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| Topic Started: Jun 30 2009, 09:01:26 PM (169 Views) | |
| Astaroth | Jun 30 2009, 09:01:26 PM Post #1 |
MAIM KILL BURN!
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While the majority of people are just that, there are two clearly defined subsets of possible abhumans, both of which are viable to play as but require significant knowledge of the lore or staff approval to play. Keep in mind that both Genesis Solution survivors and androids are 'limited', which is a fancy way of saying 'they're used for plots and alright to RP as, but since we don't want everyone running around as one, they require super special awesome registrations and/or staff approval and/or knowing pretty much everything in the Lore section so you know how to RP them.' Yeah, it's a bit long, but then again, this is a complicated subject. This topic describes androids in particular, as should be pretty obvious by the giant "ANDROIDS" label half a centimeter below this text. Androids Artificial intelligence has moved forwards by leaps and bounds; after massive success with Porygon and its line of successors, it's really no surprise that certain enterprising researchers have moved on to attempting to create true artificial life: electronic minds in artificial bodies. While most progress in this area has been dubious at best due to the obscene difficulty in creating anything so much as resembling a legitimate mind, a certain group of researchers at one of Team Rocket's major facilities has come up with a typically inhuman solution. By cobbling together fragments of minds shattered by the EDOM - Electronic Dissolution Of Memory - machinery used in the Genesis Solution and coupling what they managed to save with heuristic processors to grant the ability to truly learn, they have been able to create a number of androids that can truly be said to be self aware. Androids that, when given human form, can act human. They can reason, use logic, understand syntax, acknowledge, and understand verbal orders, even gradually cobble together their own unique personalities. Of course, there is the relatively minor issue of the quality of the fractured psyches used to form the basis of these androids' personalities. Given that the EDOM phase of the Genesis Solution is unanimously acknowledged to be by far the most brutal on the test subjects and possesses an overall failure percentage rate in the high nineties, it is not particularly surprising that nearly anything taken out of the system's memory is bound to be unbalanced at best and completely unworkable most of the time. Few of the test androids reach anything resembling a rational existence, and fewer still manage to weather the shock of having so many fragments of different personalities and psyches slammed together, and those that do tend to act erratically; Asimov's first law of robotics is difficult to enforce when the subjects are, strictly speaking, not exactly programmed - while the various aspects of the crushed-together psyches are somewhat malleable, changing them drastically is impossible at the current level of tech. In short, the abominations that pass as artificial life are technically a success, but nearly useless save for test subjects for further experimentation. While the majority of 'successful' androids are simply decomissioned after initial testing, a significant portion of the remainder is sent to Arachnos at the Overseer's request; they are occasionally useful in a laboratory setting, and a few of the more successful models have been commissioned as full-fledged personnel, a few even being competent enough to function as Harbingers. Of the survivors, personalities vary wildly between models. Many are highly unstable, but some have managed to integrate the various psyches into one or two coherent, fairly solid psyches - a result of pure dumb luck or matching fragments? No one really seems to know, and the people who work with them just hope that they don't happen to "learn" to kill their teammates too. Bodies Androids are, by and large, outfitted with what is, were one to go off an initial inspect, fairly humanoid bodies: false hair, false skin, the like. While their outsides are generally of fairly high quality, it is not necessarily indistinguishable from the real deal - the Uncanny Valley is an issue for older types, and even the newer types tend to have difficulty articulating expressions well. That is not to say that they cannot experience the emotions that would otherwise cause those expressions, but that they have difficulty physically expressing it. This has led to them being viewed as 'inhuman' by many who do not understand that particular difficulty, as it is a bit of a sore point for many mid-series androids. Some of the most recent models have fixed this problem, though they tend to be even more individualistic than some of the older series models, and are one of the very few things in Arachnos employ mentally capable of 'going rogue'. On the flip side, they have manual overrides in the case of that occurring, so berserking androids can usually be put down once HQ is alerted. Android characters are also limited to Arachnos roles, given that they are obscenely valuable pieces of machinery and Team Rocket isn't in the habit of throwing away extremely expensive tools and letting them walk away scot free. That aside, most more-or-less sane androids are given fairly free reign in what they want to do in Arachnos, so long as they can fulfill the duties: they have wildly varying experiences as a result of the randomness with which they are granted their 'base' personalities. To put it less delicately, enough people have died in an EDOM machine and had what remained of their psyche scraped off the walls, metaphorically speaking, that it's hard to say exactly what skills an android will have until it's turned on for the first time. Much like with Genesis Solution survivors, you must fulfill three requirements to RP as an android. You must have been a RP regular for some time, you must get a staff member's express permission, and you must have read and fully understood all the related lore. Additionally, not acting like a friggin' moron is a good way to expedite the process and strengthen your case. |
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