Bluestrike2 wrote:
The Temple was built well after the last of the Fallen were murdered. To the surviving command staff, they won. Their enemies were gone after they were carefully hunted down to the last man and their plan for Safehold was back on track. Given how damaged their psyches were, it's a safe bet that their paranoia shifted from the threat of any surviving Fallen (since they knew there were none left) to eventual violations of the Proscriptions. Human memory and cognitive biases would take care of the rest. Aside from the basic security settings (firewalls, access permissions, etc.), most of their efforts would focus on protecting against a low-tech opponent rather than a high-tech one. And even that would probably be a bit iffy, since they were supremely confident that nothing could derail their plan (refer to the administrative council meeting at the beginning of OAR when Bédard and Shan-wei argue about Egypt).
Even paranoiacs have biases and mental blindspots.
Just a comment on the situation on Pardal mentioned in a previous post... Sean was able to access the computer because Mother had put the passwords and security codes in his implants when he was recognized as heir to the throne. No such advantage on Safehold....
Now on to Bluestrike2's post. I doubt that the angels were overly worried about low tech armies. For one thing after the WaF there were no more opponents. An attack on Zion became unthinkable and remained so for almost 1,000 years. That remained true even after Safehold divided down into rival political entities, entities over which the church retained significant control.
They may have gotten all of the fallen angels, although they couldn't be completely sure of that. But the possibility of Adams and Eves with access to forbidden TF tech was still there.
I would suspect that the Temple's ability to manage its security protocols declined as the angels numbers diminished. By the time they were gone, the place would have been running on rote with default being the last time they were changed.
Don
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