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Post by maxptc on Sept 1, 2021 1:19:00 GMT
But unless someone found a way to draw Etheric energy directly from the air (from the humidity present in the air perhaps?) the source of Etheric energy they are accessing must be somewhere else. It is likely somewhere in the Court, but so far nothing points to the Court officials knowing where exactly it is. The etheric power could also be stored in the supercomplex code the Robots have running through them. Artifacting has always been my personal explaination as to how Diego made the Golems, so he could have done it. My go to for robot mysteries is future Kat, but for some reason this doesn't feel like her to me. |
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Post by drmemory on Sept 1, 2021 2:39:40 GMT
I'm quite curious as to whether they (Kat and Juliette) have been removing CPUs from the robots holding the shield. Maybe so in the case of Arthur, but didn't they say something about replacement chips totally overriding behavior? Or was that only in the context of the patrol robots? Not sure.
There are at least two sources of CPUs other than the robots powering the shields: the ones in the robot jail, and the ones swapped out by the court. I don't remember anyone commenting on where the chips in Juliette's briefcase full o' chips came from.
I assume we're about to see robots and/or androids re-enter the plot in some dramatic manner. More fodder for the "questions about robots" thread!
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Post by DonDueed on Sept 1, 2021 12:56:47 GMT
I'm quite curious as to whether they (Kat and Juliette) have been removing CPUs from the robots holding the shield. Maybe so in the case of Arthur, but didn't they say something about replacement chips totally overriding behavior? Or was that only in the context of the patrol robots? Not sure. There are at least two sources of CPUs other than the robots powering the shields: the ones in the robot jail, and the ones swapped out by the court. I don't remember anyone commenting on where the chips in Juliette's briefcase full o' chips came from. I assume we're about to see robots and/or androids re-enter the plot in some dramatic manner. More fodder for the "questions about robots" thread! I'm pretty sure Juliette's chips came from the robots that were removed from the shield to allow the elves to enter the court. |
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Post by mturtle7 on Sept 1, 2021 16:34:13 GMT
I'm quite curious as to whether they (Kat and Juliette) have been removing CPUs from the robots holding the shield. Maybe so in the case of Arthur, but didn't they say something about replacement chips totally overriding behavior? Or was that only in the context of the patrol robots? Not sure. There are at least two sources of CPUs other than the robots powering the shields: the ones in the robot jail, and the ones swapped out by the court. I don't remember anyone commenting on where the chips in Juliette's briefcase full o' chips came from. I assume we're about to see robots and/or androids re-enter the plot in some dramatic manner. More fodder for the "questions about robots" thread! I'm pretty sure Juliette's chips came from the robots that were removed from the shield to allow the elves to enter the court. Correct! Here's the opening being made for the elves - note the box where chips get put in, and the dark-skinned hand that's doing it. And here's Juliette bringing that same box over to Kat so she can start resurrecting them. It's technically all in the same chapter, but there was actually a really long space of time between when those two pages got published, so I can see why there'd be confusion.
Incidentally, here's Kat's explanation of how the "overriding" (i.e. zombifying) works, just to clear that up. |
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Post by drmemory on Sept 3, 2021 0:59:00 GMT
I'm pretty sure Juliette's chips came from the robots that were removed from the shield to allow the elves to enter the court. Correct! Here's the opening being made for the elves - note the box where chips get put in, and the dark-skinned hand that's doing it. And here's Juliette bringing that same box over to Kat so she can start resurrecting them. It's technically all in the same chapter, but there was actually a really long space of time between when those two pages got published, so I can see why there'd be confusion.
Incidentally, here's Kat's explanation of how the "overriding" (i.e. zombifying) works, just to clear that up. Huh. Ok, I didn't catch that. Assuming the sequencing works out, sounds right.
So I wonder what they put back into the robots to plug the hole in the shield?  Trying to say I think it may just be a standard Chip Transport Case (CTC) in both cases, and not the same one containing the same chips necessarily, as nicely as possible.
Not arguing it isn't either, just not sure. Maybe there is a missing step (meaning one we weren't shown, rather than one that didn't happen) and Juliette did a little sleight of hand and replaced them with some other kind of chip instead of putting them back. Or heck, maybe they are copies, and there are now more than one instances of certain robot minds floating around! That would sure have some implications for the whole "Kat is creating living things from unliving things" topic.
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Trying to say I think it may just be a standard Chip Transport Case (CTC) in both cases, and not the same one containing the same chips necessarily, as nicely as possible.