You research a TITAN artifact[Game]
Tue, 2011-12-06 16:49
Omnicor has acquired a presumed TITAN artifact and wants to know what it does, how it works, and how to duplicate it. You have accepted a project management committee position. Omnicor has assigned your team a fail-deadly surface station on Venus to conduct your research. The station utilizes active cooling powered by a fusion reactor, without which it will overheat and implode. It also may incorporate any additional safeguards you desire. You may construct additions to the station and have a very large budget. Omnicor will provide free backup and resleeving services to all project personnel.
The artifact itself is a cluster of hair-thin transparent fibers sprouting from a central nodule, each ending in transparent globes. The artifact as a whole is roughly spherical, about 10 centimeters across. It arrives suspended in a helium gas vortex generated by the meter-wide EM-shielded sample container.
Whoever wants to participate is considered part of the management committee. How do you want to proceed?
Thu, 2011-12-08 12:15
#2
Re: You research a TITAN artifact[Game]
I think filling the place with guardian swarms is a good idea. Can't be too careful.
What do you want these guardians to attack? All nanobots? All untagged nanomachines?
Oh and maybe an antimatter bomb. Just in case things go really crazy.
How do you want this bomb triggered? Manually? When some condition is met?
Mon, 2011-12-12 05:25
#3
Re: You research a TITAN artifact[Game]
I think that the guardian swarms should be programmed to attack non-tagged nanomachines. We might need some nanomachines of our own and having the guardians set on "destroy all" could be rather inconvenient.
Have to think a bit on the bomb. Manual self destruct for now. Considering alternatives.
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Sun, 2012-03-18 05:30
#4
Re: You research a TITAN artifact[Game]
No personnel will be allowed on this station. Alpha/Beta forks will be used instead (without their knowledge, of course) . Extensive, massively parallel, simulspace testing of researcher's forks their knowledge will employed to ensure emergency situation competency.
Staff's forks will be tested an arbitrarily large number of times under simulspace compression for:
-Unhesitant willingness to die, and/or suffer unspeakable pain, horror, and trauma to contain the threat in case of Case Black.
-Ability to differentiate from Case Orange, Case Red, and Case Black situations.
-Ability to stabilize Case Orange situations.
-Constant Case Yellow or higher alertness.
Staff whose forks exceed over a 0.045% simulspace failure will be disqualified for this project, and their backups will be sanitized till prior of their learning of Omnicor's Project Golden Fleece.
Heavily modified, Faraday-shielded warships, with hundreds to millions of Infosec Rank A or higher minds (JASON Infosec Competency 80) guarding the few exposed sensor/comm pylons on the ships will be held within 12,500 KM of the station.
All personnel monitoring the exposed, unshielded pylons will also have passed an test similar to that of the research staff. Due to TITAN Basilisk/Hack and other infection vectors, each mind guarding the Comm/Sensor pylon is required to be different. Needless to say, the research staff and their forks cannot be used for this purpose.
If Case Black containment failure occurs, the warships will employ our new weapon system derived from newly 'acquired' Starware tech, Project Excalibur.
Further details will be available to the Management team upon finalization of the Project's Personnel Requisitions.
I think filling the place with guardian swarms is a good idea. Can't be too careful.
Oh and maybe an antimatter bomb. Just in case things go really crazy.