Origins/Major Influence: B4UTRUST's post in Is Friend Computer a Bot?, The Computer *is* The Complex (requires access to Paranoia-Live's GM Meeting Room)
Description: "Bot Complex" is a massive, immobile dome-shaped bot "powered by a giant bio-mechnical system". For what purpose, no one knows except "The Computer" (Bot Complex's "bot brain"), and it is not willing to tell. For the short term though, The Computer seeks to regain Bot Complex's mobility.
The "giant bio-mechanical system" are the humans that work inside this bot. And they play a very important, seminal role, according to Rickton, a loyal citizen who studied Bot Complex in detail:
"[T]he Computer processes information through the movement of citizens throughout the hallways, assigning missions and jobs based on its computational needs.
This actually would explain a lot about the Computer. Why it cares so much for the citizens: it needs them! Why it hates treason, unhappiness, and other inefficiencies: they cause problems. Why so many troubleshooter missions don't make sense, or are hosejobs: it's all a part of the data processing needs of the Computer.
In addition, this actually means that treason, secret societies and the like are actually the cause of the Computer's insanity (which in turn leads to more treason and clones in secret societies -- a rather nice Catch-22). If everyone was loyal, and did what they were supposed to, the Computer would actually work perfectly.
This also brings up some ideas about types of secret societies who are aware of this. There are those who know about it and hate it, so seek to cause disruptions however they can, to bring down the Computer (all of a sudden Death Leopard becomes the most effective secsoc).
There are utopians, who realize that if everyone did as they were supposed to, society would start to function. They want to make sure that everyone does as they are told in order for things to work. The Troubleshooter missions must be successful!
Then there are those who know how the system works and how to control it. They redirect citizens and goods in mysterious ways in order to manipulate the Computer to their own ends (reminds me of nonsensical Illuminati Missions putting roadblocks in the pathway to redirect all the IRs, swapping labels on the Soylent RED and Soylent ORANGE crates...)."
Spy For Another Alpha Complex: A spy, even outside the Complex, is still incredibly useful. The spies provides the information Bot Complex can then process. But the information Bot Complex wants is determinant on the previous information Bot Complex processed, meaning Bot Complex can demand certain information that is useless to a human being but vital for Bot Complex's very survival.