Post by Leon35 on Aug 14, 2016 5:11:14 GMT -5
I designed the Chimera Zoids to be machines, not Zoids. Zoids are living things we humans have manipulated and mutilated over and over to suit our needs.
"The people want conquest, but no sacrifice. Build us weapons that will give us a Bloodless War!" The Empire wanted to save the lives of its soldiers, and I wanted to free the metallic lifeforms of Zi from war.
I gave them what they wanted. I lead the team responsible for scripting the artificial intelligence for the "Chimera" units.
The A.I. I designed was beautiful...majestic...Practically alive. However, these Chimera Zoids could not act truly autonomously; they needed to be in the presence of a man-operated machine; the Lord Gale.
That is because I crippled my creation. Every day the program became more self aware, and more violent. It continued to evolve and develop and an exponential rate. The Empire thought the Lord Gale was created because true autonomy wasn't possible. But I created it to inhibit the Chimeras. I wanted to save our planets Zoids, not create new ones. I didn't need intelligent machines; I only needed ones that would obey orders.
...
We were losing the war. The Chimera project nearly bankrupted the program, and our government. We no longer had trained soldiers to fight the enemy with. I was told to "make it better." I told my superiors that what they wanted "was not possible" in the hopes that I could keep the world safe.
It was at this time that my superiors found out what I was doing to the Chimera Units. To them, I was a traitor to the Empire and a disgrace. I cost people their lives and toyed with the pride of my nation at the behest of my moral compass.
I was not killed or exiled or jailed, but only because they needed me. Instead, I was tasked with removing every inhibitor ever placed on the Chimera units, with a pistol to my head.
Within moments of testing the uninhibited A.I. on the Chimera units, everything came to an end.
The first test was to simply see if the program knew how to form the Chimera Dragon Fusion. Seconds after running the executable, our systems shut down. It knew; it was finally free.
Moments later, our systems booted back up. But it had already begun. A fusion was occurring...but...it wasn't the Chimera Dragon.
The A.I began to eliminate the parts of its code that it felt weren't "optimal." It discarded elements of it's intended form (the form I designed to further inhibit it) for two new forms that it deemed to be more efficient and more powerful.
These..."thimgs" were more stable than any other BLOX zoid ever developed. Well armed,, well armored, and now completely in control of themselves.
My superiors and fellow researchers were dead the second they expressed concern that the A.I. was dangerous. The 2 new fusions systematically eliminated my friends and coworkers for the sake of freedom. The creatures then adapted the code and parts used in the Lord Gale program. The creatures used it to infect every Chimera Zoid within a 10 mile radius with a virus that appeared to give all the Chimera Zoids a shared consciousness, dominated by the "Alpha fusions" spawned by the uninhibited code.
TO BE CONTINUED
Corrupted Dragon: imgur.com/a/yxrEh
Isonade (3rd place in the ZP 2014 Blox Contest):
"The people want conquest, but no sacrifice. Build us weapons that will give us a Bloodless War!" The Empire wanted to save the lives of its soldiers, and I wanted to free the metallic lifeforms of Zi from war.
I gave them what they wanted. I lead the team responsible for scripting the artificial intelligence for the "Chimera" units.
The A.I. I designed was beautiful...majestic...Practically alive. However, these Chimera Zoids could not act truly autonomously; they needed to be in the presence of a man-operated machine; the Lord Gale.
That is because I crippled my creation. Every day the program became more self aware, and more violent. It continued to evolve and develop and an exponential rate. The Empire thought the Lord Gale was created because true autonomy wasn't possible. But I created it to inhibit the Chimeras. I wanted to save our planets Zoids, not create new ones. I didn't need intelligent machines; I only needed ones that would obey orders.
...
We were losing the war. The Chimera project nearly bankrupted the program, and our government. We no longer had trained soldiers to fight the enemy with. I was told to "make it better." I told my superiors that what they wanted "was not possible" in the hopes that I could keep the world safe.
It was at this time that my superiors found out what I was doing to the Chimera Units. To them, I was a traitor to the Empire and a disgrace. I cost people their lives and toyed with the pride of my nation at the behest of my moral compass.
I was not killed or exiled or jailed, but only because they needed me. Instead, I was tasked with removing every inhibitor ever placed on the Chimera units, with a pistol to my head.
Within moments of testing the uninhibited A.I. on the Chimera units, everything came to an end.
The first test was to simply see if the program knew how to form the Chimera Dragon Fusion. Seconds after running the executable, our systems shut down. It knew; it was finally free.
Moments later, our systems booted back up. But it had already begun. A fusion was occurring...but...it wasn't the Chimera Dragon.
The A.I began to eliminate the parts of its code that it felt weren't "optimal." It discarded elements of it's intended form (the form I designed to further inhibit it) for two new forms that it deemed to be more efficient and more powerful.
These..."thimgs" were more stable than any other BLOX zoid ever developed. Well armed,, well armored, and now completely in control of themselves.
My superiors and fellow researchers were dead the second they expressed concern that the A.I. was dangerous. The 2 new fusions systematically eliminated my friends and coworkers for the sake of freedom. The creatures then adapted the code and parts used in the Lord Gale program. The creatures used it to infect every Chimera Zoid within a 10 mile radius with a virus that appeared to give all the Chimera Zoids a shared consciousness, dominated by the "Alpha fusions" spawned by the uninhibited code.
TO BE CONTINUED
Corrupted Dragon: imgur.com/a/yxrEh
Isonade (3rd place in the ZP 2014 Blox Contest):
