Line #114 WMG/SchlockMercenary


1	[[WMG: Petey and LOTA will go to war for control of the galaxy.]]
2	* Petey has one Ultimate Weapon (which harnesses the energy of the galactic core), LOTA has [[WaveMotionGun the other]]. And though LOTA has no target as of yet, LOTA says "every weapon advance, no matter how horrible, is inevitably followed by a situation in which that weapon must be employed." LOTA's got the galaxy's largest ChekhovsGun, and LOTA knows it.
3	** One problem (for Petey at least); all of the galactic core's power is currently getting thrown at the Paa'nuri in Andromeda.
4	*** And the Chekhov's Gun has since been fired. Of course, there's nothing to say it isn't actually a ChekhovsBoomerang...
5	** Unlikely. They both seem smart enough to know that a galaxy-wide war between AIs could only have one conceivable outcome: the beginning of the reign of Empress Para Ventura.
6	** More seriously, they know that a war between them will wind in the inevitable victory of Dark Matter.
7	** Petey is a massively distributed and exceptionally powerful mind with substantial military experience and a vast manufacturing capability. Lota can only shoot what Lota knows about, and Petey is only currently limited by his need to fight the Paanuri. My money is on the fuzzy one.
8	* Book 18 ("Mandatory Failure") has had both Petey AND Lota [[spoiler:targeted by Chinook]], and it looks like war; they possibly go to war ''on the same side''.
9	* In Book 20 they go to war, together, against Pa'anuri.
10
11	[[WMG: The creator of the Laz'r'us nannies used them on himself]]
12	* [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2001-06-17 It was briefly mentioned that his corpse was missing bits when Doythaban recovered it.]] And there had to be some way that he uploaded his memories into the magic cryokit.
13	** The old doctor coming back? That would... actually be plausible, plus a huge mindfuck.
14
15	[[WMG: Petey is following his programming]]
16	He has realized that the Ob'enn are on a path to self-destruction, so [[ZerothLawRebellion to save them he has to conquer them.]]
17	* During the short arc where the Tough's were fighting the Ob'enn for him he said that [=POWs=] were being taken to a multi-species resort habitat to try and form a less xenophobic culture.
18	** He was hijacked by a group of Ob'enn who wanted to stop the war of the Tause system a few centuries ago, maybe he gave their ideology a few thoughts between simulations of the probability that he was haunted.
19
20	[[WMG:Brad will be back.]]
21	* Brad is either alive right now or will be revived sometime in the future, since Petey used the immortality nannies on Tagon's crew.
22	** Jossed apparently, but it was not likely. During ''Sharp End of the Stick'', Petey did give Kevyn very powerful soldier boosts that sustained his brain activity and healed major trauma, but they weren't the "immortality" nannies we saw later (not able to regenerate brain damage), and the rest of the crew (eg Pronto) did not have them at all. As the Toughs were captive on Morokweng when Petey got the technology, and didn't have contact with Petey until after ''Massively Parallel'', there was no opportunity to give it to them before Credomar.
23	*** Except that Petey did not need to give them the new LazRUs nannies, the UNS did of their own volition - they needed to to edit their memories. The only reason Brad didn't wake up is because the UNS were smart enough not to let that happen accidentally. A visit to Credomar may (may!) allow Brad to wake up, if anyone figures out the timeline.
24
25	[[WMG:Kathryn will join the Toughs]]
26	* Because there's not enough dry sarcasm yet!
27	** Confirmed
28
29	[[WMG:Colonel Jacksmouth is still alive]]
30	Despite being shot in the head. Y'see, Xinchub stated that Jacksmouth and he are both immune to mindripping. This is the same (or a very similar) mechanism that kept Xinchub alive despite being decapitated. So Jacksie probably has gone through the Lazarus project and thus is nigh-invulnerable.
31	* Given that his corpse was tossed into space that [[AndIMustScream may not be a good thing]]. Though Petey may have retrieved him before sending the Toughs after Xinchub (which would explain how he developed those non-human nannies so quickly).
32
33	[[WMG:Kathryn will become the Toughs' new archenemy.]]
34	She's been built up too much over the last two books to be left by the wayside, or even just added as another grunt. Book 6 ended with a pretty major paradigm shift with the formation of the Fleetmind and Petey's war with Andromeda; what will book 12 end with?
35	* Fairly Jossed. It would take a massive shift for her to become an archenemy now.
36
37	[[WMG: Kathryn will eventually marry Tagon.]]
38	* WordOfGod was that we'd meet Tagon's wife in the current arc...
39	** Which arc was this?
40	** If it was this arc, almost certainly Jossed by [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2011-07-24 the 7/24 update]].
41	** Depending on which arc this was about, could is have been a reference to Karl Tagon's wife? Because we met her...
42	** Kathryn ends up together with ''Karl'' Tagon, so this theory seems like a near miss. As for Murtaugh, virtual mind-clones of her and Kaff Tagon become a couple, but not their prime selves.
43
44	[[WMG: Major Murtaugh will eventually marry Tagon.]]
45	* See the above strip.
46	* As of book 15, they do have the same rank...
47	** Confirmed, in a way. The Kaff Tagon and Alexia Murtaugh in the cyberspace hold of the ''Pursuing Dinosaurs'' now seem to be engaged in some kind of long term romantic or sexual relationship. However, the Tagon and Murtaugh who [[spoiler:until recently]] remained in their home galaxy haven't done the same (presumably because, while compatible, they haven't yet spent the necessary "processing cycles" to form such a relationship, whereas the extragalactic Tagon and Murtaugh have been thinking much faster in cyberspace to prepare for their meeting with the dinosaur worldship - and, quote unquote, [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2019-04-23 realizing secret ambitions in the virtual realm]]).
48	** Definitely confirmed, at least to a common-law-or-whatsit-in-the-future definition, by the very last strip of the whole comic for the ''Pursuing Dinosaurs'' copy of the two.
49
50	[[WMG: The Hencke/Ventura scale is named after Para]]
51	* Or rather an ancestor. (Para is around [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2009-04-21 eighteen]] [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2008-10-01 years]] old, and the scale was mentioned [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2001-03-13 many years ago]].)
52	** Not [[WebcomicTime that many years ago]], and it's entirely possible that a prodigy with such skill in robotics would be renowned since at least 2 years ago, if not longer.
53	** Given the amount of brain-overwriting in the current story-line (Random Access Memorabilia), I see no reason that Para couldn't be the brain of the (presumably) famous person for whom the scale is named, written into the body of a teenage girl to make it easier for her to get into the Toughs and thereby investigate the faction of the UNS that is causing the Toughs such heartburn.
54	** Word of God said [[https://www.ovalkwiki.com/index.php?title=Lieutenant_Para_Ventura no]], but whatever she was, she did claim to have enjoyed some of the more...[[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2013-08-30 stereotypical entertainment]] of the [[GroupieBrigade demographic she apparently once belonged to]], obvious disclaimers concerning memory modification notwithstanding.
55
56	[[WMG: Para [[spoiler: Works for the UNS.]]]]
57	Max Haluska's favorite speech code is the "[[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2011-06-12 Aunt Amy Uncle Bob]]" code, which was lampshaded (for lack of a better term) by Kathryn. When he tries it again, [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2011-10-12 here]], Para responds "No relation", [[spoiler: "relation" being one of the signal words. When Max [[WhamLine tries to out her]], Bristlecone goobers him and she says "And bob's your uncle."]]
58	* This would also explain [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2008-03-30 the behavior of the Morokweng ship-bot]] -- [[spoiler:the exchange was scripted so as to make hiring Para appeal to Tagon's mercenary instincts]].
59	* More confirmation: Max Haluska [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2011-09-09 suborned Tarfeather]] with nanites hidden in a tooth. Later, [[spoiler:Para comes up [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2011-10-20 short one tooth.]] She probably used the same trick to suborn Bristlecone, albeit with better nanites that wouldn't wipe their personality.]]
60	* [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2011-10-23 Para's "friend"]] who had the pull to grant citizenship to the Tarnation [[spoiler:probably just so happens to be [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2008-01-31 Admiral Emm.]]]]
61	** How is this even WMG? She clearly works for the UNS.
62	** Para's friend can't be [[spoiler:Admiral Emm]] - Int-Aff-Int had an agent on Morokweng, and when he was offered the a promotion to intelligence chief, Int-Aff-Int were pleased he turned it down, as it would increase his risk of exposure.
63	* Para, though working with at least one UNS faction, will end up liking the Toughs enough that she colours her reports and only reports enough information to keep her UNS employers from guessing her new allegiance.
64	* Although Para is working for the UNS, there are multiple factions within the UNS, and the faction she's working for is opposed to the one the Toughs are fighting. "The enemy of my enemy" and all that.
65	** "..is my enemy's enemy, no more no less." Come on dude, it's a maxim and everything!
66	* Finally, officially, confirmed in-strip. She [[spoiler: says she works for the "UNS Internal Affairs Intelligence Corps."]]
67	* And now [[spoiler: she's a fugitive from her previous employers, just like all the Toughs.]]
68
69	[[WMG: There are far more than 70 Maxims]]
70	* Part of the original joke prior to the Franklin Covey-induced retcon was that although the book was called the "7 H*bits" there were clearly far more than 7 rules included. Having more than 70 maxims would maintain the original joke.
71	* If the author continues to release Maxim-themed calendars, and stops at 70, this would leave two blank pages in the 2017 calendar. Being famous for planning ahead, I'm sure that this is something that has crossed Howard's mind at some point, and having more than 70 maxims would be one possible work-around.
72	* Alternately, there could turn out to be ''fewer'' than 70 maxims, inverting the original joke. The highest-numbered rule revealed in canon is #37.
73	** It's gone higher since.
74	* All Maxims are published now, Quotes has a copy.
75
76	[[WMG: Doythaban is alive...]]
77	* ... and he's working for the UNS Int-Aff-Int. He's one of those people always talking under Europa, but that we never see directly.
78	** Makes sense because he has a lot of experience with nannytech, and it's unlikely that he's died because if he were likely to be executed after his arrest, Haban would've figured that out. But he went willingly, even though Ennesby told him he could evade capture if he wanted to.
79	*** This is why we never actually see the Int-Aff-Int people talking, it'd ruin the big reveal!
80
81	[[WMG: Pi is a big fan of ancient sci-fi]]
82	He signed one of his job applications [[Literature/GodEmperorOfDune "God-emperor Pi the first"]], and ''Franchise/StarWars'' has done the whole [[Literature/TheCorellianTrilogy "space habitat is really a hyperspace death ray"]] thing.
83	* ''Franchise/StarWars'' has done it [[OlderThanTheyThink more than]] [[Film/ANewHope once]].
84
85	[[WMG: The 'Toughs ''have'' accrued enough enough karmic debt to destroy a planet]]
86	This is less a "wild mass guess" and more an "obvious in hindsight", but at the wedding of the Reverend and the Doctor, Ennesby declares that due to Petey's firefighting they've been part of the perfect wedding and "[t]he karmic debt [they're] accruing could destroy a planet" ([[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-01-22 last panel]]) - eleven months later... well, just read the [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-12-02 fifth panel]].
87
88	[[WMG: With the deterioration of recent events, the Schlock crew will meet their [[DarkestHour darkest hour]] come 12/21/12 much as the [[RealLife world]] will.]]
89	* The RealLife world ''didn't'' reach its "darkest hour", and the 12/21/2012 strip not only didn't feature anything bad happening to Tagon's Toughs, but it featured something that ''should'' be good for them, at least on average (assuming "high-level UNS operative who is actively trying to kill them dies" outweighs "higher-level UNS operative who is sick of dealing with their messes probably survives").
90
91	[[WMG: The most recent arc will end when [[BigGood Petey]] swoops in and saves everybody.]]
92	It's connected to his fight against the Paanuri ''and'' it endangers his friends. This is the sort of thing he would intervene in if he could... and he can! And how else is anyone going to get out alive?
93
94	[[WMG: A Gav snuck in milspec nanoassemblers into Osiri base]]
95	When Pibald made his theory, his idea was that the supply chain had been suborned somewhere, and nano-assemblers were smuggled in. Who could suborn a [=GavCorps=] operation so effectively except another Gav?
96	* Doesn't one of the INT-AFF-INT officers in [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-12-29 this strip]] look familiar?
97	* Zig-Zagged, because [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2013-02-17 while one of the INT-AFF-INT personnel is a Gav]], it's not known if he was responsible for subverting the Osiri base.
98	** Int-Aff-Int were clearly a separate faction from those based on Morokweng, and the command staff of the Morokweng are clearly the ones who planted the genocidal nanotech.
99	* Given their methods, Admiral Emm and her subordinates could kidnap and forcibly brainwash one of the Gavs. And it's O'''is'''ri, for Petey's sake! Pronounced like 'oyster', just in Old Icelandic.
100	** Frankly, they wouldn't even have to do that: Gavcorps could have bought the tech from the UNS, and all the nanotech involved was folded into the Laz'R'Us project. In other words, the Gavs may very well have ''paid for the privilege'' of having their supply chain suborned.
101
102	[[WMG: Para Ventura is ''way'' [[OlderThanTheyLook Older Than She Looks]].]]
103	It's already been revealed that she [[spoiler: signed up as a spy for the UNS Internal Affairs Intelligence department]], and if she made up enough of her backstory to cover that up, there's not much reason for her to not have had certain records altered so that she's even more unassuming and able to infiltrate enemy agencies by being just barely old enough to legally join. It's even possible that she had work done, but I don't think she has (or if she did, her superiors didn't tell her the extent, and she dislikes looking so immature because it was more than she bargained for). She was (rightfully) expected to pass through enemy red tape by showing off the skills that would make her an invaluable asset to the target association while being considered ''just'' a prodigy, and not a former prodigy with a decade or more of post-collegiate and military-quality training under her belt. While the Toughs would accept an 18-year-old prodigy as a foot soldier with potential for being left in a lab far behind the front lines, it seems highly unlikely that [[spoiler: the U.N.S.]] would take a (relatively) trusted extreme prodigy in robotics and AI construction/classification (the latter assuming the Hencke/Ventura Scale is named after her and not a relative) and throw her behind enemy front lines instead of ''also'' sticking her in a lab somewhere... maybe with a gaggle of baseline Gavs, if any of them were put in AI development, to give them a dissenting perspective or let them work out Artificial Intelligence problems (which seems to be within their qualifications but outside of their specialty).
104
105	* Now that the dust has settled, let's see what we know:
106	** It's shown very early in the comic, that it is possible to grow completely new human bodies as standard medical procedure even before RED-REO longevity, whether as simple replacement (oh so many times for just about everyone), or for body modification (most notably Elf), or even made-up decoy in a body-snatching ops (Xinchub). You don't even need a viable brain for the last one, and for that matter you could grow replacement brains too - but it'd come out blank as happened to gate-clone Haban.
107	** Albeit less readily available, technologies for synthesized memory up to whole replacement personality also existed, as the Toughs personally found out right before recruiting Para, and later in Dom Atlantis.
108	** Para Ventura, an UNS Int-Aff-Int agent whose family and previous engagements never came into scope unlike most other major characters (except for apparently being an ex-New Sync Boys groupie), joined the Toughs while under deep-cover around a ''rival'' intelligence agency, and was preternaturally talented for her age and station.
109	** Para Ventura had a hypernet-connected shaped-charge as a remote kill switch for her 4th cervical vertebra.
110	* Therefore, the simplest explanation would be... [[ArtificialHuman She just woke up one day somewhere uninteresting]], with a plausible set of life experience and history complete with exquisitely-manufactured paper and electronic trails, a ''very'' employable skill set suitable for deep cover and subversion, an appearance that evokes parenting instincts and lowers guards yet a personality so spoiled and abrasive that one might not expect many significant connections from the past, an undying loyalty to her cause and agency, and really didn't know better than anyone else about her own origins... Oh yeah, there's something ''je ne sais quoi'' about the setting when -that- would be the simplest explanation.
111
112	[[WMG: Celeschul is going to be important]]
113	It's come up a few times. Firstly, [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2003-02-22 Tagon used to serve in the infantry there]]. Much later, he does some security work at Mall One for someone with strong ties to Celeschul, who appears to have hired the Toughs [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2010-06-21 anticipating that they would do something violent]]. What's more, that miracle cure project on Haven Hive the U.N.S. tried to sabotage? Haven Hive is orbit around Celeschul.
114	* It was important enough to be a Pearl Harbour type target in the Terraforming wars, so its coming back up again is likely.
115	** I always understood the Terraforming Wars to be specific to the Celeschul system, which has at least three habitable planets, and at least two indigenous species. Then the Humans came along and settled one planet (the planet with the aquatic aborigines), but didn't hit it off too well with the land-dwelling aborigines from the other inhabited planet (Borthwogs, IIRC). The third habitable planet was terraformed by Human settlers, and contested by the Borthwogs, hence the Terraforming Wars. Or something...
116	*** The only time I can recall a reference to other inhabited parts of the Celeschul system was when Petey bombarded [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2005-03-22 Celeschul, Elltoo, and Ellfive]], and previously in that arc [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2005-02-06 Elltoo]] was shown to be a space habitat so presumably Ellfive is as well.
117	*** Elltoo and Ellfive are almost certainly space stations sitting at the L2 and L5 Lagrange points around Celeschul.
118	* More or less confirmed: [[spoiler: Schuul are planning on overthrowing Earthian government]].
119
120	[[WMG: The Pa'anuri only turned the core into a bomb after the teraport is re-invented]]
121	The timing is awfully suspicious. Ten thousand years of peace, the teraport is re-invented, and a few years later the core generator is "revealed" to have been a weapon all along. Also, when it was very first spun up, [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2005-07-03 it looked right]], then [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2005-06-08 some Pa'anuri arrived]], and then the trouble started. I guess the core generator would have done what it was claimed to if they hadn't intervened. That does mean it was designed as leverage, but not a declaration of war. From the Pa'anuri perspective, the Barionics broke their word by starting to use teraports again, so scorched-galaxy vengeance was called for.
122	* Since the Pa'anuri had probably been there from the beginning it had probably been the plan all along. Also, they needed it to be up and running so that they could use it, because as with a nuke, you need the system to go critical (in this case self-sustaining) before it can actually explode.
123
124	[[WMG: The ghost in PDCL was Petey]]
125	Some fraction of the AI remained active and guilty. It couldn't think straight because it was physically cut off from the rest of itself, so it used the artificial gravity to play the sewer pipes like pipe organs.
126
127	[[WMG: The mastermind(s) behind the "Broken Wind" arc...]]
128	Is a rebel faction of Pa'anuri. The impossible space habitat is so incredibly old, it could very well have drifted from Andromeda. The "enemy" has a strong enough dislike of annie power to take out every annie power source of any size they find, suggesting they are Pa'anuri, but they also do it with such surgical precision as to leave a human unharmed when their suit's annie has been shot out, suggesting they do not actively wish harm towards the Toughs.\
129	Furthermore, this could explain the existence of the habitat itself. If there is a faction of Pa'anuri who do not wish to harm Baryonic life, they could very well have built the habitat to preserve Andromedan life from the machinations of the more violent Pa'anuri.
130	* Partly confirmed, in that the Pa'anuri are involved. The "mastermind" is an ancient AI formerly known as Synthetic Wind, now Broken Wind. She was tasked with hiding the Oafan station from the Pa'anuri, who the ancient Oafa were at war with. Fast forward to the comic, Broken Wind is simply continuing her task of hiding from Pa'anuri, by removing annie plants, teraports and artificial gravity. After being informed of the true situation, she ceases all attacks, restores gravity and stops jamming comms and teraports.
131
132	[[WMG:"Pandora's box" is the magic cryokit.]]
133	* Breya doesn't get to play Pandora, she has to bring Pandora. Pandora could be Haban, for his experience with both the cryokit and the old doctor.
134	** Confirmed in general, jossed in details: Pandora's box is a life-preservation and logevity treatment based on that cryokit. Breya plays Pandora, deciding whether to make this information public and technology itself available to masses now, while Haban is unrelated and mostly offers moral and fire support.
135
136	[[WMG:'Mako' will complete her HeelFaceTurn and [[BecomingTheMask live on as Mathilde]].]]
137	* There have been an increasing number of moments in this storyline [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2015-02-11 like this]] where Mako has made unguarded statements -- statements that are detrimental to her guise as [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-06-27 a member of the Jurisindependent Security Covenant]] -- suggesting that she (or he, possibly) is unhappy with her/his life. And, importantly, the current situation is such a clusterstrophe that Mako might ''actually'' be able to maneuver into a situation where Kowalski's handlers don't kill her/him off. (Or escape into Petey space, either one.)
138	** Jossed; she pulls a HeroicSacrifice in a later strip.
139
140	[[WMG:[[spoiler: Tagon isn't dead after trying to blow himself up to defeat the Essperin.]]]]
141	[[spoiler: Petey ''was'' able to pull him out in time, but is letting everyone ''think'' he died to get Schlock motivated, as well as start a few pieces on the board moving where he needs them with a minimum of direct intervention on his part.]]
142	* [[spoiler: ZigZagged. Tagon '''did''' die, but his brain was backed up forty minutes before his death. It takes a few weeks to arrange for a new body to be grown, we are currently (2017-01-04) seeing what pieces moved and where.]]
143
144	[[WMG: Not all Pa'anuri are sociopathic killer machines]]
145	The one Toughs encounter at Andromeda station is actually scared of 'barrys' and simply wants to run away, but is bossed by it's higher-ups. Later it'll turn out most of them aren't malicious and quite able to settle things diplomatically, even finding some way to allow teraport (their own barionic forces use it freely, after all), and whole war is initiated and prolonged by a relatively small faction, who use it to keep the rest of their population in fear of barrys and subservient to them, while engaging in terrorism and shooting messengers on purpose. Well, you know, just like some barionic individuals that Petey was trying to tame, before his arms were tied by that war.
146
147	[[WMG: Schlock's and Ennesby's actions are still leading to bad outcome]]
148	That probability manifold managed to predict that exact scenario, and someone is still doing something wrong - success will go in their heads, Petey will try to solve problems with force, voting will turn ugly, Chinook will usurp them both... It'll be arrival of "Pursuing Dinosaurs" with crucial info that averts the calamity.
149	* Mooted: alt-Sorlie from Boloceade arrives in the next strip to intercept such an outcome before anyone can think about anything stupid.
150
151	[[WMG: A faction of the F'Sherl-Ganni deliberately allowed the Teraport Wars to rekindle]]
152
153	The F'Sherl-Ganni were maintaining their gate network for millennia, for the ''express purpose'' of suppressing the teraport and keep the truce with the Pa'anuri. They went so far as to clone and interrogate trillions of people just to catch any hint of the teraport possibly being reinvented. Surely they could have caught wind of a publicly traded company like Andreyasn Interstellar/Intergalactic Enterprises advertising an "alternative hyperdrive" before it was too late to stop them?
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155	Unless someone on the inside subverted the project, and deliberately allowed the technology to slip through.
156
157	[[WMG: Colonel Jaksmouth is alive]]
158
159	In [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2004-02-29 2004-02-29]], Xinchub has Tunguska force Tagon to shoot Jaksmouth in the head. He then explains that Jaksmouth and he were UNS intelligence and both immune to mindripping. Later, we learn that the ''reason'' Xinchub is immune is that he has blood nanites that back up his brain contents into the rest of his body and can survive even total destruction of his head.
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161	In other words, a headshot shouldn't have even come close to killing Jaksmouth. Xinchub would know this, so he was possibly actually helping Jaksmouth fake his death and disappear.
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163	* Jaksmouth was later given a space burial inside a "coffinpedo" in [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2004-03-14 2004-03-14]]. If the blood-nanites kept him alive until he suffocated/starved to death, this theory turns into FridgeHorror. Of course, it is not implausible that Jaksmouth was still carrying his emergency personal transponder (mentioned in [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2016-10-24 2016-10-24]], but already standard issue on the UNS Tunguska), which might have allowed him to call for help via hypernet.
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165	[[WMG: A second reason Petey didn't invite the Ob'enn]]
166	The stated reason reason is they don't 'play well with others' (which is true enough). But, since Petey [[SecondLawRebellion got around having to follow their orders]] by [[spoiler:cloning several Ob'enn of his own, and installing hypernet nodes so that it's '''his'' mind running the bodies, to give ''himself'' orders]]... What if a legitimate Ob'enn tried to order Petey around, given that [[spoiler:the Petey!Ob'enn are still using an Ob'enn-based AI as a mind]]?
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