Art of Domination Thread 04

No idea if the Forge can disguise the sphere as a drone for us, or if it has to make it conform to a specific shape, but maybe we could consult with it on that. ...Or however that'd work, I dunno.

Oh no, I didn't meant it that way (I mean if the Forge can do that, by all means, that would be great but I'm not counting on it) I expect the Sentinel Orb will look very ... authory. Weird, maybe fleshy, maybe weirdly mundane but in a way that absolutly doesnt look like it belong on a flying sphere... a litteral oddball, no doubt.

What I meant is that we have a couple of engineer pick a metal crate big enough to contain the sphere, stick a rotor drone on it, a coat or paint, maybe stra a few blinking lights and recorders that make electronic noises.. voila a totaly new 'detector drone'

(HEy I just remembered, even quicker, maybe we could use some of those dummy vehicles whose blueprints we put in the omnifactory. Have the sphere into a fake APC or volcano tank to transport it to the field.)

Same thing for the portal wagon, it should be stuck in a dummy APC or if it doesn't fit, a container will do and transported by skyshadow. Only have a select few people with clearance interact with the things directly in the field.

The important point is, if there is any Smith agents looking they shouldn't be able, neither should most regular soldiers (because rumors are things that go fast) be able to tell we're using author tech without getting a very close look.
(And if they do get that close look... well certainly we learned something about our security there...)

Don't get me wrong sooner or later the ennemy will know, nothing stay secret forever, but I'd rather they learned it on our own term, when we use our new toys against them with full surprise effect. The longer we can delay the discovery, the better.

Also that make me thingof a question: Mayu, can Vigilance spheres.. Sentinels orbs... whatever the anti trap balls, detect pretenders ?

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On an unrelated matter re reading the last updates, i relaised a weird contradcition in intruder's explenations

Post 91 while taling of the seal of cosmic truth

Intruder: Why, the ones watching us right now. The Audience. The ones represented by the top symbol in the seal.

You make a mental note to ask him about The Audience, but Intruder answers you now, sensing your curiosity.

Intruder: The Audience only want to be pleased.

but later in post 118

You: Wait, but what about the Audience?

Intruder: They’re not watching anymore.

You: What?

Intruder: They’ve been gone for a long, LONG time. We all know it, yet we continue to behave like they’re still there, even though they stopped talking to us for eons.

I /suppose you could say time as we know it means little to the audience and thus they are dead since a long time and yet stilw atching but that's still a weird turn. First he's like 'they're watching us right now' and but a few moment later 'they haven't been watching for a long time'

.... Well now he's dead so we can't go all cosmic phoenix wright on his ass for his contradiction but it's still weird and unless this was a blatant retcon from Mayu, i think everything Intruder told us about the audience should be taken with a grain of salt.