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05-08-2014, 04:44 PM
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Username: General S. Pigeon
Name: Number 50000
Species: Ancient Robot
Gender: Nickel-Iron Alloy
Color: Green is not a creative color
Description: Discovered at a salvage site on planet Sol-3, the object is a bipedal robot that our xenoarchaeologists believe resembles the pre-extinction dominant lifeform of the planet. Records indicate they may have called themselves the Hunam; the robot is clearly modeled closely after its creators, and seems advanced enough to have been made a close facsimile save its visibly articulated joints and metallic exterior marked with "50000" on its chassis. While efforts to translate Hunam languages have barely begun and are largely fruitless so far, we believe "50000" is composed of numerals and equates to fifty-thousand, possibly indicating it is the fifty-thousandth in a series, or perhaps the fifty-thousandth one produced. The crew has taken to calling it Number Fifty Thousand; since it is incapable of understanding us anyway, it is as appropriate a name as any.
Though it mostly stays dormant – being active only approximately 8.2% of the time – it is extremely vigorous when it is not. Its periods of activity come at regular intervals; while the significance of those intervals has yet to be determined, our navigator pointed out that the periods of activity last almost exactly the time it takes Sol-3 to rotate on its axis thirty times. Best guesses suggest it may have been related to a religious or cultural festival of some sort.
Weapons/Abilities: During its periods of activity, the object almost constantly produces written material in one of the most common Hunam languages. It has a number of writing implements in its chassis and limbs, and when deprived of those tools it will attempt to scratch words into whatever surfaces it can. The first few axial rotations are marked by much less writing and much more active wandering, with the object observing and attempting to interact with its surroundings; it has displayed great strength and surprising cunning and utility in escaping bonds or storage chambers in an attempt to carry out its observations. We have since stopped attempting to restrain it, as the difficulty is prohibitive, the object is rarely hostile, and our xenolinguists believe that studying what it produces will be very helpful in decoding this particular language; it has been theorized that the objects and events it observes are recorded or commented upon in its writing. Experimental restriction of what it observes may give us a great opportunity to discern what words equate to what objects. Interestingly, the written works it produces have all been of approximately the same length.
Attempts at communication have been largely unsuccessful, as the object appears to be of only high machine intelligence, not truly sapient.
Biography: After several periods of activity and inactivity, the object's patterns and capabilities had been well documented. Or so we thought; nothing indicates that the Hunam had ever achieved teleportation capability (as would be expected, as teleportation is still only theoretical at the most advanced Milieu laboratories and the Hunam extinction occurred well before they had reached our level of technology), but upon its most recent activation, the object stood up, looked around, and vanished in a flash of light. Originally, metamaterials that made it undetectable by bending light around it were suspected, but no scans or physical sweeps could find it. We are forced to conclude it somehow left the station, but have few theories as to how it could have accomplished that.
Name: Number 50000
Species: Ancient Robot
Gender: Nickel-Iron Alloy
Color: Green is not a creative color
Description: Discovered at a salvage site on planet Sol-3, the object is a bipedal robot that our xenoarchaeologists believe resembles the pre-extinction dominant lifeform of the planet. Records indicate they may have called themselves the Hunam; the robot is clearly modeled closely after its creators, and seems advanced enough to have been made a close facsimile save its visibly articulated joints and metallic exterior marked with "50000" on its chassis. While efforts to translate Hunam languages have barely begun and are largely fruitless so far, we believe "50000" is composed of numerals and equates to fifty-thousand, possibly indicating it is the fifty-thousandth in a series, or perhaps the fifty-thousandth one produced. The crew has taken to calling it Number Fifty Thousand; since it is incapable of understanding us anyway, it is as appropriate a name as any.
Though it mostly stays dormant – being active only approximately 8.2% of the time – it is extremely vigorous when it is not. Its periods of activity come at regular intervals; while the significance of those intervals has yet to be determined, our navigator pointed out that the periods of activity last almost exactly the time it takes Sol-3 to rotate on its axis thirty times. Best guesses suggest it may have been related to a religious or cultural festival of some sort.
Weapons/Abilities: During its periods of activity, the object almost constantly produces written material in one of the most common Hunam languages. It has a number of writing implements in its chassis and limbs, and when deprived of those tools it will attempt to scratch words into whatever surfaces it can. The first few axial rotations are marked by much less writing and much more active wandering, with the object observing and attempting to interact with its surroundings; it has displayed great strength and surprising cunning and utility in escaping bonds or storage chambers in an attempt to carry out its observations. We have since stopped attempting to restrain it, as the difficulty is prohibitive, the object is rarely hostile, and our xenolinguists believe that studying what it produces will be very helpful in decoding this particular language; it has been theorized that the objects and events it observes are recorded or commented upon in its writing. Experimental restriction of what it observes may give us a great opportunity to discern what words equate to what objects. Interestingly, the written works it produces have all been of approximately the same length.
Attempts at communication have been largely unsuccessful, as the object appears to be of only high machine intelligence, not truly sapient.
Biography: After several periods of activity and inactivity, the object's patterns and capabilities had been well documented. Or so we thought; nothing indicates that the Hunam had ever achieved teleportation capability (as would be expected, as teleportation is still only theoretical at the most advanced Milieu laboratories and the Hunam extinction occurred well before they had reached our level of technology), but upon its most recent activation, the object stood up, looked around, and vanished in a flash of light. Originally, metamaterials that made it undetectable by bending light around it were suspected, but no scans or physical sweeps could find it. We are forced to conclude it somehow left the station, but have few theories as to how it could have accomplished that.