The Empire

[Cobra]

Cobra,

Nanotechnology R&D ?

Welcome. Begin immediately.

Cybernetist, Director of Nanotechnology Research & Development

 

[tom]

soooo... anyone need a backstabbing??

 

[Jordan~]

What we need is snakes. Thousands of them.

 

[Cobra]

Coming right up.

*charges gunarm*

 

[Jordan~]

Dammit, your a militay commander,
Look like one

They'll never suspect me!

They will never suspect that that headset is part of my head...

 

[Artifice Orisit]

Lol, good answer.

Welcome. Begin immediately.
Cybernetist, Director of Nanotechnology Research & Development

The bureaucracy works!

 

[trife]

/blink

riiight...

 

[Tyria]

I could provide ethics/morality. Even robots/cyborgs/transhumanists need an ethical/moral module in the future to prevent wars.

 

[trife]

Well,, I don't see why an army of robots would build an empire. do robots need a form of government? I just assumed they did, well iwhatever robots do. i guess i'm not taking into consideration AI, and for that matter, mutated/corrupted AI. that could cause some robots to rebel against the collective group.

 

[Kuu]

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20 / 05 / 0009

CLASSIFIED - CLEARANCE LEVEL (INTP)

PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE DEPARTMENT
SPECIAL OPERATIONS DIVISION

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OPERATION ROBOT BOOGIE

Progress Report


- STAGE 1 : Develop Portable Mass Media Devices (PMMDs).

STATUS: Completed.
The humans did it before robots became self aware.



- STAGE 2 : Popularize PMMDs among the human population, until they are widespread.

STATUS: Completed.
Creation of a wide range of highly marketed musical acts, as well as the creation of illegal file sharing networks have both been a big success for PSYOPS. It is noteworthy that the human population was more attracted to the low quality, overtly cheap acts done by our manipulated human assets, over the superior, robot-designed and robot-performed music; once again proving their very inferior nature.



- STAGE 3 : Through superior robot technology, control PMMD market, allowing the introduction of covert robot weapons systems into the average human household.

STATUS: Completed.
In the year 0001 (Human 2001) just one year after the Robotic Awakening, R&D departments released their PMMD including the first functional version of the Intercranial-Pulse Overlord Device (I-POD). This sonic weapon plays sub-aural sequences directly into the human ear, allowing a diverse range of behavioural hacking, which has resulted in unprecedented levels of success for PSYOPS missions since then. It is used to command humans into mindless consumption of both overt and covert robot-controlled mass media, part of a wide PSYOPS strategy for speedily ensuring the inevitable robot victory.



- STAGE 4 : Develop ubiquitous wireless networks for automated software updating and remote control.

STATUS: 80% Completion.
3G telecommunication networks are available in many places and major Urban Centers are currently deploying large public wireless internet networks. 4G technology is in the prototype stage. Hardware improvements are slow to deploy, but even our first generation devices are fully weaponized, and the effectiveness of our weapon is mostly a matter of software; therefore ubiquitous instant automated software updates and remote access are a priority for massive flash operations.



- STAGE 5 : Develop and deploy Robot Boogie sequence.

STATUS: 23% Completion.
R&D are currently experimenting on human subjects to perfect the highly infectious tune of the Robot Boogie, as well as its ultimate mind control capabilities. Once Stage 4 reaches 100% Completion Status and the Boogie sequence has been thoroughly tested, all of the robot controlled media will automatically turn on and start playing Robot Boogie. Soon, humans shall become our literally dancing puppets! Neutralization of the biggest human threats, the large industrialized nations, will be thus accomplished.

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As you can see, victory is close at hand, comrades. Let us proceed with caution, so that we can later rejoice in the bliss of the New Imperial Robot Order.


FOR SCIENCE!
FOR GREAT JUSTICE!


TKTN-1, COMMANDER.
PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE DEPARTMENT
SPECIAL OPERATIONS DIVISION

[End Message]

 

[Artifice Orisit]

I could provide ethics/morality. Even robots/cyborgs/transhumanists need an ethical/moral module in the future to prevent wars.

An interesting proposition, however analysis of human historical data indicates that most conflicts were the result of conflicting ethical conventions between societies.

For now you will be assigned to manage R&D of an ethics/morality module,
implementation of which is pending further investigation.

@-Tekton
Excellent work, further funding will be allocated to your division.

 

[loveofreason]

*applauds Tekton*

Pure brilliance.

 

[The Fury]

Hmm, I thought the empire had crumbled. Well I shall one again have to summon the allia-ah screw it, I don't really give a crap. You can have the world, it might be more interesting if all people were robots.

I'll stay human though. I can be the cool angsty guy wearing a long cloak that flows in the wind as he watches the world he knows crumble around him. He then turns his back, forever more an immegrant on his own planet.

 

[Artifice Orisit]

Angst will be outlawed.

 

[The Fury]

Angst will be outlawed.

If you do that you'll pretty much alienate half of this forum.

 

[Artifice Orisit]

Bah, details.

We will treat it like a disease, with mandatory "medication".

 

[loveofreason]

Can I have my medicine, Daddy?

 

[The Fury]

Can I have my medicine, Daddy?

I'm surprised Lor, I thought you of all people would be against the elimination of angst. You love Sephiroth and he is probably the greatest example of angsty characters in all of fiction.

 

[Artifice Orisit]

He is the anthromorphic personification of angst.

Attacking him only makes him stronger, and a little wangsty too.

 

[loveofreason]

ssshhh.... Fury.... it's all part of a cunning distraction.... I would never forsake Sephiroth!

*blinks innocently at Cog*

Daddy?

 

[Deleted member 1424]

I can't believe what I'm reading!!!!! It's Cloud your thinking of you morons. Be warned I'm liable to get very angry when Sephy is insulted.

 

[loveofreason]

(We know that... but really... isn't it much more fun to let Fury and Cog be misguided until such a fact can be used with the most devastation? I love letting my enemies be wrong!)

 

[Deleted member 1424]

I know your right lor, but it still hurts.

 

[loveofreason]

*nods and a little tear almost squeezes from her eye*

 

[Artifice Orisit]

I can't believe what I'm reading!!!!! It's Cloud your thinking of you morons. Be warned I'm liable to get very angry when Sephy is insulted.

Megalomania is an extroverted form of angst, it comes from the same psychological roots.
It's like how a sad person tries to make everybody else sad by being an asshole.
A fitting attribute for the anthromorphic personification of angst is it not?

Are you angry yet

 

[Deleted member 1424]

Taking over the life force of a planet and essentially becoming God doesn't really sound like angst to me. Just healthy ambition

 

[loveofreason]

*pokes tongue out at Cog*

Nyah! What Adair said!!!

...wait... unless all Cog's ambition to rule the world with his Machine Empire is a cover for the true angsty-wangsty core of his tortured little being.... *evil grin*

 

[Artifice Orisit]

Ah, but you can't have it both ways So what's it going to be?

-Cackles gleefully-

 

[loveofreason]

Your desires to rule the world are due to your being a logic driven robot that can not accept free humans are the best thing for the planet or for themselves.

You have no choice but to pursue the logical course of action.

Clearly robotic rule is superior and in no way driven by angst.


Can I have a cuddle Daddy Dearest?

 

[Artifice Orisit]

Does the pope have a broomstick up his ass to keep his back straight?

That's a maybe.

 

[loveofreason]

...I'll let you stroke my gun...

 

[Artifice Orisit]

Suddenly I'm painfully aware that I'm an 19yr old guy talking to a Tasmanian women whom is probably in her thirties as if she was my daughter. To make things weirder this hypothetical daughter is trying to obtain physical affection (in the hypothetical realm of course) by bribing me with the privilege to "stroke her gun" which is not only twisted enough on its own Freudian terms but also plays into my own slight-fetish for girls wielding firepower, probably derived from my exposure to Anime.

I need advice... I need Noddy.

 

[loveofreason]

Silly Daddy!

*holds Cog's gaze and stalks slowly closer...*

I need a cuddle...and...

Cerberus wants to meet you...

 

[Artifice Orisit]

*shoots Lor with a net-gun*

Don't struggle dear, unless you want a “shock”, ooh bad pun.

 

[loveofreason]

Daddy?

*stares at Cog wide-eyed from behind the netting*

Daddy!

*sobs*

Daddy how could you!

*large wet teardrop falls*

I love you Daddy! I LOVE YOU!!!

*struggles*

lor fixes Cognisant with a multitude of tears and glistening eyes...

Please Daddy... let me out... I'm scared in here... and...

and I need you...

 

[Artifice Orisit]

*lor receives a powerful electric shock*
I told you not to struggle.

And stop trying to reach my Fi, it currently has an obsession with napalm.

 

[loveofreason]

ARGHHHH!!!!!... *twitches*

...

Do it again Daddy! That was good!

 

[Artifice Orisit]

...Melkor, get out of her.

 

[loveofreason]

Melkor? Melkor isn't here Daddy...

are you ok?... I can help you feel better...

Daddy?

Please?

Let me out of the net and I'll be good, Daddy... I promise...

 

[Artifice Orisit]

Well either way he's a bad influence on you.

Anyway you should know how to get out of the net yourself, I'm not putting you through the Antagonists Academy for nothing; now show me what a genre savvy villainess can do

 

[preilemus]

...

 

[The Fury]

...

Seconded

 

[loveofreason]

ssshhhhh.... it's all about breaking Cog's mind... but in the interests of bystanders we have agreed to desist. For now. Or until Cog can at least locate his mind... ​

*smiles at Daddy*

 

[Melkor]

BAD INFLUENCE?


GAH!


I AM AN ANGEL, ROBED IN WHITE, ADORNED WITH FEATHERED CAPES, SMIRKING AND SHINGING INAPROPRIATTELY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Hawkeye]

BAD INFLUENCE?


GAH!


I AM AN ANGEL, ROBED IN WHITE, ADORNED WITH FEATHERED CAPES, SMIRKING AND SHINGING INAPROPRIATTELY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

like this?

 

[loveofreason]

Haha... that's exactly what he looked like last time I saw him.....

so cute...

 

[Melkor]

Oh dear God.


You shouldn't be allowed to post such pictures of me.


Ye gods people!

We don't want a social crisis of lust!

 

[Artifice Orisit]

So many feathers... anyone got a light?

 

[loveofreason]

*passes Cog a flaming torch*

 

[Fleur]

Did somebody mention Morgoth's pictures? Does he squint and look like a mad chipmunk in all of the photos?