No idea what this means.
what may
You have a Seed AI that has a power that lets it understand tinker tech. With your power tinker OC, you have a tinker that works on powers. With Colin, you have a canonical tinker that was able to build tech that mimics powers after sufficiently studying another parahuman. At some point, that Seed AI will be able to upgrade its own bog standard technology using that whole... recursive self improvement thing that makes it a Seed AI into something that exceeds the abilities of the shards themselves.
Hmm. But they're not, presumably?
As I understand it, Entities evolved from normal, three dimensional creatures. So the idea that a Seed AI could threaten them doesn't seem unreasonable. If nothing else it could spam copies of itself until they can disrupt the Cycle on every planet the Entities are active on.
Doesn't she still look like a child?
She's been shown to have aged herself up at least once already.
Same one from canon?
I do not recall this.
What? Four chapters of wedding fluff (that were a pain in the dicknozzle to plan, thank you very much) INCLUDING the honeymoon wasn't enough for you?
They want to run through a couple more times before you knock down this house of cards.
Do it.All this discussion really makes me want to do an Exsurgent!Dragon story...
As far as I know, the idea of primacy is something that is introduced in this fic, and is only valid to anything based off Amelia. I assumed that MGS was talking about doing an unrelated fic...
So she's had a year of recursive self improvement with the access to the resources of countless uninhabited Earths and running multiple copies of herself, each capable of analyzing tinker tech at god only knows how many times faster than human thought, and she's not a viable threat to Scion unto herself?
This sort of implies she deliberately tried to drive them to suicide. Taken as just failing them, we've got Taylor's Butchering, Taylor getting EB'd, and having to ditch Pantheon? Or maybe one of those is her pre-pantheon failure to keep her out of villainy instead of using her?
This sounds like a dinosaur with glaives tied to its head. I approve whole-heartedly.
Disagree, but it's your fic and I'm not about to argue the premise with the author, especially not so close to the endgame.
Sorry but this just isn't happening. Entities are bullshit OP. Essentially Scion at even a fraction of his full power can do a very good impression of God. Clairvoyant exists so it seems reasonable to assume that Scion has a similar ability. So Scion is omniscient and can attack across dimensions and ranges that make everything trivial. Essentially if Scion actually wanted to win he could simply use his clairvoyant ability to see everything a thinker ability like Number mans to choose his targets and then obliterate everyone that is fighting him instantly. I want to believe that heroes can beat their foe properly in a glorious battle but this is a situation where it just isn't an option. Scion is not an enemy that can be overcome with force.
I have to admit to spending the last half an hour trying to come up with characters from other series who could manage to fight Scion. Zelretch from Type-Moon and Simon from Gurren Lagann are the only ones I'd say could do it, and even that's only because they'd be able to pursue him through alternate dimensions.
I had never thought that Scion might find a way to remake her, and even worse, use the PtV to do so. That is probably the worst possible outcome. Not only will any dialogue not work, but that means they can't bully him to death either. This may actually be the battle for the ages.
Hold up.
Yup. Checks out.
I was talking about writing a story where Dragon gets unchained, maybe even fairly early on, starts exponentially expanding her capabilities in a hard takeoff singularity and encounters the Exsurgent Virus from Eclipse Phase.
Then everybody loses.
So... Not a Seed AI the way I thought she was then. Fair enough.
These people don't deserve to become The Culture anyway.