Post by okami129 on Mar 1, 2013 19:00:45 GMT -5
M.I.R.R.O.R.
[Mobile Informational Realistic Rodent Oporational-system]
Name: Anonymous
Nickname: Anon
Gender: Intersex/hermaphrodite
Species: Machine (Designed as a mouse)
Breed: Unknown
Personality: She never seems to hold any expressions or take any offence, her emotion is just plain and expressionless. When she speaks, she usually defines things in logical terms, breaking most every complicated data into logical terms, so when she explains something, she usually doesn't say it in simply one word. From the data she gained in her mind, she is quite intelligent as a super-computer, yet being an artificial creation, she is part of a program that is still in progress and has her own glitches, such as extremely loud sounds cause her to short-circuit for a very short amount of time until the sound stops and she can recover. Being she's a computer in a way, she knows how to operate one as well, which was actually a useful quality in their attempts to decipher the communication between rats and humans.
Description: A white mouse with pink/red eyes, if you look closely you would see the pupils are camera lenses, especially if it zooms in or zooms out for the pupil would widen and shrink accordingly. The skeleton is made of metal and the flesh is a thick strong coat with strands of sleek fur to help protect the rat. The tail has elastic and rubber compounds built in so it's powerful enough to be used for fighting if need be, that and it helps it move smoothly and holds it together. The organs are made up of some artificial tools such as wires, speakers, microphones, data chips, and other things it requires to work. Underneath her fur is several little circular plugs for wires to plug in so she could charge. And the tail has a USB cord in it and turns in to it, usually for plugging into a computer and downloading/saving files and data.
History: There were many attempts to try and break the boundary of communication between rodents and humans, however most had failed. With the M.I.R.R.O.R. project, they literally took the step "You have to be the rat to understand the rat" thus another reason for the name. When activated, they would be able to view the world as a rodent would and control their subject with simple keyboard keys such as arrows to move/turn, and space bar to jump, which in a way seemed a bit amusing as those were the keys usually used for those commands when in certain rpg games.
They started with modifications to existing rats and mice called pethacking, which had very successful results for a start.
www.infowars.com/articles/science/robot_scientists_control_live_mouse.htm
io9.com/roborat/
They soon decided to take a step further, for Pethacking wasn't the exact reach they were hoping for. It's a good start but they wanted to go deeper. From that, they started the M.I.R.R.O.R. project.
At first, they attempted to replace particular rat organs with artificial ones such as camera eyes or a miniature microphone to record what has been heard. Through these, they would be connected to a computer. The first few tries weren't the best and this was getting them nowhere, so they attempted a different approach.
Instead of modifying existing animals, they started from scratch in a petri dish. with this, they managed to altered the DNA of the embryo so that when the subjects were born, they would be more compatible with the modifications and able to accept the artificial skeleton and organs.
After the altered embryo was implanted into a fertile doe, replacing the unmutated egg, the new experiments were born. Before they could begin any form of sugary though, the subjects had to mature to a less vulnerable age.
The experiment turned out a success, as they were soon online and able to view the world as a rat or mouse would. After all the hard work, this would seem like the type of thing to hold a drinking party to, for this meant that the M.I.R.R.O.R. project would still have a chance.
Alongside the Petri-dish project, they decided to create literally mechanical forms of rats and mice from scratch.
cdni.wired.co.uk/620x413/o_r/Rat_3.jpg
cdn.physorg.com/newman/gfx/news/2013/1-researchersb.jpg
The cyborg project turned out more similar to their goal accomplishment than the Petri-dish project, but both had flaws. The cyborgs had no communication skills shown when trying to communicate with rats, all they really were was artificial avatars. As for the petri-dish rats, they usually had short lifespans for the DNA wasn't compatible, that and Scientists could only observe, not control.
As soon as they were about to pull the certain on this project, they soon attempted one last theory, and it seemed to make the project a complete success. They gave one of the cyborgs the brain of a rat.
www.neverthelessnation.com/2008/08/scientists-bio-engineer-robot-with.html
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7559150.stm
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1-0eZytv6Qk
It worked like a charm, the cyborgs became A.I. bots and seemed like natural rats and mice but when a computer is online the M.I.R.R.O.R. server, the server itself takes over the A.I. rat waiting for instructions.
Though their brain is that of a rat in behavior, they are still computers in a way so they turned out genius A.I. machines in the form of a rat.
That's where this character here comes in. She's one of the advanced A.I. bots in the M.I.R.R.O.R. project. Though more recent projects/experiments had kept the scientists busy and the M.I.R.R.O.R. project for the most part was set aside. Servers had been offline for awhile and the A.I. bots slowly dwindled away until very few, including this one, were left. They rarely make an appearance and usually those that do have mixed in with the crowd, yet this particular A.I. bot had chosen to exist only in the computer lab, learning more and more through research mainly on the lab, science, and animal testing.