- Location
- Somewhere in the Void.
Oh well, Busted I guess?
...See this is why ships need hallway mounted flamethrowers. For smartass robot types like this silicon-based shitbird.
Unit's been the most fun part of writing these chapters, I will admit. Spent a few minutes trying to figure out how the Engi would perceive things like vents and chairs for his interlude, and I like to think I did fairly well. I mean, no one told me they were bad...
Oh no.
Not an Engi investigation.
I mean, what would you do if you caught someone's attention?
Aside from the well-established fact that Faith is rather against murdering people, she's planning to go into negotiations with the Engi, and having previously interrogated and then executed one of their own is probably not the best way to earn their favour. He was acting alone, after all (doing a bit of snooping to see if it was worth calling in the fleet). Admittedly, Faith isn't entirely sure that's true IC, but she's assuming it is because Chief Engineer =/= Spy and the Engi would be stupid for assuming that.Yeah? Faith?
This is why when you notice an infiltrator and your ships are all entirely disposable like Commander run drone ships are the best resolution to having been infiltrated is thoroughly questioning the infiltrator, and if you don't like their responses activating the self destruct.
Aside from the well-established fact that Faith is rather against murdering people, she's planning to go into negotiations with the Engi, and having previously interrogated and then executed one of their own is probably not the best way to earn their favour. He was acting alone, after all (doing a bit of snooping to see if it was worth calling in the fleet). Admittedly, Faith isn't entirely sure that's true IC, but she's assuming it is because Chief Engineer =/= Spy and the Engi would be stupid for assuming that.
Could have worked, but again, Faith is trying to be strictly non-violent.Who said anything about executing? Clearly the infiltrator had placed a scuttling charge on the ship prior to being located, and it triggered in transit...
Here's the thing though: thanks to Unit's report, they know it's not:Seriously, even the Engi would understand that stowing away on a ship to spy (as this Engi did) is rather illegal, and although they can infer that the Faith Foundation isn't a government ship, it's still most likely under a foreign government's jurisdiction. Arrested, interrogated and executed is rather harsh outside wartime operations, but the Federation at least is at war...
Or at least, they know that the Faith Federation would like to pretend they're not under government jurisdiction. Generally, people would try to dissasociate themselves from their government like that because their government would like to lock them behind bars."Ah. Well, you see, the thing about that is that the Faith Foundation are actually entirely self-sufficient. We operate under the guidance of no governing body, so we're not in any records."
There are many, many things to be said about it. Most of them positive for Faith, and less positive for everyone else. The Engi have a better handle on the political situation - better ideas of the relation between the Feds and the Slugs, or the Lanius, or stuff that Faith's thus far been more or less ignoring.But then, there's things to be said about dumping the whole mess in the Engi's laps rather than cleaning up her own mess.
Although I do understand that you, as author, want to wrap up the arc.
Until you get toI'd have disassembled him with my own nanites for negotiating in bad faith, then reclaim their shitty fleet.
Here's the thing though: thanks to Unit's report, they know it's not:
Ah. Well, you see, the thing about that is that the Faith Foundation are actually entirely self-sufficient. We operate under the guidance of no governing body, so we're not in any records.
Or at least, they know that the Faith Federation would like to pretend they're not under government jurisdiction. Generally, people would try to dissasociate themselves from their government like that because their government would like to lock them behind bars.
At this point, it's a safe bet for the Engi that the Faith Foundation aren't going to run and hide behind their government - besides, they're Humans, there are only two Human governments, and both are currently in their death throes, due to the actions of the Faith Foundation no less.
There are many, many things to be said about it. Most of them positive for Faith, and less positive for everyone else.
The Engi have a better handle on the political situation - better ideas of the relation between the Feds and the Slugs, or the Lanius, or stuff that Faith's thus far been more or less ignoring.
And yes, getting real tired of this arc. Engi diplomacy, a short sidequest in the name of glorious shinies, and then, as I've said, off to the Red Planet.
Look back at the setting list. In addition to those worlds already visited (Sanctum and FTL) Red Faction is also crossed off, which suggests that it'll be the next world.
WellI wonder when the Engi are going to realize Faith is what they want to be when they grow up.
They're starting to realise that she's just plain better than them at information stuff.Observed Cyberwarfare feats are beyond even advanced Engi operations
She was getting outmaneuvered by a glorified expert system. Don't get me wrong, I'm enjoying reading about a commander who isn't perfect in every way—and slamming the AI down into a moon is a reasonable way of disabling it—but the fact remains, Faith considered an AI that should have been her inferior in every way to be a serious threat.They're starting to realise that she's just plain better than them at information stuff.
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Starting to get annoyed at the constant headless chicken act of faiths, it has stopped being entertaining and moved into aggravating.
To be fair, she's new to the Von-Neumann robot overlord thing. We can't expect her to do as well as Drich-sempai.Faith has arrived at a problem that cannot be 100% solved through Dakka. And she's flubbing it hard.