Vi-Poi
Administrator
Premier of Earth
PL: 434,410
Soul(x40P), Overdrive(x43)
Zeni: 1,247
Tag: @vipoi
Posts: 2,833 
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Post by Vi-Poi on Jun 14, 2015 20:02:03 GMT
“Your analogy compares Saiyans to a virus. It’s not unlike many sapient lifeforms in the Universe. Very few species are controlled by a master plan. Their total progression is concocted by various inputs from billions of different sentiments, viewpoints, and objectives, sprawling out across their surroundings like a catching fire, utterly chaotic and whipped by the winds of chance. Governments are the obvious solution to when two individual processes overlap. A democracy solves this problem somewhat, by confining the sprawl to what is agreeable by a majority. This gives the sprawl some direction, and momentum. An oligarchy of riches or political power necessarily fails because oligarchs are not in a sense bound by a common purpose, but by a common competition. They break into pieces, as their game plays out. An autocracy is much more precise, though the autocracy has a grave weakness – it depends on the plausible leadership of a single individual operating within a completely loyal and coherent system. This is a grievous flaw, and generally the leader tends to be less-than-adequate or the system surrounding the leader falters due to inertia. Technology may give the sapient tools to organize a more effective government, but even a collective intelligence would have flaws. Groupthink and the consolidation of ideas are powerful events, capable of turning a consensus into a rigid and unyielding trajectory, no matter the report of a minority or the evidence. A world in which every being is intimately connected to one another could mean the death of creativity.
“The solution is multifold. There should be a highly organized democracy that informs a tight autocracy, which is in turn reported to by the autocracy. Pure computers can do this wonderfully. For example, I have no conceits or vanity, no cross-purposes, no emotional conflicts or sense of ego.” He paused in his speech to deliver a play with his newly acquired binary that came with the understanding of Granatoi. He parlayed this knowledge, and his information on Arcosian sentience and thought patterns, into creating a viable strategy that would land him a high ending score, with an array of three-by-three magic squares, which were in turn a magic square. He guessed that three was a number of high significance in this game, considering the cube was the derivative of many of the game shapes, and the number was the common factor of many of the movement rules.
“This is all academic, of course. If the Saiyans break through your defensive lines, if they overcome your warships and launch an attack on the Capital Sector, no one will be having this conversation. Not here. The Saiyans rule with a bloody hand. You must look towards aliens for recruitment into your Empire. Redouble your efforts in shoring up your strength. Take the lesson from recent Earth – what seems a stable and unassailable reality can be quickly turned on its head in one fell swoop. You should start training, intensely.” His words were sincere – he recognized the growing Saiyan threat, and knew that, given the right conditions, they could breakout and wreak havoc on the entire North Galaxy. “You should be using your gravity machines as much as possible. I’d be willing to train with you, if necessary. I am at one hundred and fifty gravities. We could ascend to great heights, training against one another.” He offered, making some more moves to setup the endgame.
( Wyntre Cold, your move  )
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Post by Wyntre Cold on Jun 18, 2015 10:39:02 GMT
Wyntre tuned on in intently as to what Vi-Poi was saying. Being a robot, Vi-Poi was very good at getting information and, as robots do, format it. In this case, half a years work of study concerning the different models of government had been crammed down into a good half-minute of speech. Soon hereafter, Vi-Poi mentioned he had no ego, vanity or conflicts of emotion, a fact that, of course, greatly interested Wyntre. Would Administrator Azure / Boss Blue / Sir Sapphire / Sovereign Cerulean / Supervisor Cyan / Top-dog Turquoise / Administer Aquamarine / King Cobalt be able to pass as a human in a Turing Test, perhaps? While 'ability to act human' is a weakness practically all of the time, it would still be interesting to see the result.
After that, the next part was a bit of a surprise. She had remembered earlier, and perhaps she was bending words slightly, Vi-Poi had stated (not in these exact words), or perhaps Wyntre simply thought it meant that, as he had stated, 'Wyntre is not expected to fight as she is the Empress of her people, not a soldier she is meant to rule'. This is why the last portion seemed to be a big surprise to Wyntre, you see. Wyntre made a smart move, creating, basically, a lack of anything. It was a waste move, made to tempt Vi-Poi into making a move that he would later come to regret. Considering her surprise caused by the statement, her mind had not gone into the current move.
"While I graciously accept your offer to, one day, train together in intensified 150x gravity (of which I believe we should do so often), I do not know where this sudden urgency and need for me to train had come from."
((Short post is short. Sorry.))
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Vi-Poi
Administrator
Premier of Earth
PL: 434,410
Soul(x40P), Overdrive(x43)
Zeni: 1,247
Tag: @vipoi
Posts: 2,833
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Post by Vi-Poi on Jun 18, 2015 21:28:48 GMT
Vi-Poi nodded. “Just because you’re not expected to fight.” He said, touching on the first point of the conversation. “Does not mean you won’t have to. We were speaking of power levels between you and I. Your own relationship with the Saiyans are not nearly so cordial, and as I said before, the Super Saiyans are returning. You might be able to handle one, but what if their entire Empire unlocks the metamorphosis? There is no guarantee that the transformation is exceptional, if there are at least three already, and four that have appeared in such a short time from one another. This could be a universal event. The population of Saiyans on Earth is quite small. What if the same ratio holds true for all members of the Empire? We could be faced with legions of these subtypes. I can destroy three, perhaps four at once, if they’re of the same power level of the warrior I battled in West Capitol. But what if there are dozens? Hundreds? It’s a possibility, and one we would be fit to plan for.”
Vi-Poi’s large blue eyes moved to the board. She had presented him with a low-hanging fruit, only moments after he told her he had no ego. It was an amusing gesture. Perhaps she was testing that notion? While it was true that Vi-Poi could make-pretend, his personality was entirely causal, and logical. It was true that he’d developed something of a sense of humor, but beyond a general sense of amusement he had inherited no vices.
He did not take the bait and instead continued a deliberate grind, pushing his pieces in a conservative attack array before sliding his gaze around the Palace. The festivities seemed to be in full swing. There was a very strange dance moving to even stranger music, and Vi-Poi silently wondered if this was usual or some sort of special event for the Empress.
( Wyntre Cold short is fine  )
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Post by Wyntre Cold on Jun 22, 2015 9:32:54 GMT
What was this? Wyntre was being told to train, even while under the comfort of Arcose? While such a situation would be so utterly preposterously silly that everyone were to immediately assume it was a joke, she still had to listen in with with an open mind while making sure that her mind, in its state of being open, did not allow her brain to fall out. This was the prerogative of an Empress. She was to listen to both her words and those of others, primarily the latter, and to speak in accordance. She was not one to act for her Empire: she was the brain of the Arcosian Empire as she was it's heart, but by no means it's fist. She supposed Zexama would be the wisdom tooth, although the name would be quite a misnomer. It is detrimental to other teeth, doesn't really do anything, is dirtied by candy (or perhaps vice versa in this case) and, in the event of it becoming of use, it will no longer become a misnomer because of an evil version of said wisdom tooth and a turtle lady. Spoilers?
But all of that hickory is all beside the point, which it normally is when it has something to do with Zexama. While we could go on forever, comparing different parts of the anatomy (an anatomy of which we hadn't actually specified as of yet) to different parts of government and people, it is, at least, if you had even a basic tertiary education, clear that the Empire is not one 'body'. If it was, it might look something that Cthulhu would be scared of; a scattered mess of organs that cannot exist physically. What was nearly as ludicrous as this supposed demand to train was the idea that there could be hundreds of Super Saiyans emerging merely because of a 'crest' in the ki fluctuations of the universe. In their truly was to be a zenith of such a scale, the ki dispersion surely would not discriminate, gifting the righteous side, the Arcosian Empire, power beyond all else.
She made a surprisingly-aggressive, yet efficiently safe move. This reflected her current mood well. The Royal Arcosian Ball happens once in a while in a loop that happened to exactly correlate to the year system of earth in a complete coincidence. So far, Wyntre had been the 'host' of two of these, even if she was not present for the first. She was no naive then. Wyntre relaxed in her hover-chair as she seemed to completely lost the somewhat-offended feeling from earlier.
"Assumptions are the great gnawers of reason. Keep that in mind. However, yes, you are right in saying we should plan for every outcome. I already make note to sleep in 150g at at least twice a week. All the more reason, I suppose, for us to train together."
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Vi-Poi
Administrator
Premier of Earth
PL: 434,410
Soul(x40P), Overdrive(x43)
Zeni: 1,247
Tag: @vipoi
Posts: 2,833
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Post by Vi-Poi on Jun 26, 2015 17:00:05 GMT
Vi-Poi began to relax and take in the game once more as the conversation went into another lull. It was clear to him that Wyntre harbored serious doubts about the likelihood of a Super Saiyan Solar Empire. Perhaps she was right, but Vi-Poi was based on the foundation of a probability machine. Three Super Saiyans ascending within the span of one year, after a void of over one thousand years? If the event probability per-Earth-year is one in one thousand, then the probability of three such events happening at once was one in one billion. Perhaps she was comfortable with those odds, but Vi-Poi was unconvinced that Planet Vegeta had hit the cosmic jackpot. It was much more likely that there were contributing factors that were shaving down the odds.
He’d spent the last four months turning the Blue Banner Army into a force that could contend with possibilities such as that, but an already established power such as the Arcosians could bolster themselves much more quickly and effectively in the case of a war. They would have to work carefully and deliberately, and be willing to deliver preemptive attacks if necessary, but given the right tactics and strategy a war won against the SSE was not impossible.
It was strange to Vi-Poi – he hadn’t planned on becoming an enemy of the Saiyan civilization, it had simply unfolded this way. He supposed their aggression was a serious cause. When Wyntre began her aggressive strike against his remaining pieces, he smiled. At least it proved she was capable of a brash lance forward, when opportunity and circumstance permitted. He attempted a strategy of letting her attack push further inward before assaulting her flanks from either side, attempting to cut her advance off and surround her in enemy territory. It was a classic strategy, one employed by commanders for thousands of years, and there was a reason for it. It was generally effective.
"Care to end this game and give me a tour of the Palace? The ballroom is grand, but I'm sure there are more-interesting areas than the Hall." Vi-Poi offered.
( Wyntre Cold added some dialogue as per request )
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Post by Wyntre Cold on Jun 29, 2015 8:10:38 GMT
Wyntre was not, unlike Administrator Azure, based off of a probability machine. Rather she was based off of, among many things, billions of years of evolution. Yes, it was very true that Wyntre was very doubtful that, out of the blue (pun intended), hundreds or thousands of banana-haired 'Super Saiyans' would merely crop up. No, it is by no means impossible, but the chances of it happening are equal roughly to the chances of a limbless, nearly dead, mute, bleach-stained, deaf and regurgitated squirrel to recite the pi root of pi upside down in the close vicinity of an exploding Betelgeuse as he listens to the many elder gods telling him to not miss their tea party. So, to recount, no. No, it is not impossible. Neither are the chances of it occurring large enough to cause anyone to bother. Except, that is, Vi-Poi. Not long after this, Vi-Poi said something, yet again, that had surprised Wyntre. He was on fire today with how surprising he was. Or, rather, would that be a third time? It seemed Vi-Poi could get bored. Maybe this was not the case, but it certainly did seem this way. Wyntre supposed this would count as a forfeit, meaning that Wyntre won the match. However, she had nearly forgotten that Vi-Poi was not the only one here. "Yes, there are many other places of much more interest, but I'm sure you can find an electronic map: I believe it's on our Spacesite," she spoke as she slowly got up, picking up small objects on the counter of hers, "It'd been a good-game, Administrator. However, it saddens me to say that I must attend to other guests: they, too, are wanting to see me."((PL please)) [FIN] |
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Bing Gan
Administrator
PL: 374,871
Enlightenment (x16P), S. Ascension (x23)
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Post by Bing Gan on Jul 3, 2015 3:49:50 GMT
Empress Wyntre, your Word Count is a staggering 8710 and your PL Gains are: 10,365!
Current PL Total: 127,202 > New PL Total: 136,567!
Vipoi, your Word Count is 5093 and your PL Gains are: 5,499!
Current PL Total: 238,449 > New PL Total: 243,948!
Congratulations Vipoi, you now have the highest Base PL on the site! Well done my friend!
Adding Gains...Added!
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