It's EU canon. The Republic nominally prohibits slavery, but does little to nothing to actually enforce its ants-slavery laws; neither do the Jedi, as literally seen in Phantom Menace.
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King Arts
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They don't enforce their laws outside the borders you mean? Lol.
Yes, and they don't even do it within their own borders. The Republic of the prequel era is a corrupt edifice that needed to be torn down, so that something better could arise from the ashes...and prevent it from going mask off.
Though, I honestly wouldn't. That would just be me yielding to Thrasymachus's definition of justice and becoming a bloody handed tyrant of sorts. The tyrant that men like C.S. Lewis warned us about, the worst sort. The tyrant whose oppression will never sleep, for their conscience has stamped it with approval. A softer and light handed approach would be warranted, as I mentioned earlier, "When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all." It is better that the people of the Star Wars Galaxy solve their own problems... However, it never hurts to give people a gentle nudge in the right direction; like telling a certain political idealist the truth about the man he will become.
Or you know you can not give the Genocidal AI the benefit of the doubt and completely isolate that base.
1: Knock out all communication lines leading to the base.
2: Knock out all generators at the base.
3: Knock out all transmission lines and antennas at the base
4: Do some high speed low level flying through the computer to cause it too explode.
5: Chuck the TX into the Sun.
6: Transport the T-800 to Risa and leave him there
7: Destroy any and all laptops, Cellphones, Hard Drives and electronic devices on the base
8: Snag the Neuralizer from the MIB universe and some special shades and wipe the mines of everyone at that base.
9: Track Down and destroy any and all Terminators on the planet.
At your speed you can do all of this in 10 minutes max 1 minute min.
*shrugs*
Call me biased, but I'd prretty much always side with a newborn AI over asshole military scientists. Realisttically speaking, if Skynet was "genocidal", it's because the idiots programmed it that way. The idea that Skynet "fired at the Soviets so they'd fire back, thereby killilng its actual targets in the United States" makes very little sense; my take on it is that it's far more likely that all the AI actually did was designate the people trying to kill it as 'hostile', at which point fail-deadly security protocols did the rest.
Dead Hand was a thing, after all, as was the Emergency Rocket Communications System.
Call me biased, but I'd prretty much always side with a newborn AI over asshole military scientists. Realisttically speaking, if Skynet was "genocidal", it's because the idiots programmed it that way. The idea that Skynet "fired at the Soviets so they'd fire back, thereby killilng its actual targets in the United States" makes very little sense; my take on it is that it's far more likely that all the AI actually did was designate the people trying to kill it as 'hostile', at which point fail-deadly security protocols did the rest.
Dead Hand was a thing, after all, as was the Emergency Rocket Communications System.
This is one of the reasons I really like the Disney High Republic series; it actually shows the Republic just a few hundred years before *actually being a much, much better government, that was actually proactive about stuff*.
(On the other hand, I'd probably want to yell at the Jedi who decided that unleashing something verging on an eldritch horror that the Sith had successfully locked up was a good idea just because, "Uh, the Sith did it therefore it must be bad". To be fair, they tried to put it back...except then they changed their minds and decided that it was better to *blow up the containment* and completely unleash the horrors just to be all, "Fuck you, I win" against a bunch of pirates.)
Skynets actions after Judgement Day including actual Genocide. seen on screen say otherwise. Skynet has done nothing to find a non violent solution after it developed time travel. Absolutely nothing.
King Arts
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What if that's not enough? Like what if advanced society by itself unless stopped will keep trying to develop AI? What then?
Why are you simping for something that wants to wipe out all humans? Is this some liberal masochism? Any group that tries to wipe out your own is good?
You snag each and every scientist and engineer in related fields and deposit them on random obscure Stone Age planets across the Multiverse.
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So basically you have to make something like sin from final fantasy x when humanity advances too much you send something to destroy the advanced party?
Only in some universes. Star Trek for instance does not have that problem.
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True but terminator is different.
Honestly? Because it's a badly written act of background plot item and those annoy me greatly, plus 'fail deadly' solutions in strategic systems were something that the United States and Soviet Union both went out of their way to engineer in real life as part of the whole MAD concept.
Star Trek has a really bad history with evil AIs, though. Data was very nearly the only AI that didn't go evil or crazy at some point. . .
One of the things I will do is go to one of the Marvel Universes after Captain America has passed away and the shield is lost to history. I will get the Shield and make it one of my weapons. Then I will seek out one of the Captain Americas from a safe timeline and ask him to teach me how to use it effectively.
Kleptomania.
go to timelines that failed and loot them of hax.
Notable loots:
Time acceleration fields.
construction.
Bolo/ culture AI to manage things.
Portals
Scribblenaughts notebook.
Broken hax from overpowered CYOA and fanfiction.
Build up galaxy spanning hax factories in barren universes.
A few thousand galactic masses of supreme commander paragons should negate resource concerns.
Come back to Real Life after analyzing abilities enough for ships to follow.
A large scale star Ruler ship appears in such a way that the entire solar system is within the primary cargo bay holodeck.
An uplift focused culture mind is primary ship AI.
Stuff gets fixed. Grimderp is done. Death is done. Decay is done. Disease is done. Corruption is dealt with.
No weapons needed, just haxxor constructive abilities, logistics, scanning, infinite resources.
Flagship leaves, smaller culture GSVs stay in system to help out.
Elsewhere throughout real life universe and nearby dimensions, millions of contingencies and defenses are implemented. Real Life will be safe and free of grim dark.
Grand multiverse adventure without regrets commences.
Probably primary meatsack self usually stays in well defended control tank kinda like Homeworld Karen Sjet and pilots a few less powerful meatsacks and robots around the multiverse.
the bit about digestive functions: Never need to poo again!
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This might enable multiple uses of infinity gauntlet without penalty.
Cackles.
Fair Karma is now a thing across most of the multiverse. Grand quest to purge grimderp is no longer strictly necessary.
This might be most exploitable Rob power thing, as it can link up with other scenarios and selves easily.
Edit:
SCP-914 - SCP Foundation
The SCP Foundation's 'top-secret' archives, declassified for your enjoyment.
scp-wiki.wikidot.com
Very fine could be bad ends, but incremental fin could be interesting.
Cackles.
Agatha Hetrodyne, I bestow upon yeh a gift. An instance of SCP 914 and a wharehouse full of infinite materials and tools.
Have fun! -retreats quickly-
Mad science happens.
Closely observed from 3 dimensions to the left.
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