The Incorruptible

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[font=Arial]<span style="font-size:36pt;line-height:100%]The Incorruptible



It all began many years ago, outside Sirius, when a lone vessel, a probe of unknown origin came into sensor range of the Junker Salvager; The Iron-Dream. It's owner, Jonathan Fawkes, saw it as incredibly advanced and it could make him rich man, if he sold it to the right people. They tractored the vessel onboard the Salvager, to break it apart and investigate who created it.

As they brought it aboard, the vessel that was previously powered down, it now was sending out waves off unknown energies, that where starting to interact with the Salvagers computers. The monitors on the bridge began to slowly dim and disapate, the entire ship the same. All shut down, including life support. All over the ship, people began to slowly sufficate, one by one the crewmen off the Iron-Dream began passing out and slowly dying.

The probe, a rather intelligent Drone of something called the Directive, sensed that the biological entities onboard the ship where dying cause off its tampering with the ships systems. It quickly tried to re-activate the life support and other vital systems such as gravity control, but its own power where draining, so it sent out its tentacle like cables and forcefully interacted with the ship. Like a sad child trying to fix it misstakes it spent to much power and caused a massive overload into the salvager frigate. Only a few left alive at this point, mostly the bridge crew and some off the mercenaries in the sleeping quarters. But it managed to, ebfore it shut down itself, to restore power to life support and gravity.

A few hours later, the captain and his senior staff awoke to their suprise to see that their bridge lighting had changed to a dull green. They began to see what had happened and realised to their suprise that a entity inhabited their computers, they discovered what had happened. That it was the probes fault, that it had tried to interact with their own ship's computer and tried to converse and open an dialogue. Unfortunate, but a complete accident on its part. Fawkes was, as his crew still in bad shape, and would probably not survive the trip back without medical attention, one piece off unnerving fact. Since they had no doctor, not even from the begining. Fawkes ordered the entire crew, who had survived, to place themselves in cryo-pods and put the ship on autopilot back to Junker space.

As the crew went into their pods to sleep for some weeks until their ship arrived at Peurto Rico, or any other Junker owned space station really. But as they went to sleep, the probes AI came back online, and saw how the remaining crew where in cryo pods but still dying, it.. Or as it realised it was now, he, hadto do something to help the crew. He had the knowledge to save them all, to make them better.

"Excellent!" he said to hismelf on the quiet ship, he started his reconstruction off the ship and its crew, it was after all his crew now.
"Yes! I can be the ship, I never had anything larger then that.. Bloody probe, a big body, feels good"
He started to transfer himself onto the Frigate, one part of its programming, by part. But he needed a bigger and more powerful powerplant, so he by the help off cargo robots to transfer some off the technology off the Probe and started installing it into the Frigate. It took days for the small robots to make the nescesary changes to the ship so he could help the crew, but the day came.

He started to change each crewmember to become a hybrid off technology and human, it was as he himself thought: "A huge success!"

As Fawkes awoke, everything he saw was seen with a heads up display, showing everything in detail, the specs for the table he was on and the diamater off the room. He started to ask to himself; "What in the bloody eliza's sacred soul is going on here?!" in his head, or was it his ear? He heard a response, a male voice, with a clear Bretonian accent: "Oh I saved you, and I am very sorry for the inconvenience off my arrival, it was ofcourse not my purpose".
Fawkes stood up, he felt more.. Alive then ever. But it was a different sensation, everything he saw, he felt. As he looked at his own hand he asked: "What.. What did you do to me?" The voice said in a cheerful tone;
"I hadto make some drastical changes to your physiology, so I conducted a semi-cyberneticly advanced operation and changed you to a semi-organic being. I do hope you dont mind."
Fawkes felt sick to the stumoch but he said: "Why, did you do that?"
"Simple! You where dying.. I hadto save you, it was the least I could do really"

During the next few days, the AI, or as Fawkes now called him, cause off his very upright and civil tone: The Incorruptible, or Ti [T-ai] for short, instructed the crew how things worked with their new.. Bodies.. They knew it was for the best, and that they could still do what they did.. But Ti, had other ideas for the ship and crew. So he intended to show the captain what needed to be done to make them even better, that they needed to contact other AI's or robots and get them to help them uppgrade. Or salvage enough ships and scrap metal to increase the ships hull and density. It would be needed in the end.






On the bridge off the Incorruptible is littered with unused computer stations, but some off them, such as the tactical and the captains station always has one standing by it.
The navigational console is also most often under Ti's hand.




The Incorruptible is a big ship, and needs an easy way to travel from level to level so Ti constructed a lift system so it would be easier for his cybernetic crew.




Inside lies the armory and repair center, where all the ships weapons are located, not to mention where most off the crew "sleep", since its a relative term as the crew no longer needs sleep but rather recharge.




This hallway is always guarded by two sentry bots, it is restricted to the higher ranked officers and engineers.


The Engine was constructed by Ti, made off parts the probe that Ti first came with, its engine can produce large ammounts off energy when needed, more then any normal vessel in Sirius.




This is the salvager ships launchbay, in which is used to house cargo suplies and scrapmetal that Ti intend to use to refit himself when he has enough.




This corridor has ten active turrets guarding it, since it heads to Ti's intelligence section. Where his Artifical Intelligence software sysetm is located. Only a few people have acces to it and no one not suposed to be there, would survive to enter.


This is the pride an joy of the Incorruptible, Fawkes and the three main officers onboard have direct access to it. Here all operations are planned beforehand.




Crew Roster


Ti
Ti is the ship, and a crewmember, as he controls most off the ships crew, as they are.. Erh, creations off his. Ti himself is a warm and caring AI, alltough he has some strange ideas off how to see the world and especially how to see others besides him and his crew. Well he gained the crews feelings towards Junkers so he sees them as himself, allies and friends. And no one should fear him or his crew. Even if they are different.


Captain Fawkes
Jonathan Fawkes, was before his... Surgical alteration, a Junker, he still is. But not the same, they build for a reason, dont kid yourself, cause Fawkes doesnt. He now is a very disturbed man with eyes for a great future, not that he knows excatly what that is yet, but he intends to see it to the end.



Davy, Engineer
Erik Davy was the cheif engineer before the accident, after getting some... Minor, well major re-educational lessons from Ti he is it again and now he has a greater sense off purpose, he loves the technology the Ai brought onboard, and more so then before he loves to work with it.



Lawrence, tactical officer
Lawrence is and will always be a soldier and a grim faced, ruthless, pirate, two faced mercenary, he didnt change after the.. Eh, transformation.


The rest off the crew seam to be acting the same, identical, bringing it.. Erh.. Very, tiredsome, as most off them are artificially made by Ti to help serve the ship and its remaining crew. There are how ever some crewmen that still retain their personalities and it seams that the drones, robots, call them what you want, starts to gain personalities off their own.

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