Honestly the bigger problem there would be Cawl classifying them as abominable intelligences.
Eh, what clasifies or doesn't as "abominable intelligences" is mostly up to every tech-priest individually. If Peter points out that they have human blood as part of their inner components, Cawl would accept them because of their biological half.
This is something that many 40K fics don't get, the Empire does have AIs on the level of Cortana and beyond, and they are perfectly accepted as long as they have organic components. It's the purely synthetic intelligences the ones that are hunted down.
So is there an updtate every week?
So far I have managed one update a week. Keeping to that schedule helps with the motivation to write.
(Also the coments, thanks you guys!)
It also completely fails to even mention, much less actually consider, that Heavy Gear has a territory in the first place because they provide essential services, which the government seems to be incapable of.
But that's very characteristic of the PRT. The idea of just giving people stuff so they'll do what you want has always been beyond them.
Yes, that's correct, but the purpose of the PRT is above all else to contain criminal parahumans. Solving the problem of essential services is up to other organizations.
That's some bullshit, there are canonically incriminating texts on Emma's phone which they should have immediately seized as part of standard procedure.
And they have no way of knowing that those texts exist. To get her phone they'd need a legal order, one that they can't get without a good reason which they currently don't have.
This id the first time seeing Renick act like Armsmaster, or make that particular mistake.
Uh? In which way did he act like Armsmaster?
Ok if Costa Brown is suppoused to be on the whole Feudalism expariment, why the heck is she sending Tagg? Does she want a war to start earlier?
Well, yes. BB is the place where they stress-test all their assumptions about Parahumans. Also, she's using Tagg mostly as a threat against Renick, he wants him to step up and not getting Tagg into the city is a great motivation.
I mean, he wont even try to talk with Heavy Gear, he is fucked either way
Who says he wont?
Renick's problem is that he's working under the assumption that HG is being controlled by an adult parahuman.
Personal Rant: @Poliamida I realize this is your story and that Wildbow set the tone for this idiocy, but it frustrates me no end to hear "they killed, therefore murder." It simply, legally, does not work that way. Any DA or unbought judge would refuse those charges if they had ANY sort of integrity. Murder has a fairly standardized requirement in the US: It must be a premeditated action that results in the death of one or more persons. Anything else is justified homicide in the defense of self or others (which this would possibly meet the requirements of in any reasonable court), general homicide (which some areas might uglify as "2nd" or "3rd" degree murder), or manslaughter. Where E88 started wholesale slaughter before Heavy Gear arrived on the scene, that sets the tone, even in "duty to retreat" states, that lethal force in retaliation to prevent further tragedy would be authorized, with the proof of standing down after their opponents were defeated, routed, or captured, that excessive force was NOT used.
I fully agree, in a court of law with lawyers present this wouldn't fly, but this isn't the case. The people arguing 'murder this murder that' were those in PHO, and randos on the internet are not the people you should be asking for sound legal advice. The only other person to say this was Costa Brown, who is purposely putting pressure on Renick.
Renick's argument, on the other hand, was never about them being 'murderers', it was about them being children being sent to kill at the behest of a mysterious third party.
No, it would only require administrative procedures to inspect (or pull data from remotely) any and all personal electronic devices on suspicion of committing a crime while in a law enforcement status. That is what normal police Internal Affairs is intended for and all Federal entities that have access to lethal force have something like it.
Getting access to Sophia's phone would be relatively easy, but I doubt she'd be stupid enough to keep dangerous information in the phone that's official property of the PRT. It's Emma's phone the one they want, and she's an unrelated civilian.
makes me wonder about Poppet. Will they be getting a new member? One can hope.
Who knows! You never know with stuff like this.
But I'll tell you that Tech-Priest most definitely has a fan.
Honestly, its like Costa Brown wants to sabotage the PRT with how hands off she is over Brockton Bay. Yeah yeah, its Cauldron's 'feudalism experiment', but the splash back affects all of the PRT outside of Brockton.
And its gonna get worse since Renick refuses to see Heavy Gear as anything but children who needs to be 'saved', and Tagg is gonna try to fight a war against someone with Mecha-Zerg.
It's like Cauldron is constantly shooting themselves on the foot...
From a more objective perspective, I'm writting Costa Brown as someone who no longer wants to keep the BB branch on life support. Renick is right on that accord, the Coil fiasco was an absolute disaster that tainted all the officers and heroes working there. Many people in the PRT (not related to Cauldron) would be happy if they could disband the entire branch and start over to wash that stain with new, fresh people.
Wait, I just remembered, did Heavy Gear ever deal with Noelle/Echnida?
They 'dealt' with her by not letting Coil get Dinah and so never getting the Travellers in the Bay.
I'm worried about how the story goes, the constant "victories" that end with the characters more destroyed than reinforced is very Worm.
I am trying to show that they are making progress, it's just very slow because there's so much work to do in BB.
Things will get better, I can promise you that because I'm a succer for happy uplifting endings, but next week will be very hard for all of them for a variety of reasons.
