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- robkelk - 11-27-2012 Hmmmmm... I see you've got a heck of a lot of androids on staff, so many that they easily outnumber the humans. More importantly, you've got a lot more than Noah Scott - the acknowledged master of AI creation - has in 2022. Who built them and woke them up? (This is a "meta" question - I do not want "WHITENOISE" or "not telling" as an answer.) -- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012 - M Fnord - 11-27-2012 Rob's ego aside, I do have a few questions regarding the AIs, though they all tend to devolve into iterations of "why?" I don't quite get the rationale behind some of the choices. The Umbrella researchers frex; that's not just asking for trouble, that's standing out on a tall hill in the middle of a thunderstorm banging a copper pot while shouting "all gods are bastards." Neither do I quite get the army of STARS redshirts - tbh I don't see how they fulfill any vital role a similar army of OC redshirts couldn't. Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information "I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!" - robkelk - 11-27-2012 More "Rule 0b" than "ego", actually... -- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012 - DeputyJones - 11-27-2012 Erk! I'm sorry - I posted the wrong version of the articles. I had two versions of them: one where I had simply listed all potential candidates for revival and the other where I had delated all the ones that were superfluous. Guess which one I posted. *sigh* Sorry about the confusion. Rob, I fully agree that there are a number of androids and gynoids at Pavonis. I think you're forgetting, though: one of the SEELE Council members is Cyberdyne - a goodly part of their entire business is the production of cybernetic parts and bodies for both cyborg modifications and AI-use robots! As for who built and woke them up? The main wakers for Project THANATOS GAMBIT were the SEELE councilpersons themselves. The CRS Project's T-Series provided the bodies and the personalities/souls were gained by first applying raw CSM-101 synthflesh materials to the outer endoskeleton and them covering that with a 'paper machet' coating of print-outs and copies related to the 'target' character they were going for. Hope that helps! ~ Pavonis Arcology Pavonis Mons in Tharsis is home to not one but several interconnected, quasi-subterranean communities that operate under the banner of the Pavonis Arcology. All of them were built and are still supported and partly managed by the NERV Foundation. They are each a part of the multi-phase plan, Project RED EARTH, which is the main focus of the foundation’s Natural Environment Recreation Venture. It is worth mentioning that, similar to Canada, Pavonis is bilingual in its signage and education: English and Japanese, reflecting its founders. ![]() Flag of Armitage III Mars, used by Pavonis Using Binford’s super-hardy construction material vulcanocrete – a ceramic material made up of the lava rock of Pavonis herself mixed with ground-up quartz and something else (generic plaster mixed with pure handwavium; basic formula open domain as of 2017) – the NERV Foundation successfully carved several Martian settlements into the extinct volcano. While originally rather bare of settlers who didn’t directly work for NERV members, the arcology had a boom in population once construction on RED EARTH Phase Four started in February 2013 when the Elies, at least for the foreseeable future, threw their lot in with Pavonis. It also saw a slight increase during the Boskone War of Belters, but the majority who went to Mars instead of cislunar space went to Port Lowell and Helium, instead. The arcology’s biggest population boom to date was shortly after the opening ceremony for New Port City when a surprising number of Japanese immigrants moved there. [table] |
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