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The Canaan Project


The Group that later on became known as the Canaan Project started off as an expedition based on Freeport 9 in Omicron Kappa. The Canaan Project is a group that consists of ex-Zoner scientists that were sent off to explore Planet Gammu in 810 AS, as well as individualists that joined later on for their own personal reasons. The main goal of the Canaan Project is it to create a remote settelment centered around their own laws for their small society to flourish. Core values of this society include maximum efficiency and knowldge above classical society values like loyalty, truthfulness, good, bad, etc. This drastic change in basic human morality is achieved through cybernetic body-enhancements that the members of the Canaan Project modify themselves with.

Upon arrival on Planet Gammu multiple excavation sites were set up. Because of the intense radiation on Gammu, research was hampered during the first two weeks and excavations were only progressing slowly.
As time went on transport systems were installed to speed the exploration and the team established a sort of makeshift infrastructure, because of the abundance of artifacts that were recovered up to this point.
In the third week of the expedition the team working within the deepest excavation site hit a large, smooth metal surface. After a gigantic physical effort, the team managed to work through to the other side of the abject, to discover an icy maze of nearrow maintenance corridors, lined with wires and all kinds of strange technical equipment that was just large enough for a human to roam in a crouched position.
At this point it became apparent that they discovered something way bigger than initially expected and had to make a decision: Either they informed their home base about their discovery and risk being withdrawn, or continue their excavation and see what else was to unearth. The core team or researchers made the decision to stay and research what they found. The base camp was moved to the interior and all communication was cut.
With assistance of the equipment on the head exploration vessel they also jammed all outgoing and incoming signals as a safety measure.
After multiple attempt to connect their equipment to the contraptions they found in the hallways, they finally gained access. The coding seemed completely indecipherable at first and there were also no sign of how the quipment got there in the first place, but the team kept on working their way around the equipment, as well as the hallways, venturing deeper and deeper into the structure.
The research continued for two more rather uneventful months and even most of the scientists were growing impatient, as one of the computer technicians made a staggering discovery. A small part of the saved data on the computers showed reoccuring patterns with rather simple codes, similar binary or hexadecimal. Information gathered from this was the first actual starting point the team had to begin to understand how all of this worked.
With what they found the team slowly worked their way through different codes, languages and even programs resembeling user interfaces to a vast collection of different texts, images, videos and sound data that was stored on the equipment.
While working through all the material and filtering the data for two more months they discovered multiple logs, set up like to-do-lists or trails of thoughts. By then everybody was already getting uncomfortable, but just when they worked themselves deeper into the system, there were signs of the system trying to establish contact itself.
After looking into it a little further it was quickly established that they were in fact talking to some sort of artificial intelligence, and an incredibly advanced one at that.
Led further into the structure by the artificial intelligence the researchers started to encounter moving parts, assembeling different contraptions that were a complete mystery to the researchers. The machines ranged from rooms filled with a writhing mass of what looked like robotic arms, similar to the ones found on an assembly line to strange spaceship-like objects that were hovering without any signs of engines, in dome-like structure.
While the researchers worked theirselves towards the center of the structure the hallways became larger and the whole structure began to feel less claustrophobic. An enormous hall that formed a large ring measuring 10 Kilometers in diameter marked the end of their journey. This epicenter of the activity of artificial intelligences had one place with what the researchers came to call a 'hyperport' - a port for them to connect their equipment to that has been modified extensively over time to be compatible with the AI technology.
This was the closest the team of researchers has actually come to 'talk' directly to what they assumed was some sort of AI core.
After some initial attempt to decipher what the artificial intelligence was trying to establish the team came to understand that it was requesting to perform a series of tests with and on them. All of this would be based on their consent to perorm said tests. While a large part of the research team was uncertain wether or not they were to accept the conditions of the AI, the mutual agreement was that they already were in too deep and that this unique offer was way too unique to pass on.
The research started off with questionings and obervation of behavioral patterns in the first four months, but slowly progressed to the researchers connecting themselves directly to the AI devices and even themselves having limbs or even parts of their brains amputated to have it replaced with AI cybernetics and prosthetics. The research was completet after a total of eighteen months.
When the research group and everyone that accompanied them re-emerged they had changed. While they had gained a lot of superhuman abilities, alongside their own uniqueinformation network they could access with nothing but their minds, they also lost quite a few things. Having tests performed on them for multiple days straight, underground without seeing the sunlight for years and also having lost a few members of their crew to the tests of the AI they lost a part of their humanity. While a lot of the cybernetic enhancements were able to re-adjust parts of their brains that would have triggered what is commonly referred to as insanity or trauma, there was always the certainty of something being not quite right.
After all of these events there was a string urge for them to leave the surface of Gammu to return to space. It was obvious that they could never return to their previous life. At this point a meeting in the orbit of Gammu was arranged in which they decided on how to progress from there on. Gammu was way too hostile of an enviroment to establish a base on. The AI wanted them to be available for future research, which they fully understood and agreed to, but they needed a place for their small community to stay.
At this point they knew that they only scratched the surface of what the AI was capable of and that their cybernetic enhancements enabled them to do research they couldn't even imagine to start before their journey to Gammu. They started modifying all of their ships to include research facilities and act as makeshift laboratories that were also able to provide for all their other needs and headed out to scout the Omicrons for possible places to establish their very own base of operations. This was the real beginning of the Canaan Project.


The Artificial Enigma

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General

ID / IFF: Zoner ID / Zoner IFF
Tag: Canaan|
One crew ship: Canaan|Pilot's name
Multi crew ship: Canaan|Shipname

Goals

Following a lifestyle of self-sufficiency and independence of laws
Establishing a stationary base of operation
Researching the Artificial Intelligence
Improving biological and social situation of their community
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reading your intro I have one pressing question are you Ex Zoners or Ex scientists? If Ex Zoners then way the Zoners tag would not a frrelancer tag be better suited. Kind of like a Ex Cop carrying around a badge and still saying they are a cop
(01-29-2018, 07:00 PM)MotokoSusu Wrote: [ -> ]reading your intro I have one pressing question are you Ex Zoners or Ex scientists? If Ex Zoners then way the Zoners tag would not a frrelancer tag be better suited. Kind of like a Ex Cop carrying around a badge and still saying they are a cop

While this is a good point you're making, there are a few circumstances that prohibit the Canaan Project from just going Freelancer.

One part is that just switching out all of the old ships for new ones just because they don't associate with the faction that manufactured them anymore seems a little overkill and is also highly inefficient considering the cost.

The second part is that the lifestyle of the Canaan Project is pretty true to the original ideology of the Zoners. Why change it if it is still fitting? It's also a way to make a statement on the current way many Zoners are heading - getting more and more involved with local politics and commercialism, instead of just keeping to themselves.

Of course this is just a personal oppinion and if you think a Freelancer ID would fit us better I can totally understand that.
well sighting zoners as getting into politics only one come to mind and that is not a resounding endorsement of a shift to becoming a political concern. For commercialism Zoners have been a trading faction. I am more concerned with the bastardization of the Zoners , meaning the forming paramilitary groups, centralization of zoners in confederations, and groups like CoF attempting to rally zoners to attack as a military unit. It seems that if people want to be able to use caps in regions not normally in house space the first thing they do is run to the zoners. The suggestion of the freelancer id was just meant as a contrast
I see that you are more of cyborgs then human living on the planet with the AI sharing tech and info working along side them. the AI id would be a better fit. But switch to the AI id means you could never for the most part go in the house space if so desired seeing you would be flying AI ships.

I don't see the cost as a concern, as they say you reap what you sow. I have had to change ships because they where out of line one way or the other and I am saying these ships where over 100 mill ships and all I ever got was " you should have thought it out better so now change the ship"

the lifestyle I cant say is normal for a zoner . if the Canaan where ship bound and not living on a planet that have been cyberized with AI tech I could agree. The Ai have a indifference to Zoners of -0.55 and you are living there in harmony.