Chapter 1, First post
Years ago, you worked for Rocket Laboratories, on a team responsible for the cloning efforts to recreate the thought-to-be-extinct Mew. While on those teams your daughter became terminally ill. In your desperation, you were allowed to use the most advanced medical imaging technology of the time to create a full scan of her. Using her DNA, you had hoped to clone her body and bring her back to the land of the living.
Unfortunately, Mewtwo destroyed the whole lab, and set yourself and all of humanity back a full decade. Branded, and associated with morally gray research, no university or research lab in Kanto would accept your work, so you turned elsewhere, places where your name was less known. Application after application for new research position denied, you had nearly given up, when a letter arrived in the mail.
With no other options available, you responded. Your first break since the disaster, you packed all of your belongings and left for Unova. At first, you worked under a team researching Genesect remains. Your knowledge and results immediately impressed, and after a short time working for the organization you were able to write your own proposal, which was then approved.
Given an absurd amount of money and engineering resources, you were given two years to complete your plan and show results. It is now two and a half years since your project began. Funds are running dry – you only have enough money for two research assistants. Your proposal for extra money and an extension of the project has been in review for far too long. This is the last week and a half you’ll be able to pay yourself and your assistants.
The Project
As modern science has discovered, Pokémon, unlike humans, don't just have brains, but a special psychic organ that is maintained even after evolution. It can run arbitrary programs, with the correct modifications.This has been used in attempts at bio-computing before , but your task is more ambitious.
Your goal has been to repeat much of the work you did in the past, now with regular Pokémon. Using the latest research in psychic technology, you have already made small modifications to some Pokémon that allows them to house human-like intelligences.
Instead of just modifying their “software”, you are seeking to give Pokémon more powerful "hardware", and expand their capacities to enable sapience. You’ve accomplished the hardware work with an extremely powerful tool called PLICR, which can extract the DNA of a pokemon from its eggs and re-inject it without destroying the original egg.
If this works, Fusion Labs may be willing to grant you enough resources and leeway to finally realize your dreams of the past ten years. If this fails, you will be once more without a job and have an uncertain future.
Bearing The Fruits of Our Labors
After the resource cuts, there are currently 12 Pokémon remaining in the facility. All twelve have psychic profiles that have been expanded through genetic modification. After profiling and recording their parents with standard behavioral profiling methods, they were returned to their rescue centers.
Half were provisioned as a control group, receiving regular behavioral tests. The other half were provisioned for the psychic expansion process. Though the physical minds of the Pokémon have been modified with increased computational power, none so far have demonstrated increased ability or strength above statistical significance.
The other half has only had minor behavior and intellectual testing, and while their reports are not yet compiled, cursory review of testing results has shown them within the same ranges as their parents and siblings.
Today is the day. The moment the final human psychic profile is analyzed and completed, the process of psychic expansion will begin. Four profiles will be completed – clearly not enough, but the processing power required for both the scanning and the processing is substantial, and the expansion process will be similarly burdensome on the facility’s power and resources.
This was the last-ditch effort to show even the slightest results. There wasn’t enough time to perform full averaging and reductions on the human subject profiles. Four psychic and mental profiles, only slightly processed and analyzed. You must do what you can with these limited resources to show Dr. Anton that your work will bear fruit, given more time and resources. You’ve already managed to extend the project’s financial resources well beyond the initial projections, downsizing the team and resources consumed to the minimum needed to get the work done.
Unfortunately, the expansion process has never been attempted before, so the required processing time is only an estimate. At least the psychic detection hardware is state-of-the-art, able to detect psychic waves even in purely Dark types.
Looking over the chart and the estimates, you must decide the order of the Expansion process.
Be warned. Once again, you are in uncharted territory! This is not the first time you’ve granted sapience to Pokémon. This is the first time you’ll be attempting it without using human DNA.
Vote 1) Propose the order for running the Expansion process on a Pokemon.
At this facility, there are 8 members on the staff you interact with.
On your person
Legend:
You start in your office. What do you do?
Vote 2) [ ] Write-in: (140 characters or less)
After which you’ll have lunch and a quick meeting with the assistants, then prepare the first Pokémon subject for the expansion process. At least two people must be in the facility during the expansion process.
What do you do?
Vote 3) [ ] Write-in: (140 characters or less)
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Vote 4) (Optional) [ ] Write-in: (80 characters or less) What question about the world or situation would you like answered?
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A/N: This chapter was in third person. May change in future.
Beta Credit: BeaconHill, Pachycephalosaur
Teammate: FieryVictoryStar
Unfortunately, Mewtwo destroyed the whole lab, and set yourself and all of humanity back a full decade. Branded, and associated with morally gray research, no university or research lab in Kanto would accept your work, so you turned elsewhere, places where your name was less known. Application after application for new research position denied, you had nearly given up, when a letter arrived in the mail.
Dear Friend,
My colleagues and I at Fusion Laboratories have heard of your work and are building a team whose goal it is to draw from Pokemon their abilities in most latent form, and believe your experience in genetics would be a great fit for the work that needs to be done.
We are located on an island just off the coast of Unova, and are working to expand the intellectual abilities of all Pokémon, to show the world they are more than mere animals. Your work helped change the world once. Would you like to do so again? If you are interested, please reply soon.
Thank you for your time.
Dr. C. Anton,
PhD, Medical Engineering - PhD, Pokemon Biology - PhD, Bioinformatics
Research Director of Fusion Labs
P.S. For your convenience, you may reach me securely at [email protected]
My colleagues and I at Fusion Laboratories have heard of your work and are building a team whose goal it is to draw from Pokemon their abilities in most latent form, and believe your experience in genetics would be a great fit for the work that needs to be done.
We are located on an island just off the coast of Unova, and are working to expand the intellectual abilities of all Pokémon, to show the world they are more than mere animals. Your work helped change the world once. Would you like to do so again? If you are interested, please reply soon.
Thank you for your time.
Dr. C. Anton,
PhD, Medical Engineering - PhD, Pokemon Biology - PhD, Bioinformatics
Research Director of Fusion Labs
P.S. For your convenience, you may reach me securely at [email protected]
With no other options available, you responded. Your first break since the disaster, you packed all of your belongings and left for Unova. At first, you worked under a team researching Genesect remains. Your knowledge and results immediately impressed, and after a short time working for the organization you were able to write your own proposal, which was then approved.
Given an absurd amount of money and engineering resources, you were given two years to complete your plan and show results. It is now two and a half years since your project began. Funds are running dry – you only have enough money for two research assistants. Your proposal for extra money and an extension of the project has been in review for far too long. This is the last week and a half you’ll be able to pay yourself and your assistants.
The Project
As modern science has discovered, Pokémon, unlike humans, don't just have brains, but a special psychic organ that is maintained even after evolution. It can run arbitrary programs, with the correct modifications.This has been used in attempts at bio-computing before , but your task is more ambitious.
Your goal has been to repeat much of the work you did in the past, now with regular Pokémon. Using the latest research in psychic technology, you have already made small modifications to some Pokémon that allows them to house human-like intelligences.
Instead of just modifying their “software”, you are seeking to give Pokémon more powerful "hardware", and expand their capacities to enable sapience. You’ve accomplished the hardware work with an extremely powerful tool called PLICR, which can extract the DNA of a pokemon from its eggs and re-inject it without destroying the original egg.
If this works, Fusion Labs may be willing to grant you enough resources and leeway to finally realize your dreams of the past ten years. If this fails, you will be once more without a job and have an uncertain future.
Bearing The Fruits of Our Labors
After the resource cuts, there are currently 12 Pokémon remaining in the facility. All twelve have psychic profiles that have been expanded through genetic modification. After profiling and recording their parents with standard behavioral profiling methods, they were returned to their rescue centers.
Half were provisioned as a control group, receiving regular behavioral tests. The other half were provisioned for the psychic expansion process. Though the physical minds of the Pokémon have been modified with increased computational power, none so far have demonstrated increased ability or strength above statistical significance.
The other half has only had minor behavior and intellectual testing, and while their reports are not yet compiled, cursory review of testing results has shown them within the same ranges as their parents and siblings.
Today is the day. The moment the final human psychic profile is analyzed and completed, the process of psychic expansion will begin. Four profiles will be completed – clearly not enough, but the processing power required for both the scanning and the processing is substantial, and the expansion process will be similarly burdensome on the facility’s power and resources.
This was the last-ditch effort to show even the slightest results. There wasn’t enough time to perform full averaging and reductions on the human subject profiles. Four psychic and mental profiles, only slightly processed and analyzed. You must do what you can with these limited resources to show Dr. Anton that your work will bear fruit, given more time and resources. You’ve already managed to extend the project’s financial resources well beyond the initial projections, downsizing the team and resources consumed to the minimum needed to get the work done.
Unfortunately, the expansion process has never been attempted before, so the required processing time is only an estimate. At least the psychic detection hardware is state-of-the-art, able to detect psychic waves even in purely Dark types.
Looking over the chart and the estimates, you must decide the order of the Expansion process.
Be warned. Once again, you are in uncharted territory! This is not the first time you’ve granted sapience to Pokémon. This is the first time you’ll be attempting it without using human DNA.
——
Vote 1) Propose the order for running the Expansion process on a Pokemon.
- Deino (Dark/Dragon)
- 12 hours expected. (+/- 2 hours)
- Mienfoo (Fight)
- 6 hours expected (+/- .5 hour)
- Axew (Dragon)
- 8 hours expected (+/- 1 hours)
- Emolga (Electric/Flying)
- 6 hours expected (+/- .5 hour)
- Inkay (Dark/Psychic)
- 10 hours expected (+/- 2 hours)
- Snivy (Grass)
- 6 hours expected (+/- .5 hours)
- Eevee (Normal)
- 8 hours expected (+/- 3 hours)
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At this facility, there are 8 members on the staff you interact with.
- IT guy
- Not sure what he does. Not sure you want to know. You only see him when things are on fire. The less you see of him, the better he’s doing his job. Or so you’re told.
- Three guards
- Skylar- Guard at the front gate, access to the grounds
- Young guy, bored, power trippy.
- Ashley- Grounds monitor
- Middle-aged woman
- Plays with the Pokémon when they are allowed outside between testing sessions
- Reginald- Front desk
- Senior guard, watches tv all day
- “Monitors” the CCTV feeds
- Skylar- Guard at the front gate, access to the grounds
- An overnight janitor whom you’ll only see after 6 pm
- Your final three research assistants
- Jezebel - Pokemon Biology and care
- Trained in running the Expansion process for Pokemon
- Ryan- Pokemon Psychology and Behavior analysis
- Matthew- Statistics
- Trained in running the scanning process for Humans
- Jezebel - Pokemon Biology and care
- All three assistants help take care of the Pokémon and assist during the expansion process
On your person
- Clearance Keycard
- Keys to car for transport between home and work
- Wallet with $50 cash and a debit card where your paychecks get deposited
- Pokeball containing a Rotom that knows:
- Ominous Wind
- Shockwave
- Thunderwave
- Swift
- Foul Play
Legend:
- Human Psychic Resonance chamber
- Pokemon Mental Expansion chamber
- Yes, they’re the same sprite. They’re still different “chambers”
- Pokémon storage crates/cages
- Pokemon must be returned and secured inside their containers each night.
- Egg Incubator
- Incubates up to 16 Pokémon eggs at a time (based on the size of the eggs)
- Elevator to lower floors.
- You do not have an access card, and only rarely see people go up or down.
- Supply closet
- Generic office supplies
- Human (and Pokémon) first aid kits
- Other materials you don’t remember
- Terminal for human Psychic Resonance chamber
- Terminal for Pokemon Mental Expansion chamber
- Your office
Vote 2) [ ] Write-in: (140 characters or less)
After which you’ll have lunch and a quick meeting with the assistants, then prepare the first Pokémon subject for the expansion process. At least two people must be in the facility during the expansion process.
What do you do?
Vote 3) [ ] Write-in: (140 characters or less)
—-
Vote 4) (Optional) [ ] Write-in: (80 characters or less) What question about the world or situation would you like answered?
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A/N: This chapter was in third person. May change in future.
Beta Credit: BeaconHill, Pachycephalosaur
Teammate: FieryVictoryStar
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