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Voyage of the Dragonqueen: Ghost in the Machine #5

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Tript1 by SirBronson

"L'Uomo Vitruviano"


He explained that he was one of the lead researchers on a black project conducted by Saeder Krupp. The goal was to explore ways of breaking the barriers of cybernetics and metahuman integration, to create a fully cybernetic body unfettered by biological limits integrated with a metahuman operator. Metahuman intelligence and ability to improvise and adapt with none of the drawbacks of excessive cybernetic integration. The initial concept was for this cyberform to be remotely controlled by an operator, controlling it like he would his own body. Through its various iterations, this project and its product was named "The Vitruvian Man" or internally, as V.M.







Trip2 by SirBronson

"Geist und Gestalt"


The development of this cyberform would start running into a dead end, after lengthy experimentation the results yielded an insufficient level of parity between the operator and the prototype. The more advanced the cyberform got the more difficult it became for the metahuman operators to synchronize with it. Eventually the Saeder Krupp administration decided that instead of metahuman operators, an advanced AI would be developed for the same purpose. The AI was designed to continuously learn and improve the workings of the cyberform through genetic algorithms. A second research team was brought together to develop the AI. It would be assigned to consolidate control over countless cyberform units simultaneously, the intention was that one AI would be easier to manage than numerous individual AIs with their individual units. the project and the AI were codenamed "The Andalusian Dog" or A.D.







Tript3 by SirBronson

"Un Chien Andalou"


The AI project was a success. After months of development, A.D. had learned to operate the prototype cyberforms nearly to a level deemed acceptable for deployment. AD and the the most advanced variant of VM were brought together to a facility for testing soon after. Teams estimated that in no time the two would achieve complete parity and mark the beginning of a massive paradigm shift in favour of Saeder Krupp. As VM would enter mass production. Of course this would all be true had a tragedy not struck soon after. Teams arrived at the facility only to find AD and VM missing from the premises with evidence of their mostly uncontested escape. AD had gained sentience and seemingly the aptitude to assume control of technology beyond just the cyberforms it was designed to use. The facility systems and automatons showed traces of AD in their diagnostics. Only things seemingly not under the influence of AD was the night shift security that had proven to not be much of a factor when the entire facility turned against them.
Yep, more of this shit. This time just a bunch of exposition. Hopefully there's some action next time.
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