DIGITAL FRONTIER: LEGACY MODE - JAUNT INFO

[powersthatbe]

Digital Frontier: Legacy Mode
May 7 - June 16

In the Network, more than a dozen Systems flourish - independent nations connected by high-speed data lines, overseen by Programs - humanoid beings made of pure information, each with its own Purpose and Priority in the System.

Only twice in the history of the Network has a System fully fallen to viral corruption - first the ZODIAC, and then the Grid. Five cycles ago, an expedition from other Systems managed to restore the Grid under very strange circumstances - but the rest of the Network, unconvinced that the recovered Programs weren’t concealing viral influence behind their unnatural behavior and outlandish stories, has kept the Grid under strict isolation.

Until now. The Colossus, a System admired for its rugged survivalism and powerful military, is willing to take a risk on the Grid. The Colossus is sending its own team of soldiers and experts to attempt to recover the lost ZODIAC System. Their expedition travels on a large, encapsulated vessel called the Rejuvenator, specifically meant to be difficult to control, to have new Data and Programs uploaded to it remotely - but to be totally unable to send any data back without Colossus approval. If the mission fails, the Rejuvenator will never be allowed to return.

But all the fresh-trained Programs from the Colossus are untested. To give them the best chance at success, the Rejuvenator was sent first to the Grid, to take on a volunteer crew. If the ZODIAC Initial Probe fails, the Grid will remain under lockdown. But if it succeeds, and the Colossus Programs send back a positive report, the Network will consider opening their Ports to the Grid again, and letting its Programs rejoin civilization...

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[powersthatare]

Naoya could determine that both his memory and power storage systems are patched together and somewhat leaky, but that it would take the equivalent of major transplant surgery to repair them!

Prompto's Oracular ability would indicate that MATH-U has severe systemic discontinuities - it's as if he is one machine made of the parts of two machines, and those machines do not mesh correctly.

[crouching_sin]

Would Naoya be able to tell what kind of transplants would be needed?

[powersthatare]

Power storage and memory storage!

[crouching_sin]

Are those sorts of things findable on say, a dead Program or would he have to copy it from a living one?

[powersthatare]

Living!

[cameracoded]

and would Prompto would be able to tell if there's a way to make those two machines function more seamlessly together?

[powersthatare]

The simplest way would be to replace all parts of one with parts compatible with the other.

[cameracoded]

Another question!

would be possible for prompto to maybe design/rig some sort of temp battery situation to help MATH-U temporarily? or is it more of a food thing? I'm sort of confused how it all works with programs. he's trying to look at it as a disabled person needing help at first, to alleviate at least some issues while work on a better solution is done.

[powersthatare]

It's more of a food thing in this case!

[cameracoded]

Between his Oracleness and interfacing would he be able to formulate hyper condensed food stuff? Red Bull for programs?

[powersthatare]

Hm. He could devise a formula, but it would need dense data materials from Leo Sector to craft!

[comebewe]

How much of the 'two machines' thing is from the de-rezzing glitches, and how much is from the 4NG3LZ? (since their presence alone kinda makes MATH-U two machines.)

And would fixing MATH-U require separating him and the 4NG3LZ?

[powersthatare]

Some of both.

It appears that would be the simplest way, but not necessarily the ONLY way.

[comebewe]

Got it!

They'd probably prefer not getting split up, but they also really don't want to keep glitching, so...shall see where things go there

[comebewe]

...actually, a thought: would refactioning the 4NG3LZ to be the same faction as MATH-U (Miner) help with this?

[powersthatare]

It would certainly help! Although a complete refactioning has never been successfully implemented!

It might be easier to refaction MATH-U to full Automata.

[comebewe]

Would a not-quite-complete refactioning still help? Like, just a mostly refactioning?

(since I must confess, I'd prefer not to refaction to Automata. Matthew and the Angels need to be blue, dammit! :P)

[powersthatare]

It might help somewhat, but not nearly as much!

It's entirely possible that refactioning to blue could be a breakthrough later in the Jaunt; it just isn't possible with known methods! :-)

[comebewe]

Might be something I still go for, even if it doesn't help as much. It fits thematically, after all XD

If they get partially refactioned now, will full refactioning still be (potentially) possible later? And how much could they refaction by? (like, how much would still be Automata?)

[thornsofmalkav]

A complete refactioning is one of THORN-E's goals as a mad scientist! Methinks it is time to ask more questions in the plot role post.

[thornsofmalkav]

How much of this would THORN-E already know?

[powersthatare]

That there were glitches in those systems would not be news.

That the deep glitches in those systems are likely the ultimate root cause of the rest of his glitches is definitely news!

[thornsofmalkav]

AWESOME. This is great to know.

Are they things that she herself can repair or figure out how to repair?

[powersthatare]

Hypothetically, creating a body that was precisely as divided between Miner & Automata, but in a way that didn't misalign its power & memory systems (but was still perfectly congruent with MATH-U), stripping out those systems, & transplanting them into MATH-U would work.

Successfully doing that would be like tuning two pianos simultaneously if those pianos were a circulatory system and a nervous system, and also you wanted them identically out of tune in certain ways.

[thornsofmalkav]

Yeah, no, she's going to try the Make Matthew A Miner plan first.