Cobalt's pretty close to having the android timeline right. I believe that the Professor and Noah built their companions at about the same time, although there's an outside chance that Noah was first. (The timeline is unclear.) Noah decided to keep his friends' origins secret, counting on the brand-new phenomenon of "biomodification" to hide the fact that they weren't meat-type people; the Professor didn't care who knew, but there were so many rumours about what the Professor was doing that a fair number of folks didn't believe it.
The truth about Sora came out the day that Grovers' Corners lifted. (One of these days, Bob will have time to actually write the story around the scene that I sent him about this...) After that, word about the Stellvian androids spread throughout Fenspace backchannels, and by SOS-con their origins were an open secret. After the Interdimensional Intrusion Incident, Noah didn't even bother hiding which of his newer assistants were AIs.
As for what Noah said and Doug repeated about androids in the prologue of Legend of Galactic Girls, it's already been established that Noah is far from infallible.
Back to the question of a "standard" awakening. I get the feeling that most AIs wake up in relatively calm, pleasant surroundings. Gina didn't...
And as for the role of AIs, I (OOC) and Noah (IC) think they're just like the other sort of people, with just as much variation in personalities and story possibilities.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
The truth about Sora came out the day that Grovers' Corners lifted. (One of these days, Bob will have time to actually write the story around the scene that I sent him about this...) After that, word about the Stellvian androids spread throughout Fenspace backchannels, and by SOS-con their origins were an open secret. After the Interdimensional Intrusion Incident, Noah didn't even bother hiding which of his newer assistants were AIs.
As for what Noah said and Doug repeated about androids in the prologue of Legend of Galactic Girls, it's already been established that Noah is far from infallible.
Back to the question of a "standard" awakening. I get the feeling that most AIs wake up in relatively calm, pleasant surroundings. Gina didn't...
And as for the role of AIs, I (OOC) and Noah (IC) think they're just like the other sort of people, with just as much variation in personalities and story possibilities.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012