
Originally Posted by
Newlemming
Hmm.. so Jack's been going around murdering the dreamselves. We already know what's happening here.
Jack has acquired the knowledge post-scratch of the regicidal older Noir who's currently in the Troll's incepisphere.
He knows that killing off the dream-kids before they can God Tier will make things much more one-sided. Derse-sided, specifically.
Sorry if this was obvious to everyone else.
I'm not sure it is that complicated. Ignoring Jack and the Midnight Crew the game would still be locked into a stalemating cold war. Each side would get the same upgrades. I believe Jack is Sburb's chaos causing construct designed to break up the stalemate. Hussie used the example of Bowser in Super Mario games when describing Jack and other constructs. They follow a programming. Outside of player induced changes of plans they would do the same thing over and over, same core personalities until player events forces changes.
* PM's interactions show that Jack Noir regularly sends low level minions and others on assassination attempts attempts.
* Judging by his lack of prototyped clothes with meeting Karkat, it looks like he and the BQ always get in a fight over wearing silly outfits.
* Judging by Karkat's introduction to Jack, Jack encounters a kid and stabs them. It should be on one of their worlds.
- If Kid survives he adjusts his plans and activates the Regicide Quest against the Black Queen. (Remember, he stabbed Karkat).
- If Kid dies, he shrugs and continues on with his programming of hunting down all the players.
- In this regard I think Jack servers as Sburb's "enrage" timer. You aren't leveling fast enough on your planets? Jack kills you. Taking too long to even get into the game (supposed to start playing at 13, not 15.5 silly alpha kids)? Jack kills you.
* Letting Jack get a ring speeds up the game considerably. Bec Noir is a threat because you aren't supposed to prototype the first guardian. There looks to be a window of time kill him without this messing the game up beyond repair:
- If Jack get the ring because you haven't leveled enough after starting the quest, he kills you for going too slow.
- Considering Jack killed the BK and the game continued, this may or may not be a hard enrage. If so, this is another you fail Sburb by going too slow.
TL, DR: Jack is Sburb's "You are taking to long. WIPE!

" mechanism. The alpha kids are 2.5 years late getting into Sburb so Sburb is wiping the raid.