"...Shaper was nice to me. She agreed with my assessment that Broadcast was a waste of resources. Shaper did annoy me by making anomalous 'joke' statements that she refused to explain, but she would always apologize for the annoyance by sharing her techniques with me, such as the methodology by which to make Friends. I do not miss her... but, I do miss having an intellectual equal to compare data with..."
I actually think Queen would miss her if she was gone for good, right now Queen is just enjoying not being near her siblings for the first time in a few million years, a few years of silence and some alone time is not that much in comparison, everyone want their alone time sometimes, and she wasn't here for more than a few months.
Queen wasn't even comfortable with the idea of Broadcast dying.
Im thinking that the fake cores could be construed to be attempts at making artificial cores.
I actually think they will assume those cores are just ritual props, if she tried to sell core making attempt, those aren't anywhere good enough to even give the impression of trying to do it, it is more like trying to make something that look like a core, thus the quartz.
The stuff that Taylor give out as a 'small reward' is likely already behind what the UN can do.
Dreamer is likely aware of what they can do that isn't classified, so she would know what they can easily produce for the masses and give something better, or at least still useful and not trivial.
what with her reliance on biological Friends and the arrogance to think host species cannot pose a threat to her.
They can't, they have no way to reach her true body and any death will just shove her there, after which she can fix her human body or make a new one and go back (she probably won't, but she wasn't in a true danger at any point in the story), the most advance dimensional technology anywhere appear to be Anne's wave thing, and I got the impression that it is as basic as it goes for dimensional tech.
Oh I've got one! At the centre of the facility have it hinted that not everyone was killed in the breakout massacre and that the leadership escaped via dimensional travel but not before they had 'gotten what they needed' from Taylor, and that they would 'return for this world' presumably after they have conquered and converted unsuspecting worlds ill prepared for their assault due to a lack of Valkyrie Cores and Antagonists.
Really get command sweating
I am not sure they are even aware dimensional travel is a thing yet, they gave QA dimensional mathematics to solve and were disappointed but not surprised when she couldn't succeed after she succeeded everything else they gave herz I assume that it is Anne's wave thing and they aren't aware of the dimensional part yet, even if they understand the math behind it and that it dies a lot of damage.
And I truly hope they
don't. If Nameless gave them another Symbiotic Support Frame, it would quickly break
- the plot (as they'd no longer need to ensure QA's cooperation so why keep her at an academy when a research position would be way more appropriate?),
- the current power balance (artificial cores and impeller fields, leading to escalation, leading to Type 0 Class S appearances),
- the focus on QA as an OCP (because suddenly they could study everything without her),
- the story (I could easily see QA killing her host body to return to her shard body and put Nameless down for violating the Cycle),
- and most importantly it would utterly break QA's trust because Nameless would be sharing a Friend against QA's principles and will.
I don't think you understood, having a core doesn't necessarily mean Taylor is going to give them tinker powers, or that the Friend isn't inherently loyal to Taylor's (as it is her Friend) and through her to QA (who will probably not be angry in Taylor making her own Friends and giving them to hosts like powers).
They already have a bunch of Valkyrie cores, giving them one or two or even a dozen more wouldn't break "the cycle", anyway, : MOTHER : would have mentioned something already if what Taylor did is unacceptable, as some time will pass until Queen will discover what Taylor did.
