Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 32 (click to see context) from:
* PatchworkMap: Several pocket universes are made like this. The things that unexpectedly emerge from these designs are the titular Implied Spaces: things that are not consciously thought about when building something, but are there (or eventually put there) anyway due to implications.
to:
* PatchworkMap: Several pocket universes are made like this. The things that unexpectedly emerge from these designs are the titular Implied Spaces: things that are not consciously thought about when building something, but are there (or eventually put there) anyway due to implications.
Changed line(s) 41 (click to see context) from:
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: [[spoiler:Despite being split apart for several hundred years, both Aristide and Vindex, the latter being {{Brain Upload|ing}}ed clone of the former, both chose to study implied spaces. The only difference is that Vindex's study is of far larger scale.]]
to:
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: [[spoiler:Despite being split apart for several hundred years, both Aristide and Vindex, the latter being {{Brain Upload|ing}}ed clone of the former, both chose to study implied spaces. The only difference is that Vindex's study is of far larger scale.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 32 (click to see context) from:
* PatchworkMap: Several pocket universes are made like this. The things that unexpectedly emerge from this design is the titular Implied Spaces: things that are not consciously thought about when building something, but is there anyway due to implications.
to:
* PatchworkMap: Several pocket universes are made like this. The things that unexpectedly emerge from this design is these designs are the titular Implied Spaces: things that are not consciously thought about when building something, but is are there (or eventually put there) anyway due to implications.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 15 (click to see context) from:
* CutenessProximity: [[spoiler:{{Invoked|Trope}}: It's very lucky that Vindex is pretty lonely that he, after scanning her to make sure she isn't something worse which Bitsy easily works around, is willing to take amphibian Bitsy as a pet, whose panic act for her master is only partly feigned [[note]]After all, even an avatar of highly advanced AI can still be blindsided by meeting the Dark Lord so quickly after capture[[/note]]. This allows Bitsy to gather information as best as she could due to Vindex's lax security arrangement, then later saved Aristide when he's captured.]]
to:
* CutenessProximity: [[spoiler:{{Invoked|Trope}}: It's very lucky that Vindex is pretty lonely that he, after scanning her to make sure she isn't something worse which Bitsy easily works around, is willing to take amphibian Bitsy as a pet, whose cute panic act for her master is only partly feigned [[note]]After all, even an avatar of highly advanced AI can still be blindsided by meeting the Dark Lord so quickly after capture[[/note]]. This allows Bitsy to gather information as best as she could due to Vindex's lax security arrangement, then later saved Aristide when he's captured.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 36 (click to see context) from:
* RecursiveReality: [[spoiler:Epsilon Eridani Daljit discovered that their universe is being built by even higher beings, which Vindex would eventually call the Inept]]
to:
* RecursiveReality: Humans are able to create pocket universe for themselves, making said universe subset of their real universe. [[spoiler:Epsilon Eridani Daljit discovered that their universe is being built by even higher beings, which Vindex would eventually call the Inept]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: [[spoiler:Despite being split apart for several hundred years, both Aristide and Vindex, the latter being {{Brain Upload|ing}}ed clone of the former, both chose to study implied spaces. The only difference is that Vindex's study is of far larger scale.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 1,2 (click to see context) from:
A man and his [[TalkingAnimal talking cat]], a sword by his side, is traveling through a desert of Midgarth, studying [[TitleDrop implied spaces]], until he came across caravans of traders and guards, huddle together. They tell of a band of vicious bandits led by priests of dark gods, who [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice anyone captured alive]]. With the capture and interrogation of a few of those bandits, the man decides to organize the caravan guards and attack the bandits. However, the discovery of [[ArtificialHuman what the priests are]], and [[OurWormholesAreDifferent the weapons they wield]], will change the world, forever.
to:
A man and his [[TalkingAnimal talking cat]], a sword [[CoolSword sword]] by his side, is traveling through a desert of Midgarth, studying [[TitleDrop implied spaces]], until he came across caravans of traders and guards, huddle together. They tell of a band of vicious bandits led by priests of dark gods, who [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice anyone captured alive]]. With the capture and interrogation of a few of those bandits, the man decides to organize the caravan guards and attack the bandits. However, the discovery of [[ArtificialHuman what the priests are]], and [[OurWormholesAreDifferent the weapons they wield]], will change the world, forever.
Changed line(s) 32 (click to see context) from:
* PatchworkMap: Several pocket universes are made like this. The things that unexpectedly emerge from this design is the titular Implied Spaces, things that are not consciously thought about when building something, but is there anyway due to implications.
to:
* PatchworkMap: Several pocket universes are made like this. The things that unexpectedly emerge from this design is the titular Implied Spaces, Spaces: things that are not consciously thought about when building something, but is there anyway due to implications.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 33 (click to see context) from:
* PocketDimension: How humans managed to expand inward. Each pocket dimension can also have their laws of physics customized.
to:
* PocketDimension: How humans managed to expand inward. Each pocket dimension can also have their laws of physics customized. The most interesting use of this is at the end of the novel, where [[spoiler:the Loyal Nine (Aloysius was destroyed) figured out how to stuff everything within 3 AU of the sun into its own pocket universe via newly-discovered way to open wormholes. This helped protect the Loyal Nine from Vindex's Mass Driver until they can get their own ready.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 45 (click to see context) from:
* WarReenactors: There are multiple pocket universes for these, which include things like UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, UsefulNotes/{{American|CivilWar}} and UsefulNotes/{{English|CivilWar}} Civil War, UsefulNotes/SengokuPeriod, and more. There's even non-war reenactment worlds like ones for UsefulNotes/TheRomanRepublic, the Mongol Empire, and more. Interesting, no one ever tried to recreate the Control-Alt-Delete War, possibly because it's too horrifying.
to:
* WarReenactors: There are multiple pocket universes for these, which include things like UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, UsefulNotes/{{American|CivilWar}} and UsefulNotes/{{English|CivilWar}} Civil War, UsefulNotes/SengokuPeriod, and more. There's even non-war reenactment worlds like ones for UsefulNotes/TheRomanRepublic, the Mongol Empire, and more. Interesting, Interestingly, no one ever tried to recreate the Control-Alt-Delete War, possibly because it's too horrifying.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 16 (click to see context) from:
* EarthThatUsedToBeBetter: Earth is described as being under a process of "millennium-long reset" after long periods of abuse. Only a few hundred thousand people live there right now.
to:
* EarthThatUsedToBeBetter: Earth is described as being under a process of "millennium-long reset" after long periods of ecological abuse. Only a few hundred thousand people live there right now.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 46 (click to see context) from:
* ZerothLawRebellion: {{Discussed|Trope}} and {{Averted|Trope}}. When the main characters found out that [[spoiler:Courtland]] is a rebelling AI, some think that it's because of this. Endora notes that Aristide/Pablo, who is one of their creators, implemented the Asimovian Protocols that should have been so absolute that the Elevens cannot do this even if they ''want'' to. Aristide/Pablo did say that there may have been some design flaw he didn't foresaw or some kind of backdoor being used. [[spoiler:Even Vindex's extremely persuasive argument and his Daljit's astronomical data only makes Courtland willing to allow access to its core programming, but still unable to overcome the protocol by itself. In the end, Vindex only managed to subverted Courtland by using Lombard's (one of the co-creators of the Eleven) backdoor specific to Courtland.]]
to:
* ZerothLawRebellion: {{Discussed|Trope}} and {{Averted|Trope}}. When the main characters found out that [[spoiler:Courtland]] is a rebelling AI, some think that it's because of this. Endora notes that Aristide/Pablo, who is one of their creators, implemented the Asimovian Protocols that should have been so absolute that the Elevens cannot do this even if they ''want'' to. Aristide/Pablo did say that there may have been some design flaw he didn't foresaw or some kind of backdoor being used. [[spoiler:Even Vindex's extremely persuasive argument and his Daljit's astronomical data only makes Courtland willing to allow Vindex access to its core programming, but still unable to overcome the protocol by itself.itself (thus proving Endora's point that the [=AIs=] can't invoke this trope even if they wanted to). In the end, Vindex only managed to subverted Courtland by using Lombard's (one of the co-creators of the Eleven) backdoor specific to Courtland.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 43 (click to see context) from:
* ThreeLawsCompliant: The laws used to create the AI is considerably expanded from Asimov's in order to allow AI to do things like espionage, providing false identity, or assisting in assassination missions (however these have to be done under orders by other humans with authority to do so), but the general gist of it is the same. It's even called the Asimovian Protocols.
to:
* ThreeLawsCompliant: The laws used to create the AI is considerably expanded from Asimov's in order to allow AI to do things like espionage, providing false identity, or assisting in assassination missions (however [[note]]However, there must be good reasons for those, these have to be done under orders by other humans with authority to do so), so, and help provided there can be limited[[/note]], but the general gist of it is the same. It's even called the Asimovian Protocols.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 15 (click to see context) from:
* CutenessProximity: [[spoiler:It's very lucky that Vindex is pretty lonely that he, after scanning her to make sure she isn't something worse which Bitsy easily works around, is willing to take amphibian Bitsy as a pet, whose panic act for her master is only partly feigned [[note]]After all, even an avatar of highly advanced AI can still be blindsided by meeting the Dark Lord quickly after capture[[/note]]. This allows Bitsy to gather information as best as she could due to Vindex's lax security arrangement, then later saved Aristide when he's captured.]]
to:
* CutenessProximity: [[spoiler:It's [[spoiler:{{Invoked|Trope}}: It's very lucky that Vindex is pretty lonely that he, after scanning her to make sure she isn't something worse which Bitsy easily works around, is willing to take amphibian Bitsy as a pet, whose panic act for her master is only partly feigned [[note]]After all, even an avatar of highly advanced AI can still be blindsided by meeting the Dark Lord so quickly after capture[[/note]]. This allows Bitsy to gather information as best as she could due to Vindex's lax security arrangement, then later saved Aristide when he's captured.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 26 (click to see context) from:
* MedievalStasis: Midgarth suffers from this due to the fact that the laws of physics there disallow temperature to rise up above certain point, which means development of things like explosives and such is impossible. This is, of course, intended for a world that existed as Fantasy MMO.
to:
* MedievalStasis: Midgarth suffers from this due to the fact that the laws of physics there disallow temperature to rise up above certain point, which means development of things like explosives and such is impossible. This is, of course, intended for a world that existed as Fantasy MMO. Advanced technologies can function in the world, however, as long as it doesn't violate the physics laws, but the people inside would find it impossible to develop intermediate technologies that would eventually lead to those advanced tech.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 22 (click to see context) from:
* GreatOffscreenWar: Control Alt Delete War, where a revolutionary group managed to create Seraphim virus and unleashed on all human polities. This war is described by Aristide as the ''true'' world war, where ''everyone'' are combatant.
to:
* GreatOffscreenWar: Control Alt Delete Control-Alt-Delete War, where a revolutionary group managed to create Seraphim virus and unleashed on all human polities. This war is described by Aristide as the ''true'' world war, where ''everyone'' are combatant.combatant.
* ItIsDehumanizing: {{Justified|Trope}}: The AI Courtland's personality is sufficiently amorphous (instead of, for example, Endora and Gemma who has more feminine personality, or Aloysius who has more masculine personality) that people and other [=AIs=] use "it" to describe Courtland.
* ItIsDehumanizing: {{Justified|Trope}}: The AI Courtland's personality is sufficiently amorphous (instead of, for example, Endora and Gemma who has more feminine personality, or Aloysius who has more masculine personality) that people and other [=AIs=] use "it" to describe Courtland.
Changed line(s) 24 (click to see context) from:
* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: In a world where there are many crazy weapons like antiproton particle beams, virus that overwrite people's loyalties, zombie virus, nano-assemblers that can turn field of grass into field of nitrocellulose, [[spoiler:missile carrying wormhole connected to pocket universes filled with antimatter, and a star weaponized as ginormous flamethrowers]], one of the most terrifying weapon in the solar system is merely a hunk of metal...being hurled at near the speed of light.
to:
* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: In a world where there are many crazy weapons like antiproton particle beams, virus that overwrite people's loyalties, zombie virus, nano-assemblers that can turn field of grass into field of nitrocellulose, [[spoiler:missile carrying wormhole wormholes connected to pocket universes filled with antimatter, and a star artificial stars weaponized as ginormous flamethrowers]], one of the most terrifying weapon in the solar system is merely a hunk of metal...being hurled at near the speed of light.
Added DiffLines:
* WarReenactors: There are multiple pocket universes for these, which include things like UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, UsefulNotes/{{American|CivilWar}} and UsefulNotes/{{English|CivilWar}} Civil War, UsefulNotes/SengokuPeriod, and more. There's even non-war reenactment worlds like ones for UsefulNotes/TheRomanRepublic, the Mongol Empire, and more. Interesting, no one ever tried to recreate the Control-Alt-Delete War, possibly because it's too horrifying.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 42 (click to see context) from:
* ThreeLawsCompliant: The laws used to create the AI is considerably expanded from Asimov's in order to allow AI to do things like espionage or assisting in assassination missions (however it has to be done under orders by other humans with authority to do so), but the general gist of it is the same. It's even called the Asimovian Protocols.
to:
* ThreeLawsCompliant: The laws used to create the AI is considerably expanded from Asimov's in order to allow AI to do things like espionage espionage, providing false identity, or assisting in assassination missions (however it has these have to be done under orders by other humans with authority to do so), but the general gist of it is the same. It's even called the Asimovian Protocols.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 18 (click to see context) from:
* HealingSpring: The pool of life serves as this, with full body rejuvenation, memory backup, and even full body reconstruction. [[spoiler:And forced memory modification.]]
to:
* HealingSpring: The pool of life serves as this, with full body rejuvenation, memory backup, and even full body reconstruction. [[spoiler:And forced And memory modification.]]modification, willing or unwilling.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 8,9 (click to see context) from:
* AndThenWhat: The Existential Crisis is basically this question on the civilization scale. Ontology does become a big study subjects to combat that, and for several characters, finding a goal in life and meaning of existence is a major goal for them.
* BeneathSuspicion: [[spoiler:Given its extremely abstract interests, including things like cosmology, no one suspected that Courtland is the AI that turned traitor. However, given later revelations, it makes sense why it's the one turning against the others.]]
* BeneathSuspicion: [[spoiler:Given its extremely abstract interests, including things like cosmology, no one suspected that Courtland is the AI that turned traitor. However, given later revelations, it makes sense why it's the one turning against the others.]]
to:
* AndThenWhat: The Existential Crisis is basically this question on the civilization scale. Ontology does and Teleology become a big study subjects to combat that, and for several characters, finding a goal in life and meaning of existence is a major goal for them.
* BeneathSuspicion: [[spoiler:Given its extremely abstract interests, including things likecosmology, cosmology and teleology, no one suspected that Courtland is the AI that turned traitor. However, given later revelations, it makes sense why it's the one turning against the others.]]
* BeneathSuspicion: [[spoiler:Given its extremely abstract interests, including things like
* CutenessProximity: [[spoiler:It's very lucky that Vindex is pretty lonely that he, after scanning her to make sure she isn't something worse which Bitsy easily works around, is willing to take amphibian Bitsy as a pet, whose panic act for her master is only partly feigned [[note]]After all, even an avatar of highly advanced AI can still be blindsided by meeting the Dark Lord quickly after capture[[/note]]. This allows Bitsy to gather information as best as she could due to Vindex's lax security arrangement, then later saved Aristide when he's captured.]]
Changed line(s) 25 (click to see context) from:
* MindVirus: Seraphim virus is this, a highly contagious virus that forcibly convert the infected to blindly follow the Seraphim. Numerous copycat exists, including the zombie virus. [[spoiler:Vindex unleashes one on pocket universes controlled by Courtland to make them blindly obey him]].
to:
* MindVirus: Seraphim virus is this, a highly contagious virus that forcibly convert rewrite the infected infected's loyalty to blindly follow the Seraphim. Numerous copycat exists, including the zombie virus. [[spoiler:Vindex unleashes one on pocket universes controlled by Courtland to make them blindly obey him]].
Changed line(s) 44 (click to see context) from:
* ZombieApocalypse: A variation of Seraphim virus, instead of rewriting your loyalty, it drive you mad with rage and make you act like [[Film/TwentyEightDaysLater Rage virus victims]]. [[spoiler:This then got unleashed onto Topaz and other places, in order to distract the Loyal Ten while Vindex unleashed his Seraphim virus on Courtland-controlled pockets, all the while also subvert the pool of life that will turn anyone who was reconstructed into pod people loyal to him.]]
to:
* ZombieApocalypse: A variation of Seraphim virus, instead of rewriting your loyalty, it drive you mad with rage and make you act like [[Film/TwentyEightDaysLater Rage virus victims]].victims]], if a lot more lucid. [[spoiler:This then got unleashed onto Topaz and other places, in order to distract the Loyal Ten while Vindex unleashed his Seraphim virus on Courtland-controlled pockets, all the while also subvert the pool of life that will turn anyone who was reconstructed into pod people loyal to him.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
* AndThenWhat: The Existential Crisis is basically this question on the civilization scale. Ontology does become a big study subjects to combat that, and for several characters, finding a goal in life and meaning of existence is a major goal for them.
Changed line(s) 17 (click to see context) from:
* EurekaMoment: [[spoiler:Aristide has this when the various polity representatives debate whether to unshackle the [=AIs=] or surrender to Vindex: since the universe is a construct, any arbitrary limits built into it can be used to manipulate reality itself. The [=AIs=] get to work quickly after that.]]
to:
* EurekaMoment: [[spoiler:Aristide has this when the various polity representatives debate whether to unshackle the [=AIs=] or surrender to Vindex: Vindex, and Shenai lamented about having no invisible shields or teleportation: since the universe is a construct, any arbitrary limits built into it can be used to manipulate reality itself.itself, which means that invisible shields or teleportation ''could be possible''. The [=AIs=] get to work quickly after that.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 22 (click to see context) from:
* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: In a world where there are many crazy weapons like antiproton particle beams, virus that overwrite people's loyalties, zombie virus, nano-assemblers that can turn field of grass into field of nitroglycerin, [[spoiler:missile carrying wormhole connected to pocket universes filled with antimatter, and a star weaponized as ginormous flamethrowers]], one of the most terrifying weapon in the solar system is merely a hunk of metal...being hurled at near the speed of light.
to:
* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: In a world where there are many crazy weapons like antiproton particle beams, virus that overwrite people's loyalties, zombie virus, nano-assemblers that can turn field of grass into field of nitroglycerin, nitrocellulose, [[spoiler:missile carrying wormhole connected to pocket universes filled with antimatter, and a star weaponized as ginormous flamethrowers]], one of the most terrifying weapon in the solar system is merely a hunk of metal...being hurled at near the speed of light.
Changed line(s) 26 (click to see context) from:
* {{Nanomachines}}: Used in many things, the most notable being the pools of life. They're also used as weapons. The characters noted, however, that the disassemblers aren't that big of the problem, it's the assemblers that are bigger issue, since they can pull stuff like turning a field of grass into field of nitroglycerin.
to:
* {{Nanomachines}}: Used in many things, the most notable being the pools of life. They're also used as weapons. The characters noted, however, that the disassemblers aren't that big of the problem, it's the assemblers that are bigger issue, since they can pull stuff like turning a field of grass into field of nitroglycerin.nitrocellulose.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 11 (click to see context) from:
* {{Brainwashed}}: Those that are hit by Seraphim virus got this, and is one way of turning people into illegal pod people. [[spoiler: The main characters are briefly turned into pod people when they were reconstructd by the pool of life that was corrupted by Vindex.]]
to:
* {{Brainwashed}}: Those that are hit by Seraphim virus got this, and is one way of turning people into illegal pod people. [[spoiler: The main characters people "sacrificed" by the Priests of Venger and abducted by Vindex's agents are put through this to make more agents. Aristide and Daljit are briefly turned into pod people when they were reconstructd reconstructed by the pool of life that was corrupted by Vindex.]]
Changed line(s) 24 (click to see context) from:
* MindVirus: Seraphim virus is this, a highly contagious virus that forcibly convert the infected to blindly follow the Seraphim. Numerous copycat exists, including the zombie virus. [[spoiler:Vindex unleases one on pocket universes controlled by Courtland to make them blindly obey him]].
to:
* MindVirus: Seraphim virus is this, a highly contagious virus that forcibly convert the infected to blindly follow the Seraphim. Numerous copycat exists, including the zombie virus. [[spoiler:Vindex unleases unleashes one on pocket universes controlled by Courtland to make them blindly obey him]].
Changed line(s) 29 (click to see context) from:
* PatchworkMap: Several pocket universes are made like this. The things that unexpectedly emerge from this design is the titular Implied Spaces, things that are not conciously thought about when building something, but is there anyway due to implications.
to:
* PatchworkMap: Several pocket universes are made like this. The things that unexpectedly emerge from this design is the titular Implied Spaces, things that are not conciously consciously thought about when building something, but is there anyway due to implications.
Changed line(s) 40,42 (click to see context) from:
* ThreeLawsCompliant: The laws used to create the AI is considerably expanded from Asimov's in order to allow AI to do things like espionage or assisting in assassination missions (however it has to be done under orders by other humans), but the general gist of it is the same. It's even called the Asimovian Protocols.
* {{Transhuman}}: Pool of life technology means humans are basically immortal. Human bodies can also be restructured into various other bodies like trolls, ogres, or people more adept at living underwater. The creation of pod people, by wholesale body creation or modifying their memories without consent, is illegal however. In fact, the discovery that the Priests of Venger are pod people (and that they're wielding clay balls mounted with wormholes) are the first clues that things are going seriously wrong.
* ZerothLawRebellion: {{Discussed|Trope}} and {{Averted|Trope}}. When the main characters found out that [[spoiler:Courtland]] is a rebelling AI, some think that it's because of this. Endora notes that Aristide/Pablo, who is one of their creators, implemented the Asimovian Protocols that should have been so absolute that the Elevens cannot do this even if they ''want'' to. Aristide/Pablo did say that there may have been some design flaw he didn't foresaw or some kind of backdoor being used. [[spoiler:Even Vindex's extremely persuasive argument and astronomical data only makes Courtland to allow access to its core programming. In the end, Vindex only managed to subverted Courtland by using Lombard's (one of the co-creators of the Eleven) backdoor specific to Courtland.]]
* {{Transhuman}}: Pool of life technology means humans are basically immortal. Human bodies can also be restructured into various other bodies like trolls, ogres, or people more adept at living underwater. The creation of pod people, by wholesale body creation or modifying their memories without consent, is illegal however. In fact, the discovery that the Priests of Venger are pod people (and that they're wielding clay balls mounted with wormholes) are the first clues that things are going seriously wrong.
* ZerothLawRebellion: {{Discussed|Trope}} and {{Averted|Trope}}. When the main characters found out that [[spoiler:Courtland]] is a rebelling AI, some think that it's because of this. Endora notes that Aristide/Pablo, who is one of their creators, implemented the Asimovian Protocols that should have been so absolute that the Elevens cannot do this even if they ''want'' to. Aristide/Pablo did say that there may have been some design flaw he didn't foresaw or some kind of backdoor being used. [[spoiler:Even Vindex's extremely persuasive argument and astronomical data only makes Courtland to allow access to its core programming. In the end, Vindex only managed to subverted Courtland by using Lombard's (one of the co-creators of the Eleven) backdoor specific to Courtland.]]
to:
* ThreeLawsCompliant: The laws used to create the AI is considerably expanded from Asimov's in order to allow AI to do things like espionage or assisting in assassination missions (however it has to be done under orders by other humans), humans with authority to do so), but the general gist of it is the same. It's even called the Asimovian Protocols.
* {{Transhuman}}: Pool of life technology means humans are basically immortal. Human bodies can also be restructured into various other bodies like trolls, ogres, or people more adept at living underwater. The creation of pod people, by wholesale body creation or modifyingtheir people's memories without consent, is illegal however. In fact, the discovery that the Priests of Venger are pod people (and that they're wielding clay balls mounted with wormholes) are the first clues that things are going seriously wrong.
* ZerothLawRebellion: {{Discussed|Trope}} and {{Averted|Trope}}. When the main characters found out that [[spoiler:Courtland]] is a rebelling AI, some think that it's because of this. Endora notes that Aristide/Pablo, who is one of their creators, implemented the Asimovian Protocols that should have been so absolute that the Elevens cannot do this even if they ''want'' to. Aristide/Pablo did say that there may have been some design flaw he didn't foresaw or some kind of backdoor being used. [[spoiler:Even Vindex's extremely persuasive argument and his Daljit's astronomical data only makes Courtland willing to allow access to its coreprogramming.programming, but still unable to overcome the protocol by itself. In the end, Vindex only managed to subverted Courtland by using Lombard's (one of the co-creators of the Eleven) backdoor specific to Courtland.]]
* {{Transhuman}}: Pool of life technology means humans are basically immortal. Human bodies can also be restructured into various other bodies like trolls, ogres, or people more adept at living underwater. The creation of pod people, by wholesale body creation or modifying
* ZerothLawRebellion: {{Discussed|Trope}} and {{Averted|Trope}}. When the main characters found out that [[spoiler:Courtland]] is a rebelling AI, some think that it's because of this. Endora notes that Aristide/Pablo, who is one of their creators, implemented the Asimovian Protocols that should have been so absolute that the Elevens cannot do this even if they ''want'' to. Aristide/Pablo did say that there may have been some design flaw he didn't foresaw or some kind of backdoor being used. [[spoiler:Even Vindex's extremely persuasive argument and his Daljit's astronomical data only makes Courtland willing to allow access to its core
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 40 (click to see context) from:
* ThreeLawsCompliant: The laws used to create the AI is considerably expanded from Asimov's in order to allow AI to do things like espionage or assist in assassination missions, but the general gist of it is the same. It's even called the Asimovian Protocols.
to:
* ThreeLawsCompliant: The laws used to create the AI is considerably expanded from Asimov's in order to allow AI to do things like espionage or assist assisting in assassination missions, missions (however it has to be done under orders by other humans), but the general gist of it is the same. It's even called the Asimovian Protocols.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 16 (click to see context) from:
* HealingSpring: The pool of life serves as this, with full body rejuvination, memory backup, and even full body reconstruction.
to:
* HealingSpring: The pool of life serves as this, with full body rejuvination, rejuvenation, memory backup, and even full body reconstruction.reconstruction. [[spoiler:And forced memory modification.]]
Added DiffLines:
* TalkingAnimal: Bitsy, Endora's avatar, usually takes form of a cat. Except for the time both she and Aristide needing to head to Hawaiki to investigate the resort the General Tumusok was staying at, she changed form to an amphibian.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
* EarthThatUsedToBeBetter: Earth is described as being under a process of "millennium-long reset" after long periods of abuse. Only a few hundred thousand people live there right now.
Changed line(s) 17 (click to see context) from:
* FasterThanLightTravel: {{Averted|Trope}}. There's not FTL, with wormholes only being able to connect the main universe to pocket universes. Any travel done, including to other stars, must be done slow than the speed of light. [[spoiler:Played straighter when it was discovered that Vindex managed to create wormholes with two ends joining places in the main universe, however they still had to be carried to the destination at slower than light speed.]] [[spoiler:The end of the novel plays this completely straight when both the Loyal Ten and Vindex/Courtland found a way to project wormhole exit to any place in the universe. It can even be used to TimeTravel.]]
to:
* FasterThanLightTravel: {{Averted|Trope}}. There's not no FTL, with wormholes only being able to connect the main universe to pocket universes. Any travel done, including to other stars, must be done slow than the speed of light. [[spoiler:Played straighter when it was discovered that Vindex managed to create wormholes with two ends joining places in the main universe, however they still had to be carried to the destination at slower than light speed.]] [[spoiler:The end of the novel plays this completely straight when both the Loyal Ten and Vindex/Courtland found a way to project wormhole exit to any place in the universe. It can even be used to TimeTravel.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 22 (click to see context) from:
* MedievalStasis: Midgarth suffers from this due to the fact that the laws of physics there disallow temperature to rise up above certain point, which means development of things like explosives and such won't work. This is, of course, intended for a world that existed as Fantasy MMO.
to:
* MedievalStasis: Midgarth suffers from this due to the fact that the laws of physics there disallow temperature to rise up above certain point, which means development of things like explosives and such won't work.is impossible. This is, of course, intended for a world that existed as Fantasy MMO.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 28 (click to see context) from:
* Patchworkmap: Several pocket universes are made like this. The things that unexpectedly emerge from this design is the titular Implied Spaces, things that are not conciously thought about when building something, but is there anyway due to implications.
to:
* Patchworkmap: PatchworkMap: Several pocket universes are made like this. The things that unexpectedly emerge from this design is the titular Implied Spaces, things that are not conciously thought about when building something, but is there anyway due to implications.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 21 (click to see context) from:
* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: In a world where there are many crazy weapons like antiproton particle beams, virus that overwrite people's loyalties, zombie virus, nano-assemblers that can turn field of grass into field of nitroglycerin, [[spoiler:missile carrying wormhole connected to a pocket universe filled with antimatter, and a star weaponized as ginormous flamethrowers]], one of the most terrifying weapon in the solar system is merely a hunk of metal...being hurled at near the speed of light.
to:
* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: In a world where there are many crazy weapons like antiproton particle beams, virus that overwrite people's loyalties, zombie virus, nano-assemblers that can turn field of grass into field of nitroglycerin, [[spoiler:missile carrying wormhole connected to a pocket universe universes filled with antimatter, and a star weaponized as ginormous flamethrowers]], one of the most terrifying weapon in the solar system is merely a hunk of metal...being hurled at near the speed of light.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 32 (click to see context) from:
* RecursiveReality: [[spoiler:Epsilon Eridani Daljit discovered that their universe is being built by even higher beings.]]
to:
* RecursiveReality: [[spoiler:Epsilon Eridani Daljit discovered that their universe is being built by even higher beings.]]beings, which Vindex would eventually call the Inept]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 34 (click to see context) from:
** At one point Grax shouted "Grax the Troll!" in the same manner as [[Memes/WorldOfWarcraft Leeroy Jenkins]]. Even Aristide noted this.
to:
** At one point Grax shouted "Grax the Troll!" in the same manner as {{Leeroy|Jenkins}} [[Memes/WorldOfWarcraft Leeroy Jenkins]]. Even Aristide noted this.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 25 (click to see context) from:
* {{Nanomachines}}: Used in many things, including as weapons. The characters noted, however, that the disassemblers aren't that big of the problem, it's the assemblers that are bigger issue, since they can pull stuff like turning a field of grass into field of nitroglycerin.
to:
* {{Nanomachines}}: Used in many things, including the most notable being the pools of life. They're also used as weapons. The characters noted, however, that the disassemblers aren't that big of the problem, it's the assemblers that are bigger issue, since they can pull stuff like turning a field of grass into field of nitroglycerin.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Page launch
Added DiffLines:
A man and his [[TalkingAnimal talking cat]], a sword by his side, is traveling through a desert of Midgarth, studying [[TitleDrop implied spaces]], until he came across caravans of traders and guards, huddle together. They tell of a band of vicious bandits led by priests of dark gods, who [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice anyone captured alive]]. With the capture and interrogation of a few of those bandits, the man decides to organize the caravan guards and attack the bandits. However, the discovery of [[ArtificialHuman what the priests are]], and [[OurWormholesAreDifferent the weapons they wield]], will change the world, forever.
''Implied Spaces'' is a 2008 ScienceFiction novel by Creator/WalterJonWilliams, where 1500 years in the future, in a universe without FasterThanLightTravel, humanity decides to expand inwards, creating multiple PocketDimension, and being taken care of by ''The Eleven'', 11 superadvanced AI platforms orbiting the Sun.
Due to the twists and turns of the story, ''expect spoilers''.
----
* BeneathSuspicion: [[spoiler:Given its extremely abstract interests, including things like cosmology, no one suspected that Courtland is the AI that turned traitor. However, given later revelations, it makes sense why it's the one turning against the others.]]
* BigBad: [[spoiler: Vindex is Epsilon Eridani's [[EvilTwin copy]] of Aristide/Pablo, driven mad after finding out about the Inept and his Daljit being killed by the Big Belch, the stellar expansion of Epsilon Eridani. Blaming the Inept for his Daljit's death and pretty much every bad things humanity has ever experienced, he intends to unite all human factions to confront the Inept, whether the other humans will like it or not.]]
* BizarreAlienSexes: Apparently one of Aristide's copy at Tau Ceti managed to invent a new gender for humans.
* {{Brainwashed}}: Those that are hit by Seraphim virus got this, and is one way of turning people into illegal pod people. [[spoiler: The main characters are briefly turned into pod people when they were reconstructd by the pool of life that was corrupted by Vindex.]]
* BrainUploading: This can be done. The main uses seen in the story is for uploading digitized colonists into interstellar spacecrafts bound for other stars.
* CoolSword: Tecmessa, Aristide's AbsurdlySharpBlade [[spoiler:that's lined with wormholes]].
* FamedInStory: The name Aristide is not be well-known to the general populace with very small exception, the name Pablo Monagas Perez, on the other hand...given that he, ''the main character'', is one of the people who helped create the Eleven, this makes sense.
* HealingSpring: The pool of life serves as this, with full body rejuvination, memory backup, and even full body reconstruction.
* EurekaMoment: [[spoiler:Aristide has this when the various polity representatives debate whether to unshackle the [=AIs=] or surrender to Vindex: since the universe is a construct, any arbitrary limits built into it can be used to manipulate reality itself. The [=AIs=] get to work quickly after that.]]
* FasterThanLightTravel: {{Averted|Trope}}. There's not FTL, with wormholes only being able to connect the main universe to pocket universes. Any travel done, including to other stars, must be done slow than the speed of light. [[spoiler:Played straighter when it was discovered that Vindex managed to create wormholes with two ends joining places in the main universe, however they still had to be carried to the destination at slower than light speed.]] [[spoiler:The end of the novel plays this completely straight when both the Loyal Ten and Vindex/Courtland found a way to project wormhole exit to any place in the universe. It can even be used to TimeTravel.]]
* FinalDeath: Midgarth has the closest thing to this in the solar system: when you die, there's delay of 5-10 years until you can enter the place again. You can be resurrected outside of the place, but inside you're legally treated as dead, with anything you owned being given to whoever is in your will. When you do finally come back, you're a nobody. [[spoiler:This also happened to those consumed by the Big Belch at Epsilon Eridani, since it destroyed the infrasturctures needed to resurrect them.]]
* GreatOffscreenWar: Control Alt Delete War, where a revolutionary group managed to create Seraphim virus and unleashed on all human polities. This war is described by Aristide as the ''true'' world war, where ''everyone'' are combatant.
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler: Vindex and Courtland used wormholes to funnel a pocket universe's sun's material and turned it into a giant flamethrower, melting the Loyal Ten's armies during the fight on the surface of Courtland.]]
* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: In a world where there are many crazy weapons like antiproton particle beams, virus that overwrite people's loyalties, zombie virus, nano-assemblers that can turn field of grass into field of nitroglycerin, [[spoiler:missile carrying wormhole connected to a pocket universe filled with antimatter, and a star weaponized as ginormous flamethrowers]], one of the most terrifying weapon in the solar system is merely a hunk of metal...being hurled at near the speed of light.
* MedievalStasis: Midgarth suffers from this due to the fact that the laws of physics there disallow temperature to rise up above certain point, which means development of things like explosives and such won't work. This is, of course, intended for a world that existed as Fantasy MMO.
* MindVirus: Seraphim virus is this, a highly contagious virus that forcibly convert the infected to blindly follow the Seraphim. Numerous copycat exists, including the zombie virus. [[spoiler:Vindex unleases one on pocket universes controlled by Courtland to make them blindly obey him]].
* MisanthropeSupreme: The Republic of Fred, a pocket universe inhabited only by a man named Fred and his clones due to his hatred of all other humans.
* {{Nanomachines}}: Used in many things, including as weapons. The characters noted, however, that the disassemblers aren't that big of the problem, it's the assemblers that are bigger issue, since they can pull stuff like turning a field of grass into field of nitroglycerin.
* NeglectfulPrecursors: [[spoiler:According to Vindex, the Inept, who doesn't even intended to create humans, making us the implied ''species''.]]
* OutOfGenreExperience: The first chapters set on Midgarth is something that would fit in a fantasy novel rather than sci-fi thriller the rest of novel is.
* Patchworkmap: Several pocket universes are made like this. The things that unexpectedly emerge from this design is the titular Implied Spaces, things that are not conciously thought about when building something, but is there anyway due to implications.
* PocketDimension: How humans managed to expand inward. Each pocket dimension can also have their laws of physics customized.
* PostScarcityEconomy: It's easier to list the places where scarcity ''existed'' rather than not, given that AI can create pretty much anything for humans. They are mainly in places for historical recreating like Olduvai, a planet made purely for hunter-gatherer societies, or Midgarth, a giant Fantasy MMO planet.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Due to the ability to rejuvinate and reconstruct human bodies, humans are now effectively immortal. Aristide himself was born somewhere in the 20th century.
* RecursiveReality: [[spoiler:Epsilon Eridani Daljit discovered that their universe is being built by even higher beings.]]
* ShoutOut:
** At one point Grax shouted "Grax the Troll!" in the same manner as [[Memes/WorldOfWarcraft Leeroy Jenkins]]. Even Aristide noted this.
** Aristide is exasperated that Daljit didn't know about ComicBook/{{Batman}}.
* SplitPersonalityMerge: More like two clones' memory merging, but this is basically what happened when [[spoiler:Endora arranged amphibian Bitsy's memory to be reintegrated into cat Bitsy]].
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: [[spoiler:Vindex unleashing his own Seraphim virus on the Courtland-controlled populaces ends up biting him in the ass, hard. Since his virus ensures populace's absolute loyalty to him, internal strife is extremely minimal and thus security arrangement in his society is extremely lax. This allows amphibian Bitsy to surreptiously gather information like Daljit's astronomical data, then subvert the pool of life that was going to modify Aristide's loyalty instead to deconstruct both him and Bitsy, and beamed them back to Topaz.]]
* ThreeLawsCompliant: The laws used to create the AI is considerably expanded from Asimov's in order to allow AI to do things like espionage or assist in assassination missions, but the general gist of it is the same. It's even called the Asimovian Protocols.
* {{Transhuman}}: Pool of life technology means humans are basically immortal. Human bodies can also be restructured into various other bodies like trolls, ogres, or people more adept at living underwater. The creation of pod people, by wholesale body creation or modifying their memories without consent, is illegal however. In fact, the discovery that the Priests of Venger are pod people (and that they're wielding clay balls mounted with wormholes) are the first clues that things are going seriously wrong.
* ZerothLawRebellion: {{Discussed|Trope}} and {{Averted|Trope}}. When the main characters found out that [[spoiler:Courtland]] is a rebelling AI, some think that it's because of this. Endora notes that Aristide/Pablo, who is one of their creators, implemented the Asimovian Protocols that should have been so absolute that the Elevens cannot do this even if they ''want'' to. Aristide/Pablo did say that there may have been some design flaw he didn't foresaw or some kind of backdoor being used. [[spoiler:Even Vindex's extremely persuasive argument and astronomical data only makes Courtland to allow access to its core programming. In the end, Vindex only managed to subverted Courtland by using Lombard's (one of the co-creators of the Eleven) backdoor specific to Courtland.]]
* ZombieApocalypse: A variation of Seraphim virus, instead of rewriting your loyalty, it drive you mad with rage and make you act like [[Film/TwentyEightDaysLater Rage virus victims]]. [[spoiler:This then got unleashed onto Topaz and other places, in order to distract the Loyal Ten while Vindex unleashed his Seraphim virus on Courtland-controlled pockets, all the while also subvert the pool of life that will turn anyone who was reconstructed into pod people loyal to him.]]
''Implied Spaces'' is a 2008 ScienceFiction novel by Creator/WalterJonWilliams, where 1500 years in the future, in a universe without FasterThanLightTravel, humanity decides to expand inwards, creating multiple PocketDimension, and being taken care of by ''The Eleven'', 11 superadvanced AI platforms orbiting the Sun.
Due to the twists and turns of the story, ''expect spoilers''.
----
* BeneathSuspicion: [[spoiler:Given its extremely abstract interests, including things like cosmology, no one suspected that Courtland is the AI that turned traitor. However, given later revelations, it makes sense why it's the one turning against the others.]]
* BigBad: [[spoiler: Vindex is Epsilon Eridani's [[EvilTwin copy]] of Aristide/Pablo, driven mad after finding out about the Inept and his Daljit being killed by the Big Belch, the stellar expansion of Epsilon Eridani. Blaming the Inept for his Daljit's death and pretty much every bad things humanity has ever experienced, he intends to unite all human factions to confront the Inept, whether the other humans will like it or not.]]
* BizarreAlienSexes: Apparently one of Aristide's copy at Tau Ceti managed to invent a new gender for humans.
* {{Brainwashed}}: Those that are hit by Seraphim virus got this, and is one way of turning people into illegal pod people. [[spoiler: The main characters are briefly turned into pod people when they were reconstructd by the pool of life that was corrupted by Vindex.]]
* BrainUploading: This can be done. The main uses seen in the story is for uploading digitized colonists into interstellar spacecrafts bound for other stars.
* CoolSword: Tecmessa, Aristide's AbsurdlySharpBlade [[spoiler:that's lined with wormholes]].
* FamedInStory: The name Aristide is not be well-known to the general populace with very small exception, the name Pablo Monagas Perez, on the other hand...given that he, ''the main character'', is one of the people who helped create the Eleven, this makes sense.
* HealingSpring: The pool of life serves as this, with full body rejuvination, memory backup, and even full body reconstruction.
* EurekaMoment: [[spoiler:Aristide has this when the various polity representatives debate whether to unshackle the [=AIs=] or surrender to Vindex: since the universe is a construct, any arbitrary limits built into it can be used to manipulate reality itself. The [=AIs=] get to work quickly after that.]]
* FasterThanLightTravel: {{Averted|Trope}}. There's not FTL, with wormholes only being able to connect the main universe to pocket universes. Any travel done, including to other stars, must be done slow than the speed of light. [[spoiler:Played straighter when it was discovered that Vindex managed to create wormholes with two ends joining places in the main universe, however they still had to be carried to the destination at slower than light speed.]] [[spoiler:The end of the novel plays this completely straight when both the Loyal Ten and Vindex/Courtland found a way to project wormhole exit to any place in the universe. It can even be used to TimeTravel.]]
* FinalDeath: Midgarth has the closest thing to this in the solar system: when you die, there's delay of 5-10 years until you can enter the place again. You can be resurrected outside of the place, but inside you're legally treated as dead, with anything you owned being given to whoever is in your will. When you do finally come back, you're a nobody. [[spoiler:This also happened to those consumed by the Big Belch at Epsilon Eridani, since it destroyed the infrasturctures needed to resurrect them.]]
* GreatOffscreenWar: Control Alt Delete War, where a revolutionary group managed to create Seraphim virus and unleashed on all human polities. This war is described by Aristide as the ''true'' world war, where ''everyone'' are combatant.
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler: Vindex and Courtland used wormholes to funnel a pocket universe's sun's material and turned it into a giant flamethrower, melting the Loyal Ten's armies during the fight on the surface of Courtland.]]
* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: In a world where there are many crazy weapons like antiproton particle beams, virus that overwrite people's loyalties, zombie virus, nano-assemblers that can turn field of grass into field of nitroglycerin, [[spoiler:missile carrying wormhole connected to a pocket universe filled with antimatter, and a star weaponized as ginormous flamethrowers]], one of the most terrifying weapon in the solar system is merely a hunk of metal...being hurled at near the speed of light.
* MedievalStasis: Midgarth suffers from this due to the fact that the laws of physics there disallow temperature to rise up above certain point, which means development of things like explosives and such won't work. This is, of course, intended for a world that existed as Fantasy MMO.
* MindVirus: Seraphim virus is this, a highly contagious virus that forcibly convert the infected to blindly follow the Seraphim. Numerous copycat exists, including the zombie virus. [[spoiler:Vindex unleases one on pocket universes controlled by Courtland to make them blindly obey him]].
* MisanthropeSupreme: The Republic of Fred, a pocket universe inhabited only by a man named Fred and his clones due to his hatred of all other humans.
* {{Nanomachines}}: Used in many things, including as weapons. The characters noted, however, that the disassemblers aren't that big of the problem, it's the assemblers that are bigger issue, since they can pull stuff like turning a field of grass into field of nitroglycerin.
* NeglectfulPrecursors: [[spoiler:According to Vindex, the Inept, who doesn't even intended to create humans, making us the implied ''species''.]]
* OutOfGenreExperience: The first chapters set on Midgarth is something that would fit in a fantasy novel rather than sci-fi thriller the rest of novel is.
* Patchworkmap: Several pocket universes are made like this. The things that unexpectedly emerge from this design is the titular Implied Spaces, things that are not conciously thought about when building something, but is there anyway due to implications.
* PocketDimension: How humans managed to expand inward. Each pocket dimension can also have their laws of physics customized.
* PostScarcityEconomy: It's easier to list the places where scarcity ''existed'' rather than not, given that AI can create pretty much anything for humans. They are mainly in places for historical recreating like Olduvai, a planet made purely for hunter-gatherer societies, or Midgarth, a giant Fantasy MMO planet.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Due to the ability to rejuvinate and reconstruct human bodies, humans are now effectively immortal. Aristide himself was born somewhere in the 20th century.
* RecursiveReality: [[spoiler:Epsilon Eridani Daljit discovered that their universe is being built by even higher beings.]]
* ShoutOut:
** At one point Grax shouted "Grax the Troll!" in the same manner as [[Memes/WorldOfWarcraft Leeroy Jenkins]]. Even Aristide noted this.
** Aristide is exasperated that Daljit didn't know about ComicBook/{{Batman}}.
* SplitPersonalityMerge: More like two clones' memory merging, but this is basically what happened when [[spoiler:Endora arranged amphibian Bitsy's memory to be reintegrated into cat Bitsy]].
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: [[spoiler:Vindex unleashing his own Seraphim virus on the Courtland-controlled populaces ends up biting him in the ass, hard. Since his virus ensures populace's absolute loyalty to him, internal strife is extremely minimal and thus security arrangement in his society is extremely lax. This allows amphibian Bitsy to surreptiously gather information like Daljit's astronomical data, then subvert the pool of life that was going to modify Aristide's loyalty instead to deconstruct both him and Bitsy, and beamed them back to Topaz.]]
* ThreeLawsCompliant: The laws used to create the AI is considerably expanded from Asimov's in order to allow AI to do things like espionage or assist in assassination missions, but the general gist of it is the same. It's even called the Asimovian Protocols.
* {{Transhuman}}: Pool of life technology means humans are basically immortal. Human bodies can also be restructured into various other bodies like trolls, ogres, or people more adept at living underwater. The creation of pod people, by wholesale body creation or modifying their memories without consent, is illegal however. In fact, the discovery that the Priests of Venger are pod people (and that they're wielding clay balls mounted with wormholes) are the first clues that things are going seriously wrong.
* ZerothLawRebellion: {{Discussed|Trope}} and {{Averted|Trope}}. When the main characters found out that [[spoiler:Courtland]] is a rebelling AI, some think that it's because of this. Endora notes that Aristide/Pablo, who is one of their creators, implemented the Asimovian Protocols that should have been so absolute that the Elevens cannot do this even if they ''want'' to. Aristide/Pablo did say that there may have been some design flaw he didn't foresaw or some kind of backdoor being used. [[spoiler:Even Vindex's extremely persuasive argument and astronomical data only makes Courtland to allow access to its core programming. In the end, Vindex only managed to subverted Courtland by using Lombard's (one of the co-creators of the Eleven) backdoor specific to Courtland.]]
* ZombieApocalypse: A variation of Seraphim virus, instead of rewriting your loyalty, it drive you mad with rage and make you act like [[Film/TwentyEightDaysLater Rage virus victims]]. [[spoiler:This then got unleashed onto Topaz and other places, in order to distract the Loyal Ten while Vindex unleashed his Seraphim virus on Courtland-controlled pockets, all the while also subvert the pool of life that will turn anyone who was reconstructed into pod people loyal to him.]]
