MaMMI, a research proposal

[Midaychi]

 

MaMMI, (Modular advanced Man-Machine Interface, or 'Mamy' for short), a new advancement in miniaturization and plasmatic research, and a new slew of prototypes sent to your local science wing based on field studies in encephalopathic and nanite manipulation.

 

The support machines needed:

 

- Life support upgrade for surgery tables

 

- The PEANUT (P.E.A.N.U.T. - Printer-Enhanced Augmentative Nous Upload/download Technology)

 

Explanation:

(a foreward: 'ghost' is a term popularized to refer to the sum consciousness of a sentient non-SSD employee of NT)

 

A MaMMI functions in every way similar to an MMI, with these exceptions:

 

----- The MaMMI contains data on the ghost's dna (which can be voluntarily changed and customized at the PEANUT), as well as an encrypted hash of their identity. (Which is read only and allows for proper detective work)

 

----- MaMMI with ghost-containing brains can be inserted back into bodies, and surgically re-integrated with the spinal cord. Unfortunately, cloners cannot interface with bodies containing MaMMI and will complain about finding such.

 

----- MaMMI can upload a backup of the brain's contained ghost to a digital database while inside the PEANUT. If a blank brain is placed in a MaMMI, a priorly backed up ghost (read: this is not a positron) can be downloaded and written onto the brain using the PEANUT. The memories of the ghost are only recorded on backup, so anything happening afterward is likely fuzzy and/or inaccessible. (Due to quantum physics, two identical ghosts cannot be *active* at once, so attempting to write a backed up ghost while the respective employee is still in existence will fail. Due to the vastness of space and the unfortunate possibility of becoming lost, MaMMIs have a self-termination routine they can voluntarily run that deletes the contained ghost, allowing for a backup to be written to a new brain back in the PEANUT. The quantum status of a ghost is displayed in their entry at the PEANUT's interface)

 

----- MaMMI have a nanite powered adaptation colony that allows you to adapt certain bits of station equipment, and some things made in research, into its spinal stack interface. There are two ways to access this interface: 1. a screwdriver to open the panel in hand, or 2. Through the PEANUT

 

There are a number of slots, some of which are:

The vision stack - (Things like security and medical huds can be adapted here)

The auditory stack - (Things like station bounced radios and commlinks can be adapted here)

The cerebric stack - (Advanced restricted things go here, example: short range remote computer/button interface, or a fancy executive AR suite for corporate officials.)

The AUX stack(s) - (Auxiliary things like GPS, Id cards, PDAs with carts, loyalty implants, and the like go here)

 

The MaMMI has access to these devices through their hud.

 

( Note: These things are in the MaMMI itself, not part of the ghost. Losing the specific MaMMI they're in means you also lose the modules.)

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The life support upgrade

 

Creatable in research (or just a straight upgrade).

 

This enables living bodies strapped to upgraded surgery tables to continue living in absence of vital organs, as long as power and contact to surgery table remains uninterrupted.

This *does not* prevent bodies from dying due to toxins or bleeding or extraneous effects. Its purpose is to allow surgeons to remove and replace organs (including the brain) without having the body up and die on them.

 

This was designed to have a "lower tech" method for dealing with MaMMI, but also allows for operation on other vital organs without use of extreme chemical measures.

 

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Now, for the premier support machine of this suite,

 

The PEANUT

 

(Note: the PEANUT, like genetics scanners, requires the subject material to be in the pod. Thus it requires an external helping hand to operate.)

 

This is a dual purpose device. It is a large stationary device that has a pod for bodies and an interface. Without MaMMI, it can:

 

-- Scan any compatible inserted mob and store its design

 

-- Accept vital chemicals and materials for printing

 

-- Allows you to print out individual organs. Brains included. These brains are, of course, ghostless. (Nanotrasen takes no responsibility for the misuse and misconduct involving printed organs by personnel)

 

-- Allow you to customize and copy already-scanned designs to some degree. Humanoid bodies, primarily. You can change their UUID and UE at will, and can generate and print preview image of the results. Non humanoids mostly only let you customize the name.

 

-- Allows you to print out valid ghostless and completely SSD body designs, provided you have the proper materials. As an example, simply printing out a humanoid or corgi body would require synthmeat and clonexadone, whereas printing out a cybernetically enhanced humanoid would require metals and sometimes gold and glass, whereas printing out something like a xeno hunter would require plasma in addition. Etc. (As an additional clarification note, anything complex printed in this matter is completely passive and ghostless. Essentially a 'monkey human'. Certain simple organisms like the Nanotrasen standard corgi, monkey, and cat are able to maintain some sort of identity and capability.)

 

 

With a MaMMI

 

-- Allows you to insert a brain-containing MaMMI into the PEANUT. Inside the PEANUT, you can choose to back up the contained ghost (if there is one), or write a backed up ghost to the MaMMI (If there's no ghost inside the brain.)

 

-- Allows you to insert a MaMMI containing a brain with a ghost into a ghostless and MaMMI-less body inserted into the PEANUT. (Note: In the case of conflicts between the MaMMI's stored DNA and the new body's DNA, the MaMMI consciousness will be queried if they want to continue having the same DNA or accept the new DNA. If the new DNA is selected, the MaMMI will be updated accordingly. If the old DNA is selected, the PEANUT will automatically apply it to the mob before inserting the MaMMI.)

 

-- Allows you to customize what modules are attached to the spinal stack. Some modules can *ONLY* be installed through the PEANUT.

 

 

With stored ghosts

 

---A copy of a ghost, as well as body designs, can be saved onto special diamond wafer enhanced discs. These can be used for extended, hard copy backups and transfers. Some talks have been made into research efforts involving the direct use of these digital copies, but no prototypes have yet been finalized. One popular idea is replacing Permabrig with a digital VR server, and having these ghosts work off their sentence mining digital currency. (Note: If the only existing backups of a ghost are in machines, you can choose which one is active by forcing activity on one machine.)

 

--- Backed up ghosts who are detected as no longer existing outside of backups (ie, presumed dead and/or destroyed) will sometimes gain a digital consciousness within the PEANUT server. These ghosts will be given a pleasant simulated existence with access to a digital representation of an intercom and a digital representation of a requests console. They might also find other active ghosts there. (Meta read: ghost can choose to click on the PEANUT if they're backed up to enter a little inconsequential area in a temp mob using their dna with an intercom and a request console, and can use an intercom or requests console to ask people to build them a body. Of course, they won't have memories of what happened since they were last backed up, or at least the player would but IC they wouldn't. Treat it like fancy cloning, basically.)

 

--- Stored active ghosts can choose to wipe themselves from the server. (read: suicide, or get deleted by an asshole person outside using the PEANUT's interface while inside the PEANUT server.) While discouraged, this functionality was added due to legal dispute.

 

 

 

&ktzzt*

 

Antag uses are numerous.

 

- A way to change the 'read only' hash of the identity, but leave behind some indication that it was done for clever detectives (idunno, maybe the method used to do this leaves some math or hexidecimal footprint.)

- A covert implant that gives you access to hacking options while digitized by hijacking the PEANUT's encephalographic scanner and feeding it bogus data, and using an exploit to modify your ghost with extra tools. Could allow you to murder other ghosts in the server, and manually print your own body out, or jump to extra digital means.

- Crazy cybernetics, new interfaces, all sorts of things. It really is open ended.

- Extreme identity theft, or smuggling of your antag buddies in your pocket, etc.

 

[johannhawk]

[Midaychi]

 

herp

 

Yous gets a good research and diamonds and dens you print outs da mammi and the peanut, yous puts tugethers dat peanut machien, dens you take some bloke's brian out and put it in mammi, dens put it in peanut, den upload. From then on, yous can gibs dat bloke and then go to peanut and go 'I want to print out catbeast', feed it da meats n clonex, and it prints out tajaran. Dens you put a mammi in der with a blank brain and goes, 'hey retrieve dat bloke, and put it in dat tajaran', and wham now dat blok is a hackin furballs all day long ya see?

 

[johannhawk]

 

perfect explanation!

 

not kidding.

 

[Midaychi]

 

More seriously though,

Mammi is a fancy mmi with an equipment add-on system and ability to be used as a brain organ, can't be cloned.

 

Peanut is a machine that can backup ghosts in brains in mammis or write a backed up ghost to a blank brain in a mammi.

 

Peabut can also print out organs or stored/custonized templates of mobs provided you have materials.

 

Peanut can make and store these templates when you stuff a mob in there and scan. Put a corgi or spider or unathi or xeno hunter or whatever. Dead or alive doesn't matter.

 

Peanut can also insert mammis into living mobs that don't already have one or have a ghost, if the mammi has a brain with a ghost in it

 

End result: you can put a dead spider in the peanut, scan a template, then rename the template geroge. You can rip the mimes brain out, put it in a mammi, and put that mammi in the peanut. You can make a backup just in case. Use the peanut to install a pda and Id and optical mesons into the mimes mammi. Then you put the materials to print out George in, print out George, and insert the mimes mammi into it using the peanut. Bam you have the mime inside a spider named George with pda and optical mesons vision and his Id built in.

 

If the hos then gibs George, you can print a blank brain and a new mammi out, then download the mimes backup from the peanut.