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Last we heard about Stratnet it wants her on the front line in Africa.
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No, I'm pretty sure it wants her on improving the UN's capacity to fight. Or somebody does. See: the entire new arcology she was instrumental in putting up,
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It is speculation. We have concrete evidence that STRATNET wanted Anna on the battle line, at least up to post 18. What STRATNET wants after that point is unknown, and so people have begun to make assumptions that work on refugee camps and reactivating an Arcology has altered the calculus sufficiently to change its mind. While this is not completely unreasonable to think that STRATNET may have been influenced by such events, there is no definitive evidence that STRATNET has actually altered its preferred placement for Anna.
1) The rifles were themselves resized.
That's the implication of the reference to integrating riot control gear, not just riot control armor.
I mean, even for an adult, putting two 40 inch long weapons the size of an M16 on shoulder mount turrets would significantly mess with their sightlines. Let alone for an 8 year old girl, an age where the average height is 50 inches.
So it has to shrink to be usable.
2) There is no indication that Durga's weapon-mount capacity was limited by weight or space requirements even then.
As opposed to targeting and ammunition constraints.
And most critically, complexity.
3) By the time the Antagonists showed up, Anna had been a Valk builder for a year. 2061 to 2062.
Compare that with the rest of the freshman Valk class, who we see armed in their first week of core use. Look at what Sandra, for example, was carrying on her first day with no experience. Coke Zero has not been a Valk for six months.
If they didn't have trouble fitting weapons, she is unlikely to have. Even with her low compatibility.
Space to fit new weapons on or around the Valk's body doesn't seem to be an issue.
Complexity? Targeting? Impeller control? Those are.
Originally. Before the refugee building mission. And before Sydney.
We haven't heard anything about STRATNET since.
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In post 21 STRATNET wanted Anna to:
STRATNET wanted Anna to go back to building and not go into combat. 'Previous activity' was Anna helping with building and reconstructing a industrial city.
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That's more about revealing her capabilities vs. not, but yes, that is some evidence.
Alphaleph
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No, the rifles were said to be too big, so the gear is just armor. How can you say "it's resized to fit her size" and then followed by "still can't hold it"?
and on the other end Anna might as well think "I have to grow" to use the equipment instead of "it has to shrink" as you said.
While in this case it wants Anna to go back as stated the current prediction expects no lives to be lost so there really should be no reason for any valk to intervene let alone Anna. It is telling Anna to do something more productive with her time while there are cheap alternatives to dealing with the scout force. For all we know stratnet still wants Anna to go to Africa but in the immediate term it needs Anna to not reveal her self to a breach that does not know she exist.
Honestly what STRATNET wants is somewhat difficult to tell from this update.
First we have Anna receiving an order to deploy:
Then we have TACNET declaring Anna as the commander of the cadet flight:
Then everything continues as planned until Anna suggests blasting the Antagonists at long range:
I suspect what we are seeing is that STRATNET did not know Anna's HPP are capable of this kind of long range shooting through the earth technique. At which point Anna's strategic value had to be recalculated again hence the long delay as it ran countless simulations regarding her new capability. Those simulations revealed just how insanely useful such an ability could be during it's initial deployment and decided keeping Anna secure was far more important.
I suspect we'll see the HPPs receiving yet another jump in security clearance and even more funding.
First we have Anna receiving an order to deploy:
Likely received from STRATNET given the second quote is a follow up to the first.
Then we have TACNET declaring Anna as the commander of the cadet flight:
which reinforces the idea that STRATNET has no problems with Anna being deployed here and now.
Then everything continues as planned until Anna suggests blasting the Antagonists at long range:
at which point STRATNET pauses seventeen seconds, an eternity for a supercomputer powered AI network, before telling Anna to run and hide.
I suspect what we are seeing is that STRATNET did not know Anna's HPP are capable of this kind of long range shooting through the earth technique. At which point Anna's strategic value had to be recalculated again hence the long delay as it ran countless simulations regarding her new capability. Those simulations revealed just how insanely useful such an ability could be during it's initial deployment and decided keeping Anna secure was far more important.
I suspect we'll see the HPPs receiving yet another jump in security clearance and even more funding.
And again, that just with 4 of 10 of those babies, gonna need yet another recalc when other 6 are remade and delivered.
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The range of Anna's cannons is, apparently, a matter of strategical concern; of course STRATNET wouldn't want to reveal it on a random side clash. This is still not a direct evidence STRATNET doesn't want Anna at Africa though. Africa is called Hell's Gates, a combatant of Anna's caliber is very much needed there.
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I believe STRATNET wanted Anna at Africa, but demonstration of some of her capabilities might have shifted STRATNET's conclusion on where it wants her right now. The key word here is "might", though at the very least, it should be screaming a little less loudly about shifting the Rank One Valkyrie to the African front.
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Anna only has 5 now. One is with the Crafting Club and she has kept the other 4.
She did? Thought she gave one to the adults in the UN not the kids in school.
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She did. The Crafting Club got incomplete schematics and made their own non-functional copy.
deathofrats0808
Don’t think of it as dying; just as leaving early
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Ah, double checking you'd be correct. UNARD (United Nations Advanced Research and Development I assume) then gave schematics to people at Perth, Beijing and Santiago. Perth had a mock up on the table when Anna visited and I got mixed up.
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[/IMG]Will Anna ever meet another Valkyrie who also solo defended a town? Or she did and had not bother to look it up?
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If there was another Valk who'd done that than Jen would be ranked 3rd not 2nd.
The reason I said that was because Anna's town was reported to be the 26th rediscovered human holdout with two others being also Valkyrie modified. Wondered what happened to those other two. Was just rereading for fun.
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They died. That's what happened.
Now, now, there's no reason to be depressing about things - it's also plausible that rather than dying the valkyries who defended towns other than Anna were recovered by the UN much faster.
Like, it's amazingly bullshit that Anna held out in the middle of North America (where the UN wasn't even on the same continent) for something like 8 years, but it wouldn't be nearly as bullshit if another valkyrie protected some podunk eastern european town (just behind the front lines) for 6 months until the UN reestablished contact and spearheaded an evacuation mission.
Like, it's amazingly bullshit that Anna held out in the middle of North America (where the UN wasn't even on the same continent) for something like 8 years, but it wouldn't be nearly as bullshit if another valkyrie protected some podunk eastern european town (just behind the front lines) for 6 months until the UN reestablished contact and spearheaded an evacuation mission.
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I'm not sure Anna can re-fold them. The complexity got taken back up by Omni-sensors and a terawatt fusion reactor. Plus some for the newer weapon systems (HyV Cannons) and a bulking up of the surviving HPPs with bits from the ones that got broken.
Deadliness is arguably increased for any fight that continues past the recharge time of her previous HPP. Since the aforementioned fusion reactor lets her charge the HPPs up without spending Impeller or batteries to get power. Trading burst damage for sustainment.
Complexity isn't a hard limit, though. I'm pretty sure the issue would just be that they would take forever to integrate, not that it couldn't be done.
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It should be noted.
That all known uncontacted settlements where in fact in North America. (I think their was even a joke about how the ones in America talked/joked about holding a presidential election now that a chunk of America is under human control).