Text, Psuedonymous. It appears anonymous; any digging will only lead to the label 'LG'.

[fridgetothefire]

Who's actually dealt with nulls or voids before Or the tech? There are a lot of spooky rumors around but not a lot of facts. And nothing's better than first-hand experience.

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[Text | Unhackable | Private | Anonymous]

[southernreaper]

[He wasn't going to say anything, but now he is.]

I worked at SERO. What do you want to know?

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[fridgetothefire]

When do they move against people, and why? Is it only reactive to crime/protecting their posts, or...?

[Text | Unhackable | Private | Anonymous]

[southernreaper]

When it's beneficial for them. They can and will go after almost anything as long as the benefits outweigh the costs.

[Text | Unhackable | Private | Anonymous]

[fridgetothefire]

'Them'. Do the Voids have an agenda of their own, or do you mean SERO? Do they answer to someone at SERO in particular? Or several someones, or are they at the disposal of whoever can make beneficial use of their services?

[Text | Unhackable | Private | Anonymous]

[southernreaper]

SERO. Voids answer to whoever is in their section. It's like a normal company. Voids are built into the security hierarchy.

Voids are not human. Don't think they are. They are grown human-shaped things. The people who develop Void powers aren't bad, but the Voids and the Nulls? They were grown in a tube by scientists.

[Text | Unhackable | Private | Anonymous]

[fridgetothefire]

How much control does SERO have over what comes out of the tube?

[Text | Unhackable | Private | Anonymous]

[southernreaper]

It depends on what they put in, first. Things like Voids? 98% perfect coming out of the tubes - and they only say that because they don't want to claim 100%, because that leaves no margin for error.

Some other things? It takes them a while to get it right and they don't mind taking the time.

There are people there doing good things. But they turn a blind eye to the bad things that are being done too.

[Text | Unhackable | Private | Anonymous]

[fridgetothefire]

Sounds like a lot of big institutions, when you get right down to it.

I guess the Voids do everything they're told because they build them that way?

[Text | Unhackable | Private | Anonymous]

[southernreaper]

Completely and utterly loyal and they follow orders. Not sure why, but they are.

But they aren't immortal. Not yet, anyway. That will probably be the next thing SERO does.

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[fridgetothefire]

Loyal - but how smart? How capable are they of improvising to get their targets without new orders? Would they ever even need to?

[Text | Unhackable | Private | Anonymous]

[southernreaper]

Intelligence is another thing built into them. They're trained in a lot of forms of combat, including unarmed. A lot of people depend on their powers, take that away, and they aren't prepared for combat. Especially those that rely on things like superstrength or speed. That gives the Voids a very large advantage.

And don't ever forget, they are soldiers first.

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[fridgetothefire]

I won't. Thank you.

Intelligence wasn't exactly the right word. I guess...independance? How flexible are they allowed or encouraged to be? Are they generally given specific orders or just objectives?

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[southernreaper]

That, I don't know. I do know that they are all ingrained with one major objective: protect SERO. If they see a threat, they are authorized to go after it, within SERO property - with deadly force if necessary, or at least I think so.

There's a lot they don't let people outside the Void program know, to protect themselves.

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[fridgetothefire]

Okay. Thank you for the warnings, and for everything.