He's not he's just rambling with his friends and he's getting therapy and writing books. If nothing else he likes to keep in touch. Plus even if Logan is discharged, he's keeping himself busy.
It's just him trying to get the idea in the pipe so someone competent does it for him.
Because even if he's not qualified at all. It's still a good idea.
Edit: There are Three likely things that happens to Logan after his court martial.
1. If he was medically discharged, Logan is trying to push the Idea on his friends because he can no longer petition for it due to his discharge.
2. If he was not discharged...he was moved from active service to Logistics, Base management and the important Job of keeping the army running, but due to his marked record he can no longer get things done at this point and needs someone else to make the ideas a reality.
3.He's just trolling them over Pizza no context needed.
Cyberphilosopher, I hate to say this, but I think it's time to drop the Logan character. You seem to have difficulty presenting him as doing realistic and rational things, and trying to rationalize his words and actions keeps causing you to write yourself into a corner. While he's not an entirely
un-realistic character, I think you're having trouble writing him realistically and fitting him into the context of the setting.
I suggest dropping this specific project entirely and waiting and letting a fundamentally different inspiration strike, instead of banging on the same door and getting nothing.
Dunno how you could steal money if the entire point is to buypass $$ transfers with decentralised planning. Unless you plan to have your hackers fly out to Chicago and pick up several hundred tonnes of coal, or a delivery of tank treads/artillery shells on a regular basis without being noticed by the planners, our own cyber-security types, our own internal security, and rando Joe(ette) worker.
If the network is handling materials transfers, and you manage to gain access to the network, you can cause massive economic disruption just by releasing worms and viruses and whatnot that fry the network itself and wipe a lot of the data.
Look at the real-life problems local governments have been having with ransomware for an example of this.
It's not an impossible problem to work around or secure against, but it *is* an issue if you have reason to fear your enemy's cyberwarfare capabilities.
So, a question.
Canon here is Victoria sabotages any industrial facility it can find.
Ironworks are industrial facilities too, right?
How come iron is still plentiful in 2070 North America, to the point small towns can make firearms? Or is the iron from melting down cars and trucks and bridges? Or all iron is imported from outside North America?
@PoptartProdigy, are all steel works outside of Victoria and California downgraded back to 18th century tech?
You tend to have a very unrealistic and absolutist idea of what "all" and "none" and "low tech" mean. In this context, Victoria sabotages
heavy, large scale, highly productive industry. They tolerate
light, small scale, inefficient industry.
To Victorians thinking about what to sabotage, recycling scrap metal is fine, a giant steel mill turning out thousands of tons of metal products a month is not. They're not tireless robots; they're not going to hunt down every small town machine shop or every scrapyard recycler. They're simply trying to break up anything that could be used to equip armies capable of threatening Victoria.
