I think Tucker is gonna be ok……
- Tucker lacks the necessary neural interface implants to actually integrate with an AI in the way the Agents of Project Freelancer did. So Epsilon did not “kill himself in Tucker’s brain” as Epsilon did with Agent Washington.
- Epsilon-Church voluntarily deconstructed his memory based personality; not in a desperate and chaotic act of self demolition but in a calculated and organized act of self renewal.
- Epsilon was not stupid or cruel and I don’t believe he would have fragmented if he had run through even one possible scenario in his statistical models where Tucker ended up damaged because of it. He would have found another way.
- Tucker is significantly more resilient than anyone gives him credit for. He will be alright and he will not suffer the same sort of damage that Wash did.
I’m not saying it’ll be easy for him to accept that Church is gone (again) but the emotional fallout will not be a physical result of Epsilon’s fragmentation.
It does make for good angst warring, but yeah, Epsilon’s deconstruction was clearly much more controlled and less aggressive than what he did to Wash.
Point #1 is questionable, though, isn’t it? I mean this is kind of a detour from the topic at hand, but since I’ve been wondering and you brought it up… 😀 Carolina does say somewhere in the Chorus arc that Omega was able to hop bodies between the Reds and Blues by using their implants. Since according to Halo logic, hosting an AI requires the crystalline lattice layer in a MJOLNIR suit, or something like it (I’ve been assuming that Freelancer armor is basically derived from it, with some mods so it can be worn by people who’re less augmented than SPARTANs), I would assume this means that all the Reds and Blues have the advanced implant that allows them to integrate neurally with Freelancer armor. And Tucker does wear Maine’s suit, after all.
Although why you’d go around putting advanced and more or less experimental tech in the heads of a whole slew of people so low on the totem pole and nearly irrelevant that they don’t even know their actual job description is beyond me. But then there’s a lot about Project Freelancer that never made sense.
And of course that’s assuming we’re still on Halo logic. Considering 90% of the characters go around wearing armor that either only 33 people in the entire galaxy are capable of using without it tearing them apart or else can only be sourced from one wildly dysfunctional military project, there’s a lot I guess we’re just not supposed to ask about too hard.
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