Okay, the Moscow Plan is... well, honestly, a bad plan. Not least because Jamelia doesn't actually have the IC information for a lot of things, because only Serafina knows about the Mari Humanity Bomb (which won't work on I-50-B31, because the Transhumans know all about being human. They've been lots of humans. All of whom have "realised" that it's much more awesome to be a Transhuman as soon as they join the hivemind), and Jamelia at the moment has no idea that the IBM even survived Moscow (and Donald and Rose have no idea that they're a thing).
And, of course, there's the "she's a spirit" thing. Spirits are much more... immutable in their nature against most things (try persuading a fire spirit not to burn things), much more bound to it than a human being is. And Iteration X are terrible at spirits.
On the other hand, what can change the Nature of a man? Well, we do have a magic bracelet which does that right now. Well, it changes their Virtue and Vice, but those replace Nature in MJage.
[X] Write-in: Play for time by getting her off balance, allowing Donald to get closer, and talk her into taking out the Subjugation Corp saucer so we don't have that trying to blow us all up. Bring up all those objections we have because we can clearly see she isn't playing to the same rulebook as the rest of Threat Null and isn't working for the same thing - raise how they're not working to the same goals. But above all, give her a "gift" of Senex's bracelet, to push her off balance further by rewriting her Virtue and Vice.
-> [X] "We're not out of hot water yet, I'm afraid. There's still that Void Engineer saucer, and I'm not willing to listen to you when there's that show of force showing bad faith. I think you can understand why I don't trust good faith, when your agents were waiting to murder me here - and there was a vicious, superior-murdering sociopath who tried to kill me in Moscow - and Henrietta Langley was casually shooting starship grade capital weapons in an urban area. I do realise I'd be asking you to put yourself at risk (Maaaaaaartyr), but I can't stop them on my own and if I have to try I'll probably die (Caaaaaaregiver)."
--> [X] If they kill her (very unlikely) or she 'doxes out of reality (more likely) she's out of our hair.
--> [X] If she's very badly injured from spirit-killing weapons when she gets back, we might have a chance against her. And even if we don't try that, no flying saucer shooting at us as we try to escape.
--> [X] If she's annoyingly okay from having killed a dozen space marines and everyone inside a flying saucer, she'll at least might have spent primal energy. And more importantly we won't have a flying saucer shooting at us when we drive away or using abduction rays on Jamelia or something. That's a really big deal.
---> [X] GOTO [X] (2.0x) Find an excuse to have her disabled. Probably involving running her over. With a tank. Repeatedly. And then shooting her to make sure.
----> [X] We May Need To Work Out How To Do This (and whether Team Misfit can cludge together a super-teamwork ritual tobind transfer her psyche using standard Technocracy personality dump procedures into the backup emergency personality storage cache of Jamelia Bot in the field).
...
When she puts on the bracelet, her Virtue will change to Martyr (She regains WP when she sacrifices from herself to advance her chosen cause) and her Vice to Caregiver (She needs to spend WP to not help people who seem like they're in need.). These are V/Vs much more amenable to our interests, because it means she isn't having to spend willpower to disobey orders. We do not like her orders. Apart from the ones Donald gives her, but she doesn't obey them because of her Vice, she obeys them because of maaaaagic.
And there might be other unpredictable effects, because Jamelia is human and thus is not fundamentally a slave to her nature. She has mental flexibility a spirit (even a spirit with an Avatar stapled to it, like I-50) doesn't have. It wouldn't surprise me if a spirit literally cannot spend willpower to resist their Vice. Which means if I-50 has Caregiver instead of Follower... well, she can disobey orders. And will, to help people who are in need. The effects might even be more radical.
... admittedly, her definition of "helping" may be not what we want, but that's a bridge we'll probably have to cross when we come to it.
And meanwhile, her Conditioning will stop her from using the bracelet's powers, because it's not in the Union's paradigm to use a magical bracelet tied up in strands of fate. And I-50 is a Progenitor, rather than a tricksy NWO or Syndicate type who can double-think around it with "Well, it's clearly just a tool for manifesting psychic powers the person already has" or "I paid for it, so I'll use it".
(Syndics. So annoying.)
And, of course, there's the "she's a spirit" thing. Spirits are much more... immutable in their nature against most things (try persuading a fire spirit not to burn things), much more bound to it than a human being is. And Iteration X are terrible at spirits.
On the other hand, what can change the Nature of a man? Well, we do have a magic bracelet which does that right now. Well, it changes their Virtue and Vice, but those replace Nature in MJage.
[X] Write-in: Play for time by getting her off balance, allowing Donald to get closer, and talk her into taking out the Subjugation Corp saucer so we don't have that trying to blow us all up. Bring up all those objections we have because we can clearly see she isn't playing to the same rulebook as the rest of Threat Null and isn't working for the same thing - raise how they're not working to the same goals. But above all, give her a "gift" of Senex's bracelet, to push her off balance further by rewriting her Virtue and Vice.
-> [X] "We're not out of hot water yet, I'm afraid. There's still that Void Engineer saucer, and I'm not willing to listen to you when there's that show of force showing bad faith. I think you can understand why I don't trust good faith, when your agents were waiting to murder me here - and there was a vicious, superior-murdering sociopath who tried to kill me in Moscow - and Henrietta Langley was casually shooting starship grade capital weapons in an urban area. I do realise I'd be asking you to put yourself at risk (Maaaaaaartyr), but I can't stop them on my own and if I have to try I'll probably die (Caaaaaaregiver)."
--> [X] If they kill her (very unlikely) or she 'doxes out of reality (more likely) she's out of our hair.
--> [X] If she's very badly injured from spirit-killing weapons when she gets back, we might have a chance against her. And even if we don't try that, no flying saucer shooting at us as we try to escape.
--> [X] If she's annoyingly okay from having killed a dozen space marines and everyone inside a flying saucer, she'll at least might have spent primal energy. And more importantly we won't have a flying saucer shooting at us when we drive away or using abduction rays on Jamelia or something. That's a really big deal.
---> [X] GOTO [X] (2.0x) Find an excuse to have her disabled. Probably involving running her over. With a tank. Repeatedly. And then shooting her to make sure.
----> [X] We May Need To Work Out How To Do This (and whether Team Misfit can cludge together a super-teamwork ritual to
...
When she puts on the bracelet, her Virtue will change to Martyr (She regains WP when she sacrifices from herself to advance her chosen cause) and her Vice to Caregiver (She needs to spend WP to not help people who seem like they're in need.). These are V/Vs much more amenable to our interests, because it means she isn't having to spend willpower to disobey orders. We do not like her orders. Apart from the ones Donald gives her, but she doesn't obey them because of her Vice, she obeys them because of maaaaagic.
And there might be other unpredictable effects, because Jamelia is human and thus is not fundamentally a slave to her nature. She has mental flexibility a spirit (even a spirit with an Avatar stapled to it, like I-50) doesn't have. It wouldn't surprise me if a spirit literally cannot spend willpower to resist their Vice. Which means if I-50 has Caregiver instead of Follower... well, she can disobey orders. And will, to help people who are in need. The effects might even be more radical.
... admittedly, her definition of "helping" may be not what we want, but that's a bridge we'll probably have to cross when we come to it.
And meanwhile, her Conditioning will stop her from using the bracelet's powers, because it's not in the Union's paradigm to use a magical bracelet tied up in strands of fate. And I-50 is a Progenitor, rather than a tricksy NWO or Syndicate type who can double-think around it with "Well, it's clearly just a tool for manifesting psychic powers the person already has" or "I paid for it, so I'll use it".
(Syndics. So annoying.)
