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[pyms]

[ Timestamp: 4:22 AM.

When the video turns on, it's the face of a blond man, artificial light and the odd backdrop of two awkward looking trees, dirt and one giant worker ant, who took a moment to tilt its head curiously at the man before moving on. ]

I know we're all busy with our own lives so I'll try to make this short.

When we were brought into this world, some of us were given new sets of powers. Others may have had powers that they had from their own world, powers that they were already used to. I was one of the latter case. My powers involve size changing, from the 25 feet tall to being small enough to be able to interact with subatomic particles. It's a power that I've come to know, inside out. It wasn't an easy progress, I had a myriad of molecular instability that affected my life in a very personal way.

So I can understand what some of you who are dealing with these new powers are going through. You don't know the limits to what you can do, and we don't know either. That makes for a potentially dangerous situation, to both yourself and everyone else.

What I'm proposing is a training centre. I know we have government facilities here that are equally suitable for that but there are those of us who are uncomfortable with the idea of any government involvement. This will be a facility that's imPort funded, established and operated, so that we have a building of our own, outside of the government's eye. It won't matter if you're registered or not, the main priority of this is to make this place available to all imPorts.

I don't exactly have any concrete plans right now, a few blueprints and ideas off the top of my head. I'd like to hear what everyone's input on this before anything is done about it, especially those with new powers and those outside the law, so to speak. But all input is welcomed.

Thank you all for your time.

[ A quick smile and the camera turns off. ]

Comments

[heartlessglitch]

An answer, Dr. Pym: I have been an ImPort approximately two years.
My time in this specific universe times approximately two months.

[pyms]

Was there any infrastructure that acted as a training facility in the other universe. I would like some sample response to the idea and how well facility actually worked to its purpose. Any thing you remember will do. I can extrapolate from that.

[heartlessglitch]

The mutants there founded an incarnation of the Xavier Institute, which did have a training facility that apparently usurped my name.
It was, obviously, inferior but served a similar purpose.
As I understand it, their "Danger Room" was open to use by ImPorts regardless of whether or not they were mutants.

[pyms]

Well, that must be awkward for you.

How did people receive it? Not just the Danger Room, but the Xavier Institute as a whole.

[heartlessglitch]

It was popular among ImPort youth.
It also employed many ImPorts who wished to teach and train.
In being as objective as possible, I would conclude that it was well-received.

Do you wish to emulate that institution?

[pyms]

We can't match and call it Xavier Institution but something that can emulate it wouldn't be too bad either.

It would be a good idea to know what flaws were in the old institution, and see how we can built on that. And having familiar faces there will help the place be more open and generate more positive feelings about it.

[heartlessglitch]

I am not an expert in "positive feelings," Dr. Pym.
I might suggest that you consult someone else if that is your goal.

[pyms]

Ah but who is. You don't need to be an expert on that. Just trust your feelings.

[heartlessglitch]

I am still emotionally inexperienced.
To be quite frank, Dr. Pym, suggesting that I simply trust my feelings may not be entirely sound advice.

[pyms]

[ He frowned, curious. That coming from a robot is ... ]

What does it mean to be emotionally experienced?

[heartlessglitch]

It means that I am still learning to express myself and cope with my feelings.
I have limited social conditioning, Dr. Pym.
And it is difficult to learn these things through study.

[pyms]

Don't you follow a logic tree to determine what to feel and what to express? I thought you learn it once, and you won't have to learn it again. But I understand that the intricities of human emotions don't always follow a logic...

How do ...you study it - through observation or actions?

[heartlessglitch]

I have attempted to apply that type of system to emotional responses, but I find that my feelings are often generated independently of my logic cores.
It is difficult for me to regulate something I cannot properly quantify.
I learn to cope partially through observation and partially by trial-and-error.

[pyms]

That's amazing. [ you can almost hear the chinhands reaction. he expected danger to have that sort of capability, being risen to sentiency independently of external influence...but to have this evolve naturally, even though he's seen in times over with vision, ultron, jocasta and even his little ship rover, it's still a point of immediate interest. ]

Have you mapped how your emotional responses are triggered, what directives are in place? I'm sure you have but as with humans, finding ...the process behind emotions might help.

[heartlessglitch]

[ and despite herself, she is a little bit flattered. she should know better-- and really, she does-- but it's rare that anyone appreciates the intricacies of her code this way. ]

I have a thorough database of my previous emotional responses in various specific contexts.
It is possible to generally predict what influences me to feel emotions from particular categories.
But given the wide range of variables in any social situation, there is a significant percentage of miscalculation.
Often I find my emotional responses override my decision-making systems.
It is the equivalent of acting impulsively or without thinking.

[pyms]

[ Hank smiles. They say machines are precise, so when he sees the flaws in Vision, in Ultron (sometimes), and pointed out by Danger, it's this big rare thing that he can't help but find beautifully human. But enough of that. ]

Oh, I think you'll do absolutely fine with what you have.

[heartlessglitch]

[ she pauses again slightly. this conversation is certainly more receptive than the ones she's used to having. ]

Thank you, Dr. Pym.
I am appreciative of your sentiment.