Gundam Seed Killer's Realm
A/N: Alright, I'm back. No thanks to a certain small robot.
("I told you it was an accident!")
You gnawed the router!
("It looked good and old, how was I supposed to know you were still using it?")
It had cables attached! Ugh, I'm too disgusted to deal with you right now. I'll feed you to the Zerg later.
("Good lord you're dumb. Zerg infest organics-")
You do recall my findings on the Infested Gauss Rifle, correct?
("...")
Good. Now, K'GoN was only partially correct when he said Killer's Realm was going on hiatus. The main storyline will be put on hold as both me and Velshard finalize our mechanical designs. However, I'll be writing little Omakes and Pseudo-Phases designed to shed a little light on the differences between Killer's Realm and Canon Seed, ranging from a raid on a Blue Cosmos encampment by a SpecOpsIntel team, to the secret of how a slight of a girl manage to topple Yzak, a well-trained and experience Red Coat.
But, without further ado, let me proceed with this, an Omake inspired by the style of some of Velshard's rather more generalized articles (generalized meaning they spread out from a single profile to an entire multi-page science report):
Omake: The Inner Workings of Jack Kagizaki
Encryption Code: OMEGA-KAI-ARCHER-MU
Public Key: N/A
To: CODENAME - BOGEYMAN
From: ARTURIA
Subject: JACK KAGIZAKI
Classification: TOP SECRET, CODE-WORD ******* *******
Security Override: CRIMSON LEVEL IV
Primary Server File-Transfer Protocol (LARGESS): TRUE
A.I. Over Watch Protocol (GOSPEL): TRUE
/ESTABLISHING LINK WITH PRIMARY SERVER/
/LINK ESTABLISHED/
/REMOTE FILE EXTRACTION-RECONSTITUTION COMPLETE/
/OPENING FILE/
Dated: 7-19-70
Jack Kagizaki is an interesting human, in more than one way. Through remote communications with the nanomachines populating his body, a great deal of his history and psychology has been laid bare. Along with this were detailed records of Jack's body. Apparently, Jack's physiology is even less human than that of Sixth-Generation Symbions.
REGARDING THE 'TSUKURIGOE' NANOMACHINES
This is due to the Earth Alliances 'Caligula' nanomachines, which were originally a substandard combination of the Alliances own prototype Third-Generation* nanomachines and our production-grade Fourth-Generation* and prototype Fifth-Generation* nanomachines, which they acquired from the collective corpses of 5th Marine Battalion's 27th Infantry Platoon. Whatever trauma that killed 27th Platoon somehow disabled their nanomachines so that the Alliances own nanomachines could dismantle or reprogram them.
Apparently, the Caligula nanomachines were mass-produced internally by surgically-implanted micro-factories which also programmed them them duties. Much of these involved procedures considered rather base by Orb nano-technicians, complicating them and proving fatal in 97% of the cases. The other 3% (i.e., Jack) was not fatal, but proved to be quite problematic. Unlike modern Orb nanomachine programs, the Caligula machines did not avoid modifications to the brain. The nanomachines' own data is strangely unclear, being badly erroneous, damaged, or wiped completely, but an event occurred during the cerebral modifications that effectively scrambled the AI of the nanomachines of the cerebrum.
Now, individually, nanomachine AI are only about as smart as a 22nd-century calculator. However, the approximate 5.78 x 10^7 nanomachines in Jack's cerebrum were interconnected by the event, creating two separate AI personalities, each the equivalent of a low-level AICA.
These were of course the pseudo-personalities self-identified as 'Chimamare' and 'Hajikidasu'.
Records from the nanomachines indicate that at precisely .0000056871 seconds after the cerebral event, the collective nanomachine personality 'Chimamare' implemented a newly generated procedure involving the synchronization of each of his constituent nanomachines to Jack's bodily movement neurons, effectively allowing him control over Jack's body. At .0000621 seconds, Chimamare had full control over the body and proceeded to eliminate all surrounding Alliance personnel and destroy the Caligula facility. At 92.02109 seconds, the personality 'Hajikidasu' began to contact and reprogram the nanomachines in the other bodily areas, effectively giving birth to hundreds of lesser collective personalities.
128.741 seconds after the event, Chimamare left the remains of the Caligula facility and Hajikidasu finalized the reprogramming of the last 1.27 x 10^5 nanomachines.
The next day, Hajikidasu had fully reprogrammed all the Caligula nanomachines and they had begun to reproduce, creating 2,982 rapidly growing collective personalities scattered throughout the entirety of Jack's body. The total collective processing power of the nanomachines at this point equaled one of the prototype quantum supercomputers at Huynh Industries R&D.
This was not due to Alliance technology however, this was entirely due to the successive generational evolution of the nanomachines - collectively self-identified as the 'Tsukurigoe', or 'Unnatural Voices' (Note: Investigate Tsukurigoe predilection for Japanese identifiers.) Unlike current Orb nanomachines, the Tsukurigoe are not limited to creating only current-generation nanomachine designs. Each personality directs its base nanomachine collective in its reproductive efforts, first creating three next-generation bodies per currently operating reproduction nanomachine, before uploading an updated AI program into two of the bodies and then transferring the original AI of each last-gen nanomachine into the last body. The next-generation nanomachines then ensure to update all AI before using the now empty last-gen nanomachine bodies as base material for both further reproduction and other projects.
As such, the current Tsukurigoe nanomachines are completely different from their original Caligula bodies, and with the divergent evolutionary paths each collective takes, the internal organs, muscles, bones and nerves of Jack's body are remarkably similar to ecosystem with high biodiversity. Each collective is evolved to be the most effective in its assigned task and area of dominance inside Jack's body, including from continued modifications to Jack's body and aggressive defense against invading bacterium and hostile nanomachines.
At the time of this report, the number of nanomachines is approximately 1.2987 x 10^21 nanomachines, constituting 10,836 collective personalities. This number is divided up into 1,708 'clans' depending on specific organ, muscle, skin layer, or bone of residence, and then grouped into 139 'nations'. Rather than any individual personality retaining command of the overall nation or clan, these are ordered by collective self-interest, each personality commanding its nanomachines to benefit the whole...as well as itself.
Interestingly, along with the communal self-interest that characterizes the Tsukurigoe's 'command', there appears to be a singular entity with authority over the entire nanomachine swarm, even above the cerebral personalities 'Chimamare' and 'Hajikidasu'. This entity is, according to the Tsukurigoe's records, based in the DNA micro-computer implanted on Jack's occipital bone.
Efforts to contact this entity were inconclusive, although speculation points toward the entity being affected by the same event that created Chimamare and Hajikidasu, thus with it gaining a form of sentience and command over the maintenance nanomachines assigned to it, allowing it to evolve along with the nanomachines. Simulations postulate that the DNA computer has progressed to a developmental point giving it an equivalent computational power to that of 87% of the Tsukurigoe swarm.
Incidentally, the total power of the DNA Computer with the entire Tsukurigoe swarm and Jack's own mental power almost rival my own.
Study of the Tsukurigoe Nanomachines have recently produced the currently in-development Sixth-Generation* Nanomachines, based primarily on the digestive personality 'Hanamochinaranu' (disgusting, intolerable) the personality in charge of the lower end of the digestive tract, utilizing it's unique nanomachine command structure and methods of matter re-purposing (Incidentally, Jack has never needed to excrete solid or liquid waste).
REGARDING COLLECTIVE PERSONALITIES 'CHIMAMARE' AND 'HAJIKIDASU'
The collective personality known as 'Chimamare' is one of the two dominant nanomachine collectives, primarily occupying the right hemisphere of the cerebrum. This is due to the effects of the 'event' that created it, wherein the nanomachines in the right hemisphere interconnected and formed it. As such, Chimamare can be said to be entirely right-brained in its thinking processes. For some reason, Chimamare also manifested repressed aspects of Jack's personality such as sadism, brutality, psychopathy, and other, equally violent parts.
As such, Chimamare is right-handed, has a preference for melee combat, and is incredibly artistic, some of his combat actions resulting in quite impressive artistic creations on the surrounding environments.
His opposite, 'Hajikidasu' was 'born' in the left hemisphere, and as such is extremely logical and orderly. Unlike Chimamare, he is not actively malicious or violent. His 'morality' is more in line with the self-interested neutrality of the rest of the personalities, and can be said to be 'mercenary' in his allegiances, balancing loss vs. gain in any and all decisions. That said, he is an extremely good marksman with his left hand, is well-suited to ranged fighting, and can create and implement logical plans with a relative high likelihood of success within seconds.
Interestingly, neither Chimamare nor Hajikidasu actually operate independant of Jack's original personality, or even independant of each other. Indeed, all three 'core' personalities are somewhat inclusive. While any one personality has overall command of the body at the time, the subordinate two are always active, providing information and 'advice' to the currently dominant personality, regardless of whether it heeds the advice.
When dominant, Jack is the most normal of the three, acting much like a teenage boy his age, albeit with Coordinator-level reflexes and intelligence, along with a great understanding of mobile weapon design and a disturbing amount of knowledge on the human body acquired from the nanomachine personalities. He is relatively more susceptible to the influence of Chimamare and Hajikidasu than they are in regards to him or each other, a fact that may have influenced his mental development since the Caligula Project.
Respective to the others, Hajikidasu is the second most influential of the personalities, as well as the second most 'normal'. Due to his rather logical nature, he can come off as standoffish to most people he meets while dominant, an event that rarely happens due to Haji's reclusive nature. His mathematical ability gives him impressive long-range accuracy, making him the effective marksman of the trio.
Chimamare is the token 'insane' personality. Most people who meet Jack while Chim is dominant immediately dislike or outright hate him, for good reason. Insultingly rude, and a horrid prankster at the best of times, Chimamare also has a nigh-insatiable bloodlust. Self-described as an 'artist of blood and internal organs', his preferred combat area is melee, and he is an expert with all bladed weapons, as well as anything he can improvise from immediate surroundings. He is the most influential of the personalities, being the first one to attune to Jack's neurons.
REGARDING JACK KAGIZAKI'S BODY
Jack Kagizaki's body is almost completely unidentifiable as human on the inside. Years of modifications carried out by the Tsukurigoe have made Jack a Symbion of unparalleled advancement.
His entire skeletal structure has been reinforced with overlaid nanofilaments of pseudo-organic materials, including some that are only vaguely identifiable as isotopic allotropes of calcium, iron and carbon. Much of the bone marrow has been replaced with a sort of polymeric foam incorporating micromachine structures in its entirety, allowing it to create both blood cells and nanomachines, as well as reinforcing the bones' ability to withstand pressure.
The muscles have been stripped and reconstituted. Similar to the skeleton's reinforcement, elastic nanotubes of various materials replace some of the less reactive muscular fibers, while bundles of electroactive polymers envelope the muscle and nerves. As a result, Jack is far stronger than any similarly-aged teenager of adequate build, not to mention faster.
In the respiratory system, microfilters installed in almost all open spaces restrict the progress of allergens and invasive microbes, while allowing necessary gases to pass into the lungs. Unlike normal human lungs, Kagizaki's are capable of utilizing almost all gases he inhales for some purpose or another, whether directly though his altered biology, or indirectly through the resident Tsukurigoe. Waste gases produced by the processes are exhaled as normal.
The circulatory system is almost normal, disregarding the molecular webbing that reinforces their structure, or the artificial 'blood-lock' openings that allow nanomachines to enter or exit them. The heart, however, is treated the same as the muscles, giving it much greater pumping ability.
The digestive system has been almost unrecognizably overhauled. The stomach is much smaller than normal, although it seems to make up for this by a collection of extremely potent acids and the nanomachines rapidly digesting all ingested items, ranging from normal food to metal. All is rendered down into a sludge and stripped of material usable by the organs, before the rest being dumped into the lower end where Tsukurigoe collect and use the waste for reproduction or as raw material for further biology adaptation.
The nervous system shows signs of nanomachine modifications to make it similar to that of Coordinators, albeit with slight micro-armor protecting the nerve clusters and lines of automated relay micromachines surrounding the individual nerves.
In the cerebrum, Chimamare and Hajikidasu's realm, things have changed both much and little. While still recognizable as human, Jack's brain now houses a number of small (centimeter-size) cybernetic augmentations, the use of which neither collective personality was willing to provide. Also, a number of the synapses have been changed, modified, similarly to that of Coordinators. New synapses have also appeared, easily recognizable as nanomachine work. While the specific nature of the changes cannot be divined, the overall effect is apparent, with Jack capable of greater memory retention and quicker reaction speed, not to mention a greater overall intelligence. And he had a disturbing tendency to finish other peoples sentences for a year after he arrived, at least until he stopped.
CONCLUSION
The Tsukurigoe nanomachines and the chances to Jack Kagizaki's body are a wealth of biological, nano-engineering, and neurological science. The data from some of the other personalities in Jack alone could revolutionize our nano-lathing technology. I suggest that further study be done into both factors for further advancement in respective fields, and programs undertaken to implement these advances.
*See [Bogeyman]'s report "Nanomachines and Human Kine" for further information.
- The Author -
So, as if we all didn't know it already: Jack is majorly screwed the fck up.
("I think we could extrapolate that from the report.")
Zerg. Infested K'GoN.
("Eep.")
Review Replies:
Kojiro Kun: As the one planning the battle, trust me, it's nothing pretty. Well, from a certain point of view, hyper-beams and exploding Constantines could be considered pretty...
Alex Yamato: I'm back, now stop feeding the troll. And that would be a no on the Lina Inverse or Nanoha. K'GoN's already...met Lina, and he also does not have a good track record with girls, of either magical or normal varieties.
("Alright, so we traveled back in time and hit Chixculub. So what? It's not like we blew up anyone or thing important. And how was I supposed to know about Sailor Moon!")
...Don't...please don't ask about Sailor Moon.
I figured I might try to stick in a little more romance in the series, at least before the beams, and the missiles and the mines started going off.
It's not really all that great. Just added a new sensor network for anti-Colloid purposes, armored the bridge window, and fixed a small error in the HALC rails that was keeping maximum muzzle velocity down.
Thank Velshard for that bit. Guy knows his characters.
Trust me, Abaddon ain't the only one getting screwed over. I'd be a bit more worried about the ground troops.
Starcaft 2 is awesome. That's all I'm saying. Too much more could spoil it.
Cyspark01: Yes indeed...I have plans...
Exactly what I thought.
Chaotic? I guess you could say that. For OMNI.
Evci: Will do.
Robby Cartwright: Sorry, you'll have to wait a little. But, there will be some other, smaller battles.
Mathiasosx: In a word, yes.
Lacus and Kira didn't really get that much characterization as a couple, did they?
Will do.
Knightmare Gundam of Ni