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Sorry, from when I'm standing, it doesn't wash. We can nod to Quickened mannequins/androids, but that's already stretching it.
For example, Ifurita, if the 'droid actually Quickened, wouldn't be much more than a sentient with marginally-better-than-human physical capabilities. No 'copycat' system, no beam weapons, nothing. Outside of, _maybe_, photographic memory and being a jack-of-all-trades.
I can see why you'd think that, and I do have what could be an explaination for Ifurita's enhanced capabilities. However, I'm not planning on Ifurita having to USE those abilities ever again in the story (as I very much doubt such capabilities will ever be NEEDED in the story). Also M and the 'Danelaw will NOT let her off Earth if at all possible.
Quote:Sure, I understand. It's how the idea wrote itself though, and I'm sure you know how insperation is.
Also, you're oversaturating a bit, I think. One 'android' after getting royally pissed is okay. You can write it off as 'weirdness' and shrug and walk on. Two would be stretching it a bit. Four? Sorry if I'm being a spoil-sport, but that's what it looks like to me.
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Or maybe it's just that I get this 'eh, been done' feeling from it. Rob's already got the 'android/manequinn' collection, and it's enough of a stretch that it should be something unique. Besides, there was a lot more effort put into Sora and the others than just going ahead and 'kitbashing' them.
You've gotta have effort, else everyone'd be doing it. On a huge scale.
To be honest, I only started writing this two hours before seeing Rob's first post. And I was very reluctant to even post it given what's come up in the thread. As for how he got them, M found pure, unadulterated first-gen Handwavium. There is nothing outside Haruhi that could do more. Other than a small sample he sent to the Professor before the guy got kicked upstairs, he used it all. Plus the fact that M was extremely susceptable to 'wavium and it to him and we have a feedback loop.
What I haven't stated yet (as I was planning to put in my next post) is that any other andriod outside those first four M eventually gets requires 'Mothers', i.e. A source of that original Handwavium. M doesn't know this, and the first four ladies have only recently realised it. The androids are not planning on letting him in on the secret ever.
From what I know of the Series (i.e. what I've read in these boards in passing), an acidentally created race of Handwavium androids that need human imagination to propagate would be right up Haruhi's alley.
Quote:Which is why I use the 'blind drunk' angle. M is based mostly on me, and I'd never conciously try to awaken one peroid.
Oh, and you can't just go ahead and awaken an AI. Pretty much every single one of those Quickened on its own, and consciously working on making one develop has proven to be ineffective at best.
If enough people complain about it I'll take the post down, but the reason I eventually put it up was that I could see a need for some of the story be Earthside.