Moments you want to see in the next book (TFT Spoilers)

dwileye13 wrote:Many things may be in the Memory Module called the Key

There doubtless are. One of the IC's big frustrations is that they don't know what all is in it. Owl thinks that if it was encrypted by a high-level civilian AI, attempts to access the content would probably wipe it. If it was encrypted by a military AI, he thinks triggering the security protocols in the Key might wipe him, too.

Since RFC obeys the theater adage that it you place a gun in a drawer in the first act, it must be pulled from the drawer and used to shoot at someone/something, we can be pretty confident Paityr will have to enter the Temple at some point, place the key in the recess he was shown in Schueler's vision, put his hands on the God lights and call Schueler's holy name, whereupon something will respond. There's been a lot of speculation here about what the response will be.
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Dennis

He will be buried under an avalanche of red herrings.

DMcCunney wrote:Since RFC obeys the theater adage that it you place a gun in a drawer in the first act, it must be pulled from the drawer and used to shoot at someone/something, we can be pretty confident Paityr will ahve to enter the Temple at some point, place the key in the recess he was shown in Schuler's vision, put his hands on the God lights and call Schueler's holy name, whereupon something will respond. There's been a lot of speculation here about what the response will be.
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Dennis

emeye wrote:

DMcCunney wrote:Since RFC obeys the theater adage that it you place a gun in a drawer in the first act, it must be pulled from the drawer and used to shoot at someone/something, we can be pretty confident Paityr will have to enter the Temple at some point, place the key in the recess he was shown in Schueler's vision, put his hands on the God lights and call Schueler's holy name, whereupon something will respond. There's been a lot of speculation here about what the response will be.

He will be buried under an avalanche of red herrings.

"Quick! Where is the pickling gear? And somebody introduce cream cheese and bagels to go with our morning cherrybean!!"
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Dennis

I want to see Sebastian Athrawes in whatever capacity he ends up with when the story resumes. One hopes he gets to fully utilize his implants and the Cave's NEAT.

I want to see Stefeny Athrawes become Alahnah's guarding seijin. Load up on her combat skills through her implants. Provide her with applications for aiming firearms and a general combat heads-up display. Perhaps some new combat nanites to build muscle quickness and strength.

I want to see whatever the Lovebirds are doing. TFT had nothing about Irys and Hektor. I suspect they will be up to some very interesting. I hope they are setting up alternative information repositories, production centers, colonies or any other way to preserve what they have for the future just in case.

I want to see Hektor and Irys' elder children begin their education and professions.

Mainly, I want to see the next generation begin doing the things that only Nimue and Merlin had done in the past.

TangoLima wrote:I'd like to see an electricity demonstration similar
to Merlin's steam demonstration. Test the QBS to see
if it is up and what it's technology threshold/limits
are. Speculation by the IC is all well and good,
however empirical data is needed.

I've been wondering about that. We don't have any definitive evidence that the OBS even has an automated setting.

I'd love in one book for the IC to find out the bombardment platform is on the fritz and could never have fired at all, due to some software glitch or time degraded resource (like a radioactive power source) that the initial SNARCs could never have found out by their examinations!

Hehe, imagine the looks on their faces

The bombardment system was in good enough shape to blast a maximum-stealth SNARC drone into dust bunnies, without letting it get any useful data.

I think this is a case of "let sleeping dragons lie, til the SIGURD battery's online"

SilverbladeTE wrote:I'd love in one book for the IC to find out the bombardment platform is on the fritz and could never have fired at all, due to some software glitch or time degraded resource (like a radioactive power source) that the initial SNARCs could never have found out by their examinations!

Hehe, imagine the looks on their faces

peke wrote:The bombardment system was in good enough shape to blast a maximum-stealth SNARC drone into dust bunnies, without letting it get any useful data.

I think this is a case of "let sleeping dragons lie, til the SIGURD battery's online"

True. We know it's online. But we don't know if it has an automated protocol to fire on electrical energy sources on the surface. We have an educated guess from Merlin. I admit that it's likely, but it's not guaranteed. There's also the possibility that someone, maybe Schueler, quietly disabled that protocol.

As I've said before, I think it's time that Merlin started carrying out some experiments with electricity. He knows that his own recon skimmer and the SNARCs aren't enough to set the OBS off. Nor do the systems in the Temple, although there could be a setting to exclude the Temple. That does raise the question of exactly what the sensors are looking for. What if he found a small river on Armageddon Reef (which AFAIK is effectively uninhabited) and set up a waterwheel attached to a generator? Would that set it off? What about a wind farm? What about an electromagnetic pulse?

Peke
No, we have evidence the self defence systems of the platform are operational and no evidence of gross physical damage (SNARC never saw any damage)

This doesn't mean the software or other critical but obscure system have not been sabotaged or has other issues.

Not something you'd bet your entire continent on, no.
Lol!
But...we should be aware that anything is possible and someone would have surely tried to wreck that damned thing because it orbits Humanity's only home!
Just for building that, who ever authorized it should have been executed
only a lunatic would imperil the last hope of survival with a colossal Weapon of Mass Destruction

Meshakhad wrote:

peke wrote:The bombardment system was in good enough shape to blast a maximum-stealth SNARC drone into dust bunnies, without letting it get any useful data.

I think this is a case of "let sleeping dragons lie, til the SIGURD battery's online"

True. We know it's online. But we don't know if it has an automated protocol to fire on electrical energy sources on the surface. We have an educated guess from Merlin. I admit that it's likely, but it's not guaranteed. There's also the possibility that someone, maybe Schueler, quietly disabled that protocol.

As I've said before, I think it's time that Merlin started carrying out some experiments with electricity. He knows that his own recon skimmer and the SNARCs aren't enough to set the OBS off. Nor do the systems in the Temple, although there could be a setting to exclude the Temple. That does raise the question of exactly what the sensors are looking for. What if he found a small river on Armageddon Reef (which AFAIK is effectively uninhabited) and set up a waterwheel attached to a generator? Would that set it off? What about a wind farm? What about an electromagnetic pulse?

Note that in TFT, Nahrmahn pointed out that such a test might wake something up that they don't want to be. IE, perhaps detecting electricity will activate an AI/PICA/something in the temple that will look around, see what's happening, and have control over the OBS. Likely? Perhaps not, but there's always the chance and it would be Very Bad News. So while they certainly WANT to know, do they want it enough to take the possibly enormous risk?