I want to apologize to Michael, Kasey, and also I guess myself, for every time I’ve tasked an artist with drawing a wall full of display screens. Kasey’s gone above and beyond this time, with all those capital buildings behind the A.I. brain in the jar.
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Kentaro: I've been negotiating. As a virtual avatar, of course. Prime ministers and A.I.s don't 'officially' get along.
Jacob: Negotiating? Negotiating what?
Kentaro: Remember my father's plague? It's already pandemic...a retrovirus that will slowly surface and kill almost everyone. I gave every world leader the Chrysalis tank tech. To save the world.
Jacob: Negotiating? Negotiating what?
Kentaro: Remember my father's plague? It's already pandemic...a retrovirus that will slowly surface and kill almost everyone. I gave every world leader the Chrysalis tank tech. To save the world.
Ooooh my.
Well, if he’s been negotiating, he must’ve asked for something in return…maybe some of those snazzy anti-Genocide Men turrets like the one Lola had?
Commenter ‘ben’ from last strip got it closest to correct – he predicted that Kentaro would bargain with a plague cure. But instead, Kentaro gave it away.
How do you beat Jacob? Be a better person. Kentaro just joined Ciera (spell?) in learning that lesson.
Seems like what he gave is downright hospitable. What did he get?
‘Course, if I were Kentaro I would have devoted a lot of run-time towards writing an autobiography about my life as a human, as an AI, and how much I loved life and living, plus everything I knew/observed about AIs and ideas for continuing AI research. Maybe allow humans to make a truly stable one some day in the distant future.
He “got” the world leaders to adopt Fumiaki’s technology and methods.
Genocide Project were dealing with a small uprising.
Now they have to deal with every world leader defecting from their line.
… whoof!
Didn’t Fumiaki get that plague from Jacob, who, himself, got it from his former superiors? Something doesn’t add up here, unless I’ve forgotten something.
Welp, can’t be all well and good considering Roger described this day as “the day the world went to hell”.
jprime, Fumiaki got Jacob’s portable bio-chemistry lab, but Fumiaki used it to design his own custom virus.
I’m not going to say much more yet, because I love seeing all the speculation. 🙂
My theory is that the Chrysalis tanks are hard coded to reconstruct any victim of the virus with the empath genes.
Therefore, either you die from the virus or become genetically adverse to violence.
Interesting, so what can be done with the chrysalis tech?
1) cure fumiaki’s plague
2) genetically engineer super soldiers and other deviations safely
3) potentially make it impossible for the Genocide Project’s plague tech to affect humanity without a serious overhaul.
@The Sidhekin
I think you got it exactly – Kentaro just broke the Genocide Project’s hold on the world. Which was also his father’s goal.
So he got governments to accept Fumiaki’s tech… therefore most likely putting nations at odds with the Genocide Project… which have codes for nuclear weapons…
Kentaro hasn’t saved the world, he’s sown the seeds for another world war!
I’m sorry. I don’t have time to read the whole page…..I’m busy drawing more screens! 🙂
A new hypothesis just struck me. This isn’t about Kentaro and Jacob both living. This is Kentaro’s suicide plan, he thinks Jacob should die with him.