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* The climax makes NOMAD's purpose really confusing. For one thing the missiles seem able to travel pretty far so I'm not really sure why they need NOMAD to hover over places to hit them. Couldn't they just haul them to orbit like they're presumably already doing to restock it, and launch them from there without using NOMAD to bring them over a target? The way blowing up NOMAD disables the missiles is also strange, it suggests they're being remotely operated for some reason. The military is wary of intelligent AI but they never really seem opposed to other computers doing important things, so I don't really see any reason to not have the missiles be autonomous.
* The climax makes NOMAD's purpose really confusing. For one thing the missiles seem able to travel pretty far so I'm not really sure why they need NOMAD to hover over places to hit them. Couldn't they just haul them to orbit like they're presumably already doing to restock it, and launch them from there without using NOMAD to bring them over a target? The way blowing up NOMAD disables the missiles is also strange, it suggests they're being remotely operated for some reason. The military is wary of intelligent AI but they never really seem opposed to other computers doing important things, so I don't really see any reason to not have the missiles be autonomous.
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** I'm pretty sure part of the idea of NOMAD was that New Asia doesn't have the resources to get anything close to it so there's a good chance they genuinely never expected any space combat.
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** I always pictured the one the blew up LA was just a computer in a military base somewhere or something, which now that I think about it might be exactly why they don't make them
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*** Given how [[BrainUploading]] is depicted I don't think it'd really be a useful to evade the Americans. There's never any indication of their AIs having any real wireless ability besides Alphie and infinitely copying would still require bodies which are being decimated, remember the war is against ''all'' of New Asia's sapient robots, specific ones staying around wouldn't really make much of a difference. As for Maya, if it really ''does'' only last a few minutes even on living people it wouldn't have done any good.
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** I always kind of pictured the one that nuked LA being a computer system in a military base or something since it's never shown and that'd be the best way to set it up, which now that you mention it might be exactly why they don't do it anymore.
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** They ''aren't'', the police and military of New Asia repeatedly try to stop them. It doesn't really seem like a warzone because much like imperialism in real life the death and destruction has just become part of their day to day lives. As for the rest of the world it's presumably similarly realistic in that other wealthy nations just don't really care. Historically elite nations having their own world-defining squabbles but ignoring anything the others are ruining in poorer places is ''extremely'' common, it's even where the term "third world" comes from.
