Crewman Recruit ISS Oracle Hull 2274-DS7D
Name ISS Oracle Hull 2274-DS7D
Position Passenger
Rank Crewman Recruit
Character Information
| Gender | Agendered/Non-Binary | |
| Species | biological starship | |
| Age | 5 |
Physical Appearance
| Height | 4 meters | |
| Weight | 4 tons | |
| Hair Color | n/a | |
| Eye Color | n/a | |
| Physical Description | Pretty is not how one would describe this particular awkward bird. The hull is barely held together with welds and organic material, the engine mount beams are warped and cracked, patch welded and more weld than original beam. The reactor is exposed to space, an angry glow and offgasses marking its position far better than any anti-collision lighting, which the ship doesn't have. The view from the rear is obscured by the single massive cruiser's main engine fed directly off of the reactor's waste power. The hyperspace fold drive is visible and exposed to open space, sitting dangerously close to the cockpit and mounted just aft of the primary sensor core and a fourteen petabyte hard drive. Two winglets mounted either side of the hull balance the vertical profile with a set of sensor nacelles from the front, and curve outward to encompass the forward hull and obscure the pod mounts. There is a layer of bronze colored organic growth over the entire frame, which is actually a silicon based photosynthetic skin that assists with structural integrity and uses specialized chromatophores to scatter radar, infrared, and X-ray imaging to obscure its image or prevent a target lock. Other stealth systems on board are less visible, but its comm firewall masks the comm behind background radiation in local area, preventing interception by prying eyes. In essence, it's an eight meter pile of scrap designed specifically to be a fast scout ship, and looks the part. |
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Personality & Traits
| General Overview | The Oracle AI is a very simple creature in general. All it really wants is to fly, protect its pilot, and satisfy a deep, hungering curiosity. It wants to know more. Unfortunately, it's not the most socially adept AI, having never had a need to interact with other computer systems except to offload data, so it gets nervous easily. This nervousness can manifest as a physical skittishness, anxiety, and dumping of massive amounts of jumbled and useless data into another AI in an attempt at confusing and slowing its advance before retreating behind its encryption. It is, however, thoughtful, pragmatic, and openly defiant of ideas that risk Thorn's or its own wellbeing, and has the ability to act on its own to a limited degree, mostly in maneuvering and flight. |
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| Ambitions | Protect Thorn Know all |
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| Hobbies & Interests | When in idle docking, it will often use its sensors to collect material data on the interior of whatever bay it's in, often for later use and suggested upgrades to itself. It will also connect with databases and "read," downloading information and considering applications and mathematical models. Sometimes, in correlation with its own data, certain corrections may be made. |
| Personal History | During Thorn Ironhart's apprenticeship, she was tasked with building the ship to take her out on her own. Through countless hours of research and integration, refurbishing of derelict parts and learning to use a welder, she produced a single, micro sized ship. She used scavenged and junk parts to heavily modify a survey satellite with a supermassive memory core (14 Petabytes raw data), high power jump drive out of a V1 transport, and two reentry pods. One pod was converted to a cargo area with soft landing thrusters and an inertial damping system made out of a damaged flying belt. The other pod is her living and working space. With a living space of 54 cubic feet, the ship is uncomfortably small for most, but it is not designed to live a person for long, as the system is designed to compile collected data while she's in cryogenic suspension. The survey satellite she used had a high power cloak on board which she rarely uses, but it can find itself handy in some scenarios. The hull is open patchwork, with the cockpit strapped on top of the survey satellite core and the engines and reactor hanging off the back. Two small winglets provide mounting points for the laser imagers mounted six feet either side of the hull. Unfortunately, due to its power reserves and sheer thrust, it has a problem of tearing itself apart, and often. Over the course of its service life, it has, and will continue to be refitted and rebuilt, often from the ground up. This, due to the availability of various components, has led to biological components being used and integrated more often than not. While expensive, they were shown to be more reliable. Eventually, the Oracle gained a form of sentience, based on its knowledge base and the original research AI picking up cues from Thorn's actions and behaviors. As more and more biological components were added, its intelligence and self awareness grew, until it could be considered a life form in its own right. |