What's funny is, every time I have Lara visit the PV, she's changed in some way by things that happened to her back home. This time she's more pessimistic and salty than usual.





Only she uses better grammar, usually.





I've now split it again because I have an opportunity to maybe make part of it tie in if I get the timing right. The whole story is in fragments anyway, may as well take advantage of it.

The tie-in part of it would be a few characters who weren't otherwise in the spotlight but know something weird is going on. And one of them suffers a minor side effects because of it.





This time that wasn't the point! It was that my first thought was Dr. Lia is somewhere thinking "I told you so" to the entire robotics industry. She's one of those people who had crazy ideas that were not generally accepted, and she feels vindicated after being treated like a loon in the field.

Of course that doesn't at all help the robots who lost their souls because of it.





I'm sure they each have one; but if the reason why is found for sentient robots, and Anna and Nena don't match their design at all, it does raise questions about whether the former theory is correct, and how the two of them can have souls.





I may have been reading too much into it from the software design perspective. Often software (and firmware) can be designed to ignore a certain amount of errors and continue.

Since all the sentient robots didn't drop at once - only the ones who realized the error - I thought that sort of error correction can work, at least temporarily. Eventually too many errors would be hit. or a different kind, and it would fall apart again.