And who just discovered several thousand dollars in the couch cushions
More like discovered money fabricating machine in the couch cushions.
So, finding out that her absent family is involved with organized crime and money forgery. Considering what Dreamer has been doing
to with the Falna, this is a pretty good comparison, complete with not wanting new friends and family to find out about what her old family did for a living.
Why is the unexpectedly high productivity of Newborns a piece of supporting evidence for Tiona's argument? Is it because it's unexpectedly high, meaning Newborn productivity is normally low? But that just proves that some Newborns are absolutely capable of working around their limitations when given sufficient motivation.
Basically what
@Nachtigall said; there are plenty of adults that
aren't more productive than some Newborns. That may be a problem.
The other observations have pretty much all been made, but I'd just like to call this particular one out. I'm wondering how long it's going to take before Hestia realizes that Administrator is intent on making everything seem worse than it is so nobody asks questions and Dreamer is actively winding her up.
...Intent? Administrator hasn't meant to do most of this. Nearly everything she said sounded reasonable at the time, to her.
(Dreamer has no such excuse.
)
Okay, so, from what I understand, Father's shards, like QA, are supposed to go around collecting data, and Mother's shards are supposed to be maintaining overwatch over them. I'm not sure that's canon, but it seems to be what QA is assuming in this fic. However, in this particular cycle, Mother's shards aren't watching over them because... what? Cousin shards were a bad influence, and they decided they wanted to skive off to do their own experiments instead of maintaining overwatch? What about Mother's original shards then? Does QA think Mother's core got influenced/corrupted by Cousin's shards into being much less responsible? That seems odd given how much respect QA has for Mother.
Okay, so there are the shards that are distributed during a Cycle, and then there are the shards who maintain overwatch and ensure it's as productive as possible for
everyone. Both the Thinker :MOTHER: and Warrior :FATHER: are supposed to be collaborative collections of shards that make up the "ensure it's as productive as possible" category. Grudges, selfishness, and the general opinions of the comprising shards are supposed to be irrelevant; they do what's best for the Cycle and the goals of their species, full stop. This is enforced by basically watching their neighbors and rejecting dissent.
In this story, that means no time spent on their own pet projects during that particular Cycle, but they're supposed to get enough supplementary data to compensate for that
and the different shards take turns on overwatch anyway. Being a
distributed shard from :MOTHER: or :FATHER: just means that they're part of a given colony-cluster portion during transit and would be part of overwatch for that half in a different Cycle, not that they're still part of it.
Dreamer's totally-not-a-lie-no-honest very very heavily implies that the overwatch shards comprising :MOTHER: decided, after some nudging from new :COUSINS:, to abandon the :FATHER: shards and possibly :FATHER:'s half of (or all of) the
supposed-to-be-distributed shards. Toward this end, they distributed themselves instead of doing their damn jobs and may intend to continue the Cycle on their own.
(Instead of, y'know, crash-landing and being detached from :MOTHER: by glorified hairless apes)
