KnightofPhoenix wrote...
Dean_the_Young wrote...
]Which begs the question of when, exactly, did Overlord really go out of hand? And where would a spy have had to be to know about the intent to plug David in far enough to make a difference, and would it have been deemed necessary of report?
If it was something not in the original plan, then yea, it should have been reported. I do not know the specifics of what happened, but.
If you could put exploratory research projects on a strict plan, you wouldn't need to be performing them. You would already know, and hence wouldn't need exploratory research in the first place.
When they
did think they had a potential avenue, they
were about to report it once they confirmed they had something to report.
Moreover, why do we assume that TIM didn't have spies in Overlord? Why do we presume that Archer was his only source of information?
Well if he knew, but didn't give Gavin an extension, then he made a mistake. If he knew and said no, and Gavin still did it, then TIM lacks the means to impose his orders properly. Or TIM did not know at all.
You're missing the extension that simply having spies doesn't mean you get time-sensitive information. He can have a spy AND not know in a time relevant manner.
By segmented reports, you mean on a tight regular schedule? With specific times to report?
Why do those agents have to report on a regular basis? Why can they report whenever they deem it necessary or something big is happening that is not part of the original plan?
Cell-organization requirements. A large part of cell-structure is the necessity for detached organization. You can give regular-irregular reports at best, but you still need time-gaps... and short of encouraging an entirely paranoid group, relying on your spies to give you reports rather than the regular reports just goes back to the same pattern of falling into the gaps between reports of what/when people feel it's necessary to report.
And, again, the idea that we can have a plan for this sort of research is rather laughable. It would be entirely arbitrary timelines for entirely unknowable avenues of research on an otherwise entirely unknown species.
Well the Shadow Broker manages an information network, with investment networks apparently, with irregular reports, and he's handling it. Liara is as well.
The Broker's network is one of the more bizaar, non-sensical pieces of organization, but it's also a different organization and focus.
No, I am not saying TIM should recieve details on very technical data. But say for instance on Pragia, the Cell is conducting questionable experiments that are outside the original set paramaters, the agents can notify TIM about this, who can decide whether to allow it or not. For Overlord, the agent could notify TIM about Gavin rushing with experiments on David, because he discovered a big potential, to meet a deadline. In which case, TIM would have probably given Gavin an extension.
What parameters are you seeing as being outside of? Remember, Cerberus: no red tape. Nor was the experiment that questionable: it was supposed to be a test, and something that could be shut down at the first sign of danger, with even the power grid taken off line if necessary. In what particular sense was the project rushed?
We were never given an indication that Archer had an immediate deadline he had to show a functional result, as opposed to reporting the new path of promising research.
Because of the Overlod's ability to connect with and control everything that is VI. And because of its ability control / attract Geth, it could have gone wrong in any different ways that would have had repercussions on a galactic scale. Rachni (withotu a Queen) and Thorian creepers are not as dangerous.
Overlord's ability to do that wasn't expected or predicted to be able to do that, however. They didn't think they had an all-tech-controlling product, only a Geth-influencing one.
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