Pirate...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> A thought on the USSD's "Black Box", and how Mason lost his body and
> mind.
>
> First, go read this http://www.ravensgarage.com/garage/maslargo.htm
> because I intend to build on that a little here.
>
> A lot of people have wondered how it is that V7-28 got into the Largo
> body in the first place. Okay, maybe not a lot, maybe just me.
>
> You'd think Mason would be careful about preventing something like
> having the transfer of his consciousness corrupted by a rogue A.I.
>
> He was outmaneuvered by V7-28 (Thanks for that one Captain Obvious!),
> but the question is, "How?"
>
> I think I've got that figured out.
>
> To quote Jeanne Hedge's synopsis again : "Cynthia is seen standing
> atop the wreckage of Aqua City, while a helicopter from Genom hovers
> nearby. Mason, in the co-pilot's seat, mutters a few words into a
> microphone, the helicopter pulls away, and the Knight Sabers realize
> that Cynthia, too, is a Boomer! Suddenly, one of USSD's satellite
> weapons fires its particle beam into Aqua City, destroying Cynthia and
> sending the wreckage to the bottom of the harbor."
>
> There is a crucial detail lacking : the Knight Sabers realize Cynthia
> is a boomber because tendrils from Fredrick have fused with her body.
> This means Fredrick/V7-28 now has access to the Black Box and those
> codes he's been after so desperately! I don't think it's Cynthia that
> fires the satellite weapon, after all, she's crying out for help at
> that point. No, it's Fredrick that fires the sat beam, to put on a
> show for Mason, to convince Mason that Fredrick/V7-28 is now dead.
> It's V7-28 that does just enough damage to Cynthia to cease her
> functioning (or does he), and leaves the Black Box unscathed so that
> Mason can pick it (and the body it's in) up and incor****ate it into
> his Superboomer project, a project V7-28 almost surely knows of
> through his intimate knowledge of Genom's computer systems and all the
> data therein. It's also safe to say he knows about the OMS, it is,
> after all, his goal to obtain it once he gets into the Largo body.
>
> So, my theory goes like this :
> * V7-28 gets out of the Genom network and gets himself a new body in
> the form of Fredrick
How?
> * In some obscure fa****on, he lets Mason know he's done this,
> something that looks like a mistake in covering his tracks, or
> somesuch.
If you go back to the ADP Graphic Novel which detail v728's creation
and early life, the very last pages show v728 trapped n Genom's
computers, and Mason requests all the data from those computers be
sent directly to him. At this point it becomes a guessing game as to
what happened between the end of the ADPGN and BGC Episode 1, but I
have been writing a fanfic for a while around this and my best guess
is that once Mason scoured the data and found v728 trapped inside,
Mason threatens to delete v728 because of all the damage he has
caused. Being a survivor and faced with being erased, v728 would
naturally plead for his life. But why should Mason spare him? If you
recall from the ADPGN, while v728 was inside the Genom computer system
he managed to uncover a secret about Quincy's age and almost revealed
this secret to Mason and several other executives before Quincy
himself abruptly cut into the convo and cut v728 off. So, my next
guess is that Mason, being as ambitious as he is, advises v728 that he
will spare his life in return for information about Quincy's secret.
Again this is speculation, but I believe the secret pertains to Quincy
having already transferred his own consciousness to several boomers to
extend his life, which explains his doubles and explains Largo's
cryptic remark about believing the "real" Quincy was supposed to be at
the Genom tower when he had his meeting and demanded the OMS. Mason
wants Quincy gone and may have originally been prepared to just wait
until the old man died, but now he knows Quincy could live potentially
forever. Mason becomes impatient, and asks v728 how the consciousness
transfer was accomplished. In exchange for his life, v728 explains the
process and even offers to help Mason do it himself. A plan is put in
motion, but when Mason dies, and his consciousness is downloaded into
what eventually becomes Largo, something goes wrong. My theory is that
v728 tricks Mason and manages to transfer himself along with Mason's
consciousness. Now v728 is free of the confines of Genom's computers,
and as you theorize yourself, he can now hunt down the OMS that he may
be able to use to further his ever-burning goal to be the boomer
messiah.
What happened in between v728 being "captured" in the Genom computer
system and his showing up in Frederick is tougher to guess, but it may
be that v728 originally attempted to escape Genom by transferring a
copy of himself to Frederick, only to be destroyed by the KS. We saw
this virus-like behaviour before when he ended up in Armstrong and we
see it again when he ends up in Largo.
To me, one of the biggest morals of BGC is, "Backing up your data is a
matter of life and death in the future."
Pops
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