At 09:47 AM 6/22/97 -0600, Chris Davies wrote:

On Sun, 22 Jun 1997, Jeanne Hedge wrote:

At 10:48 PM 6/21/97 -0400, OtakuLoki@aol.com wrote:

Huh?  For the entirty of Crisis it seemed that anyone Priss did pull a gun
on, or punch or spit at was (with the exception of Leon) a Boomer.   Even if
in disguise...  I can see her getting upset with any boomer or "boomeroid"
that acted as anything other than a menial role.  

<snip>

earlier in Crisis.  That's one of the reasons Sylia gives for NOT bringing
Genom down -- their products are too pervasive. Get rid of boomers, and
people can't live anymore: they are too dependent on them - they make life
easier for the citizenry. (except when Genom is running a "field test")

	*Sylia* realizes this.  (Sometimes.)  The question is, does Priss?
(And one intriguing *possible* answer is, yes ... and she privately thinks
that getting rid of the boomers, thus destroying civilization, would be a
Good Thing.)

No, no... that was in my reply to try to illustrate that Boomers are
everywhere, and that Priss and everyone else in MegaTokyo (the world?) is
constantly exposed to and surrounded by Boomers of various types.

I agree with you about Sylia, but I don't think Priss is that stupid.

	I think that Priss *would* be deeply suspicious, and quite 
probably "on the attack", if -- post Largo -- she were to meet boomers
that displayed signs of sentience and personality -- which she would,
understandably, equate with madness and instability.  

She didn't attack ADAMA.  Ever.  Even on first meeting.  She just called him
names and told him to go away and leave her alone (because she had to go
find some boomer named ADAMA and rescue it <g>)

Remember, ADAMA had the 2nd generation AI and was designed to be "more human
than human" (to steal a bit from the uber-source material ^_- )

The majority of
boomers, which don't display that sort of thing, she probably ignores,
except when they get in her way.  (When that happens, Skuld help them.)

<snicker> ^_^

	I'm not so certain, though, that Priss would be hostile towards
people with cybernetics.  At least, not EXTENSIVE cybernetics -- e.g.
boomeroids, individuals who are more than 70% artificial -- which are
apparently fairly rare in the Crisis/Crash era.

Considering Boomeroids were made illegal in the late 2020's, they are
probably around but not openly, and, as you say, probably not in large
numbers.  I'd guess in 2030's MT you couldn't afford to be hostile toward
people with cybernetics, though. I have the impression, based primarily on
ADP manga material, that an awful lot of people have them - for everything
from simple limb prostetics (see Jeena Malso) on up the scale.

Chris Davies.
(But no, I still don't think she and Kiddy Phenil would get along. :)  But
it would be more due to Kiddy's "cop" descriptor than her "cyborg"
descriptor ...)

I think I'd pay to see *that* meeting :)

(hey! How come Kiddy and company weren't in Together Again? Everybody else was!)


Jeanne Hedge
http://www.accsyst.com/jhedge/

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