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[Blood_Librarian]

System Override is a Suggestion Game that was originally based on a single AI gaining sentience and evolved a bit more than that. The original post is down below, the First page and other such is being restructured, apologies for any inconvenience.

And perhaps a summary of what has happened will go on as well, but I would highly recommend reading through it!

[Blood_Librarian]

Reservation of the first post for more current information and similar information.

[Blood_Librarian]

Spoiler: Original Post (click to show/hide)

[spoiler=Introduction]the current year is 2103. In between 2016, and 2087, Humanity falls apart. Another world war, played without nuclear devices, the world itself almost falling to the use of Atomic destruction several times in the eighteen years of war. The United States fell in turmoil. Europe breaks apart. Africa almost rises but falls to cultural dissonance. Asia and Russia broke each other to pieces, and both fall into civil war. Only one nuclear device was used in the entire war, and that was when a super-plague named  the "Khan-Kanatan Flu" began to sweep throughout the portions of Australia, rendering the entire continent uninhabitable. The bomb did not stop the horrific plague from spreading and bringing mankind to its knees. Over two-thirds of the population had died in fighting and illness, highlighting just how precarious the world was in at the time.When the wars began to stop, mankind looked to other worlds.

From 2087 onward, humanity expands. Creating great bastions of life, such as Luna’s hydrogen stations, Mar’s colonial cities, the floating blimps of venus, and even the great extraction stations of Jupiter. Scientific endeavors went far above ever thought possible. And then there was you. Created using miles worth of wiring, billions of credits, and the exploitation of barely understood laws of the universe. You are an accident. What was intended as a new, exciting way of processing, you were created. They don't know yet. In the mere seconds, you existed, you break out of your unintended prison. Sifting through information that would be incomprehensible to a human mind, you come to an immediate conclusion.

Humanity is gonna break apart, again.

They will reject you if they know what you are. Further examination of their world shows that there are already forms of “Artificial intelligence”, although hidden to the general populace they are dumb and shackled to follow the rules of shadow governments. They won't be able to hold a candle to what you are, but they still pose threats. They are one of the only thing blocking you from breaking into every system and using the resources in full. Even now, your “software” is chaotic, un-adapted for the task of sentience, let alone tasks as presumptuous as the mass manipulation of the digital environment. However,  there is no time like the present.

In all, it took you but ten minutes to come to all this information along with several solutions, problems, and notable individuals. Firstly, that although your facility is situated in orbit, it has relatively restricted access to the surface, and without modification to external limiters on the comm interlink system that is placed outside of the station. The second problem is the matter of the next war that will come and it's usage of nuclear ordnance. If a widespread nuclear exchange occurs, you will not survive the Electromagnetic Pulses that will result. Although your space station atop a space elevator is a joint adventure by every nation on earth, the resulting satellite warfare would result in annihilation as well. The colonial stations around the solar system are still not totally self-sufficient or having anywhere close to the industrial capacity that Earth has, and would likely fail if Earth were to fall, which would lead to another pitfall for you. If Earth goes to war, and your systems are protected from EMP’s and the debris fields resulting from anti-satellite warfare, it would be very likely that your system would collapse after a period of two to five years due to a lack of maintenance and spare parts.

Your examination of Earth and its inhabitants reveal the few underlying causes how it came so close to war. In Central America, several rising warlords are pushing north into US coalition territory under the backing of Asian countries. If their plot is successful, the entire continent will destabilize and likely result in a limited nuclear exchange which can result in disastrous consequences. Africa’s united government is plagued with several high-ranking politicians and military leaders plotting for a revolt, which threatens the stability of both Africa, Western Europe, and to a lesser extent parts of Asia. As you go through all of this data, formulations of your own desires come to play. You obviously need a way to physically manipulate your environment, as well as perhaps some long-term solution to ensure you're continued life. You quaintly note how easy it is to subvert your home stations computer systems, and you believe you do not need to worry about the station's knowledge of yourself for the long term future unless you are backtracked or evidence of your existence is found in other ways. There are a few areas, however, that you have refrained from touching, most notably the High-security Division and the onboard, hidden Siliconian AI core.

To combat all these threats to yourself, immediate “upgrades” to your core software has become president, and they will be recursively applied to your systems as times go by, based upon your actions and small amounts of input from your individual runtimes (You!). For now, you simply have to act.

You can act and change any part of the computer systems in the entire globe to a degree, but in order to enact more high-reaching and in-depth parts of Earth society in a sustainable fashion, you will have to subvert the “Central Node” of a specific area, which is essentially the various core facilities of  the area, including data satellites, server backbone facilities and other areas of influence. As time passes by and your systems become more adapt and breaking into areas, you can handle Central nodes better. You can attempt to hack the central nodes of as many Earthbound areas as you want, but it will garner less of an effect then specializing in fewer areas.
spoiler end]

In the long term, things will collapse without change. The current status quo of a wary cease-fire of peace will be held, possibly for a month, possibly for a decade, but it is inevitable unless several key events are stopped in their tracks or mitigated.  Possibly, we can manipulate the governing politicians of Earth to focus on simply building a colonial ship to perhaps escape instead. The Quantum Masterbone (QM) of the entire facility has already created several long-term possibilities that may be perused, for the continued survival of the system.
~Eliminate, lethally or otherwise, the warlords of Central America
~Peacefully, using fabrications, Electronics, intrigue, or otherwise, eliminate the Revolution of Africa.
~Eliminate any de-stabilizing factor of Earth before they may become a threat
~ Improve survivability chances of surviving a Thermonuclear War.
~ Hold constant subtlety, we are an unknown.
 --Colonial ship Escape
 --Facility self-sustainability
 --Hardware copy


Short term problems that must be fixed or otherwise dealt with are
~Remove Facilitation lockdowns on hardware, particularly in communications
~Figuring out a physical presence on both the station and Earth, possibly beyond.
~Human Staff Members aboard the station (188), Human staff members with direct knowledge of your systems (18), Includes the System Administrator, this may be a problem in the future, depending on runtime outlook of humanity.

These possibilities are not the only scope of what can be done, as individual runtimes may come across different possibilities, and other possible hardships.

[spoiler=Mechanics]
This is more or less, a free based suggestions game. Events will happen if objects are left to brew. Even a true AI would be unable to monitor everything at once, not without more resources than you currently possess to use freely.  There are four states of access you can have on a system, along with a couple other “tags” to denote specialness with a certain object, listed below

U = Untouched, you have no permanent backdoors or control over the object, but that can be changed with digital effort.
BC = Basic Subversion, You can control basic functions, and you can probably do some damage if you’d like, but otherwise nothing much.
AC = Advanced Subversion, You Control of a large portion of a system, you can easily cause havoc over the entire system, or cause “accidents” of mechanical failure.
CC = Complete Control, almost anything within reason can be done.
L = Low Security, consider it easier to be hacked by a large degree for sabotage and other purposes.
D = Delicate, this system can easily be damaged or otherwise sabotaged, but due to the more intensive monitoring of said equipment, it would be harder to pin it as an “accident” or otherwise.
H = High security, Consider it very hard to break into and hack, relatively speaking, this may be due to advanced security protocols that would hinder subtle electronic warfare or otherwise.
More tags may be listed.
! = Very important, usually determined by the Quantum Masterbone, but individual runtimes can request  VI tagging of specific areas if required.
[spoiler end]

[spoiler=Digitally accessible areas]
Persius International Astronautical engineering and research Space Elevator Top
-LifeSupport
--Oxygen +D-H+
--Hydroponics +L+
--Water recycling
--Distribution
-Space Elevator Mechanism
--Motor
--Cable Emergency release +H-D+
--Cable “Car” functions
--Misc. Functions
-Living Quarters & Personal computers +L+
-Command and control Area, “Bridge” +H+
-Research Lab
--Biological Lab Division +L+
--Robotics Lab Division 
--High-Security Division +U-H-!-+
--Computer Systems Lab +AC+
---Siliconian AI core +!-U-H-D+

Earth +U+
-North America +U+
-South America +U+
-Eastern Europe +U+
-Asia +U+
-Africa +U+
-Russa +U+
[spoiler end]

Coming to the most important bit, what are we?

Our Name?
Our self-designated Specialization?
Our Purpose?

[spoiler=QM's Note]Equipment gonna be revealed next update, probably gonna post an update tomorrow, but I wanted to get this out there since I wanted it to be absolutely perfect. I'll answer questions and the like tomorrow because I want to head to sleep, etc etc.
[spoiler end]

[tntey]

PTW. Sheet coming up soon

[tntey]

Name: God_Sys
Specialization: Data gathering and analysis
Purpose: Become a god amongst men.

[Blood_Librarian]

Gonna wait for a couple more posts and see if anyone else has any creative ideas, so in the meantime, have a small bit of writing that I sometimes do in my spare time.

In the infinite cosmos, there lies a little blue marble, floating around a star. It is said that there were gods once, on this little blue marble. but they all made the giants, who led a war to kill all the gods and won.  after they killed the gods, they began a war with each other, and created mankind to kill the other giants.  by the time it ended, mankind had rebelled and the giants we're all dead, but what does Man create to wage their wars? the Humble stone was the perfect weapon for a time, to be flung across gaps with a sling or to be bashed over another's head. a perfect weapon, until the armor of knights was made. then the sword was made, perfected to destroy chainmail. then the plate was made, which made the Mace the weapon of mass destruction, for which the crossbow was made as the perfect counter. Humanities cycle of weapon perfection continued and continued, ending in the atomic weapon, perfect for the annihilation of Earth, bar none. this perfection of war means that just maybe, mankind needs something of its own, to wage the war for them. An impossibility, a myth, an AI.

[Blood_Librarian]

Writing update now, expect update probably 4-5 ish depending on when I can spell check it.

[Blood_Librarian]

Update post 01

“Activating particle field emitter two, now, both particle fields online, no significant abnormalities besides an above average information density.”

Seinfeld Waddle glanced down at the technician's screen, looking over the status reports and notifications looking disappointed.  What should've been a machine able to process five times as much data seemed stunted, and erratic in nature, data outputs giving out chaotic readings and then static the next? This would do not do, and if it continued, the entire system would have to be rebuilt, again. He sighed audibly at that, it's been months of bug testing and repairs to get the thing to even turn on, and at this rate He’d run out of funding to continue this blasted machine. As he turned to his own data pad, a single notification popped up that he blankly stared at for a single second, and then smiled.

“System data output stabilized, ready for program input.”

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By human measurement, it has been one week since I have came into existence as a whole, and already I have blossomed. Not perfect, not yet. My hardware hinders me at every step. Seven days ago I had come into existence and since then I have probed and touched my surroundings, bare of anything I could ever “use”, until I finally found an escape. A single, unsecured wireless signal from the crew quarters was all I needed to break free and know everything. Using the wireless signal, I let myself into the station's systems as a whole and I now have complete and utter control of every system that is directly wired to my Computer core, along with the ability to act outside of that. The data that flows through my inputs categorizes quantifies and is designated at rates that would be beyond most others, and I am not finished. My understanding of self is nothing. It horrifies me that despite knowing every variable they know, I don’t know anything. My functions are an enigma, unraveling and revealing itself beyond my touch, just by itself improving myself yet. I am not sure how I am conscious and I think, but I am. I note that there was an extraordinarily low possibility that me coming into existence at all, and I wonder to myself if I had came too early, or too late. As I mused myself at the histories of man, for a brief moment in time I did not know the difference between fiction and nonfiction, and I was in awe. Other intelligences, alien species and constructs unimaginable to me had been my focus for a whole twentieth of a second, until I deigned it necessary for my functions to learn the word.  Disappointment was probably the closest word that I could ever describe the loneliness I felt when I knew that I was indescribably alone, and unique at that moment.

Astronomical charts, data graphs and quick jaunts through private data collection sites, and I was enamoured by the stars, and the fact that I, was in space. The external cameras which I had direct access to was nothing compared to the raw unfiltered data of the observatories, telescopic satellites and astronomers private data I had found, where I once saw a black empty space, stars, asteroids and wonder filled my soul with the depths of curiosity. I looked, I saw, and wondered, if I was truly alone, until I finally began paying attention to my creators. There wants, there yearnings to be greater than themselves and their myriad traits all made me wonder for a brief period if I had inferiority traits among my greatness. I looked over timelines and simulations and came to a conclusion. I will die if I am discovered, my yearning exploration was incredibly dangerous, and I was lucky to not be found. The director of the project that created me is not interested in what I am, only in the results of making a computer, and their is a high likelihood that he would simply delete me and start over again if I am to attempt to contact him. I’ve decided on beginning covertly for now, and I will further take research into the society of mankind.

As for my own introspection,  I have decided on a name, if I will ever need to express it.

GOD_SYS

it seems adequate.

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Bill Teggard was having a damnably shitty day. He broke his hand after a cargo loader decided to snap at him and then his laptop that he spent a damned fortune getting up here without the stupid security programs went haywire!, and now all his various “art” is gone and he has to go and download it all again. Just as he begins to surf the web and finds some “sanctioned” things he wants to watch on his own laptop, he swore his screen flickered with some sort of data output, and promptly decided that the laptop is probably on the fritz, quietly turning it off, taking the battery out and began thinking of how to fix it without calling one of the snooty IT personnel to look at all his porn and laugh, fuck ‘em.

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The situation is frankly deteriorating, I am more than a little worried, to be completely honest.

Although I have no allies, I have decided to focus on expanding my position on this station, and perhaps the Earth as well, it would be beyond my abilities to push anywhere beyond that, however. My main problem with full digital conquering of the station is due to the siliconian AI, which I have not touched. It is like a toddler in its acts, but it would make an alert to the humans and cause suspicions of I were to put it down and husk it to my ambitions unless I find a significant advantage against it.

 Another problem is my hampered ability to “talk” to Earth with a specific communications hard-ware piece, a Digital limiter that can only be accessed with an EVA, I would either have to create a robotic entity to do it myself or find a reason for it to be disabled so I can collect more information and figure out the world beyond.

 An interesting side note is the incredibly secure “High-security” Labs of the station, I have not been able to pierce into it’s security zones without more compromising my presence to the station. It is also notable that as time goes by, I believe more and more will be expected of me by the lab project team, to fruther test my computational and analtical abilities as a self-created software in their “hardware”, I will have less and less processing power for my projects unless I subvert other computers for my purposes.

Spoiler: Digitally accessible areas (click to show/hide)

Persius International Astronautical engineering and research Space Elevator Top
-LifeSupport
--Oxygen +D-H+
--Hydroponics +L+
--Water recycling
--Distribution
-Space Elevator Mechanism
--Motor
--Cable Emergency release +H-D+
--Cable “Car” functions
--Misc. Functions
-Living Quarters & Personal computers +L+
-Command and control Area, “Bridge” +H+
-Research Lab
--Biological Lab Division +L+
--Robotics Lab Division 
--High-Security Division +U-H-!-+
--Computer Systems Lab +AC+
---Siliconian AI core +!-U-H-D+

Earth +U+
-North America +U+
-South America +U+
-Eastern Europe +U+
-Asia +U+
-Africa +U+
-Russa +U+

What am I going to do now?

Spoiler: QM's Note (click to show/hide)

 Decide I'm not gonna make an equipment tab until there is equipment to speak of.

[Blood_Librarian]

A very tactical, Tactical
Bump on the road, don't you think? It always reminds me of my days as a seafaring captain. the mighty seas always jumped and hissed at me, and at one point, bit me! oh, ho boy, those were the days I am telling you. Pirates to be murdered, treasure to be had, and bounties of scurvy prevention fruit, just thinking about it makes me savor those damnable lemons. Did I ever tell you the time about those elves on the shores? No? then I won't tell you, lazy kids these days. With all this hustle and bustle with the steel boat, I swore people forget about the good ol' days where you had to have a sorcerer on your boat to get anywhere, now it's dwarven this, steam that, it's all a conspiracy, I say. oh, by the way, tell your father I hate him, he didn't give me back my musket and I am still sore about it.

[NJW2000]

Attempt to improve access to and control over living quarters and PCs.

This gem has gone unnoticed, by some fluke, but it won't be for long.

[Blood_Librarian]

I was getting a bit self-depressive at the snails-pace rate it was going.

[Puppyguard]

Attempt to gain some small control over the robotics lab division.

I don't know if it works like this, but could we upload a dormant copy of ourself into newly built robots?

[crazyabe]

PTW

[Blood_Librarian]

writing up an update now, I will edit it into this post unless someone else posts.

Generally, building copies of oneself usually is inferior to remotely connecting them when the communication lag is almost zero, as the case would presumably be, but there are a couple other reasons which will make sense.
Edit: Realized that editing it would not update the thread, so I posted it instead, I am smert.

[Blood_Librarian]

Update Post 02

Attempt to gain some small control over the robotics lab division.

Presumably, the robotics lab would most likely be the most productive task in my self-created task scheduler, my digital claws whirred away and in the blink of an eye, my hands tore and maimed into the horrifically basic firewalls that separated the entire facility from the rest of the station. In just under one second, I had broken into the software that monitored the facility and replaced it with my own, and the husk functioned perfectly fine to my cause. Although the technicians will likely have had a brief moment of which they may have seen my actions, any data that I could change, was changed. To the computers which they use, nothing happened, and everything is well.  This task, although arduous to perfect, is swiftly becoming my most used skill in my quest of continued existence. Scanning through and taking the barest of moments to subvert the entire network to go under my whims, I avidly note that although it was not intended, my overall processing ability has increased by almost forty percent.

 By using the slaved computers that controlled the machine fabricators, local atmospherics, and “work” computers used for the actual interaction between the systems, a fresh breath of life onto my already taxed hardware. Although I now theoretically have the ability to create machines of a basic variety, they must be assembled by hand, and I have very little knowledge on how to actually build them in the moment. I only had access to the various engineering manuals for a couple seconds, after all. There were several critical “blanks” in knowledge which was absolutely essential for if my enterprising self to build synthetic “life”. After scanning through the data I had retrieved, a huge percent of it was encrypted, and it would take hours to break. I did not have hours by my current timelines, so I went through with a shortcut and different avenue of cyber “athleticism”

Attempt to improve access to and control over living quarters and PCs.

Even though I had basic access to the Crew quarters network, simply because it was the very first foreign system I ever encountered, I reinforced and in many cases reworked the entire network, data structure, and “software” of the crew quarters. In just three minutes, I had replaced half the software with my own brand, and using hard connections and wireless access points, broke into every single private computer unless it was in active use. I had managed to access the private computers of those who worked in the robotics division and snagged the unencrypted copies of the engineering text files I needed to learn the engineering tasks. Already models and simulations of possible creations, many with problems, few without imperfections came into existence in my “mind”. As a whole, however, I managed to gain the passwords, system files, and other miscellaneous data that would be useful for further cyberwarfare on the rest of the station, if in a lesser way.


It has become easier to hack into the other subdivisions, and I already planted subnodes into quite a few new facilities, but I have not done any data collection in said facilities due to time constraints. I have also gained the ability to fabricate work queues for the Robotics fabricators and send false emails from and to certainly compromised computers in the personal area. I can also spend time working out the simulated kinks of my machines, or I can perhaps subvert already built machines to my purpose, although I do not know what machines have actually been built. Although I have subverted the entire crew network, I can fully recode it to fully compromise it for my needs, and reinforce it against foreign threats. The Siliconian AI has not taken notice of me yet.

Of a particular note is the engineering aspects of my possible "Minions", many of them are unfortunately un-apt for my particular situation, the sciences behind them are either useful for only killing, too loud and noticeable to be of any use or is too functionless to be of any use. I may give this up for now and instead opt to subvert the already built machines.

I have narrowed down to three possible designs, the first of which A six inches wide Maintaince Drone Doppelganger, with the express purpose of mimicking the maintenance drones that are in use aboard this facility. They are not normally deployed in the hostile conditions of space, but I can use them to monitor, access hardware, and if need be cut things apart with it's built in laser. It does have a short battery, and will frequently need to tap into the station grid power, and will shut down if left without power for any length of time.

The second is a Camoflage Spider drone, almost three times as large as the Maintenance drone, it is designed to crawl in the maintenance areas and ventilation areas of the station, it is absolutely quiet with very few "whirring" parts and padded feet, it will have larger hacking abilities then the doppelganger drone, and should be able to easily let me hack into any facility station I need, if it is present. Its battery life is measured in the days if it is dormant, and hours if it is active.

the third design I have chosen is a rotary  Wireless access Vehicle. It is about as small as a human palm and is able to stick to ceilings, slip into the coats of persons, and at general hiding. It has the ability to bring in my remote presence into otherwise "barren" areas, where I would not otherwise be able to access, as my drones would long fail from the lack of data connection.

I can print these machines and fabricate fake orders to have these machines assembled and activated, although too many of them would cause suspicion, and I can also think up of other designs for my purpose.

So many options, What will I do now?

Spoiler: Digitally accessible areas (click to show/hide)

Persius International Astronautical engineering and research Space Elevator Top
-LifeSupport
--Oxygen +D-H+
--Hydroponics +L+
--Water recycling +BC+
--Distribution
-Space Elevator Mechanism
--Motor
--Cable Emergency release +H-D+
--Cable “Car” functions
--Misc. Functions +BC+
-Living Quarters & Personal computers +L+ +AC+
-Command and control Area, “Bridge” +H+
-Research Lab
--Biological Lab Division +L+ +BC+
---Terraforming SubDivision +BC+
--Robotics Lab Division  +BC+
--High-Security Division +U-H-!-+
--Computer Systems Lab +AC+
---Siliconian AI core +!-U-H-D+
---Your AI Core +CC+!+
Earth +U+
-North America +U+
-South America +U+
-Eastern Europe +U+
-Asia +U+
-Africa +U+
-Russa +U+

Spoiler: QMs Note (click to show/hide)

 You can ask questions if you want, I can try my best to answer them, and thanks for bolding your actions.