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Post by sgtcookie on Jan 12, 2011 12:25:37 GMT -5
I have been playing this for a couple of days and I am wondering why data cubes just materialize out of thin air? Shouldn't blank ones have to be purchased first?
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Post by Kelvin Zero on Jan 12, 2011 13:44:32 GMT -5
Do you mean records you obtain during surveillance actions in space? I suspect it is primarily a balance issue. After all if records obtained were treated as weightless, then you could hold onto them indefinitely until you found a proper deal. Then you would end up flooding the market with millions of records for trillions of Credits, thus killing any further need of doing much else in the game.
The in game text on records indicates the ship is already carrying a supply of blank data cubes. An in story guess could be your Captain can buy tons of cheap data cubes and have them ready for storing gathered data. Once any data is placed in these cubes, they have to be isolated from the ship systems to prove that the data obtained was not further edited or altered. The cargo hold is the safest place for storing them, but they have to be placed in bulky EM shielded packaging to prevent the possibility of corruption. You wouldn't want to travel through the galaxy to a merchant and find out your hard earned records were rendered blank by a stray solar flare!
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Post by Cory Trese on Jan 12, 2011 15:41:28 GMT -5
Shalun Law, from the Book of Ardok-Adron Shalun, passage 14.
Laws of Shalun Verse II:
No man shall build such a device that allows a machine to communicate with another machine [free from the hand of man].
* [Long version in brackets.]
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Post by Cory Trese on Jan 12, 2011 15:54:00 GMT -5
Datacubes are cheap and can be purchased by the hundreds for only a few credits.
They are all erased when the ship uses the reactor engines, unless they're stored in the activated Q-EM shielded zones in the cargo bay.
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Post by Kelvin Zero on Jan 13, 2011 0:55:46 GMT -5
Cory Trese wrote:
So from that would I be able to guess that independently thinking machines like droids or sentient ships are illegal? Or does that mean it is illegal to make phishing programs or trojan programs to steal data?
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Post by Cory Trese on Jan 13, 2011 1:36:32 GMT -5
in the game stealing data is more like sonar operators snatching pieces of information from a flood of Channel, Radio and Spam-casting.
Surveillance is sitting in orbit snatching the data -- it is an art form tho, requiring a lot of Skill =)
Thinking Machines and Sentient Ships? Narvidians ... Danger.
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Post by sgtcookie on Jan 13, 2011 4:20:52 GMT -5
So does that law mean that auto pilot would be illegal?
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Post by Cory Trese on Jan 13, 2011 6:28:10 GMT -5
You are welcome to ignore me and imagine whatever the heck you want! =) It could all be Jedi and stuff if you like.
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I certainly does make auto piloting systems illegal. [haven't you noticed how bad it is?]
Considering the minimum time to cross an AU of space is 7 days and on average a Flagship has 14 fatal accidents a month ... that's a sailor every other day!
The game's universe makes out the world like WWII submarines / battleships in space.
From the Journals of Degala, Scholar of Ancient Sources:
[Cue Epic Music, Read by Somber Female Voice]
"Centuries ago thinking machines called Narvidians were created to ferry humanity in the Hulks from the 'old worlds' to a new home selected by the elders of man.
Something went wrong along the way and the Narvidians began to squabble amongst themselves and forgot the duty they had to protect man.
And so it was that the Narvidian Civil War became our funeral pyre and the Hulks crashed.
So many were lost.
From our once great number a handful of survivors clustered here, in the Quadrant. For now, rule rests with the strongest of our number -- six surviving Factions from the Great Construction.
It is said that when the old worlds began to die the population of man was more than 30 billion. We are less than a fifth of that now, scattered across these hostile worlds we call home.
We still do not know the original destination the elders of man had selected; or the fate of Seventh Faction which left the Quadrant in -12.43E to look for it."
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Post by Kelvin Zero on Jan 13, 2011 10:28:49 GMT -5
Any info we glean from you helps to flesh out our stories. Now I wonder what would happen if a Captain came upon what was left of a Hulk. I'm also wondering what the Narvidians were originally fighting about. I'm almost betting it was along the lines of which of them were the prettiest.
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