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Postby G-Tech Corporation » Sat Apr 06, 2024 9:21 am

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Part I.

Tiffany Abdelmassih


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Tiffany Abdelmassih was born on February 9, 2099 in Toronto, Canada. Her mother was a member of the General Council of the Eironic Corporation, one of the largest federation of cooperatives on earth, formed in the mid 21st century out of the merger of multiple credit unions, building organisations & trade union funds across the english & spanish speaking world. Tiffany'ss mother was second generation CRISPR augment, the daughter of two first generation CRISPR augments born in the mid 2030s. The process that created Tiffany, however, was different. She was conceived as an embryo selected by the EC's artificial intelligence agent, fertilised with genetic material synthesised from sequences of genetic information available to it in its database, meaning her father is, in a sense, the Eironic Corporation itself.

Her early childhood was spent being smaller, slower and weaker than her peers, which given her background made her a rather constant targeting of bullying. She compensated by making use of her natural aptitude for planning, the written world & copious determination. In her teens the 'pace' of her cognition dramatically increased, along with facing a sudden growth spurt, that brought her to a baseline that she shared with other augments, though a childhood spent without the 'privilege' of those advantages made her far more suited to making use of them. By 24 she'd leave McGill University with a doctorate in Systems Engineer & would be recruited directly into the Eironic Corporation's working to coordinate the cooperatives providing services from the construction of the Harmony. Offered a position aboard as their Chief Logistics Officer, she was hesitant, until a company plane carrying her husband and child was brought down in a terrorist attack by anti-genetic engineer religious extremists. She immediately accepted the offer, ready to leave earth behind.



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 “Contrary to the imaginations of futurists at the dawn of the 21st century, the prime threat wouldn’t be the restriction of information, but its overabundance.
We didn’t get digital despotisms held aloft by dark pillars of generalised ignorance. We got disorder fueled by the production & consumption of infinite trivialities. Facing a world falling apart as a result of the sins of the previous century, humanity retreated into mutually exclusive & diverging false realities. Governance, democratic or dictatorial, increasingly grew impossible.” ~Tiffany Abdelmassih, Humanity at the Gallows: How a Century long Stay of Execution was won.

Eironism owes its name to the Greek dramatic archetype, the Eiron, a character whose victory is largely achieved through self-deprecation concealing their strengths from more confident opposed characters. Put simply and effectively, it's built on two pillars. One, that the most effective means of cutting through an overabundance of information & tearing down inefficient systems is through the purposeful search & exploitation of contradiction & specifically in the case of ideas 'comic irony'. Two, that the most effective solutions to programs are often the product of extreme contradiction. Eironist would not consider the fact that these two points stand in seeming contradiction as an example of this. Put simply, Eironists believe that any idea or object that survives the assault of the former, can be considered falling under the latter, until it is no longer capable of doing so. The Eironic Corporation itself exists as a monument to this ideology.



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This all looks good to me - Tiffany is also accepted. I'm waiting on two more applications, if memory serves, but then we should be good to get this party started.
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Postby G-Tech Corporation » Mon Apr 08, 2024 5:09 am

Okay folks, I’m just putting the finishing touches on the Prelude. Fingers crossed, she’ll be ready to launch tonight, and we’ll have those last few characters locked down by then.
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Postby The GAmeTopians » Mon Apr 08, 2024 6:57 am

G-Tech Corporation wrote:Okay folks, I’m just putting the finishing touches on the Prelude. Fingers crossed, she’ll be ready to launch tonight, and we’ll have those last few characters locked down by then.

Praise be unto the holy update machine! An update, an update, my kingdom for an update!
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Postby Olthenia » Mon Apr 08, 2024 8:54 am

Hmf~

I'm sorry, G-Tech - but inspiration just isn't hissing ideas inside my skull today. I may have to lob an application in at a later date!

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Olthenia wrote:Hmf~

I'm sorry, G-Tech - but inspiration just isn't hissing ideas inside my skull today. I may have to lob an application in at a later date!


No trouble - you should be able to jump in at any point really, I just want everyone to be in the loop about when things are kicking off and have the best opportunity to start out with everyone else.
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Postby Kreigsreich of Iron » Mon Apr 08, 2024 12:49 pm

The GAmeTopians wrote:
G-Tech Corporation wrote:Okay folks, I’m just putting the finishing touches on the Prelude. Fingers crossed, she’ll be ready to launch tonight, and we’ll have those last few characters locked down by then.

Praise be unto the holy update machine! An update, an update, my kingdom for an update!

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Postby G-Tech Corporation » Mon Apr 08, 2024 3:55 pm

Alrighty folks, the Prelude is live. Your characters all begin in the Command Deck, and there are a few options you are all aware of right now, so best of luck. Feel free to try and do things which aren't explicitly listed, by the by, if you feel so inclined - I'm perfectly happy to interpret more creative actions than the several dozen I've generated.

It is time to determine the fate of the Harmony, and the entire colonial mission to Adelia. You might even be able to save her and land her all in one piece, with a modest Herculean effort.
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Postby Lunas Legion » Mon Apr 08, 2024 4:22 pm

Are investigation results going to be public or by TG?

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Postby The GAmeTopians » Mon Apr 08, 2024 4:24 pm

Wonderful! Any initial thoughts on strategy from other players, which might be conveyed on the command deck before my character skitters off to her lab? She could be convinced to contribute to the longevity of the ship, if others are also contributing, but otherwise she'll just prepare to science the shit out of this new planet. :P

Orders of business I've identified at a glance, in the event that we want to go for the "kumbaya" ending (or at least have more time to prep and have better starts):
1. Someone needs to assess Harmony's condition, so we have a better idea of what's actually on this list. (Location: Command)
2. We need one or more people to brave the storage area to grab some fuel, and bring it over to the reactor. That'll buy us time. (Location: Storage)
3. Anybody else should either be grabbing tools in Engineering to help with repairs, or scatter about the decks and be ready for other orders based on the results of (1).

@G I am happy to convey to this effect in IC, but it would effectively be like fifteen seconds of "look, if we're gonna actually collaborate and do this, this is what needs to happen, if I don't have any takers, I'm gonna just fuck off I guess" :P . Let me know if you want me to make a post for it, but didn't really seem reasonable to waste a full action on it.
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Postby G-Tech Corporation » Mon Apr 08, 2024 4:45 pm

Lunas Legion wrote:Are investigation results going to be public or by TG?


A mix - things which anyone else would concievably observe in an area are going to be public, or overt actions that would come up on information systems others possess (like, say, draining fuel reserves).

Other things however, those can be secret, oh yes.

The GAmeTopians wrote:Wonderful! Any initial thoughts on strategy from other players, which might be conveyed on the command deck before my character skitters off to her lab? She could be convinced to contribute to the longevity of the ship, if others are also contributing, but otherwise she'll just prepare to science the shit out of this new planet. :P

Orders of business I've identified at a glance, in the event that we want to go for the "kumbaya" ending (or at least have more time to prep and have better starts):
1. Someone needs to assess Harmony's condition, so we have a better idea of what's actually on this list. (Location: Command)
2. We need one or more people to brave the storage area to grab some fuel, and bring it over to the reactor. That'll buy us time. (Location: Storage)
3. Anybody else should either be grabbing tools in Engineering to help with repairs, or scatter about the decks and be ready for other orders based on the results of (1).

@G I am happy to convey to this effect in IC, but it would effectively be like fifteen seconds of "look, if we're gonna actually collaborate and do this, this is what needs to happen, if I don't have any takers, I'm gonna just fuck off I guess" :P . Let me know if you want me to make a post for it, but didn't really seem reasonable to waste a full action on it.


As far as I am concerned, 'talking is a free action', within logical limits. Feel free to debate philosophy with others if you feel so inclined, just don't do it for pages and pages IC :P
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Postby Lunas Legion » Mon Apr 08, 2024 4:54 pm

...We don't know how much time we have, do we?

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Postby The GAmeTopians » Mon Apr 08, 2024 5:00 pm

Lunas Legion wrote:...We don't know how much time we have, do we?

Nope, we sure don't. Hence why I think the emergency fuel is the top priority - the less time we have, the more likely we are to all die before we can even get clear, never mind landing the damn thing.
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Postby Lunas Legion » Mon Apr 08, 2024 5:02 pm

The GAmeTopians wrote:
Lunas Legion wrote:...We don't know how much time we have, do we?

Nope, we sure don't. Hence why I think the emergency fuel is the top priority - the less time we have, the more likely we are to all die before we can even get clear, never mind landing the damn thing.


If we all died it'd be rather anti-climatic but also rather funny.

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Postby The GAmeTopians » Mon Apr 08, 2024 5:04 pm

Lunas Legion wrote:
The GAmeTopians wrote:Nope, we sure don't. Hence why I think the emergency fuel is the top priority - the less time we have, the more likely we are to all die before we can even get clear, never mind landing the damn thing.


If we all died it'd be rather anti-climatic but also rather funny.

It'd be hilarious... but on the other hand, I think it would be pretty cool if we managed to get our shit together and land the ship. Like I said in my post, we can still politick and scheme once we get there, but if we all focus up right now, we all get better starts planetside.
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Postby Lunas Legion » Mon Apr 08, 2024 5:06 pm

The GAmeTopians wrote:
Lunas Legion wrote:
If we all died it'd be rather anti-climatic but also rather funny.

It'd be hilarious... but on the other hand, I think it would be pretty cool if we managed to get our shit together and land the ship. Like I said in my post, we can still politick and scheme once we get there, but if we all focus up right now, we all get better starts planetside.


Well, we can all try, but uh I'm betting it's going to require us collectively to make a number of choices that aren't in our own individual interests.

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Postby The GAmeTopians » Mon Apr 08, 2024 5:09 pm

Lunas Legion wrote:
The GAmeTopians wrote:It'd be hilarious... but on the other hand, I think it would be pretty cool if we managed to get our shit together and land the ship. Like I said in my post, we can still politick and scheme once we get there, but if we all focus up right now, we all get better starts planetside.


Well, we can all try, but uh I'm betting it's going to require us collectively to make a number of choices that aren't in our own individual interests.

I think it's worth a shot. At the very least it'll buy us all time, even if we don't end up fully landing the ship.
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Postby Lunas Legion » Mon Apr 08, 2024 5:16 pm

The GAmeTopians wrote:
Lunas Legion wrote:
Well, we can all try, but uh I'm betting it's going to require us collectively to make a number of choices that aren't in our own individual interests.

I think it's worth a shot. At the very least it'll buy us all time, even if we don't end up fully landing the ship.


Hopefully. We potentially get into the prisoner's dilemma, but its 'every action taken to prolong the ship's demise is also not an action gathering stuff while letting other people gather more stuff'.

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Postby Cybernetic Socialist Republics » Mon Apr 08, 2024 5:17 pm

I don't think the research director trying to look over the ship before the chief of logistics gets a chance is a good look, but that's just me. I can see the Chief Engineer over me, but hard pressed to think of anyone else less suited than the research director to look over Harmony's condition.

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Postby The Orson Empire » Mon Apr 08, 2024 5:17 pm

G-Tech, could you clarify something- is my character chief of security for the entire ship, or is he equal in rank to Theyra's character?

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Postby The GAmeTopians » Mon Apr 08, 2024 5:19 pm

Cybernetic Socialist Republics wrote:I don't think the research director trying to look over the ship before the chief of logistics gets a chance is a good look, but that's just me. I can see the Chief Engineer over me, but hard pressed to think of anyone else less suited than the research director to look over Harmony's condition.

It's just telling the AI to spit out a report, essentially, not much skill involved, but I'm happy to change my action. Just waiting to hear back on a clarification from G.
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Postby The GAmeTopians » Mon Apr 08, 2024 5:20 pm

Praying for Joseph, man came right out the gate with the risky action, but man do we need a hero right now :P
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Postby Kreigsreich of Iron » Mon Apr 08, 2024 5:23 pm

The GAmeTopians wrote:Praying for Joseph, man came right out the gate with the risky action, but man do we need a hero right now :P

Holding out for a hero ‘till the end of the night…

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Postby Lagene » Mon Apr 08, 2024 5:31 pm

The GAmeTopians wrote:Praying for Joseph, man came right out the gate with the risky action, but man do we need a hero right now :P

Prolly gonna die thats too bad my faction was gonna be awesome

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Postby Kreigsreich of Iron » Mon Apr 08, 2024 5:33 pm

Lagene wrote:
The GAmeTopians wrote:Praying for Joseph, man came right out the gate with the risky action, but man do we need a hero right now :P

Prolly gonna die thats too bad my faction was gonna be awesome

Let’s not be too pessimistic here. A stiff upper lift and a few more degrees Celsius in global warming is all we need to pull through!

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Postby The GAmeTopians » Mon Apr 08, 2024 5:34 pm

Lagene wrote:
The GAmeTopians wrote:Praying for Joseph, man came right out the gate with the risky action, but man do we need a hero right now :P

Prolly gonna die thats too bad my faction was gonna be awesome

At which point another man who just happens to also be named Joseph wakes up from cryo :P
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