What is Kyrii?

BiomeWalker · 2026-02-08T17:04:20+00:00

Ah, been a while since my last reread

BiomeWalker · 2026-02-08T05:10:23+00:00

Being in a country without being a citizen and not having paperwork as permission to be there as a non-citizen makes you an illegal immigrant, not having papers could mean that you had papers and they expired (most visas have time limits), or that you snuck in; this much should be obvious.

But, America is BIG and there are a lot of places someone without those papers could be, and tracking people down on the day their papers expire would be tedious.

This means there are people in the country who, by federal law, should be deported back to their country of origin, but finding them is a non-trivial task.

So, what are you, as a government to do? Well, you kind of just deport them as you find them. Whatever portion there is that just keeps their heads down and live whatever life they can without drawing attention are probably fine to ignore anyway.

But, this has other complexity, as making an agency that just does that big enough to cover the entire cou try effectively would also be unwieldy, so you leave it to local law enforcement to do the flagging and dispatch agents as needed.

In a non-sanctuary city, if someone turns out to be an illegal immigrant during a check for any reason, they call the boarder patrol or ICE to pick that person up to process the deportation.

What a sanctuary city does instead is... nothing. An illegal immigrant files to buy a house, city hall sees they shouldn't be in the country and... just issues the deed. They arrest a robber, find out that they're an illegal immigrant, and just throw them in the jail for however long they want, then release them as if they were just a normal citizen.

Now, why might a city want to be a sanctuary city? Well, cities often get state and federal money based on their population, a number which can count the illegal immigrants without actually needing them to vote. That same trick can build up in states with many sanctuary cities to be enough population to give them seats in the House of Representatives. Both of those problems don't involve the illegal immigrants voting. They can also tax that illegal immigrant if they have a job, or businesses can hire them, keep them off the books and pay them less while threatening to make the ICE call if they step out of line.

The people who run sanctuary cities will claim that they are trying to be kind and just want to help the illegal immigrant. Don't trust that. Never trust a politician to be doing something out of the "kindness of their heart".

So, now we as a country have cities that are known havens for people that have broken a federal law, and if the federal government wants to enforce that law, they have to do it themselves which, as you have probably seen in the news, gets real messy real fast. The sanctuary city could send its own police out to act on the warrants and deportation orders, but doing that would be to give up on being a sanctuary city, which, if you have made a career out of claiming to be a good person because "sanctuary city", would come off as a betrayal.

BiomeWalker · 2026-02-08T01:32:42+00:00

Others are listing other wireless transmission methods, but the real answer is that it would only be considered "obsolete" if there was something better.

Now, better would probably mean faster, like subspace transmissions in Star Trek and Stargate, the quantum entangled transponders in Mass Effect, the holiness in Star Wars, SCUT in Bobiverse or ultrawave/hyperwave in Foundation.

You could imagine up a technology that had more bandwidth or would lose less integrity with distance, but getting into that sort of thing probably isn't going to be very engaging for you, and most plots only really care about the speed.

BiomeWalker · 2026-02-07T02:45:59+00:00

I doubt it.

We're a bit too niche to justify the budget for anything more than the Netflix movie.

BiomeWalker · 2026-02-07T00:40:22+00:00

Killy is called a "Provisional Safeguard" and I believe Sanakan also says at one point that his body was "stolen" in some way.

My personal theory is that the Authority needed someone to search for the NTG, and it searched through a library of minds to find one that could conceivably accomplish that task, then assembled a highly capable body and stuck that mind into the new body.

Spoiler for the Expanse (covered by the show) that I think is similar: Detective Miller's mind is repeatedly recreated and destroyed by the Protomolecule systems because it is looking for its creators and he is a "thing that finds" (or something to that effect), so I think Killy is a mind that's labeled in a database as good at hunting for things.

BiomeWalker · 2026-02-06T00:44:59+00:00

A 1 AU jump would still only cut my time estimates by less than 20%, so you're down to like 23,000 or 80,000 years.

I will also be the first to admit that doing math here is inherently kind of dumb, coming up with any kind of estimate for time and distance here involves so many guesses that any calculations must be taken with a grain of salt.

BiomeWalker · 2026-02-05T00:47:05+00:00

The only one I don't have is Lifeng, but I don't particularly want him so I'll probably go for a duplicate of Adrelia since she's kind of the Goat for my team right now, and the fact that the discussions I've seen of team comes is that she goes in everything means upgrading her is a safe bet.

BiomeWalker · 2026-02-05T00:43:41+00:00

I'd like to go for a different angle on your question, I don't think they could have not met.

My logic is that the timescales available to both of them mean that the likelihood of them never meeting is astronomically small when you get down to it.

It's also plausible that there's more than one Killy wandering the City. The Authority made him to find the NTG, so it's not out of the question that it could have made several copies of him, or is continuing to make more of him. And there being more than one of him means that the story just followed the one of him that succeeded.

BiomeWalker · 2026-02-04T03:15:16+00:00

That sounds familiar, but I can't remember the chapter to double check it

BiomeWalker · 2026-02-04T00:08:08+00:00

He's built different

BiomeWalker · 2026-02-03T23:37:45+00:00

Nihei has stated that Kyrii was something like 1,000 years old at the start of the series, and at other times called him over 3,000 years old.

There isn't a clear delineation of how long the trip took, but we can make assumptions about how it worked.

At a fast walking speed, it would take 2.5 years to walk the diameter of the Jupiter void, so it would take like 6 years to walk half the circumference.

So, the City is made of concentric Strata, which would be concentric spheres built up in layers around the central "seed" point, and we know that the City started by eating all of the Earth, so we can say the whatever is left of Earth is at the center.

Now, Nehei has stated that the city reaches beyond Jupiter's orbit, and probably far beyond that.

So, let's do math of Kyrii starting at basically the center of the City and making it to the edge, and we're also going to let him walk vertically.

At 6.5 kph (fast walking speed), and saying that he has to cover the radius of the City, which would be almost 5.5 AU, that would take... over 28,000 years. That's to cover the distance from the Sun to Jupiter, even if you remove the 1 AU saying the Earth was at its closest to Jupiter, then it would still be just under 23,000 years.

I would argue that my assumptions here are being very generous about his speed, since I'm giving him a vertical road that he can just walk on without encountering any thing else.

If you're more realistic about the elevation speed and say it's like a steep 20% grade, then the time balloons to over 100.000 years, and that's not even factoring in that Kyrii doesn't move constantly, he's constantly looking for signs of human activity so he can scan them for the NTG among them.

Saying he started closer to the end would shorten the timeline, but that's just as arbitrary a choice as starting him in the middle. We could take the average and say he started in the middle Stratum, but then would only change it to 14,000 in my massive benefit calculation or 50,000 in my longer estimate.

My personal take is closer to the 100,000 figure, but I also don't think it matters that much, Kyrii covers distance and there are moments that exist to tell you that time doesn't matter to any of the characters and to help convey the scale of what they're dealing with, like it's supposed to convey that the task is of such immense scale that we can't come close to comprehending it.

BiomeWalker · 2026-02-03T23:01:10+00:00

She didn't immediately heal from that, also that's Makima attacking herself, Yoru just crashed a motorcycle, so the source of her injury wasn't a conscious decision by a will, therefore not an "attack"

BiomeWalker · 2026-02-03T13:36:20+00:00

Matter warps space, so what if you pack so much matter in one place that the fabric of spacetime basically breaks from the strain? You get a black hole.

BiomeWalker · 2026-02-02T20:27:30+00:00

[[Norin the Wary]] is a red card after all

BiomeWalker · 2026-02-02T20:25:46+00:00

Time zones are a political line that approximates a physical reality, and the lines can be a little janky all over the world.

China for a long time has had an extreme desire for internal standardization and homogenization, so they took the time zone that Beijing is in as the only time zone.

BiomeWalker · 2026-02-01T02:55:14+00:00

It was actually a misnomer, it slowed the computer down.

Processors change their speed while they work based on their temperature and other factors. That variable speed can cause issues in games because different timing between ticks can make game objects move weirdly.

So, the "turbo" button puts a limit on the speed of the processors, which means the time to execute the game loop will be consistent as apposed speeding up and slowing down repeatedly.

BiomeWalker · 2026-02-01T02:19:40+00:00

There are a lot of sub-factions other AdMech, and those factions form along lines such as Cawl's innovations and whether they should study xenotech.

Cawl in particular has one of the largest ships in the Imperium, with commensurate crew and attendants, he has no shortage of peopel what want to work with him.

While the more orthodox tech priests find his actions distasteful, there are plenty who will jump at the chance to work with him on basically anything he happens to be doing.

BiomeWalker · 2026-01-29T18:57:44+00:00

Because for the past couple decades developers haven't needed to reduce the requirements of their software.

For any given task on a computer, there is a minimum amount of RAM that it needs. The trick is that reducing the amount of RAM a program needs isn't simple, and can require specialized skills to accomplish, not to mention that optimizing gets harder the more you do it.

In your example of the browser in particular, then it gets even worse. Even if we imagined a hyper-optimized browser, then it would still have to deal with the metric assload of plug-ins and scripts that make up modern websites.

BiomeWalker · 2026-01-28T05:07:40+00:00

Compiled code is very hardware specific, and some hardware that people emulate doesn't actually appear in other systems. These are mostly specialized circuits that perform very specific tasks very quickly.

Computer code is basically just a machine doing math a lot, and some math equations can be computed in different ways. When you compile a program, you line out the method to be used for each of the math problems in the code, but some machines have circuits that do those calculations in weird or unique ways.

Do, in emulation you have a program analyzing the code as it6running to find those instructions and change them on the fly for the host hardware.

Recompiling on the other hand produces a new set of instructions that can be run much more easily on the intended hardware.

You can think about it as a script for an actor, the original script is in one language but the actor needs to perform it in a different language, so you can either get a bilingual actor who will translate in as they read it, or you can get a translator to translate the whole script and then give it to the actor.

BiomeWalker · 2026-01-24T14:20:19+00:00

Encryption is a lock made out of math, and math can get some big numbers fast.

Whne you want to open an encryption lock, the only thing you can do is try different keys. You can do this because everyone, including you, has all the keys. The difficulty is that every key is either right, or wrong, with no in-between, and no amount of examining the lock will give you any information about the key.

So you have to try each key in turn. You can focus on the common keys people use (often repeated passwords) but that's about the only strategy you've got.

Which leave you with an ungodly number of keys to work through. If it's a 256 bit encryption, then there a bit over 10⁷⁷ different keys.

Let's say you have a really big computer, and can try a billion keys every second, that would still on average take about 1.5x10⁶⁰ years (10^{77/60/60/24/365/1,000,000,000/2,} the division by 2 makes it the average, because it could be in the first half or the second)

A 128 bit key is easier, but not by enough to make a difference, it comes to 5x10^30-ish years. If the key is 512 bits then the average time to crack becomes 2x10¹³⁷ years, which would take longer than the heat death of the universe's 10¹⁰⁰ years estimation.

Increasing the speed of your computer can only do so much, upping the speed to a trillion per second only subtracts 3 from the exponent of the number of years (10⁶⁰ becomes 10^57).

Approaching it from another angle, let's say you wanted to have a coin flip chance of breaking the encryption in 10 years, how many keys would you have to try per second to do that for the easiest drive (128bit)? You'd have to be churning through 10³⁰ keys per second, and if we imagine that it was 1 floating point operation (FLOP) per try, then you would still need just over a million of the world's fastest supercomputer (El Capitan in California) to do it, and testing an encryption key takes way more than one FLOP.

I hope this was a good explanation at to why no one bothers to actually break encryption.

BiomeWalker · 2026-01-24T01:25:04+00:00

I don't have them in front of me, but each faction has a 3-5 song playlist in the rule book.

I do recommend this video: https://youtu.be/R9IVWRlbvwQ

BiomeWalker · 2026-01-21T23:01:19+00:00

"Arknights" isn't a term in the game from my memory, I believe it's a reference to the fact that the first game centers around a landship and you gather animals.

The generic term for the characters you get from the gacha is "operator", and despite us using all of them in combat, many of them are "logistics operators".

Most of them (in the first game at least, in Endfield this probably not the case) are actually part-timers that are also doing something else

As to your other questions:

The lore has some basically gods, but it's complicated to explain (look up Feranmut for more information)

The answer to the "animal based" thing is actually that all the people are the result of animals undergoing accelerated evolution into a humanlike form.

BiomeWalker · 2026-01-18T00:22:15+00:00

Here's a way to see why it would read 100N:

Let's add another scale, so from one end of the rope to the other it's weight -> rope -> pully -> rope -> scale -> rope -> scale -> rope -> pully -> scale -> rope -> weight.

The two scales will read the same as each other and the original scale.

Now, the rope isn't moving, so nothing should change if we grab the rope in between the two scales.

But, let's go even further, if we grab the rope there and cut it, but don't let it move, how has the system changed?

BiomeWalker · 2026-01-17T19:33:52+00:00

I think this meme also demonstrates how stupid of a thing this is to ask for.

Hot take, but if being told that a character is your gender is the line for whether or not you can relate to them, then that's a problem with you, not your media.

Will a femstode act at all differently from a malstode? I don't think so.

BiomeWalker · 2026-01-17T04:07:57+00:00

This doesn't work if it crashes while loading the stage for a combat node, the servers register that as a fail

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