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kingtycoonWhen Nimoy died I was sad. I never liked any iteration of star trek but I always liked & was impressed by Spock - sometimes you can make the character that's better than the rest of the story, like Jesus or the Joker. Anyway I had to think about why I don't care about Star Trek as a result & I ended up reading a bunch of story synopses of a bunch of the shows. Man, they're terrible. Just terrible! Storywise, I'm sure capably acted/directed so on - but story. Yech. I keep thinking about how it's not just silly to imagine that people would fly through space in huge ships to explore the galaxy - not just how backwards that is - but how the technology otherwise is all of the early 2000's at best and they don't look toward a real future, as far as I can see. Anyhow, I started putting my thoughts together about how I imagine you'd explore space in the 23rd century, so that's your problem too now.
Simulpresence Drone - Active
Soft Fog Array - Active
Telepresence Drones - Active
Hardlight Environment – Active
The 24th Century is going to be the century of exploration. Having gotten all our ducks in their rows, humanity has made the strides necessary for interstellar exploration to begin at speed. The real deal, naturally, was the quantum entangled Simulpresence drone. It’s by virtue of these beasts that we’re able to traverse the cosmos at all. The trick is creating a stable intrinsic field locally that is able to manipulate materials on hand that closely resemble materials… elsewhere. The trouble is that in the great span of space you’ll inevitably be able to find the particles that have the proper virtues of simultaneity with some local particles – and you can of course farm the right local particles so that they correspond with the right materials. Behavior is emulated to a preposterous degree so that in the end what you have is a series of a few billion particles that exist simultaneously in two places within the universe, then you feed these fields the right stuff & get your atoms organized into the proper patterns locally, and as above so below- you can manage, with fits & starts to build yourself a maneuverable drone that is positioned somewhere in the universe with a local quantum clone that you can get into & drive around. If you do it just right, you’ll get to the point where the instrumentation will be giving you cross universal feedbacks. If you want to be somewhere else in the galaxy, this is how you have to do it. My simulpresence drone resembles a terrestrial horse, vaguely, it’s plenty rough on the edges, and durable, but with a very unfinished, inorganic look – like it’s composed of ash & cables. Moves though, and it’s stronger than anything. It isn’t supposed to be much more than a platform for all the other exploratory routines – these don’t need to have simultinaity – they just have to appear on the instruments.
So what you do is this, you get fogged so that your brain patterns are replicated into your own local nanite cloud and then you get that going into a feedback loop that creates a few holographic personas, you know, a few dozen of your own mind working together as a quorum & once you’re there, you’ve got the computational power to manipulate the particles – then you’re ready to be a spacemen. They take you up into the base on Ceres for that, interference-free, atmosphere untainted. The fog keeps you alive by recreating the local environment into a hard light simulacrum of what you’re supposed to be experiencing – Not the Horse, the Horse just makes the stuff, the local variations are replicated & observed through the sensors. So your feeling the other end of the universe as if through gloves, gloves as thick as the universe, but if you’re sensitive enough you’ll get a grasp on things. The local holographic fields replicate the remote & then the Horse starts making its proxies, your proxies, you see them in the fog & then drive them through your quorum.
It takes some doing, I’d had the horse going for months before the fog could get a grip on any of the stellar positions & locate us. Andromeda, or else far arm of our own galaxy – it’s never so easy or precise, what with the infinite. You deal with infinite spaces, or big enough to be close enough to infinite, you don’t have precision enough to match, not at first. Horse got it going, it’s on a rocky planet, mars-like, but warmer. Low atmo, decent materials, ancient water, none to speak of now. I drive the horse over the surface making observations, there are some things to be seen, lots of things. Eventually it gets settled in in a good spot, surface metals, thick enough atmosphere for some combustion to actually happen. It gets to brewing, the Horse starts making the factory – it starts out just emitting constructed gasses, breathing fire. When it’s got glass enough to use, it starts up on solar, works its way to fabrication. In a few months you’ve got the replication mechanisms going – you can get the machines to start making themselves. In a year you’ve got the remote infrastructure up to the point where it can bear the load & you inject a software agent that replicates a portion of your quorum fog – then you’re talking. You’ll have the remote output pushing out remote drones that you can monitor from horse-base-1. Year two & you’ll have a complete replica identity driving the remote planetary exploration.
You take 10, 20 years to do this enough, you have a handful of remote planetary identities running their own remote operations – I’ve got Horse, Behemoth ,Tree, Worm & Sofa all going now, You get the reports back until you’ve got enough sample data for the predictive algorithms to synch up properly. Shortly you’ve got a nice network of two dozen planetary systems, maybe a whole stellar system – they get networked, locally replicate digitally & there it is, digital natives dive in and do the hard exploration – the mining for holes in the predictives and feeding back the phase 2 search priorities. Give it a century, give me a century & I’ll have the novelty all mined out of Horse-System-1, I’ll have all 12 of the planetary systems colonized & most of the oort cloud plotted. Maybe then we’ll be able to place it properly in the rest of the cosmos, once precision is input. After that?
There have been a few promising results on remote biogenesis. Some don’t like the notion of replicating the Terrestrial biome outside – which isn’t unreasonable, but it’s the best we’ve got. The competition involved in terrestrial evolution, in the Macrospecies we call Evolution, doesn’t need to be replicated elsewhere, the few biomes we’ve encountered don’t always have it. Some get on without predation, without reproduction, without metabolisms as we understand them. They’re lively, but not like us, we can statistically calculate results in advance of any experiments, well, the fogs can, and that’s fine – so far signs are good that our tinkering is the right kind of tinkering, we’re getting where we want to go.
The seeding of remote stars with machine intellects has been working out a bit better though, the generational adaptation is more pronounced, so more useful. We’re not exactly racing, but I don’t expect a third century, so it’d be nice to get as much of this figured out before I am reconfigured – my next incarnation may not have the right stuff, heck I might spend the next incarnation in one of my own developing biomes. I’ve got 16 isolated machine ‘biomes’ and they tell me that one of my projects – Horse-Base, actually – is suitable for biological investment. I don’t’ know if I like that, exactly, sentimental reasons. I’m getting the atmosphere sorted & it hasn’t always been rewarding, the star rising through the cloudless seam of the equatorial rift is particularly beautiful, clouds will add their own stochastic charm, but atmospheric interference has been giving the sky a pearl color. Too much albedo. I’ve seen the project simulations & lived the hard-light variations enough to know what’s coming. What’s the use of creating multigenerational macro-species that will evolve to never see the sky as it was when it was beautiful? Poor suckers. Sentimentality is one of those things that we all have for our own home terrain, so who’s to say that the earth’s inceptor didn’t have a particular love for some molten scene that no living thing ever got to see, for all I know the Earth is the ugliest it’s ever been, but I love it still, if only because I’m part of a biological expression of biology’s love for the place.
Rossiters says he’s got a quasi linguistic pseudoculture on one of his projects, aboriginals, they’re monkeying with the remote environment & he’s all too happy to let them do it, so long as they stay off the Dragon-Spout (and they so far do, since it doesn’t mean anything to them, to them it’s a rock. Rossiters just calls it dragon because it looks like one to him). He plans on replicating 19th century NYC on a particular granite coastline within the next stellar cycle there – says they’ll need an atlantis if they’re going to progress beyond shepherds. Let them progress to shepherds I say. I’ve seen simulations that give his aboriginals an astronomically small chance of following the entanglement back & making the channel two way. We’d all like to move the probability up a little more. It’s one thing to project your identity into the cosmos & have it echo back at you – it’s another thing altogether to have the void call back on its own. He says Atlantis is the way to do it. I say I’d be less grandiose if I found some language capable natives.
Simulpresence Drone - Active
Soft Fog Array - Active
Telepresence Drones - Active
Hardlight Environment – Active
The 24th Century is going to be the century of exploration. Having gotten all our ducks in their rows, humanity has made the strides necessary for interstellar exploration to begin at speed. The real deal, naturally, was the quantum entangled Simulpresence drone. It’s by virtue of these beasts that we’re able to traverse the cosmos at all. The trick is creating a stable intrinsic field locally that is able to manipulate materials on hand that closely resemble materials… elsewhere. The trouble is that in the great span of space you’ll inevitably be able to find the particles that have the proper virtues of simultaneity with some local particles – and you can of course farm the right local particles so that they correspond with the right materials. Behavior is emulated to a preposterous degree so that in the end what you have is a series of a few billion particles that exist simultaneously in two places within the universe, then you feed these fields the right stuff & get your atoms organized into the proper patterns locally, and as above so below- you can manage, with fits & starts to build yourself a maneuverable drone that is positioned somewhere in the universe with a local quantum clone that you can get into & drive around. If you do it just right, you’ll get to the point where the instrumentation will be giving you cross universal feedbacks. If you want to be somewhere else in the galaxy, this is how you have to do it. My simulpresence drone resembles a terrestrial horse, vaguely, it’s plenty rough on the edges, and durable, but with a very unfinished, inorganic look – like it’s composed of ash & cables. Moves though, and it’s stronger than anything. It isn’t supposed to be much more than a platform for all the other exploratory routines – these don’t need to have simultinaity – they just have to appear on the instruments.
So what you do is this, you get fogged so that your brain patterns are replicated into your own local nanite cloud and then you get that going into a feedback loop that creates a few holographic personas, you know, a few dozen of your own mind working together as a quorum & once you’re there, you’ve got the computational power to manipulate the particles – then you’re ready to be a spacemen. They take you up into the base on Ceres for that, interference-free, atmosphere untainted. The fog keeps you alive by recreating the local environment into a hard light simulacrum of what you’re supposed to be experiencing – Not the Horse, the Horse just makes the stuff, the local variations are replicated & observed through the sensors. So your feeling the other end of the universe as if through gloves, gloves as thick as the universe, but if you’re sensitive enough you’ll get a grasp on things. The local holographic fields replicate the remote & then the Horse starts making its proxies, your proxies, you see them in the fog & then drive them through your quorum.
It takes some doing, I’d had the horse going for months before the fog could get a grip on any of the stellar positions & locate us. Andromeda, or else far arm of our own galaxy – it’s never so easy or precise, what with the infinite. You deal with infinite spaces, or big enough to be close enough to infinite, you don’t have precision enough to match, not at first. Horse got it going, it’s on a rocky planet, mars-like, but warmer. Low atmo, decent materials, ancient water, none to speak of now. I drive the horse over the surface making observations, there are some things to be seen, lots of things. Eventually it gets settled in in a good spot, surface metals, thick enough atmosphere for some combustion to actually happen. It gets to brewing, the Horse starts making the factory – it starts out just emitting constructed gasses, breathing fire. When it’s got glass enough to use, it starts up on solar, works its way to fabrication. In a few months you’ve got the replication mechanisms going – you can get the machines to start making themselves. In a year you’ve got the remote infrastructure up to the point where it can bear the load & you inject a software agent that replicates a portion of your quorum fog – then you’re talking. You’ll have the remote output pushing out remote drones that you can monitor from horse-base-1. Year two & you’ll have a complete replica identity driving the remote planetary exploration.
You take 10, 20 years to do this enough, you have a handful of remote planetary identities running their own remote operations – I’ve got Horse, Behemoth ,Tree, Worm & Sofa all going now, You get the reports back until you’ve got enough sample data for the predictive algorithms to synch up properly. Shortly you’ve got a nice network of two dozen planetary systems, maybe a whole stellar system – they get networked, locally replicate digitally & there it is, digital natives dive in and do the hard exploration – the mining for holes in the predictives and feeding back the phase 2 search priorities. Give it a century, give me a century & I’ll have the novelty all mined out of Horse-System-1, I’ll have all 12 of the planetary systems colonized & most of the oort cloud plotted. Maybe then we’ll be able to place it properly in the rest of the cosmos, once precision is input. After that?
There have been a few promising results on remote biogenesis. Some don’t like the notion of replicating the Terrestrial biome outside – which isn’t unreasonable, but it’s the best we’ve got. The competition involved in terrestrial evolution, in the Macrospecies we call Evolution, doesn’t need to be replicated elsewhere, the few biomes we’ve encountered don’t always have it. Some get on without predation, without reproduction, without metabolisms as we understand them. They’re lively, but not like us, we can statistically calculate results in advance of any experiments, well, the fogs can, and that’s fine – so far signs are good that our tinkering is the right kind of tinkering, we’re getting where we want to go.
The seeding of remote stars with machine intellects has been working out a bit better though, the generational adaptation is more pronounced, so more useful. We’re not exactly racing, but I don’t expect a third century, so it’d be nice to get as much of this figured out before I am reconfigured – my next incarnation may not have the right stuff, heck I might spend the next incarnation in one of my own developing biomes. I’ve got 16 isolated machine ‘biomes’ and they tell me that one of my projects – Horse-Base, actually – is suitable for biological investment. I don’t’ know if I like that, exactly, sentimental reasons. I’m getting the atmosphere sorted & it hasn’t always been rewarding, the star rising through the cloudless seam of the equatorial rift is particularly beautiful, clouds will add their own stochastic charm, but atmospheric interference has been giving the sky a pearl color. Too much albedo. I’ve seen the project simulations & lived the hard-light variations enough to know what’s coming. What’s the use of creating multigenerational macro-species that will evolve to never see the sky as it was when it was beautiful? Poor suckers. Sentimentality is one of those things that we all have for our own home terrain, so who’s to say that the earth’s inceptor didn’t have a particular love for some molten scene that no living thing ever got to see, for all I know the Earth is the ugliest it’s ever been, but I love it still, if only because I’m part of a biological expression of biology’s love for the place.
Rossiters says he’s got a quasi linguistic pseudoculture on one of his projects, aboriginals, they’re monkeying with the remote environment & he’s all too happy to let them do it, so long as they stay off the Dragon-Spout (and they so far do, since it doesn’t mean anything to them, to them it’s a rock. Rossiters just calls it dragon because it looks like one to him). He plans on replicating 19th century NYC on a particular granite coastline within the next stellar cycle there – says they’ll need an atlantis if they’re going to progress beyond shepherds. Let them progress to shepherds I say. I’ve seen simulations that give his aboriginals an astronomically small chance of following the entanglement back & making the channel two way. We’d all like to move the probability up a little more. It’s one thing to project your identity into the cosmos & have it echo back at you – it’s another thing altogether to have the void call back on its own. He says Atlantis is the way to do it. I say I’d be less grandiose if I found some language capable natives.
