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cassandra · Entrenched Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 831

[UPDATE] PXC Academy - 18 Oct 06 - Statement on Research

**Posted:** Wed Oct 18, 2006 10:10 am

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I mean, no one in Perplex City could have come up with Transformers, robots in disguise.

WolverineFan

Does anyone else think this sound a lot like the rhetoric you'd hear from Bush these days? Apparently they've started their own:

War on DRUGS/TERROR/ELUSIVE SECRET SOCIETIES/INSERT YOUR ABSTRACT CONCEPT HERE

Should make for an interesting election...

**Posted:** Wed Oct 18, 2006 10:50 am

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Roxdurag

Well, it certainly does sound like the standard disclaimer type of statement when any organization is caught in a scandal involving apparently questionable goings on.

Having said that, it could also be that what Kiteway (and Scott) are saying is true. Could it be that they were trying to respond to a threat?

What I am wondering is why Scarlett and Violet would have chosen to out their father's role in this in such a manner...

**Posted:** Wed Oct 18, 2006 11:27 am

Misroi · Veteran Joined: 03 Apr 2006 Posts: 133

Probably because it'd be more damaging, both to him and their story, if they left Sente's name out. If they point fingers at Scott, he can insulate himself by saying Sente knew stuff as well. If they don't name anyone, then the Sentinel can take the story over and dig up Sente's name. The story then shifts to "The Kiteway daughters covered up for their father!"

**Posted:** Wed Oct 18, 2006 1:05 pm

Roxdurag

Very true. I guess this will gain them a certain notoriety. It would certainly go a long way to grant Scarlett a post on the Sentinel...

**Posted:** Wed Oct 18, 2006 1:19 pm

DrKra37

I may well be gullible and naive, but i think i'm gonna buy it. For now, anyway, until we discover Iona's corpse in a back alley somewhere and Kurt and Caine take the Kiteway daughters into hiding. They have to find some way to transfer matter to get the Cube back, after all, and somehow I doubt the 3P is willingly gonna share their technology...

**Posted:** Wed Oct 18, 2006 5:04 pm

silvermoon · Boot Joined: 03 Jul 2006 Posts: 33 Location: Australia

Yeah, but then why not test with inert matter, instead of live subjects? Sure, a live subject can tell you what's going on, but not if they die!

**Posted:** Wed Oct 18, 2006 6:31 pm

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Roxdurag

I was under the impression that they had progressed from inert matter, to animals to humans, at least that's how I read the data we were given...

Am I off my nut here?

**Posted:** Thu Oct 19, 2006 8:22 am

volvox

If you are, so am I.

From the scambled file there was the message to Sente stating that they had progressed as far as they could with dogs. There must be something more complex about transporting humans that required them to go that far.

**Posted:** Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:53 am

notso

Was it not just that the dogs weren't giving them enough feedback? i.e. the dogs were barking a lot and then dying, when human subjects could have told them so much more about what was happening to them?

Or as it turned out could have said DROWNING a lot and complained about waves.

**Posted:** Thu Oct 19, 2006 2:50 pm

Scott

in theory i suppose, but you could get that information, in much greater lucidity, with tools, measuring devices, and gauges. So you send an object, it seems to work, you try a live specimen, it howls and explodes, you send more tools and gauges to see what happened.

**Posted:** Fri Oct 20, 2006 1:41 pm

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Roxdurag

Well yeah! That's the way I would go about it... If people came back and kept dying, I wouldn't send another one through to see what happens... Work wise, I live by the "If you cannot measure it, you cannot manage it" axiom. So more gauges and measuring tools it is!!

What if what was happening was that 3P was somehow scrambling their signal, making their attempts fail?

**Posted:** Fri Oct 20, 2006 1:44 pm