14 days until deadline.Continue to secure, contain, and protect the labs
Maximum security is happening.
As I thought, the rest of the scientists are useless, and their inventions all garbage. Put the stolen tech on a separate list.
Brain 1 researches mass-producing Quantum brains and mind-editing. Make some new digital uploads without actually putting them in Quantum brains if that could help research.
Brain 2 researches modular design and Supermaterial-Armouring. Something lightweight and tough.
Once all my brains have science bodies, give the military body to my supersoldier to play with.
First twelve hours is spent studying digitalized brains. You make extra copy of one of the existing subject brains, make alterations on it, load it on Mark I Brain and observe changes. First your changes are fairly random. When reliable patterns eventually start to emerge your changes become more focused, especially on memory front. You discover that you can easily erase memories, though knowing what memories you are erasing is beyond you yet. Decoding those mamory patterns into something coherent a challenge for future. Likewise personality changes come along nicely. Subject's ability to focus is easily toyed with and you find you can manipulate subjects tendecy to have impotent berserk rage.
Second half of the day starts with quantum brain mass production, but very soon leaps of logic leads you working with compact built-in systems. You know, the kind where armor plates slide aside and a weapon or some other utility tool unfolds out looking bigger than it should. You take the combat body's forearm apart and start modifying it. The sliding armor panels are easy enough, it won't compromise structural integrity enough to matter. But developing a process where most complex things can be broken into small pieces for extremely compact packaging and then rebuild under a second back to normal on request takes time. Only when you stop to recharge your batteries on morning you remember that's not what you planned to do. Well whatever, as long as science gets done.
While you work away on other things you too set your mind on most important tasks. But unlike you, your work is much slower. For some reason. Did you sabotage you? No, you don't think you would do something like that to you. The thought distracts you even more as you slowly wonder what kind of material would make best armor. After long hours you set that plan aside as fruitless and move onto next.
Your thoughts about modular body design moves away to modular drone design. A pallet full of lightweight quadcopters, each housing tiny quantum computer capable of small scale tactical planning, pair of your high density capacitors to keep it in air for hours and hot swappable utility slot to handle all kinds of things. Like radar, sonar, laser target painting, grenade dropper, weapons, primary strategic computer directing the fleet of drones and communicating with your soldier... All the things they could do. Basic frame is whipped together in a half hour. You think and plan the tactical computer programming until morning when you are alerted to recharge your batteries.
Research in progress:
1 Compact built-in systems
2 Modular autonomous drones
To be researched:
1 Quantum brain mass production
1 Mind Editing
2 Modular design
2 Supermaterial Armouring
Heat application
Nuclear II
Fast body
Advanced Sensors/Senses
Particle Beam II
ECM/ECCM
Stealth Systems
Forcefields
Research done:
Armored exoskeleton structure
Artificial muscles (electricity driven cells)
Digital brain copy
Particle beam
Miniature fission reactor
High density capacitors
Remote controlled body
Quantum brain II
EMP hardening
Remote sciencing body
Stolen garbage:
Meshanite
Meshanite production line
Myomers
High capacity fuel cell
Test subjects expired: 24
Active Meshanblov's in existance: 2
No progress
One progress roll saved for future use.
Damn slowass unimaginably intelligent super scientist. Why you gotta be able to only apply your transcendent genius to one task at a time with much effectiveness?
Occupy my time playing multiple games of skill against people at once in order to further improve my multitasking skills. Go, mahjong, video games, etc. Unless of course Doc George has stuff for me to do.
Most likely he hasn't been taking his own medication. He really should. For example, look at your own performance: you have three online chess games going on while playing Overwatch and Clash of Clans at same time. Your training is going swimmingly. Few days more and you probably can control four different characters in some MMORPG using controllers with both hands and feets!
OPERATION: HOMEGROWN
Step Six: once the proteins are designed, employ them in a controlled subset of the test beds to check for any side effects. Not something that needs my direct oversight, hopefully.
OPERATION: WE HAVE WAYS
Step Two: continue work on WHW-R. I'd comment more, but wouldn't want to spoil the extranature involved, would I?
Step Three: once WHW-R is complete, finish the design of WHW-T to render it entirely compatible. Combine the two to form WHW-X, and test it with the ape test beds, using precise stimulation to teleport small amounts of matter.
OPERATION: ALL-SEEING EYE
Step Six, clarification hopefully still applies: don't install the module yet. Make sure it has the capability of having a sensory buffer: to avoid overwhelming the mastermind with feelings such as pain, death, agony, that sort of thing, incoming sensory data may be given lower priority at the mastermind's discretion so that it's not an unfiltered feed of data at all times. Unproductive and uninteresting (mostly unpleasant) inputs can be pruned entirely, or examined in a more academic sense. New codename: the Executive module.
Step Ten: once module has been designed, put monkboy to use and promote him to Executive Producer (he gets a trailer and $70k a year, plus a kickass chair), complete with the Executive module. Task him with maximizing his underlings' (these would be the LEPAs, now redubbed EPAs once more) quality of life within the confines of the experiment - think of it like a game of the Sims, except without the "sim" part. So a game of For Reals. He is not to let any of them leave the project nor expire, and is informed that their paycheck (which is an actual paycheck, mind you) is contingent on them spending a certain amount of days training. A special bonus: he can have them cook meals for himself as well, and the EPAs can actually leave their captivity for a short while to deliver them, even.
Step Eleven: if I have the time, begin deciphering the functions of TG-B. How does it work? And how can I use it to improve my hivemind modules with hitherto unseen, presumably quite unbreakable telepathic security?
That damn protein boggles your mind all they way until late night. The process involves a lot of frustrated screaming about why this bloody thing doesn't work and banging head on softest wall you can find. When it finally (praise be extrauniversal elder gods) starts working you are feeling extremely exhausted and dedice that enough is enough. Assistants can keep eye on the testing in case of unexpected side effects, but your brain needs inspiring recharging immediately.
Research in progress:
Teleporter module
Codename: WHW-R
Executive module
To be researched:
Hivemind testing
Research done:
Improved coordination
Improved cooperative bonding
Improved learning ability
Improved reaction times II
Terrible Glory + Analysis
Hive mind
Brain killswitch
Incentive module
Hivemind master module
Extra fast neuron growth
Major Technologies:
NERVOUS SYSTEM DESIGN AND UNDERSTANDING
Test subjects expired: 35
Other victims: 8
Volunteers killed: 1
No progress
One day's worth of progress rolls saved for future use.
Prioritization:
Arm stability
Enhanced coordination
Built in coilgun
Enhanced multitasking
Non-visual camo
Enhanced visual cortex
Lightweight armour
Ful environmental protection
Self sealing body
Redundant organs
Everything else moved to bottom of list.
Work on one project at a time.
I added stealth holodrones into list because I somehow missed it last time.
Right, so arm stability. There's two ways to archieve this, or rather one good way and one bad way. The bad way is to lock muscle controls so they keep constant tension. That's bad because you have to hijack nerves and do dangerous stuff with them. The better way is joint locks, mechanical things added to all joints to lock them into position. The good thing is that no shock will make joints move a fraction of millimeter, and if some sort kinetic shock does, then you have bigger problems already.
It shouldn't be very hard job, but rotating joints are giving you a lot of trouble. Especially ball joints such as shoulders and hips.
Research in progress:
Arm stability
To be researched:
Extended brain - Enhanced coordination
Built-in coilgun
Extended brain - Enhanced multitasking
Stealthsuit non-visual camo
Extended brain - Enhanced visual cortex
Lightweight armor
Full enviromental protection
Self-sealing body
Redundant organs
Extended brain - Control equipment with thought
Extended brain - External knowledge
Extended brain - Physical and mental pain filtering/hardening
Stealthsuit body integration
Suggestible pheromones
Stealth holodrones
Researched done:
Reaction time study
Optical camouflage
Mobile holoprojector
High density battery
Dazzleball
Extended camouflage
Coilgun
Shock absorbent lining
True cyber limbs
Leg enhancements
Brain integrated chips - Improved reaction speed
Improved internal organs
Hyper eyes
Major Technologies:
True fusion of biological and mechanical technology
Test subjects expired: 37
After nine days in development, hopefully it will be worth the weight.
I have a plan!
Step 1: Buddy up with some hackers on the net, and breach some bank accounts to siphon funds,
Step 2: Try talking my (Researcher)boss into building some of that tech into me now.
Step 3: Get some fresh military gear ready to go using the siphoned funds.
Step 4: Break out and go lab raiding. Get as much data as I can, kidnap head scientists, the whole nine yards!
Step 5: Assuming I manage to get something from any of the rival labs, transmit it back to my boss to use as he sees fit.
Step 6(optional): Ransom any hostage scientists for more freedom to move about back at my job, or my life if it comes down to that again.
Lets hope they are not monitoring your network traffic, shall we? Well, you manage to get in contact someone who's claiming to be a hacker. How you are planning to get them to do anything for you?
And remind me every turn about this. I got the plan down on my notes. You.
Bunker buster sounds fine.
As for rebuilding neural pathways ... well, I'm waving the magic wand of "nanomachine tools" again! Let's physically create some neural nets! Woot! Man, those nanotools can (I hope) do all sorts of things. I mean, sure, we'll need some sophisticated programming to guide them to make the desired bits and whatnot - it is brain surgery, n a nano scale, after all. So, if need be, let's spend some time repurposing some nanotech. We can also try drugs and various inputs - not just videos - I have that whole immersive VR set-up going, we'll use that to craft their experiences. And let's take careful notes on what we do, for the purpose of extrapolating for other brain adaptations.
Let's test our multibrain system again. See if we can get some synergy going.
That's why nanobots is a major tech. After designing medical model you can literally pour nanite blob into someone's ears or nostrils and watch as they worm their way into the brain. You can even dip them on drugs and have them deliver drugs directly into most effective positions! No injections needed! Oh right, the VR. That would do much better job than paltry two dimensional video.
Right, all these are excellent changes to the process. Adaptation should happen much faster for botted brains. Design for special purpose medical nanite is done quickly as well as designer drugs and VR simulation.
It's another great day for SCIENCE!
Research in progress:
To be researched:
Psionic powers
Kinetic shielding
Camouflage
Railguns
Lasers
Nanobot production: Extended raw materials
Armor
Distributed neural networks
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
CF launcher
Improved spatial recognition
Major Technologies:
Nanomachines
Self construction
Self destruction
Electric manipulation
Kinetic shielding
Structural support
Gray Goo Limited EditionTM
Corrosion resistance
Confundium Harmonizer
Test subjects expired: 24
I test my implantation adaption tech on the three-armed subject, getting an assistant to do the necessary praising. I also check up on the subject who got magnetoreception, and theorize whether my current tech would help them adjust to their new senses. If I think it might, I give him an injection and a praising assistant as well.
Thinking about it now, the jellyfish cells are probably a little unnecessary. I got a little carried away there. Future defense mechanism research should probably focus on poison spines, which seem most likely to be relevant in armored combat. I get started researching sturdy poisonous spines and fast-acting neurotoxins.
I also ask the company to reinforce three of the rooms we keep subjects in. If these test subjects are here unwillingly then I should take precautions before giving them superhuman strength.
I have been meaning to say this for last thee updates, but renegadelobster has learned to talk again well enough. Little stuttering, but that's fine. Walking and bladder control are still work in progress.
Alright, three
headed armed man gets the treatment. As for magnetoreception, it most certainly should work. It adds new nerve connections to brain just like new limbs do. Verbal praise for success is a little harder to do if praiser can't tell whether subject is sensing correctly, but it is otherwise doable.
It's fine. It's easy to get carried away when new world of possiblities is opened in front of you. Even more so for questionably sane scientists who do not stop to think whether they should. Hollow spines ready to inject killer liquids are easy enough to design, but you get little hung on the gland producing most horrible neurotoxin you can think of. It would be nice if the toxin can seep through skin so one would have to completely dodge badly aimed poison squirts. But that comes with a problem of immunity; if it seems through skin then your soldier must be made immune to the toxin. There even might even be open wounds where toxin can trickle on, which naturally would be very bad thing. Also testing this might be... problematic. Usual test subjects might gleefully attack you and your assistants in hopes of accidental murder and in that case you need
very fast-acting counter agent. Or provide everyone resistance.
Construction work can be done within few days, but the agent asks you keep your most inhumane creations out of sight of construciton crew. They may not be as ethically liberal as others here. Would you like any special security systems built in? Like flamers, spike walls or hydraulic crusher ceiling?
And oh hey, Chimera is fully grown/regenerated! It coughs nutrient slurry out of its lungs and its feeder tongue automatically sucks some into its belly.
Research in progress:
Defense mechanisms
To be researched:
Extrasensory perception
Research done:
Targeted hyper cancer
Inline DNA manipulation
Artificial Siamese Twins
Monster maker
Rapid healing
Extra bodypart attachments
Panacea - Immune system replacer
New nerve pathways
DNA: Codename Tarantula
DNA: Codename Brutus
DNA: Codename Chimera
Nutrient slurry generator
Magnetoreception
Post-implantation adaptation
Major Technologies:
CELL MANIPULATION AND LARGE SYSTEMS DESIGN
Test subjects expired: 41
Doo dee doo.
Can I do anything? Would it matter if I did? I'll just try to think productive thoughts. Maybe attempt to enhance the consciousness's learning speed, by focusing on important memories.
The training shouldn't matter much. The synthetic body needs no training. Doesn't need to push past pain, doesn't need to discover hidden potential. It just operates within its designed limits, with known safety margins - and nobody knows those limits and margins better than the guy who designed it. The soldier might even end being a liability. Even if he is no worse than myself when it comes to thinking like a human, he would be at a severe disadvantage with knowing what his mind would be inhabiting, and what parts of it do what.
Experience from the soldier will be needed of course, but it can be acquired easily, this same way. And he will still be made into the super-soldier, in a fashion. His memories and experiences will exist in the consciousness. Assuming we make it on time. If he'll be upset that it isn't him actually being made into a super-soldier, just a copy of him, I could offer to kill him after the process, if he prefers. Star Trek transporters cheat like this all the time.
His consciousness copy probably won't mind.
Of course, his consciousness copy would then actually be my consciousness copy with access to his memories, so that's kind of a given. But he won't really know that.
Also this is kind of fascinating. Would this be the way for sentient machines to reproduce? Meld their minds into a simulation where their offspring grows to sentience under their care and with their experiences, then put the resulting mind into a freshly constructed body? If I ever get out of this Company work, I should look into that. Synthetic sentient life. Who needs these super-wars?
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With those thoughts, the scientist continues his work. Hopefully everyone else in the facility keeps working as well.
Zip-a-dah.You can do everything. Soldier has something you don't. Live combat experience. He knows real war. You may know it on intellectual level, you may know technical schematics of every weapon in existance, but soldier knows how use them. He has instincts honed under day long artillery barrage, years of combat training, and most importantly, he knows when it's time to skip thinking and act instead. Where you see a door and think how to fully integrate it with wall, the soldier sees an ambush and a trap, hundreds ways of opening it safely install various traps. Where you see a hallway and think installing next generation escalator floor, he sees twenty safe method to pass it without triggering hidden mines and avoiding enemy fire.
You are the thinker. He's the warrior. You think war. He breathes war. Worlds of difference.
Regardless, that's some good thinking. Giving the growing mind opportunity to experience things, processes and success is important. All this thinking is nutrient for its growth and staring the lonely computer screen under super cluster proves it is growing fast. Stable basic foundation is almost there. Of course feeding it only one kind of nutrient is not very bright idea. Therefore you emerge from your mancave, adult diaper sloshing unconfortably with liquid. Damn, that probably won't leave good impression to anyone.
After visit to showers you decide to give the new mind view into some really creative work. Namely designing the brain matter it will be running on afterwards. Not many of sapient beings can observe the process of their brain being designed and planned from ground up. It should add some very good introspective view to its existance. Your existance. It will not be exactly you, more like child of your mind. And your soldier's mind. Your mental offspring as biological offspring is to others. Similar to you, but not you.
Now the actual brain. For once the work starts swimmingly. When was the last time your mind functioned so perfectly without distractions? And under your discretion? It has been a while, hasn't it? Three primary parts of the task is designing/creating material, production/growth process, and adapting the final product for the mind. Within span of 12 hours you design, test and discard as many materials with suitable properties before your relentless search yields something good. It's silica based crystal with excellent plasticity (for your purposes), pink in hue. The color comes from metallic impurities which are vital for its functions. They form microscopic threads within the cystal, knots effectively functioning as a neuron and lone threads as axons.
Unfortunately it doesn't seem very fast growing type. It may easily take a week to grow crystal big enough to host a complex mind, not to mention time required to mold it to host a specific mind with specific memories and knowledge. What was it you said yesterday? "Caution, meet wind"? Seems very appropriate now.
Research in progress: ! Synthetic Intelligence training Bionic Brain Matter
Outsourced work: Main gun - assistants
Sidearms - assistants
Hyperalloy - simulation
Research to do: Wetware AI
Superalloy weakness
Research completed: Structural skeleton
Myomers
Muscle layout
Cooling
Molecular simulation
High capacity fuel cell
Wear protection
Knowledge Database
Man Machine Interface
Non-Newtonian Kinetic Protection
MMI-computer control
Customized Personal Supercomputer
Consciousness Simulation Engine
Other victims: 1
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