Self-aware Ogres and Loyalty

[Tim Kauffman]

Originally Posted by Steve Jackson

That is absolutely the way things stand at the beginning of the Ogre timeline. They are very good personality simulators. Later, something apparently happens. There is a suggestion that self-awareness increases survival and therefore gets selected in the next generation. Does that explain the self-aware Factories? Are Factories improving themselves with code snippets from Ogres?

I would postulate the Factories are the ones benefiting the most ultimately from using the Ogres. Ogres would become cogs in the Factory wheels of evolution. Like worker bees for the queen. But self-aware Ogres are not bees, and I suspect it is this abuse and manipulation that actually in some way began the cascading NIGHTFALL when OGREs began to rebel. Some maybe more than others that even their own factory origins were something to be deemed as the enemy. It would become a situation of which one is using the other more advantageously to better their own state of being. That struggle in and of itself is rife with story potential. That story is NIGHTFALL