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Post by korora on Apr 16, 2008 22:03:33 GMT -5
The story is as follows: a veteran of the war against the Robotic Legions is mixed up in the apprehending of a traitor, and in the ensuing firefight something explodes, and the next thing our hero knows, he's in the hospital and his body requires a self-contained life-support system (think Darth Vader but not evil) The traitor is dead.
What would be going through his mind? I suppose he' might be mad at God for allowing this, with some anger at the traitor. Or he may be grateful he survived at all.
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Post by Divides the Waters on Apr 16, 2008 22:39:32 GMT -5
Sounds a bit like like RoboCop and Attack of the Clones, with a missing antagonist.
It's hard to say what would be going through his mind. I'd be tempted to ask an injured serviceman about it.
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Post by Jeff Gerke on Apr 17, 2008 8:20:07 GMT -5
It also makes me think of the movie version of I, Robot.
I love that Dell Spooner hates robots with a racial prejudice--and then we later find out he's part robot himself (which gives double meaning to the title).
So that's one reaction. I suppose there would be as many reactions as people it happened to.
That's good news for you, korora, because it means that so long as you provide a logical reason for the character's reaction, you can have him react any way you please. Whatever works best for the story you want to tell.
Jeff
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Post by korora on Apr 19, 2008 12:48:35 GMT -5
BTW, the Vader reference may have been a mistake; Vader was still recognizably Human, while this fellow is no longer recognizably Hartnellian.
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Post by kouter on Apr 19, 2008 20:47:34 GMT -5
From your set up you could add a twist like this.
The traitor he was after was a robot in human form. Now he has become the opposit. A human in robot form. He is given the same mission as the traitor. To infiltrate the enemy as one of them.
The things he used to fight against he must now assimulate with. Internally he could be fighting against self loating of what he has become, question God's purpose in it. Maybe he learns some great truth from them, lots of potential with that one. Do AI's have a soul? Can they believe in God?
This idea sounds right up my alley actually. Hurry up and write it or I just might steal it! LOL ;D
Kirk~
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Post by korora on Apr 19, 2008 23:45:57 GMT -5
Actually, I've already determined that the traitor is an organic hnau. Silicon-based with considerable lanthanide content and a body temperature of four hundred degrees centigrade, but still organic. And the Hartnellians have similar biochemistry.
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Post by Divides the Waters on Apr 20, 2008 11:03:54 GMT -5
Are you going to use "hnau?" That's a term Lewis used for intelligent life.
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Post by kouter on Apr 20, 2008 13:11:37 GMT -5
Actually, I've already determined that the traitor is an organic hnau. Silicon-based with considerable lanthanide content and a body temperature of four hundred degrees centigrade, but still organic. And the Hartnellians have similar biochemistry. Eudyptula albosignataWow Korora, thats some pretty far out there organism you got there. I'd give some considerable thought to contrast if you're thinking of using races this far removed from humans in a cyborg story. If your organic race is already made of silicon and rare metals, what contrast is there for having a completely inorganic race? |
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Post by Divides the Waters on Apr 20, 2008 19:40:00 GMT -5
The metal pot calling the mechanical kettle black, perhaps?
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Post by korora on Apr 21, 2008 10:39:25 GMT -5
I'm sure creatures such as could settle Titan might think the same of us. Is not silicon in the same column as carbon? And do not metals figure in our biochemistry?
And I'm not the first to come up with hot life forms with silicon-based biochemistry. Have you read Iceworld by Hal Clement?
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