Nah, coz if they were they’d have been programmed with memory banks and the cognitive reasoning you mention would allow them to realise that shutting down a component will trap the kids on the other side.
Thay don’t know the kids were ever there. They couldn’t even see forak in till after the kids went through the gate. All they know is that he is here, and that thing is on.
Hmmm…? A security system that destroys things it guards if it can’t keep control of the items! Stupid in the real world, but somehow sensible in a superpowered world (though what they do for materials from Argos and similar places,,,).
Actually there are a lot of security systems exactly like that. Especially digital ones. iPhones for one can be set to purge sensitive data if a brute force password crack attempt is detected. Some top secret file safes have pyrotechnics since the information is not as important as its privacy. More common are safes that lock down in situations where they are attacked. A fragile component is broken or dislodged by tool use on the safe which disengages the unlocking mechanism or activates extra locking bars that basically seal the safe so that even the owner needs to have it broken the rest of the way open, but which should slow down an attacker. With items like these your choices are store or destroy (or use), so if storing doesn’t look like it is working then plan B makes sense.
Destruction protocol alpha 4-7… This implies that there is more than one category of destruction routines (B,C etc) and that there are at least 47 levels or procedures listed… Either that or its a password to allow that programming to function, but verbally saying it kind of compromises it unnesicarily.
“Stop it, don’t do that. Stop it, don’t do that.”
I guess they weren’t built with the intelligence to realize that something/someone is indestructible.
Nah, coz if they were they’d have been programmed with memory banks and the cognitive reasoning you mention would allow them to realise that shutting down a component will trap the kids on the other side.
Thay don’t know the kids were ever there. They couldn’t even see forak in till after the kids went through the gate. All they know is that he is here, and that thing is on.
Hmmm…? A security system that destroys things it guards if it can’t keep control of the items! Stupid in the real world, but somehow sensible in a superpowered world (though what they do for materials from Argos and similar places,,,).
Actually there are a lot of security systems exactly like that. Especially digital ones. iPhones for one can be set to purge sensitive data if a brute force password crack attempt is detected. Some top secret file safes have pyrotechnics since the information is not as important as its privacy. More common are safes that lock down in situations where they are attacked. A fragile component is broken or dislodged by tool use on the safe which disengages the unlocking mechanism or activates extra locking bars that basically seal the safe so that even the owner needs to have it broken the rest of the way open, but which should slow down an attacker. With items like these your choices are store or destroy (or use), so if storing doesn’t look like it is working then plan B makes sense.
Destruction protocol alpha 4-7… This implies that there is more than one category of destruction routines (B,C etc) and that there are at least 47 levels or procedures listed… Either that or its a password to allow that programming to function, but verbally saying it kind of compromises it unnesicarily.