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And our work is never done!
My children! my children!
And the war is never won!
The enemy is poverty,
And the wall keeps out the enemy,
And we build the wall to keep us free,
That's why we build the wall!
We build the wall to keep us free!
We build the wall to keep us free!
Sic semper tyrannis!
With thanks to:
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This is… a horribly overambitious thing that should probably be downvoted. But I couldn't get the image of Site 89 out of my head so I had to write it down.
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I feel conflicted about this. As always, your prose is delightful to read, and the high concept and ambition is impressive. However, I can't shake the feeling that this relies too much on convenient exposition and note-at-the-end syndrome - it's a novote from me.
I really,really don't get Future Kells's deal. Yah, let's time-travel all throughout human history and kidnap a bunch of dudes and install modern military training into them so we have dudes to operate our cannons. That totally makes more sense than justautomating the fucking cannons.
I mean, I didn't want to make stuff about the future 89 too explicit, but there are several options: as Ikonovich says, they're clearly at least partially thaumaturgial in a way that might necessitate living bodies; automation might have to be done electronically given Kells' resources, but given the compromised nature of their systems he might be reluctant to do that; or he doesn't literally need people to man the cannons but just needs more manpower in general, and was just using a rhetorical device to impress his purpose on his past self.
Having said all that, Future Kells' deal is indeed somewhat baffling, because he himself is not really in his right mind. This is a man who instead of working out some systematic way to go about his manpower-harvesting missions instead has a certain predilection for elite warriors and personal guardsmen. This is a man who could just evacuate everyone through time with their research and then smash the Apparatus before the King could get to it. Or who could do any number of things- but because he's become so convinced that his limited, unimaginative authoritarian views are rational objectivity, he's stuck making the same old mistakes until his more human and less damaged past self sees what's going on and puts an end to it.
Given the author's 001 proposal — which is linked to this — I always interpreted the need to have bodies for the wall as less of a need for manpower, and more of a blood sacrifice type deal. The Scarlet King can only be stopped by living bodies and physical manpower; automation wouldn't have any effect. In fact, it'd probably make things worse.
And certainly, since the Scarlet King is shaped by belief, and Kells believed bodies were needed for the wall, bodies became necessary for the wall. And at this point, he's too stuck in his ways to change his beliefs, as Tufto says above.
can I get some nice "no signatures on my forum"
sigma-9 css machine broke
understandable have a nice day
This is only second to red Sea object for me. I'd give so many + if I could.
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