toasterprophet: (bitch please)
Leoben Conoy | Number Two ([personal profile] toasterprophet) wrote in [community profile] ataraxion2012-09-14 08:53 pm

002 ∞ ANONYMOUS TEXT POST

[Leoben has been letting most of his encryptions on the network, when he bothers to use them, hover at around an 70-80% effectiveness, and basing them off the work of others so as not to tip his hand too much. It's still early in the game, and he hasn't had any pressing reason to break out his real talents.

This post, though. It's sent to everyone, original crew included, but anyone trying to figure out what number it came from is going to be dealing with an absolute bastard of a coded encryption, full of traps and false backdoors, created by someone who's not only an AI himself but a specialist among AIs in coding, network jamming, and sabotage.

Of course, there are probably one or two people onboard who will guess immediately who it came from, but oh well. Leoben's annoyed.
]

Being ejected out the airlock of a spaceship isn't all that fun a way to die. Take it from someone who knows.

If we're going to be talking about instituting a death penalty for crimes committed onboard, fine, although I'd rather restrict such a thing to crimes actually already committed, and committed here on this ship, rather than those that're just potentially maybe possible if we don't act now and preemptively murder them. But either way there are more humane - if you'll excuse the expression - ways to do it.

And if you've been making jokes about it because airlocking doesn't seem like a real threat to you, or you assumed it was some kind of clean and painless space death, please keep in mind that in some of our realities it was the customary method of execution without trial for political prisoners. If you're going to be funny, maybe you should mix in a few references to firing squads and mass graves just to keep it evenhanded.

You throw garbage out an airlock. That's what's being implied when you kill someone that way. And aside from everything else, it hurts.
falsehoods: (Apophasis.)

[personal profile] falsehoods 2012-09-15 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I would imagine they've elected a security team so that they may feel secure. It gives them a sense of structure and the sense that someone is looking out for them, even if that is not so.

Who is it that they report to?
falsehoods: (it's been a hard day's night)

[personal profile] falsehoods 2012-09-15 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I suppose that to elect and run such a group would require more social structure than we currently have.

A government of sorts may be formed upon the ship in time. As more and more arrive the likes of Miles Edgeworth will see to it that we have rules to abide by lest we destroy each other.

[A pause in the rambling as he thinks]

I wonder if I should enlist in the security force. I should like to see what it is they think they keep secure.