breq: i am not a complicated person. it shoots through anything, and will continue to do so without my knowing how, that's pretty much enough for me. whirl: so can i try it??
I'm just imagining the progression of faces Nickel would make at the whole deal with ancillaries like. 'PLEASE get proper bodies instead of puppeting organics. Do you even KNOW how far this puts technoism back?'
How resource-intensive would it be to replace, say, a Mercy's complement of ancillaries with holomatter avatars?
I mean that probably breaks the no-tech-sharing treaty. Also, what would you do with the slabbed and stored ancillaries? Could you potentially restore brain function if they haven't yet been hooked up to an AI, even if they've already got the implants? We know the Empire has some pretty heavy-duty brainwashing even just for re-education of civilians and presumably has ways to deal with the recovery period from that, but I also doubt that involves ancillary-grade implants. EDIT: But just leaving the ancillaries in cold storage is also just indirectly killing them... idk.
They'd just have to join the Council of Worlds like the Earth did. Probably better than the Radch, maybe? Also imagine the Cybertronian reaction to "I used to be a starship but now I'm a dinky organic."
I don't think the stored bodies have any implants yet, actually! Or at least, not the ones on the Justices that haven't been used to fill gaps in the existing decades. And the problem isn't brain function - all the ancillaries and Tisarwat are capable of independent thought absent a controlling AI, but the bit of their brain that says 'I am this person' has been cut out. All the memories, senses, preferences, skills, those are all still there, there's just no connection from 'the memories of a life' to 'me, this one doing the thinking here.' Also there is some paracanon implying that ships and Stations start importing bio-mechs from the Geck to use as replacement bodies, so.
I’d like to see their reactions to station AIs, actually - the closest thing the cybertronians have are titans, which are aloof and religiously important while the stations are kind of taken for granted.
We're two chapters off from the end, so /shrugs/ should probably post a blurb here: wind that shakes the seas and stars (97836 words, 7/9 chapters) Windblade and her new planet. Oh, and all her other problems. Liege Maximo’s still on the loose, Starscream’s an idiot, Optimus Prime wants to annex Neo-Cybertron, the Mistress of Flame wants her head, Trypticon’s applied for a seat in the Council of Worlds, and nothing - absolutely nothing - seems to run smooth. A sequel to the ways of the stars undone, featuring x-treme canon divergence, historical revisionism, true form Starscream being himself, at least one (1) explosion, Optimus being an asshole, a ton of worldbuilding, actual backstory and personalities for the Primes, the gentle erasure of the Enigma of Combination apart from a few lingering combiner-related events in exRID's context, and a complete and total disregard for anything even remotely related to the GI Joe crossovers and the canon Unicron leadup
(for the people speculating about radchaai ship favorites and titans...... it's not the main focus of the story, but this is what finally piqued my curiosity enough for me to sit down and read the ancillary justice books, 11/10, highly recommend)
putting this here bc i love to show off Spoiler: do you ever question if you're proud of what you've just done or not + PARTIALLY NSFW
