Right.
I'm trying to do some complex things with this story.
It's supposed to be the last Jet story, finishing out her character arc in some way. I thought about ending it with her death or something but that'd be a bit like taking my toys and going home. It might also destroy the genre directive.
Maybe the best way to complete her story might be something else.
We're creating a fake data model here, to make it look like Jet's snapped after ten years of stress. She's pushed to the edge by being out of her depth and competence zone running a settlement and just barely keeping it from collapsing - and then someone 'kills' her brother. The world that is now doesn't really let her do what she's 'good' at anymore - and what she tries to do afterwards she isn't really succesful enough at to make a worthwhile living - because in a reputation economy, nobody can really see her as being capable of anything else. Not to the point of parting with money.
So. Who better to be defeated by a fake data model than Profeta? And, by extension, maybe Asmodeus Grey.
They wanted Mackie because of his membership in a certain club - tried to fake his accidental death while kidnapping him, and inadvertantly ended up actually 'killing him'. There' an irony in there.
And it closes the circle on the War side of Jet's character by letting her do the warrior thing one last time in a universe that doesn't really need it anymore, even if it doesn't answer the question of 'What Next'?
I'll leave it up to everyone else to decide how succesful she is after that.
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?
I'm trying to do some complex things with this story.
It's supposed to be the last Jet story, finishing out her character arc in some way. I thought about ending it with her death or something but that'd be a bit like taking my toys and going home. It might also destroy the genre directive.
Maybe the best way to complete her story might be something else.
We're creating a fake data model here, to make it look like Jet's snapped after ten years of stress. She's pushed to the edge by being out of her depth and competence zone running a settlement and just barely keeping it from collapsing - and then someone 'kills' her brother. The world that is now doesn't really let her do what she's 'good' at anymore - and what she tries to do afterwards she isn't really succesful enough at to make a worthwhile living - because in a reputation economy, nobody can really see her as being capable of anything else. Not to the point of parting with money.
So. Who better to be defeated by a fake data model than Profeta? And, by extension, maybe Asmodeus Grey.
They wanted Mackie because of his membership in a certain club - tried to fake his accidental death while kidnapping him, and inadvertantly ended up actually 'killing him'. There' an irony in there.
And it closes the circle on the War side of Jet's character by letting her do the warrior thing one last time in a universe that doesn't really need it anymore, even if it doesn't answer the question of 'What Next'?
I'll leave it up to everyone else to decide how succesful she is after that.
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?