@orrery The specifics of the "Weller Test"? Yeah, that would be dang awesome to see. I presume Weller really got into Shadowrun at a young age, got frustrated he wasn't going to get his awesome technological empath solution handed to him and decided to make his own.

Probably worked backwards from the end goal: *pointing at his head* "I want all that..." *points to giant robot* "in there." and then just cranked on experiments until he found the right solutions.

@kelseyhusky Absolutely! But that path isn't a straightforward one. There's a lot of missteps and wrong turns along the way, as well as a lot of shortcuts. How much of the reason there's so few gen:LOCK candidates is that the Weller Test is overly restrictive? There's so much room for them to expand their scope if they want.

@orrery Fair point, so far, the only given reason for the limited candidate pool is that since gL tech is so raw, its band and range of compatability hasn't been expanded yet. And the time it needs to refine the tech to increase that pool isn't available since work cycles were reallocated into weaponizing the tech asap since the Vanguard were looking for a decisive edge quickly (remember the 6 month projection?)

@kelseyhusky Oh, yeah, I remember. A strong reason to push for a militarized answer, as unfortunate as it is. That all tracks for me. I'm just hoping Caliban keeps building on Weller's work.

@orrery I do to! But since all Caiban has is a read-only personality sliver, rather than a fully digitized mind, he might not have the creativity to generate and work on new things. It’s probably gonna be Cammie working with Migas and the RTASA scientists like Henry and Welles’s ex. But caliban does carry all of Weller’s notes, so they’ve got lots of potential avenues to explore.