From: Takami Sakuragi (total-insecurity@stellvia.lib)
To: Dee (deechan@sovietairforce.fen)
Subject: Re: LF someone to give me combat training
Date Posted: November 13th, 2013
>One digital girl to another, I... have something, but it may not be
>what you're looking for. It works out to a combat predictive and
>biomechanical efficiency analysis package. Put it a different way, it
>takes into account the user's condition, body position and weapons and
>that of the attacker to predict and suggest things in detail based on
>the user's aims; causing the most damage the most efficiently, fighting
>defensively, etcetera. It's independent of body capacity, per se, but
>very computationally intensive and at the risk of sounding rude, I
>don't know how you're written. I rewrote chunks of my movement
>protocols to link to it, for example, but I've been informed cracking
>your own source code like that is kinda strange. Who knows.
Re-writing myself sounds a little bit scary. I only just woke up - I'm not ready to change my mind yet! But thanks for the offer.
"sovietairforce.fen"? My boss says you're bigger that we are, but smaller than most factions... Have you met my sempai Sora Hasegawa? I haven't yet, and I'm wondering what she's like.
>Failing that, I've done a bunch of studying of various forms, but if
>you're going for the whole package, traditional human-style learning of
>unblended styles, you're probably going to be better off with a
>different tutor.
That's probably a good idea. But thanks again for offering!
Takami Sakuragi
From: Takami Sakuragi (total-insecurity@stellvia.lib)
To: Clark.Sanders@marduk.org
Subject: The Art of Combat
>While a worthy goal to find a teacher spaceside, why not just go to a
>terrestrial tutor? Or bring one into space? They have had centuries to
>refine their fighting art.
I don't mind either way, Dr. Sanders, but I don't know who to ask for training. My employer didn't give me any suggestions as to who would be a suitable teacher; he says that knife-fighting isn't his style. (He appears to prefer firearms.)
I'm slightly confused, though - didn't all of the fighting styles that can be found in space draw upon the centuries of refinements of the martial arts developed on Earth? To use the compter terms that I'm familiar with, don't the martial arts of Earth and space share the same codebase? I'm still young; perhaps I've misunderstood something.
Takami Sakuragi
From: Takami Sakuragi (total-insecurity@stellvia.lib)
To: buckaroo@banzai-institute.org
Subject: Re: LF someone to give me combat training
Date Posted: November 13, 2013
>Hello and welcome to the Universe, Takami. It's a wise person who
>realizes that it can be a dangerous place. The Banzai Institute has a
>number of instructors in a wide variety of forms of martial arts, from
>the archaic and traditional to more modern interpretations, and we
>would be more than happy to help you find a teacher that meets your
>needs, either in our organization or among our friends in Fenspace or
>down in the Really, Real World. We offer basic self-defense courses at
>several of the Institute centers, including the one on Stellvia.
>Details can be found at our website,
>http://www.banzai-institute.org/educati ... fense.html; feel
>free to take a look or swing by and talk to the staff.
I'll do that - thanks!
>If you need anything else, please don't hesitate to ask. It never hurts
>to help, and we're always open.
Before I ask, I should mention that my boss, Noah Scott, told me that the Banzai Institute are some of the best people in space, and I could learn a lot about how to live properly just from reading about you. From what I've had a chance to download and read, I think he's right. I noticed something odd in your pattern of public appearances... You're an AI, too, right?
I won't tell anyone - your secrets are *your* secrets. But I'd like to know whether I'm right, please. (If I'm not, then I have to work on my pattern-recognition algorithms.)
I was going to ask whether I could join your organization, but my boss says he thinks I should get some more life experience first...
Takami Sakuragi
From: Noah Scott (big-cheese@stellvia.lib)
To: buckaroo@banzai-institute.org
Subject: My station's recent access to your servers
Date Posted: November 13, 2013
Buckaroo, it's come to my attention that somebody on my station downloaded 14TB of data from your UK public server last night. If that's going to cause a problem with your Interwave ISP, please bill me for the data transfer. (You know I'm good for it... )
--
Noah Scott, of station Stellvia
OOC: I went looking for a description of the original Takami Sakuragi on the web, but only found two, both of the anime version of her: http://robkelk.ottawa-anime.org/meganek ... agi_takami, and http://www.absoluteanime.com/geobreeders/takami.htm. The manga version of Takami is slightly more level-headed than the anime version; she still has that combat paralysis problem, but it manifests differently (and much less comedically)...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
To: Dee (deechan@sovietairforce.fen)
Subject: Re: LF someone to give me combat training
Date Posted: November 13th, 2013
>One digital girl to another, I... have something, but it may not be
>what you're looking for. It works out to a combat predictive and
>biomechanical efficiency analysis package. Put it a different way, it
>takes into account the user's condition, body position and weapons and
>that of the attacker to predict and suggest things in detail based on
>the user's aims; causing the most damage the most efficiently, fighting
>defensively, etcetera. It's independent of body capacity, per se, but
>very computationally intensive and at the risk of sounding rude, I
>don't know how you're written. I rewrote chunks of my movement
>protocols to link to it, for example, but I've been informed cracking
>your own source code like that is kinda strange. Who knows.
Re-writing myself sounds a little bit scary. I only just woke up - I'm not ready to change my mind yet! But thanks for the offer.
"sovietairforce.fen"? My boss says you're bigger that we are, but smaller than most factions... Have you met my sempai Sora Hasegawa? I haven't yet, and I'm wondering what she's like.
>Failing that, I've done a bunch of studying of various forms, but if
>you're going for the whole package, traditional human-style learning of
>unblended styles, you're probably going to be better off with a
>different tutor.
That's probably a good idea. But thanks again for offering!
Takami Sakuragi
From: Takami Sakuragi (total-insecurity@stellvia.lib)
To: Clark.Sanders@marduk.org
Subject: The Art of Combat
>While a worthy goal to find a teacher spaceside, why not just go to a
>terrestrial tutor? Or bring one into space? They have had centuries to
>refine their fighting art.
I don't mind either way, Dr. Sanders, but I don't know who to ask for training. My employer didn't give me any suggestions as to who would be a suitable teacher; he says that knife-fighting isn't his style. (He appears to prefer firearms.)
I'm slightly confused, though - didn't all of the fighting styles that can be found in space draw upon the centuries of refinements of the martial arts developed on Earth? To use the compter terms that I'm familiar with, don't the martial arts of Earth and space share the same codebase? I'm still young; perhaps I've misunderstood something.
Takami Sakuragi
From: Takami Sakuragi (total-insecurity@stellvia.lib)
To: buckaroo@banzai-institute.org
Subject: Re: LF someone to give me combat training
Date Posted: November 13, 2013
>Hello and welcome to the Universe, Takami. It's a wise person who
>realizes that it can be a dangerous place. The Banzai Institute has a
>number of instructors in a wide variety of forms of martial arts, from
>the archaic and traditional to more modern interpretations, and we
>would be more than happy to help you find a teacher that meets your
>needs, either in our organization or among our friends in Fenspace or
>down in the Really, Real World. We offer basic self-defense courses at
>several of the Institute centers, including the one on Stellvia.
>Details can be found at our website,
>http://www.banzai-institute.org/educati ... fense.html; feel
>free to take a look or swing by and talk to the staff.
I'll do that - thanks!
>If you need anything else, please don't hesitate to ask. It never hurts
>to help, and we're always open.
Before I ask, I should mention that my boss, Noah Scott, told me that the Banzai Institute are some of the best people in space, and I could learn a lot about how to live properly just from reading about you. From what I've had a chance to download and read, I think he's right. I noticed something odd in your pattern of public appearances... You're an AI, too, right?
I won't tell anyone - your secrets are *your* secrets. But I'd like to know whether I'm right, please. (If I'm not, then I have to work on my pattern-recognition algorithms.)
I was going to ask whether I could join your organization, but my boss says he thinks I should get some more life experience first...
Takami Sakuragi
From: Noah Scott (big-cheese@stellvia.lib)
To: buckaroo@banzai-institute.org
Subject: My station's recent access to your servers
Date Posted: November 13, 2013
Buckaroo, it's come to my attention that somebody on my station downloaded 14TB of data from your UK public server last night. If that's going to cause a problem with your Interwave ISP, please bill me for the data transfer. (You know I'm good for it... )
--
Noah Scott, of station Stellvia
OOC: I went looking for a description of the original Takami Sakuragi on the web, but only found two, both of the anime version of her: http://robkelk.ottawa-anime.org/meganek ... agi_takami, and http://www.absoluteanime.com/geobreeders/takami.htm. The manga version of Takami is slightly more level-headed than the anime version; she still has that combat paralysis problem, but it manifests differently (and much less comedically)...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012