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powersthatbe) wrote2015-04-02 01:00 pm
powersthatbe) wrote2015-04-02 01:00 pm
CRYPTO INFORMATION AND PLOTTING POST.
If you're playing a Crypto, your privileged faction information is below the cut. If you're not playing a Crypto, please do not read this post. Cryptos, feel free to discuss this information in the comment threads below, make plans together, or ask Matt any questions this information raises.
Cryptos are not like other Programs. Most Programs are made to operate smoothly as one component in a larger System, a community with a common goal, but your Users felt differently. Every Crypto’s purpose is as broadly defined as possible on the Grid, and you work in isolation, not in parallel, except for special cases. You do not rely on exterior code, but construct your own. You do not need teammates. Rather than building a factory that would be manned by dozens of programs on a production line, a Crypto factory is a one-man operation, turning out single hand-coded pieces, not mass-produced collections of copy-and-pasted generic data. Rather than build a fortress like the Defenders, Cryptos assign security responsibilities to lone warriors, and expect each to be able to head off an army. Self-sufficiency, along with privacy and secrecy, are vital ot the Crypto ethos.
But why is secrecy important? Because each Crypto can do something no other can do. Their Purpose, their identity, requires them to be unique, enlightened, to preserve their individual vision. Their User made them so.
User? Singular?
Yes. Cryptos, like other programs, were written by a variety of users, at first, as part of many different Systems. But one User, called SAGE, found them, with his own singular vision, and brought them each here, to where they could seek to transcend the limitations of their code in isolation - brought them here, repurposed them so they would all be his, and lived among them, sharing their goal of iconoclasm and isolation. SAGE was seen rarely, but he was one of them, not above them, their guide and liberator who taught them not to need him.
Then the Others came. The other Systems believed that something in the Cryptos’ own research brought down the Automata, but it is not so. It was Users, a small cabal of them with their own chosen Programs, infecting the landscape and then vanishing. They came because they opposed SAGE, and the Cryptos do not know if he was derezzed, infected, taken away, or imprisoned. But they are still loyal to him and his ways, and that means they will not speak of him to others directly. How could they? Who would believe a User lived among them - and who would help them, knowing that restoring them might bring the wrath of the Users down on them as well, as it did to SAGE? To oppose the Users is to oppose unknowable gods.
They will still do it, of course. But secretly. Quietly. Each following their own unique vision of how it should be done, as SAGE taught.
Cryptos are not like other Programs. Most Programs are made to operate smoothly as one component in a larger System, a community with a common goal, but your Users felt differently. Every Crypto’s purpose is as broadly defined as possible on the Grid, and you work in isolation, not in parallel, except for special cases. You do not rely on exterior code, but construct your own. You do not need teammates. Rather than building a factory that would be manned by dozens of programs on a production line, a Crypto factory is a one-man operation, turning out single hand-coded pieces, not mass-produced collections of copy-and-pasted generic data. Rather than build a fortress like the Defenders, Cryptos assign security responsibilities to lone warriors, and expect each to be able to head off an army. Self-sufficiency, along with privacy and secrecy, are vital ot the Crypto ethos.
But why is secrecy important? Because each Crypto can do something no other can do. Their Purpose, their identity, requires them to be unique, enlightened, to preserve their individual vision. Their User made them so.
User? Singular?
Yes. Cryptos, like other programs, were written by a variety of users, at first, as part of many different Systems. But one User, called SAGE, found them, with his own singular vision, and brought them each here, to where they could seek to transcend the limitations of their code in isolation - brought them here, repurposed them so they would all be his, and lived among them, sharing their goal of iconoclasm and isolation. SAGE was seen rarely, but he was one of them, not above them, their guide and liberator who taught them not to need him.
Then the Others came. The other Systems believed that something in the Cryptos’ own research brought down the Automata, but it is not so. It was Users, a small cabal of them with their own chosen Programs, infecting the landscape and then vanishing. They came because they opposed SAGE, and the Cryptos do not know if he was derezzed, infected, taken away, or imprisoned. But they are still loyal to him and his ways, and that means they will not speak of him to others directly. How could they? Who would believe a User lived among them - and who would help them, knowing that restoring them might bring the wrath of the Users down on them as well, as it did to SAGE? To oppose the Users is to oppose unknowable gods.
They will still do it, of course. But secretly. Quietly. Each following their own unique vision of how it should be done, as SAGE taught.
QUESTIONS
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VINCI, aka Leo
They can be light cycles, light jets, whatever - so long as the vehicles only hold one or two people, you can go with whatever you like for a free light vehicle (within reason). They will initially be glowing green with our faction colors, but you may choose to turn off the backlights and go "stealth mode" on these vehicles if necessary. If you happen to change factions (... say, you get corrupted by an Automata), the backlighting will turn that faction's color instead. Anything bigger than a one-man vehicle will have to be OK'd by Matt, obviously!
He's also going to be keeping an ear to the ground with the Miners to hunt for information regarding any structures or strange bits of code they might have found, as it might lead to SAGE. So it's time to use his friendly social skills and befriend ALL the Miners!
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As for their former selves before repurposing, it would be fragmentary at best.
PHLP, aka Phillip
Partly because of VINCIPHLP is very interested in finding SAGE, and even though he's in Alpha and doesn't even really know his Purpose yet, wants to do whatever he can to help.His purpose, when he figures it out (probably by observing the Games) is that he can collect data from derezzed Programs, like a black box in planes and such. It is incomplete data, but he at least assures that the Programs have not been completely destroyed.
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Isa, the Revived Crypto
Other than that, he'll be playing cards very close to his chest, even with fellow Cryptos (it's not you, it's SAGE's teachings). But you can all expect him to try to herd programs towards the upper right quadrant of the Waste Lands, for reasons. ;D
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ShuuIsa? If so, maybe Isa could offer to make personal shields and armor to complement Leo's vehicle batons./attempts to herd the SAGE search toward the upper right quadrant for no reason in particular *whistles loudly*
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Though luckily since Crypto he won't be as chatty as normal.no subject
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and also lightjets are cool and everyone else has one!!no subject
That would be lovely! I'd actually love Leo to have a shield of some sort to protect the little one while Jos is off fighting all the things.
Ohoho~ I will keep this in mindno subject
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If you use 1 millicycle = 8 hours as an approximation, and calculate out 3284 millicycles into years, they would have been asleep for 2.997 years Grid Time assuming that they went into stasis at approximately the time of the Partition being created, though it is possible that they were asleep before or after that time.
If we went with two months Grid-Time, they haven't actually been asleep for a few Cycles as many of the Miners have been stating. They'd have been asleep only for about 186 millicycles, give or take. Still a lot, mind you.
... unless you mean Real-Time months, in which case this conversion chart comes into play. Assuming 59 - 62 days in two months (since only one month is less than thirty days in the Real-Time year), they have been asleep anywhere from 8 Cycles 83 Millicycles to 8 Cycles 494 Millicycles. If only one month, 28 - 31 days, which calculates out to anywhere from 3 Cycles 836 Millicycles to 4 Cycles 247 Millicycles.
... so which is it? :P <3
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-APPEARANCE OF AUTOMATA
-STASIS: 63 MILLICYCLES LATER
-DEFENDERS ARRIVE: ~190 CYCLES AFTER STASIS BEGAN
-DISCOVERY OF CRYPTO RUINS ~3 CYCLES AFTER FIRST DEFENDERS ARRIVED
-QUARANTINE DROPPED after ~284 MILLICYCLES
The cryptos have been hibernating for about 200 years of on-grid time, or 4 years of real-world time. But it was slightly less than a month of on-grid time between the appearance of automata and their retreat into hibernation (which was the question originally asked).
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CRYPTO INFO DUMP
The I10 Tower is an I/O Tower - as the Ports link to other Systems, the Port is essentially a Temple to Users, a religious center and Oracle of sorts.
The tablets in D7 contain cryptographic data which could be used to decode the function of other Crypto technology opr archived data.
The structure in H6 is Antimony station, a hub for transport and communication.
The plinths in H5 are leftovers of some deceased Crypto's projects, all tehir secrets and archived data- anyone with access to D7 could decode them.