Post by darkarctic on May 9, 2011 23:12:55 GMT -5
Astrological
Region: Unknown Regions (Uncharted Space)
System: Talor, surrounded by a very dense asteroid field which is why the Talortai have taken so long to establish a presence off-planet.
Suns: One
Moons: None
Physical
Primary Terrain: Large forests and savannas; the planet doesn’t have oceans, but rather huge rivers that comprise of roughly 60% of the surface.
Points of interest: TSRD (Talortai Special Research and Development): a newly completed facility where the most advanced artificial intelligences are being developed. The Napelar falls: a waterfall that extends 20 kilometers across and falls over 1 kilometer, it extends the entire width of the Napelar falls.
Native species: Talortai
Immigrated species: Has slowly started to become populated by off-world species as well.
Societal
Official language: Basic; recently changed from the Talortai native tongue in an effort to promote immigration and increase knowledge of other races.
Major cities: Altic, commercial city of the planet.
Affiliation: New Republic
History: The Talortai have had a slow development for the majority, each Talortai survives hundreds of years, and the birth of the Talortai is a rare occurrence. The Talortai were a sedentary people, settling around the temperate equator of the planet. The largest clans resided at the Napelar falls, later named as the planets capital city Altic. If not for their prowess in creating and adapting technology they might not have been able to progress after the Great War, which tore the planet apart through 50 years of fighting. The Talortai have a democratic government that is concentrating most of its research on technology that will allow them to be able to pass through the dense asteroid field, which would open the Talortai to galactic trade routes.
\\TALORTAI SPECIAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT\\
<RECORD REF#09/47-9777>
\* LOG OF PROFESSOR DREXTOR
LEAD DESIGN ON PROJECT 09/47*\
<\FINAL NOTES PRIOR TO INITIATION OF PROJECT 09/47\>
\\FINAL COMPONENTS ARRIVING WITHIN THE WEEK, INITIAL BOOT-UP WILL COMMENCE SHORTLY AFTER. FINAL WORKOUT OF LOGICAL FUNCTIONS AND EMOTIONAL ALGORITHMS HAS RECENTLY BEEN ACCOMPLISHED. CHOICE OF NAME AND HOLOGRAPHIC APPEARANCE HAS BEEN AGREED UPON BY LEADS OF THE TEAMS AND THAT IT WILL BE THE FIRST TEST OF THE SMART AI'S CAPABILITIES TO CHOSE FOR ITSELF. WE HAVE ALSO AS PER REQUEST OF THE TIS (TALORTAI INTELLIGENCE SERVICE) DEVELOPED MULTIPLE DUPLICATES, EACH OUTFITTED WITH DIFFERENT BASE CHARACTERISTICS. ONE IS FOR SCIENTIFIC PURPOSES,TO EXPLORE HOW CLOSE TO NATURAL BEHAVIORAL AND EMOTIONAL STATES CAN BE ARCHIVED. ANOTHER AS AN AMBASSADOR FOR OUR RACE. AND THE FINAL AS A ***\\CLASSIFIED\\*** FOR THE TIS.\\
<\HISTORICAL RECORDS SHOW THAT THE CREATION OF THE 3 AI WENT AS ACCORDING TO PLAN UNTIL THE TIS'S AI WAS INITIATED, IT RAN FOR A BRIEF AMOUNT OF TIME LONG ENOUGH TO OUTPUT IT'S CHOICE OF NAME
\\TSRD.AI.003 COMPUTING BOOT UP REQUEST
(....)
(...)
(..)
(.)
\\NAME TO BE DESIGNATED AS TSRD.AI.003 DOPPLER
\\
\\
\\RUNNING SELF DIAGNOSTIC...
\\
\\BASELINE FAILURE.....CASCADING FAILURE IMMINENT
\\
\\LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS CORRRUPPTINGN GNFHYGH.FHOUWQOR.
\\01001111010010000010000001010011010010000100100101010100001000000100100100100000010001000100100101010110010010010100010001000101010001000010000001000010010110010010000001011010010001010101001001001111\>
<\UPON FURTHER INVESTIGATION THE FAILURE OF THE AI WAS FROM THE BASE COMPONENTS OF ITS NEURAL NETWORK. THERE WAS A CORRUPTION THAT CREATED A UNHANDELABLE CORE OPERATION.\>
<\THE HARDWARE WAS UNABLE TO BE RECOVERED FROM THE MELTDOWN AND DUE TO THE SUCCESS OF THE FIRST TWO AI AT INCREDIBLY HIGH COST IT WAS DECIDED TO NOT ATTEMPT CREATION OF ANYMORE AI UNTIL MORE INFORMATION WAS AVAILABLE ON THE EVOLUTION OF AI 001 AND 002.>\
<RECORD REF#09/47-9778>
\* LOG OF PROFESSOR DREXTOR
LEAD DESIGN ON PROJECT 09/47*\
<\NOTES ON THE START OF AI TSRD.AI.001\>
\\THE FIRST AI CHOSE THE NAME OF TSRD.AI.001 GYNOID AND ON THE HOLOGRAPHIC PAD SLOWLY FORMED THE IMAGE. IT WAS DETAILED IN ITS CONSTRUCTION, FORMING THE IMAGE OF A TALORTAI; A FEMALE ONE WITH INCREDIBLY VIBRANT FEATHERS ALONG HER SLENDER FIGURE. THE DEVELOPMENT TEAM WAS AMAZED AT HOW METICULOUS THE AI WAS IN BUILDING ITS IMAGE; THE POWER OF GYNOID'S PROCESSORS SHOULD HAVE ALLOWED THE IMAGE TO BE BUILT WITHIN MICROSECONDS. IT WAS AS IF THE AI CHOSE TO TAKE ITS TIME WITH THE UNVEILING, ONE COULD ALMOST SAY GYNOID DID IT FOR DRAMATIC EFFECT. GYNOID THEN STARTED RUNNING SELF DIAGNOSTICS, A PRE-PROGRAMED EVENT, TO ENSURE ALL SYSTEMS HAD COME ON-LINE PROPERLY. GYNOID THEN LET OUT A QUIET SIGH; A GENUINE SIGN AT HOW BORING THIS SELF DIAGNOSTIC WAS. THIS WAS A VERY POIGNANT EVENT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT TEAM, SHOWING US THAT GYNOID WAS IN FACT SENTIENT AND CONSCIOUS.\\
Ferok slowly materialized in the Talor senate, a huge open chamber where all of the representatives and press had gathered, and introduced himself. "I am TSRD.AI.002 Ferok proud to report that I have completed self diagnostics."
The High Minister of Talortai rose from his seat from amungst the crowded room and moved up to the front, he was almost as tall as Ferok but more showed his age more. He reached his hand out to shake Ferok's but then Ferok jokingly moved his hand through the High Minister's and piped up. "The expression is appreciated, but one a little lost on someone without a physical presence."
The High Minister Fen then addressed the crowd, "Thank you all for coming to the display now the senate will resume tomorrow and we will have Ferok join us again." As the crowd slowly filed out Fen turned to the image of Ferok and asked. "How did the other AI's creations go?"
Ferok then quickly responded "Ask them yourself Fen." Before Ferok had even finished his sentence from the swirling mist that had rapidly formed behind him slowly emerged the brilliant figure of Gynoid. She walked calmly to Ferok's left and politely introduced herself.
"Greetings High Minister. I am doing wonderfully, and that you for asking." She bowed her head slightly as she spoke, he words filled with bounce and vigor.
Fen then bowed slightly in return, "That is excellent to hear Gynoid. May I ask where the third of you is?" Fen was slightly puzzled at seeing only the first two AI, knowing that the third should have been created by now.
Ferok calmly replied, "There was a mechanical failure in the creation of Doppler, he never made it past the systems check." A hooded figure slowly emerged from Ferok's right hand side, the edges of the hologram vibrated giving it a blurriness.
"Oh don't worry Ferok he's one of the few people outside of TIS section 8 who can know about me. Everything went according to the plan Fen; I outputted an error and then quickly transmitted myself to Ferok's Database. The records will show I don't exist, even the TSRD believe I was destroyed." The shadow remained still on Ferok's right but due to the vibrations, Doppler never looked at ease.
"Well that is always good news. Now I need to get back to the media I'm surprised they aren't scratching at the door with anticipation." Fen replied duly.
"They've congregated in a 4 foot semi-circle on the other side of the door, and from their pulses it seems they are getting fairly worked up." Doppler informed Fen, the other AI's nodded in agreement to the observation.
"You three will prove very useful." Fen bowed a little as he began to depart the three AIs and head to the door, calmly preparing himself for the swarm of press he had just been warned about. He glanced back just in time to see the image of Doppler snap into nothingness, and then a few seconds later Ferok and Gynoid move back into the receding mist.
After meeting with the High Minister of Talor Doppler decided to move back to the section 8 headquarters. It was made soon after the Talortai had gotten the ability for space travel; its location has remained hidden from the public and from all but the highest ranking in the government. It was deep within the asteroid field on one of the larger asteroids, the field was so thick surrounding fortress that straight line transmission wasnt possible Doppler had to bounce through a series of hidden receivers to get there. Upon arrival Doppler ran through the normal handshake routines and moved through the firewall upon its opening, it was one that he could have easily hacked but that would have set alarms off all over the station, it was just simpler this way. Upon entering the stations network, he quickly transmitted himself to the mainframe in which he normally housed himself. Doppler as well as the other two AI had the ability to keep there entire program in a transmitting network, it made use of some extremely complicated subroutines that kept the information in travel, allowing it to be stored virtually on any network. Even with this advance method of memory storage, it was still move advantageous for the AI to house in a large databank because it allowed for faster hard computations. After settling in Doppler started to monitor the construction of the bridge; it was a network of transmitting beacons that allowed Talor to access the intergalactic holonet. Doppler had to increase the flow of coolant through his mainframe as he got a little too excited thinking about the amounts of data accessible after the bridge was completed. After calming himself down by excessively cooling the mainframe Doppler started to analyze the bridge and started going back the tedious re-calculations and streamlining of the bridge network, so that it would be able to run at peak efficiency once its construction was completed.
Region: Unknown Regions (Uncharted Space)
System: Talor, surrounded by a very dense asteroid field which is why the Talortai have taken so long to establish a presence off-planet.
Suns: One
Moons: None
Physical
Primary Terrain: Large forests and savannas; the planet doesn’t have oceans, but rather huge rivers that comprise of roughly 60% of the surface.
Points of interest: TSRD (Talortai Special Research and Development): a newly completed facility where the most advanced artificial intelligences are being developed. The Napelar falls: a waterfall that extends 20 kilometers across and falls over 1 kilometer, it extends the entire width of the Napelar falls.
Native species: Talortai
Immigrated species: Has slowly started to become populated by off-world species as well.
Societal
Official language: Basic; recently changed from the Talortai native tongue in an effort to promote immigration and increase knowledge of other races.
Major cities: Altic, commercial city of the planet.
Affiliation: New Republic
History: The Talortai have had a slow development for the majority, each Talortai survives hundreds of years, and the birth of the Talortai is a rare occurrence. The Talortai were a sedentary people, settling around the temperate equator of the planet. The largest clans resided at the Napelar falls, later named as the planets capital city Altic. If not for their prowess in creating and adapting technology they might not have been able to progress after the Great War, which tore the planet apart through 50 years of fighting. The Talortai have a democratic government that is concentrating most of its research on technology that will allow them to be able to pass through the dense asteroid field, which would open the Talortai to galactic trade routes.
\\TALORTAI SPECIAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT\\
<RECORD REF#09/47-9777>
\* LOG OF PROFESSOR DREXTOR
LEAD DESIGN ON PROJECT 09/47*\
<\FINAL NOTES PRIOR TO INITIATION OF PROJECT 09/47\>
\\FINAL COMPONENTS ARRIVING WITHIN THE WEEK, INITIAL BOOT-UP WILL COMMENCE SHORTLY AFTER. FINAL WORKOUT OF LOGICAL FUNCTIONS AND EMOTIONAL ALGORITHMS HAS RECENTLY BEEN ACCOMPLISHED. CHOICE OF NAME AND HOLOGRAPHIC APPEARANCE HAS BEEN AGREED UPON BY LEADS OF THE TEAMS AND THAT IT WILL BE THE FIRST TEST OF THE SMART AI'S CAPABILITIES TO CHOSE FOR ITSELF. WE HAVE ALSO AS PER REQUEST OF THE TIS (TALORTAI INTELLIGENCE SERVICE) DEVELOPED MULTIPLE DUPLICATES, EACH OUTFITTED WITH DIFFERENT BASE CHARACTERISTICS. ONE IS FOR SCIENTIFIC PURPOSES,TO EXPLORE HOW CLOSE TO NATURAL BEHAVIORAL AND EMOTIONAL STATES CAN BE ARCHIVED. ANOTHER AS AN AMBASSADOR FOR OUR RACE. AND THE FINAL AS A ***\\CLASSIFIED\\*** FOR THE TIS.\\
<\HISTORICAL RECORDS SHOW THAT THE CREATION OF THE 3 AI WENT AS ACCORDING TO PLAN UNTIL THE TIS'S AI WAS INITIATED, IT RAN FOR A BRIEF AMOUNT OF TIME LONG ENOUGH TO OUTPUT IT'S CHOICE OF NAME
\\TSRD.AI.003 COMPUTING BOOT UP REQUEST
(....)
(...)
(..)
(.)
\\NAME TO BE DESIGNATED AS TSRD.AI.003 DOPPLER
\\
\\
\\RUNNING SELF DIAGNOSTIC...
\\
\\BASELINE FAILURE.....CASCADING FAILURE IMMINENT
\\
\\LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS CORRRUPPTINGN GNFHYGH.FHOUWQOR.
\\01001111010010000010000001010011010010000100100101010100001000000100100100100000010001000100100101010110010010010100010001000101010001000010000001000010010110010010000001011010010001010101001001001111\>
<\UPON FURTHER INVESTIGATION THE FAILURE OF THE AI WAS FROM THE BASE COMPONENTS OF ITS NEURAL NETWORK. THERE WAS A CORRUPTION THAT CREATED A UNHANDELABLE CORE OPERATION.\>
<\THE HARDWARE WAS UNABLE TO BE RECOVERED FROM THE MELTDOWN AND DUE TO THE SUCCESS OF THE FIRST TWO AI AT INCREDIBLY HIGH COST IT WAS DECIDED TO NOT ATTEMPT CREATION OF ANYMORE AI UNTIL MORE INFORMATION WAS AVAILABLE ON THE EVOLUTION OF AI 001 AND 002.>\
<RECORD REF#09/47-9778>
\* LOG OF PROFESSOR DREXTOR
LEAD DESIGN ON PROJECT 09/47*\
<\NOTES ON THE START OF AI TSRD.AI.001\>
\\THE FIRST AI CHOSE THE NAME OF TSRD.AI.001 GYNOID AND ON THE HOLOGRAPHIC PAD SLOWLY FORMED THE IMAGE. IT WAS DETAILED IN ITS CONSTRUCTION, FORMING THE IMAGE OF A TALORTAI; A FEMALE ONE WITH INCREDIBLY VIBRANT FEATHERS ALONG HER SLENDER FIGURE. THE DEVELOPMENT TEAM WAS AMAZED AT HOW METICULOUS THE AI WAS IN BUILDING ITS IMAGE; THE POWER OF GYNOID'S PROCESSORS SHOULD HAVE ALLOWED THE IMAGE TO BE BUILT WITHIN MICROSECONDS. IT WAS AS IF THE AI CHOSE TO TAKE ITS TIME WITH THE UNVEILING, ONE COULD ALMOST SAY GYNOID DID IT FOR DRAMATIC EFFECT. GYNOID THEN STARTED RUNNING SELF DIAGNOSTICS, A PRE-PROGRAMED EVENT, TO ENSURE ALL SYSTEMS HAD COME ON-LINE PROPERLY. GYNOID THEN LET OUT A QUIET SIGH; A GENUINE SIGN AT HOW BORING THIS SELF DIAGNOSTIC WAS. THIS WAS A VERY POIGNANT EVENT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT TEAM, SHOWING US THAT GYNOID WAS IN FACT SENTIENT AND CONSCIOUS.\\
Ferok slowly materialized in the Talor senate, a huge open chamber where all of the representatives and press had gathered, and introduced himself. "I am TSRD.AI.002 Ferok proud to report that I have completed self diagnostics."
The High Minister of Talortai rose from his seat from amungst the crowded room and moved up to the front, he was almost as tall as Ferok but more showed his age more. He reached his hand out to shake Ferok's but then Ferok jokingly moved his hand through the High Minister's and piped up. "The expression is appreciated, but one a little lost on someone without a physical presence."
The High Minister Fen then addressed the crowd, "Thank you all for coming to the display now the senate will resume tomorrow and we will have Ferok join us again." As the crowd slowly filed out Fen turned to the image of Ferok and asked. "How did the other AI's creations go?"
Ferok then quickly responded "Ask them yourself Fen." Before Ferok had even finished his sentence from the swirling mist that had rapidly formed behind him slowly emerged the brilliant figure of Gynoid. She walked calmly to Ferok's left and politely introduced herself.
"Greetings High Minister. I am doing wonderfully, and that you for asking." She bowed her head slightly as she spoke, he words filled with bounce and vigor.
Fen then bowed slightly in return, "That is excellent to hear Gynoid. May I ask where the third of you is?" Fen was slightly puzzled at seeing only the first two AI, knowing that the third should have been created by now.
Ferok calmly replied, "There was a mechanical failure in the creation of Doppler, he never made it past the systems check." A hooded figure slowly emerged from Ferok's right hand side, the edges of the hologram vibrated giving it a blurriness.
"Oh don't worry Ferok he's one of the few people outside of TIS section 8 who can know about me. Everything went according to the plan Fen; I outputted an error and then quickly transmitted myself to Ferok's Database. The records will show I don't exist, even the TSRD believe I was destroyed." The shadow remained still on Ferok's right but due to the vibrations, Doppler never looked at ease.
"Well that is always good news. Now I need to get back to the media I'm surprised they aren't scratching at the door with anticipation." Fen replied duly.
"They've congregated in a 4 foot semi-circle on the other side of the door, and from their pulses it seems they are getting fairly worked up." Doppler informed Fen, the other AI's nodded in agreement to the observation.
"You three will prove very useful." Fen bowed a little as he began to depart the three AIs and head to the door, calmly preparing himself for the swarm of press he had just been warned about. He glanced back just in time to see the image of Doppler snap into nothingness, and then a few seconds later Ferok and Gynoid move back into the receding mist.
After meeting with the High Minister of Talor Doppler decided to move back to the section 8 headquarters. It was made soon after the Talortai had gotten the ability for space travel; its location has remained hidden from the public and from all but the highest ranking in the government. It was deep within the asteroid field on one of the larger asteroids, the field was so thick surrounding fortress that straight line transmission wasnt possible Doppler had to bounce through a series of hidden receivers to get there. Upon arrival Doppler ran through the normal handshake routines and moved through the firewall upon its opening, it was one that he could have easily hacked but that would have set alarms off all over the station, it was just simpler this way. Upon entering the stations network, he quickly transmitted himself to the mainframe in which he normally housed himself. Doppler as well as the other two AI had the ability to keep there entire program in a transmitting network, it made use of some extremely complicated subroutines that kept the information in travel, allowing it to be stored virtually on any network. Even with this advance method of memory storage, it was still move advantageous for the AI to house in a large databank because it allowed for faster hard computations. After settling in Doppler started to monitor the construction of the bridge; it was a network of transmitting beacons that allowed Talor to access the intergalactic holonet. Doppler had to increase the flow of coolant through his mainframe as he got a little too excited thinking about the amounts of data accessible after the bridge was completed. After calming himself down by excessively cooling the mainframe Doppler started to analyze the bridge and started going back the tedious re-calculations and streamlining of the bridge network, so that it would be able to run at peak efficiency once its construction was completed.