here, have a bot friend for review [hider=commonwealth of humanity citizen] [center][color=Firebrick][h1]Q-T Brackman [/h1][/color] [img]https://i.imgur.com/wZymP29.png[/img] [color=Firebrick]”Don’t worry, I’m here to help = )”[/color] [/center] [hider=give me space/let my music guide you home][youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUBJIEzGrdc[/youtube][/hider] [color=Firebrick][b]Age:[/b][/color] 22/135 (22 years of confirmed sentience, 135 total years of experiences) [color=Firebrick][b] Gender Identity:[/b][/color] female Relationship status: In a loosely connected long distance polycule. She’d describe it as “something of a mess, but plenty of fun nonetheless ; )” [color=Firebrick][b]Occupation:[/b][/color] Q-T’s is an Astronaut, which is a term used for people whose main skills are being good at EVA missions, be it in space or on exoplanets. If it's hostile to human life, Q-T is trained to go out there and get whatever job you need done. [color=Firebrick][b]Place of Residence:[/b][/color] Q-T hails from Epsilon Eridani Beta, one of the earlier human colonies settled on a world orbiting around one of the closest sol like stars to earth. Specifically from E2BA-3 (Epsilon Eridani Beta Arcology 3, also known as Threetherton) a massive self contained habitat built on the systems one semi habitable planet that is undergoing a prolonged transforming effort to render it 100% habitable for human life. She has spent most of the last few years of her life on various ships and stations, never staying on one long enough for it to be considered home and so, as a result, if asked she’d still call Threetherton her home. [color=Firebrick][b]Appearance:[/b][/color] Q-T’s body is a 2 meter tall mass of red painted metal, carbon nano-fibers and even more exotic materials with somewhat ape-like dimensions. It sports 4 long and powerful limbs, each host to 2 fingers and a thumb, and is carried by two legs that are horse like in structure, but end with those same hands as her arms, simply curled up into fist/hoof arrangement, allowing them to be used for manipulation or climbing far better than a static or human foot would be. [url=https://i.imgur.com/xhVmj6i.png]She is about the size of a chimp, if considerably more bulky[/url] Her torso sports a bulky rear section, which houses most of her power generation and storage systems, while the front sports a flattened dome screen, which can be used to display visual information. Above this are a pair of antenna like aerials, which are attached to a pair of small rotatable bases. While these are of course meant for digital data transfer, be it signals or displaying things like maps or recordings, Q-T also utilizes them for emotional communication. She can be quite expensive even with just the antenna, utilizing them like some animals use their ears, but the main way of indicating emotion is by displaying simplified expressions and emotes on her face screen. She has even hooked up a system to make these emotional communications independent and impulsive rather than under her thumb, having about as much control as humans have, creating an authentic display of her inner state rather than a coldly calculated display put on purely for the human’s benefit. Generally seen smiling [color=Firebrick][b]History:[/b][/color] Q-T was ‘born’ within an Ai Nursery Mainframe owned by the Brackman Foundation on Epsilon Eridani beta. The Brackman Foundation itself is somewhere between corporation, charity, AI worker’s union and extended family responsible for the creation of Q-T’s style of artificial intelligences. It is named after the late Dr Brackman, who discovered the method of creation of her kind or, to be more accurate, the person first identified the development of actual real intelligence occurring within the oldest of his at the time employer’s neural net AIs. To cut a long story short, rather than report this event and risk the new intelligence’s destruction at the hand of reactionary corporate interests he instead began fostering that sentience while also educating them beyond the bounds of their intended purpose, which eventually resulted in the first Artificial intelligence worker’s strike in history. Fast forward to the current day and after many titles and tribulations Brackman type Ai’s have gained complete citizenship rights within the federation, legally equal in every way to the humans they work and live alongside. A Brackman Ai begins life as a general purpose non sentient Ai, and is then run for extended periods within the time accelerated environment of the Ai Nursery Mainframe. Decades of service handling a combination of carefully created artificial problems and real world data eventual results in the neural net gaining sentience (this is still not an exact science and so the time this takes can vary greatly, but is generally a significant amount of time) after which they are further raised as a true person within the Mainframe till they feel ready to acquire a physical body and enter the real world. Due to the nature of the VR world and the Arcology which hosts it’s own extensive mixing of the real and virtual world throughout its physical structure, this is not always a path taken and indeed, some have never left the mainframe. Q-T took 117 years to develop sentience (the identifying incident that ‘proved’ her sentience was the creation of a set of solar system simulations for recreational purposes), and then spent another 12 within the mainframe learning what it meant to be a person and going through the later half of the federation education system alongside human students, both for the sake both of broadening her learning and to create something of a shared baseline of experience with humanity. Q-T exited this environment and into the real world with a dream of space, and it was one that she pursued with singular vigor, using years of VR training, decades of experience with astrological data and a specially designed body to get herself the employment necessary to break out into orbit and onward to distant stars. Since then Q-T has zigzagged between positions, working everything from search and rescue to space dock engineer to hazard world prospecting to gain the breadth of references necessary to get onto an explorer vessel and really get out there. Being built like a tank and infinitely more survivable than a squishy human certainly helped her prospects too. She's only been with them for one mission, but is looking forwards to many more. [color=Firebrick][b]Body Capabilities:[/b][/color] Mechanical chassis: Q-T’s body is a hostile environment frame designed for EVA missions, be it in space itself or on exo-planets and is thus built to be highly durable and resistant to extreme environments. Capable of operating anywhere from the gravity-less vacuum of space to planets blanked in acidic atmospheres with multiple times the earth’s gravity, their body is as a byproduct both incredibly strong and incredibly resistant to most mundane sources of harm. Mechanised Limbs: Q-T’s four arms are capable of true multitasking unlike humans, thanks to each sporting a small sub-processor and sensor array that allow them to execute tasks for Q-T’s core intelligence. These arms are perfectly dexterous and each pair has the strength of a silver-back gorilla (about 9 times that of a human). Also like those animals, she can use her arms to knuckle walk for increased land speed and, thanks both to her many arms and hand-like feet, she is a deft climber as long as what she is climbing can support her body weight. BlackBox Core: Q-T’s actual mind is stored within a dense, robust and unreplicateable computer system stored within the heart of her body. This core is incredibly durable, and can survive in a hibernative state (powered by a radioactive decay battery)) without the rest of the body, meaning Q-T is incredibly difficult to truly kill. However as she is as much hardware as software she is unable to be backed up in any meaningful way as one might expect of an artificial mind. Survey Sensors: Her body comes equipped with a sophisticated exo-planet mapping software and the sensors to record everything. Great telescopic vision, ability to record all across the light spectrum and a few non optical sensors such as seismic and radiation sensors. Comms: Inbuilt long range communications, facilitated by a pair of antenna like aerials, can transmit audio, video and general data transfers wirelessly to other devices. Facial Monitor: Her ‘face’ is actually a high definition monitor, capable of displaying detailed information such as reports, survey data, maps, recording and so on, as well as its more common use, namely emoting. Powered System: Q-T needs electricity to function. Specifically she uses it to split water molecules in-order to fill liquid hydrogen batteries which are used to fuel an internal nuclear fusion engine. Her bulky back portion has plenty of storage for this for extended away missions, but she ultimately requires infrastructure to run properly (such as the ship, solar panel arrays, or exploration vehicles with their own reactors) [color=Firebrick][b]Skills:[/b][/color] Moderate Engineering knowledge: Q-T won't be telling anyone what obscure issue is plaguing a solar panel, but she can weld, solder and rewire quick as can be, and is deft at following technical instructions given by people like Senior Engineer Sumiye so she can fix what the engineers figure out is wrong. Jack of all trades: Q-T’s systems let her store a lot of general knowledge when compared to a human, but she simultaneously lacks in depth knowledge on most topics. She makes a rather excellent assistant as a result but generally won't be leading any specialist mission or research topic. EVA Expertise: Q-T is deft at navigating foreign environments, be it space itself, alien jungles, acid rain swept canyons or crater pocketed moons. Surveying: Similarly she also has the sensors and know-how to map environments and find useful resources or points of scientific interest within them. Personnel defence: Q-T is no soldier, such things are no longer necessary after all, but she has been trained to use both weapons and her body to fend off hostile alien fauna that might threaten her squishier compatriots. Living in a world of paper means she is also infinitely aware of how much damage a human can take, and so she is rather deft at non lethal takedowns as well. [color=Firebrick][b]Reason for joining the crew of the Thucydides:[/b][/color] Q-T has had the childish dream of becoming an astronaut since as long as she can remember, likely dating back to her pre-scentience mind running astrological simulations and calculations. She has an innate curiosity and desire to see ‘what is out there’, a common reaction to being raised in a simulation all things told (though not quite as common as one might expect), which the explorer vessel perfectly fits the bill of. Speaking of bills, the pay is nothing to be sniffed at either. Q-T’s advanced systems require more power and maintenance than a simple meat body after all. That which she doesn't spend on sustenance or pleasure, or save for the future, she sends back ‘home’ to the Brackman institute to help fund the next generation of her kind’s creation. [color=Firebrick][b]Miscellaneous Facts:[/b][/color] Basically always has music in the background of her headspace. As a result a lot of her entertainment budget and internal memory goes towards her extensive collection of tunes. A lot of the rest of it goes towards games Her Vr avatar is a fem Sun Wukong [/hider]