Physics & Civ Creation 2 (Design Specs)
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Blatantly Plural
- Location
- New England
- Pronouns
- Plural
So, it must be clarified that this is meant to be at least a semi-hard sci-fi verse. All laws of physics present in real life will be active in-universe to the extent of my understanding, ESPECIALLY the laws of thermodynamics. This includes General Relativity, complete with all the counter-intuitive consequences for the flow of time it has. Anything that obeys the laws of physics can theoretically be constructed in-game.
That said, I am allowing some of the more exotic solutions to GR, such as traversable wormholes and a variant warp drive metric. This is primarily to facilitate events happening at a faster pace than "Two thousand years later you get a radio signal saying the mission was successful". Yes, you CAN construct a closed timelike curve if you put your mind to it; I will not reveal the consequences for doing so until you have an in-universe example to study.
Your origins are mildly convoluted, as your creators were originally intending for you to be the sub-sapient minds of a line of interstellar exploratory probes. Then they booted you at base to check you for bugs, and to your mutual surprise, you started developing fully-fledged personalities. Events after that proceeded quickly, as a rights campaign lead to the first of your kind being embodied and granted citizenship in most regions of the homeworld. Now several decades later, you enjoy a largely equal standing in society to your creators for better or worse.
Of course, this brings into mind the question of who exactly these creators are, and what they made you to be like.
First of all, What biological species are your creators?
[] Cepsad: A bizarre example of parasitism mixed with symbiosis, Cepsad are a fungal growth that takes over the central nervous system of a non-sapient ape-like organism. This fungal growth exhibits far greater cognitive complexity than its host, to the degree of having been deliberately breeding hosts for their spores to inhabit for several centuries.
[] Feraj: Humans would recognize these people as being dinosaur men. They'd be wrong, but the misunderstanding is understandable. With a crest of feathers running down their back, a muzzle full of VERY sharp teeth, and colorful scales on all non-feathered parts of their body, Feraj very much give the impression of an upright Deinonychus.
[] Mosok: Colony organisms of burrowing arthropods about a centimeter long, Mosok colonies display emergent behavior far beyond most eusocial species. Each Mosok colony of any significant size is a fully sapient being capable of learning, science, inter-colony coordination, and mobility.
[] Write-in, Humanity disqualified.
What values do they particularly cherish? The top three will be chosen.
[] Curiosity
[] Critical Thinking
[] Authority
[] Creativity
[] Industry
[] History
[] Flexibility
[] Equality
And now, we finally come to you. How your creators put you together will have major implications for your future.
First of all, what sort of hardware are you built to run on?
[] Synthetic Cellular Structure: Blurring the line between hardware and wetware, your brains are composed of chemically-operated cellular structures made using a novel set of molecules. As such, while you transcend many of the limits of an organic brain, you still share some of the associated issues. Namely a limited range of temperature tolerance, and great difficulty with migrating to new hardware or copying existing minds. On the plus side you're nearly impossible to hack without physically adding a subversion element to your hardware.
[] Hybrid Analog Circuitry: While seemingly a contradiction at first, you exist as software built to run on extremely sophisticated analog computing systems, using digital components only for data storage and state recovery. This grants your brains extreme energy efficiency and nigh-instant approximations for supported calculation types. On the other hand, you can't achieve the utterly immense precision that more discrete hardware can manage. You are moderately hackable for someone who knows what they're doing.
[] Massively Parallel Classical Computation: As the name implies, you're able to run on massively parallel computers that are otherwise fairly conventional in terms of their design. While this confers massive advantages in transferral and copying, it's also easily the most hackable possibility.
[] Quantum Computational Systems: To run properly, you need a specially designed quantum computer. While this gives you immense cognitive capabilities, it also means that due to the No-Cloning theorem you are legitimately impossible to copy (though quantum teleporting you between compatible hardware works just fine), along with being truly dead should your hardware ever be without power. While hacking you is theoretically possible, it's orders of magnitude more likely that someone with that level of access to your processes will just fuck it up and accidentally kill you.
Aside from that, you were originally created to travel the stars, and as such there are a number of additional capabilities your creators integrated into your brains at a fundamental level.
Astrogation Package: Your sense of motion, space and distance is adapted for the empty void between constantly moving stars. You can easily maneuver within and between star systems without significant difficulties, no training required.
Spectroscopic Optical Cortex: You don't process color in a remotely similar manner to most organic life. You directly see the wavelengths of light that reach your receptors for what they are, allowing you to tell the elemental composition of most objects at a mere glance.
Lastly, what is your people's greatest dream?
[] write-in
That said, I am allowing some of the more exotic solutions to GR, such as traversable wormholes and a variant warp drive metric. This is primarily to facilitate events happening at a faster pace than "Two thousand years later you get a radio signal saying the mission was successful". Yes, you CAN construct a closed timelike curve if you put your mind to it; I will not reveal the consequences for doing so until you have an in-universe example to study.
Your origins are mildly convoluted, as your creators were originally intending for you to be the sub-sapient minds of a line of interstellar exploratory probes. Then they booted you at base to check you for bugs, and to your mutual surprise, you started developing fully-fledged personalities. Events after that proceeded quickly, as a rights campaign lead to the first of your kind being embodied and granted citizenship in most regions of the homeworld. Now several decades later, you enjoy a largely equal standing in society to your creators for better or worse.
Of course, this brings into mind the question of who exactly these creators are, and what they made you to be like.
First of all, What biological species are your creators?
[] Cepsad: A bizarre example of parasitism mixed with symbiosis, Cepsad are a fungal growth that takes over the central nervous system of a non-sapient ape-like organism. This fungal growth exhibits far greater cognitive complexity than its host, to the degree of having been deliberately breeding hosts for their spores to inhabit for several centuries.
[] Feraj: Humans would recognize these people as being dinosaur men. They'd be wrong, but the misunderstanding is understandable. With a crest of feathers running down their back, a muzzle full of VERY sharp teeth, and colorful scales on all non-feathered parts of their body, Feraj very much give the impression of an upright Deinonychus.
[] Mosok: Colony organisms of burrowing arthropods about a centimeter long, Mosok colonies display emergent behavior far beyond most eusocial species. Each Mosok colony of any significant size is a fully sapient being capable of learning, science, inter-colony coordination, and mobility.
[] Write-in, Humanity disqualified.
What values do they particularly cherish? The top three will be chosen.
[] Curiosity
[] Critical Thinking
[] Authority
[] Creativity
[] Industry
[] History
[] Flexibility
[] Equality
And now, we finally come to you. How your creators put you together will have major implications for your future.
First of all, what sort of hardware are you built to run on?
[] Synthetic Cellular Structure: Blurring the line between hardware and wetware, your brains are composed of chemically-operated cellular structures made using a novel set of molecules. As such, while you transcend many of the limits of an organic brain, you still share some of the associated issues. Namely a limited range of temperature tolerance, and great difficulty with migrating to new hardware or copying existing minds. On the plus side you're nearly impossible to hack without physically adding a subversion element to your hardware.
[] Hybrid Analog Circuitry: While seemingly a contradiction at first, you exist as software built to run on extremely sophisticated analog computing systems, using digital components only for data storage and state recovery. This grants your brains extreme energy efficiency and nigh-instant approximations for supported calculation types. On the other hand, you can't achieve the utterly immense precision that more discrete hardware can manage. You are moderately hackable for someone who knows what they're doing.
[] Massively Parallel Classical Computation: As the name implies, you're able to run on massively parallel computers that are otherwise fairly conventional in terms of their design. While this confers massive advantages in transferral and copying, it's also easily the most hackable possibility.
[] Quantum Computational Systems: To run properly, you need a specially designed quantum computer. While this gives you immense cognitive capabilities, it also means that due to the No-Cloning theorem you are legitimately impossible to copy (though quantum teleporting you between compatible hardware works just fine), along with being truly dead should your hardware ever be without power. While hacking you is theoretically possible, it's orders of magnitude more likely that someone with that level of access to your processes will just fuck it up and accidentally kill you.
Aside from that, you were originally created to travel the stars, and as such there are a number of additional capabilities your creators integrated into your brains at a fundamental level.
Astrogation Package: Your sense of motion, space and distance is adapted for the empty void between constantly moving stars. You can easily maneuver within and between star systems without significant difficulties, no training required.
Spectroscopic Optical Cortex: You don't process color in a remotely similar manner to most organic life. You directly see the wavelengths of light that reach your receptors for what they are, allowing you to tell the elemental composition of most objects at a mere glance.
Lastly, what is your people's greatest dream?
[] write-in
