Originally posted by HorizonParty2021
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If we're under the assumption technocratic children need to be locked on because potential Traditional threat, I would assume everyone (and almost everything) would be on the plate at this point.
A junior Technomancer is probably at ease and less distracted if he knows his kids are well taken care of. The tuition paid by the Union keeps his "wife" happy and in contact with the school. Her attending parent-teacher meetings yields biometric data taken by security cameras. Everyone is accounted for.
I'm missing the link where boarding schools it's the only way to achieve this, though. I mean, sure, have them. Have boarding schools, by all means. However, I want to believe this would be a choice (or, at least, a conditioned "choice") of the agent, and not Control deciding "what's best" for your family - because 3 levels of Conditioning is explicitly not enough to take freedom of choice away
Now the last ideas are so..."Control"

The tuition paid by the Union keeps his "wife" happy and in contact with the school. Her attending parent-teacher meetings yields biometric data taken by security cameras. Everyone is accounted for.
Now, that's all very Technocratic indeed.
Like, what if the mother doesn't want their children to be taken away, only to meet them in a controled 3rd party environment? - I guess then she's being Unmutual, so worse for her.
The junior Technomancer isn't going to be thinking about his Oldlife-wife that much, with all the 5 appearance clones he's going to meet. If a female Technomancer was missing her husband one day, getting her needs attended to by the infinite-stamina Synthetic with movie-star looks would be enough to refocus her attention on the benefits of Union membership.
Why don't we give the agent perfect children too, since we're at it?
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Don't get me wrong, I'm not against any of this happening, but I also imagine these would be the anecdotes a defector from the Technocracy would tell (maybe not even a defector)
-Yeah, it seems that the psy-ops noticed I was a bit nostalgic for my old wife
-So, what did they do?
-Them, being empathy personified, sent a "succubus" to my room. I said "thanks, but no, I'm not really horny rigth now".
That's why everyone hates the psy-ops.
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