[Ogre] Repairs and Lockdown (Maintenance Mode)

[Kaari Koehn]

John Hurtt (Servitor at aol.com) writes:
>...Not to mention that the afore mentioned engineers will probably initiate  
>some sort of lock-down on the Ogre they're working on to prevent just such an 

>event.

That's how I'd build my Ogres, with a maintenance interface. An Ogre smart
enough to subject itself to the attentions of maintenance will accept the
"numbness and lack of response in the lower limbs", that is, the shut-down of
control systems as the Ogre equivalent of anaesthetic while maintenance
engineers replace the tracks, as a necessary part of this. Maybe the Ogre is
still lobbing shells over the horizon during a track motor replacement, or
crawling back to its own lines during a cannon realignment operation, but it's
probably up to the maintenance engineers.

Of course, the highly encrypted interface used to access maintenance mode would
itself be the fastest way to neutralize an Ogre, and stealing the heavily
guarded secret key to an Ogre would be an adventure in itself, more suited to
the cyberpunk genre. Getting close enough to the Ogre to use it, though? When
it might not work? Is that stress I detect in your voice, soldier?

Kaari Koehn

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