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12. "RE: FI Micro: Contempt Level"
In response to message #11
 
   >>Hmm... Unless the "Contempt Level" is more about making it messy and
>>embarrassing, rather than messy and deadly. Though I must
>>admit that I find that unrealistic :)
>
>Heh. Conceivable, although canonically (in Scud the Disposable
>Assassin), a Scud's Contempt Level is the measure of how little
>the robot is programmed to care about collateral damage and bystander
>casualties in the pursuit of its target. A Scud set to Contempt Level
>0 will go to ridiculous lengths to avoid harming anyone or anything
>other than its target, while one set to Contempt Level 10 will
>cheerfully lob an orbital colony at the city where the target lives if
>it can get hold of one.

Yeah, that would be rather messy. In which case, I must agree that it's unlikely Rei would really have given that order over a rug. Oh well :)

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   RE: FI Micro: Contempt Level Verbena Mar-23-12 1
      RE: FI Micro: Contempt Level Gryphonadmin Mar-23-12 2
          RE: FI Micro: Contempt Level jhosmer1 Mar-23-12 3
          RE: FI Micro: Contempt Level Offsides Mar-23-12 5
              RE: FI Micro: Contempt Level Gryphonadmin Mar-23-12 6
                  RE: FI Micro: Contempt Level The Traitor Mar-23-12 7
                  RE: FI Micro: Contempt Level Offsides Mar-24-12 10
                      RE: FI Micro: Contempt Level Gryphonadmin Mar-24-12 11
                         RE: FI Micro: Contempt Level Offsides Mar-24-12 12
                              RE: FI Micro: Contempt Level Terminus Est Mar-24-12 13
                                  RE: FI Micro: Contempt Level Gryphonadmin Mar-24-12 15
   RE: FI Micro: Contempt Level ebony14 Mar-23-12 4
   RE: FI Micro: Contempt Level Droken Mar-24-12 8
   RE: FI Micro: Contempt Level Pasha Mar-24-12 9
   RE: FI Micro: Contempt Level BZArchermoderator Mar-24-12 14
      RE: FI Micro: Contempt Level Gryphonadmin Mar-24-12 16
      RE: FI Micro: Contempt Level Offsides Mar-24-12 17
   RE: FI Micro: Contempt Level zwol Mar-25-12 18
      RE: FI Micro: Contempt Level Gryphonadmin Mar-25-12 19


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