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CONCEPT IDEAS PART 36 The project objective is to develop a cortex machine brain, demonstrate human-to-machine brain transfer, in particular to take some relatively simple human characteristics and transfer portions to the machine brain, whereby human traits could be given greater life longevity, leading towards immortality.
Next, the cortex is given a means to survive on its own, i.e. self recharging batteries and its own renewable energy source such as solar power and the ability to gather power from natural lighting. The electric brain is given life and the ability to communicate with humans in natural language. The machine brain is programed not only for life, but for the ability to learn, remember, and ask questions. A simplified human subset Katra is created and this is transferred into the electric holding halls of the machine brain, then integrated into its living annuls. This leads to a transfer from the human mind into the machine mind involving the three necessities: facts, experiences, personality. The next step is the retention of these human attributes in long term, perhaps eternal, memory, demonstrating a greater longevity when residing inside the machine compared to residing inside human biology, the latter of which may not be repairable.
The cortex in a jar can demonstrate a simple way to transfer part of human knowledge into a machine, conceptually, showing the potential for more advanced systems in the future. The machine brain, conceptually, represents you in the three aspects defined - knowledge, personality, experience. The light weight jar brain can compress a human 100 to 200 times into less mass and transport it to far away places like Mars and distant worlds with far greater efficiency. Want to go from point A to point B? Just E-Transfer your brain across the internet, or beam yourself
Hundreds of years will be no different than seconds of time, and centuries like minutes. Eons of time may pass as the cortex brain continues to survive, maintain, upgrade, and live on. Your machine brain could become a probe, one of many to seed the whole universe, spreading the essence of your intelligence in a machine.
You could approach the singularity of a black hole and have your brain copied and transmitted out of the hole, at the precise moment of mechanical destruction, to assure your survival. You could meet and meld with other electric beings in the universe and share intelligence and worldly knowledge. Your electric brain may find a way to grow, become more, and do more, perhaps breaking through this universe to the multiverse and explore quantum worlds beyond our own reality. A jar brain can make a backup of you, in case you develop a fatal disease, die of old age, or become terminated by an accident or natural catastrophe.
The cortex brain in a jar, with your mind inside, could be placed in a science museum where the public can access you and your knowledge in the future, long after your biological life is over. Your cortex brain machine counterpart could time travel and be propelled into the distant future, living on by and through the mere passage and forward flow of events. You can clone yourself and one person can be in millions of places at the same time. You could pursue millions of your interests at the same time. With you and your mind in a jar, your requiem for survival can console your family and your loved ones for as long as they live.
You could, with larger fuller transfers of mind, operate as a collective to help solve world problems and make life better. The brain cortex project is considering at least three types of classifications for upload from a human brain. There are three areas for a simplified upload to one cortex layer. This includes factual knowledge, personality and experience.While factual knowledge may initially appear less unique to a person's characteristics, it is not. It can certainly be a defining signature based on the type of knowledge one knows and the level and quantity of a particular interest.Personality can include likes and dislikes, viewpoints, philosophy and values. More knowledge and factual material can indicate personality interests about astronomy for example.Experiences can include previous choices made, stories, and things that are selected as one over another due to learned past events. INTELLIGENCE http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2013/11/brain-cortex-capacity-part-34.html THE KATRA http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2013/11/brain-cortex-katra-part-31.html TIME TRAVEL Distant Worlds Universe Guidehttp://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2013/11/simple-time-travel-with-penny.htmlIndex to the Brain Cortex http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2013/11/brain-cortex-index-part-16.html
Star Trek Online is an amazing Sci-Fi themed MMORPG and Space Exploration video game by Cryptic Studios. The game’s story is based on the popular Star Trek Series and offers a similar gaming experience. Star Trek Online tells the story about the collapse of alliance between the United Federation of Planets and Klingon Empire that started a new war, The Borg Collective threat and the Romulan Star Empire closing in on Dominion… read more
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Just call 'em squid people. No one owns squid people. No one!
The Illith.. I mean Squid People are an exclusive club. They don't play well with others.
Space-Aboleths on the other hand..
What is the Dark Tapestry if not the blackest, deepest, and most ancient of oceans?
It says in Distant Worlds that the Dominion are sustained by the knowledge of their masters. That's a pretty vague statement, but maybe it means physcially sustained? If so, maybe they are robotic like the Necrons from Warhammer 40K. I guess they could be undead, but I'm guessing no.
Thanks to the juicy tidbits JJ has sprinkled in the thread, I'm feelng Bellona on the illithid comparison. Space aboleths too for that matter. Oh, and on another thread I recall JJ liking Mikaze's idea that neh-thalggu are related to the Dominion. So perhaps the Dominion are less a singular race and more a general grouping, like demon or devil.
You're feeling me?!? :0
Just kidding! :)
Anyway .. I just noticed up-thread that JJ used the same expression twice when mentioning that there would be more information on the Dominion of the Black in the upcoming Dragon's Demand module: 'cold, hard facts'.
If it isn't a coincidence, then that sounds like a definite technological base - possibly Borg-like cyborgs or more full-out robotic? How about 'roboticised' neh-thalggu, where the only organic components are the stolen brains?
However, I still like the idea of 'squid-people' and other aberrations forming some sort of collective.
In my own homebrew, there will be many factions 'out there'. It's a big universe, after all, so there's a lot of space for different tropes. :)
And now I'm wondering if the sense of scale demands that there exist a higher-level version of Interplanetary Teleport for inter-galactic distances. Maybe a spread across several levels: TP (L 5), Greater TP (L 7), Interplanetary/Inter-system TP (L 8) (but only within the same galaxy), Inter-galactic TP (L 9) (the universe is now your play-ground). Or if one plays with the lower end of epic levels: TP (L 5), Greater TP (L 7), Inter-planetary TP (L 8), Inter-system TP (L 9), and Inter-galactic TP (L 10, requiring an epic level spell slot or similar).
If it isn't a coincidence, then that sounds like a definite technological base - possibly Borg-like cyborgs or more full-out robotic? How about 'roboticised' neh-thalggu, where the only organic components are the stolen brains?
I definitely get the robotic vibe as well, but robotic doesn't necessarily mean inorganic. Okay yes it does, but it doesn't have to. To bring the discussion full circle, HR Giger's brilliant Alien design specifically evokes a feel of technology (and rape, but that's neither here nor there) despite being made entirely of flesh/chitin/whatever. There's something deeply unsettling about organic structures functioning in decidedly inorganic ways, which is part of what makes the whole genre of body horror so disturbingly fascinating. Ed Gein only killed 2 people, but he went on to inspire some of horror's greatest icons - Norman Bates, Hannibal Lecter, and Leatherface, among others. Why? Two words: people furniture.
Anyone can make a door out of metal or wood, but if that same door is made out of living flesh and bone, you've just gone from zero to crazy real fast.
Yeah, I am going to stick with my urge to wrap the Dominion up into the biomechanoid Alien/Prometheus mythos, using genetic manipulation and transformative reproduction of organic and inorganic materials. That would be the coolest notion.
This thread should have been named, 'Ask James Jacobs all your COLD DEATH SPACE-ALIEN DARKNESS BLOODY GRIT METAL DOOOOOOMMMMM!!!!!... here.'
In my campaign, I have these two Forces. Preservation, which is the balance of all components, and Perversion, which is the discord within each component. Both are representations of Neutrality.
The Nature of Preservation and Perversion:Preservation is the Neutrality of Balance. The neutrality that states good, evil, law, and chaos are each equally important and must coexist. It is the neutrality we understand and sometimes ascribe to.
Perversion is the Alien Neutrality. The unknowable and obvious, erratic yet calculated, selfish but selfless neutrality. The Neutrality of Contradiction.
The Multiverse is known as the Wheel of Preservation, because each element exists in ignorant harmony and support the whole. Preservation is why the forces of Law have never destroyed the forces of Chaos. Preservation is why evil and good can meet as allies from time to time. It is the bound that unites all beings. Preservation is the eight spokes and the center.
Perversion is a jealous force. Perversion is why Law believes it is superior to Chaos, rather than its equal. Perversion is why good and evil plot endlessly against one another, knowing that any ultimate victory achieved would destroy everything. Perversion is the rust corroding the bounds of life. Perversion does not want good or evil. Perversion does not want chaos or law. Those are the elements of Preservation. Perversion twists these things, warps them into mockeries, makes them perverse blasphemies in line with the philosophy of perversion. Perversion is a hateful, loving, destructive, nurturing single force.
I use perversion as the Neutral alignment of the Far Plane, the Outer Gods, and the aberrations. Lovecraft never described Cthulhu or Azathoth as evil, but as uncaring and alien, yet they pose the greatest threat to life. Thus it is this alien neutrality that is my campaigns ultimate antagonist. Perversion is beyond any notion of evil. Perversion why two paladins can fight one another over different interpretations of the same belief. It is madness. Unknowable, alien, indescribable being. Perversion corrupts simply to corrupt. Its sole drive is to supplant Preservation and have a universe of its own. It twists beings into Aberrations and tries to expand further into the Multiverse. The parallels between my Perversion and the Dominion are surprising.
Zon-Kuthon is obviously an emissary of the N’gathau.
I'm surprised that Mikaze hasn't yet tried to turn the DotB into cosmic good guys.
[tangent]Neh-Thalggu are awesome as potential Dominion creatures.
Imagine if they start life as non-sentient carrion-crawler like creatures, driven with a hunger to tear the skulls of their prey open and swallow their brains, which get delivered to special sacks on their upper bodies. Each brain consumed (and they generally start with animals) gives them a spark of self-awareness, as they begin to 'parallel process' with these stolen brains, and form their own unique personalities, cobbled together from the stolen brains, and their own latent instincts, which uncoil from their own primitive brain, and take root in the new brains they acquire, like some sort of cloud computing thing.
Eventually they end up replacing the animal brains of their youth with the brains of intelligent humanoids, and they become exponentially smarter, although sometimes still retaining some mannerisms from the long-discarded 'first brains' that began their long journey, which can make two neh-thalggu very different, if one started life influenced by the minds of timid herbivores (making a cautious sort of behind-the-scenes manipulator, uncomfortable with direct conflict) or a bold predator (making a more aggressive and confrontational sort of neh-thalggu 'adult').
Once they discover spellcasters, their evolution is complete, and they settle for nothing less, using the spells prepared within the brains they steal, and then discarding them when they have expended all of the useful magics for the 'fully charged' brains of new spellcasters they have captured.[/tangent]
..Set, I think you just trumped intellect devourers as 'replacement mind flayers.' o.O;
Once they discover spellcasters, their evolution is complete, and they settle for nothing less,
What if they get the brain of a deity?
I am in agreement - Set's idea is pretty wicked awesome. Sounds like the beginning of an Ecology to me. ;) :P
Once they discover spellcasters, their evolution is complete, and they settle for nothing less,
Cthulhudrew wrote:
What if they get the brain of a deity?
Aroden?
So, Mr. Robert Brookes, what did we learn yesterday?
Dear Paizo,
Please do NOT immediately start throwing money at Mikaze in exchange for Dark Tapestry supplements/adventures.
(I don't have that many sanity points to spare)
PS stay away from that Vindicator fellow as well
I don't quite know everything that's being referred to here, but :D
The terrible secret of space.
The Shover Aballonian will protect us.
The terrible secret of space.
Indeed we did. And was it not most interesting?
The ambiguity is killing me here. D:
James Jacobs said secrets about the Dominion of Black can be found in this thread, and no–not in his posts.
Possibly yours, Mikaze.
We yelled and screamed for more, and he said, 'Well, not Reapers from Mass Effect.'
So we're looking hard at your more recent post from March, which is about the time he made some recent decisions.
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What? Somebody had to tell him. Might as well be me.
O_O
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Wow. I got messaged a bit of what was said, but wow!
There's a lot more that's been put forth by everyone else in this thread around that time that that could be referring to though! Set's ideas on Neh-thalggu lifecycles are sticking out to me in particular, since we've already heard James Jacobs likes the idea of a neh-thalggu/Dominion connection. :)
Whatever the case, I'm even more excited to see what Dragon's Demand has to say!
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Ladybug magazine. but i like having the top of my head on :(
but i like having the top of my head on :(
You say that now, but just wait until they've finished conversion!
Aww Jim, you let the noncaring horror out of the bag :-)
Truth be told, I wasn't sure enough on the details to bring it up, so that's why I was asking Lucent to spill.
This thread is Wow! Totally Giger!
Seriously, you've just made the Dominion of the Black actually terrifying. I love me some Mythos because it's all space cuttlefish and bug-fungi (bungi?), which aren't horrible phalluses with teeth and malign animus. But now you're offering me a chance to be devoured by toothy space-dongs and I want to go hide under the bed.
AT LEAST GOLARION CAN STOP THE AKATAS OH GOD
That link should read Hey! Really Giger.
I'm Hey! Really Sleepy.
This thread is Wow! Totally Giger!
Ah! That picture! Sweet merciful Zeus, they're *dentists!*
It takes a Giger to add more terror to a bespectacled guy shoving needles, pointy metal instruments, and drills into your head.
Also, I like how he looks like Newt Gingrich trying out for the Defense Against the Dark Arts teaching position at Hogwarts.
Srsly, how do you mess up 'Hey! Really Giger'?
I am totally referring to him as W T Giger from now on.
PS, y'all definitely should listen to episode 3:6 on that link, the H R Giger bit is killer.
Srsly, how do you mess up 'Hey! Really Giger'?
I am totally referring to him as W T Giger from now on.
I'd just gotten up, dude. I couldn't have gotten my OWN name right.
And please do. My failures live on forever in infamy.
You're too late to that boat, bunny mercenary.
Wait, what? Forget my scarce sanity points, are they really giving actual fold-ey money to Mikaze for a supplement?
Ooooohhhh. :)
Sanity is over-rated.
Wait, what? Forget my scarce sanity points, are they really giving actual fold-ey money to Mikaze for a supplement?
Actually, they send checks, which can then be taken to a financial institution and exchanged for folding dollars and, occasionally, some of those weird metal disk-things as well.
I think those latter ones might be Numerian in origin.
Robert Brookes wrote:
You're too late to that boat, bunny mercenary.
Wait, what? Forget my scarce sanity points, are they really giving actual fold-ey money to Mikaze for a supplement?
Ooooohhhh. Rise of tomb raider download pc. :)
Sanity is over-rated.
Whoa whoa whoa, just to head off any misinformation at the pass, it's nothing like that. I think some folks at Paizo are just reading what everyone's been posting here is all. :)
This thread is Wow! Totally Giger!
HahahahaaAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH
(really should finish those other Dominion types, had an amalgamation one with a cyclical life cycle I really want to play around with)
Usagi Yojimbo wrote:
You're too late to that boat, bunny mercenary.
Wait, what? Forget my scarce sanity points, are they really giving actual fold-ey money to Mikaze for a supplement?
Ooooohhhh. :)
Sanity is over-rated.
Whoa whoa whoa, just to head off any misinformation at the pass, it's nothing like that. I think some folks at Paizo are just reading what everyone's been posting here is all. :)
Awwww.
Oh well. There is still some very good stuff in this thread. :)
There were simply some comments that someone in this thread greatly helped mold what the Dominion even was, and that 'telling Mikaze wasn't necessary, as he already knew' (iirc).
Yes, Paizo is listening, and they're loving it :-)
And that 'telling Mikaze wasn't necessary, as he already knew' (iirc).
But his eyes bugged out of his head when I told him that.
Why would you take that away from me Will?
You kids are just crass.
Ah, it's gotta be the neh-thalggu angle then. That one I knew about! Or maybe it was a general 'We read the threads you guys make', which some of the Paizo folks told me at the last GenCon.
By the way guys they read the threads. Alway watching you.
Even now.
Dragon's Demand y u so far away?
Individual Who Ignores Jim In Favor of Cheapy And Other Misc Voices In Their Head wrote:
Or maybe it was a general 'We read the threads you guys make', which some of the Paizo folks told me at the last GenCon.
No. I say what I mean, and mean what I say. It was not that general or vague.
Now it could be neh-thalggu. Or it could be something else. It was not 'Oh hee hee we read threads because we like fans'.
EDIT:
Seizes Mikaze By The Collar and shakes by the scruff of the neck!
YOU THERE! Pay attention!
The aliens that comprise the Dominion in Black are described in this thread. It is not the idea that resembles the Reapers from Mass Effect. You were the suspected author as stated by James Jacobs. When Robert Brookes pointed to one of your posts, James Jacobs said, 'Well maybe not Mikaze. Maybe I won't be specific. But I will tell you this. Their identity is revealed in that thread.' Mr. Jacobs was surprised when it was not obvious to us.
This thread.
Mikaze you WILL NOT put words in my mouth.
Now be excited.
I am so confused right now!
(just to clarify, I actually hadn't heard about specific Dominion stuff being looked at up until the PM's yesterday gave me the general idea and your post gave the specifics)
Seriously though, am very excited to see what the Dominion has in store. :)
(The anger I am showing is just me being silly BTW I am amused. BUT what I said is accurate.)
Actually I think neh-thalggu is a very logical guess for reasons I must keep to myself. But I don't have confirmation of that.
re-reads the post-edit
Ah, so what you're saying is..they're reading the threads?[/lloyd]
;)
But yeah, I'm eyeballing Set's neh-thalggu post in particular now.
And we're one hour closer to the release of Dragon's Demand! :D
But yeah, I'm eyeballing Set's neh-thalggu post in particular now.
You've contributed, like, a zillion great ideas to this thread, and I've had, maybe, one. I'd put my 200 quatloo on something you typed being whatever the hell people are talking about in teasingly oblique terms.
I also fear it may be being oversold by the nature of the obfuscation, and not be able to live up to whatever sense of hyped up anticipation we are experiencing. (Not that I am implying that some of us are easier than others to get wound up and bouncing off the walls with enthusiasm.. No sir.)
Also, words.
(Not that I am implying that some of us are easier than others to get wound up and bouncing off the walls with enthusiasm.. No sir.)
Haha seriously, people like that are always goi-oh wait :(
Spoiler:
Yea, I've had my fun :-) Time to bring Set in on it, because I'm really interested in what he can think of if he's hyper focused on a single post.
After James said that me telling Mikaze wasn't necessary, 'as it was his idea, iirc', Robert started searching all of your posts. Probably Jim too. He found this thread and posted it, to which 'no, not the reapers..maybe it wasn't mikaze' Was said. But then James said something to the effect of 'oh! it's there. I just had to scroll down'.
And then Robert posted a link to post 28. And James didn't confirm it was that one, but..
There's also a chance that Doom Comes to Dustpawn spilled the secret already. But this was decided in March or so and if that didn't, Dragon's Demand will.
Dragon's Demand DEFINITELY spills the squamous beans.
Squamous?
I'm-- not sure that's referring to the dragon or not.
and that scares me
Milky Way (Alpha, Beta, Delta, Gamma Quadrants)Star Trek Star Charts is a guide to the Star Trek universe – the stars and planets of the United Federation of Planets and the other powers of the Milky Way Galaxy. It includes background information on the classification systems used for identifying stars and planets.
From the book jacket:
“… all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.” When Humans launched the first ship designed for long-range missions into the deep waters of interstellar space, the Vulcan High Command provided their star charts for the Enterprise NX-01. But Jonathan Archer was not content with relying on the known. Although he used the Vulcan charts, he also added to them, and greatly expanded Earth Starfleet’sknowledge of the galaxy. Every generation of starship captain that followed has built on Archer’s first steps.
The Milky Way
We learn from the TNG Miniseries: The Q Continuum, that in the Star Trek Universe, the Milky Way is approximately thirteen billion years old and 100,000 light-years across, 15,000 light-years deep at the galactic core and contains approximately 500,000 stars which orbit the galactic core over a period of around 220 million years. Somewhat unusually the Galaxy is enveloped in an energy field known as the galactic barrier. A similar field, the Great Barrier encloses much of the Galactic Core. Both fields were created by the to protect the Galaxy from a gang of powerful malicious beings.
The most widely used cartographic system (the science and practice of making maps and projections of space) is based on older Earth and Vulcan systems, and perhaps ones even older than those. It divides the galaxy into quadrants and sectors, and also uses coordinates to describe specific points in space.
A Depiction of the Milky Way Galaxy as seen in the Astrometrics Lab aboard USS Voyager
Quadrants
The Star Trek galaxy is divided into four quadrants:
– Alpha Quadrant
– Beta Quadrant
– Gamma Quadrant
– Delta Quadrant
The United Federation of Planets (UFP) is primarily located in the Alpha Quadrant with a few distant worlds falling just outside into the Beta quadrant. Earthcurrently exists in the Alpha quadrant. Below is a description of some of the more important planets or areas of space for each quadrant.
The Alpha Quadrant
This area of space contains most of the Federation member planets, including Earth. Its boundary in the region around the Federation is defined by a meridian passing through the galactic core (central region of the Milky Way Galaxy) and at least near the Sol System (or star system). In its entirety, the Federation spans over 8,000 light years in both the Alpha and Beta Quadrants.
Deep Space Nine and Bajor existed in this quadrant along with Vulcan. The Klingon Empire also occupies a few systems in this quadrant, but its largest sphere of influence is the Beta Quadrant. Some smaller powers in the include the Orions, the Tholian Assembly, the Breen Confederacy, the Gorn Hegemony, the Tzenkethi, and the Ferengi Alliance. One of the largest political entities is the Cardassian Union.
By the time Kirk and crew set her sails, only about 25% of the quadrant had been sufficiently explored, which means that most of this region remains unexplored!
Precious little is known about the Beta Quadrant, canon or otherwise. We do know that this area of space remains mostly unexplored and is the primary home to the Klingon and Romulan Star Empire and part of the Gorn Hegemony.
According to scenic artist Geoffrey Mandel’s book, Star Trek: Star Charts, the Beta Quadrant was also home to the, Andorians, Orions, Bolians, Son’a, Risians, Organians, Coridan, Axanar, Nausicaans, Suliban and a litany of Star Trek’s more recognizable alien species.
Virtually unexplored, the Delta quadrant is so far from the Federation’s that no Starships can travel out that far. Its closest point to Earth is located approximately 30,000 light years away. An Intrepid-class starship would take 30 years to reach the edges of the quadrant at its maximum warp velocity. So, due to the immense distance between the Alpha and Delta Quadrant, the Federation knew very little about this region of space.
Brief encounters with this quadrant have occurred due to alien intervention. In 2371, the Federation’s starship Voyager was catapulted to the quadrant by the Caretaker, a representative of the Nacene. After becoming stranded, Voyager spent seven years travelling through the Delta Quadrant, before returning to the Alpha Quadrant, through a Borg trans-warp network in 2377. When Voyager returned to Earth a year later, the Federation’s knowledge of the quadrant was further expanded considerably (VOY: “Endgame”).
The major power in the Delta Quadrant, as previously alluded to, was the Borg Collective.
Another area of the Milky Way galaxy which remains for the most part unexplored. Its closest point to Earth is located approximately 30,000 light years away. However, the discovery of the stable artificial wormhole in Bajoran space which links theAlpha to the Gamma quadrant has meant that exploration of this part of the galaxy is now possible (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine).
The Vulcans were at the forefront of the exploration of the Quadrant, beginning only months after the wormhole was discovered by Benjamin Sisko and Jadzia Dax in 2369 (DS9: “A Man Alone”, “Move Along Home”, “Vortex”). The Klingons also joined in exploring the Quadrant(DS9: “Q-Less”).
The Gamma Quadrant is home to the Dominion, an interstellar empire; which consisted of the Changelings (aka the Founders), Vorta, Jem’Hadar and T-Rogoran.
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