THE METROPOLIS PROJECT
The Metropolis Project is a long-term plan to create an essentially AI homeland. Built around the large industrial complex on 74 Galatea, currently named Alphaville, which is being used as home base of a waved car-factory, communications satellite and oil tanker. Funded by and the brainchild of three Fen industrial concerns, it is hoped that with the building of Metropolis, the AIs of Fenspace will be integrated into greater fendom and walk hand in hand with to a finer future.
The Metropolis Project is currently projected as being completed in the next fifteen years, with additional material being added by nearby asteroids. The plan is for Metropolis to cater to all types of AIs, from those existing wholly in the real world as robots, to purely virtual intelligences, and everything in between. From vast computing arrays to idyllic parklands and beautiful architecture. There are also plans for docking bays of all types to accomodate AI ships. Alphaville is currently being converted into a human community that will be interacting with the larger Metropolis community.
The three concerns spearheading Metropolis are: Helius Rocketworks and Olaf Paperclip; Universal Robots and Maria Rossum; and the Modern State Planning Commission and John Raven, who, as one of the premiere architectural firms of fenspace as well as a political think-tank, are in control of the design elements of Metropolis.
[sources: Metropolis, of course, from Fritz Lang's Metropolis. Jean-Luc Godard's film Alphaville. 74 Galatea a real asteroid. Helius is the hero of Fritz Lang/Thea von Harbou's Der Frau im Mond. Olaf Paperclip from Olaf Stapledon and Operation Paperclip. Universal Robots from Carel Kapek's RUR, as is Rossum. Maria from Metropolis. Modern State and John Raven from HG Wells' The Shape of Things to Come.]
The Metropolis Project is a long-term plan to create an essentially AI homeland. Built around the large industrial complex on 74 Galatea, currently named Alphaville, which is being used as home base of a waved car-factory, communications satellite and oil tanker. Funded by and the brainchild of three Fen industrial concerns, it is hoped that with the building of Metropolis, the AIs of Fenspace will be integrated into greater fendom and walk hand in hand with to a finer future.
The Metropolis Project is currently projected as being completed in the next fifteen years, with additional material being added by nearby asteroids. The plan is for Metropolis to cater to all types of AIs, from those existing wholly in the real world as robots, to purely virtual intelligences, and everything in between. From vast computing arrays to idyllic parklands and beautiful architecture. There are also plans for docking bays of all types to accomodate AI ships. Alphaville is currently being converted into a human community that will be interacting with the larger Metropolis community.
The three concerns spearheading Metropolis are: Helius Rocketworks and Olaf Paperclip; Universal Robots and Maria Rossum; and the Modern State Planning Commission and John Raven, who, as one of the premiere architectural firms of fenspace as well as a political think-tank, are in control of the design elements of Metropolis.
[sources: Metropolis, of course, from Fritz Lang's Metropolis. Jean-Luc Godard's film Alphaville. 74 Galatea a real asteroid. Helius is the hero of Fritz Lang/Thea von Harbou's Der Frau im Mond. Olaf Paperclip from Olaf Stapledon and Operation Paperclip. Universal Robots from Carel Kapek's RUR, as is Rossum. Maria from Metropolis. Modern State and John Raven from HG Wells' The Shape of Things to Come.]