(I'm rehashing/thinking-out-loud here, please feel free to comment/correct me on stuff.)
Fact (from here): Crey Industries is actively attempting to create 33-S-grade agents for covert
warfare against the rogue originals stolen from the BGC/BGC2040(?) home dimension.
Fact: Crey does not fully understand the technology they're replicating (big surprise there, huh?).
From this I deduce that Crey has obtained some sort of fabricator device that produces 33-S units, or at least the core aspects of them that Crey cannot create
on their own. Crey does not understand how this device works, and taking it apart to determine this is a no-go idea; they don't want to lose their only
source of these fantastic new androids. Therefore, they must be operating it in black-box mode -- ie, "well, let's push that button and see what
comes out".
Further, I imagine that the device requires several inputs -- height, weight, gender, etc -- and a personality profile. Crey does not understand the 'file
format' (useful mental shorthand for a much more complex idea) of the personality profile; they might have the stock ones that came with the unit (Sylia,
Nene, Priss, Linna) because the unit was intended to replicate those four. Further units, of course, should *not* have those profiles because those profiles
already went off the rails -- that's the whole point of Project Scimitar, to recover/destroy the rogues.
Therefore, Crey is attempting to use this device to build counter-agents with modified personality profiles. Problem is, they have no idea how to achieve the
results they want -- the profiles are so much spaghetti code to them, written in the computer equivalent of Sanskrit, and probably (because GENOM was paranoid)
encrypted as well. In programmer terms, they don't have the development tools, compiler, reference materials, etc. So really, all they can do is the
equivalent of poking sticks in there and changing things randomly, trying to figure out what does what. Eventually they might understand it fully --
they're not all idiots -- but that won't be for some time to come (if it ever happens at all, lest I step on plot here![[Image: smile.gif]](http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/smile.gif)
).
This, I think, would be why they have such trouble. Given Crey's resources, I imagine that for every Sabre that goes rogue (after the original four, I
mean), there have been -- five? fifty? a hundred? -- failed attempts. Some never woke up, or self-destructed -- the 33-S equivalent of a blue screen of death
-- the instant they were 'turned on'. Some are babbling idiots, useful only for spare parts and/or experimentation. And some may have actually
*worked*.
(I'm just trying to get a firm handle on the 'backstory', as it were, and having a condensed version helps me immensely. I may or may not have
something tickling my muse regarding Nano Sabre and the others; I'm trying to see if I can either coax it out or make it go away and stop bugging me.
)
(Edit: re: the idea that some of them worked, now I've got an idea bubbling around for a character on the other side of the fence. Still loyal to
Crey, going undercover, if you will. A redside version of the Sabre 'team', maybe, using the 'Scimitar' name instead of 'Sabre'.
Hmm.)
--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs
Fact (from here): Crey Industries is actively attempting to create 33-S-grade agents for covert
warfare against the rogue originals stolen from the BGC/BGC2040(?) home dimension.
Fact: Crey does not fully understand the technology they're replicating (big surprise there, huh?).
From this I deduce that Crey has obtained some sort of fabricator device that produces 33-S units, or at least the core aspects of them that Crey cannot create
on their own. Crey does not understand how this device works, and taking it apart to determine this is a no-go idea; they don't want to lose their only
source of these fantastic new androids. Therefore, they must be operating it in black-box mode -- ie, "well, let's push that button and see what
comes out".
Further, I imagine that the device requires several inputs -- height, weight, gender, etc -- and a personality profile. Crey does not understand the 'file
format' (useful mental shorthand for a much more complex idea) of the personality profile; they might have the stock ones that came with the unit (Sylia,
Nene, Priss, Linna) because the unit was intended to replicate those four. Further units, of course, should *not* have those profiles because those profiles
already went off the rails -- that's the whole point of Project Scimitar, to recover/destroy the rogues.
Therefore, Crey is attempting to use this device to build counter-agents with modified personality profiles. Problem is, they have no idea how to achieve the
results they want -- the profiles are so much spaghetti code to them, written in the computer equivalent of Sanskrit, and probably (because GENOM was paranoid)
encrypted as well. In programmer terms, they don't have the development tools, compiler, reference materials, etc. So really, all they can do is the
equivalent of poking sticks in there and changing things randomly, trying to figure out what does what. Eventually they might understand it fully --
they're not all idiots -- but that won't be for some time to come (if it ever happens at all, lest I step on plot here
).This, I think, would be why they have such trouble. Given Crey's resources, I imagine that for every Sabre that goes rogue (after the original four, I
mean), there have been -- five? fifty? a hundred? -- failed attempts. Some never woke up, or self-destructed -- the 33-S equivalent of a blue screen of death
-- the instant they were 'turned on'. Some are babbling idiots, useful only for spare parts and/or experimentation. And some may have actually
*worked*.
(I'm just trying to get a firm handle on the 'backstory', as it were, and having a condensed version helps me immensely. I may or may not have
something tickling my muse regarding Nano Sabre and the others; I'm trying to see if I can either coax it out or make it go away and stop bugging me.
)(Edit: re: the idea that some of them worked, now I've got an idea bubbling around for a character on the other side of the fence. Still loyal to
Crey, going undercover, if you will. A redside version of the Sabre 'team', maybe, using the 'Scimitar' name instead of 'Sabre'.
Hmm.)
--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs