Question in regards to Loyalty...

[Othinn]

(19-02-2010, 11:30 PM)Barloke Wrote: I always believed that the only reason the Machines kept the human race alive was some obscure root program. In a way it would be the human equivelant of a sub-concious. I mean take into account the animatrix. Time and time again Machine-kind made attempts to pacify the situation created by B1-66ER (who probably is the first one to disobey his inherit programming). Even after Machines were first exiled from mankind they attempted to make amends but were rebuked in the Untied Nations and eventually recieved embargos, despite their success on the open market. Then war starts and Machines act as one would expect, which is to fight logically without emotion taking more and more land. Now here's the part that makes me think the Machines were actualy trying to help humans.

Sure we can say the Machines were brutal in warfare but we can also ay they were pushed into it. I mean they had their number hunted, perscuted, and destroyed long before any official Declaration of War was ever made. The fact that the humans in a last ditch attempt to win the war blackened the skies was part of the reason Machines decided to use them for energy. I do believe that the Machines also saw this as the only way to save humanity from itself. If they didn't care they could have reduced every human to an unconcious state and used their energy, hell use a cow instead!

So when I compare what the Machines did and what Morpheus attempted to do, I see the machines as the lesser of two evils. Of course my character wouldn't agree as either party would be more than happy to see him dead! heheheh!

This is pretty much the route that MxO was going to go, according to Rarebit's notes. The decision to use humans as a power source was influenced by the fact that the Machines still have their job as humanity's caretakers in their basic programming.