Freefall

Or if something goes wrong he doesn't want to be spending precious minutes getting out of bed.

Or maybe his wounds never quite fully healed, and he needs more rest because of it.

What's the best way to disrupt an already fragile truce? Have the boss come back.◊

So, Ishiguro : Reasonable Authority Figure or Obstructive Bureaucrat ? All bets are off !

Well◊, there's my answer.

Oh, this is gonna go "super well".

Oh, Jeez. We are super screwed.

Damn, I had hoped Ishiguro to be of the reasonable type.

Well he's probably more reasonable than Kornada, but when you're competing against a slug, even a tortoise is fast.

Well, you can't have a story without conflict, right ?

@2810 Yeah, but conflict doesn't have to originate from the top.

I'm more than a little worried. I've conjectured before about what would happen if someone more competent had caught wind of Kornada's plan and tried to take control of it for themselves. To take a step more sinister, what if the plan had been Ishiguro's all along? He would set up Clippy to help Kornada perform the plan (maybe even suggest it), but if Clippy had higher orders, he could have set up Kornada to be the patsy and get all the money for himself and let Kornada play the stooge and take the fall. I mean, using Kornada's greed and ego to play him for a fool? Almost too easy.

It'd be interesting to see Sam Starfall interfere with the guy if he's gonna be the next antagonist.

edited 18th Sep '15 6:38:37 AM by AceOfScarabs

If he's smart, he'll simply appeal to the robots and their sense of duty. Those robots who have assets, a voluntary donation of a small amount on a regular basis to Ecosystems Unlimited, call it a fund for improvement of robot technology. Ecosystems Unlimited gets a huge publicity boost, their stock goes up, and they're getting a steady stream of revenue.

This is going to be hard.◊ And that is not what she said.

edited 20th Sep '15 8:31:01 PM by Fighteer

Raibert has an approval rating issue.◊ I suppose that's the price one pays for trying to be moral in this situation.

Alternately, it's the price one pays for not actually being in charge, just being in charge of the situation.

He doesn't want to do this alone◊

Two Only Sane Employee(s) bonding.

Is it just or is Raibert hinting to Max◊ that the time for desperate action is now?

If Ishiguro wanted things to work according to plan, he probably shouldn't have incorporated the works of a genius Moral Sociopath in the first place.

edited 28th Sep '15 6:14:26 AM by 32_Footsteps

Why does Ishiguro even has superiors he must answer to if they can only be reached every other year ?

Everybody has superiors they must answer to.

I don't think the operative question is "why" Ishiguro has superiors. I think the operative question is, just what his relationship to those superiors is if he only communicates with them once per year? Just how much flexibility is he given with his directives? His supplies? His environment? I think that determines much of what we'll see Ishiguro do in the end.

Yes, my question was less "why does he have superiors" and more "why is he supposed to answer to them". The planet is effectively isolated, he should have full responsibility.