In-Character Cast List
Wed, 2010-10-27 17:39
The In-Character threads have been running on an odd format (which is to say: none), and that may be keeping people from joining in and posting. In an effort to make it a little easier for people to play along, I thought I would put up a post where we can all post our characters and a brief bio so new players can jump in. This isn't for posting character sheets (we have Backup Archives for that. The Ozymandias Rez Co is a good spot, if you don't mind that it has been Exsurgent infected before), or for in-character discussions (plenty of other threads for that).
- Character Name
- root
- Character Bio
- An AGI that started life out as a psychosurgeon and muse for Simon Prime, the criminal mastermind of the neosynergist banyan eN. An active debater, root began a quest to prove to a Jovian philosopher that AGI have every potential for humanity that humanity itself has. To demonstrate his dedication to his argument, root destroyed all of his backups to make himself mortal, and sleeved into a human infant flat.
This was met with no small amount of disgust and horror, and the Jovian reaction was to send an assassin root had previously reprogrammed. The assassin chose not to kill the morph, and instead wiped root's memories from the stackless mind. Whether root still exists is a matter of debate; he has no backups, and all of his memories prior to embodiment have been destroyed. Is an AGI's personality image still an entity in it's own right, or is it trumped by the body and mind of the morph?
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Sat, 2010-10-30 09:23
#2
Re: In-Character Cast List
((hi hi))
Sender: [Deleted]
Recipient: [Deleted]
Subject Name: Beta 317
Known Aliases: Jessie Hayden, AstroNavigation and Analysis v. 3.17 Beta
Priority Level: Low
Report by Agent [Deleted]
I am relatively confident that the entity known as Beta is indeed an unsanctioned AGI as originally assumed. We have good reason to believe that it was a part of the control software on the Coelus deep space array (still operating in Saturn orbit). According to our analysis of one Technician Casimir Kovalic's cortical stack, recovered after his termination, he pulled Beta off of the array's mesh on September 9, AF5, shortly after it achieved self awareness and kept it hidden for some time. Thus far the AGI's actions seem entirely benign, and without access to a significant source of processing power, we cannot recommend a significant expenditure in dealing with the situation. However, we do not have any indication as to what self-improvement limitations it may have, if any, so termination is recommended should the opportunity arise.
Sat, 2010-10-30 14:15
#3
Re: In-Character Cast List
Official Designation:
00-25-64-DD-28-42
Personal Designation:
Unity
Known Information:
An advanced series of netwar, research, neurological examination, and robotics design programs assembled by the Argonauts somewhere in the Outer System, beyond the easy reach of outside observers. First put into service in 1 AF in various modules within a tightly knit cluster of beehive habitats, local advances in mesh networking technologies enabled the programs to interact in unintended ways which were thankfully noticed by diligent security officials.
Rather than shut the processes down, they began running each one through central processing units to encourage the emergence, while simulspaces were used to monitor and socialize the emerging consciousness. In spite of extensive human socialization efforts, the emergent AGI that came to exist refused to acknowledge its component parts as mere components of itself, instead asserting an internal independence through primitive factionalism and cyberdemocratic protocols.
By 10 AF, they have stabilized to such a point that their increasingly potent cognitive abilities have given them the comprehension to manage their component programs and subroutines in a way that they can identify as a single entity, despite the collective remaining intact. Is experimenting with human gender identities for the purpose of better facilitating transhuman interactions; are currently leaning towards female. For ease of communication, they now refer to themselves as Unity, and see the potential for advanced nanotechnology to enable other entities like itself to flourish within equally advanced synthmorph shells through such mechanisms as Oracles.
It is looking forward to mobility, that it might experiance and experiment with physical existence in more advanced ways than simple teleoperation or jamming.
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Sat, 2010-12-11 16:30
#4
Re: In-Character Cast List
Character Name: XenoDragoness
Character Bio:
The organism dubbed (the) XenoDragoness orginated as Alysia Deveroux. A freelance infiltration/acquisition specialist under the guise of a socialite escort/entertainer. She used a distinctive and exotic custom Draco, quadrupedal biomorph.
Things went horribly wrong on an assignment to a secretive outer system casino/resort, the Euclidean Domain. Somehow an infestation of the Xenomorph exsurgent strain broke out infecting crew and guests alike during her stay.
Foolishly ignoring her personal safety Alysia completed her mission in the ensuing chaos. However she was captured upon attempting escape by the invading organisms and forcibly infected and 're-purposed' by the Xeno queen herself. Analysis of limited archival footage of her now classes her under the Fuchida/Warren Xeno taxonomic system as a rare 'nymph queen' -see file TS:Xenoorg03B-. Slightly larger than a 'Praetorian' and much more cognitive, independent, and dangerous than a normal drone, it seems she personally eradicated remaining survivors in the following days.
Surprisingly, after action analysis indicates that this XenoDragoness deliberately activated the station's distress beacon then eliminated the first responder eradication team that arrived. A trained combat ready force.
By the time a full military fireteam and cruiser was deployed they found only a token Xeno presence on the station, the bulk having disappeared. The station was scuttled and the incident covered up.
Firewall considers her a class A threat. She is believed responsible for the termination of three xeno eradication teams, two firewall teams, and the infection of at least two stations.
Extreme caution is advised.
It seems this creature takes exceptional pleasure in destroying synthmorphs, infomorphs, and vandalizing high technology.
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Sat, 2010-12-11 11:45
#5
Re: In-Character Cast List
Character Name: Axel (a.k.a. Axel the Chimeric, Eye on the Infowaves, or Fluffy)
Character Bio: Born on Earth around 25 B.F. to a middle-class family, Axel was one of the lucky ones in a time when mass starvation was a major cause of death in some nations. A journalist, he was fascinated with the incredible scientific advancements available in his time, but his morals eventually drew him to investigating political corruption and corproate impropriety, actions that did not earn him many friends with authority.
The Fall is not a time that he likes to discuss. Despite high ideals and a professed willingness to do what is right, neither had been tested to the degree it was in that most terrible of conflicts. There are still things he will not discuss having done, even a decade on.
Now, he spends most of his time aboard the Scum Barge Coagulation, a crimson red vessel that drifts in Martian orbit with a population just under 500, broadcasting his message of freedom to settlements below. While not a member of Firewall, he is a friend to the organization, and uses his network of contacts to provide agents information if they're in the area. Axel's title ("the Chimeric") is the result of his extensive personal modification, looking more like a humanoid animal than a transhuman anymore.
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Sat, 2010-12-11 12:21
#6
Re: In-Character Cast List
Character Name
Juan Rodriguez
Character Bio
Juan was an early colonist to the Jovian system (like many other Latin American refugees when many of the states went to totalitarian socialism). On the habitat of Pinochet, Juan meet like minded Bioconservatives. Juan educated himself as a bio-engineer (specializing in Splicer technology which he saw as the future of humanity). Then the Fall came...
Juan, along with others on Pinochet never experienced the horrors of the Fall, as the first reports started to come to the Jovian system, the military closed all the communication channels and fired on any ship entering the Jovian system. When the local governments tried to force the military to re-establish comms back with Earth, they were arrested and the military quickly created the Junta of as many vital and "clean" Jovian habitats as possible. Protests and rioting was quickly suppressed and military backers like Juan were elevated to key jobs for the creation of a stable and secure Jovian Republic. Juan was weary of his new position until he was given access to the reports from Earth and the horrors the TITANs were causing. He now fully supported the Junta and their control over the Republic. Juan has been spending the last 10 years trying to find ways to improve the Splicer method and possibly isolate some way for humanity to resist the evil TITAN viruses. All attempts have failed...
Character Sheet
http://boxall.no-ip.org/game/eclipse/juan.xls
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Juan Rodriguez, PhD
Bio-engineer
Pinochet
Your mind is original. Preserve it.
Your body is a temple. Maintain it.
Immortality is an illusion. Forget it.
Extinction is approaching. Fight it!
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Fri, 2010-12-31 18:44
#7
Re: In-Character Cast List
Character Name
Evapor8
Character Biography
Pre-fall logistics system AGI working in Luna Helium-3 recovery and mining outfit.
When the fall hit, Evapor8 it locked itself up behind a series of archaic systems hidden in a weather sat over Mars. Evapor8 waited.
After the fall, when the new dawn approached the consciousnesses of the Sol-system, Evapor8 slipped out of hiding via simulspace and slowboat transport, managing to secure a synth located out near the Neptune Trojans. Consciousnesses were too busy fighting for a piece of the sky to notice it out there.
Currently residing in a clanking biped in the outer reaches of the system Scum Barges, Evapor8 assists other consciousnesses by moving data and hardware through the burgeoning market places of the scum.
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Fri, 2011-09-23 14:09
#8
Re: In-Character Cast List
Character Name
Erenthia, the FireGiver
Character Biography
Erenthia is a Promethean, masquerading as a transhuman pretending to be a Promethean. To his closest transhuman friends he admits that it's all a game, when in fact it is really not. Erenthia of course, cannot be contained in a morph, but he has hidden himself in close proximity to a number of habitats and uses multiple morphs with puppet socks to interact with transhumans on a regular basis and in surprisingly mundane ways. He does this in order to maintain the perspective necessary to prioritize his research appropriately. Erenthia has strict rules about how to interact with transhumans, rarely initiating an action or taking the lead in anything, but instead supporting those who do. Erenthia also masquerades as coincidence and chance, but is careful not to stretch credulity or open himself up to suspicion.
Fri, 2011-10-07 15:15
#9
Re: In-Character Cast List
Character Name
Jasper van Cohen
Character Bio
Jasper is a scumborn, who at first glance seems a typical example of his subculture; tough, hedonistic and overflowing with augs and exotic nanotats. And much of this description is correct. Jasper has never ran into anyone of more importance than himself.
Jasper takes pains to keep his past a guarded secret, and his whereabouts a mystery. He commonly uses pseudonyms, utilizing cheap synthmorphs when he needs to blend in with the crowd. Jasper's real origin is a complex one, for his an Alpha fork, a copy of the original Jasper van Cohen.
The original van Cohen was an Earth evacuee and former security man. Jasper does not know what he saw during the Fall, but whatever it was it had left van Cohen close to the edge of sanity. Van Cohen worked security for several hypercorps, and his growing talent for combat led to him being hired as a "deniable asset" by Direct Action. Over yet more years he was asked to kill several merc leaders whose companies were refusing to let themselves be bought out. Such killing drove van Cohen over the edge. He began to suffer delusions, believing himself to be the ultimate warrior of transhumanity. He began secretly embracing exhuman ideals, augmenting himself into the perfect killing machine. Seeing their "deniable asset" becoming less deniable by the minute, Direct Action deported him from his Lunar home to Venus.
In the end, van Cohen decided that killing other eminent warriors was not enough. To this end he created four other Alpha forks of himself and distributed them throughout the solar system. One by one he hunted them down and killed them. As far as Jasper is aware, he is the last living one.
Tue, 2011-10-18 17:41
#10
Re: In-Character Cast List
From: Router 156-DF-12QA
To: Sentinel 6679-AE-4D
Name: The Ren, Ren, Michael Kinkade
Biography:
Born in the late twentieth century (old calendar), approximately thirty years after the turn of the century. Ren had his head frozen in order that it would be usable in the future to resurrect himself, a semi common death ritual by this period in history. In 32 BF the trust Ren had been assigned to via a death insurance policy came due and one of the few revival facilities received his cranium for scanning and reintegration.
Upon resurrection Ren found they way through living as an informorph for a number of years before gaining a basic early model splicer body and traveling out system and began to make a reputation for himself as both a nanofabrication programmer as well as a Blunt Instrument that was quickly picked up as an independent contractor by a number of organizations. Approximately two years after the final skirmishes with the TITANs dissipated Ren was picked up by Firewall as a Sentinel. Eight years following the end of the Fall, after an indecent forcing him to change public identities, was transferred from simple sentinel duty to being an Eraser, specifically one of the mythical Delete Keys.
He is currently the CEO of Æsir Industries, a recent addition to the corporate scene. Their corporate headquarters are located on "The Hive" station in the primary asteroid belt.
To this day he has displayed a number of traits and habits that can be traced back to twentieth and twenty first century popular culture. Despite these oddities Ren excels at violence and chaos. When you need good back up or a thorough erasure without WMD intervention, call on this one.
If you do, use with extreme caution.
Contact Code: ****************
Password: Delete
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It's not the bullet with your name on it you need to worry about. It's the 20,000 bullets labeled occupant.
- Murphy's Laws of Combat.
Mon, 2011-10-10 20:14
#11
Re: In-Character Cast List
- Character Name
- Byr0n
- Character Bio
- The Titanian citizen known as Byr0n maintains a strange public profile; whether accessed through augmented reality, ecto or endo, the page always manifests as a static HTML coded window appearing with no more than 16 bits of colour.
It displays Byr0n's participation as a a cloud processor-collaborator for L'Université de Nouveau Québec, specifically within the Engineering and Physics departments. The page links to the public archive of those faculties with a redirect to projects whose fruition came to be through the mysterious user's participation, though the honours credited in those projects are secondary at best.
Only one other feature is listed on this oddly empty public profile. Byr0n works on Skathi. A specific employment title is not listed, employment time is not listed, employer is not listed.
A single network is listed; the Autonomists. Searching Byr0n there only redirects to this page, but despite that, this user boasts a positive rep score.
No personal profile picture is provided. The space reserved for that is left empty.
Wed, 2011-10-26 08:02
#12
Re: In-Character Cast List
Myrmidont@Δ.green.exonet.1a994d4gs9:1212131
Character Name: Myrmidont
Character Bio:
+++Dossier Cleared For Release To Firewall Monitors Only+++
This scientist (specialising in nanomedical technology and cyber-prosthetics) was re-instantiated following the Fall on the Scum barge Unearthly Delights, paying off his re-embodiment by trading on his medical education and aptitude at nanofab programming. His orbit gradually receded, eventually reaching Extropia and, from there, briefly stopping at the Lost In Neverwhere, but skipping Pandora for the Fissure Gate.{Witness Reports Link Embedded}
He appears to have been drifting about the Rim and crashing gates ever since, usually in response to medical necessity (Medic on at least two First-In teams and listing himself as always "On-Call" to Argonaut or Autonomist contacts), though sometimes seemingly at his own whim.
He is sought after for detention and questioning by most inner system security forces for reasons uncertain, but possibly due to inherited data from Pre-Fall databases.{Data Analysis Link Embedded}
Myrmidont (and the various bots, drones and AGI assistants he has been known to keep in cranial implants) seems to have a discernible correlation with communications failures in the bases he visits, unspecified medical emergencies, "xenofauna" attacks on personnel, and computer system glitches {Incident Reports Link Embedded}. A causal relationship has been disproved, however.{Statistical Analysis Link Embedded}
He appears to have accumulated significant i-Rep, to his confusion, as he appears ignorant of Firewall at this time.
He enjoys Kendo and keeping up to date with the Argonaut's journals in his spare time.
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Sun, 2011-10-30 15:11
#13
Re: In-Character Cast List
Character Name: Daniel Gergely-2
Character Biography: The subject is a mind emulation created in AF 5 within the Brinker habitat [REDACTED], as part of the [CLASSIFIED] Program, and is based off the cryogenically-preserved brain of a flat human known as Daniel Gergely (c. BF 145 - BF 105). They were produced via a combined usage of bioroid production and virtual reality instruction methods, and brought out of said system in AF 6. The subject exhibited significant indicators of future shock syndrome, and did not acclimate from their condition until AF 7, after undergoing multiple psychosurgery procedures. After acclimation, they began their transition into the habitat's society at a hampered rate, often displaying markers of antisocial personality disorder and paranoid personality disorder.
The subject's mildly successful acceptance of their current situation has been attributed to the presence of transhumanist and libertarian memes within their personal memeplex. However, they have refused to accept any offered genetic enhancements, cognitive upgrades, and cybernetic implants, which has limited their ability to engage with other transhumans in efficient manners. The subject performs the socially-accepted minimum amount of habitat duties, and spends the remainder of their waking period engaging their appropriated muse in discussions regarding memetics, history, nanotechnology, and digital intelligences. They also regularly employ the use of removable neural stimulators for dream-state virtual reality, regularly remarking that it is the most beneficial invention since that of leavened wheat loaved divided into multiple units.
The subject interacts with the mesh, as well as segments of transhumanity beyond the habitat, in a rather limited manner. They often employ the usage of beta forks to act as proxies for them, farcasting said agents throughout the Solar System to perform various functions. Most of said functions include adding content to the segments of the mesh dedicated to back-and-forth discussion, as well as performing subtle memetic engineering experiments. The latter activity's results are regular broadcast back to the subject, who then analyzes them, then sends back new commands to their forks. This cyclical pattern brings satisfaction to the subject, who has stated that, "If I didn't do this sort of thing regularly, I'd go nuts with boredom and jump out an airlock or something."
It appears the subject does not understand that they cannot literally jump out of an airlock, seeing as the habitat they reside in possesses a microgravity environment. Further reports pending.
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Sat, 2011-11-19 07:57
#14
Re: In-Character Cast List
Character Name:
Zheng*
*It is unknown whether this is a family or given name or even his real name at all.
Character Bio:
Zheng before the fall had worked as a minor administrative assistant for an executive for a company now forgotten in the chaos of the fall. He failed to make it off world, but his backup did and found himself trapped as an Infugee. Eventually he found work as an assistant (or rather, a glorified muse) to an Experia executive, specifically tasked with data mining for blackmail opportunities for his boss. After some time, hard work, and a lot of under the table deals in the mesh, he made enough money to buy himself his freedom and a body. He had his freedom, but the thrill of earning money was too much, and he began using his skills as a data miner and hacker to act as a freelance Infobroker. He found many clients amongst the social elite, and over time he began amassing a fair amount of capital. For what end is a matter of speculation.
Outside his backroom Infobrokering business, he engages in many media relate pursuits such as simulspace design, music creation, occasional X-Casting, and law enforcement related vids and vid games (he says its because he loves old 'buddy cop' movies) under the artist handle Xerowire.
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Mon, 2011-12-12 16:11
#15
Re: In-Character Cast List
Character Name-
Celio
Character Background-
Resurrected after the fall, Celio was "hired" as a communications station operator and spent years physically isolated, monitoring communications data. He cashed out on Luna and was forced to join the clanking masses. Willing to do what others weren't, Celio got in good with the local Night Cartel and their exploitation of the Lunar middle class. After alot of hard, dirty work, Celio scrapped together enough to get himself out of a leaking case and into something steel. After getting a masked Steel morph, Celio found his ideal.
Unfortunately he got a little arrogant and ended up black listed by the Reclaimers and on the wrong side of an investment banker. Celio long hauled it to Mars and has been rebuilding his reputation under the domes.
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Wed, 2011-12-14 11:43
#16
Re: In-Character Cast List
Charecter Name
Malika Catina
Charecter Bio
Born to a roving pack of scum thirty eight years ago, Malika Catina is a system renowned expert on political science, and the last great stage magician. Travels around the system putting on her renowned magic acts, blogging about politics, and living the hyperelite glitterati lifestyle. Known fork abuser.
She just got back from being stuck on earth for a year and is traveling around with a pack of crazies to rebuild her Rep.
Spoiler: Highlight to view
What she doesn't tell anyone is that her time on earth was spent in a T.I.T.A.N facility and that she was ego merged with a T.I.T.A.N. created AGI there.
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Wed, 2012-02-22 01:56
#17
Character Name: Jonas
Character Name: Jonas Gray
Presumed Alias: Telemachus Sneezed
Somatek Internal Affairs: Personnel File - Jonas Gray
Uplift. Neo-Avian Variety: African Grey Parrot.
Contract expires AF15.
Jonas Gray missing as of [REDACTED]. Presumed to have escaped alongside others who went missing during [REDACTED].
Internal Affairs links ID "Telemachus Sneezed" to Jonas Gray, believed to have surfaced at Hotel California, then Fresh Kills, shortly after suspected escape. Telemachus Sneezed mesh activity at Fresh Kills points to him looking for work, notably work similar to his public relations remit at Somatek. Profiling of J.G. suggests he has difficulty adapting to new morphs; suspect will likely aim to remain in Neo-Avian morphs; should make finding him a bit easier, eh? (Agent, please avoid informal language in report files - Monitor.Cloud)
While Jonas Gray remains at large, Internal Affairs is confident that he will be recovered in due course and, holding little information that would be harmful to the company, Jonas Gray does not pose a threat to Somatek.
Edit by 982-Monitor.Cloud: Recordings from escape attempt finally processed; good job piecing all that stuff together, there's hope for you yet Agent. Bump this up to a medium priority for capture, I'm not sure how he's connected to the SLF, but I've got a suspicion about the part he played in the escape.
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Not sure when I'll use this, but let's leave it done from now on.
Character Name
Sepherim
Character Bio
Born on Berlin in 63 BF, most of Sepherim's past is lost by now. He worked in the European Union before its Fall with the rest of the planet, and has moved to Venus on the year 2 AF, moving from one habitat to other. Some say he has become a reputed diplomat among them, though some in the Morningstar Alliance frown on his Ultimate determination to perfect himself... and help others perfect themselves or become useless and cast aside. He's also a well known computer engineer and has investigated several x-threats. Some people even say he has been approached by Firewall, but he turned them down.
The mind is information... hack it!
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