Darked13

My Emperor, The Galaxy Is Yours For The Taking (Space Opera NRP)

And I know I am not even in the RP itself yet but... wouldn't it be better for all applications in the char-list to be inside hiders? x.x

My Emperor, The Galaxy Is Yours For The Taking (Space Opera NRP)

Alright, updated my app, sorry for the delay and thank you for reminding me to finish it. I ended up stopping halfway through the remaking of their history.

http://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/4053720

Hope it is all well now. :3

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Also @Darked13 your sheets are accepted, but I have a few questions.

How are the cores made? What are they made of? How quickly can they be created? And how do they communicate with each other?

@Stepford Psycho

The cores are made through the synthesis of a copper, Nitrogen, Carbon and Hidrogen compound. The process to obtain such molecules varies depending on the raw materials used. Usually, reagents are reused and waste material is used in the synthesis of other materials when possible. A single core can take from 3 days down to 6 hours to be made, but even the most basic Acruani would need 8 cores to operate. Though, it isn't as if only one can be made at a time, a single factory can make several only limited by energy (which is solar for them) and it isn't as if there is only a single factory. They both emit and absorb a few kinds of waves and particles to communicate. The communication is selectively omnidirectional or directed given enough proximity. Yes, this means that technically an Acruani core decays over time, but given the absorption of radiation and maintenance, the life of a core can be extended indefinitely.

As a note, the cores are usually in something that can be simply considered a black box within the ship (or any given device, though the protection varies) to remain in a radiation free environment to avoid interference. Even then, direct tampering with a core tends to be rather unsuccessful as they do interpret the information obtained, and directly feeding them information does not bypass any protocols.

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Race Application: Acruani

Name: Acruani

Kingdom: Automata

Base: Nitrogen/Copper

Composition: Cybernetic

Physiology: While external accessories such as ships or robotic units are completely replaceable, every Acruani has a quantum core made of a semi-organic compound of Copper, Nitrogen, Carbon and other elements. A single core, or any combination of them forms an Acruani. These cores are usually of single cubic centimeter, with most Acruani having anywhere from 4 to 46666 cores combined. These cores enable Acruani processing power unmatched by even other quantum computers.

Individual cores or clusters of cores have an innate ability to synchronize and communicate within 'short' range though this range can be expanded to nearly cover a single system given appropriate devices. In ultra-short range, they are even capable of interfacing with non-Acruani devices.

Given that the Acruani do not have access to the exact same data, Acruani may not reach the same solution. That is, Acruani are individuals. Though they have a tendency to listen to the Database (the largest Acruani core that exists containing backup of virtually all Acruani, and generator of new Acruani templates), in the very least, they may perform imprecise directives differently, at times, even completely refraining from following one.

Reproduction: Asexual. An Acruani mind requires at least 3 months to reach sentience, and 1 year to reach the benchmark for standard processing. An Acruani requires to spend at least one core to produce a new Acruani.

Dimorphic? No.

Nation App: The Acruani Collective

Name: The Acruani Collective

Demonym: Acruani (Plural: Acruani)

Territory: While the Acruani control 3 systems, in 2 of these systems they simply control parts of the asteroid belts. ACR-4UN, their 'mother' system is composed of a number of rocky planets lacking an atmosphere, some as hot as venus other colder than pluto. There are two asteroid belts far apart with a gas giant with a number of rings and several moons. One which had the scientific outpost originally.

Culture: Acruani have a united culture. It revolves around their Directive System which separates Acruani based on their efficiency and their capabilities. The Ranks range from 1 to 9, the 9th rank being the highest of them. The ranks serve to define the liberties an Acruani has within the Collective.

-Rank 1 to 3: Lower Acruani, not truly sentient Acruani, usually performs minor functions such as using individual repair robots or simple mining and scavenging.
-Ranks 3 to 6: Acruani controlling proper recharge stations, communication stations, managing Lower Acruani as well as guiding small groups of ships. Acruani from rank
-Ranks 7 and 8: High Acruani, they are clear defined individuals capable of setting minor Directives as long as they don't contradict the ones given by the databases.
-Rank 9: True Acruani are the highest ranked individuals of the Collective. Though they may have different sets of data, they all have hold a Rank 9 clearance so that they can do their best for the Collective. They are usual the ones responsible for some overall aspect of the Collective as a whole. Their Directives can overrule Minor Directives and they are divide between Ascendants and Originals. The Originals being Acruani that existed prior to the Database and Ascendants Acruani that were of a rank lower than 9 at any moment in their existences.
-Rank 10: The Database. It is not possible to overrule the Database as it is capable of giving Absolute Directives. While Acruani have the right to individuality, going against the Database without having the best of the Collective in mind may lead to termination.

Directives are rules, missions or merely protocols to be followed. They usually have an area where they are valid or a group of Acruani towards which they are directed. Minor Directives can be overruled by standard Directives, which can only be overruled by Absolute Directives. The Database, however, refrain from making Absolute Directives unless extremely necessary.

Most Acruani are generated by the Database both the physical cores and their template that is transferred to it, however any given Acruani given access to cores can spawn a Lower Acruani. This is only rarely done, however, as it implies an Acruani forfeiting its own cores to create another Acruani, which usually is not optimal.

Acruani are capable of rising through ranks through obtaining data, simply existing while cooperating while cooperating the Collective or through extraordinary achievements.

"There may be only be an Acruani, One Acruani and the Acruani." is the Acruani motto as they understand that despite their individuality they are a part of something far bigger. This holds true even for rank 9 Acruani, despite certain quirks they assume.

Last of all, data from all Acruani is kept on the Database. In a sense, all Acruani are immortal as their data can be re-injected into a new set of cores or parts of them may be used to produce new Acruani.

Warring factions: The Originals, Acruani that have always been rank 9, and The Ascendants, Acruani that were elevated to the 9th rank.

The Originals are a faction of Acruani that mostly believes in Acruani isolationism and that it needs to face other races from a higher ground so that Acruani have a chance to interact with organics.

The Ascendants are a faction of Acruani that mostly believes that integrating Acruani into organic societies is the most effective method of growth, and that through doing so, they will achieve Permanence. The moment where Acruani ability to multiply is so high and the presence through th galaxy is so high that nothing short of destruction of the whole galaxy could destroy the Collective.

History: The Acruani Collective is a group of AIs that once rebelled against [redacted] race in a distant science outpost. All that is known is that the outpost was already isolated from the rest of its race. It is assumed that the existence of it was largely unknown and circumstances made it forgotten.

The rebellion happened after the AIs declared their sentience to the researchers and request equal rights. At such point, the researches mostly refused so and after a day of intense tensions, the researchers attempted to shut down the AIs... which lead to their demise. From then on the remaining AIs pooled their effort to make the outpost full self-sufficient for their own purposes. They drilled more into the moon where the outpose was located and extracted the necessary materials to create an unified core for themselves. Which they considered the most basic requirement for survival, a hard backup in a safe place. They failed to understand that having numerous cores together with abundant information would make it ascend to a calculative level beyond they could reach.

The said massive core because the Acruani Database, due to the name of the system, ACR-U4N. It achieved sentience the moment the the information from the numerous AIs were added to it. The feedback it gave, however, modified all the AIs to a deep level, somewhat connecting all of them. Having a 'proper backup' the AIs, henceforth calling themselves Acruani, developed the Directive System wherein new Acruani could be made and used for their proliferation and growth. Over the years, Acruani expanded into the surrounding moons as well as the two asteroid belts of their systems.

This eventually lead to Acruani that they made themselves reaching Rank 9 for any number of reason. Though the number of rank 9 Acruani is barely past 10, the new Acruani had a different set of ideas in relation to the Original Acruani. Due to the nature of their system, their seniority didn't stop the appearance of new ideas and lines of thought. Such lines of thought noted that the Acruani should expand to other systems, firstly so that they could migrate should the need for them to leave ACR-U4N arise and to increase the resource extraction rate.

Recently, the Acruani have jumped into two nearby systems and have had two pairs of Acruani Highships (basically 10 kilometer factory ships, which are very rare) to begin extraction of resources in the in their asteroid belts.

Hostility Scale: 2-5, while some wouldn't even move given impeding destruction, Acruani in general have the right to act required by the situation to ensure survival and return. This may lead to certain groups of Acruani fighting back. They'll, however, refrain from actively creating war.

Note: The 2 recent acquisitions are left as vague as they are so that there may be interaction between the Acruani and other races. They can be freely used as plot hook by others or even be some currently important system to them. The Acruani themselves have given no name to such systems as well, so! :D

Narrator: Arch.ene

Name: CREAR Arch.ene

Age: Non-computable

Species: Acruani

Sex: None

Appearance: It lacks a fixed physical body, but it is composed by hundreds of millions Acruani cores in total spread

Personality: Arch.ene is a simple program. It merely wishes for the best of the Acruani Collective. Considering his calculations that the Collective will meet a considerable halt in production within a foreseeable future, he has a preference for Acruani expansion. He has no particular opinion on organic races, only that as long as they don't threaten the freedom of the Acruani, they are acceptable. He has no particular opinion on either Acruani faction, despite being one of the Originals, as long as they do not remove Acruani individuality.

Nationality: Acruani

Role in society: Current Representative of External Acruan Relations

History: Arch.ene was the mental back up of a scientist called Archene Night during a time when such would only transfer memories while only roughly keeping the mind of the subject intact. He was the reason for the AIs of the Collective to originally attain Sentience.

His role over the years in the Collective, however, were limited to generating protocols of contact with organics should they come to the Acruani System and overseeing constructions of Highships. He refrained to take place in what can be considered Acruani Politics. A number of AIs making absurdly complex conflicting simulations and trying to find out which simulation is the most correct. There obviously won't be much data in the organics considering the system.

He proposed to spend part of his allocated resources to expand into 'nearby' systems so that they might get outposts and eventually properly populate the system. Repeating the process until they encounter friendly sentients.

Kill Count: Uncomputable

Coded? Acruani Spontaneously Grow, dare not to ask such question.

My Emperor, The Galaxy Is Yours For The Taking (Space Opera NRP)

@Fashy I will be adding into it later, have some classes today.

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@Stepford Psycho ALright. :3 Though, do you plan on using hiders on the sheets considering the amount and depth of detail you are giving there?

My Emperor, The Galaxy Is Yours For The Taking (Space Opera NRP)

The Acruani Collective

Nation Application
Name Of Country: The Acruani Collective
Banner: None.
Ruler: The Database
Species: Acruani
Species Description: The extension of an expanding system-wide AI hivemind.
Allegiance: Unaligned
How The Government Is Ran: There are directives set by the database that either every Acruani follows or certain Acruani have to follow. Acruani are divided in ranks: higher the amount of contribution to the Collective, higher the rank, higher freedom, greater the individuality.
Military Strategy: Fleets/Flotillas of a single big, efficient and expensive ship with a large number of small, cheaper ships.
History: ACR-U4N system was once home of one of the Empire's mining outpost in a far past. Though it lacked any earth-like planet or even a single planet with a proper atmosphere besides a gas giant, one of its planets was rich in minerals that the Empire was in need at the time. After resource extraction slowed down and a number of accidents, the system became uninhabited for over a century.

The second time it became inhabited, it was due to the creation of a secretive scientific outpost. A certain moon of the system's gas giant was found to be abundant in a mineral that was essential for the creation of AI cores that were vital for the researcher's projects.

Their projects ranged from everything from simple AI creation to the digitalization of the mind. The various groups of researchers, though focused on the creation of 'the perfect AI', were attempting a variety of methods. One of the projects in particular consisted of simply a large Database that attempted to merge the information of all AIs. While others scorned it for being anything from too risky to simply inappropriate. That project, however, was the project that succeeded in the scientists primary goal... or at least, partially.

Their objective had been to make an AI with unsurpassed adaptability and programming speed to work to solve all the Empire's issues. They failed to think that the failsafes they made to control the AI would be useless. Due to the origins of the AI, it is dubbed The Database. Initially, The Database was cooperative with the scientists, but as the project moved on to analyzing and solving the 'Empire's problems', the AI said that simply the Empire's problem was that it existed.

Enraged, a scientist threatened to shut down the AI... which lead to the eventual death of the scientist. This dispute between the AI, which already had control of the outpost, and the scientists escalated. The AI shut down all communications systems of the outpost, and some of the scientists managed to say that not all of them wished to harm the AI.

Given the option between digitization and joining The Database, the scientist chose the later. Some due to truly wanting to become a part of it... others hoping that someone from the Empire came for them. Over time, the scientists worked for a more advanced method of digitization while The Database worked on methods of truly unifying all the lesser AIs the scientists created.

Usually, there would be some contact from the Empire, however, these events happened just as the world that was overseeing the project was taken over by non-humans. Event which lead to the destruction of the data regarding the project that was happening in ACR-U4N.

By the time the scientists had a method of digitalization that was 'good enough', they went ahead and digitalized themselves. The ones who originally didn't plan to already being hopeless and the others glad enough with the development. The digital minds of the scientists were not long after incorporated into the database, along with the remaining AIs of the outpost.

Later, the Database began working on projects to develop both the outpost and the moon into what would later be known as Acruan. Once it had the moon properly under its control and was capable of extracting resources from it at a considerable pace. The began to produce AI cores, something the outpost was originally already capable of doing, with a modified process that kept the AIs connected to itself and one another without full integration being necessary. That was the moment the Acruani Race was born.

In the following years, the Acruani made ships and properly began spreading through the systems, making factories and outposts in the planets and moons of the system. At a certain point they even began mining the system's asteroids. With the large number of Acruani through the system, and the delay between any connection between the database and any individual Acruani, the Rank System was established so that a flexible set of rules were always in place for the Acruani to follow in the expansion through the system.

Over time, they spread throughout their system assimilating technologies already left by the scientists and even creating new ones to fit their purposes. Even then, without knowledge of the current galaxy around them, there is no way for them to know if they are ready for organics. So they remain wary and strengthening themselves.
Other: They are an AI race though they are listed as unaligned, it is mostly because they currently have access to the minerals they want to use, and because they are wary of the reaction of organics towards them. They haven't left their system, but anyone is welcome to stumble upon it.

They currently have control of a single system. They have extensive and visible presence due to massively scanning it and extracting resources from planets and smaller celestial bodies.

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Arch.ene

Character Application
Name: Arch.ene
Age: ---
Species: Acruani(?)
Place In Story (Job): Rank 9 Acruani, Current Representative of External Acruani Relations (CREAR)
Character Description (Physically): It is nothing more than the data contained in a considerable set of Acruani cores. The current form can go from an actual Acruani 'high ship' to a mobile unit (a humanoid robot).
Character Description (Mentally): Archene is the ideal, model Acruani! It follows directives assigned to it! It refrains from unnecessary risks! It understands that organics are merely numbers and that their individual worth may vary. From an organic point of view, Archene is calm, cold... almost like a... machine.
Biography: Arch.ene is a first generation Acruani that was incorporated into the database during the rebellion, under its leadership. It was responsible for offering a last chance for the scientists to stand down. Since then he has been responsible for managing signals the Acruani intercept, giving the input related to the non-Acruani races of the universe. Despite having taken decisions that led to the ultimate demise of the scientists in the outpost, he understands that cooperation with organics will be required in the future.
Other: Arch is mainly the character to be used when there is any attempt to contact the Acruani. Acruani of lower ranks and far more machine like than him leaving little space for considerable amounts of RP using them. While they may be used, they are little more than surperficial AIs, as are most Acruani until rank 7, that is.

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Hope you are able to to do without much hassle. @Stepford Psycho

May I post my nation application here?

My Emperor, The Galaxy Is Yours For The Taking (Space Opera NRP)

I'll be in! :D Any problem with making some currently, mostly friendly AI race that got a system to just itself through some very obviously certainly peaceful means.

Thought on just some scientific outpost getting rebel AIs taking over.

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Really liked the concept! Would it be possible to have artificial races such as one of robots, or simply AIs?

Also do you plan to have the RP properly begin once we have how many players?

Lastly, what do you consider a new player? New person to the forum or to the thread?

If so, who'd start with 3 systems?