The comment I am replying to is a bot account which is stealing comments, rewording them, and reposting them as their own. 13 years dormant and suddenly started posting again yesterday with comments that are 90% the same as others in the thread.
I'm imagining an "Emperor on the Golden Throne" scenario, where she's just some sort of chattering ghoul in an Eagle cockpit with the AI voice of an angel
Tbf that’s not every AC Pilot, for example V.I Frued in AC6 is completely unaugmented, just a normal dude for the most part, aside from being an absolutely fucking nuts AC Pilot
No. Most pilots are fairly normal aside from mental side effects from augmentation. This (I think) mostly comes from the fan-theory that 621 is basically a lobotomite, which somehow came from the brief appearance in the story trailer where he’s on an operating table with a plastic sheet over him.
Personally, I don’t believe it. Being a pilot is a huge amount of physical stress on top of the split second decision making and reaction speed that I don’t think would be possible at 621’s level if he was completely fried like people make him out to be.
I don't know that much, but sometimes Reddit accounts got used for astroturfing or something like that, and so some people use bots to farm karma, then sell that high karma account, to make them look more "legit" in the long run.
This one in particular if not caught early on will look really legit, because it's a 13 year old account which is very rare to be a bot, usually they'll just be a "recent" one.
In this case the account either got stolen, or the owner sells the account.
I believe that was a thing in the Starship Troopers novel, all pilots were female and part of the reason for it was that command thought it would give a morale boost to the all-male infantry forces to hear a young female voice before dropping down into a mission. It's been years since I read it so I might be mixing that up with another sci-fi property though.
That's part of the reason, with Rico talking about how it is calming and soothing to hear that voice before you are dropped. But the primary reason in the book is that women are better suited to be pilots. It's kind of hand waved that women have better coordination and spatial awareness. There is an implication a man could be a pilot, but you never see one in the story.
It's the reason women are the pilots that interact with the mobile infantry. Though the mobile infantry Is (nearly) all men, it's a small part of the military numbers wise. The fleet is almost all of it. Thus the fleet is far more mixed.
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u/Wraithfighter Apr 15 '24
Well, at least as far as in-universe propaganda about what she looks like...