RE: Terra Nova
10-15-2018, 09:19 AM
Colony Name: CRUX Station (named for Confederation Research Union X-11)
Ruler Name: Photine
Ruler Info: Photine is the central computer of CRUX Station, developed an unknown time ago by the station researchers. While one might initially assume that Photine is merely a sophisticated computer interface, it’s fairly clear that they are, in fact, a fully-sentient artificial intelligence that seems to have taken over as the head of the research facility. Photine has a rather odd and eccentric personality, and seems fond of conversation over incredibly mundane topics. The AI is possibly corrupted or otherwise damaged, given its odd personality and, at times, seeming incompetence at simple calculations that a computer should be able to perform automatically. The full extent of this corruption is unclear, given that CRUX Station only recently appeared.
Faction Info: The crew of CRUX Station call themselves The Observers, an appellation apparently given to themselves during the station’s disappearance. Their stated goals are research, though apparently of a non-specialized sort, as Photine has shown a clear interest in such diverse fields as nanobiology, botany, geology, nanomedicines, FTL travel, quantum physics, nanobotany, Newtonian physics, computer engineering, nanogeology, thaumatology, and so on. Why many of these things are not already in Photine’s database remains unclear.
CRUX Station’s appearance in orbit of the gas giant Ac was both recent and sudden, detectable by any that might have been within scanner range by a sudden massive burst of broad-spectrum electromagnetic radiation, as well as minor thaumaturgic disturbances that those sensitive (i.e. wizards) might have picked up if any were nearby. While the station appears in few records, CRUX Station was apparently a station known to have disappeared mysteriously years ago - why it’s appeared here now, and where it was in the interim, is unknown.
Faction Color: A scientific shade of heliotrope.
Species Info: The crew of CRUX Station hail from a variety of different Confederation member species, with no particular bias toward any one species. No less than a dozen species are present, ranging from large quadrupedal avians to airborne reptilians no larger than a housecat, and a variety of more conventional humanoid species. Some species present may even be those common in other factions in this system. However, the crew members of CRUX Station appear to be… off, somehow, with slightly unnatural movements and facial expressions, bizarre manners of speaking, and so on. Some individuals seem oddly identical to each other as well, and the service robots onboard behave in a weirdly lifelike manner. Something weird is going on in this place, that much is clear.
Ruler Name: Photine
Ruler Info: Photine is the central computer of CRUX Station, developed an unknown time ago by the station researchers. While one might initially assume that Photine is merely a sophisticated computer interface, it’s fairly clear that they are, in fact, a fully-sentient artificial intelligence that seems to have taken over as the head of the research facility. Photine has a rather odd and eccentric personality, and seems fond of conversation over incredibly mundane topics. The AI is possibly corrupted or otherwise damaged, given its odd personality and, at times, seeming incompetence at simple calculations that a computer should be able to perform automatically. The full extent of this corruption is unclear, given that CRUX Station only recently appeared.
Faction Info: The crew of CRUX Station call themselves The Observers, an appellation apparently given to themselves during the station’s disappearance. Their stated goals are research, though apparently of a non-specialized sort, as Photine has shown a clear interest in such diverse fields as nanobiology, botany, geology, nanomedicines, FTL travel, quantum physics, nanobotany, Newtonian physics, computer engineering, nanogeology, thaumatology, and so on. Why many of these things are not already in Photine’s database remains unclear.
CRUX Station’s appearance in orbit of the gas giant Ac was both recent and sudden, detectable by any that might have been within scanner range by a sudden massive burst of broad-spectrum electromagnetic radiation, as well as minor thaumaturgic disturbances that those sensitive (i.e. wizards) might have picked up if any were nearby. While the station appears in few records, CRUX Station was apparently a station known to have disappeared mysteriously years ago - why it’s appeared here now, and where it was in the interim, is unknown.
Faction Color: A scientific shade of heliotrope.
Species Info: The crew of CRUX Station hail from a variety of different Confederation member species, with no particular bias toward any one species. No less than a dozen species are present, ranging from large quadrupedal avians to airborne reptilians no larger than a housecat, and a variety of more conventional humanoid species. Some species present may even be those common in other factions in this system. However, the crew members of CRUX Station appear to be… off, somehow, with slightly unnatural movements and facial expressions, bizarre manners of speaking, and so on. Some individuals seem oddly identical to each other as well, and the service robots onboard behave in a weirdly lifelike manner. Something weird is going on in this place, that much is clear.