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Moooooorrre!!! I must have more!!! This is great stuff!
I wanna know what the heck it was that made the captain put the ship into hybernation like that.
I wanna know what the heck it was that made the captain put the ship into hybernation like that.
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Can't help but thinking about Event Horizon also. Not that an Imperial Stardestroyer on the loose in Trek-verse really need anything to increase it's scaryness factor.
Considering how easy it is to get highly sophisticated self-aware machines in the Empire I wonder how advanced the main computer of a SD might become. It would probably have blocks against becoming to independent but isolated from the chain of command without any recognized authority it wouldn't surprise me if the professional paranoids in the empire had programmed it to take charge itself to seek out and destroy any non-imperial regimes.
Considering how easy it is to get highly sophisticated self-aware machines in the Empire I wonder how advanced the main computer of a SD might become. It would probably have blocks against becoming to independent but isolated from the chain of command without any recognized authority it wouldn't surprise me if the professional paranoids in the empire had programmed it to take charge itself to seek out and destroy any non-imperial regimes.
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That would be the stupidest thing imaginable. You do NOT want to piss off other governments in an uncontrolled fashion.CJvR wrote:it wouldn't surprise me if the professional paranoids in the empire had programmed it to take charge itself to seek out and destroy any non-imperial regimes.
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But wouldn't it just leave when the ship shut down and their was nothing left to kill/maim/mindcontrol left in the ship?Natorgator wrote:Hmm...if there was something that was so drastic the entire crew died, why would he not make the ship self-destruct? ISDs do have self-destruct measures, right?
Unless it was a phenomenon that wasn't contained aboard the ship..
And go were?darthdavid wrote:But wouldn't it just leave when the ship shut down and their was nothing left to kill/maim/mindcontrol left in the ship?Natorgator wrote:Hmm...if there was something that was so drastic the entire crew died, why would he not make the ship self-destruct? ISDs do have self-destruct measures, right?
Unless it was a phenomenon that wasn't contained aboard the ship..
Remember space is big, really really fucking big.
The ship was locked down, I would guess the it couldnt actually get out.
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"It won't die ... it gets into your head, and ..."Natorgator wrote:Hmm...if there was something that was so drastic the entire crew died, why would he not make the ship self-destruct? ISDs do have self-destruct measures, right?
Unless it was a phenomenon that wasn't contained aboard the ship..
Sounds like something noncaporeal, like the thing in Day of the Dove.
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Or possibly Devil in the Dark? Of course it's possible that the threat came onboard from the SW Galaxy and caused the problem that stranded the ISD in the ST universe.NecronLord wrote:"It won't die ... it gets into your head, and ..."Natorgator wrote:Hmm...if there was something that was so drastic the entire crew died, why would he not make the ship self-destruct? ISDs do have self-destruct measures, right?
Unless it was a phenomenon that wasn't contained aboard the ship..
Sounds like something noncaporeal, like the thing in Day of the Dove.
There's a whole host of possibilities.
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Indeed, all loyal imperial citizen are waiting for the next chapter, wanting to see how that lonely ISD is faring in that big cold alien galaxy.
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He, obviously, was on crack.Kuja wrote:Yes, I know. My reference was to the general's line: "They get your head. They make you do things."Singular Quartet wrote:No, those bugs sucked out your brains.Kuja wrote:The first thing I thought of were the bugs in Starship Troopers, actually. The "they get in your head" phrase is virtually identicle.
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