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Since there have been a number of emails circulating about whether or not we trade the Doc: Flex tech to the DataJack (and nobody gave me the "we don't want Googlie to know about this" sign), I figured we should maybe have a thread about it. Since Cap'n Herc is still unable to start threads AFAIK, I thought I'd do it. After a while, we can have a poll, if it seems like we need one.
As I said somewhere else, I don't have really strong feelings about this, but it does strike me as strange that only a few game-years after everyone was adamantly against trading it, even to the point of risking our relationship with the Borg (and currently with the University) . . . just a short time afterwards, there is an apparent groundswell in favor of trading it to AI Roz. It strikes me that the AI is more rather than less likely to trade it to or have it stolen by one or more of the human factions. At least you can try to get the human factions to agree to not trade it, at least for a while, and if you can't necessarily trust them not to trade it or to protect it from being stolen, IMhO, you can definitely not trust the AI to keep it to itself.
Like I said up top, I'm not necessarily against trading this tech, it just seems strange that we should change our tune so soon after singing it at the top of our lungs.
I do feel that if we are going to trade it to the AI, we should at the same time or very shortly afterwards negotiate to trade it to the Borg and University (preferably at about the same time), mostly to avoid looking like the untrustworthy two-faced bloodthirsty pirates that we are, particularly to the Borg, who were quite anxious to get it.
We should seriously consider getting some defensive tech if we are opening up the sea as we have next to no defense at our bases at present.
As I said somewhere else, I don't have really strong feelings about this, but it does strike me as strange that only a few game-years after everyone was adamantly against trading it, even to the point of risking our relationship with the Borg (and currently with the University) . . . just a short time afterwards, there is an apparent groundswell in favor of trading it to AI Roz. It strikes me that the AI is more rather than less likely to trade it to or have it stolen by one or more of the human factions. At least you can try to get the human factions to agree to not trade it, at least for a while, and if you can't necessarily trust them not to trade it or to protect it from being stolen, IMhO, you can definitely not trust the AI to keep it to itself.
Like I said up top, I'm not necessarily against trading this tech, it just seems strange that we should change our tune so soon after singing it at the top of our lungs.
I do feel that if we are going to trade it to the AI, we should at the same time or very shortly afterwards negotiate to trade it to the Borg and University (preferably at about the same time), mostly to avoid looking like the untrustworthy two-faced bloodthirsty pirates that we are, particularly to the Borg, who were quite anxious to get it.
We should seriously consider getting some defensive tech if we are opening up the sea as we have next to no defense at our bases at present.
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