I like Aisha in this story. She's a Straight Man character but not quite and I think that's a good balance to have.
I am curious whether the upgraded main computer will finally be enough to solve Bakuda's encryption.
Unfortunately, there are no Destiny perks in Lord's version of the CF.
Even if Lord wasn't excluding Destiny the perk from Destiny in the V1 forge is a free perk: "Pure art(free all) The visual arts may not be your thing, but that doesn't mean you can't be good at it. With this, you will be able to adorn any object you possess with paint or some other kind of marker and make it look good. You can paint armor, vehicles and weapons. Depending on what you portray, it could evoke different emotions. From fear to inspiration. You must have some skill at drawing or painting, and something to draw or paint with." I'm not sure how that would mesh with the way he's doing rolls.
Is there a Human database from the golden age of technology as part of the celestial forge?
The closest perk to that is the Plecian Tome
The Pleician Tome is a portable font of certain archives, templates and pieces of ancient lore, created by a senior Tech-priest of the Adeptus Mechanicus and used by Techmarines. Even to a trained eye, the information is a seemingly random collection, with no easy means of navigation, and so it takes much study to glean anything relevant to a particular task. Indeed, only those with a wide knowledge of Machine Spirits and engine lore have any hope of understanding the information contained within, however, those with patience and the appropriate skills can find secrets of great use within the datacore, secrets dating back to the fabled Dark Age of Technology.
To take it further, what if Aperion triggers the 40K Titan knowlege perk? Would the factory start making skyscraper(?) sized titans every day?
I don't think there is a perk like that in the forge, and I'm pretty familiar with what perks exist.
Eh, the story is more or less, "What if Apeiron got super Intelligence, said fuck empathy and became a Sociopath with Spcebattles Competence." So exactly what you'd expect from the sort of person who complains about BCF's "Lack of plot".
I don't think that's entirely fair. Plenty of the people who critique the lack of plot are skilled authors who write flawed characters. Let's not paint with a broad brush.
Rolls:
Magic (400): There was a 1/3 chance to roll Synchronicity Event. Joe has come so close so many times and yet hasn't quite managed it.
Alchemy (500): A 1/6 chance at the long-anticipated mixing mixtures. Again it would be cool if Joe got it but it wasn't to be this chapter.
Vehicles (600-100): Joe was guaranteed to roll one of the five clusters in this constellation. Titan Engineering as a small mote is arguably the least impressive but it does come with some interesting implications as discussed in the chapter. Considering the four 600 point perks he could have rolled instead, it is a bit disappointing. I'm personally most familiar with the Star Wars tech base so I would have been most excited by that but a solid grounding in Metal Gear Solid, GI Joe, or Captain Harlock would all be quite powerful.
Knowledge (600-400): And a roll in what is now the second-largest constellation. In addition to the Star Trek, Titanfall, and 40k perks I've mentioned several times before, Joe had a chance to roll the complete tech base of fallout, the halo perk that makes you an equal of Halsey and comes with a 'small' space ship, the ability to make Espers from Raildex Science, a professorship from Futurama, an understanding of Symphogears with free bonus symphogear, a retro-engineering power from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, a full understanding of the Terran tech base from Starcraft, psychic powers from Full Metal Panic, and last but certainly not least a reverse engineering power based on Stargate SG-1 that sets Joe on the path to creating Stargates. Ultimately 15/16 clusters were available so it was nearly guaranteed Joe would get something. Technician appears to be one of the less immediately impactful perks possible especially since it doesn't seem to come with Alpha Centauri's tech tree. Still, I expect it'll have impacts down the line Lord is good about that.
