| SUBMITTED: Stardate 95938.2 | FILED BY: LCDR H'ajah | SECURITY: Level 1 - Open |
LOCATION: TECH LAB 224N, DEEP SPACE 13
MISSION: INDUCE A CAPTIVE ORIGAMI BOT TO COPY ITS OPERATING SYSTEM CODE INTO A REPLICATED BLANK BOT AND RECORD THE DATA TRANSFER
OUTCOME: I CAN NOW MASS PRODUCE AN UNSTOPPABLE HORDE OF ORIGAMI BOTS AT WILL
KEY PERSONNEL:
CAPT Derenzis, Alyx
LCDR H'ajah
LT Jus, Hwaxov (NPC)
LTJG Kenuari (NPC)
LCDR H'ajah
LT Jus, Hwaxov (NPC)
LTJG Kenuari (NPC)
NARRATIVE: HEAVY WAS THE HEART OF OUR WEARY HEROINE, LADEN WITH THE GUILT OF HER TERRIBLE CRIME. ONLY HER SENSE OF HONOR AND DUTY GAVE HER THE STRENGTH TO RISE EACH MORNING AND FULFILL HER OBLIGATIONS BEFORE COLLAPSING INTO RESTLESS SLEEP EACH NIGHT. THE WOUND IN HER SOUL WOULD NOT HEAL, NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES HER COLLEAGUES ASSURED HER THAT THE FAULT WAS NOT HERS. ONLY HER LOST FRIEND COULD EASE HER CONSCIENCE.
ON THIS DAY, THE DIMINUTIVE CONQUEROR REANIMATION TASK FORCE CONVENED TO TEST A THEORY PUT FORTH BY THE CHIEF ENGINEER. I, H'AJAH, DAUGHTER OF SHAL, OF HOUSE CARGH IN EXILE, POSITED THAT ONE ACTIVE ORIGAMI BOT ENCOUNTERING A SECOND, INACTIVE ORIGAMI BOT MIGHT ATTEMPT TO INTERFACE AND, FINDING THE LATTER A HOLLOW SHELL, DUPLICATE ITS PROGRAMMING ONTO THE BLANK SYSTEM. THIS WOULD SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF HOW TO CAPTURE AND ANALYZE THE ORIGAMI BOTS' OPERATING SYSTEM CODE DESPITE OUR FAILURES TO INTERFACE WITH IT THUS FAR.
THE FIRST STAGE WAS TO TEST WHETHER A CAPTIVE ORIGAMI BOT COULD BE INDUCED TO COPY ITS CODE IN THE FIRST PLACE. ASSISTED BY CAPTAIN ALYX, DAUGHTER OF PHILLIP, THE TASK FORCE REPLICATED A BLANK DRONE, IDENTICAL IN DESIGN AND COMPOSITION TO THE UNITS COLLECTED FROM KELTERRE II IN EVERY RESPECT POSSIBLE, AND INTRODUCED IT INTO THE TEST CHAMBER. AS WE HAD HOPED, THE ACTIVE BOT INTERFACED WITH AND ANIMATED THE BLANK BOT. THEREAFTER, BOTH FUNCTIONED EXACTLY AS NORMAL, WITH NO OBSERVED DIFFERENCES IN THEIR BEHAVIOR.
THE NEXT STAGE OF THE EXPERIMENT WAS TO ATTEMPT TO SPY ON THE DATA TRANSFER BETWEEN ACTIVE AND BLANK ORIGAMI BOTS. IN ORDER TO AVOID CONFUSION, WE SEPARATED THE ORIGINAL AND THE REPLICATED BOTS, AND INTRODUCED INTO EACH A MODIFIED BLANK BOT. THE DESIGN OF THIS "DEBUG" BLANK INCLUDED A MODULE AFFIXED TO THE SIDE WHICH WOULD RECORD ALL DATA TRANSFERRED THROUGH THE BOT'S PROCESSOR NETWORK. LINKING THIS MODULE UP TO ISOLATED MONITORING SYSTEMS, WE WERE ABLE TO OBSERVE THE INNER WORKINGS OF THE DEBUG BOTS AS THE ACTIVE BOTS INTERFACED WITH THEM.
ALAS, THE ACTIVE BOTS (BOTH THE ORIGINAL AND THE REPLICATED) REJECTED OUR DEBUG BLANKS, APPARENTLY FAILING TO RECOGNIZE THEM AS KIN DUE TO THE MODIFICATIONS WE MADE. IT WAS THEREFORE NECESSARY TO IMPROVISE A MORE DEVIOUS SOLUTION: A DEBUG BLANK INTERFACED WITH AND FUSED WITH A DEFAULT BLANK, SUCH THAT THE DEBUG UNIT COULD MONITOR THE DATA TRAFFIC ON THE DEFAULT UNIT'S NETWORK. AS I HAD HOPED, THE ACTIVE BOTS INTERFACED WITH THE DEFAULT BLANKS BUT DID NOT CONSIDER THE FUSED CONNECTIONS TO THE DEBUG UNITS AS DISQUALIFYING, AND DUPLICATED THEIR CODE OVER. THIS TRANSFER WAS FULLY RECORDED BY OUR MONITORING SYSTEMS AND WE ARE ALREADY AT WORK INTERPRETING THE BOUNTY OF DATA CAPTURED.
RECOMMENDATION: ANALYZE AND DECOMPILE THE ORIGAMI BOT OPERATING SYSTEM SOFTWARE TO DETERMINE ITS GOALS, DRIVES AND PURPOSE. MOUNT ADDITIONAL RESEARCH MISSIONS TO KELTERRE II TO UPDATE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT THESE BOTS ARE CONSTRUCTING THERE.
OOC: Thanks to Katriel for GMing and Derenzis for attending. Link to the chatlog.