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moiderahart · 8 months

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The Fires of Raven, or Why I Side-eye anyone who claims it's the "good ending".

I keep on seeing takes about how the Fires of Raven ending is the Actual Good Ending and not gonna lie it makes me kind of sick. Partially because "Wow do you literally just believe the first thing people tell you? No wonder propaganda works as well as it does."

The other is that as far as I'm concerned, Coral is a People. Not human by any means but personhood is hardly the kind of thing that's exclusive to humanity. If it can communicate, if it has a culture, if it has agency and emotion, then it is a people. It's basically the concept of a nonhuman person. Coral is depicted as having clear sentience. And at that point I think it's essentially just a people.

It's why I think the idea of AI becoming self aware is one that we're not prepared for, not because of paperclip factories or skynet (which is an inane fear as far as I'm concerned) but because we will have made a person, and we're not ready for that ethical question. Not by a longshot.

The initial Fires of Ibis weren't a spontaneous Coral event. It was a deliberate act; it's why Walter brings up the story in Chapter 4. The story of the man who burned it all who, as we come to learn in the logs, was Professor Nagai. Coral Collapse is a consequence with a scary name but it's one that is not defined; we don't know what Coral Collapse actually entails.

This isn't a mistake on Fromsoft's part; it's a deliberate choice. That ambiguity is part of the point. The lack of a known quantity to Coral Collapse is a big driver of the fear behind it. It's a fear great enough to cause Nagai to burn the stars, in favor of the world that is.

And yet the world that is was also the one that lobotomized C4 621.

The world that is has a company like Arquebus wage war against civilians. Send them to re-education camps which, if you know anything about real world re-education camps, you would know that they are an abomination, and there is no exception on Rubicon.

This is a world that saw Rubicon, a planet of endless possibility and natural beauty, and built towering, continent-sized oil rigs to suck it dry.

Coral was allowed to live for eons before Humanity fucking colonized it. Coral was allowed to grow, to exist, to evolve into its current form until humanity began to shove it into a container.

And Coral was allowed to live before one of the colonizers decided a people was too dangerous to let live based on a chance.

This sounds like an excuse that I have seen too many times.

#armored core 6 #armored core #armored core 6 spoilers #fires of raven #ending spoilers #colonialism #space colonialism #or spolonialism #if you will

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lamemummy59 · 5 months

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I want this baby publicly executed

rbs very appreciated!!!

#my art #digital art #sonic the hedgehog #shadow the hedgehog #maria robotnik #space colony ark #sth #stop staring at me with them big ol eyes

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ratrrriot · 1 year

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A song you forgot.

small comic of the Ark siblings and a sequel to that drawing i made of them listening to music.

It says it in the first page but still: song is Sweet happy life,specifically Peggy Lee's version from 1966. It has absolutely nothing to do with SA2 but i feel like its the kind of song that Maria would have liked at the time: https://open.spotify.com/track/4QJ1F5dFjDTnoHgew9cdRr?si=fwqd_aYGQtqoVvGtECtFGw

#fanart #sth #sonic #sth fanart #sonic the hedgehog #shadow #shadow the hedgehog #maria robotnik #ark siblings #siblings #gerald robotnik #space colony ark #sad #fan comic #my art #my sonic art

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humanoidhistory · 8 months

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Angus McKie's cover art for The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space by Gerard K. O'Neill, 1978.

#space #angus mckie #space colony #illustration #space art #future #futurism #retrofuture #gerard k. o'neill

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khiatons · 2 years

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New Empire on Earth Release: Back in Service

The Imperial Governor is Getting Back Into Service #spaceopera #scifi #kindle https://books2read.com/u/m0v2OP

The Imperial Governor is Getting Back Into Service Imperial Governor Lysan Quasar wants to get back in service after his collapse on live television. Terran open-heart surgery saved his life. Yet, the natural recovery process is maddening. Especially when he’s used to accelerated healing techniques. However, he’s not able to access Imperial medical technology beyond automated solutions. Will he…

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#imperial patient rights #parable about colonialism #scii-fi medical technology #short story about alien invasion #space colonialism

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mogosketchpad · 1 year

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someone cheer this boy up!!

#sth #fanart #shadow the hedgehog #maria robotnik #sa2 #sa2b #shth #sonic #space colony ark #ark siblings #maria nation rise up #she is everything to me. if it was not clear #older sister sibling dynamics? i'm losing it. crying. weeping #my art

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technicallyclassyperfection · 4 months

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Quantum Ark Station

by @Macbaconai

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nestedneons · 6 months

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By john seru

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inferusrf · 2 months

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#honkai impact #kiana kaslana #herrscher of the void #fu hua #bella #memes #space colony au #fanfic memes

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superemeralds · 9 months

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here it is, finally, my secret interior page for @sonicworldadventurezine

#eggman #dr eggman #space colony ark #sa2 #my art #im rly proud of it

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therummesoccupied · 2 months

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New headcanon: The reason Shadow hacks computers by just hitting em real hard is because he remembers Gerald sometimes smacking machines on the ARK when they weren't working right and thought that's just how technology worked

#sonic the hedgehog #shadow the hedgehog #professor gerald robotnik #gerald robotnik #space colony ark #headcanon

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myecandy · 6 months

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Ceres dusk

#scifi #scifi art #cyberpunk #scifi aesthetic #synthwave #anime #industrial punk #spacepunk #spaceport #space colony #ai

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sirpyes · 2 months

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Cosmo 🪐✨🌌🍃

#cosmo sonic x #archie sonic #sonic fanart #sonic fandom #sonic the hedgehog #sonic the hedghog fanart #space colony ark #sonic oc #sonic

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humanoidhistory · 7 months

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Don Davis, 1975.

(MoMA)

#space #future #architecture #concept art #nasa #don davis #toroidal #torus #space colony #illustration #illustrator

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etaleah · 9 months

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I think a lot about how Shadow probably started out very similar to Sonic in his worldview but then the trauma surrounding Maria’s death changed that forever. It opened his eyes to a darker side of life that he can’t un-know, and he can’t ever be as optimistic and innocent as Sonic again.

Shadow didn’t attack the G.U.N. soldiers raiding the Ark because he likely believed, as Sonic does, that hurting people is wrong even if they deserve it and even if they hurt you first. He likely believed, as Sonic does, that you should always opt for the most moral, non-hurtful path, and he tried to take that path by escaping with Maria.

And then she was killed anyway. She and him did the right thing and the moral thing and she was killed anyway. Because it turns out the good guys don’t always win no matter what, and sometimes the bad guys don’t see the error of their ways. Sometimes you do have to get violent and dirty your hands if you want to protect what matters to you. Shadow had to learn those lessons the hard way and it changed him.

Now he’s trying so hard to make sure Sonic doesn’t have to learn this lesson the same way he did. He’s trying so hard to spare Sonic the pain and trauma and loss that he went through because he knows that Sonic loves his friends as much as he loved Maria. He warns him, over and over. Nine can’t be trusted, Mr. Tinker will turn back into Eggman, Cosmo can’t be left alive. He tries to tell him.

But Sonic doesn’t listen. Not only that, he mocks Shadow for it. He makes dickish jokes about “Lol your trust issues are why you have no friends” and “Well you lost your memory too sweetie, so shut ya face!” =)

And every single time, Shadow is proven right. He warns Sonic to try and spare him, Sonic ignores/is snarky to him, the exact problem Shadow predicted would happen does, and the cycle repeats again. And again. And again. No matter how many times Shadow is proven right, Sonic still won’t listen because he’s been lucky enough to never have experienced that level of trauma and unconsciously assumes, a little arrogantly, that what happened to Maria and Shadow could never happen to him or his friends.

I love Sonic and I understand his worldview too, but man do I get why Shadow wants to beat the fuck out of him sometimes.

#shadow the hedgehog #sonic the hegehog #space colony ark #maria robotnik #sonic idw #sonic comics #sonic x #sonic prime #sonic prime season two #sonic prime s2

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mogosketchpad · 2 years

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hello sa2 nation

#sa2 #sa2b #shadow the hedgehog #maria robotnik #fanart #digital art #space colony ark #sth

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