Daemon: Difference between revisions

* [[Black and Gray Morality]]: {{spoiler|As the story progresses, you learn that the Daemon is by far the least evil faction at work. Especially in the sequel.}}

* [[Boring Invincible Hero]]: Total surveillance capabilities. Penetration of all corporate, government and personal databases. Ultra-tech autonomous vehicles and an army of networked minions with superhuman abilities. After a while you have to admi4D8.0xABB9ß1?~?~[[Killed Mid-Sentence|NOCARRIER]]

[[The End of the World as We Know It|There are many potential biological, geological and astrophysical events]] ([[The Plague|a theoretical Level 4+ pathogen such as an airborne, multispecies variant of Ebola or Marburg virus]], [[Chekhov's Volcano|activation of the Yellowstone supervolcano]], [[Colony Drop|a "dinosaur killer" asteroid or comet (>= 5 km) found on an Earth-impacting trajectory with less than 30 days lead time]], etc.) that are not addressable with current or near-term future technology and would render Daemon unexecutable. These are all low probability events. [[Good Old Ways|Discontinuation by humanity of any data technology with more capacity than the Hollereith Tabulator]] would also render Daemon unexecutable. [[Humans Are Flawed|This is a VERY low probability event.]] Analysis indicates that a comprehensive campaign of [[Kill'Em All|removal of all human agents from the network]] as effective strategy, but highly risky, in terms of [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|resources, logistics and public relations.]] [[Bring It|Nevertheless, Daemon is not invincible]], and certainly not boring. }}

* [[Chekhov's Boomerang]]: The Oberstleutenant Boerner bot, purpose seemingly accomplished in the first book, returns in the sequel.

** The Daemon sends {{spoiler|heavily-armed strike teams to surgically eliminate spammer groups around the world simultaneously; it considers them parasites on the system and need to be excised, but you can't help but think it's a bit personal on the part of Sobol as well.}}

* [[Self-Destruct Mechanism]]: {{spoiler|Sobol's Mansion}}, subverting the normal sequence:

"[[Oh Crap|Shit!]]" }}

* [[Sinister Surveillance]]: During a meeting of top government TLAs, one of them orders the [[NSA]] to track down the Daemon and everyone associated using Echelon. In a realistic subversion of this trope, NSA explains that the Daemon is using a sophisticated [[wikipedia:Darknet (file sharing)|darknet]] for all its communications, and anyway, Echelon doesn't really work like that.