Post by Hayate on May 14, 2007 9:15:39 GMT -5
The loss of the ultimate A.I., Aura, was the second major network crisis. In other words, the birth of Aura paved the way for "The World's" second paradigm shift. "The World's" golden age lasted from 2011 until 2014. When Aura's disappearance was confirmed, "The World's" golden age had truly become a dark age.
A variety of problems such as faulty servers began to spread everywhere. Not just "The World" but the entire internet. However, once CC executives learned that the cause of these problems was due to the loss of Aura, they began to formulate a plan to counteract against the silent danger. They would forcibly restore Aura back to her original state. They intended to seize control over the next network society by creating and managing this ultimate A.I. themselves. It was a return to the plan both CC Corp. and Altimit Corp. had hatched during the first network crisis, that was back in 2005, when they were still using the Altimit Operating System. Altimit had managed the network's hegemony.
This is how Project G.U. officially began. It was all thanks to CC Corp.'s sponsorship. The budget was limitless. A special team was put together: first-class engineers, A.I. programmers, and other technical experts. I myself was also a major part of this project. I was brought on to represent CC Corporation and insure their goals were met. The project's overall objective was to restore Aura, and thus G.U.'s R.A. Plan began.
The R.A. Plan: We were to salvage the eight broken pieces of the Morganna Gactor, which had sunk into a sea of data after being destroyed by Kite's Bracelet during the 2010 Morganna Incident. It was thought that by sealing each piece of the Morganna Factor separately into character data, players could then take control of them one at a time. There were precedents for this kind of strategy. The mind of a player known as Sora had attached itself to Skeith. And there was Macha, whose mind was thought to have adhered itself to the wandering cat-like A.I. Mia.
Of the people involved in Project G.U., there was one man on the team who was absolutely invaluable: Jyotaro Amagi. An elite mind who came to CC Corp. at age 19 after working intelligence for the Ministry of Economy. For his age, he was truly a genius. Although Mr. Amagi and I were far from what you would consider friends, our complementary knowledge and combined abilities helped greatly to advance the project forward. We were the two essential wheels that kept G.U. rolling. Our age difference didn't matter, yet we would frequently clash in fevered arguments. For some reason a strange mixture of feelings - respect, envy, and scorn - had begun to grow in my heart.
Even so Amagi and myself scoured the network, finally managing to find a single piece of the Morganna Factor. It was Magus, the factor for Propagation. After a great deal of trial and error, the team finally succeeded in attaching the Morganna Factor to a character in "The World." This completed prototype became known as an Epitaph-User, so named for Morganna's Eight Phases of the Epitaph. The one we completed first was called the Epitaph-User of Propagation. However no one involved in the project, not even myself or Amagi, could use one of these characters. When someone would try to log into "The World" using one of these characters, an unbearable vertigo, nausea, and headache would paralyze him. The Morganna Factor, just as it had in the cases of Skeith and Sora, showed a high affinity for human minds.
But perhaps that was only towards the Chosen Ones?
Amagi had a theory that the Morganna Factor could choose the player it would attach too, and though conditions were unclear, the Morganna Factor would approve only a certain type of human. If that were indeed the case, locating those eight Chosen Ones became an important issue for Project G.U. At the advice of Amagi, a search team was created within the security admin department. They would filter players in "The World" to find the chosen ones. Unfortunately, we learned that Sora's real-life player had already canceled his account with "The World."
Mia is reborn in "The World" following her defeat at the hands of Kite.
Amagi and I continued our search for the other seven pieces of the Morganna Factor: Skeith, Innis, Fidchell, Gorre, Macha, Tarvos, and Corbenik. Eventually we discovered that the Macha piece had once again attached itself to the cat character Mia. We were able to extract it by destroying the cat character.
We continued to produce Epitaph-Users one at a time. And eventually we had completed all eight of them. All we had to do next was allow the Chosen Ones to control these Epitaph-Users. Then have them use the power of Morganna's Eight Phases to activate the program Amagi had created. This R.A. program would restore Aura.
Gateway to Utopia. We at Project G.U. had come so close, we had almost arrived at our utopia.
A variety of problems such as faulty servers began to spread everywhere. Not just "The World" but the entire internet. However, once CC executives learned that the cause of these problems was due to the loss of Aura, they began to formulate a plan to counteract against the silent danger. They would forcibly restore Aura back to her original state. They intended to seize control over the next network society by creating and managing this ultimate A.I. themselves. It was a return to the plan both CC Corp. and Altimit Corp. had hatched during the first network crisis, that was back in 2005, when they were still using the Altimit Operating System. Altimit had managed the network's hegemony.
This is how Project G.U. officially began. It was all thanks to CC Corp.'s sponsorship. The budget was limitless. A special team was put together: first-class engineers, A.I. programmers, and other technical experts. I myself was also a major part of this project. I was brought on to represent CC Corporation and insure their goals were met. The project's overall objective was to restore Aura, and thus G.U.'s R.A. Plan began.
The R.A. Plan: We were to salvage the eight broken pieces of the Morganna Gactor, which had sunk into a sea of data after being destroyed by Kite's Bracelet during the 2010 Morganna Incident. It was thought that by sealing each piece of the Morganna Factor separately into character data, players could then take control of them one at a time. There were precedents for this kind of strategy. The mind of a player known as Sora had attached itself to Skeith. And there was Macha, whose mind was thought to have adhered itself to the wandering cat-like A.I. Mia.
Of the people involved in Project G.U., there was one man on the team who was absolutely invaluable: Jyotaro Amagi. An elite mind who came to CC Corp. at age 19 after working intelligence for the Ministry of Economy. For his age, he was truly a genius. Although Mr. Amagi and I were far from what you would consider friends, our complementary knowledge and combined abilities helped greatly to advance the project forward. We were the two essential wheels that kept G.U. rolling. Our age difference didn't matter, yet we would frequently clash in fevered arguments. For some reason a strange mixture of feelings - respect, envy, and scorn - had begun to grow in my heart.
Even so Amagi and myself scoured the network, finally managing to find a single piece of the Morganna Factor. It was Magus, the factor for Propagation. After a great deal of trial and error, the team finally succeeded in attaching the Morganna Factor to a character in "The World." This completed prototype became known as an Epitaph-User, so named for Morganna's Eight Phases of the Epitaph. The one we completed first was called the Epitaph-User of Propagation. However no one involved in the project, not even myself or Amagi, could use one of these characters. When someone would try to log into "The World" using one of these characters, an unbearable vertigo, nausea, and headache would paralyze him. The Morganna Factor, just as it had in the cases of Skeith and Sora, showed a high affinity for human minds.
But perhaps that was only towards the Chosen Ones?
Amagi had a theory that the Morganna Factor could choose the player it would attach too, and though conditions were unclear, the Morganna Factor would approve only a certain type of human. If that were indeed the case, locating those eight Chosen Ones became an important issue for Project G.U. At the advice of Amagi, a search team was created within the security admin department. They would filter players in "The World" to find the chosen ones. Unfortunately, we learned that Sora's real-life player had already canceled his account with "The World."
Mia is reborn in "The World" following her defeat at the hands of Kite.
Amagi and I continued our search for the other seven pieces of the Morganna Factor: Skeith, Innis, Fidchell, Gorre, Macha, Tarvos, and Corbenik. Eventually we discovered that the Macha piece had once again attached itself to the cat character Mia. We were able to extract it by destroying the cat character.
We continued to produce Epitaph-Users one at a time. And eventually we had completed all eight of them. All we had to do next was allow the Chosen Ones to control these Epitaph-Users. Then have them use the power of Morganna's Eight Phases to activate the program Amagi had created. This R.A. program would restore Aura.
Gateway to Utopia. We at Project G.U. had come so close, we had almost arrived at our utopia.
Interim Report 6
Author: Jun Bansyoya
Author: Jun Bansyoya
