28 days until deadlineDoo Dee Doo, just working on the same stuff for about a week now, Doo Dee Doo
Continue working on Nuclear Reactor and Quantum Brain
Well, those aren't exactly the fastest things to invent. And rolls aren't exactly favouring you. You must sacrifice more souls to RNG.
The greatest jigsaw puzzle starts off nicely. You construct one third of the final quantum brain. It shouldn't take very long now. Hopefully the soldering oven keeps up the good work and don't spit out broken components.
While neutron block liquid is slowly being churned out, you start the work of pulling all pieces together into single device. If there's no manufacturing errors it should be about a one meter tall, half as wide and deep. And heavy like sins of Dr. Ocean.
Research in progress:
Miniature fission reactor
Quantum brain
To be researched:
High density capacitors
EMP hardening
Modular design
Research done:
Armored exoskeleton structure
Artificial muscles
Digital brain copy
Electricity driven cells
Particle beam
Meshanite
Myomers
High capacity fuel cell
Test subjects expired: 19
So. It must be external influence. Hesitantly you write "supernatural sabotage" as reason on root cause analysis.
This is concerning. Research this. And ways to suppress it, preferably.
Also, what happened with getting an MMI?
Right, that's why I should write everything down on my notes. So they found all MMIs intact and extracted them before incinerating the bodies. A brain surgeon good enough to install it into your brain is scheduled to arrive day after tomorrow, naturally into separate facility. You may want to prepare an installation quide for them.
Now that's a something science has no handle for. Only pointers you have for studying supernatural are basically occult stuff, mythologies, legends and other equally worthless crap in eyes of science. It's all so
unscientific! Trying to find any pieces of truth from that mess... oh boy, don't you have a workload in front of you. You barely have any idea where to start from.
Oh well, someone have to do it eventually. Might as well be you. Either you prove it right or you prove it wrong, and mankind is one step closer to the Unified Theory of Everything. You start by reading everything you can get your hands on. Especially the older materials that haven't been yet twisted by Internet. Those may be even more unreliable, but at least they were written by people who dedicated their entire lives for learning, unlike those millions hobbyists on Internet.
And your hand is almost fully regenerated. Fingernails grow a bit slower than rest of flesh, but they'll be fine on the morning. Agent brings you pair of another stuff to inject yourself with. Apparently the amazing regenerative stuff you received earlier was very much experimental and would have killed you in few days. These injections should prevent that from happening.
Research in progress:
Supernatural analysis
To be researched:
Mind to machine interface - canine adaptation
Mind merging
Artificial muscles
Exoskeleton
Mind merging
Advanced medical procedures
Optical camouflage
Overclocked biology
Research done:
Stable weapon attachment point and remote aiming designator
Mind to machine interface
Dreamstream
Test subjects expired: 50 (100)
Other victims: 35
Hm. See what happens if I downscale the design of Terrible Glory and put it into a mouse's brain. The safety measures used to test this will be essentially to put the mice into a microwave, with the option to turn it on remotely (by myself from a very respectable distance, naturally) whenever serious fuckery starts happening.
In the meantime, make some new hivemind people if I lost the previous batch and let them sit while the module grows into their brains.
It can't be downscaled. Not without removing functions and that may break it entirely. Regardless you build another module and stick it into mouse skull doubling its brain size. You fiddle with the microwave oven to boost its power output so you can ensure maximum lethality.
No hiveminded people were lost in the incident.
Research in progress:
To be researched:
Terrible Glory - Analysis
Hivemind testing
Research done:
Improved coordination
Improved cooperative bonding
Improved learning ability
Improved reaction times II
Terrible Glory
Hive mind
Major Technologies:
NERVOUS SYSTEM DESIGN AND UNDERSTANDING
Test subjects expired: 33
Other victims: 7
dead man's switch: If the heart doesn't pump, and breath is interrupted for 30 or more seconds, the switch goes off. It can be triggered manually by typing "7609". if the code "3454" is not typed into the suit interface every 30 minutes or less, it informs the user that the code will have to be typed in the next 5 minutes or the suit will shut down, if the code is not typed, antimatter containment is blown.
Sounds simple enough. It requires some invasive surgery to install proper meters into your soldier as to avoid uncertainty. Actually you do that right away since you have time. Small inclision into his chest and using that as entrance you attach your devices into his heart and lungs. Pair of thin wires serves are connection lines for small port in middle of his chest.
Research in progress:
To be researched:
Rail-guns
Reverse chemical formulation
Improved exoskeleton
Improved training speeds
Intelligence increasing treatments
Research done:
Layered lighweight armor
Matter annihilation power plant
Dead man's switch
Test subjects expired: 6
Automated research
Only thing you manage to do today before uncharacteristic apathy takes over is refine the hypnotic pattern. It is nice to stare at while you wonder purpose of your life. Not so nice you can't break your gaze, though. It's not there yet.
Research in progress:
Dazzleball
Extended camouflage
To be researched:
Brain integrated chips - Improved reaction speed
Brain integrated chips - Imprinted knowledge
Killing emotions
Associate obedience with joy
Researched done:
Reaction time study
Optical camouflage
Mobile holoprojector
High density battery
Test subjects expired: 15
Politely inform the boss that I did everything of my own volition to begin with, and that there was very little of value that I had not copied from the victims base before I went to do some damage. Remind him that soldiers, however carefully tended and disciplined, are all prone to going "F*** that" and breaking from their orders. Tell him to flip a coin for my fate.
Your boss nods, fishes a coin from his pocket and throws it. Tails; option one. Heads; option two. The coin falls on floor and after bouncing and rolling around enough falls on heads. Well, time to move your ass. Sit in the lab until you are called for duty.
For the corrosion counteragent, I was thinking in general, not in relation to nanobots. If necessary, the robots can carry or manufacture some counteragent to apply on the fly.
for coordination, let's increase the complexity of the robots, so that eachhas a different subset to handle. One can handle limbs while one handles targeting and weapnry, and the third controls secondary robots, like drones. So, give our robots several integrated weapon systems and a few drones.
in fact, go ahead and begin research into lasers and railguns as well.
Well, it serves both purposes. I'm thinking the counteragent as a layer of material applied on surfaces. So if nanites have it, then it is fairly easy to produce greater amounts to be applied later. Works into other direction as well.
You finish inventing something that works pretty nicely. Number of acids are simply ignored on top of treated materials that otherwise would melt instantly. However it suffers some downsides physics are not going to ignore.
Made by mixing two ingredients together and painting surfaces with the mixture. The mixture will react with each other and form very unreactive layer. And because of unreactiveness it doesn't stick very well on anything. No chemical bonds to form with. Best used for porous surface where the mixture will be trapped in.
You quickly design new numanoid form with extra arms and weapon hardpoints for your subjects as well as simple drones. You are sane enough to give them nonlethal weapons, like paintball guns, limit strength they can exert, and whan their drones can do. It would be a very bad idea to give unwilling test subjects ways to kill you. Late on evening assistants return with results. Apparently subjects' ability to coordinate their actions really sucks. Today they are even worse than yesterday and keep getting worse. It's like they tell total bullshit to each other. Perhaps there's a problem with communication, or they may be playing dumb, hoping they will be released on grounds of being useless. One of these hypothesis' can be tested.
Railguns, huh. Well, you waste your time reading what's already done on the field. Many times. None of it sticks into your mind.
And lasers. All kinds of directed energy weapons have problems with atmosphere. With lasers it is blooming, the even where powerful laser imparts enough energy into air to turn it into plasma, which will defocus the laser beam. And the problem with making lasers effective is simply lack of power. And power causes problems. So solving one causes another. You suppose it can be countered by pumping insane amounts of energy into the beam to ensure enough of it reaches the target. And you don't seem to have power generator strong enough to test this theory.
Research in progress:
Railguns
Laser
To be researched:
Robotic body
Nanobot production: Extended raw materials
Armor
Distributed neural networks
Camouflage
Swarm bots
Hunter drones
Large scale modularity
Research done:
Nerve interface
Brain in a jar
Meshanite
Myomers
Highly volatile fuel
Robotic body
Multibrain control systems
Corrosion resistance
Major Technologies:
Nanomachines
Self construction
Self destruction
Electric manipulation
Kinetic shielding
Structural support
Gray Goo Limited EditionTM
Corrosion resistance
Test subjects expired: 19
I remove any growths from renegadelobster that threaten his life. I don't waste my time trying to preserve anything unnecessary like limb functions. If he worries, I reassure him that I'll have a new and much-improved body for him within the month.
Then I turn my attention to fixing the problems with the healing virus. If I have time left after that, I start setting up experiments to explore fleshcraft again.
First is the brain. Brain tumor is a real shit thing to have. You remove as much tumorous mass as you can without turning him into useless sack of broken meat. After that is rest of primary internal organs. Hmh, one lung is far too gone. Have to remove that. Heart is decently fine. Better give him new one eventually. Gastrointestinal tract is in suprisingly good condition. Great! That's all less work you need to do. Cursory examinatin of limbs shows that they are barely functional. Elbows don't bend, fingers twitch on their own, muscles are damaged enough he can't lift anything heavier than bottle of milk. Legs... well those are fucked.
Now then to fix the problem with the virus. With what you have learned from the side effects you can easily point the problem to failed self-destruction sequence. Instead of destroying itself after set period of time it halts most of its functions before reliably mutating and producing effects you have seen. What a pain. Correcting this mistake takes rest of your day.
Research in progress:
Fleshcraft
To be researched:
New nerve pathways
Research done:
Targeted hyper cancer
Inline DNA manipulation
Artificial Siamese Twins
Monster maker
Rapid healing
Extra bodypart attachments
Panacea - Immune system replacer
Major Technologies:
?
Test subjects expired: 34
Meh. Not gonna worry. Looking forward to the new body. Since I have so much time now, get more security cameras set up and watch them. Set up tongue control or something to move the cameras around. Oh, maybe a remote control/tele-presence deathbot? That could be fun/!!FUN!!.
Turns out you need to relearn how to talk, walk and control your bladder. Have fun setting up a monitoring station on your bed.
Doo Dee Doo, just working on the same stuff for about a week now, Doo Dee Doo
Continue working on Nuclear Reactor and Quantum Brain
((Yes, it would be silly not to crack compact nuclear fission and quantum computing at the same time in under a week. 
Also if you think you're taking a long time to do things, I get the feeling I'm going to be doing the things I'm starting right now for even longer. ._.))
Check the progress of that super-soldier-volunteer of mine.
If he's gotten to what seems like sufficient mastery of physical combat, bring him back in. The MMI development might go easier if it's calibrated to his brain frequencies from the get-go.
The particular MMI in question should not focus on giving, so much as providing information. The brain is not supposed to directly control the process - only respond with thoughts and imagery when prompted. Literally like a mind-reader.
With the new hardware, perhaps the best approach would be to make the design modular, fractal. A combination of high-speed processor and high-speed memory in one chip, with attendant sliver of backup power, EM shielding, and cooling infrastructure, designed to interlock into a larger processing cluster, with clusters then merging into superclusters, those merging into even larger hyperclusters, and so on. This would not only simplify expanding the overall supercomputer if necessary, but with some clever RAID-like setup would ensure that no single element's failure would cripple the machine, and allow smaller versions of the same advanced architecture to be present in the final prototype as digital sub-processors for the synthetic brain.
Continue working on the MMI and supercomputing hardware. See if there's any ETA at all on the progress of the molecular sim. Once it's done there's quite a few more things it could be useful for.
And kindly request any results of the saboteurs' interrogation that the Company sees fit to provide me with. I'd at least like to know who I've gotten so popular with, and if they managed to also steal anything.
Man got his legs cut off so he can get prosthetics and get back up on his feets faster. Man doesn't heal very fast. Man is dissapointing. Man is playing computer games. That may help his brain to perform better if studies about benefits of gaming are to be believed.
This wear protection thing is very typical NP problem. Easy to confirm, hard to solve. So far the program has nearly crunched through first set of proposed solutions. If no solution is found, it will refine the search set and try again. But no solution is found yet.
It's one of those slow days again. You brainstorm new versions of MMI chips for specialized functions, but can't really decide on anything. Fractal supercomputer doesn't fare any better. A bit work done to ensure you can produce your own high quality electronics for modules.
Research in progress:
Wear protection - outsourced, Molecular simulation
Knowledge Database - outsourced, assistants
Man Machine Interface
Customized personal supercomputer
Research to do:
Consciousness Simulation Engine
Bionic Brain Matter
Wetware AI
Research completed:
Structural skeleton
Myomers
Muscle layout
Cooling
Molecular simulation
High capacity fuel cell
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