Agency under coercion concerns responsibility when a person remains conscious but loses meaningful control over action.
¶ Artificial People
Autonomy Regulators force artificial people to obey while leaving them aware. Una therefore remembers violence committed through her body without having chosen it. Mistress's sabotage under MasterCode and Jack's actions under X3 create related but technically distinct cases.
¶ Responsibility
The series separates explanation from erasure. Coercion changes culpability, but victims still experienced harm and survivors still carry trauma. Liberation restores the possibility of choice; it does not automatically repair relationships or dictate what a freed person will choose.
¶ See Also
- Autonomy Regulator — Autonomy Regulator appears in the documented history of Agency Under Coercion; An Autonomy Regulator was a coercive device or control lattice fused to a SentientCore chip.
- Mistress — Mistress appears in the documented history of Agency Under Coercion; Mistress is a synthetic digital person, ship intelligence, and central Dominatrix II crew member linked to Jack Kaiden's ocular implant.
- Una — Una appears in the documented history of Agency Under Coercion; Una, originally designated U-84129 and commonly called U after her liberation, was an Accent-class artificial intelligence, Resistance member, communications officer, and advocate for synthetic autonomy.
- X3 — X3 appears in the documented history of Agency Under Coercion; X3 is an unregulated synthetic person, Spearhead Subject Three, former Chimera Kyria commander, Owo's husband, Domain leader, and host of the last corrupted Talonorium Shard.
- Synthetic Bodily Agency — Both articles examine the series' distinction history; The distinction between a synthetic person's awareness and control over what their body is forced to do.
- Behavioral Models and Emergent Personhood — Both articles examine the series' choices history; The idea that a model built to imitate someone can develop attachments, choices, and identity beyond its original specification.
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