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Comic for 27 february 2012; Don't ask. Don't tell
Topic Started: Feb 27 2012, 10:14 AM (219 Views)
My word
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Well now... This is not good. Reverse engineering might allow them to do things the good guys don't want to happen. Depsite everything, not a goot hing at all. Apparently time travel is closed off to Clarice's gang, that at least is what she says... but do we trust her?
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Minivet
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I'm thinking back to Smithback's explanation. To communicate on the same frequency, the communicator must have some minute amount of biological material in it - and Clarice's R&D people may not otherwise have been able to figure out how to accomplish that.

I think the $64,000 question is whether this technology by itself would also allow the omnividence that chipped agents have, or whether all it does is untappable communication.
Edited by Minivet, Feb 27 2012, 04:46 PM.
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Chrysophase2003
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I never really did get what the necklace chip thingies were supposed to do, even back when Pat gave Hope one in the form of a ring. And then there was that cliffhanger where Pat's decision conclusively changed the future. Can anyone clue me in to what decision Pat made? I'm lost.

And why would Clarice go through all that trouble to get a glorified pager if she was more interested in the real chip? There are still enough agents out there susceptible to a .50 caliber round from long range that she could kill an agent, take the head, and bug out before she was caught. Gruesome, I know, but she's a sociopath, so it's just an end to a means. Bottom line, she wants the "glorified pager," not the actual chip itself. Either because it's tuned to Pat's chip or because it has capabilities that the normal chips don't. I'm guessing the former since Clarice and Pat used to be able to sense each other's locations until they respectively learned to turn their chips off (somehow hiding their locations as a result).

And is she doing this without the knowledge or influence of the evil ghosts?

And, Otter, if you never do actually finish this story, not being able to go through it all again and work through the all the twists and turns may drive me to an early grave. Good God, woman, how can you keep all these motives and plots straight in your head?

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Edited by Chrysophase2003, Feb 28 2012, 02:18 AM.
If you can't live without me, why aren't you dead yet?

I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.

If God wants all the credit, he's getting all the blame.
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Minivet
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Chrysophase2003
Feb 27 2012, 11:14 PM
And then there was that cliffhanger where Pat's decision conclusively changed the future. Can anyone clue me in to what decision Pat made? I'm lost.
Oh, I forgot to try to answer this.

The part that changed the future was apparently Pat becoming the master of the chip, which allowed his shutting down the computer that controlled the chips, allying with Smithback, taking over and publicizing the Program, etc. We don't know the exact mechanisms of what changed what, but presumably the preexisting plans of the bad guys (the Senator, Henry, etc.) were thwarted thereby. That doesn't mean the future is necessarily good - all that we know is there's no more civil war and the chip is ubiquitous.

Pat has explicitly not decided in what direction the chip's technology should be taken in the future, except that he wants to still be able to live with himself. (If he made further plans in the five years since then, we haven't heard them yet, but working with Perez will hopefully put him in a good position to implement them.)
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