"With what little I'd managed to read over the months,
it was clear that they had both software *and* hardware blocks controlling their behavior. Even assuming I could calm a rogue boomer down and spirit it away to some sanctuary, it'd *still* be enslaved. I needed to find a way to shatter those blocks permanently without harming the boomer. " Chapter 11. some where in the middle of it.
"And afterwards, they had gone in and inserted
their controls and overrides and governors with all the delicacy
of an epileptic rhinoceros. I mean, I'd known they were there,
but I'd thought they'd've at least been part of the original
architecture." Ch. 11, near the end.
The reason why you haven't seen any acts that show that a boomer is sentient is because thier ability to be sentient has been locked away. When you take a sentient being and take away that witch defines it as being sentient, and then force it to do any order you say you have commited the ultimate act of slavery. ALL the boomers have been enslaved both physically and mentally EXCEPT for the 33-S boomers who are only enlaved physically.
The reason why Doug called the Knight Sabers slave-wranglers was because knowingly or unknowingly they were killing boomers who had somehow broken free of thier mentally inscribed slavery and trying to flee to some safe place where no human slaver is. If I somehow was enslaved like they were and also somehow broke free of whatever bonds that enslaved me and was sorrounded by an alien life form who I might see as the reason to why I was enslaved I'd go on a rampage too.
Why does Doug seem to be self-righteous, high-handed, preachy, and arrogant? It might be in his character, his main job on his homeworld was to go out and completely destroy certain people or groups of people with complete athority. It might be because the entities who control past, present, and future say obscurely that the boomers were enslaved and that if Doug wanted to ever have the CHANCE of going home he was to free them. Or it might be because Doug comes from a world where AI, sentient machines are normal and that somewhere stated in the written chapters he says that he has friends who are AI. Seeing a world where all AI are enslaved would probably piss him off as much as me seeing a world where all the women in the world are similary enslaved like these boomers are.
I will agree with you that this story didn't need the fight scene, but then again it might have since what doesn't seem necessary now might be necessary for the story later on. While this story is almost over the next story involving Doug has yet to be told, and it's always a good idea to build up on reapearing characters, especially the main ones. But still, I don't think the fight scene was necessary for this story, not under the given circumstances.
it was clear that they had both software *and* hardware blocks controlling their behavior. Even assuming I could calm a rogue boomer down and spirit it away to some sanctuary, it'd *still* be enslaved. I needed to find a way to shatter those blocks permanently without harming the boomer. " Chapter 11. some where in the middle of it.
"And afterwards, they had gone in and inserted
their controls and overrides and governors with all the delicacy
of an epileptic rhinoceros. I mean, I'd known they were there,
but I'd thought they'd've at least been part of the original
architecture." Ch. 11, near the end.
The reason why you haven't seen any acts that show that a boomer is sentient is because thier ability to be sentient has been locked away. When you take a sentient being and take away that witch defines it as being sentient, and then force it to do any order you say you have commited the ultimate act of slavery. ALL the boomers have been enslaved both physically and mentally EXCEPT for the 33-S boomers who are only enlaved physically.
The reason why Doug called the Knight Sabers slave-wranglers was because knowingly or unknowingly they were killing boomers who had somehow broken free of thier mentally inscribed slavery and trying to flee to some safe place where no human slaver is. If I somehow was enslaved like they were and also somehow broke free of whatever bonds that enslaved me and was sorrounded by an alien life form who I might see as the reason to why I was enslaved I'd go on a rampage too.
Why does Doug seem to be self-righteous, high-handed, preachy, and arrogant? It might be in his character, his main job on his homeworld was to go out and completely destroy certain people or groups of people with complete athority. It might be because the entities who control past, present, and future say obscurely that the boomers were enslaved and that if Doug wanted to ever have the CHANCE of going home he was to free them. Or it might be because Doug comes from a world where AI, sentient machines are normal and that somewhere stated in the written chapters he says that he has friends who are AI. Seeing a world where all AI are enslaved would probably piss him off as much as me seeing a world where all the women in the world are similary enslaved like these boomers are.
I will agree with you that this story didn't need the fight scene, but then again it might have since what doesn't seem necessary now might be necessary for the story later on. While this story is almost over the next story involving Doug has yet to be told, and it's always a good idea to build up on reapearing characters, especially the main ones. But still, I don't think the fight scene was necessary for this story, not under the given circumstances.