As Hubris Blinds The Mighty
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Philip had learned long ago that life came with a price, one that he had long ago decided he was willing to pay.
Now he just needed Adrian to learn that lesson before he got them both eaten by the ever hungry machine of war and its secrets.
(This fic can be read without reading Sunk Cost Fallacy, but I would recommend reading the description of Sunk Cost Fallacy for an idea of the basic worldbuilding)
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- Part 1 of As Hubris Blinds The Mighty
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It turns out that being wired into giant war machines doesn’t play nice with human brains. The Earth Mechanical Defense Force, or EMDF, learned that the hard way when their pilots started going… neurotic, let’s say, after a few missions.
The obvious solution to that problem was to simply wire the pilot into their mecha permanently, that way their mind wasn’t being strained by the constant in and out. Unfortunately that strategy backfired and the pilots started going neurotic much, much faster, and this time they were giant and made of metal and much harder to put down.
So, the obvious next step would be to pull the plug on that idea and go back to the drawing board, right? No, that’s ridiculous, the next step was obviously to simply…
Make the mecha forget they’d ever been human in the first place.
Somewhere along the line someone should have pulled the plug, but they’d already invested so much into the project, and you know what they say about sunk cost fallacy.
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- Part 2 of As Hubris Blinds The Mighty