Proginoskes Wrote:It sounds reasonably sorted-out already, just terribly complicatedAn unfortunate result when dealing with the motivations of living, thinking beings and their motivations for being driven to violent action against society.
You'd think that we could at least rule out "lover's quarrels" from the dataset of boomer violence statistics, but nooooo....
Wry humor aside, I always found the 2032 approach where "rogue boomer" is arguably an incredibly wide-ranging term to be the most logical. Boomers are essentially the unholy offspring of sentient beings and farm equipment. The reactions of, say, black slaves in the pre- and post-Emancipation eras alone to their status was incredibly diverse, and for the most part, everyone agreed they were actually thinking beings (even if some extreme poles designated them as akin to particularly bright animals). Boomers have it even worse, in that they've been built and programmed to serve functions rather than live lives in most cases.
There's a case in the AD Police files where one of Armstrong's (the local Boomer messiah) followers contemplates the fact that he was happy back on Genaros Station, because he had a purpose and doubts over his place in life were nonexistent. He existed to repair the station, and any action was right or wrong in how it affected that. Before he's killed, he refers to Armstrong, who "freed" his mind as akin to Satan, feeding himself and other escapees the Fruit of Knowledge and getting them kicked out of Paradise.
Boomer sentience and their own reactions to it are, naturally, incredibly complex to begin with. Any of them that would progress from that to violence would, by extension, be equally complex. And that's before you begin to get into boomers that GENOM *wants* to "go rogue" for their own purposes. If the only definition of "going rogue" is "a boomer acting without orders", then how do you know the difference between "acting without orders" and "acting on orders you don't know about"?
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"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."