I accidentally uploaded an AI of his consciousness into my brain when I plugged in an ID drive on Pandora. I was trying to use someone else's credentials to get access to Hyperion's network.
Angel is pretty sure she knows what he's talking about, she remembers...way back, when Nakayama was experimenting with the Jack AI. But if she recalled correctly it hadn't been very advanced. Had he improved on it? Uhg of course he had! Dammit! If she had only had more time! She should have corrupted any code that could have continued what Jack started-
[ SHE DOESN'T WANT TO SAY IT LIKE THAT EITHER AAUHG
Rhys had said plugged him in to his brain, ports were a less common but still pretty popular augment, but they were also pretty risky. Getting your average malware was an egregious process in itself, let alone getting out as malicious an AI as Jack must have been. If some guy - some guy stupid enough to plug in a drive without knowing its full contents - was walking around with even an echo of Jack in his head... ]
How can you be sure? You would have to remove your port completely and destroy the hardware.
[ A procedure more risky than installing those things in the first place. No way some average Hyperion had the guts-- Either way Rhys has become a bigger threat to her than ever. One Jack is enough to worry about. ]
What?! How am I a danger! I'm like I'm not the good guy or whatever sure but Handsome Jack is dead. D-E-A-D. Gone and out of my head for good and good riddance.
[ The "Handsome" this time it titular, mean to cover all of Jack's...uh...bases, as it were. ]
[ She doesn't know what he means by crushed, but it doesn't matter. And maybe showing this card will backfire on her, she hadn't meant to reveal it so soon. But Angel is angry and most of all she's scared. The finer details of all this have become unimportant, he has to understand the kind of risk he poses to the last standing corner of the universe. ] He is not dead. The amount of damage one Jack could cause is indescribable, there is zero room for the chance of there being two of him.
I just told you there isn't! His AI is gone alright?? I made sure of it.
[ He ripped apart his whole body to make this a reality and crushed his ECHO eye like a good adult man. Why does Angie keep insisting that isn't the case??
There's no way to know that for certain. I'm sorry, because it sounds like in the end you and Handsome Jack were at odds, but you should turn yourself in.
[ And she's sympathetic here. A little less than she would be if the AI had been completely forced into him and not an act of recklessness, but she knows having to sacrifice for Jack suck like...a lot a lot, that it isn't fair. ]
Once we are able to contact Darma and access Thesa again, you should request to be put back into cryosleep.
Well this sure was a great talk! Thanks for that, I'm just gonna go now. Try contacting me again never.
[ Ohhh my god Rhys doesn't even have words for this??? HE'S SO INSULTED RIGHT NOW he's just twitching his thumb to close the connection and continue on his way. ]
[ A pause. ] No matter your proximity to Handsome Jack-- or more accurately, your proximity to a projection of him, you do not know the extent of what he is capable of.
[ Another break before the next message comes in. ] I will be in touch once we have access to Thesa again. There's something you need to see.
[ Providing it's not too late, that that thing is still in a deep, frozen sleep. But maybe just seeing Jack will provide Rhys with enough context to see her reasoning. ]
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Could you elaborate...?
[ Is this guy just crazy? He's crazy, isn't he. ]
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...Probably.
He's not psycho-levels of crazy? ]
I accidentally uploaded an AI of his consciousness into my brain when I plugged in an ID drive on Pandora. I was trying to use someone else's credentials to get access to Hyperion's network.
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Oh
Oh, shit
Angel is pretty sure she knows what he's talking about, she remembers...way back, when Nakayama was experimenting with the Jack AI. But if she recalled correctly it hadn't been very advanced. Had he improved on it? Uhg of course he had! Dammit! If she had only had more time! She should have corrupted any code that could have continued what Jack started-
Hold on ]
Wait- Is Jack still inside[ DON'T SAY INSIDE YOU
She accidentally hits send too early ]
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Can we not say it like that? And no, he's not. He's...gone. For good.
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Rhys had said plugged him in to his brain, ports were a less common but still pretty popular augment, but they were also pretty risky. Getting your average malware was an egregious process in itself, let alone getting out as malicious an AI as Jack must have been. If some guy - some guy stupid enough to plug in a drive without knowing its full contents - was walking around with even an echo of Jack in his head... ]
How can you be sure? You would have to remove your port completely and destroy the hardware.
[ A procedure more risky than installing those things in the first place. No way some average Hyperion had the guts-- Either way Rhys has become a bigger threat to her than ever. One Jack is enough to worry about. ]
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Rhys winds up scowling at his palm display when he receives the message though, and wastes no time in firing back a response. ]
Yeah, I know. I took care of it alright? Jack is definitely one-hundred percent gone.
Trust me.
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I'm not the good guy or whatever sure but Handsome Jack is dead. D-E-A-D. Gone and out of my head for good and good riddance.
[ The "Handsome" this time it titular, mean to cover all of Jack's...uh...bases, as it were. ]
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He is not dead. The amount of damage one Jack could cause is indescribable, there is zero room for the chance of there being two of him.
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[ He ripped apart his whole body to make this a reality and crushed his ECHO eye like a good adult man. Why does Angie keep insisting that isn't the case??
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[ And she's sympathetic here. A little less than she would be if the AI had been completely forced into him and not an act of recklessness, but she knows having to sacrifice for Jack suck like...a lot a lot, that it isn't fair. ]
Once we are able to contact Darma and access Thesa again, you should request to be put back into cryosleep.
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Well this sure was a great talk! Thanks for that, I'm just gonna go now. Try contacting me again never.
[ Ohhh my god Rhys doesn't even have words for this??? HE'S SO INSULTED RIGHT NOW he's just twitching his thumb to close the connection and continue on his way. ]
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[ A pause. ]
No matter your proximity to Handsome Jack-- or more accurately, your proximity to a projection of him, you do not know the extent of what he is capable of.
[ Another break before the next message comes in. ]
I will be in touch once we have access to Thesa again. There's something you need to see.
[ Providing it's not too late, that that thing is still in a deep, frozen sleep. But maybe just seeing Jack will provide Rhys with enough context to see her reasoning. ]