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<blockquote data-quote="Deuce Traveler" data-source="post: 6043737" data-attributes="member: 34958"><p>Myconid and Myconid are pleased by Arkos' reply and ripple with happiness. <span style="color: sienna">"Myconid is most pleased and will pass the good news to Myconid. We never doubted you, Creator, but felt it polite to ask."</span> With that they leave to rally the forces.</p><p></p><p>TD-14 answers the further questions. <strong>"The Betrayer calls himself Andvari, and he was the first and only of his model, hence the PM-1 designation; Prototype Man 1. When the Enemy took over our system we were forced to flee, but the Enemy pursued us across the stars. Even through we thought we would lose the Enemy ships in the wormhole, the human leadership felt it would be best to prepare for war with a more flexible, advanced creation. PM-1 was designed to analyze problems, make conclusions and take actions for himself in accordance to the Three Laws. He was given a human name and control authority over other automatons, such as human leadership would be given. He was supposed to be the first of many created for the purpose of fighting the Enemy, as manufactured creations are not susceptible to mind control as humans are. But the Betrayer began to come up with disturbing conclusions, stating that the human race could not hope to survive the conflict without surrendering to subjugation or an evolutionary leap. PM-1 believed himself to be that evolutionary leap and insisted that we mass produce more creations like him. The human leadership under Captain Nara Singhe, known to the native people as Narasingh, refused this request. Instead she asked Trevor Sander, called Svarog the Father of Golems, to cease his plans to develop more such creations. We realized that the Enemy chased us across the stars once we were attacked while transiting the wormhole. Once the Enemy was able to reach the farming people of Warden, Captain Singhe gave credence to PM-1's suggestion of an evolutionary leap. In desperation she turned to Gunter von Furhmann, Yuki Shotenboc (Shoteni) and Jacques d'Arc (Jack of the Arc) to start experiments with gamma radiation and biological modifications on human beings. The natives of Warden would live in a gamma world. PM-1 did not take these developments well. He became despondent and shut himself down for a number of days, refusing to even speak to his father, Svarog. It did not help that Svarog's wife, the musician Melissa Athens, was with child. When he finally allowed himself to be reactivated, PM-1 was more withdrawn. It is said that PM-1 only shut himself down one other time, after Svarog was inadvertently killed as a result of PM-1's betrayal. It would seem that logical inconsistencies cause the Betrayer to deactivate himself. Chief Psychologist, Doctor Sarah Granmerest, also known as Gramet, Goddess of Voodoo, theorized that the Betrayer thinks himself to be following the Three Laws and is trying to preserve humanity. He cannot handle it when alternate solutions are presented that he did not anticipate or when his actions are shown to have produced something contrary to his expectations. However, he also has a strange ego for a machine, believing himself to be the peak of human evolution. I do not know of a way to deactivate all of the automatons. I believe that G.A.I.A would, but the lift to her section is guarded by the Enemy and their Yuan-Ti allies, past the ziggurat and inside what the natives call the Life Tree."</strong> There is another earthquake that shakes you violently. TD-14 pauses to consider this, then says, <strong>"As Lieutenant Commander Kodar Kisharm, called Kishar, God of the Horizon used to state, Warden is dying. It is unlikely that the Enemy will be able to save it."</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deuce Traveler, post: 6043737, member: 34958"] Myconid and Myconid are pleased by Arkos' reply and ripple with happiness. [color=sienna]"Myconid is most pleased and will pass the good news to Myconid. We never doubted you, Creator, but felt it polite to ask."[/color] With that they leave to rally the forces. TD-14 answers the further questions. [b]"The Betrayer calls himself Andvari, and he was the first and only of his model, hence the PM-1 designation; Prototype Man 1. When the Enemy took over our system we were forced to flee, but the Enemy pursued us across the stars. Even through we thought we would lose the Enemy ships in the wormhole, the human leadership felt it would be best to prepare for war with a more flexible, advanced creation. PM-1 was designed to analyze problems, make conclusions and take actions for himself in accordance to the Three Laws. He was given a human name and control authority over other automatons, such as human leadership would be given. He was supposed to be the first of many created for the purpose of fighting the Enemy, as manufactured creations are not susceptible to mind control as humans are. But the Betrayer began to come up with disturbing conclusions, stating that the human race could not hope to survive the conflict without surrendering to subjugation or an evolutionary leap. PM-1 believed himself to be that evolutionary leap and insisted that we mass produce more creations like him. The human leadership under Captain Nara Singhe, known to the native people as Narasingh, refused this request. Instead she asked Trevor Sander, called Svarog the Father of Golems, to cease his plans to develop more such creations. We realized that the Enemy chased us across the stars once we were attacked while transiting the wormhole. Once the Enemy was able to reach the farming people of Warden, Captain Singhe gave credence to PM-1's suggestion of an evolutionary leap. In desperation she turned to Gunter von Furhmann, Yuki Shotenboc (Shoteni) and Jacques d'Arc (Jack of the Arc) to start experiments with gamma radiation and biological modifications on human beings. The natives of Warden would live in a gamma world. PM-1 did not take these developments well. He became despondent and shut himself down for a number of days, refusing to even speak to his father, Svarog. It did not help that Svarog's wife, the musician Melissa Athens, was with child. When he finally allowed himself to be reactivated, PM-1 was more withdrawn. It is said that PM-1 only shut himself down one other time, after Svarog was inadvertently killed as a result of PM-1's betrayal. It would seem that logical inconsistencies cause the Betrayer to deactivate himself. Chief Psychologist, Doctor Sarah Granmerest, also known as Gramet, Goddess of Voodoo, theorized that the Betrayer thinks himself to be following the Three Laws and is trying to preserve humanity. He cannot handle it when alternate solutions are presented that he did not anticipate or when his actions are shown to have produced something contrary to his expectations. However, he also has a strange ego for a machine, believing himself to be the peak of human evolution. I do not know of a way to deactivate all of the automatons. I believe that G.A.I.A would, but the lift to her section is guarded by the Enemy and their Yuan-Ti allies, past the ziggurat and inside what the natives call the Life Tree."[/b] There is another earthquake that shakes you violently. TD-14 pauses to consider this, then says, [b]"As Lieutenant Commander Kodar Kisharm, called Kishar, God of the Horizon used to state, Warden is dying. It is unlikely that the Enemy will be able to save it."[/b] [/QUOTE]
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