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prismatica2019-04-16 01:23 am
asaqueenshould) wrote in prismatica2019-04-16 01:23 am
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As I believe we should all be more capable of thinking clearly now, I'd like to pose a couple of questions that have been on my mind for a while.
First is the matter of language barriers - or rather, the complete lack of them. Quite aside from meeting an American who admitted to no knowledge of Japanese (and my English certainly isn't good enough to fill in the gaps), I've had perfectly comprehensible conversations with people who aren't from Earth at all. Is it more likely that something about this world is translating for us on an individual basis, or somehow taught us all a common language without us noticing? Either way, can the translation effect be chalked up to Chroma, or is something else at play?
My second question circles back to Chroma itself, building off its local importance as both currency and energy source. We've been told that the locals see Chroma as the solution to their clean-energy woes (if only breaking oil dependency were this simple...). Our hosts believe that higher rates of Chroma generation will permit faster development of their technological capabilities, possibly including a means to return us to our worlds of origin.
How, exactly, do they intend to sustain that technological capability if all of us return to our homes?
I'll grant that that's a rather large assumption; there's a very real chance that this world is preferable to where some of us came from. However, a substantial majority of us refusing to stay here, once the means is in place, could still decimate Chroma production to the point where little to nothing that we help them make can be powered. That could potentially impact the ability to return everyone who wants to leave. If nothing else, it's something those of us who intend to get hands-on with the local technology should keep in mind.
First is the matter of language barriers - or rather, the complete lack of them. Quite aside from meeting an American who admitted to no knowledge of Japanese (and my English certainly isn't good enough to fill in the gaps), I've had perfectly comprehensible conversations with people who aren't from Earth at all. Is it more likely that something about this world is translating for us on an individual basis, or somehow taught us all a common language without us noticing? Either way, can the translation effect be chalked up to Chroma, or is something else at play?
My second question circles back to Chroma itself, building off its local importance as both currency and energy source. We've been told that the locals see Chroma as the solution to their clean-energy woes (if only breaking oil dependency were this simple...). Our hosts believe that higher rates of Chroma generation will permit faster development of their technological capabilities, possibly including a means to return us to our worlds of origin.
How, exactly, do they intend to sustain that technological capability if all of us return to our homes?
I'll grant that that's a rather large assumption; there's a very real chance that this world is preferable to where some of us came from. However, a substantial majority of us refusing to stay here, once the means is in place, could still decimate Chroma production to the point where little to nothing that we help them make can be powered. That could potentially impact the ability to return everyone who wants to leave. If nothing else, it's something those of us who intend to get hands-on with the local technology should keep in mind.
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There's a difference between doing nothing at all and knowing you've done all you can.
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It would be horrible if Freelancer was allowed to get away with what they did to us sim troopers.
[Though other people had held the Project to account for other things, no one else had done anything about how it treated sim troopers. Or addressed how the UNSC had allowed them to do it.]
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They think that, because the war they forced us to fight is fake and we weren’t good enough for the real one, that our lives are disposable. That training their supersoldiers and testing their equipment is more important than any of our lives.
Hell, Carolina even said, “this isn’t about you” while my best friend was bleeding to death in front of me!
Because she thought her rivalry with Tex was what mattered the most, not his life!
[Temple doesn’t know for sure what she was thinking back then and his guess about it could be entirely wrong but he’s read the Freelancer files, read about the Freelancers and what they were like, and thus, he feels like he knows why Carolina said what she said back then. And that just makes him hate her more.]
[Because she valued the leaderboard and her hatred of Tex over Biff’s life.]
[And that, Temple can never forgive.]
[Ever.]
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Whoever's behind this program sounds like they would get along well with the people who just tried to take over my country's government by supplementing the lawful election with underhanded means. It sounds like what would benefit the simulation the most is help from the outside, but I can't see a clear path to acquiring it.
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Though I have not really thought about looking to non-sim troopers for help. I always assumed that they just would not care, that they would think our pain was worth it.
Even though nothing we did actually helped win the war.
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It is possible those outside the simulation wouldn't care - but it's also possible they would, and simply haven't realised your struggle is just as real as theirs.
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I got thrown in jail for trying to take down Freelancer, after all, and as far as I know, most people approve of it.
Even some of the other sim troopers do.
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If you have no choice but to return to it, I hope you can find a way toward putting a stop to that mess. But I still don't blame you if you choose to stay here and let someone else take up the torch.
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