I mean, there are some strong implications of what it is, and none of them are good.
I named the plan Red Flags, because that's all we've gotten about them.
Mmmm... given this I'm mostly worried about what would happen if we copy it to our shard. I mean, it could be a program that once uploaded to Administrator it reset it and restores a backup copy (QA) from Administrator's encoded memories. If this were the case uploading it and purging it would do nothing because althought that actions would be succesful, the data would have already fulfilled its mision.
Couldn't we achieve the same effect by simply uploading a copy of Taylor's mind to us and then make Gaea completly delete all the information in her brain (and the we put back the copy of her mind in the brai, that is.)
Or, simply, making Gaea delete all the encoded information without even trying to decode it.
On another completly unrelated note: A random idea for a power for Taylor or another Host (obviously Shard=us): Matter Manipulation
The Host interpretation:
The Host can control matter, organic and inorganic, around him as if it were parts of his body. Actually, the Host gets the sensation that the matter is part of his like if it were another arm or leg. In fact what the Host is doing is to transform the matter around him in his minions, each one the size of a speck of dust.
If the Host doesn't order the around then nothing happens, but if he, for example, transforms an iron beam in to a cloud of iron the size of specks of dust and then make it so they form and iron beam, it would fall apart the moment the Host leaves it outside his range because it wouldn't be an iron beam but a lot of little things of iron with the form of an iron beam without nothing to keep them together to one another except the Host power. Basically the user would be able to separate matter with extreme ease but unable to put it together.
The Host can not affect his own body with his power. By defeault the power works forcing his body to remain together and in the same form, trying to resist any and all typer of changes the user doesn't wish, compacting the matter in the body and hardening it as a result, althought it would not put back the matter in case this separated from the body. This grants the host enchanted strength and durability, althought not regeneration.
This power doesn't grants his Host any ablity to build/rebuild things with it intuitively. Moreover even in case the Host managed to build something with it, it would fall apart the moment the item left the range of effect of the power. And even if it were to be in the Host's range it wouln't work (in the case of something technological), this is because it wouldn't be the item built but mots of matter in the form of the object built.
The power doesn't grants clairvoyance around the area its affecting, althought the Host percibe all matter in the area.
The power doesn't works at an atomic scale. anything with a size lesser that a mote of dust is ignored and not registered as minion.
The Shard's implementation:
The Shard grants forcefields to any minion (to be considered a minion for the Shard the Host has to have ordered it to do something, aka tried to move it). This forcefield has the size of a speck of dust and surrounds the matter to manipulate, breaking its atomic links with the object/s it was linked to.
Then the Shard grants the Host the capacity to manipulate the forcefield, routing (the same way the limbs are) in his head its possibles movements, althought without explaining to its Hosts that it's in fact manipulating a forcefield instead of matter. This makes it so the Host can manipulate the minion with the same ease as a limb, which at the same time creates the mental illusion the minion is minion its part of himself, althought in fact it isn't true.
This forcefield doesn't grants any additional resistance to the minion it envelopes.
In the case of the body of the Host, the forcefields created are different from the others (this happens only with the Host, and not with other's bodies), and instead of breaking the atomic links when they are created what it does is make them shift of dimension so they aren't there when the Shard acts preventing changes in the Host's body, but at the same time are, avoiding damage to sensible body parts like the eyes (that would stop working if they were divided in thousands of pieces).
This last forcefield basically does the same as the first one only that without breaking the atomic links and at the same time preventing voluntary separation of the parst of the body of the Host as the atomic links are but not are broken at the same time.
Having not broken atomic links the Shard interprets the Host as only one minion, making it so it doesn't feel that anything weird is happening to his body (despite there beign thousands of forcefields), althought the same as all of his minions, the Shard routes in the brain of the Host the possibles movements his minion (his own body) can be moved as if it were a single inflexible and indivisible entity (the same as the rest of his minions). This is what grants the Host the capacity to fly (the Host ordering his minion (himself) to go up, what at the same time causes the rest of the forcefields in his body (and in consequence his body) to go up simultaneously, effectively flying).
If matter is separated from the body of the Host then that matter would get normal forcefields instead of the special ones, event if it is put back in the same place it was (unlessit goes back to form part of the body once again).
