Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20151206164217/@comment-50.189.78.215-20151212024937

Cyrania de Bergerac wrote: Longass doomsday theory regarding the virus and the Ruby vs. Cinder fight in the OP.(Sorry, just wanted to save space for my own longass doomsday theory) Personally, I think you might be overthinking the virus a bit. My theory/headcanon is that the virus is just a backdoor, maybe w/ a controlled self-replication subroutine to infect other devices (does that make sense? idk much about computers).

I agree with the thought that the meat of Cinder's plan will happen at the end of the tournament; we haven't seen much progress made with the evil plan thus far this volume (as far as we can tell atm anyway), and it makes the most sense. My interpretation of events is that, through actions I'm not enough of a Renegade player to spitball on with any confidence, the evil plan will start another Great War, or at least freak out the Kingdoms enough to put them on a hair-trigger, where the slightest thing can escalate to world war (kinda like pre-WWI Europe, actually).

What REALLY scares me is that Cinder has access to the stadium's systems. Think about how much DUST is onboard: Dust to power propulsion, Dust to power the shield protecting the stands, Dust to power the electrical systems and everything else connected to 'em, Dust in the Biomes, DUST AMMO FOR THE COMPETITORS! And correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Dust volatile and explosive? Like, almost-nitroglycerin-level volatile and explosive?

My guess is that Amity Coliseum, b/c it flies/hovers, has to communicate with Vale's Air Traffic Control, which transmits via CCT, which is how Cinder's virus got into the stadium's systems. If Cinder can mess w/ the RNG that determines matchups and Biomes thanks to a virus that got in through the cockpit, what's stopping her from just turning off the antigravity and its backup(s)? Basically, with the virus and all the aforementioned Dust aboard, Amity Coliseum is the above-mentioned Dust-nuke just waiting to be dropped.

I see this as a Plan Z, in case the Good Guys ROYALLY trash the current evil plan. I can think of 2 ways it can go down:

1) the current evil plan goes so FUBAR that even Cinder's boss is in danger of getting caught, but then said boss takes control of all stadium systems and all CCT traffic and pulls a 'The Councils of the four Kingdoms will abdicate all power to me, or I drop Amity Coliseum onto Vale. Any attempts to stop me will have the same result' gambit, or

2) the current evil plan goes so FUBAR that even Cinder's boss is in danger of getting caught, so the boss starts a timer and does a 'you can either apprehend me or stop Amity Coliseum from dropping, but not both' gambit.

Again, I see this as just a 'if all else fails' scenario for the bad guys that'll probably never actually happen, but the fact that the evidence points to it even being a possibility terrifies me.

Alright, it's late where I am. I'll come back tomorrow to see what hole you guys poke in this.

-He who is AWESOME