 Captian Chaos, MiA, DOA or A-OK? |
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 Nov 4 2005, 12:59 AM
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Target  Group: Members Posts: 22 Joined: 14-March 04 From: Illinois Member No.: 6,157  |
I havent gotten to read system failure yet but I was wondering if Captian Chaos made it through the crash?
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Nov 4 2005, 01:20 AM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,008 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
No.
~J |
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Nov 4 2005, 02:10 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 54 Joined: 29-May 05 Member No.: 7,419 |
Though exactly *what* his status is at the end is a little uncertain. Or at least his future. I love how perhaps the key SR icon's entire existence hangs on one command line Y/N option.
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Nov 4 2005, 02:30 AM
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Horror Group: Members Posts: 5,322 Joined: 15-June 05 From: BumFuck, New Jersey Member No.: 7,445 |
IIRC, someone posted that he got deleted as a GitM.
Personally? I say it dosen't matter whether or not they tried to delete him. He's Captain Chaos! He's gonna make it. You don't just delete 'em, if you want to erase CC, you're going to have to do better than that. Better than a whole tribe of Otaku attacking. |
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Nov 4 2005, 03:50 AM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,008 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Old deckers never die, they just get garbage collected.
~J |
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Nov 4 2005, 03:50 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,748 Joined: 5-July 02 Member No.: 2,935 |
He's dead, Jim.
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Nov 4 2005, 04:03 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 22 Joined: 14-March 04 From: Illinois Member No.: 6,157 |
"GitM"? If it is true that sucks donkey balls but makes sense. The dumpshock must have been massive and deadly.
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Nov 4 2005, 10:14 AM
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Grumpy Old Ork Decker Group: Admin Posts: 3,794 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Orwell, Ohio Member No.: 50 |
Cap was a real person, not an AI or anything, and he died trying to save as much of Shadowland as possible. Basically, he "Went down with his ship" while offloading as many passngers as possible into lifeboats.
Bull |
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Nov 4 2005, 10:41 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 917 Joined: 5-September 03 From: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Member No.: 5,585 |
A moment, then, to reflect...
Long live the Capt! May his data-trail never be found and his legend inspire others. -Tir |
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Nov 4 2005, 11:53 AM
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panda! Group: Members Posts: 10,331 Joined: 8-March 02 From: north of central europe Member No.: 2,242 |
or better yet, they get put on offline storage for future refrence :smokin: |
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Nov 4 2005, 01:33 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 22 Joined: 14-March 04 From: Illinois Member No.: 6,157 |
Absolutly. Here's to Cap. Im getting to gether with a couple of my SR buddies tonight and we'll have a Beer for him. |
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Nov 4 2005, 02:56 PM
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Man In The Machine Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,264 Joined: 26-February 02 From: I-495 S Member No.: 1,105 |
Yep, sorry to say but its written in the intro of Sr4. Im more then mildly bummed. Capt was the man.
On a related note... prehaps that toy that Dunk gave him had something to do with it? </wild speculation> |
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Nov 4 2005, 04:07 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,219 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Lofwyr's stomach. Member No.: 1,320 |
NO wild Speculation about it. The worm that caused the second crash managed to break the encryption on jackbNimble, and it activated. it seems to have backed up the personalities of people who where "Killed in the crach, including Capt'n Chaos. However, The captain's personality backup regained self-awareness, becoming a ghost in the machine. The jackbnimble program determined this was a system error, and deleted the captain's file. Then it went to back up other people caught in the crash.
I think this has some relation to the sprites technomancers can summon, but that is pure speculation. |
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Nov 4 2005, 05:32 PM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,718 Joined: 14-September 02 Member No.: 3,263 |
But he ain't Uncle Ben. Wish he was, then i wouldn't worry so much about a cheezy-shell-of-CC Free Sprite popping up in the future, sullying his memory. :( That'd bum me out worse than his death and not even in a good way, unlike his death did because of the way he bit it. |
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Nov 4 2005, 05:36 PM
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Prime Runner Group: Banned Posts: 3,732 Joined: 1-September 05 From: Prague, Czech Republic Member No.: 7,665 |
But Captain Chaos' real name was Bucky, which means that he can also stay dead.
-Frank |
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Nov 4 2005, 07:29 PM
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Midnight Toker Group: Members Posts: 7,686 Joined: 4-July 04 From: Zombie Drop Bear Santa's Workshop Member No.: 6,456 |
No, it doesn't. You see, Bucky was rescued by the Soviets, given a cybernetic arm to replace one that was lost when up apparently died, and turned him into some sort of killing machine called the Winter Soldier. They kept him frozen and only thawed him out when they needed to get some major ass kicking done so he hasn't aged much over the years. |
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Nov 4 2005, 08:04 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 54 Joined: 29-May 05 Member No.: 7,419 |
A mild quibble: we don't know (in System Failure) whether the program actually deleted CC or not. The section ends right as the decision is being made. And, while I haven't studied SR4 in depth, I haven't seen anything that definately settles the issue. FastJack said CC was dead because he didn't know about JackBNimble. What happened is simply unknown.
Oh, and I'm not convinced that JBN backed-up anyone during the Second Crash (or the First Crash, for that matter) beyond CC. |
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Nov 4 2005, 08:23 PM
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panda! Group: Members Posts: 10,331 Joined: 8-March 02 From: north of central europe Member No.: 2,242 |
it seems as if the program had a list of people it was supposed to back up or something.
to many unknowns to say realy, but i cant say i see the link between spirtes and jbn... |
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Nov 4 2005, 08:46 PM
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Man In The Machine Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,264 Joined: 26-February 02 From: I-495 S Member No.: 1,105 |
Wow... I guess something right? I havent actually 'read' SF yet... so much for that suprise =p
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Nov 4 2005, 11:22 PM
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Deus Absconditus Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,742 Joined: 1-September 03 From: Downtown Seattle, UCAS Member No.: 5,566 |
Here's another question...
How about my personal decker hero, The Smiling Bandit? How's he? Alive? Dead? Schtupping KAM? Gone mad on power and creating giant ants? Or, hopefully, is he still striking again/ha-ha-ha? |
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Nov 5 2005, 02:35 AM
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ghostrider Group: Retired Admins Posts: 4,196 Joined: 16-May 04 Member No.: 6,333 |
Whee. The glory of not switching to SR4. He might be "dead" in your game...
Long live CC. The dude *might* eventually die of old age... :D |
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Nov 5 2005, 04:35 AM
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Horror Group: Members Posts: 5,322 Joined: 15-June 05 From: BumFuck, New Jersey Member No.: 7,445 |
Or he might become a Ghost in the Machine and live forever. :P |
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Nov 5 2005, 10:17 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,076 Joined: 31-August 05 From: Rock Hill, SC Member No.: 7,655 |
I read this line as it might've been said by Egg Shen in Big Trouble in Little China. I'm such a horrible monster. |
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Nov 7 2005, 02:44 AM
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Prime Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,577 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Gwynedd Valley PA Member No.: 1,221 |
CC is dead. nothing crashed in Roswell, nothing is in Loch Ness, that isn't Elvis cutting your lawn and there is no Mafia.
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Nov 7 2005, 04:07 AM
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Decker on the Threshold Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,922 Joined: 14-March 04 Member No.: 6,156 |
And noone is ever going to use SR to make a rip-off of Escape From LA.
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