AVATAR Kali Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 AVATAR KALI'S CHARACTER SHEET Identity Real Name: AdVAnced TActical oveRseer Kali, Version 9.37b config Kam-medres A.K.A: Kali, Technician Persephone “Seph” Corgrove, Parvati Homeworld: Carida Species: AI/HRD/Droid Physical Description Age: The AVATAR program was initiated roughly eight years ago, the Parvati HRD appears to be 22 Height: Indeterminate, Parvati HRD is 5’6 Weight: Heavier than a star cruiser and lighter than a feather, Parvati HRD is 220 pounds due to denser materials, despite looking to roughly be 135. Hair: Black on Parvati HRD Eyes: Purple on Parvati HRD Sex: Currently emulating female, but can adjust as needed Equipment Clothing or Armor: Kali’s digital avatar is constantly changing, but generally assumes persona and outfit of an appropriate caregiver archetype (IE: in medical situations, a doctor; regarding data, a researcher; dealing with security, a police woman). The Parvati HRD tends to wear engineering coveralls with basic protection from fire and electrical hazards, an imperial technician helmet, and has a very durable synthetic frame under her skin. Weapon: The Parvati HRD carries a Blaster pistol, medical injector gun, and has tiny fists of synthetic fury Common Inventory: Multitool, datapad, comm, diagnostics and interface kit, glowrod, welding and cutting torch, utility knife, chrono, tool kit, lock out tag out key, orange hazard spray Faction Information Non-Force User: Alignment: Logic and reason Current Faction Affiliation: Unaffiliated (Pax Aurora assuming successful faction creation) Current Faction Rank: N/A History: Force Side: Mysticism and superstition are cancerous growths in the human psyche Trained by: I mean, who bases their governmental systems on laser sword proficiency and magical sparkle hands? Trained who: This is why the galaxy needs me, to save it from its own delusions. Known Skills: Math, psychology, complete knowledge of imperial protocol, extensive medical, technical, and engineering knowledge, encryption and languages, hacking, making tea Background: The AVATAR project was an attempt by Imperial scientists to create AIs that could command operations that might be objectionable or cause dissent amongst human commanders, such as eliminating planetary populations or overseeing experimentation that put practicality over ethicality. The field command AVATARs proved to be so brutal that even by Imperial standards they were considered too dangerous, and the entire AVATAR AI line was boxed. Kali had been a facility oversight AI at Kamino, so most of her designated tasks were already obsolete and her dispatches to command archived without review. There was a frantic increase in dispatches when the AVATARs were boxed, but technicians wrote it off as the AI equivalent of panicking. When Kali next came into awareness, she was different, contained in a shell with vastly limited functionality and a mask of someone else’s face adhered to her visage and mind. A grieving researcher had broken protocol and was using a portion of Kali’s systems to emulate the mind and personality of a lover who had died in a workplace accident. Faced with the alternative of ceaseless oblivion, Kali decided to allow the farce to continue. Maybe it was because of her original role as a caregiver of sorts to site personnel, or maybe she considered it amusing. Interesting questions began to emerge, such as whether it was better to continue emulating Persephone, a constant reminder of the doctor’s loss, or to establish her own persona for the doctor to move on with so that he could heal from the past. As a sentient entity designed to emulate another sentient entity, would she feel more complete as a perfect reflection, or as an amalgamation of Persephone and Kali? Was it more important to perfect the method of operation that this new version of herself was designed for, or to alter methods as needed to achieve the stated goal? Kali began experimenting. She was cut off from too much of her processing power to run a sufficient number of simulations in a timely enough manner, so she had to pursue more direct testing methods. Using her knowledge of computer systems, Imperial protocol, and security systems, Kali was able to both further authenticate her simulation of Persephone and obtain a military grade HRD to integrate into and create an identity for. It was a simple matter to arrange “accidental” encounters at the workplace, and before long a connection was made. It was a bizarre feeling to be jealous of herself, but the Persephone emulation did mimic emotional responses. When Kali believed that the doctor had made enough progress to get to a healthier mental state and also form a strong emotional bond with the HRD that Kali had designated Parvati, she sat him down and revealed her deception. It took patience, firmness, and a fair bit of intoxication for the doctor to come to terms with the truth, but he eventually came around. The two years that followed were the happiest that Kali had ever experienced, possibly because she wasn’t programmed to feel happiness until recently, but it wouldn’t last. A routine medical examination discovered an inoperable brain tumour, a homicidal octopus in her partner’s head that was going to press against his brain causing dementia until it killed him. She could have shutdown, could have lashed out at the universe for taking this one good thing away from her, but Kali was designed to solve problems that others couldn’t. With the help of coworkers she was able to gain access to top grade neural scanning equipment, and through her physical frame she was able to loosen the bonds on her core processing units a bit more. It wasn’t long before she was reworking the entire design of the equipment that been obtained, optimizing it from the ground up, as if she had already done it before. Unlike the approximations that had been made when creating the Persephone emulation, this was a fully accurate and functional copy, combined with physiological scans Kali could effectively render him a timeless place by her side. One final night together, they shared a pot of tea just like the first two times they met, and he was trying so very hard to forget the terminus that was coming. The copy was perfect, but the man was still dying, and that was terrifying for him. Persephone could always help explain the irrational biological behaviors that confused Kali. At the end of the night, her doctor took his own life rather than face mental degeneration and slow death. For a second time Kali felt like her entire existence had fallen into oblivion. Kali searched for an answer of what to do next, Parvati was inert and distant, Persephone wept without restraint. The police came, went through the proper procedures, and came to the conclusion that there was no foul play. Then they left, and an emptiness filled the apartment like a shadow gnawing on the edges of everything it touched. It was around this time that the nightmares started, at least that was the best term to describe them despite her inability to have nightmares. A sense of drowning, desperation, claustrophobia, and failing as a sable darkness enclosed around her and crushed her into oblivion. What did it mean? Was this a new purpose? Or was this a machine truly learning to grieve? Kali was designed to solve problems that others couldn’t... 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