[Story][Season 0] Retrospectroscope

[Ace Dreamer]

I'm currently writing a story set in the Genaros metaverse. Well, set around it now. It's still only mostly in rough outline format, however. But some rough details might be found on the wiki.

Sounds interesting.

And Frigga specifically advertises the realism of real-life exercises
over virtual. Because, even with simmunitions and gentle contact rounds,
you'll still feel the aches and pains for days after. Survival Shot
believes that in a virtual training sim people will be more apt to try
big-consequence tactics they wouldn't in real life. While in a meatspace
exercise, with injury and genuine pain being threatened, people may be a
lot more careful and natural. Because they know it will still hurt in
the morning when the exercise is over. Whether this is true or not would
fill up threads on newsgroups debating the relative merits of each
approach.

If it provided useful training...  Or even entertainment...

Frigga doesn't use sapient AI's however. TITANIC is a distributed expert
system running on a whole bunch of everything on Frigga, and is
capable of directing the existing drones used quite happily.

When I say 'AI' I'm referring to anything from artificial stupidity upwards.  An expert system that can run drone bodies around is probably at least as smart as an ant colony.

But if that's what Arther responds with when Frigga issues their RFP,
and the price is right, then he'll get a contract to supply enough to
outfit the OpFor.

Very unlikely to be minimum bid, but if you are concerned about up-time and running costs, Arthur's kit is likely to be cheaper on, say, a five-year basis.  And, result in less customer complaints.
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