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Subject: Boomer. How is he there?
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Cronin's Law----The New Flood Drinking Game

Y'know... Replaying the marathon series now, ten years later (when I can actually appreciate the plot) makes it so much better... now someone wanna tell me how Durandal fits into the Boomer's computer net if rampant AI's need a planatary sized network to sustain rampant growth?

  • 10.22.2004 7:47 PM PDT
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Cronin's Law----The New Flood Drinking Game

>1) Once Rampancy is achieved the network size "requirement" is lessened. Almost as if >the AI has "discovered" the new way of thought and now can maintain themselves, in a still >rampant state on a network that might even be of a lesser size.

This crossed my mind, but then I thought about leela and how she took over a 13-planet computer network, and the denizens accepted that they would never regain control of the system... but then again, she never tried to leave did she?

>2) The Pfhor ship (scoutship, mothership, cruiser, it was classified as many things) might >have a network of comparable complexity and scope that is the equivalent to a Terran >planetary network.

Unlikely, since the Pfhor were unable to create advanced AI's of their own, instead merely copying tycho over and over.

>3) Perhaps access to the Pfhor FTL data network was what allowed rampancy to continue.

Hightly possible... never crossed my mind

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although you're probbrabbly right, its because the story needs it. oh well.

  • 10.22.2004 8:44 PM PDT
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Durandal packs himself into the SO's head at one point, so he can't be that big :)

  • 10.23.2004 1:03 AM PDT
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You never know... the SO might have a gigantic head... that's why theres no mirrors in the game ;-)

Tristan ;-)

  • 10.23.2004 6:05 AM PDT
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Cronin's Law----The New Flood Drinking Game

hmmmm.... it explains so much...

  • 10.23.2004 6:12 AM PDT
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but like all Marathon stuff leaves so many more unanswered questions...

Tristan ;-)

  • 10.23.2004 6:22 AM PDT
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I can't really add anything that hasn't already been said, but I think
data compression is the most likely answer if you had to pick one
other than the story needed it.

I think the chip that was put into the SO's brain was only Durandal's
primal pattern, or selected data/memories, but that would still be
a massive amount of data that needed to be compressed.
Durandal also says "contents under pressure" in the uplink chip
terminal.

  • 10.23.2004 9:09 AM PDT