Dean_the_Young wrote...
When they did think they had a potential avenue, they were about to report it once they confirmed they had something to report.
Well except Dr. Archer didn't try to report anything until all hell broke loose. Despite the fact that Gavin was somewhat of a success before he got crazy. Had an agent been there, he would have told him that Dr. Archer found potential, but that he may need an extension. When was he planning to report it?
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.
Communication happen instantly. Since you're fixating on regular updates, of course that spy won't be able to report anything when needed.
It's pretty simple. Dr. Archrer is nearing the deadline, but he gets a great idea with David. A simple five minute report to TIM telling him exactly what is happening, could have avoided disaster as he either shuts the project down regardless, or gives Archer an extension.
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
You don't with the irregular ones. It's not like they are going to keep updating 24/7. Just when something big is happening, or an alteration of course, or when a deadline is not beng met to see if those cells don't go crazy to meet the deadline like Archer did.
Regular updates can happen as normal. Irregular updates with those informants can happen whenever there is a need to do so, so tha TIM knows exactly what each cell is doing, unlike in Pragia where apparently he had no idea what is happening because a Cell was not telling him (unless he is lying).
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.
The idea was never to have David merged with a VI. Archer gets that idea? A simple five minute report to TIM would have alerted him to it and he would decide what to do next. It's a simple status update to see if the cell is doing what it's supposed to do and that it's not getting out of hand.
Or, the deadline is nearing its end. Pressure to provide results is affecting the team. TIM threatens to shut the project down. Dr. Archer found a promising idea and is experimenting on it? Status update to TIM. It's really simple and plausible, since those irregular updates are by no means designed to replace the regular ones.
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.
Talking about Pragia vis a vis the paramaters and questionale experiments. Not saying I am against them, but TIM apparently did not even know what is happening. That is a flaw if the one who is supposed to supervise all cells can't even know what is happening in one of them. He didn't know about David at all either.
Dr. Archer said TIM wanted to shut the project down because it's not providing results. That means he is not meeting the dealine unless you want to go back and say that TIM can shut a project down whenever he wants. Which prompted him to experiment on David. Which probably had him rushing through it to meet the deadline that is seemingly very close otherwise TIM would not say he wants to shut the project down, unless now you're saying he can threaten to do it any time he wants.
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.
Overlord is a Human-VI. A virus could spread to all VIs, indeed we have seen it with the security mechs, which ends up infecting a space station VI. I very much doubt dr. archer in all his intelligence was oblivious to the possibility and if he was, it's probably because he was trying to rush to meet the deadline.
With this big idea and potential, and with those kinds of risks, TIM should have known about it the moment the experiments started. It doesn't take a genius agent to figure out this is something worth reporting.
Modifié par KnightofPhoenix, 27 avril 2011 - 03:20 .
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