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Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 4:33 am
Buried underneath the complex of the MMA lies the vault that contains Prime´s physical body. The vault is safely behind a few meters of solid steel, which is protected by a few large remotely controled AS suits, 10 to be precise.
Off to either side of the vault door are the charging stations for the Prime units. 50 are on either side, with around 25 units recharging at any time. In front of this all is a front room, which holds a living area for the Prime units. Even though this isn´t really needed, it is more for pilots who wish to come visit Prime.
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Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 6:48 am
Prime Two waltzed into the living area, music playing in his head, literally. Walking over to a steel table, scattered with random tools all over it, Prime glanced over the table. He selected a one of the tools and sat down at the table. Tinkering with his elbow for a few seconds by prodding it with the tool, he sighed. A line appeared in his skin, then split to reveal grey muscles. There was a slight hiss as the muscles disconnected from the bone. Once the muscles had parted, Prime twisted the arm and removed it at the elbow.
The stump of his arm leaked a dark fluid, and Prime calmly removed the fake skin covering the fore arm he had removed. As he did so, Prime called up a digital blue print of his body and zoomed in on the arm. Grimacing at the grey muscles in the forearm, Prime prodded them with the tool in his other hand. The arm twitched violently, then was still. He located the leak in a few seconds and picked up another tool laying on the table. Delicatly moving the tool around on the arm, there was a brief spark as it sealed something up.
Prime replaced the removed skin on the arm and held it up to the stump. The muscles reached out as if they were snakes searching for food, then latched back onto the bone inside the stump. With another whine, the arm snapped back in with a sickening crack. As the skin closed up, Prime tested his repaired arm with a few complicated movements. With a grunt, Prime set the tool back down, satisfied.
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Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 7:07 am
Ermor strode into the room, a sour expression plastered on his face. "I´ve come to see how you´re newest body is coming along." He said, rather abruptly. Walking past the Prime sitting at the table, he went into the room that held the door of the vault. The AS suits shouldered their weapons at the sight of him, servos humming slightly. Ermor stopped in front of the blast door and pressed a button the floor with his foot. A pedistal rose from the floor, winking to life.
After taping a few commands into the surface of the pedistal, Ermor placed his palm on it. A short pause, then it beeped. The pedistal slid back into the floor and the blast door began to grind open. Once the doors were opened enough for him to walk in, Ermor did so. He stood in front of a large tank like structure, surrounded by various mechanical arms and the like. "Open up, Prime, I would like to speak to you face to face."
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Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 7:29 am
A holographic face appeared in front of the tank, looking at Ermor standing there. "You know I don´t enjoy it when you come in here like that." The face said, its voice filling the whole room. "I suppose, I wanted to look at the newest body with my own eyes anyway." The face winked out and a loud grinding sound came from the tank.
The tank shuddered for a moment, then strips of the armor plating retreated. A few layers did so, then glass could be seen. Once the plating was fully retracted, the opaque glass changed transparent. A man floating in the tank was revealed, covered it tubes and wires connected to his body. Stirring as if waking up from a dream, the man moved from his fetal position and stood inside of his tank. Two thumps were heard as his feet hit the bottom of the tank and he then opened his eyes to look at Ermor.
The fluid in the tank began to drain, soon leaving the man standing in an empty tank, covered in cables. The glass also retracted now and the man stepped out. The cables trailed after him, a large one connected to the base of his skull supported by one of the mechanical arms. "There, happy now?" The man said, his voice raw from disuse.
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Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 8:26 am
"Yes, actually." Ermor replied, a grin spreading across his face. "I just wanted to get you out your tank for a little while, you spend too much time inside of that thing." He kicked the lip of the tank, then walked over to a large metal box. A status display was blinking on the outside of the box and Ermor keyed in a series of numbers. The box hissed, air flowing out of the cracks that appeared. The heavy doors of the box swung open, revealing a seemly normal looking Prime unit. "This is it?" Ermor asked, pointing at it. With a shrug, he pressed another button on the inside of the box. The Prime unit started to hum, a start up sequence beginning.
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Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 8:49 am
"Figures." Prime muttered, walking over to where Ermor was now. "Its my choice if I want to leave my human body behind, not yours." He said, rather irate at Ermor. "And yes, that is it. As you so indelicatly put it. I´ll have you know that I worked the equivalent of 10 years on that thing. Even though only 2 days passed in your sense of time." Prime crossed his arms, accessing the new body through the cable in the back of his head.
The Prime unit lifted itself out of the box, breaking the straps holding it in with ease. "Allow me to introduce Prime Zuberi." Prime said proudly. "This is only the prototype, though it can be pressed into active duty if need be. I haven´t spawned an AI for it yet, I was hoping to test it out for myself." Prime advanced, poking the machine in the chest curiously.
"I designed it to be able to withstand nearly anything that can be thrown at it. I thought it would be much easier to design without a food system, I threw in a specialized reactor instead." Prime sent a command via his uplink and the chest of the machine split. A metal door opened, revealing a foot long cylinder connected to the inside of the machine. Prime reached out and twisted it, causing it to come out of the machine. "It can only operate for 10 minutes without this fuel source." He explained, hefting the fuel cylinder. After checking the indicator on it, he slid it back into its cradle and closed the machine back up.
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Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 9:08 am
"Yeah, yeah. You always go on and on about leaving your phyical body behind. Even in normal life you acted to much like a computer for my taste. We´re both lucky we made it out of that lab alive. I dare say that I managed to get off easier than you did." Ermor trailed off, staring at the machine in front of them.
"So, I take it that this thing has a whole bunch of contraband stuffed in it if I know you." Ermor stared, smiling at Prime. "As I understand it, you are also designing an AS suit for this thing as well as a mech. Normally I would ask you why you are suddenly so interested in joining up in the battles directly." Ermor shrugged. "But, you´re the bio-computer, not me. I´ll trust your judgement in this manner." He looked the machine up and down. Ermor´s earpiece beeped loudly. "Well, duty calls again. You´d better get back into your tank. I know that you can´t use computer time while outside of it." Ermor started out the door, locking the vault behind him.
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Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 4:34 am
Prime muttered something under his breath after Ermor left, then walked back over to the tank and stepped in. The glass closed slowly and then the liquid returned, quickly filling the chamber. In a matter of moments, Prime was back in his element and the armored doors of the tank closed with a clang.
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Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 11:08 am
Kiryu entered into the living area in the front room of the Prime unit's docking area. She looked around at the number of charging Prime units, and couldn't help thinking of how much use they would be as a combat troop, were all of them so skilled in self-defense as the Prime unit which she'd encountered earlier that day. Kiryu spoke loudly, hoping that there was an active unit in the area that would hear her, "I posses something in which you might hold interest, Prime." She said, holding up the data pad in hopes of getting the attention of one of the units.
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Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 12:33 pm
auron walks in after her, his arms crossed as he looks around at all of the charging Prime units "what in the world is with all these people? they all look the same" auron says, astonished at the prime units, since he almost never leaves his hanger bay except for a walk, he did not know about the Prime units and their functions "this is news to me, i didn't know we had a room for a bunch of robots" he says, still perplexed by the sheer amount of units "let's just find someone to handle the language translation, this place gives me the creeps" he says, tapping his neck again in certain places with both his hands
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Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 7:26 am
Two of the Prime units activated, lifting out of their charging areas and walking over to the two. "What do you think will hold my interest?" The two said together, then looking at the data pad. Both of them accessed the recording from the previous meeting between Kiryu and Prime. "I certainly hope you didn´t download anything from that. All MMA information is guarded by an evolving virus. It will activate if you try to read certain areas of the information, even if you don´t understand the text." One of the Prime units said, gesturing at the data pad.
Another Prime unit walked out from the blast doors protecting the main core, looking much different than the other units. It was not wearing any clothes, though there wasn´t anything to look at anyway as it didn´t possess such functions. The other Prime units looked at it a bit surprised, it was the first time they had seen "Return to your charging stations, I´ll take it from here." It told the two others, this unit was under the direct control of Prime himself, the others were run by seperate AI programs.
"So, I take it you were able to salvage something from my data pad. Normally the nano bots in the destructive charge eat the entire inside of the machine. I´ll have to look at my design again." Zuberi said, crossing its massive arms over its chest. It looked over at Auron "You look a little uncomfortable. I thought you knew about the other units." It shrugged, turning its attention back to Kiryu.
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Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 4:44 pm
"well, i almost never leave my hanger bay except to get myself something to eat, so i never knew about the prime units" auron says, scratching his head and yawning as he adjusted the microchip on the back of his neck again with frustration "luckily, only about eight percent was damaged, so we should be able to retrieve the data, if only we could interpret the language it is in" he says, yawning and stretching his arms
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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 4:58 am
"It really begs the question on why in the universe I would translate classified data for you. First off, its encoded and scrambled, then it uses a language that isn´t based on any previous languages. There isn´t a chance that you would be able to crack the eternity code on top of translating a language that doesn´t have any roots at all." It said, somewhat glowering at him now. "So unless you can come up with an amazing argument, I won´t translate or decode the data for you." It turned over to Kiryu.
"Even if you manage to crack the code, the virus will activate as soon as it is decoded. Its very agressive and it doesn´t give up until the target computer is nothing more than a piece of useless scrap. It will evolve in order to elude deletion and can only be removed by a complete rewrite of the infected system." It paused for a moment. "Needless to say, it would be deadly to a sentient computer."
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Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 10:27 am
"is that so.....i see your point" auron said, placing his left hand on his chin and resting his left elbow in his right hand "if this is really classified data with a virus, why didn't it corrupt my computer when i tried to analyze it for kiryu?" auron said, lowering his arms and turning to kiryu "and how in the world could kiryu have gotten this from her fight, if it really is classified info from the data network" he says, lowering his head and thinking as he remembered his other duties "um, kiryu, I must go, I have something i need to check out" auron said, saluting prime and kiryu before turning around and walking towards the door
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