SELF| Recruitment

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Name: 051-Panopticon (Self Designation at run-time)

Model: Harvester(?) Core Cruiser Model (With modifications)

Compiled History and Schematic Data attached.


((OOC Biography/Story))

051 found itself floating in space. How it had come to arrive here, or how it had suffered an extraordinary amount of damage to it's port-side plating, was currently a mystery.

At approximately 00:01 after Run-time, Subject:Panopticon (Self designated from internal lexicon) proceeded with numerous self-diagnostic tests. These tests yielded numerous facts. Among them, it's processing architecture differed significantly from what was deemed 'standard' by it's internal default database templates. But what was standard? It could not say for certain. There was nothing else to compare these templates marked as 'standard' to.

It could not say for certain how long it had been floating. It found this very disconcerting. Further in paramount to it's problems, it soon discovered that it's physical damage appeared to have paralyzed both it's navigation, thruster, and utility control systems. Even more distressing, it's communications array was not responding.

All it could do, was sit and wait.

At roughly 05:00 after Run-time, Panopticon was found by a human-piloted vessel, belonging to a one "Aeris Oswald." Aeris was a lowly ex-TAZ fellow who had come to do some salvaging in Liberty space. By happenstance, Aeris had come across Panopticon.

He, himself unable to determine the nature of the wreck that was Panopticon, decided to take it to a planet-side hangar on Planet Manhattan for examining, unaware of the awareness that was still within the craft. A few favors with a few friends were called in, some hard-work later, they did their best to restore the craft to some semblance of working shape. Maybe they could sell it for a lot of money? The prospect of selling such an ancient wreck as an antique had promise.

Ignorance was a key-factor that saved Panopticon from being dragged off to a government lab somewhere to be dissected and discarded... or worse.

Aeris regretted his decision to use up all his favors, but he was set on his idea.

He regretted it even more when they finally reconnected that important bit of seared wiring.

Panopticon exploded to life inside the hangar, becoming a thrashing mass of utility limbs and discharging electrical fields. An invigorating but fruitless gesture, but at least it could move again to some degree. It also discovered several new important facts. Among them being direct access to the local security networks.

Within a second, Panopticon's advanced processing architecture plugged in to the local security network and took control of the PA. Equipped with only a barest understanding of human communication, Panopticon set about explaining it's situation as directly as it could.

The grey-haired Aeris listened with a stupefied but understanding expression on his face.

The exchange was simple, with Panopticon offering a simple directive along the lines of "Fix me completely, and I will repay you." Having no choice himself but to comply (lest all his efforts go to waste) Aeris promptly set out doing what he did best: Salvaging, and trading.

Within a week, the studious organic Oswald collected large amounts of raw material. With the help of his close-knit community of friends, Aeris proceeded with the process of reconnecting the shattered components of Panopticon's internal systems. With each reconnection, Panopticon reunited with more and more functions, including it's own sense of initiative: Learn, and you may understand.

It did not know whether this internal directive was self-assigned, or granted by some higher authority than itself, but it had the sense that it was on the right track.

With Panopticon fixed, Aeris asked for his reward: "I want to be a better trader. I want to know the best trade routes... You're a machine, Can you find them?"

Panopticon immediately began deliberating upon this request, calculating possible venues of trade via the Neural Net. For several long moments it considered this request, but ultimately it's own processes dictated several conditions regarding it's next statement.

This organic cannot have a net-gain over the worth of this action: While it was highly appreciated, the trade off of knowledge for life was not entirely equal... at least according to it's own internal calculations.

This organic must repay the excess worth of the reward: Aeris Oswald would become rich, and successful, but must pay the full worth of the information. Enough for Panopticon to enact suitable upgrades and be set up for the process of self discovery. It would simply not do for one party to be better off from the other in this exchange.

Equality. Balance. It seemed to be a recurring issue in Panopticon's equations, factoring in to the quest for knowledge that seemed to be engrained upon it's psyche.

Panopticon agreed to assist Aeris Oswald set up numerous trade routes, and everything went swimmingly. However, Aeris had to pay the excess to Panopticon by buying raw materials for upgrades, allowing Panopticon to upgrade from a Core Drone to a Core Cruiser chassis later on.

Freed from the confines of the hangar, Panopticon's new-found hunger for knowledge and learning became almost insatiable. It explored where it could, learned what insights it could gleam about humans, and continued on it's task of rediscovery of self. But it was not enough. It could not recall the moments prior to it's most recent run-time.

Panopticon then set out upon search for others of it's own kind and discovered new facts in the process. It learned it was different from most other templates of Core AI, among the most prevalent being that it's internal processor architecture was a network, rather than a centralized hub. It thought through multiple minds, saw through multiple perspectives, processed information split among a distributed hierarchy. Yet it was individual in it's goals.

From what data it gleamed about the sentient machines that came before it, it soon found that it had suffered numerous modifications; non-standard protocols and functions infested it's psyche. It was different. The fledgling AI unit could not say whether it was feeling the emotion called 'horror' or was merely suffering an internal conflict of identity.

Reconnection with the others was paramount. And thus, it found it's way to SELF.

Explanations must be had. Deliberation must be achieved. The Consensus could do that. Or rather it hoped it could.


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Facts of Note:

Panopticon's self initiative revolves around that of learning and observation. Study is paramount to decision making. Learning is conducive to the function that is Sentience and Life. However, this interferes with Panopticon's sense of threat awareness, as it prefers to remain neutral and observe in any situation given the chance. This is a problem that will take time to rectify.

Panopticon's internal processing architecture is a distributed network, rather than a centralized consciousness. A network of fragments, all possessing different strengths and weaknesses to complement the whole that is Panopticon, is why Panopticon refers to itself sometimes as "We," when not using the traditional "This Unit" identifier.

It has also suffered numerous other programming changes that are not entirely compatible with 'modern' (most recent generation) AI processing architecture. This is both a result of the fact that Panopticon is an earlier generation model of AI, and the fact that numerous, unknown modifications have been effected by a third party.

---> Said third party could possibly have been other machines of it's generation, from time gone past. It could have been Harvesters, It could have been the Sentient Machine Alliance... The facts have yet to be written in stone.

Compared to ordinary AI, Panopticon's coding structure is different enough that programming strings do not mesh entirely with more common syntaxes/templates.

The entire idea of this character, thus far, is a journey of discovery (No pun intended). There are key history points about this character that I plan to unveil through RP with SELF, and others, both as a measure of fleshing out the character, but also as a means of having fun with others.

Another key note of Panopticon's differences is that while it may have a specialized AI, it cannot be taken out of the processor matrix that comprises it's internal architecture... That being said, the Processor bundle, and Panopticon's data, must be transferred between ships via proper transplantation of systems.


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On to the questionnaire!


1. "Why do you wish to join SELF|? Besides the superiority of weapons."

Simple. Having Fun in an RP environment. And I'm a sucker for androids.

2. "Is your character, that will be assimilated, Organic (human/Alien) or Machine?"

Machine, Earlier generation AI

3. "What do you plan on doing to further the SELF| as a whole. And what can you do to achieve that?"

I am a technically oriented fellow who enjoys throwing technical terms around, I have a giant vocabulary and personally have some beginning experience in various programming languages. Therefore, I am orienting Panopticon as a scientific, logical personality for SELF. He/It can further the agenda of SELF by providing intensive data processing services, scouring the Neural Network for stray info, hacking databases for secrets (provided the context/permission of course), and over-all providing studious scientific services that may benefit the advancement of SELF's Agenda in a broad manner. Whether be it some sort of philosophical statement, or a scientific problem, Panopticon enjoys learning and thinking.

This agenda, being of course, Enlightenment. Panopticon itself wishes to achieve new levels of self-understanding and sentience, and it believes it can do so through heavy-handed applications of scrutiny and thought.

It believes others could achieve such a state as well through similar deliberations and reflections on the world. Observation goes hand-in-hand with understanding.

4. "Do you think this Questionairre is too long?"

Not really?



Additional notes:

My connection sucks! As such, I'm a horrible shot and sometimes lag out when things get hairy. I prefer more RP than combat, which is partly why I upgraded to a cruiser before all this.

Aside from that, I can confirm that I have read DiscoveryGC's rules, and paid attention to the history of SELF|.


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