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irondad) wrote in maskormenace2020-08-28 11:01 pm
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»» oo2 - TEAM SCIENCE has news! - backdated to the 19th
( The feed clicks on with little fanfare, just Tony at a worktable, the unfocused backdrop of a lab space behind him. )
Look alive, imPorts, ( he announces with ready confidence, like he's the most important thing in their whole day- and really, how could he not be? )
Stark here, with Dr. Foster- ( swing wide that camera angle, to Jane at his side, and what looks like a human...forearm? on the table before them. )
And we have some news about our evil robot doppelgängers. Dr. Foster?
( Jane gave a wave, looking a little grimmer than Tony, but no less determined. )
Earlier this week, as some of you may know, my classroom got a surprise visitor. As a result of that fight, we got this arm, and we’ve been analyzing it. It’s a mess. I mean, we got obsolete wires and cutting-edge battery storage.
Whoever made these suckers, ( he chimes in, hovering a hand over the arm's open elbow, where it seems a fine-woven fabric spills from, its ragged edges tipped in silver, ) Built them to flex some serious skill with some basic, easy to find supplies. Our guy- or girl, or team, at this rate -figured out how to miniaturize wire-wrap techniques, for one, which while being unbelievable cool is also the exact opposite of what I'd do–
( as Tony looks ready to launch into a full explanation, because as insanely unsettling as these are, they're fascinating, Jane leaps back in to interrupt: )
But there’s way easier methods to make connections, like microchips! This is something from the 60s and there’s a lot of shoddy work among all of it, like this—
( She moves the arm to show off what she means, impatiently folding back the wires, and the eagle-eyed among their audience might recognize it as her arm. )
A glob of glue. Like, why? And further up is a heatsink clearly showing some wear and tear, so we’re thinking they also scavenged a lot of these parts, possibly even the raw materials.
But we need to know more, and need more than the arm of a unit to study, ( Tony adds, nodding at the camera, ) If we're going to have a better grasp of where they came from, who built them, and why. We've gathered our findings into a report*, which will be available via download at the end of this message.
( Jane nods as well. ) So, if any of you have any information—anything at all, even if it’s just something weird you’ve noticed—add it to the report. Are they AIs? Are they sentient? Did we get some of the materials wrong? Do they differ in construction? We want as many people in on this as possible. It’s only going down a rabbit hole if you do it alone.
We'll be here the next half-hour for any questions.
( OOC: the report will contain a full workup of the robot's anatomy, from the wire wrap structure, the (salvaged) zinc battery system laid out ingeniously in the bones and as "fat" deposits, its gas-permeable skin suggested to be part of the cooling system, and the straight up messy, rushed work under all the shine: no real signs of a standardization process to construction, definite points of overheating despite the cooling system, overall inefficiency in design and materials that don't seem to have been purchased, but recycled and reused from other, everyday objects.
What does it all mean?! )
Look alive, imPorts, ( he announces with ready confidence, like he's the most important thing in their whole day- and really, how could he not be? )
Stark here, with Dr. Foster- ( swing wide that camera angle, to Jane at his side, and what looks like a human...forearm? on the table before them. )
And we have some news about our evil robot doppelgängers. Dr. Foster?
( Jane gave a wave, looking a little grimmer than Tony, but no less determined. )
Earlier this week, as some of you may know, my classroom got a surprise visitor. As a result of that fight, we got this arm, and we’ve been analyzing it. It’s a mess. I mean, we got obsolete wires and cutting-edge battery storage.
Whoever made these suckers, ( he chimes in, hovering a hand over the arm's open elbow, where it seems a fine-woven fabric spills from, its ragged edges tipped in silver, ) Built them to flex some serious skill with some basic, easy to find supplies. Our guy- or girl, or team, at this rate -figured out how to miniaturize wire-wrap techniques, for one, which while being unbelievable cool is also the exact opposite of what I'd do–
( as Tony looks ready to launch into a full explanation, because as insanely unsettling as these are, they're fascinating, Jane leaps back in to interrupt: )
But there’s way easier methods to make connections, like microchips! This is something from the 60s and there’s a lot of shoddy work among all of it, like this—
( She moves the arm to show off what she means, impatiently folding back the wires, and the eagle-eyed among their audience might recognize it as her arm. )
A glob of glue. Like, why? And further up is a heatsink clearly showing some wear and tear, so we’re thinking they also scavenged a lot of these parts, possibly even the raw materials.
But we need to know more, and need more than the arm of a unit to study, ( Tony adds, nodding at the camera, ) If we're going to have a better grasp of where they came from, who built them, and why. We've gathered our findings into a report*, which will be available via download at the end of this message.
( Jane nods as well. ) So, if any of you have any information—anything at all, even if it’s just something weird you’ve noticed—add it to the report. Are they AIs? Are they sentient? Did we get some of the materials wrong? Do they differ in construction? We want as many people in on this as possible. It’s only going down a rabbit hole if you do it alone.
We'll be here the next half-hour for any questions.
( OOC: the report will contain a full workup of the robot's anatomy, from the wire wrap structure, the (salvaged) zinc battery system laid out ingeniously in the bones and as "fat" deposits, its gas-permeable skin suggested to be part of the cooling system, and the straight up messy, rushed work under all the shine: no real signs of a standardization process to construction, definite points of overheating despite the cooling system, overall inefficiency in design and materials that don't seem to have been purchased, but recycled and reused from other, everyday objects.
What does it all mean?! )
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Did yours...speak? Mine was quite...chatty.
[That's not the part that disturbed here, but she's working up to it.]
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Kind of. Chatty in that she was confident she was going to cream me, but not so much that she gave anything away. Did yours reveal anything?
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Mine knew things. Things it could not possibly know, about my private life. Either it had been successfully spying on me for weeks - which is impossible, or it saw into my head, which...which is even worse.
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Before I ever arrived here, my former Master...tempered my mind, to keep his secrets safe from, shall we say, prying minds. She...it...bypassed that without so much as a look of trouble.
/threadjack
( tapping the end of his pencil against the table, Tony leans back in his chair, nodding slowly while he thinks aloud, )
It might work, just from a technological versus biological perspective?
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Theoretically possible, but likely invasive. This was done remotely. Perhaps with necessary proximity, given this planet's penchant for wireless technologies.
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Do you think they might have done something with the nanites? I think I brought that up before. Did I? If they tapped into the network that controlled those, then it would be as invasive as they needed it to be and not have to worry about wi-fi signals, given how walls can disrupt those.
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It would have to be something more direct.
Video, Robot Mode
[Ironfist pans the camera over to a table with his own, half-blasted apart corpse.] Caught up to it in Arizona with some help, trying to build one of the designs it stole. Outwardly he was almost identical, but inside...yeah, the same patch job as you. There's no Spark chamber either, or was it powered by Energon; it used more conventional power sources and a powerful AI to simulate a Cybertronian brain module.
[He refocuses the camera on himself, rather than the picked apart remains.] But what unnerves me is this thing thought like me; it was able to break into my own computer system, knew its way around my database, and even managed to insult Riptide on the way out. It even seemed to take a fairly perverse joy in making a joke out of my favourite catch-phrase. My investigation is on-going, I'm trying to see what I can salvage from what's left of its cranial processing unit. Or what passes for one.
...I don't know how anyone could know me that well to copy me like this. I haven't exactly been a social shrike-bat since I got here.
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[And wouldn't it have been simpler to make the insides reflect the outside a little? Especially for someone like him.]
... That ... That is unnerving.
[She didn't get to interact with hers enough to experience anything like that, but that she could be around and causing more trouble ...]
Do you think they could be using the surveillance systems?
/threadjack
Oh, they are.
/threadjack
You found digital signatures? Or is it someone who has access to the videos?
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[She groans. Damn their social media society.]
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Honestly, if they weren't all evil versions of us, I'd be pretty impressed. [Not that he isn't, it's just annoying.] Because I've been looking at this guy and I don't know if the creator was just very, very lucky or very, very, very good.
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I don't know either. Why the opposite personalities, though? Wouldn't it be better to have them replace us, like body snatchers? Then once they know we're eliminated, they do whatever else? Like this, we can fight back against them, physically and legally.
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looks like something i wouldve made when i was
i dunno
five?
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theyre really simple so
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"complete" is kind of inaccurate now
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but it just fell apart the moment i used my technokinesis on it really
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But that is interesting. Why would they fall apart when other technologies don't?
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i mean, it happens with regular tech if im super unfamiliar with it sometimes?
and i might have been freaking out a little at having a robot double
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But maybe your powers do that so you can learn about them? And once you know them, your powers act ‘normally’?
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Maybe some of them are just built more simply? Or too fast to guarantee quality.
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What you're saying is, you need one captured undamaged.
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It'd be pretty funny for them to capture one on the very last night, huh?
it would be sooooo funny
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[He snorts.]
I was hoping to avoid that press nightmare, but finding a way to stop this nonsense is more important.
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So we have to figure out how to prevent that.
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So does this means we're dealing with robot doppelgangers that have been made with the technology of 1960s science fiction movies?
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