SUBJECT>Another idea POSTER>Hamlet EMAIL>hamlet@netfeed.com DATE>Thursday, 5 February 1998, at 8:16 p.m. IP_ADDRESS> REMOTE_HOST: ppp-modca-161-37.netfeed.com; REMOTE_ADDR: 209.95.161.37 PREVIOUS>4133 NEXT> 4135 IMAGE> LINKNAME> LINKURL>

How about we stop trying to trick and fight our way out of this mess. Well, sort of. I have a feeling we might be able to get BB as an ally. He does not seem happy about using "his" facilities for producing mindless drones. What if we offer to let him do what he wants to do - restore the base to his control and build an industrial control on Mars. We can explain to him that the reason he was attacked was that the CP's were attacking us. We felt we had to stop them, and so we destroyed his antenna and power supply in an attemppt to do so. We will try to reconnect him to transmissions from Earth's TV systems if he will order the CP's to stop attacking our fortress. We can also help him "depose" the two people who seem to be controlling him. Ming and company. After all, if he can gain control of the CP's, what are two people to him? We can offer him companionship, and keep him from being bored and lonely - give im a purpose in his life. Also, we can make him feel like he is in control of something in his life. It sounds like he was pretty proud of himself when he figured out how to control production up there. Use that to our advantage, and be nice to him. I don't think anyone ever has, and he might respond like Gail responded to Chang.
Al-Q
Is there still some transmissions coming from Mars? I.E. Are Ming and co. still in touch with China? Also, can the probes set up a tv relay? Or maybe can they do the fine electronics work to build a new antenna out of the materials BB mentioned?
Comments, suggestions please.
Hamlet