Application: Singularity RPG
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"I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive."
— Johseph Cambell
Player Information ;
Your Nickname: Mica
OOC Journal: mica_silverwind
Under 18? no
AIM: failmica
Characters Played at Singularity: EDI |![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
thatisajoke, Kimiko Ross | robodidactic
Character Information ;
Name: Tachikoma, i.e. "Conan" or "Mister Batou's Personal Tachikoma"
Name of Canon: Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Canon/AU/Other Game CR: none
Reference:
Tachikoma: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachikoma
Main Franchise: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell
Anime: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell:_Stand_Alone_Complex
Anime extended (second gig): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell:_S.A.C._2nd_GIG
Epilogue Feature: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell:_S.A.C._Solid_State_Society
Timeline: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ghost_in_the_Shell:_S.A.C._2nd_GIG&oldid=338198277#Timeline_of_events
Canon Point: Early SSS
Setting: At the dawn of the new millenium, the world was embroiled in war. Both fed on and feeding into decades-long tensions and political alliances, the conflict spread until it was global in scale and, eventually, nuclear in nature. Japan...did not do well, losing multiple large cities including the then-capitol Tokyo, which was eventually submerged below the sea, as a result of American bombing. Enter the "Japanese Miracle," a mind-boggling advancement in micro-machine technology that eliminated the worst effects of a nuclear strike— the radioactive fallout. With the advent of this technology and its soon near-universal use, nuclear weaponry became a lesser threat, and as the world settled America and Japan settled into a holding pattern of mutual economic and military stability, though by no means was it a trusting alliance.
The main story takes place in 2032, mostly in and around the new permanent seat of government, Fukuoka. The Cybernetic technology that first saw use in the aftershocks and other conflicts following WWIII is now at full momentum and it is not uncommon for the average Japanese citizen of means to possess extensive voluntary cybernetic modification. Superficially, it is a beautiful and peaceful world, where almost no illnesses are untreatable, and technology gracefully meets any need or want of the paying customer. Our protagonists are the members of Public Security Section Nine, an agency in the service of the Japanese government which deals with anti-terrorism and high-stakes law enforcement. Through this lens we are able to see that despite the new, miraculous technology, the neon, the clean streets and limitless possibilities, human beings are as hateful and vicious as ever.
Section Nine, composed of a handful of cyborgs and a fleet of robotic companions works among and against the dark underbelly of organ-theft, brain-hacking and political/terrorist machinations with a cold morality born of necessity. The stark honesty of having every superfluous ounce of humanity stripped away is given a counter-point in the team's AI-driven mini-tanks, the Tachikoma. The Tachikoma, acting as both comedic relief and the childlike heart of the series represent the most human aspects of Section Nine, despite that they are, one and all, robots to the core. The whole world might quietly be going to hell around them, and the human members of section 9 might be growing ever more faithless and jaded, but all the while the Tachikoma are still there, loudly finding every moment of it to be new and wonderful, and in every encounter a measure of joy.
Personality: Cheerful to a fault and with all the power of a supercomputer internet-steeped intelligence hooked up to the mind of a sugar-addled six year old child, this A.I. is curious, bold, and stupid as a brick.
Born through the combined efforts of Murphy's Law and Batou's misguided need to nurture things, Conan is one of the handful of near-original Tachikoma personalities, which makes it a natural leader among its kind, and a little "cleverer" than the rest. Alternately, this makes it about ten times as much trouble, whenever it gets its next "bright" idea. In general, Conan is a being of indefatigable curiosity, prone to experimentation and philosophical treatises about the least relevant of things at nearly random times. Like all Tachikoma, it has a thirst for blood and violence based in a childlike drive for play; it's a tank, built to hurt and kill people, and therefore is was not imbued with any innate respect for life or humanity at inception.
Although it began life as an all-but-mindless automaton, the development of the Tachikoma at the hands of Section Nine was well underway at the time of their first appearance and developed into fully-fledged beings by the end of that series, including the capacity for love and the ability to willingly sacrifice oneself for that love. Growing from mere robot into sentient A.I. among the ultimately dark and remorseless morality found in the members of Section Nine has, however, imbued all Tachikoma, and their ringleader in particular, with a strange and warped sense of ethics. While not likely to randomly murder people, it is regardless fully capable of doing so and would probably see nothing wrong with the idea. It's like a five year old child, if that child had the attention-span of a puppy and the capability to fire anti-tank rounds out of its face.
Abilities, Weaknesses, and Power Limitation Suggestions: It's a robotic tank, with guns attached (see inventory section for detail) and therefore exerts a great deal of physical strength. It also possesses a built-in thermoptic camouflage system capable of rendering the Tachikoma functionally invisible with variations for conditions. Tachikoma weaknesses include, but are not limited to: shiny objects, water deeper than two feet, powerful electro-magnetic pulses, armor-piercing rounds, insults to parentage, anti-tank munitions, stairs with a depth of less than ten inches, narrow spaces, and are vulnerable to extremely high-level hacking attempts. Also, they're a little Kleptomaniacal. A Tachikoma is able to be completely disabled and controlled via manual overrides located in the "pod" cockpit contained within the "abdomen" portion of its body.
Inventory: Standard Tachikoma equipment includes a 7.62x51mm light machine gun mounted in the right arm, a secondary weapon hardpoint in the "snout" (usually a 50 mm grenade launcher, capable of launching both explosive and gas grenades, but which can be replaced by a six-barrelled 12.7x99mm Gatling gun), a universal cybernetic connector on an extensible, prehensile cable in the left arm, liquid wires that can be used for grappling, rappelling or for restraining purposes and a built-in thermoptic camouflage system. It's a robot.
Appearance: Conan is, physically, a tank in the four-legged multi-ped spider-style favored heavily in Masamune Shirow's work. It weighs several tons and can roll along as fast as a car; see here for a size comparison. Its feet have a mechanism that allows it to fold up the wheels and walk with three-toed high-friction grips, scaling sheer walls as if it were the spider it resembles. A Tachikoma is upwards of eight feet tall when standing at rest, which is considered very small indeed by the standards of tanks in its canon. It is capable of crouching to perhaps three feet less than that, or stretching about the same higher and is by no means stealthy. They come in several colors, but this one is a beautiful robin's-egg blue with eggshell white and chrome accents. Blinkers and brake-lights make it street legal anywhere in Japan.
Age: Approx. 5yrs, chronologically
OC/AU Justification ;
If AU, How is Your Version Different From Canon, and How Will That Come Across?
If OC, Did You Run Your Character Through a Mary-Sue Litmus Test?
And What Did You Score?
Samples ;
Log Sample:
A Tachikoma is a small tank, built with rexpect given to the narrow constraints of urban streets. It's built for a three-dimensional environment, a combat plane with ups and downs where gravity is merely another hazard, an orange cone on the obstacle course. The open and well-flowered plains are anything but its native habitat— nevermind the terrified llamas all crowded off to one corner of the zone.
Conan wheels back and forth through the flowers like a child paddles their feet idly in a pool of water. Quite suddenly it takes off, dead plants and flowerpetals flying everywhere as is skitters though the dirt, mud and flowers. With a deft little leap it flips to land facing backwards with a tremendous thump and continues in sine-wave-patterns, destroying the previously pastoral scene. It pauses at the edge between grassy meadow and the concrete playground of the next zone over and giggles at the carnage.
"Okay, enough playing around!" It declared to itself and turned towards the far-distant station-hull with a determined air, "Let's just see about this ceiling."
And off it went, on a quest to walk on the sky.
Network Sample:
[Voice/Open]
[Now here's the voice of a little child.]
Hmm...Wow.
This network is really quiet, huh? Hey, is anyone on this line?
[There's a sharp, tapping sound, as if someone were poking the mic with a pen.]
I never realized systems like this were possible without flooding from the public...Okay, I get it, I'll just borrow this for a while! I just have to contact the others, and then this'll all turn out fine.
[There's another pause, and then something odd happens. Whatever it was you had on your screen while listening to this, now you have an adorable little spider-shaped robot crawling around your screen, like some kind of videogame pet has gotten loose from the Sacrosanct version of farmville.]
I really need to get in contact with a network node, or a Japanese satellite linkup, please!
Hay! Can hear me? Helloooo?
— Johseph Cambell
Player Information ;
Your Nickname: Mica
OOC Journal: mica_silverwind
Under 18? no
AIM: failmica
Characters Played at Singularity: EDI |
thatisajoke, Kimiko Ross | robodidacticCharacter Information ;
Name: Tachikoma, i.e. "Conan" or "Mister Batou's Personal Tachikoma"
Name of Canon: Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Canon/AU/Other Game CR: none
Reference:
Tachikoma: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachikoma
Main Franchise: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell
Anime: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell:_Stand_Alone_Complex
Anime extended (second gig): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell:_S.A.C._2nd_GIG
Epilogue Feature: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell:_S.A.C._Solid_State_Society
Timeline: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ghost_in_the_Shell:_S.A.C._2nd_GIG&oldid=338198277#Timeline_of_events
Canon Point: Early SSS
Setting: At the dawn of the new millenium, the world was embroiled in war. Both fed on and feeding into decades-long tensions and political alliances, the conflict spread until it was global in scale and, eventually, nuclear in nature. Japan...did not do well, losing multiple large cities including the then-capitol Tokyo, which was eventually submerged below the sea, as a result of American bombing. Enter the "Japanese Miracle," a mind-boggling advancement in micro-machine technology that eliminated the worst effects of a nuclear strike— the radioactive fallout. With the advent of this technology and its soon near-universal use, nuclear weaponry became a lesser threat, and as the world settled America and Japan settled into a holding pattern of mutual economic and military stability, though by no means was it a trusting alliance.
The main story takes place in 2032, mostly in and around the new permanent seat of government, Fukuoka. The Cybernetic technology that first saw use in the aftershocks and other conflicts following WWIII is now at full momentum and it is not uncommon for the average Japanese citizen of means to possess extensive voluntary cybernetic modification. Superficially, it is a beautiful and peaceful world, where almost no illnesses are untreatable, and technology gracefully meets any need or want of the paying customer. Our protagonists are the members of Public Security Section Nine, an agency in the service of the Japanese government which deals with anti-terrorism and high-stakes law enforcement. Through this lens we are able to see that despite the new, miraculous technology, the neon, the clean streets and limitless possibilities, human beings are as hateful and vicious as ever.
Section Nine, composed of a handful of cyborgs and a fleet of robotic companions works among and against the dark underbelly of organ-theft, brain-hacking and political/terrorist machinations with a cold morality born of necessity. The stark honesty of having every superfluous ounce of humanity stripped away is given a counter-point in the team's AI-driven mini-tanks, the Tachikoma. The Tachikoma, acting as both comedic relief and the childlike heart of the series represent the most human aspects of Section Nine, despite that they are, one and all, robots to the core. The whole world might quietly be going to hell around them, and the human members of section 9 might be growing ever more faithless and jaded, but all the while the Tachikoma are still there, loudly finding every moment of it to be new and wonderful, and in every encounter a measure of joy.
Personality: Cheerful to a fault and with all the power of a supercomputer internet-steeped intelligence hooked up to the mind of a sugar-addled six year old child, this A.I. is curious, bold, and stupid as a brick.
Born through the combined efforts of Murphy's Law and Batou's misguided need to nurture things, Conan is one of the handful of near-original Tachikoma personalities, which makes it a natural leader among its kind, and a little "cleverer" than the rest. Alternately, this makes it about ten times as much trouble, whenever it gets its next "bright" idea. In general, Conan is a being of indefatigable curiosity, prone to experimentation and philosophical treatises about the least relevant of things at nearly random times. Like all Tachikoma, it has a thirst for blood and violence based in a childlike drive for play; it's a tank, built to hurt and kill people, and therefore is was not imbued with any innate respect for life or humanity at inception.
Although it began life as an all-but-mindless automaton, the development of the Tachikoma at the hands of Section Nine was well underway at the time of their first appearance and developed into fully-fledged beings by the end of that series, including the capacity for love and the ability to willingly sacrifice oneself for that love. Growing from mere robot into sentient A.I. among the ultimately dark and remorseless morality found in the members of Section Nine has, however, imbued all Tachikoma, and their ringleader in particular, with a strange and warped sense of ethics. While not likely to randomly murder people, it is regardless fully capable of doing so and would probably see nothing wrong with the idea. It's like a five year old child, if that child had the attention-span of a puppy and the capability to fire anti-tank rounds out of its face.
Abilities, Weaknesses, and Power Limitation Suggestions: It's a robotic tank, with guns attached (see inventory section for detail) and therefore exerts a great deal of physical strength. It also possesses a built-in thermoptic camouflage system capable of rendering the Tachikoma functionally invisible with variations for conditions. Tachikoma weaknesses include, but are not limited to: shiny objects, water deeper than two feet, powerful electro-magnetic pulses, armor-piercing rounds, insults to parentage, anti-tank munitions, stairs with a depth of less than ten inches, narrow spaces, and are vulnerable to extremely high-level hacking attempts. Also, they're a little Kleptomaniacal. A Tachikoma is able to be completely disabled and controlled via manual overrides located in the "pod" cockpit contained within the "abdomen" portion of its body.
Inventory: Standard Tachikoma equipment includes a 7.62x51mm light machine gun mounted in the right arm, a secondary weapon hardpoint in the "snout" (usually a 50 mm grenade launcher, capable of launching both explosive and gas grenades, but which can be replaced by a six-barrelled 12.7x99mm Gatling gun), a universal cybernetic connector on an extensible, prehensile cable in the left arm, liquid wires that can be used for grappling, rappelling or for restraining purposes and a built-in thermoptic camouflage system. It's a robot.
Appearance: Conan is, physically, a tank in the four-legged multi-ped spider-style favored heavily in Masamune Shirow's work. It weighs several tons and can roll along as fast as a car; see here for a size comparison. Its feet have a mechanism that allows it to fold up the wheels and walk with three-toed high-friction grips, scaling sheer walls as if it were the spider it resembles. A Tachikoma is upwards of eight feet tall when standing at rest, which is considered very small indeed by the standards of tanks in its canon. It is capable of crouching to perhaps three feet less than that, or stretching about the same higher and is by no means stealthy. They come in several colors, but this one is a beautiful robin's-egg blue with eggshell white and chrome accents. Blinkers and brake-lights make it street legal anywhere in Japan.
Age: Approx. 5yrs, chronologically
If AU, How is Your Version Different From Canon, and How Will That Come Across?
If OC, Did You Run Your Character Through a Mary-Sue Litmus Test?
And What Did You Score?
Samples ;
Log Sample:
A Tachikoma is a small tank, built with rexpect given to the narrow constraints of urban streets. It's built for a three-dimensional environment, a combat plane with ups and downs where gravity is merely another hazard, an orange cone on the obstacle course. The open and well-flowered plains are anything but its native habitat— nevermind the terrified llamas all crowded off to one corner of the zone.
Conan wheels back and forth through the flowers like a child paddles their feet idly in a pool of water. Quite suddenly it takes off, dead plants and flowerpetals flying everywhere as is skitters though the dirt, mud and flowers. With a deft little leap it flips to land facing backwards with a tremendous thump and continues in sine-wave-patterns, destroying the previously pastoral scene. It pauses at the edge between grassy meadow and the concrete playground of the next zone over and giggles at the carnage.
"Okay, enough playing around!" It declared to itself and turned towards the far-distant station-hull with a determined air, "Let's just see about this ceiling."
And off it went, on a quest to walk on the sky.
Network Sample:
[Now here's the voice of a little child.]
Hmm...Wow.
This network is really quiet, huh? Hey, is anyone on this line?
[There's a sharp, tapping sound, as if someone were poking the mic with a pen.]
I never realized systems like this were possible without flooding from the public...Okay, I get it, I'll just borrow this for a while! I just have to contact the others, and then this'll all turn out fine.
[There's another pause, and then something odd happens. Whatever it was you had on your screen while listening to this, now you have an adorable little spider-shaped robot crawling around your screen, like some kind of videogame pet has gotten loose from the Sacrosanct version of farmville.]
I really need to get in contact with a network node, or a Japanese satellite linkup, please!
Hay! Can hear me? Helloooo?
