TADJ61

==Chapter 61 - The Adjudicator==
In Orbit, LCS Beagle
Exploration Vessel
Taussen, Taussen Star System
Federated Suns Space
Mid 3160
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"How long will it last?"  Sharon asked.
"I don't know, not long, how long does it take to reboot a Caspar AI?" Clarissa asked.  "You know, I never thought I'd resort to a trick in one of Anh Cu'ong's novels."
"I never thought it would work." Sharon said, "They could've changed it in three centuries."
"They didn't, because they stole Murakami's work. It was just a stroke of luck that Cu'ong's landing party in Alaska found those notebooks." Doctor Shein Bao said, "What was it like?"
"Being comatose? Hellish. I had this itch and I couldn't scratch it on the side of my nose. Everything moved around me in fast-forward, and I couldn't think in real-time." Clarissa admitted, "OCB's conditioning worked though. I know what they wanted me to do and when the secondary personality's under wraps.  Are we ever going to tell her Majesty about this?"
"We'll come up with plausible bullshit." Sharon stated, "Doctor, how long to reintegrate my Niece's personality?"
"It doesn't work that way.  Dissociative separation procedures are permanent. We've gotten better at it than we were back in Bianh's day, but human beings aren't like machines. You can't just recompile someone's brains and have the same person when you're finished."
"Hey, I'm right here. All of me are listening." Clarissa said, "Except the copy they put into the machinery down there."
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Virtual Reality
Taussen City, Taussen
Federated Suns Space
3160
"The funny thing about advanced civilization is every one of them thinks nobody else has developed any differently."  Clarissa 2 noted, "Quit struggling, City Manager. I didn't put those shackles on you, you did it to yourself..but as I was saying-everyone thinks they've got the only keys."
In the 'mindspace' she split again, sub-process versions spreading into the network.  "This is always a mistake.  We fought the Rimjobs for three hundred years. We had to have some means to prevent secrets from getting out. Any encryption is just math and can be brute-forced.  Just like every person has a break-point...so we developed a way to weaponize our enemy's interrogation methods.  Your people did a fine job brainwashing one of me...but ever since I went into the OCB department of the Coast Guard, I was prepped with a dissociative trigger.  You can brainwash one personality at a time, but not the whole person, diggit?"
She skipped down a connection between servers into a previously isolated system.
"Hi there.  I bet you're wondering what just happened, aren't you?"
She flourished documents.  "You stole her work and then you killed her off. When you should have simply offered her more money.  Murakami's notes are known in history to be...lost.  You gave me a pathway to root, because you thought your operation was secure.  Bad spy, no donut."
She paced her way through, splitting off additional selves into the communication net.  "Murakami's notes were found. I warned you, Kowloon's big trick, our 'stunt' our talent? is remembering."     
The AI was getting reordered.
"Where did you get those?"
"Ask Sybil, she told Nikki. Nikki mixed it with Anh Cu'ong's youth stories. The overrides are available to millions of civilians. You might want to consider fixing that."
Sybil?
"SLS Sybil Luddington your boy Stone didn't kill her. She had help in her escape, and neener neeener NEEENER you didn't know who helped her. Having Stone crush the Metis didn't stop the signal. We just didn't know you really existed. When we found out, that went to the core self, so the surface self had suspicions and suspects, but nothing that would reveal what we really know."
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*WIKI EDITOR NOTE: The AI Warship, Sybil Luddington, which is reference to another yet side story named Emergence (EiS). That story posted on the wiki is one of two versions of the story. Many BattleTech Fan Writers cross reference other's works with sometimes changes.
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==Author's Notes==
In this continuity, Sybil had help escaping Stone, in particular a certain Metis-born Kowloonese Coastie named "Nicole Minh" arranged...some...accidents when Stone's ghosts didn't take 'no' for an answer to the question of "can we disconnect the AI in the Congress frigate for great justice?"
it was a quid-pro-quo thing: Coasties made it possible for Sybil to escape the Sol system without killing millions of people.  The exchange was some information on the Caspars that wasn't common knowledge, which then made it back to Spider Moon by way of 12th Cutter Squadron, which did NOT stay with the Republic, instead following their traditional "The war is over now, so I'm going home" doctrine, which was established when the 171st went back to Kowloon after fighting in the Amaris War.
We first see the use of Dissociative Therapy as a method with Bianh Vu Dao's scenes in the 'black jumpsails' series chronicling the Jihad from a mostly-Kowloonese perspective.  OCB's been doing this for a long, long time-longer than there's been an official agency to be doing it.
Deliberately inducing multiple personality disorder is a pretty nasty thing to develop, by the way, and the process is far from humane.  Clarissa's a Ngo, she had to have been extremely committed to the Guard to submit to this. Afterwards she kinda wasn't...because that's the personality trait that was submerged. (Kind of think of it as the steel bar under the thin layer of boffer-foam.)
This also means Clarissa would never be in line to inherit the Ducal seat.  She's got the bloodline, but her brain's been tinkered with by some pretty psychotic evil types in her home bureau.
In this case, it meant that the surface personality was what the Taussenenigans messed with, while the core personality PLUS surface persona were what was copied-they deep dived without realizing there was a partition there, so 'Clarissa 2' is probably closer to who she was before she submitted to the process-and has access to the ability to subdivide as needed.  (Thus, the 'crowd access' attack seen-poorly-in the last post.)
Is she strong enough to overwhelm the Redoubt's systems on a permanent basis?
Not really. She's got memorized data from Murakami, but even digitized. She's still a meatperson up against meatpeople with more experience dealing with Intelligences.
She'll slow 'em down a bit, but eventually the Black ICE will take her out, one infection at a time.
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