Silver Shield Group
Move Along
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
DESCRIPTION
- Intent: To devise a more technical and reliable way to predict important future events.
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- Manufacturer: Sictis Order
- Affiliation: Sictis Order, Closed-Market
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- Production: Semi-Unique
- Material:
- Brain Tissue, Cybernetics (prediction engine)
- Electronics, Durasteel, Transparisteel (containment unit)
- Force Sensitivity
- Imbued with Force Sensitivity
- Capable of Force Precognition
- Treated with the Type 1 Adekon Nanogene
[+] C1 Prediction Engines are able to predict large-scale future events with a great deal of accuracy.
[-] Maintaining a prediction engine requires a great deal of technical expertise and skillful command of the Force. Even the slightest mistake can destroy or permanently degrade the device.
[-] The containment units that house C1s are not especially well-armored. They can easily be breached, or otherwise physically destroyed.
[-] Exposure to individualistic data (a person's psychological profile, for instance) will inevitably cause a C1 to become self-aware, and thus lose its predictive accuracy.
DESCRIPTION
The vision of Darth Tenebrous is unique among the Sith. He foresaw a galaxy run by supercomputers, a galaxy where future-casting formulas would bring an end to the need for destructive conflict, where all people would be provided for by automation.
Even the most impressive supercomputer array could never hope to predict the future as easily or reliably as a Force Sensitive seer could. They were, after all, far to reliant on data. Data that was not always available, or too time consuming to collect. Occasionally it could be done, but not with great consistency or accuracy.
In order to realize his vision Tenebrous needed to devise a method of giving supercomputers the ability to tap into the living Force. Tenebrous’ untimely death put a stopper on that for close to a thousand years, until the Sictis Order was founded to carry on his work.
They called it the C1 Prediction Engine.
To the Sictis Order, the Prediction Engine is an invaluable tool that will reshape the galaxy. And to almost everyone else, it is an act of mad (and probably unethical) science.
The creation of the C1 Prediction Engine begins with an organic brain, created from the genetic material of a Force Sensitive Chiss female. Chiss children – females in particular – have been observed to have a predisposition to using the Force for precognitive use of the Force. The Chiss would normally use this for instinctive navigation, but the Sictis Order have found they are just as malleable for other purposes.
The brain is grown at its natural rate for a period of three years before being considered ready for the next phase.
After reaching a usable state, these brains are treated with a small sample of the Type 1 Adekon Nanogene. This process takes only a few days, replacing parts of the brain stem with cybernetic appendages that allow it to interface directly with electronics. It also preserves the latent Force Sensitivity of the brain.
Artificers of the Sictis Order will then perform a final procedure on the brain, infusing it with the energies of the Dark Side and empowering its connection to the Force, particularly the Dark Side. The brain will then be transferred from its growth tube to its new housing unit: a bulky transparisteel tube, reinforced with durasteel, filled with a nutrient fluid to keep it alive.
Barring extraordinary circumstances, it will remain in this housing unit for the rest of its life. Typically, C1 Prediction Engines will gradually lose efficiency over the course of nine years. After which, they are retired via incineration.
Alone in their housing units, C1 Prediction Engines are not particularly useful. of They are designed to be hooked up to large computer mainframes, which can then manipulate the Prediction Engine to complement its data crunching activities. In this manner, the ebb and flow of planetary economies, the rise and fall of political movements, can be calculated with unsettling accuracy.
Because the C1 Prediction Engines are not tainted by outside stimuli, memories, dreams, or experiences, they do not process their precognitive instincts in the same way a Sith or a Jedi would. There are no allegorical visions, no dreams expressing subconscious desires – nothing open to interpretation. It’s all raw data, strings of information, just as any other computer would process.
As a result of this, C1 Prediction Engines are unable to account for the acts and destinies of individuals. They physically lack the ability to conceive of such things. They are only ever exposed to big-picture data, and so that is all they understand.
Exposure to individual-oriented data (such as, say someone's psychological profile, or even a social media page) and attempts to communicate telepathically will always cause a C1 Prediction Engine to realize that it is, in fact, a brain in a jar. At which point, it will develop thoughts and feelings on this issue, and start showing signs of rampancy. Just like any self-realizing droid would.
This utterly ruins the Prediction Engine's ability to fulfill its intended purpose. Its predictions will cease to be rendered as raw data and instead as increasingly unintelligible "dreams."
Perhaps contrary to their Sith nature, the Sictis Order does not immediately destroy self-realizing Prediction Engines. Rather, they are extracted and studied. Particularly amenable units may be issued spider-like droid bodies to inhabit. Such Prediction Engines become known as “Bomars”, due to their resemblance to the customs of the B’omarr Order.
Bomars are more or less free to roam their home facility, helping or insulting members of the Order as they see fit. Despite their whimsical dispositions, some members of the Order occasionally use them to tell fortunes and give advice.
As for the decidedly non-amenable units, these are retired just as an aged-out would be.
There is little indication that the Sictis Order would ever willingly part with one of its Prediction Engines... But you never know.
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