Shepard Quest Mk VI, Technological Revolution
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ThatGazzer
Minds Eye Bind
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I'm not trying to make it impossible, I'd trying to make it too hard to attempt doing in the first place.
azoicennead
Overly-Affectionate Zombie Squad
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Then use a newer system and use good security practices. They're less likely to have a known exploit to take advantage of, and can use up-to-date security software (e.g. anti-virus, which needs to be up-to-date to be useful).
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[X] ...hack the attacker back. (May gain intel on hacker, success will delay hacking)
[X] ...hack the attacker back. (May gain intel on hacker, success will delay hacking)
[X] You're good
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Oohh... Me likey! Images of protheans are going to change a lot. I'm willing to bet STG will be able to make prothean - collector connection (and sh*t their pants at realizing that protheans are still alive; which means that they likely have backdoors into everything). Simulstim is a VR system of some kind, I assume; probably based on asari melding and some beacon technology. Upgrades on that might be useful to.
And is that a stasis container we are about to find?
[X] ...hack the attacker back. (May gain intel on hacker, success will delay hacking)
Oohh... Me likey! Images of protheans are going to change a lot. I'm willing to bet STG will be able to make prothean - collector connection (and sh*t their pants at realizing that protheans are still alive; which means that they likely have backdoors into everything). Simulstim is a VR system of some kind, I assume; probably based on asari melding and some beacon technology. Upgrades on that might be useful to.
And is that a stasis container we are about to find?
Simulstim is the Mass Effect settings VR movie thing. It only ever comes up in the Cerberus Daily news bits (AFAIK). The actor wears a rig of some sort and their experiences are recorded. Apparently in most productions the main characters' perspectives are all recorded so watching the same story from multiple perspective can be done. (Which I imagine can lead to some very interesting storytelling)
The interesting part of it is that while there is a certain degree of fakery and movie magic the events are still fairly grounded in reality. An actor still has to actual preform the actions to be recorded.
http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Cerberus_Daily_News_-_February_2010#02.2F07.2F2010
Is the plot thread about one such Simulstim film.
What I imagine Liara doing is sort of a hack. By recording the effect of the Prothean device replaying the memory on herself she gets a low quality and a little glichy copy that she can share.
On an OOC level the memory has gone though at least two of translations and two perspective shifts (and all the garbling that implies). One the memory got swapped into Asari format from Prothean, which isn't two bad as Asari brains are apparently made of ~100% mirror neurons or something. But still a bit was lost. In addition, all the data from Prothean senses that Asari don't have got lost. Then the memory got translated into Simulstim format. Asari have some odd sense(s) no other race does so more got lost there too.
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Chargone
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[X] You're good
[X] ...hack the attacker back. (May gain intel on hacker, success will delay hacking)
Heh, given that, with current tech levels, taking camera control away from the user's movements in a VR environment has decent odds of resulting in some combination of disorientation, dizzyness, nausia, headaches, vomiting, and so on*, SimulStim's gotta be doing something pretty fancy. Hijacking All the senses, at minimum. (possible exception: touch). Inner ear, minimum.
*Cut scenes are pretty much the devil. You can disable the player character's ability to change location, and while I'm not sure why you'd do this, you can lock the camera in place as well, and you can run a scripted event which flat out ignores the player's existence, but you Can Not suddenly grab and shift the camera like non VR games do for cut scenes. You can Probably force a character to move (not a Lot different from sticking them in a vehical), but controling the player's head/eyes? (Or, in fact, anything which moves them, like shoving the player character over) No. Not until you can also fake out the inner ear or manage solid holograms instead.
[X] ...hack the attacker back. (May gain intel on hacker, success will delay hacking)
Heh, given that, with current tech levels, taking camera control away from the user's movements in a VR environment has decent odds of resulting in some combination of disorientation, dizzyness, nausia, headaches, vomiting, and so on*, SimulStim's gotta be doing something pretty fancy. Hijacking All the senses, at minimum. (possible exception: touch). Inner ear, minimum.
*Cut scenes are pretty much the devil. You can disable the player character's ability to change location, and while I'm not sure why you'd do this, you can lock the camera in place as well, and you can run a scripted event which flat out ignores the player's existence, but you Can Not suddenly grab and shift the camera like non VR games do for cut scenes. You can Probably force a character to move (not a Lot different from sticking them in a vehical), but controling the player's head/eyes? (Or, in fact, anything which moves them, like shoving the player character over) No. Not until you can also fake out the inner ear or manage solid holograms instead.
Holos are implied to be yet another form of film. And "solid" holograms using mass effect fields are a thing. Simulstim seems to involve sitting at a table or something. Or some other method that an be done at home. Of course there may be some sort of way of recording a given sequence of perspectives to produce a more traditional movie.
The Simulstim also seems (IIRC) to need a configuration for each races (and/or possibly user), Implying there's a lot more to it then just basic VR.
But yeah what you said.
Edit: Oops, meant to comment here.
Eh if you mean stasis container with a person? Then probably not, the box in the memories is small enough that you can carry it in front of you easily. Say big enough to fit a couple of hardback textbooks in with a little room. /Fails are describing size. Errr.... maybe 30cmx30cmx15cm give or take? Its quite literally a box. If you ran into it in you day to day life there would be little remarkable about it in appearance other than its ruggedness and some of the odd symbols on it.
I have a fun little mental plot behind whats in the box and the box's story. It might never get mentioned, but its there.
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azoicennead
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In reality, it was behind by a Protean LARPer who thought it would be funny to leave one of his/her Protean version of D&D treasure boxes full of random rubbish laying around for one of the lesser races to find, just for kicks.
'Cause the Proteans were jerks like that.
Oh god. This is going to end up in an "Everybody wants the box" plot isn't it?
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[X] You're good
[X] ...hack the attacker back. (May gain intel on hacker, success will delay hacking)
[X] ...hack the attacker back. (May gain intel on hacker, success will delay hacking)
Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
The box is likely the most important archeological find in thousands of years. And that is possibly including Liara finding out what Protheans look like.
Everybody is going to want the box. Very badly.
It will. And the box will be empty, looted millennia ago. Lesson will be learned. And then promptly forgotten.
Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
What is actually in the box matters less to it's desirability than what could be in the box. Even if it turns out to just have prothean candy in it, the possibility of it having technical manuals is worth spending millions and sending out the STG/Commandos/Equivalents to fight over it.
So, Prothean infants? Probably not, though.
