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If Mae has to be optimistic, she might as well be fantastical about it, too.

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I’m guessing Mae is actually way younger than her avatar looks…

Mae is “[url=http://navcomic.com/not-a-villain/page-199/]practically sixteen[/url]”, roughly the same age Kleya was at the end of the Ending

A quote from Babylon 5:
“You’re having delusions of grandeur again.”
“Well, if you’re going to have delusions, you may as well go for the really satisfying ones.”

Kat probably knows more about the actual bot situation than she can safely say.

I wonder if she’s now thinking about falsifying her location to that of Mina’s so when they send a retrieval team to extract here, they, at the very least, free Mina and family.

Just a random idea when I saw her stance/expression in the next to the last panel. It makes me think of the whole, that wouldn’t be right despite it doing a lot of good, and would it really help them, and how much would it mess things up for me as well, bit of pondering.

Oh how I long for the day when we get to know what really did and did not happen. Mae’s idea about the robots may be entirely untrue, but I don’t think I can point to a single fact saying so.

My own view so far: Kleya was very angry, so she said to D “Fix this. Hack all the things, just fix this.” And that went horribly wrong. (This after the natural disaster of the geomagnetic field reversal, maybe triggered by that somehow.)

I feel like things may have happened this way, and while Kleya is somewhat maniacal in her mad-science, she probably was and is the best line of defense against the singularity (which yes, she may have inadvertently caused) and has been working slowly to undermine and repair the damage (D’s integration with “protected” cities). If the singularity DID happen, finding cities and destroying populations would be no real contest for advanced rogue AI. She may also very well may have a way to reunite the protected/immunized bots.

It may be a crazy idea, but it makes lightyears more sense than “computer hackers hacked the atmosphere”.

You only THINK it’s crazy that computer hackers can hack the atmosphere. Well, it’s not!

MU HA HA HA!

of course computer hackers cannot hack the atmosphere. They would need to be atmosphere hackers to do that. And /those/ girls (and guys) are crazy!

Ah, children!

If Mae’s idea became popular, Kleya could probably scrounge up an “army of stray bots” that the humans could befriend…. At the present, it seems that most of the human survivors would be terrified of this idea, and deeply suspicious of any Outsiders who claimed to have allied with “stray bots.”

I’m still thinking Kleya might be able to use that bot to help Mina’s family, though, provided she could get it free from its current location without collapsing the shelter the Lilys are in.

The way I figure it, Kleya was playing the game in her usually super-high-level mode. Something happened that was causing her to “lose”… and she never loses. So being able to hack anything she majorly hacked the game– thinking it was just a game– and not realizing how much of society and the economy depended on the game for survival.

When the “hack” (ie, thousands or maybe millions of hacks all cascading from her decision), society and they knew it collapsed. Robots (and life support systems) did indeed go nutz– which included security, military, police and construction systems. Food and water chains collapsed, buildings crumbled as they were hack-demolished. All of this happened within the period of a few minutes, during which Kleya found she could not reverse what she’d put in motion; it was too vast and too destructive. It woke her up to the horrors she’d caused in the name of a game and took her out of her fantasy world by watching the real world collapse around her.

Being young though, what she’s focusing on is her reputation– proving to people she’s not the monster they think she is. After all, it was all an accident that she didn’t foresee. Things just got out of hand and before she knew it, she’d destroyed a great deal of civilization via one, silly, self-involved decision to hack a game.

That’s what I get so far. I may be totally wrong but it all makes sense– untlll others on here inundate me with why all this can’t be right. I hate it when people confuse me with pre-existing facts. ; )

To an extent you’re thinking too logically 😛

Considering that the events cascade around a theoretical “group of hackers” just with Kleya as the “leader” it’s possible there was a buildup that turned to resistance and one side or the other caused the bot freakout. It’s just as possible that an insider triggered the exploit as a means to have justification to order lethal force against the “hackers” which could’ve even left Kleya thinking that she did it.

Then again I’d be surprised if that is the direction things are going, It’s plausible at best but highly unlikely despite painting TenKa as the LiFe equivalent to “Blizzard” as the true scheming villains.

I don’t know if that’s exactly how it happened but that’s pretty close to what i was thinking, in her naive zeal to hack everything and push boundaries she inadvertently broke of a “linch pin” that lead to the cascade fails and those tipped off various groups that where already on edge and things just spiraled out of control. so even if she is responsible for setting off the dominoes , she wasn’t the one who set them up as they where.

I don’t think the game was remotely this important before the Ending…

I think your right, in that it wasn’t. still for this game to play the role it is playing now, that means the internet access and vr equipment had to hit such a high level of Ubiquity that it is quite possible there are several more important more impactfull systems that may of had an api or other means to interface with inside the game as a way to make the game feel more like part of your life, which seems like what they where trying to go for originally. Which means if they got hacked along with the game it could of caused more wide spread real world problems. also one thing that doesn’t get mentioned often is Kat wasn’t the only big time Hacker. “DeconstructMe” was a group, with the “cyborg” as the leader, I think it’s quite possible that the other hackers in the group where more responsible for setting up the “dominoes” and it just so happened that Kat did something to set them off, that probably wouldn’t of had such a big effect otherwise. Or it could be she had no actual hand in any of the events that caused “the end” but everyone who was needed a scapegoat, and she proved to be an easy enough target.

Whoa, D as a tech singularity?? …..Yikes. That…could actually be true. I’d be scared except we’ve only seen D act to protect and help (in a frightening overpowered manner).

I like panel three. Makes me think of some kind of “alien encounter” thing with space aliens. 🙂

Not A Villain Webcomic

Webcomic of a semi- reformed hacker trying to redeem herself in a post- apocalyptic world she may have created.

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