yet we shouldn't give them reason to but clearly a lot of you do not share my view. Also although the jungle will obscure us I'm sure a cityscape or something of similar note will do the same. Cities come with walls, and gun placements the jungle does not. Plus you forget we are not the only soldiers on board. If the wanderer is attacked whilst we are away the other forces aboard will do their duty, I'm sure they're just as capable as us of defending the ship. Biotech is an interesting concept but I somewhat doubt it's existence, so far what we've seen in our brief time out here is tech that is available to us albeit used differently. The AI of the robots is not to dissimilar from the VIs we have, certainly more sophisticated. Likewise the hunters use a space vessel too, outfitted for different purposes to the wanderer but still a space vessel that utilised Paksis.
Turning to mikhail
You complain about my assumption but you're doing the same, you're assuming the radio planet has information we could use. You're assuming they won't shoot us on sight. You're assuming they have no heavy weaponary or other defences. All we can do is assume until we see it ourselves. You are guilty of exactly the same private Zhukov
Cover has never been a problem for me, but you're not all marksman. Seems we won't be able to agree unanimously so put it to a vote. So far I count four against two. One more vote for the radio planet and we'll have our decision so it falls to those that have not voiced their opinions yet. We do have the ability to process unrefined ores private, or were you not paying attention when I mentioned it earlier during my recount of the meeting with the commodore.
I still stand by that if they havn't engaged us yet we shouldn't give them reason to but clearly a lot of you do not share my view. Also although the jungle will obscure us I'm sure a cityscape or something of similar note will do the same. Cities come with walls, and gun placements the jungle does not. Plus you forget we are not the only soldiers on board. If the wanderer is attacked whilst we are away the other forces aboard will do their duty, I'm sure they're just as capable as us of defending the ship. Biotech is an interesting concept but I somewhat doubt it's existence, so far what we've seen in our brief time out here is tech that is available to us albeit used differently. The AI of the robots is not to dissimilar from the VIs we have, certainly more sophisticated. Likewise the hunters use a space vessel too, outfitted for different purposes to the wanderer but still a space vessel that utilised Paksis.
Turning to mikhail
You complain about my assumption but you're doing the same, you're assuming the radio planet has information we could use. You're assuming they won't shoot us on sight. You're assuming they have no heavy weaponary or other defences. All we can do is assume until we see it ourselves. You are guilty of exactly the same private Zhukov
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Mikhail Zhukov
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To Ghost.
That is kinda my point. We don't know anything until we investigate. I said that they could have information, and I never made any assumptions about their lack of combat potential or whether they are hostile or not. Either way this discussion is getting nowhere. We decided to send the probes and you know my opinion on the planets so unless anyone has anything else to discuss I have more urgent matters to attend to. And I would imagine I am not the only one.
With this said Mikhail salutes to everyone in the room and heads to the bridge.
That is kinda my point. We don't know anything until we investigate. I said that they could have information, and I never made any assumptions about their lack of combat potential or whether they are hostile or not. Either way this discussion is getting nowhere. We decided to send the probes and you know my opinion on the planets so unless anyone has anything else to discuss I have more urgent matters to attend to. And I would imagine I am not the only one.
With this said Mikhail salutes to everyone in the room and heads to the bridge.
Aleksandra Zhukov
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Aleksandra addressed the group once more. "It seems we are at a bit of an impasse."
She wandered around to the door and put her hands on her hips. "Unless echo captain and Private boom weigh in now we have no decision and may as well wait until the drones come back to make our arguments with a greater degree of information. By my count if we're aiming diplomatically we sit a 4 to 2 on radio signal versus Triassic planet. Though that is assuming our captains are taking votes. I'm afraid that much like my brother I have things to do so I'll leave the rest of the discussion to you."
She saluted smartly and went to leave "Call me if I'm needed or when the drones return. I'm going to try and track down this hunter."
She wandered around to the door and put her hands on her hips. "Unless echo captain and Private boom weigh in now we have no decision and may as well wait until the drones come back to make our arguments with a greater degree of information. By my count if we're aiming diplomatically we sit a 4 to 2 on radio signal versus Triassic planet. Though that is assuming our captains are taking votes. I'm afraid that much like my brother I have things to do so I'll leave the rest of the discussion to you."
She saluted smartly and went to leave "Call me if I'm needed or when the drones return. I'm going to try and track down this hunter."
Universal_narration
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Alexander Bauhdric
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Captain Bauhdric nods as the debate continues, carefully considering each side of the debate. When he's asked to air his mind, he slowly, he leans forward in his chair, the arms squeaking under his weight.
"I am no expert on reconnaissance, but I am personally in favour of the Radio planet. We need to find out some information, and radio traffic is considered one of the main signifiers of intelligent and modern sentience. With any luck, it will not be a dead end, and we shall find that the broadcasters of these radio-waves are not out to murder us. We're in a strange and distant part of the universe, but my interaction with the 'Hunter' has convinced me that things are not so different here. Only the evil and the unknowing would shoot on us for no reason; and the grace of god is universal to all life."
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