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No way her teammates will be informed if she is basically a corporate princess. They'll keep it confidential.
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No way her teammates will be informed if she is basically a corporate princess. They'll keep it confidential.
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Does indoctrination (orientation) and basic training include BDs? I imagine Taylor would be worried about subliminal tracks and subtle brainwashing. I doubt she be able to bring her own wreath or firewall, and I doubt the trainers would be happy if they caught her modify the issued braindance wreaths.
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Oh no. The ribbing starts before they know that. Because they hear it from her school buddies. It gets even worse if her family history gets about.
Can Taylor make AI if she frames the question right? Like, 'a biological computer that replaces and simulates brain function, including higher-order functions'.
Sort of unrelated but I think the LANCER setting would go great with shipgirls, like Arpeggio shipgirls. Cool vehicles + debates about the role of inhuman sapients.
also, reminder that some (most?) coronas and gemma aren't even detectable on brainscans, and Bonesaw + Panacea only could do it with regularity because of experience
Sort of unrelated but I think the LANCER setting would go great with shipgirls, like Arpeggio shipgirls. Cool vehicles + debates about the role of inhuman sapients.
also, reminder that some (most?) coronas and gemma aren't even detectable on brainscans, and Bonesaw + Panacea only could do it with regularity because of experience
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Google 'Culture Avatar vs Avatoid', there's some discussions of the difference between the two, Avatoids are mentioned in some of the later books and are more able to blend in with the myriad sorts of 'Humans' in The Culture, and sometimes more expected to do independent operations away from their larger Mind self (though again, this depends!). Both types have a bunch of weird abilities, being custom bodies for Minds that are capable of some level of independent operation (though whether they are intended as such varies, like I mentioned), and the line between the two blurs, because these are ersatz custom bodies for machine demigods...
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Astors, etc, etc (a few others are listed actually IN Eurosource and PacRim)... go toe to toe with Arasaka? That jumped up family? Isn't that what hirelings are for? Like the EU, the US Military, Militech/LG?
The author spelt it out: "Trillionaire" Arasaka might be worth more... but they don't have the hard core (why do you think in 2020, they tried so hard to make ties with the Imperial family?) network of favors, friendships and companions. In real terms, when Grandmother Astor states that this corpration needs to be ... adjusted... shall we say? It gets adjusted. In real terms, only the US, Russia, China and the EU can at least match those players. I won't call them the secret rulers of the world, they're not. But no one rules them. And they don't take kindly to those trying.
(Most of your *old* families, by and large, are of the mindset: "Why would we want the paperwork and risks? " )
There's a reason for the concept of gap year in Europe.
As for hitting the radar... in a way she was never off those who really matter. By and large, most CEOs of your major multinats in CP... won't go agasint the real power. Astors and their cadets... are.
Presuming the author is remaining true to current politics.
Unlikely. Taylor hasn't justified that level of... "Returning her to the fold." I hinted in my omake that... Annette in essence wrote herself out of the family... and before they bring her daughter home, they need proof she'll be worth it.
Not the first, nor the last time a child of those families wanders off the res to be different. And sometimes, they're brought back, sometimes their children are... sometimes they're not.
Annette being killed? Highly unlikely, unless something very critical was screwed up by her wandering off. As she wasn't mainline, almost impossible. However note, Danny not dying, shows that the actual decision makers in the family were very fond of her, and accepted her walking away with grace.
Not... yet. She still hasn't quite proven she's of the Blood. But... realistically? There's several ways they can find out. If this was my plot...
1: Find out her goals. (Ie, Med School, this is an acceptable profession for the Blood, after all, at least cadet lines.) Contact TT, discuss options:
2: Dangle the offer that Dr. Anno's got in front of her.
3: If she refuses, Dangle another not quite as... enslaving
4: If she refuses that trap, then a third 'not quite as bad'
5: if she passes *that* trap... then 'move' a 'inheritance' to her from her mother, when she turns 18 or 20. to allow her to attend medical school on her own.
6: Sometime during the medschool... keep track of her grades. Arrange for her to 'win' a vacation with the 'right' people. See how she interacts and is interacted with.
All of the above is contingent on her not selling her superantibitoic or sleep inducer or anything else 'impressive' without getting tied to a corp for good.
7: If she mamages to loot Biotechica or simliar without getting trapped by the corps... or does very well in the tests above... THEN bring her in for the final tests, to bring her home.
That's how it's done.
They aren't, or I can't recall. (They *might* be in the three Euro/UK books, the Astors are more a British/American family now.)
Gossip is Gossip. She's getting Princess, because, someone will squeal that she's slumming it.
Please, Taylor is not a Corporate Princess. She is a princess of those who own the corprations.
Much higher tier, y'see.
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It amused me, that both Taylors think they got the better end of the trade.
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So it seems like Chiuwugeon kindof makes it up as they go along. With the original chieurgeon shard throwing around super plagues willy nilly for their creative host (Bonesaw); It is no wonder the derp-bud suggested targeted bioplagues so fast!
Looking forward to seeing Taylor wrestle her speciality further and further off mark as she notices how well it worked with the ICE.
Perhaps she will have a stray thought on growing infrastructure, then be struck by the idea of an organic dimensional portal home. lol. Would make for a fun omake atleast.
Looking forward to seeing Taylor wrestle her speciality further and further off mark as she notices how well it worked with the ICE.
Perhaps she will have a stray thought on growing infrastructure, then be struck by the idea of an organic dimensional portal home. lol. Would make for a fun omake atleast.
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You seem oddly certain of the details of this fictional family Spira made up.
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Sure, the Astor family exists irl, but Winged One's point still stands, as far as I know the Astor family has never been mentioned in the Cyberpunk source material, hell it's entirely possible they're practically non entities who just happen to still have some money.
As an addendum, adding aristocratic families and their idiosyncrasies to a story rarely ends well, though I might just be burnt out by by bad Harry Potter fanfic using those tropes.
As an addendum, adding aristocratic families and their idiosyncrasies to a story rarely ends well, though I might just be burnt out by by bad Harry Potter fanfic using those tropes.
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That is bad Lord Potter-Black-Slytherin-Gryffindor-Ravenclaw-Hufflepuff-Hogwarts-Peverell fanfic to you, peasant.
I'm sorry for not knowing that the Astors were that important and powerful. Arasaka seemed, or at least in CP2077 and Edgerunners, appeared unstoppably powerful.
I just that Danny not waking dead for the offense of trying to marry Annette indicated that Annette's mother was the younger sister of the Astor family head.
Also, I really like your seven-step plan for how Grandma Astor-Armstrong should proceed with her interactions with Taylor.
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There are different kinds of power. The Astors are very rich, and very well connected. The Arasaka are almost as rich, and have a private army, but aren't as well connected. Think of it like this: the Astors are so rich that they can buy anything they want. The Arasaka are so rich that they can invent or produce anything they want.
Mmm
You know with Taylor Shard having not restriction I would look to see a Omake about the reaction of Night City as someone setting Titan Taylor off in the middle of the city
Truly a Outside Context Problem
You know with Taylor Shard having not restriction I would look to see a Omake about the reaction of Night City as someone setting Titan Taylor off in the middle of the city
Truly a Outside Context Problem
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Except that Titans are the Shards in control, rather than the Hosts. Plus, they are Ward-shit, and Ward-shit should be ignored whenever possible.
Edit: Is Bobot-Man just going through the whole thread and giving "winter" reactions to everyone?
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It was implied she had a modification to her power from the sensory overload of her bugs, yeah. It has been called a 1.5 trigger and a second trigger by fans, but it was never confirmed in text or in WOG as far as I know. So, it was related to the power QA gave her rather than the trigger itself.
This has concluded your niche detail confirmation session.
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In Venom 29.7 Taylor's trying to figure out how to remove restrictions on her power for the fight with Scion. She talks with Doc Mother and Number Man about second triggers for a while and they say that they used to sell second triggers, but they stopped bothering with it because it wasn't worth the effort and the kind of people who sought out the service got themselves killed before they could pay for it more often than not.
Eventually he uses a brain scan wand thing on Taylor and a few other people and concludes that Taylor has already had a 2nd trigger, guessing that it probably happened soon after the first trigger. It's possible that he's wrong or lying to make Taylor drop the topic faster, but I doubt it.
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I mean, during my basic training we had one instance were we were waiting to go somewhere with a light load ( think 10kg or so ) and then one fucking moron ask the drill sergeant ( dont exist in my army but close enough) if we were to take the rest of the gear aswell. The guy was so shocked to see somebody ask such a stupid question.... so we had to run back to our barracks and get the other stuff . So instead of 10kg we had 25kg+ . Whole fucking Kit safe guns and plate. Man what a dipshit. The best strategy for basic is to turn your head of and do everything be the letter of the law.
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You know, it's funny, but up until this post I was thinking of a different set of Armstrongs, for some reason.
As another reader frustrated with it in bad HP fics, I feel like the problem with adding the aristocracy to a story is mostly in treating the aristocracy (and, as such, having more money than god) as fundamentally morally neutral. I suspect a Cyberpunk fic won't have that problem.
I think the key word here is "possible". It isn't outright confirmed merely highly likely, which was what i meant. Its a thing Worm does were it rarely says things outright and uses implication instead of directly stating things. But, yeah, I agree with you that Taylor probably had a second trigger.
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Maybe your frustration is due to your inability to see them as anything but morally dubious at best.
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Look into Rogue Trooper by 2000AD Comics, their versions of Super Soldiers are rather interesting.
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Elemental Phenotypes in Battletech are better than Astartes in my opinion, stable genetics that breed true, improved Senses, Reflexes, Strength, Speed etc. They have a really good set of Gene Mods that often get overlooked, most people tend to focus more on the Power Armour that shares the name "Elemental".
"Greenpeace" from Dominion Tank Police is a very impressive Optimised Human.
She both has Photosynthesis and can process Toxins and render them safe as a Metabolic Process.
She was designed to survive a World with the entire Northern Hemisphere rendered Toxic to Humanity unless living in Sealed Environments and Structures or wearing NBC gear.
Plus.... Greenpeace has Wings that are Functional despite being Human norm in Size and Weight.
For ULTIMATE levels of Genetic Optimisation however, you want to look to Duna Typhon of Black Magic.
Even more potent than her though, are the Zoaforms in Biobooster Armour Guyver.
From Trooper level Zoanoids, to Elite level Hyper Zoanoids, with the Uppermost Tier that function as Super Weapons and Generals.... Zoalords.
With Alkanphel as the Supreme Zoalord above all others.
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Hmmm. What are your opinions on the biomorphs of Eclipse Phase? Hyperion Cantos's Bioroids? Or Lucifer's Star Bioroids? Or Transhuman Space's Bioroids? The super-soldiers in Old Man's War? The various biological augmentations shown in Questionable Content?