AirTech wrote:n7axw wrote:After both gun powder and steam got ignored, I find myself wondering if the rakurai is fully functional. There is something missing, like a command that is not being received.
Or perhaps after so much time a computer broke down... something. It will be interesting to see how this is resolved in the story line.
Don
The other option could be a filter set deliberately coarse.
You don't want a rakurai shot hitting a volcano or a coal seam fire, for example, as that would raise questions you don't want asked. A full power blast furnace is not dissimilar to the markers for a volcanic vent, except a little smaller. A coal fired steam power plant looks similar to a geothermal power plant (or a smaller version of Yellowstone). A dumb AI would be more likely than a smart one as it would be less likely to eventually ask, why shoot.
An electrical power plant or a primitive radio installation would send signals totally different from natural events however and are certainly more likely to trigger a response (even if the response is to wake a brighter AI).
Yep. That would be another option... It's just that it seems to me that there is something capricious going on...maybe with malice aforethought by our favorote author.
Don