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Far as I remember, Pax is a Deus otaku, a double traitor, and a dissonant.
Netcat is none of those, is she?
Pax started out as an Otaku who willingly joined with Deus. She became dissonant when she started fading, and became a double traitor at the same time. Netcat serves the Deus Pragon and is "inhuman and alien" in her thoghts according to the description of the character in the shadowtalkers list. Do the math.
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Uh, any source on current-gen AIs having anything to do with the Great AIs, except for speculation? Besides, why Deus, of the trinity?
Deus won the about compiling over Megaera. And there were hints about *something* entering programs and awakening them. Also, Deus now is a Paragon.
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The Renraku Arcoloy was closed for what, almost two years? There wasn't the wireless matrix yet.
Wireless Matrix existed since 2059 (Matrix sourcebook). AR wasn'T there yet. Copious cellphones have been with the setting ever since the first rulebook.
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Also, 9/11 was in the open for anyone to see. We are talking about a building the size of a small neighborhood who locked out from the outside.
Uhm, it's a building 1 km high and around 1 km at each side of the base. It's like the Burj Chalifa covering half of outhern Manhattan. That's not small. You could put several WTC towers into that building.
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/dev/ grrl write a school paper about it just gets me irritated, so forgive me if I try to forget that EVERY time it is mentioned.
Totally pisses me off too, but .... there were TV shows about the matter, there was a reality show in the Arcology (must've been like Aperture Science TV), there were numerous references to it pre-SR4, and even with Emergence's clusterfuck of a retcon there's the monument to the victims. I truly
hate to say it, but the /dev/brat bit makes more sense than the it's all seekrit part.