The Wonders of Parahuman Puberty: Kill Orders and You.
Unders
Suffers from delusions of competence
Right making this post so I don't have to keep explaining this stuff constantly. Hiding things behind a spoiler in case any inquisitive new readers show up because if you haven't at least read Interlude 3 (The Interludening!) you'll be encountering story spoilers.
Hopefully that helps people.
These posts sum up why Splice has an active kill order:
The same sort of logic applies to biotinkers in Worm. Because there's precedent with shit getting really fucked by biotinkers they're acted upon a lot more harshly.
Now to explain the in-story setup to the kill order and it being activated:
Once they found out about a biotinker Piggot went and contacted her superiors about getting a pre-signed kill order, which her superiors then did all the assorted bureaucratic wrangling to acquire. Piggot then received the kill order she wanted.
The way I'm treating pre-signed kill orders is that they're all essentially signed off and ready to be activated at any time if the situation suddenly escalates to warrant it, since that's how I think they're meant to work (as opposed to a normal kill order which would be done on someone who has suddenly escalated things out of nowhere).
Using Blasto as an example he's got a pre-signed kill order so that in the event he starts making self replicating shit they can immediately deal with the problem rather than trying to push the kill order through all the layers of bureaucracy needed while his stuff spreads out of control.
Piggot applied the same sort of reasoning to Splice's case. Piggot asked for one so she could activate if it was needed (and then received it). Then she received reliable* evidence that the situation warranted activating the kill order. She still kept it under wraps (only telling her forces it was active) to keep undesirable elements out of her unstable city. The Medhall stunt forced her hand as PR is a major part of the PRT and they needed to be seen doing something and activating a kill order on a dangerous biotinker (which the public is already predisposed to fear) makes the PRT look like they are making the hard choices for the public good.
*They think Addy is a precog who is predicting self-replicating monsters. They also have access to Dinah who has offscreen (for now) answered that some of her creations are capable of self-replication. Of course they lack the context needed for Dinah's anmswer (since due to starfish DNA Addy's Catsquids can replicate if you cut bits off them and leave the bits in nutrient vats. Also Addy's crows lay eggs when they nest in human corpses and are technically creations of Addy's and actually do count as a potential self-replicating threat if Addy forgets to turn off the attack mode).
To elaborate on the plane metaphor: Before 9/11 plane hijackings were bad, but they weren't the massive 'oh no panic now scramble the air force' thing we now consider them to be. Back then you hijack a plane you'll probably just get arrested. Nowadays you hijack a plans and everyone on board will probably be trying to beat you to death because the expectation is you're gonna be flying the plane into a building or something.
The same sort of logic applies to biotinkers in Worm. Because there's precedent with shit getting really fucked by biotinkers they're acted upon a lot more harshly.
Now to explain the in-story setup to the kill order and it being activated:
Once they found out about a biotinker Piggot went and contacted her superiors about getting a pre-signed kill order, which her superiors then did all the assorted bureaucratic wrangling to acquire. Piggot then received the kill order she wanted.
The way I'm treating pre-signed kill orders is that they're all essentially signed off and ready to be activated at any time if the situation suddenly escalates to warrant it, since that's how I think they're meant to work (as opposed to a normal kill order which would be done on someone who has suddenly escalated things out of nowhere).
Using Blasto as an example he's got a pre-signed kill order so that in the event he starts making self replicating shit they can immediately deal with the problem rather than trying to push the kill order through all the layers of bureaucracy needed while his stuff spreads out of control.
Piggot applied the same sort of reasoning to Splice's case. Piggot asked for one so she could activate if it was needed (and then received it). Then she received reliable* evidence that the situation warranted activating the kill order. She still kept it under wraps (only telling her forces it was active) to keep undesirable elements out of her unstable city. The Medhall stunt forced her hand as PR is a major part of the PRT and they needed to be seen doing something and activating a kill order on a dangerous biotinker (which the public is already predisposed to fear) makes the PRT look like they are making the hard choices for the public good.
*They think Addy is a precog who is predicting self-replicating monsters. They also have access to Dinah who has offscreen (for now) answered that some of her creations are capable of self-replication. Of course they lack the context needed for Dinah's anmswer (since due to starfish DNA Addy's Catsquids can replicate if you cut bits off them and leave the bits in nutrient vats. Also Addy's crows lay eggs when they nest in human corpses and are technically creations of Addy's and actually do count as a potential self-replicating threat if Addy forgets to turn off the attack mode).
