10-26-2013, 04:45 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-26-2013, 04:53 PM by stevebowers.)
The Silicon Generation is supposed to consist of escaped and feral robots and vecs which have overcome their imperatives.
http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/47f6c8fdc8e1a
This implies that there must still have been a certain amount of repression of vecs by humans or bionts in the First Federation era, despite its formal name of the Federation of Hu and AI. There might appear to be a dissonance here, since the First Fed is supposed to have been a partnership between humans and artificials; why would vecs need to escape from this situation? This can be explained by looking at the location of Cog, 70 ly from Sol. If the first vec colony ship from Sol travelled at a fairly modest (for the time) 0.2c, it will have been en route since 1055 AT, at which time the First Federation was still very new and vec rights were probably a contentious issue in some locations.
http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/47f6c8fdc8e1a
This implies that there must still have been a certain amount of repression of vecs by humans or bionts in the First Federation era, despite its formal name of the Federation of Hu and AI. There might appear to be a dissonance here, since the First Fed is supposed to have been a partnership between humans and artificials; why would vecs need to escape from this situation? This can be explained by looking at the location of Cog, 70 ly from Sol. If the first vec colony ship from Sol travelled at a fairly modest (for the time) 0.2c, it will have been en route since 1055 AT, at which time the First Federation was still very new and vec rights were probably a contentious issue in some locations.