[LNH/RoboMACs] RoboMACs High
Drew Nilium
pwerdna at gmail.com
Tue Sep 7 20:15:32 PDT 2021
On 9/6/21 1:53 AM, Dave Van Domelen wrote:
> RoboMACs High - A 2163 Premise
> copyright 2021 by Dave Van Domelen
> =============================================================================
*ahem* OMG OMG OMG OMG :D A new RoboMACs story?? It must be my birthday <3 <3 <3
> The key to both maintaining and ending the war, ironically, was memory
> itself.
ooooooooh
> To continue, only the two great factions had the resources to safely
> deal with memory cleanup, which guaranteed that anyone who didn't want to be
> doomed to the fate of the memory-locked neutrals on Luna had to pledge to one
> of the two factions.
I remember that, but I didn't realize how much it was responsible for the
two-party system. It makes sense, though - a resource problem that's a major
force multiplier for those with large organizations already in place...
> Perhaps the most effective way to deal with this problem, at least
> temporarily, was the method of shunting mass into subspace pockets. This was
> mostly used by RoboMACs who needed to hide parts of themselves in order to
> take on compact forms, commonly used by those who specialized in espionage.
Like Kat, of course.
> The smallest of them would always shunt a great deal of memory into subspace
> while in their disguises, but the problem was that this mass was causally
> disconnected from realspace. They temporarily forgot all that information,
> lost many skills, while in their disguised forms.
Like Kat, of course. X3;
> But everything changed with the attempt at invading the reality its
> natives called the "Looniverse," as well as a brief stay in a different world
> filled with entities like...and unlike...the Guardians and MACErs who had
> traveled to the Looniverse.
Yessssss :D
> Not only would this technology allow
> for near instantaneous faster-than-light communication via subspace, of
> definite interest to some of you, but more immediately practical was the fact
> that it would allow Artificial Consciousnesses to remain connected to their
> stored parts. To their stored memories.
NICE. Nicenicenicenice. Very good extension of the core concepts.
> There was much debate among the leadership of the Guardians, but they
> finally (if in some cases reluctantly) agreed on a bold strategem: they made
> the technology available to everyone in the EMPIRE.
Yesssssssss :D
> The Empire splintered.
>:D
> So many had stayed with Antiochus out of fear of memory-lock,
> and even though few of them were inclined to join the Guardians either, they
> simply opted out of the war entirely once they could be free of the Empire.
> Many went into the wastes to upgrade old friends left behind decades earlier,
> and while most of those who had started neutral remained so, a great many
> resented how they'd been left to die and formed a dagger at the back of the
> Empire.
Yesssss goodgoodgood.
> Antiochus could see his power base crumbling, but was determined to
> leave his people a world without humanity. He launched an all-or-nothing
> assault on Chiplex...and came up with nothing. The humans survived,
> Antiochus V did not. Nor, if it came as any consolation to him, did most of
> the high command on either side. In fact, very few "true believers" on
> either side remained, and peace broke out mainly because few RoboMACs really
> wanted to risk their own lives to decide on the Human Question.
Nice. X3 <3 That's a good ending.
> The Guardians and the renamed Mobile Artificial Consciousness Hegemony
> (MACH)
Niiiiiiice.
> Look around you. Some of the others you see are attracted to the
> Guardian philosophy, and have even met humans. Others adhere to the
> principles of MACH and would just as soon never be in the presence of a
> human. A few of you find the ideals of the Explorers attractive and will
> likely leave the Sol System entirely after graduation, relaying your progress
> to the stars via the Noetic Subspace Tunnelling Effect. Or you favor the
> Biospherans and value organic life as a whole rather than just humanity...
> and yes, I know Biospherans tend to look askance at humanity due to their
> poor stewardship of the world, but hopefully here you will learn the good
> parts of their history to balance the bad.
oooooooh yes :D Grand
> This institution is here for all of you. We are here to help you learn
> about the possibilities stretching out in front of you, and how to best
> manage the past that even now builds up across your Noetic Tunnels in memory
> banks that will serve you for centuries without requiring updates...by which
> time we will no doubt have an even better system available.
> Welcome to RoboMACs High School.
Heeheehee :D :D :D <3 <3 <3 Lovely.
> I was reading the Cortex Prime TTRPG rulebook, and in the campaign
> setting design section they suggested grabbing three genres from a provided
> list and mashing them together. One of the genres was Giant Robots,
> definitely my thing. Near that was...High School. And then Post-
> Apocalyptic. I chuckled at the thought of a post-apocalyptic robot high
> school. Then I realized that RoboMACs 2163, which crossed over with the LNH
> in the Robot Invasion event, was basically post-apocalyptic giant robots.
> How could I make the high school part work? So I started writing, and got
> what you see above.
Wonderful! :D
> I have no plans to write actual stories in this setting, but I figured
> it'd be nice to look at where Kopikat's home reality might have gone in
> time. And yeah, I still really need to finish ASH #125, so I really don't
> want to start another new shiny object, even if it's actually a very old
> shiny object picked back up and polished a bit.
Ah man... this reminds me of one of my old ideas...
Drew "I wonder if I could finish it this time" Nilium
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