searching Mechquestria: System Reboot

[Denim&Venöm 18,831]

@@Aurora Lights, 

 

So how logn did you intend Drone to be iced? He acted surprised Twi had transferred to a robot body, and I had planned her to have been this way for at least a few decades. 

[Aurora Lights 206]

@@Denim&Venom,

 

He never even seen a recent photo of her, only what she used to look like. It plays in with the past, trust me.

[Denim&Venöm 18,831]

 

 

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Working on the post now.  Though anything involving Twi will have to wait till Drone & Bee post. 

[reader8363 1,281]

Would it be alright if Shadow knew where Celestia and Luna are, if they are alive, but won't tell? He does jobs for everyone, but for a price. 

[Denim&Venöm 18,831]

@@reader8363, 

That could work. Though I wasn't planning anything big for them. They just distanced themselves after Equestria became more robotic and unrelatible. 

Edited March 11, 2016 by Denim&Venom

[Flamestreak1990 1,172]

@@Denim&Venom,

 

 

Ya'll still excepting?

[Mentis Soliloquy 3,025]

@,

 

How can I help you Real? Who you subbing?

[Flamestreak1990 1,172]

Subbing? I just wanna join XD

[Mentis Soliloquy 3,025]

@,

 

What OC do you want to submit?  

[Flamestreak1990 1,172]

@,

 

What OC do you want to submit?  

Subbing........OH XD sorry I'm a slow pony

 

um  flamestreak he'll be a normal pony for now

[Denim&Venöm 18,831]

@,

So do you want Flamestreak to have always been a college student, or do you want him to be a new enrollee?  

[Flamestreak1990 1,172]

New enrollee sounds fine, considering I'm new to the Rp XD

[Denim&Venöm 18,831]

Alright, accepted.

[Denim&Venöm 18,831]

While in character Lektra should and would know this, I feel like if I don't ask you we could have a problem. What did you, our esteemed GM expect to get as her answer? What is acceptable here?

 

Denim I think you missed my question.

 

I wasn't quite expecting anything spectacular. Maybe self destruction? Maybe rapidly induced rampancy? Maybe permanent system shutdown and complete hard drive wipe. She can't handle a violation to her own hard wired code of ethics, either psychologically or in a processing capability. Her killing a pony wouldn't compute.  Similar to Asimov's first law.  

 

Of course, feel free to be more detailed, creative and original. .

[Denim&Venöm 18,831]

I was going to say just the inability to to finish the job, or start it if this would be a OHKO. Like say how in fiction no matter how much you want to do something you can't perform that action? She would stop short of actually doing it, or be unable to fire the weapon? Like whatever she tried wouldn't wwork.

 

I just feel like any of those would be an easy way to basically commit suicide. While yes it would require killing a pony, Luster could use this consequence to deliberately end her own existence too. She already wanted/wants to, so no I don't think so.

 

Do you think being forcibly unable to actually deal killing blows is too little?

Yeah, it'd be a bit much, cause then she wouldn't really have gotten as far as she did. She would then be afraid of doing anything cause even one wrong placed strike could end a pony. So she would then focus on making herself safer around other ponies, but still trying to find a way to protect them from humanity, which would have been difficult.  All make sense? 

 

And while she can use that as an excuse, just kill a pony and die herself, she would still have to force herself to intentionally do so, which she still can't. 

[Denim&Venöm 18,831]

 

 

If that's the route you think Lektra would have predicted, then yeah. Her program could go on, if she didn't know she killed a pony. Once she found out, it would be a repeat performance. She wouldn't want to go on. 

 

Yes, a limited and modified variant of Asimov's laws.

• She cannot kill a pony. 
• Nor allow a pony to die through inaction. Unless she is certain they can survive in their present circumstances, she'll see to it that they're saved. That time she broke Emerald in half? Dropped her off at Ponyville general right after. 
• Protect her own existence, as long as it doesn't compromise the first two. 

That's why she's so motivated to protect Equestria. In her eyes, not taking a preemptive strike against humanity would be seen as a violation of her second law. 

 

Why are humans not exempt? The scientists on Earth's end figured other humans would be the most likely threat to Equestria. So they would allow Luster to use lethal force if it meant saftey for both worlds. That and her human brain scans allowed her the propensity for violence and ease at taking human lives. Who hates humans more than other humans? While ponies aren't so at ease with taking lives, and that's reflected in Luster's programming. The brain scans leaned towards that rationality, and both sides agreed to that first law.

Edited March 11, 2016 by Denim&Venom

[Flamestreak1990 1,172]

Can someone help me get started?

[Denim&Venöm 18,831]

@,

What do you need?  

[Aurora Lights 206]

@@Denim&Venom,

 

I'm sorry man, work has been killing me lately, and I still don't have time to do stuff, only enough time to write this. So, I might not be albe to post for a few more days.

[Denim&Venöm 18,831]

@@Aurora Lights,

"It's cool. RL comes first bruh.  

[Flamestreak1990 1,172]

@,

What do you need?  

Location mostly

[captainborgue 343]

Yes, VLAD set up a teleport enhancer (since pegasi can't usually teleport lol). When Bee teleports, the bots trace her precise location and transport to it. Feel free to use it whenever you can post, I'll have Bee 'port to the labs.

[captainborgue 343]

Bee's an entomologist, though studying insects also means she would know about emergent behavior and crowd behavior in swarmbots or drones or the like.

[captainborgue 343]

Some, but very little. Bee tends to avoid the R&D labs unless specifically invited- the biology labs are more her thing.

[captainborgue 343]

VLAD exists specifically to keep Bee alive, it has no real sense of aesthetic preference.

 

Also, yes. VLAD likes the place, because gadgets are neat.

Edited March 14, 2016 by captainborgue