Sirocco - I had plans made before The Breeding Thing came up, and while "I" may have set out with ideas of building a transtector, you'll note the lack of an armored pilot suit, or curling up into a squared-off ball and slotting in somewhere, to answer your questions.
It's not so much that there wasn't TIME to have done a viable Dying to Not Sying, it's just that due to certain circumstances the fact that he was not just painfully injured but dying never really sank in, even as he passed out, and the strongest focus he had as the biomod began was during the rescue. Since the 'wave is wierd, yes, but doesn't generally show any intelligence of its own, the first it would know is when things start shutting down from oxygen deprivation, not having any supplied by the blood - and by then, it has already done a lot of work on the nervous system as a foundation for Hammer-ish roboticization. A good lot of the stuff has also puddled around mixed with blood and energon outside the body too, ready to be put to use.
So, it links into the existing computer net and tries to make the bio brain into a fourth cluster node, spread the load, and move out before total hardware failure, but even 'waved the existing cores aren't compatible. The Wave Convoy head is right nearby, though, has a mockup of a half-way-point brain, check the host's memories - oh, hey, that actually fits, let's make the laser core real, and capable of interfacing with both the biological brain and pure computers, now there's a hardware node that the host's mental processes can be migrated to over the network, and just in time.
So no, it's not a brain scan per se, it's a continuing process migrated across two sets of hardware uninterrupted - that was what I'd meant to have all along, but didn't go into enough detail I guess. The personality imprint(s) he'll leave in the Matrix will indeed be dead when it reaches the next bearer, and couldn't (for example) be copied out into a new laser core to be resurrected - but once enough real bearers (not the imagined puppet personalities of the cartoon characters) have carried it, it will begin to be able to incept new Transformer children in prepared laser cores. That's ... I can't even give a year figure, because transformers are all but immortal, Alpha Trion was older in the cartoon that modern science says the universe itself is, but at least a dozen Autobot Supreme Commanders away, and so irrelevant in current story time.
Viable laser cores, BTW, are one of those things that a careful crafter can get to work with two or three tries. They never incept on their own, however, and if a mind could be programmed from scratch it wouldn't be such a problem for the 'danes trying to make AI... no, the mind still has to come from somewhere else, and no one has yet been willing to exsanguinate themselves while injecting energized handwavium at the same time to try duplicating his lucking into it (and well they should not, because that's one of the irreproducible things, as is the Matrix.)
Just know that when I say Super Robot Life Form Transformer, I really mean it. All of it.
...and sweet kami, after all that, you say I write well! (big grin) NOW I feel confident in continuing, knowing that someone who vocally disagrees about a number of things still thinks it's of good quality.
Foxboy: If you say so, though I don't get the reference unless you mean Faith of BtVS. The best acronym I'd come up with myself was actually KITTen, K. I. 2010, for the year she incepted, considering "KARR" too generic and having too much bad baggage, not to mention too unfeminine. Faith would have an appropriately badass attitude to go with the more sinister aspects of the original character, and yet still be so completely not the AI you'd expect to find in there. Hmm.
- CDSERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
For the next 72 hours, Itachi intoned, I will slap you with this trout. - Spying no Jutsu, chapter 3
"In the futuristic taco bell of the year 20XX, justice wears an aluminum sombrero!"hemlock-martini
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
It's not so much that there wasn't TIME to have done a viable Dying to Not Sying, it's just that due to certain circumstances the fact that he was not just painfully injured but dying never really sank in, even as he passed out, and the strongest focus he had as the biomod began was during the rescue. Since the 'wave is wierd, yes, but doesn't generally show any intelligence of its own, the first it would know is when things start shutting down from oxygen deprivation, not having any supplied by the blood - and by then, it has already done a lot of work on the nervous system as a foundation for Hammer-ish roboticization. A good lot of the stuff has also puddled around mixed with blood and energon outside the body too, ready to be put to use.
So, it links into the existing computer net and tries to make the bio brain into a fourth cluster node, spread the load, and move out before total hardware failure, but even 'waved the existing cores aren't compatible. The Wave Convoy head is right nearby, though, has a mockup of a half-way-point brain, check the host's memories - oh, hey, that actually fits, let's make the laser core real, and capable of interfacing with both the biological brain and pure computers, now there's a hardware node that the host's mental processes can be migrated to over the network, and just in time.
So no, it's not a brain scan per se, it's a continuing process migrated across two sets of hardware uninterrupted - that was what I'd meant to have all along, but didn't go into enough detail I guess. The personality imprint(s) he'll leave in the Matrix will indeed be dead when it reaches the next bearer, and couldn't (for example) be copied out into a new laser core to be resurrected - but once enough real bearers (not the imagined puppet personalities of the cartoon characters) have carried it, it will begin to be able to incept new Transformer children in prepared laser cores. That's ... I can't even give a year figure, because transformers are all but immortal, Alpha Trion was older in the cartoon that modern science says the universe itself is, but at least a dozen Autobot Supreme Commanders away, and so irrelevant in current story time.
Viable laser cores, BTW, are one of those things that a careful crafter can get to work with two or three tries. They never incept on their own, however, and if a mind could be programmed from scratch it wouldn't be such a problem for the 'danes trying to make AI... no, the mind still has to come from somewhere else, and no one has yet been willing to exsanguinate themselves while injecting energized handwavium at the same time to try duplicating his lucking into it (and well they should not, because that's one of the irreproducible things, as is the Matrix.)
Just know that when I say Super Robot Life Form Transformer, I really mean it. All of it.
...and sweet kami, after all that, you say I write well! (big grin) NOW I feel confident in continuing, knowing that someone who vocally disagrees about a number of things still thinks it's of good quality.
Foxboy: If you say so, though I don't get the reference unless you mean Faith of BtVS. The best acronym I'd come up with myself was actually KITTen, K. I. 2010, for the year she incepted, considering "KARR" too generic and having too much bad baggage, not to mention too unfeminine. Faith would have an appropriately badass attitude to go with the more sinister aspects of the original character, and yet still be so completely not the AI you'd expect to find in there. Hmm.
- CDSERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
For the next 72 hours, Itachi intoned, I will slap you with this trout. - Spying no Jutsu, chapter 3
"In the futuristic taco bell of the year 20XX, justice wears an aluminum sombrero!"hemlock-martini
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows