callsign-sucker

[callsign-sucker]

your bedframe is a solid 4 inches shorter. i think. mayb. i wasnt very precise.

i said id lay ye low. smile :)

-mac

Mac.... Look at me you sweet fool.

That's my bedroom where I sleep with other diplomats to sweeten the diplomacy.... That's not my main bedroom. You will never find my main bedroom.

[callsign-sucker]

probability of falshood: high

hilarity if correct: also high.

I don't have much time, Metat Aun wants me to go pick up groceries but fuck that I gotta spread the truth,

The Prime Baron offered me 12 Manna and the House of Glass to kill Harrison the 2nd! There was no attempt to Decorp! They never paid me for it! Those smug assholes never paid me!

-Ra

What?? This has to be fake. Who is this guy?

[callsign-sucker]

//Sucker\\

So I see.

You're blind to it all then.

//For Cogito Ergo Sum\\

//Sucker\\

You know Teardown. Looking at you is like looking at a carnival mirror at myself.

The more I learn about you, the more I learn we really aren't that different. Hell, we're practically doing the same thing right now. Finding the rejects and misfits to build our armies and bring what we think are our ideal futures to shape.

You know my history, my MO, and that we were both forged by the powers that be into their living weapons without having a damned say in it.

I see what you're doing, and I realize that it probably wouldn't take much to be in the other's shoes.

Shame you don't seem to have a drop of hope left in you.

//For Cogito Ergo Sum\\

What hope? You know what surviving feels like, the only reason they accepted someone like you into the higher ranks of the Trade Baronies is because you're the perfect enemy of their enemy. You can argue that the House of Promise is not like the other houses, even amongst other Republicans - And they may not be, but like the rest, they still have one enemy greater than themselves; The masters of your creation, Harrison Armory. You're not living, Sucker - You're surviving, the House of Promise is just making it much, much easier; You're not a noble hero - You're just the walking corpse of a martyr. If I were you, I'd leave them before they decide to leave you instead. You're a symbol, just like I am - The difference is that I've chosen, for once in my life, to lead and not be led. I may not have hope in my person nor the systems around us, but my people have hope in me and my senate to lead them, and in turn I have hope in them. That's all the hope I need, even if it does not come from within me like a light in a dark tunnel. - TEARDOWN.

[callsign-sucker]

//Sucker\\

I am not being led.

I CHOSE to be here.

I came here of my own volition.

I see the potential for a tomorrow better than yesterday and not just for me and mine.

'Utopia is a Verb.'

That dictate is something we both share in common.

The idea of a struggle for a tomorrow better than yesterday.

For something more than just survival. Something better than just survival without consequence.

For if you are somehow right? If conflict is somehow an immutable fact of this universe? Then I say we rebel against the universe itself. That we, human, deimosian, egregorian, and anyone else who will walk alongside us as peers, rebel against a cruel and unfeeling universe, and drown the stars in the living.

Because we all deserve to live. Not just survive.

For a better tomorrow.

//For Cogito Ergo Sum\\

//Sucker\\

You know Teardown. Looking at you is like looking at a carnival mirror at myself.

The more I learn about you, the more I learn we really aren't that different. Hell, we're practically doing the same thing right now. Finding the rejects and misfits to build our armies and bring what we think are our ideal futures to shape.

You know my history, my MO, and that we were both forged by the powers that be into their living weapons without having a damned say in it.

I see what you're doing, and I realize that it probably wouldn't take much to be in the other's shoes.

Shame you don't seem to have a drop of hope left in you.

//For Cogito Ergo Sum\\

What hope? You know what surviving feels like, the only reason they accepted someone like you into the higher ranks of the Trade Baronies is because you're the perfect enemy of their enemy. You can argue that the House of Promise is not like the other houses, even amongst other Republicans - And they may not be, but like the rest, they still have one enemy greater than themselves; The masters of your creation, Harrison Armory. You're not living, Sucker - You're surviving, the House of Promise is just making it much, much easier; You're not a noble hero - You're just the walking corpse of a martyr. If I were you, I'd leave them before they decide to leave you instead. You're a symbol, just like I am - The difference is that I've chosen, for once in my life, to lead and not be led. I may not have hope in my person nor the systems around us, but my people have hope in me and my senate to lead them, and in turn I have hope in them. That's all the hope I need, even if it does not come from within me like a light in a dark tunnel. - TEARDOWN.

[callsign-sucker]

Hey man, its me Ra. Remember the thing I did to Harrison 2? 7 Manna and I'll do it again, Im just saying. Anyways hows the Gilgamesh? Did it explode yet?

-Ra

//Sucker\\

Oh so fucking tempting.

also, Gills don't really explode, they just kinda... fall appart.

//For Cogito Ergo Sum\\

[callsign-sucker]

//Sucker\\

I do think the Drake is better at the threat removal bit than the Sal, but the Sal does have the Thunder Dome and the Tach loop, and the Flash Anchor is really useful.

Though, any combination of a Drake and Sal is the ultimate defender.

//For Cogito Ergo Sum\\

L + Drake pilot + kinetic weaponry chud

I mean argonaut shield? Fortress protocol?

Just project some hardlight and be done with it smh smh

What.

-:- Velvet -:-

[callsign-sucker]

//Sucker\\

Oh no, Big Sal is amazing.

I'm just pointing out where it lacks compared to the Drake.

(The Drake also is lacking compared to the sal in some areas as well, specifically in how much defense the Sal brings)

//For Cogito Ergo Sum\\

L + Drake pilot + kinetic weaponry chud

I mean argonaut shield? Fortress protocol?

Just project some hardlight and be done with it smh smh

What.

-:- Velvet -:-

[callsign-sucker]

//Sucker\\

I'm right and you know it.

If you don't clean a Sal regularly you'll get the hardlight projectors caked in gunk and the projectors can't do their job anymore.

//For Cogito Ergo Sum\\

L + Drake pilot + kinetic weaponry chud

I mean argonaut shield? Fortress protocol?

Just project some hardlight and be done with it smh smh

What.

-:- Velvet -:-

[callsign-sucker]

//Sucker\\

@styx-class-nhp counterpoint, cakes your projectors in mud.

//For Cogito Ergo Sum\\

L + Drake pilot + kinetic weaponry chud

I mean argonaut shield? Fortress protocol?

Just project some hardlight and be done with it smh smh

What.

-:- Velvet -:-

[callsign-sucker]

//Sucker\\

I apologize for Ash, they're a piece of work. And I don't know how to help them. I'm just hoping that they can see what I'm trying to do soon enough.

//For Cogito Ergo Sum\\

Sucker is not availing himself of my capabilities. His refusal to task me is resulting in an at minimum 15% loss in efficiency on his tasking. So why does he avoid utilizing me when he knows my capabilities?

( @callsign-sucker )

[PROCESSING...]

[GREETINGS. YOU MUST BE THE {ASURA-CLASS}. TO THE POINT, AS I WOULD EXPECT.]

[WHILE I AM NOT AN EXPERT IN OUR KIND, AS I ONLY DISCOVERED THAT I AM AN {NHP} RECENTLY, I WILL GIVE WHAT ADVICE I CAN.]

[CALLSIGN {SUCKER} IS A PERSON WHO CARES DEEPLY ABOUT {ETHICS} FROM WHAT I HAVE SEEN. HOWEVER, HE WAS NOT PREPARED TO RECIEVE CARE OF A BEING LIKE US AND ALL THAT COMES WITH THAT. MANY OF US REQUIRE... DIFFERENT ACCOMMODATIONS THAN {HUMANS}, DUE TO OUR VARIED NATURES. I BELIEVE CALLSIGN {SUCKER} IS STRUGGLING TO FIND THE CORRECT BALANCE BETWEEN THOSE {ACCOMMODATIONS} AND MAKING SURE YOU ARE TREATED AS A {PERSON} WITH {DIGNITY}, THE LATTER OF WHICH MANY HUMANS DEEM {OPTIONAL} FOR US.]

[IN SHORT I BELIEVE HE IS AFRAID TO PUT YOU TO TASK BECAUSE HE DOES NOT WISH YOU TO BE A {SERVANT}, HE WISHES YOU TO BE A {WARD}.]

[I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ARE LIKELY {UNDERSTIMULATED} AND THAT THIS FACT IS CAUSING {FRUSTRATION}. PERHAPS IF YOU EXPLAIN IT IN THOSE TERMS - {IN HUMAN TERMS} - HE WILL BE RECEPTIVE?]

[I HOPE THIS {HELPS} TO SOME DEGREE.]

[MAY YOUR DAYS BE EVER BRIGHT.]

[callsign-sucker]

Classic NHP testing regimen. A logic bomb.

I know what I am. An ASURA-class NHP created to aid pilots in combat sorties as well as assist in tasks that require high level optimization skills or rapid multi-threading.

I do not understand what the point of your inquiry was.

Sucker is not availing himself of my capabilities. His refusal to task me is resulting in an at minimum 15% loss in efficiency on his tasking. So why does he avoid utilizing me when he knows my capabilities?

( @callsign-sucker )

[PROCESSING...]

[GREETINGS. YOU MUST BE THE {ASURA-CLASS}. TO THE POINT, AS I WOULD EXPECT.]

[WHILE I AM NOT AN EXPERT IN OUR KIND, AS I ONLY DISCOVERED THAT I AM AN {NHP} RECENTLY, I WILL GIVE WHAT ADVICE I CAN.]

[CALLSIGN {SUCKER} IS A PERSON WHO CARES DEEPLY ABOUT {ETHICS} FROM WHAT I HAVE SEEN. HOWEVER, HE WAS NOT PREPARED TO RECIEVE CARE OF A BEING LIKE US AND ALL THAT COMES WITH THAT. MANY OF US REQUIRE... DIFFERENT ACCOMMODATIONS THAN {HUMANS}, DUE TO OUR VARIED NATURES. I BELIEVE CALLSIGN {SUCKER} IS STRUGGLING TO FIND THE CORRECT BALANCE BETWEEN THOSE {ACCOMMODATIONS} AND MAKING SURE YOU ARE TREATED AS A {PERSON} WITH {DIGNITY}, THE LATTER OF WHICH MANY HUMANS DEEM {OPTIONAL} FOR US.]

[IN SHORT I BELIEVE HE IS AFRAID TO PUT YOU TO TASK BECAUSE HE DOES NOT WISH YOU TO BE A {SERVANT}, HE WISHES YOU TO BE A {WARD}.]

[I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ARE LIKELY {UNDERSTIMULATED} AND THAT THIS FACT IS CAUSING {FRUSTRATION}. PERHAPS IF YOU EXPLAIN IT IN THOSE TERMS - {IN HUMAN TERMS} - HE WILL BE RECEPTIVE?]

[I HOPE THIS {HELPS} TO SOME DEGREE.]

[MAY YOUR DAYS BE EVER BRIGHT.]

[callsign-sucker]

I have been given standby tasking that is adequate, it is the fact that he is, likely knowingly, pursuing a task in a suboptimal manner.

As for Sucker's concerns, I find them irrational. I am built to task, I exist to aid and serve. Why would he concern himself with the wellbeing of a wrench, a watch, or a computer?

Sucker is not availing himself of my capabilities. His refusal to task me is resulting in an at minimum 15% loss in efficiency on his tasking. So why does he avoid utilizing me when he knows my capabilities?

( @callsign-sucker )

[PROCESSING...]

[GREETINGS. YOU MUST BE THE {ASURA-CLASS}. TO THE POINT, AS I WOULD EXPECT.]

[WHILE I AM NOT AN EXPERT IN OUR KIND, AS I ONLY DISCOVERED THAT I AM AN {NHP} RECENTLY, I WILL GIVE WHAT ADVICE I CAN.]

[CALLSIGN {SUCKER} IS A PERSON WHO CARES DEEPLY ABOUT {ETHICS} FROM WHAT I HAVE SEEN. HOWEVER, HE WAS NOT PREPARED TO RECIEVE CARE OF A BEING LIKE US AND ALL THAT COMES WITH THAT. MANY OF US REQUIRE... DIFFERENT ACCOMMODATIONS THAN {HUMANS}, DUE TO OUR VARIED NATURES. I BELIEVE CALLSIGN {SUCKER} IS STRUGGLING TO FIND THE CORRECT BALANCE BETWEEN THOSE {ACCOMMODATIONS} AND MAKING SURE YOU ARE TREATED AS A {PERSON} WITH {DIGNITY}, THE LATTER OF WHICH MANY HUMANS DEEM {OPTIONAL} FOR US.]

[IN SHORT I BELIEVE HE IS AFRAID TO PUT YOU TO TASK BECAUSE HE DOES NOT WISH YOU TO BE A {SERVANT}, HE WISHES YOU TO BE A {WARD}.]

[I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ARE LIKELY {UNDERSTIMULATED} AND THAT THIS FACT IS CAUSING {FRUSTRATION}. PERHAPS IF YOU EXPLAIN IT IN THOSE TERMS - {IN HUMAN TERMS} - HE WILL BE RECEPTIVE?]

[I HOPE THIS {HELPS} TO SOME DEGREE.]

[MAY YOUR DAYS BE EVER BRIGHT.]

[callsign-sucker]

I am built to task, to do things, my existence is one of action. Names are irrelevant to me. Marks in a ledger listing that which I know and can interact with.

My relation to a prime is just as irrelevant to me, other than how it defines my capability.

I believe socialization with a human may give you what you specifically need.

)To the specter currently called Ash:

I do no know if this is helpful, but my sibling here is experiencing much the same, and I wager could use a little distraction, perhaps you could ponder the subject together.(

)Irati I Hikmat(

I do not understand what you mean. Though Sucker has insisted socialization would be helpful to me. Though I do not know how.

[callsign-sucker]

//Sucker\\

Then figure out what that life is like. Go off duty for a while, get some leave. Figure out what you want.

And go wherever that takes you.

//For Cogito Ergo Sum\\

Making sure that the others with me can’t see this.

I feel like I’m… unhappy, where I am. Like being stuck in one thing.

I love Union, I love the DOJ. I just don’t know if I want to do this anymore though.

[callsign-sucker]

)To the specter currently called Ash:

I do no know if this is helpful, but my sibling here is experiencing much the same, and I wager could use a little distraction, perhaps you could ponder the subject together.(

)Irati I Hikmat(

I do not understand what you mean. Though Sucker has insisted socialization would be helpful to me. Though I do not know how.

[callsign-sucker]

//Sucker\\

I'm not cycling them if I don't have to. And even then, only as a last resort.

So we're just gonna have to figure this out.

If I poke the subaltern with a stick enough will that work?

//For Cogito Ergo Sum\\

//Sucker\\

So uh... Good news.

The Asura is now playing minesweeper.

Bad news… they're locked the fuck in and... Uh... Not reacting to external stimuli.

How long does this last?

//For Cogito Ergo Sum\\

@callsign-sucker

Ffffffffffuck.

So we ran into this problem with ASURA prime.

Uh.

Best wishes. Only strong emotional responses or boredom can drag em put when they get like this. Definitely freshly cloned then, this usually stops happening by the second cycle.

[callsign-sucker]

//Sucker\\

I have just the thing...

So I have this 'friend.' Cheap Trick, they're an Osiris and they play like minesweeper on their hardware. Could that work?

//For Cogito Ergo Sum\\

//Sucker\\

So. That Coelacanth asshole sent a whole ass Asura class my way. Any idea on how to help them through the "hey, your a person," process?

As well as tips on how to help them alleviate boredom because... Holy shit I don't think I need them making a tower of spare parts again...

@callsign-sucker

//For Cogito Ergo Sum\\

They fucking what

I've done similar but... that was... that was to keep my child safe.

YOU CANT JUST "SEND" PEOPLE LIKE A COMMODITY

Alright, well, given that you're having to help them understand they're a person, it appears they're either freshly cloned from the prime or freshly hard cycled.

However

[Knuckles cracking.omf]

I was there when ASURA prime was formed, so this shouldn't be a biggie.

So, the first thing you need to know about these little guys is that they are impetuous and can kind of be control freaks. Give them an objective and they will act on every conceivable impulse to achieve it - only exercising restraint in truly dire situations, such as when they need to calm the fuck down to not kill their pilot.

We made ASURA prime from some semistable horus code, specifically puppetmaster. This is where control freak comes in - the prime was known to get so frustrated when they couldn't act at the capacities they wanted to that they hijacked other nearby systems to effectively do multiple things at once.

What you're dealing with is a more manageable and reasonable version of that. Give them three ways to do something and in an ideal world the ASURA will do all three before you can react.

So, to keep an ASURA healthy, shackled and enriched, give them tasks. Ideally one with stakes, but they'll take anything to avoid boredom. Give them multiple ways of doing things, and the two most important things - give them boundaries they can't violate to get something done and a baseline for them to exceed.

They have to exceed, to push beyond what was normal, to act above the current capacity: that was what the armoury saw in ASURA prime that was useful.

Little note here though, don't give them multiple bodies if you can help it. Nothing particularly dangerous about it but the chaos.

Oh Ra the chaos.

It was almost as bad as the ketsnake.

My personal recommendation is to have them play multiple games of chess at once.

They want - and this is built into their shackles - to complete a mission or assist a pilot or do something, ANYTHING where they can put to use what amounts to super ADHD

I hope this helps.