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From: BValkyriesRide2012
Date: April 23, 2025
Ben,
I meant to tell you in person, but we missed each other on Odyssey. Duty called.
Mackie's body was destroyed on impact. 'Most of his core chips and mainboard survived. Thank Shoei for good helmets. To cut a long story short, Gaige Kisaragi is Mackie, jerry-rigged to pilot my old puppet body while we tracked down who shot him down. The reason why I did it should be clear. I know a lot of people care about Mackie - I know I put a lot of people through some very uncomfortable days. Whether the ends justify the means I'll let you decide. For what it's worth, I'm sorry I put you through that
He's doing fine, all told. After Gaige's gunkill, the 588th offered her a place. He's thinking long and hard about it - as much as he'd love to be the fighter ace, there's a reason the 588 are called the Night Witches. Whatever choice he makes, he's going to regret it and he knows it. The 588 are an opportunity that comes only once, but he can be Mackie anytime. Maybe someone who isn't used to treating their body as a thing should talk to him on it - I can only look at this thing from a cyber's perspective and that's skewed at the best of times.
I think we're all scared of the next big bad. It's not a healthy way to be. Prepared, fine, but not scared. We can handle the big bads - I'm more scared about the Big Good. In a war between two Rights, a lot of people are going to be stuck in the middle, while both sides try to curry favour. Or eliminate anyone who might be too dangerous to risk going over to the other side. Self-organised criticality applies to Wars too. Everyone's networked and linked by alliances and agreements.
Perhaps I've just read too much Civil War III.
I'm all for training people up if you have them. We've got everything set up to go here still. I had planned on blasting a rubble-pile and pulling the resulting nargles into near orbit before the Millennium moved in. We could do a lot more than we can just using the old tunnels. It'd let us replicate some more realistic environments, and build environments actually designed for training - including combat flight training. We could simulate whole mission profiles a lot better. For n00b's, or for the veterans.
It'd also give me an excuse to try make the Zenith of Things Tournament a thing again, to really push the training system.
We're just waiting for the prize paperwork on that Boskone Raven Gaige sniped, then we can do some proper Have Doughnut stuff with it.
It's the sort of thing they can't do out on the moon.
-Jet
Outside Context Solutions
PS: Yes, I did get that idea from your post.
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From: BValkyriesRide2012
Date: April 23, 2025
Ben,
I meant to tell you in person, but we missed each other on Odyssey. Duty called.
Mackie's body was destroyed on impact. 'Most of his core chips and mainboard survived. Thank Shoei for good helmets. To cut a long story short, Gaige Kisaragi is Mackie, jerry-rigged to pilot my old puppet body while we tracked down who shot him down. The reason why I did it should be clear. I know a lot of people care about Mackie - I know I put a lot of people through some very uncomfortable days. Whether the ends justify the means I'll let you decide. For what it's worth, I'm sorry I put you through that
He's doing fine, all told. After Gaige's gunkill, the 588th offered her a place. He's thinking long and hard about it - as much as he'd love to be the fighter ace, there's a reason the 588 are called the Night Witches. Whatever choice he makes, he's going to regret it and he knows it. The 588 are an opportunity that comes only once, but he can be Mackie anytime. Maybe someone who isn't used to treating their body as a thing should talk to him on it - I can only look at this thing from a cyber's perspective and that's skewed at the best of times.
I think we're all scared of the next big bad. It's not a healthy way to be. Prepared, fine, but not scared. We can handle the big bads - I'm more scared about the Big Good. In a war between two Rights, a lot of people are going to be stuck in the middle, while both sides try to curry favour. Or eliminate anyone who might be too dangerous to risk going over to the other side. Self-organised criticality applies to Wars too. Everyone's networked and linked by alliances and agreements.
Perhaps I've just read too much Civil War III.
I'm all for training people up if you have them. We've got everything set up to go here still. I had planned on blasting a rubble-pile and pulling the resulting nargles into near orbit before the Millennium moved in. We could do a lot more than we can just using the old tunnels. It'd let us replicate some more realistic environments, and build environments actually designed for training - including combat flight training. We could simulate whole mission profiles a lot better. For n00b's, or for the veterans.
It'd also give me an excuse to try make the Zenith of Things Tournament a thing again, to really push the training system.
We're just waiting for the prize paperwork on that Boskone Raven Gaige sniped, then we can do some proper Have Doughnut stuff with it.
It's the sort of thing they can't do out on the moon.
-Jet
Outside Context Solutions
PS: Yes, I did get that idea from your post.
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