redbugpest wrote:Couldn't find it in Battle, I'll have to get my copy of Machine back from the person who borrowed it to check that. At any rate, the signal could have been received well within the confines of the empire early on, and the restored Omnius then would have fled somewhere to rebuild it's empire.
How convenient, that you don't have your copy of
MC.
What quote is it exactly that you're looking for, Precious? Shall we do your work for you?
And was there any mention of the probe traveling or fleeing elsewhere? No.
"Come now, Omnius, you never imagined such a dramatic defeat," Erasmus said, not scolding but merely stating a fact. "You transmitted a complete copy of yourself off into nothingness. A last-gasp attempt at survival. A desperate hope—something a human might feel."
"Do not insult me."
That transmission had traveled for thousands of years, degrading along the way, deteriorating into something else. Erasmus had no memory of that endless, silent journey at the speed of light. After their incalculable trek through static and interstellar waste, the Omnius signal had encountered one of the long-dispatched probes and seized upon it as a beachhead. Far, far from any taint of human civilization, the restored Omnius began to re-create itself. Over millennia it had regenerated, building a new Synchronized Empire-and Omnius had begun making plans to return, this time with a far superior machine force.
Or are you going to GRASP AT STRAWS and interpret that "Far, far from any taint of human civilization..." as meaning that the probe travelled further away, instead of taking it at face value as meaning the probe received the signal in such a place ... which is the ERROR and the real issue here?
Tell Kevin to come up with something more original.
Oh ... no ... that was the whole cause of this problem in the first place, right?
It's really just a literary device to preserve the bad guy in such a way that everyone thinks that they are destroyed, so the author can bring them back at a later point. For that matter, I am not comfortable with your interpretations that the HM returned from "the farthest edge". I couldn't find that reference as well, just that they returned from the scattering.
Please feel free to enlighten me...
Obfuscation.
As for your bullshit about "science-FICTION", thanks for proving that YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND SHIT about the genre as a whole, either.
And if you don't have electronic copies it's just because you haven't bothered looking for them. And please don't bullshit about the morality of copies obtained for free online. By your shilling you've amply demonstrated that you have no integrity or morality.
"Let the dead give water to the dead. As for me, it's NO MORE FUCKING TEARS!"