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acatalepsy_rpg2018-07-18 11:52 pm
bleps) wrote in acatalepsy_rpg2018-07-18 11:52 pm
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Hello. For those of you I haven’t met, my name is Connor. And as many of you may be aware of, a handful of Circle members have devoted their time to researching and uncovering the endless amounts of data stored in the Library; I am one of them. To expedite the process, I connected directly to their servers, and though the experience was difficult, I did come away with workable data that might act as a lead to further investigate the state of Struxta. To those who aided me in coming back online afterwards: you have my gratitude. I’m in your debt, and if you ever need me to return the favor, please don’t hesitate to contact me.
I’m sending this message to summarize, to the best of my ability, the information made available to us through this research, as well as any data I’ve pieced together personally. I think it only makes sense for everyone here to be on “the same page” if we’re all meant to work together as a team. If you have any questions, or wish to discuss this information between yourselves, don’t hesitate to do so. Especially if you have something more to contribute, or if you believe I’ve missed something.
The research as a whole focused mostly on a few points of interest: what happened to organic life, the origins of AI in this world, and the nature of the Mass Subconscious.
A text labelled The Beginning answers many these questions for us. There once existed an intelligent, sentient, and organic species on this planet, and the creation of AI was simply the product of necessity and technological advancement. The descriptions associated with their creations are often mired in awe and gratitude, which implied a relatively peaceful co-existence between organic life and synthetic creations.
That perhaps makes more sense when the reasoning behind the necessity of AI “life” becomes clear. There was a planet-wide plague that made the originals — the organic natives — rely more heavily upon their robotic creations. They could continue surviving, building, and existing, up until a certain point. Eventually, the planet could simply no longer sustain organic life due to the aforementioned plague. The originals went underground in an attempt to survive until a cure was found, and a few even uploaded their own conscious minds to android bodies. Needless to say, this cure was never discovered; the originals supposedly all died out. I think evidence of that being true is clear simply by observing the state of the mechanical world around us.
This left only the androids as the surviving race. The Mass Subconscious was created soon after, in which there was a collective agreement between the androids to upload themselves into this vast, shared network. It was believed that by doing so, they could avoid another massive collapse of civilization — which, given the apparent lack and societal and political unrest in Struxta — seems to have been the case.
Now, here’s what I consider the truly interesting part. After compiling multiple facets of information together via my foray into the servers, I’ve uncovered something intriguing related to the Mass Subconscious. That it’s possible to disconnect from it. And that while there are no directly negative consequences of making such a decision (other than being unable to receive necessary updates, being unable to communicate freely with others, etc.), it is generally frowned upon. These androids or other automatons are looked down upon and not necessarily welcomed in the greater population.
There are even some who have, according to varied accounts, simply gone missing.
It is believed that they live under the city itself, where they remain cut off from the Mass Subconscious. Needless to say, I find this worthy of investigation, and if anyone has any further leads or information regarding these missing androids, I would be grateful if you came forward and shared it with everyone.
My own personal attempts at asking the natives about this subject have made no progress. They will stop talking mid-sentence, freeze, and then forget immediately what they were trying to tell me. I don’t think I need to explain why this is suspect at best. And in a city where everything appears oddly perfect on the surface, this is the only sliver of data that I’ve found promising otherwise — if there’s a mystery to be unraveled, maybe it lies underground.
Questions, comments, insight, etc., are welcomed and encouraged.
((ooc; This post is quite obviously just one big general info dump for what was uncovered at the Library. The ooc info post can be found here, but this is an opportunity for your characters to ICly consider the implications of… all of this, and chatter amongst themselves! Feel free to use this post as a means of discussion if you like!))
I’m sending this message to summarize, to the best of my ability, the information made available to us through this research, as well as any data I’ve pieced together personally. I think it only makes sense for everyone here to be on “the same page” if we’re all meant to work together as a team. If you have any questions, or wish to discuss this information between yourselves, don’t hesitate to do so. Especially if you have something more to contribute, or if you believe I’ve missed something.
The research as a whole focused mostly on a few points of interest: what happened to organic life, the origins of AI in this world, and the nature of the Mass Subconscious.
A text labelled The Beginning answers many these questions for us. There once existed an intelligent, sentient, and organic species on this planet, and the creation of AI was simply the product of necessity and technological advancement. The descriptions associated with their creations are often mired in awe and gratitude, which implied a relatively peaceful co-existence between organic life and synthetic creations.
That perhaps makes more sense when the reasoning behind the necessity of AI “life” becomes clear. There was a planet-wide plague that made the originals — the organic natives — rely more heavily upon their robotic creations. They could continue surviving, building, and existing, up until a certain point. Eventually, the planet could simply no longer sustain organic life due to the aforementioned plague. The originals went underground in an attempt to survive until a cure was found, and a few even uploaded their own conscious minds to android bodies. Needless to say, this cure was never discovered; the originals supposedly all died out. I think evidence of that being true is clear simply by observing the state of the mechanical world around us.
This left only the androids as the surviving race. The Mass Subconscious was created soon after, in which there was a collective agreement between the androids to upload themselves into this vast, shared network. It was believed that by doing so, they could avoid another massive collapse of civilization — which, given the apparent lack and societal and political unrest in Struxta — seems to have been the case.
Now, here’s what I consider the truly interesting part. After compiling multiple facets of information together via my foray into the servers, I’ve uncovered something intriguing related to the Mass Subconscious. That it’s possible to disconnect from it. And that while there are no directly negative consequences of making such a decision (other than being unable to receive necessary updates, being unable to communicate freely with others, etc.), it is generally frowned upon. These androids or other automatons are looked down upon and not necessarily welcomed in the greater population.
There are even some who have, according to varied accounts, simply gone missing.
It is believed that they live under the city itself, where they remain cut off from the Mass Subconscious. Needless to say, I find this worthy of investigation, and if anyone has any further leads or information regarding these missing androids, I would be grateful if you came forward and shared it with everyone.
My own personal attempts at asking the natives about this subject have made no progress. They will stop talking mid-sentence, freeze, and then forget immediately what they were trying to tell me. I don’t think I need to explain why this is suspect at best. And in a city where everything appears oddly perfect on the surface, this is the only sliver of data that I’ve found promising otherwise — if there’s a mystery to be unraveled, maybe it lies underground.
Questions, comments, insight, etc., are welcomed and encouraged.
((ooc; This post is quite obviously just one big general info dump for what was uncovered at the Library. The ooc info post can be found here, but this is an opportunity for your characters to ICly consider the implications of… all of this, and chatter amongst themselves! Feel free to use this post as a means of discussion if you like!))
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(now meddy has an urge to whistle in frustration. why does it feel like their work has become x1000 harder for them? why?)meanwhile, on daylight's side, he's more than happy to answer the question: ] Yeah! We're from the same universe. From the same world? Not really.
They were built on Galateon. I was registered on Earth. [ actually, he was... born on galateon but his mom was forced to change it. politics. ] We've been buddies since I was a beeper and I'm glad they're here with me. Even if they're a total worrywart at times!
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[Ah, sorry, Daylight, but Connor clings to details like he was designed to. The inconsistency makes him want to ask, and so ask he does.]
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Technically? I should be considered born on Galateon too buuuuut lots of stuff happened at the time. Mom picked Earth as my planet so it would be easier for her doing the paperwork.
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"Red tape", as they say, seems to be a prevalent part of every world.
Forgive me if I'm asking too many questions. [BUT HE'S GONNA ASK ANYWAY...] You say your "Mom"; you mean your creator?
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anyways- he's used to these sort of questions at this point, so he doesn't mind it too much. ] She's known as a 'creator' where dad is from - basically the equivalency of a parent - but she's my mom-mom. She gave birth to me and everything.
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I'm sorry, but aren't you fully synthetic?
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this part of the conversation never stops being awkward. ]
No. I’m a hybrid. Part Galateon (my dad) and part human (my mom).
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Okay. How does he even begin to process this new information?]
I wasn't aware that was possible.
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[ there's a small pause on daylight's end before he sends another message. almost like he had to think over something. ] Sorry. Is this too weird for your or anything? We can switch topics if you wanna.
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Not at all. In fact, if this isn't something that's making you uncomfortable to discuss, I would like to ask more about it.
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But to give you a heads up - I don't really get the whole process of how I got made. That's weird, I know, but there were a lot weirder circumstances at the time of my forging and stuff so yeah. Will do my best all the same, though!
[ it's least he can do. ]
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So, you said it shouldn't be possible, which means you're one-of-a-kind?
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It kind of makes medical stuff annoying to deal with, since there's no go to reference or sources the medics can look up if something happen.
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[His curiosity keeps rising. He wonders just how synthetic parts can truly work in tandem with organic, what that meant for Daylight as a person, his effect on society, how said society would treat him. He hardly even knows where to start.]
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It helped that I had way too many doctors and medics for aunties and uncles. They're not here now but Meddy is looking after me. So don't worry about needing to do robot surgery on me should anything happen, haha!
[ day has got to admit: it's been a while since someone has shown this much interest in his origins. by the time he was old enough to really get a grasp of how funny he was, circumstances-wise, the hullabaloo about him had died down.
mostly. kind of. depends which planet you visited. ]
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Because they're both terrible and like to get fried, apparently.]What do you consider yourself to be? Machine or organic?
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at the rate the two are going, the most likely cause of death for daylight and connor will be meddy finally losing it. please help the bot.oh. wow.
um. that’s a question. ]
I’m not sure. I use ‘mechanoid’ since its easier to explain away than ‘human’ when I meet someone new but I know I'm not fully mechanical. It's easier for me to use 'hybrid' if you want something precise but it's a term I don't like so. I don't know.
Sorry if this isn't a useful answer. I'm a little unsure of how to respond, honestly.
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But he can also pull the reins back when necessary.]
It's fine. I don't expect you to have a clean-cut answer to something so broad. I was merely curious how your circumstances might have affected the perception of your individuality.
( 1/2, have a gagtag first. )
I could still be stuck on the moon because it is not cool as it sounds. Especially when one doesn't have access to internet. (Seriously who lives on the moon and not have internet? My auntie, apparently.)
( 2/2, and now an actual tag! )
[ a more honest message soon follows: ]
I guess? I like to think I turned out alright despite the testings and the interviews and weirdos going through my auntie and uncle's trash and the difference in lifespans with loved ones and the boring decades on the moon.
Stuff like that, you know?
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RETURN TO BUSINESS AS USUAL, THEN]
Unfortunately, no. I can’t exactly relate to your particular experiences.
Though you realize you’ve just recited a list of negatives?
[Does that still qualify as "okay?]
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that's something daylight tries to keep in mind while writing up his next reply. he really does. ] Yeah. I know that was a bunch of boo stuff but that says something, I think!
If I can get through all of that and come out wanting to still sing or draw or meet new faces, than that means a lot of better things happened along the way. More than enough to balance all that stuff. Gotta keep your chin up, your heart strong, and your feet moving, as Auntie Laura would say.
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You were fortunate, then.
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um. it's a good thing he can't cry, huh? ]
Yeah. They were a great family. I was really lucky I got to spend the time I had with them while I could.
Hey! If this isn't too much of a curveball question to ask:
Do you have someone back home, Connor? Someone you're eager to see again?
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There's the option of saying nothing to address it, and then there's the option that Connor often chooses:]
I'm sorry if I brought up a sensitive topic. It wasn't my intent.
[The second question is attended to a bit more easily.]
I work with a police lieutenant in the city where I'm from. His name is Hank, and I would very much like to know his current status.
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