Just hypothetically throwing this out there, but if we're really going for an AI license soon, we probably need to display that we recognize the inherent moral ambiguity of creating synthetic sentient life. I think the Asari/Salarians would look more kindly on a proposal that addresses the moral aspect as well as the recognition of the culpability for blame if the experiment goes wrong.
Supposedly you've done the theory work on this already with the AI license prep tech. I deliberately left the actual implementation void to some degree. There are many possible right answers and even more wrong ones. Now I'll leave the actual choice of which one up to the players at the time of making the AI. It'll be
interesting to see what happens.
Well, what would be the reaction if we attached adoption paperwork to our AI creation license request?
While I think the idea is cool, it isn't quite the right angle to take.
Free AI is illegal. Enslaving Sapient AI is illegal (in summary, full legal details are complicated). This is sort of a problem with that idea as children grow up. You'd have to convince the Council that their understanding of the reason they got rid of AI in the Citadel was wrong (Geth Rebellions). Which IC as far as you know is factually correct*. So you'd have to talk to the Geth (quite hard) get the history of the Morning War from them (not easy, but reasonable) and then convince a significant majority of Citadel Space (quite hard).
*Short version could be summarized as: Quarians make Geth. Geth VI network shows signs of AI development, so the Quarians try to shut them down. Geth go genocidal and try to kill all Quarians including uninvolved civilians. This shows that AI tech is just too dangerous. There were a lot of hasty decisions make on the Council of the time's part and there's some detailed nuances and details of timing (the desision to destroy AI was made in the middle of the Rebellions happening when to the greater galaxy it looked like the Quarian VIs just went nuts). Frankly if they'd waited I'd have expected things to turn out differently, there a bit to much anti-AI cultural inertia at this point to change this without something to shake things up.
Incorporating some of the stuff in the Citadel DLC can be a pain...
Anyway maybe a pet adoption form? That's about as far as you can let it go. (Which is sad that I find t a logical consequence of the setting!
I wanted to write about Sapient AI
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Only until we get magnetohydrodynamic weaponry. AKA, the Thanix. Then it'll probably be either MHD/Laser or MHD/Particle cannons.
I was summarizing. Laser bypass kinetic barriers, but are stopped by light bending TIR magic. TIR however doesn't stop the standard MA guns, MHD or particle weapons. A MHD is basically a really fancy kinetic with some thermal secondary. Sadly multiple barriers don't play nice so it's a pick one situation. So if you can pair a laser with another non-laser weapon you can pick the one they aren't blocking.
Some defenses may, however, block both. Stasis plate (and QPL armor) work against both. Other techs may also screw with things.
I chose a particle weapon for my example as it's easiest to convert into a laser A Free Electron Laser is a particle beam used to make a laser beam after all.
