An unsubstantiated report has come in and just been translated. the source is unknown but the implications are preposterous!! TEXT-Tarin had decided to discredit #1 fully. He purchased a specially configured AIBO from SONY and began to train it as an attack dog. His plan was to humiliate #1 by having AIBO hump his leg instead of snarling and lunging at him. He knew that this in addition to establishing a joint checking account and safety deposit box for #1 and the AIBO robot dog would cast unfathomable aspersions on any relations that #1 might try to cultivate. Tarins belief system allowed for not only survival but also keeping score. How much territory, the desirability of housing, mates the whole system of scoring was what he wanted to show was divorced from the concept of survival. Sure Magna was now gone and the source had to be a lesser one but the score could be increased by bonding with AIBO who was to be given all the latest and greatest tricks in running up a score. The only score #1 could cite was his prison cell. The new clones were to be given much more forgiving AIBOs with genuine sympathies and partnership qualities. #1 could build whatever house of cards he wished with the attack dog AIBO. In addition to its legal problems associated with the death of Magna this broader compass would now take away whatever status might have conveyed to #1 from being first and having historic significance. He was to be eclipsed in the glorification of his mechanical partner. The new clones would be attached to a mechanical bridge to value. Their own worth would become intangible.