Comic for Monday, August 29th
The arrows between panels is something I hope we never do again. Honestly I realized too late that my panel layout was stupid, and it was the best solution at that point without deep panel surgery. You win some, you lose some.
To be honest, I did cut a scene, which would have been Kyston (the IDS SC person here) breaching the lab and the subsequent struggle. This wasn’t something trivial as it’d answer questions like “is Mir a mage?” and have introduced a few more members of her staff. Ultimately I decided it had to go though. I think I’ve gotten a little too deep into showing everything going on, which is not realistically possible. At the beginning I think I tended to skip too much, but there needs to be a balance between the two 😛
That sort of reminds me of what Naomi did to a barrier. Albeit, she was using a tennis ball.
The vote incentive poll is still up. Tealy-the-hacker girl is a surprising dark horse winning by a narrow margin, proving that you don’t even need a name to win a voting poll, but can she hold her lead and displace the old blood? 😉
The Q&A is up! You can find it below if your on the main page or here:
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I’m wondering if F5 could move like that before, and simply chose not to, or if MYM upgraded his chassis for him.
Also, does Kyston’s armor have a boost engine port on both front and back, or is the front medallion something else?
And it looks like Mir’s bad day just got worse. ^^
Kyston’s suit actually has 4 boost engines, though they are much smaller than the ones on the other sets of armor. It’s a newer and more cutting edge set of armor. It reduces the point of vulnerability (in theory) and more delivers more subtle control. The one on the shoulders are small and not well drawn on this page though 😛
This is a pretty bad day for Mir, and it’s not even done yet. She’s had worse though.
Assuming a boost engine is something like rasing the psion(?) density/availability of a given area/person to the power of “x”( I’m assuming 2 for simplicities sake), then that suit produces an effect of rasing to the 8th power? But wait… We know there are diminishing returns on boosting and such, so more likely the 6th or 7th power. Still… Dang. A lvl 3 mage would be an ~ lvl 900?! Assuming it raises to a power, and doesn’t just multiply. Still, even if it just multiplies, that’s now a lvl 24 mage.
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That answers question one. Also we can presume that Eff Five has definitely been “make. better.”‘ed by MYM somehow. I am assuming anyway, we don’t really know what it could do before, but that does look a lot like what Mium can do it.
I don’t see this going well for the IDS Soldier.
Sad we still do not know if Mir has an Eidos Key or not though. Also really curious why MYM would be helping Mir. I would think that the IDS going after her would be a perfect addition to Peter’s plan, and maybe even engineered by him.
I’d guess that part of MYM’s code says he can’t force himself on other EFF prototypes, but there’s likely a loophole based on the other prototypes granting him permission to do so. And the loophole could require any conditionals on the permission to be completed.
I doubt my explanation is correct, but it’s fun to speculate wildly.
I think you have part of it. Or at least it lines up with my theories. MYM certainly needs some sort of loophole to modify or absorb other AIs, and likely more than one.
I think loophole one, he has to have the allowed processing power. I think he got permission to go over his limit here from Peter earlier so he could go after Kally and still watch over Miko. Loophole two, Eff Five asked him to modify him (or outright absorb him). Maybe more.
Who knows for sure yet though, I’m guessing we will be very familiar with MYM’s restrictions before the end of comic. I hope anyway. I really want to see how many pieces come together when we learn them.
I suspect we will learn more about the various SMAI characters, as they are fairly big part of the myth arc we are currently meandering through 😉
Trying to get AI to act predictably can very challenging. It’s sort of like getting water uphill. It can be done, but give it any crack and it’s gone.
It’s not that they are inherently evil or malicious, just odd to humans. If you ignore the method of point A to point B you will frequently get what you want, but there has to be a maximum tolerance for deviation or bad things tend to happen. Of course, the same could be said for Peter.