Dawn78 -- "The Emperor's Reward"

[BUTCHYPIE]

Got a wierd question. Peter in Dawn78 says the line below:

Peter: THEY GOT A BIG ADVANTAGE OVER US BROTHER. THEY DON'T THINK. THEY JUST BLIND-ASS DO WHAT THEY GOT TO DO. NO EMOTIONS. AND THAT BUNCH OUT THERE? THAT'S JUST A HANDFUL AND EVERY DAY THERE'LL BE MORE. A COUPLE HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE DIE EACH DAY FROM NATURAL CAUSES. THAT PROB'LY TRIPLES OR BETTER WITH FOLK KNOCKIN' EACH OTHER OFF THE WAY IT'S GOIN'. NOW SAY EACH ONE OF THEM COMES BACK AND KILLS TWO, AND EACH ONE OF THEM TWO MORE... YOU KNOW ABOUT THE EMPEROR'S REWARD?

This may be an allusion that I should get, but what is "the emperor's reward" he refers to? Was I asleep in that day of classical mythology class or something?

[AcesandEights]

Uhhhhh, crap, I have no idea what that refers to. I could come up with a few suppositions, but why bother till we learn if someone on this board knows the real asnwer.

I even googled for an asnwer...

Good question :)

[glsjaw]

good question, off to google i go

[MapMan]

Death

[glsjaw]

http://www.wattnet.com/Archives/Docs/699pib.pdf?CFID=25710&CFTOKEN=74030876

this would explain it better than i could. But i do believe just the beginning of the article is being refered to in the movie

[MapMan]

That makes more sense.

[Griff]

I'm pretty sure Peter goes on to explain the concept behind 'The Emperor's Reward' in the novelization.

I take it the quote above was from the script since this dialogue didn't make it to any release version.

[AcesandEights]

Ahhhh, the subtle, yet undeniable power of...log2 arithmetic :rockbrow:

But it does make perfect sense, considering what Peter was trying to get accross.

Good find glsjaw.