Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-65.80.204.52-20140310194601/@comment-4616231-20140323055756

Regardless of how Theta acted, he was still a part of the Alpha, and therefore a necessity for what Sigma wanted. Also, the Meta later DID kill North specifically to get Theta, so I'd say he was needed.

Some people have brought up the "this AI isn't needed" thing before - which I think is stupid. Let's demonstrate with an analogy.

The Alpha is like a puzzle, with the AI fragments as the pieces. Of course you're not going to be able to complete the puzzle without having all the pieces. And that's exactly what Sigma tried to do. Get all the pieces together, finish the puzzle - and attain metastability. Regardless of those weird, odd funky-shaped pieces that there are, they're still pieces of that puzzle. They still fit in somewhere, they're still needed. (what I find hilarious though is that if Sigma succeded he'd just have become Church)

But why was Theta relevant to the current discussion at all?