AGM R&D: The Super Computer
The super computer. It is a cube abouit twenty feet wide and thirty feet high in the top security military base on Azguard. There it is linked to every system, every computer, every ship owned by the Azguards. It is the hub of their computer power. If the computer networks were a world, this would be their capital.But of course, many factions use powerful computers to control their ownings. This is its PUBLIC use. What it is is a gateway for the simple Azguard mind.
Azguards are brilliant, in a stupid sort of way. They can calculate, think, build, feel emotion, etc, but are also very dumb in logic and hunches and, especially, abstract concepts.
The computer is another thing that takes mastering for them. The abstract principles that one thinks of when designing and using computers, is way beyond their minds. This is their answer, a way to link the Azguards to the computers in a way they understand.
The process involves placing on a helmet, being placed in a large white room bellow the computer, and entering a near-perfect "translation of the computer world". It cuts down ideas and concepts and explains them to azguards in a way they understand, like e-mail actually being letters, and encryption being a large stone wall or even a labyrinth blocking and area.
The computer also observes closely the actions of the azguard, and translates it into computer terms. If he tries to climb the wall, he is breaking the encryption. If he has softwear to simplify the code breaking, maybe there is a rope and grapling hook next to the wall.
Unfortunatly, this also carries risks. Not all situationss are safe, such as encountering computer viruses. If the computer dies, the electrical backlash when the signal to the helmet breaks could easily be fatal.
Even with this risk, Regrad, lord of Azguard (me) saw the value of this, and sent TARGET (his explorations league) on a mission of 'exploration' througout the galaxy. But that wasn't all they were doing. The have standing orders to plant a gateway bug onto any computer theyu can. The bug is implated by removing the covering on a wire and replacing it with Azguard-wire-fiber whose insides are laced with a special type of energy-imprinted message, modifying the computer and sending a "Gate" to the main computer.
This has expanded their computer world, and with this teachnology, with no equal or comparative, the Azguards one day wish to rule the galactic computers, knowing that with those in their power there could be no more wars, and only peace throughout the galaxy because no ships or computers would do anything contrary to the Azguards' opinions of ethics and rights of the individual.
Comments
#13 4:29am 26/03/03
Well, I’m going to say right now that you will have to RP out placing the bug for every faction you infiltrate. You can do this on the respective faction’s board, or in the battlegrounds as part of a larger RP. Note that a representative from the bugged faction must post at least once in a battlegrounds thread.
We’ll let the R&D Mods look it over now.
#12 3:46am 26/03/03
That was harder then I thought, but I think I got it.
Of course I didn't actually cut the wire and add something too it, seeing as how I could have damaged it, but I think an intelligence agent could pull it off.
So whats' the verdict? Yes? No? build time? RP size?
#11 6:23pm 25/03/03
I dunno...
Try it at your local school first. :)
#10 2:38pm 25/03/03
Well, lets' be frank. The star wars galaxy has the internet, right? so if we could get one link to that, we'd have a major chunk. From there its' all espionage. I send an explorer to, say, coruscant, and in customs something happens causing the customs agent to go help a fellow with an unusually large alien.
The explorer has standing orders to slip into his terminal in the confusion and clip the wires, the add his.
On the other hand, he might even have been sent on a long-term mission to stow away onboard a flagship and hack into their computers while they slept.
Obviously we wouldn't just come in and say, "Hello, mind if we poke around your computers?" Its espionage. Plus, allies computers are easiest to bug, because you just ask to compare cultural technologies and switch cabals when noones' watching. In that way I could bug the Mon Cals easily :D
#9 7:52pm 24/03/03
So, this thing basically steals other computers cycles, and lets you use the computer power for your own use, right?
Yeah, this is more of a plot device than an actual weapon or R&D. It is original though, and could make for an interesting RP.
I do have doubts however, that computer techs would let tall grey skinned beings in to the computer rooms. Let alone allow them to tinker with the computer insides.
#8 2:23pm 24/03/03
Just to let it be known, the idea abou having a role-play done is good, and the part about hachking each faction individually also makes sense.
But just so you know about the "hacking any computer" comment, that is because Azguards have their own strange way of computer code, so when someone else's computer is broken into, it is very difficult for the system to defend against it because it cannot really understand it.
Also, like a weapon, maybe I would have to do a "battle" sort of role play against computers if I wished to access their defended files or functions?
#7 8:11am 23/03/03
Well, this is taking things a little too far for simply an R&D.
An RP is needed, one of quality as well as girth, explaining all of this, as well as the act of you 'bugging' each factions computer systems, plus doing some NPC systems. Now the only question remains is should i allow each faction, as they are involved, the right to reply.
On one hand its the only fair way, but on the other, i know some people are going to @#%$ and moan and try to godmode their way out of having their systems bugged.
Seth and Lei, which way should we lean on that aspect?
#6 5:19am 23/03/03
lol...
Teebo , you should be asking for payment..
Hmm... tricky one this one,I'm fine with it, up until the "being able to hack into any computer " part.
Is this going to cause us headaches?...heh
I suppose this works as a kind of more advanced Slicer...
I want to consult the others on this, but provisionally I am not against it, and its quite an original tech.
#5 2:33pm 21/03/03
Ah, yes. Good Idea.
During the design, an intelligence operative points out the need for shielding on the patches.
#4 4:29am 21/03/03
You are aware of conuter-intelligence scanners that could pick this up, aren't you? Perhaps you should include in the description that the bugs are shielded from scanners?
#3 4:26am 21/03/03
Nothing. But my agents carry a vast selection of differnt colour and textur packages to make it difficult to notice.
#2 4:24am 21/03/03
Hey, cool idea.
#1 4:24am 21/03/03
Uhhh...
Right. It's cool and all, but what prevents someone from removing the bug?
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