Well, I was specifics gonna call out the good text displacement. Manual liquify, eh? I'd have tried using the paper texture as a displacement map first. Faster. But yours looks excellent.
Hmmm, what do you do with megaship hulks? On the headcanon, well, it's your story, so yours is "definitive." I can see the materials being salvageable and reusable, but the data -- the engrams, experience, and personality of the prior ship -- that's gone. Probably Better and Just Enough are dead and anything left of them are whatever subsets were downloaded into drone bodies. Assuming Justin survived they carry some of Just Enough's personality and memories, but just a tiny fraction. Enough for some continuity.
But I LIKE Just Enough/Justin, so I look for a "best case" scenario with them.
All that's left of Probably Better is floating out in deep space with Could Kill and I doubt PB programmed those drones with anything beyond the attack orders. PB is REALLY gone. Good riddance.
So... Is it Kaenamor or Yana trying to reconstruct themself? We'll never know unless the author intends on doing a side story or a surprise final viewpoint.
Yeah, agreed on megaships. Reanimating, even if possible, wouldn't bring back the personality and accumulated knowledge of that specific mind. And while a lot of that raw data will exist in the wider network, back on Max-Earth, I don't see it being an exact personality clone. A new mind could have the memories and knowledge of Just Enough, then, but not BE Just Enough. That's formed by the far more fuzzy connection of brainy bits in the ship itself.
Well, I was specifics gonna call out the good text displacement. Manual liquify, eh? I'd have tried using the paper texture as a displacement map first. Faster. But yours looks excellent.
Hmmm, what do you do with megaship hulks? On the headcanon, well, it's your story, so yours is "definitive." I can see the materials being salvageable and reusable, but the data -- the engrams, experience, and personality of the prior ship -- that's gone. Probably Better and Just Enough are dead and anything left of them are whatever subsets were downloaded into drone bodies. Assuming Justin survived they carry some of Just Enough's personality and memories, but just a tiny fraction. Enough for some continuity.
But I LIKE Just Enough/Justin, so I look for a "best case" scenario with them.
All that's left of Probably Better is floating out in deep space with Could Kill and I doubt PB programmed those drones with anything beyond the attack orders. PB is REALLY gone. Good riddance.
So... Is it Kaenamor or Yana trying to reconstruct themself? We'll never know unless the author intends on doing a side story or a surprise final viewpoint.
Yeah, agreed on megaships. Reanimating, even if possible, wouldn't bring back the personality and accumulated knowledge of that specific mind. And while a lot of that raw data will exist in the wider network, back on Max-Earth, I don't see it being an exact personality clone. A new mind could have the memories and knowledge of Just Enough, then, but not BE Just Enough. That's formed by the far more fuzzy connection of brainy bits in the ship itself.
Interesting theory about Kaenamor/Yana.
I mean other possibilities are Mini-Unihex (yay?) or Probably Better (FUCK!).
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Haha! Brilliant. 'Chris Worst'.