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[GunsmithCat]

[QUESTION] What if Durga was a serial killer?

[ThunderRazor]

*scratches head*

with so many open ended possibilites, this is possible. But I don't get this as a gut feeling. Guess we will just need to piece it together more ^_^

[Dorkmaster]

Re: [QUESTION] What if Durga was a serial killer?

[GunsmithCat]

Re: [QUESTION] What if Durga was a serial killer?

[Corngood]

I'm definitely down with the idea of her gathering info, but I'm not sure I buy it being for the Covenant.

I get the impression that they basically just want to find Earth so they can melt it. Knowing a little about the (not so) mundane activities of a few humans probably isn't going to help them accomplish that.

[Astald]

Motive
Durga is following what instincts and fragments of memories she has left to remember her purpose.
What connects them all
Something Durga knows, but we do not. Possibly each character has an individual trait that reminds Durga of herself. Jan's power and intelligence, Kamal's expertise in tracking, and stupid_cops retribution.
What Durga would gain
An answer to who she is, and what she is doing on Jersey's computer.

[jellyfish_green]

heh. Now I'm officially interested in hearing the next part of the stories.

A little spec:
Durga: secret ONI Spy AI project
Jan: secret ONI? human enhancement program
Kamal: medical student who justmaybe could make sense of both the axons and programming of an AI

My first line of thought is that the Castaway sent a copy of Melissa to his son, a damaged copy which got named Durga, same as others have spec'd. My second thought was that Durga escaped from ONI - or was sent in search of Jan - and from there caught up to the Castaway, but that doesn't make as much sense as Melissa was commisioned with her ship, presumably. The third thought is Melissa got a copy of herself away to Earth's net after the "crash", or through regular interfaces after entering lunar orbit and docking.

Maybe Durga turned up the dirt on Jan initially at Jersey's request, but then continued to turn up more as it became interesting. That was her motive, but eventually the stories will probably interconnect - especially if Jersey tries to come to her rescue, or something macho like that.

Durga's pursuit of Kamal, however, is driven by motives she herself is prevented from analyzing. So I can only spec medical-student-hackers are useful to an AI that doesn't want to return to ONI for repair.

[GunsmithCat]

[kingchaos2]

[Astald]

[kingchaos2]

Oh, okay. I stand corrected

[GunsmithCat]

So if we go with a Manchurian Candidate analysis the question is -

Who is pulling the strings? Why?

Flea to me still seems like the likely choice. Or an Infested Melissa. I could, I guess, see that it's simply ONI programming in case she was kidnapped, but that seems tenuous to me. It doesn't seem like Durga is supposed to fall into enemy hands (survive evade resist escape or whatever) and that such tactics would fail in the long run.