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Kotone Yamakawa	So here Kotone was she'd talked to Zwei about getting her own personal defences for her body and cyberbrain upgraded. Even if it was something she'd not know the full workings of. She'd just have to trust her at this point, as she'd needed it. Her ship was in for possible refits again so Kotone had a fair bit of spare time at the moment. So she'd called on Zwei for help. Given this sort of maintance she'd managed to with her merc work get some basic cybernetic maintance gear from her world and it's been set up here for the moment Its a simple looking hardnoss to hold her aloft while allowing her bodys various data and maintance ports to be hooked up to hard line connections for the work. She's there standing near by waiting for Zwei, well one of Zwei's remotes to arrive.
Zwei	Coincidentally, Zwei had been spending the last week or so at the Flotilla's unofficial headquarters as well, engaged in the complex and laborious process of examining the matter manipulator. The process is quite a bit different from the mana battery project. The concept of a battery is extremely simple and invented early into any civilization's industrial development phase, and so the challenge had been studying and understanding Galianda's unique laws of physics and magical science to translate the concept over. The Starbound's universe seems to /mostly/ obey the same laws as Zwei's own, but the technology of the manipulator is roughly equal with that used by the Collective, along a divergent road of scientific development. It demands a lot more trial and error than research. Either one of Zwei's units could do the job, but it'd probably be less weird for Kotone if a thirteen foot tall war machine didn't walk in and start reprogramming things without touching the keys, and so for the sake of politeness, Weiss has been dispatched whilst Asche runs the ridiculously high energy accelerator equipment across the complex in the meantime, having earned manipulator core privilege from the fact he had been the one to liberate it from Thornwing in the first place, and due to the fact he had secretly made the avian a promise. She arrives dressed in an extremely minimalist, black EVA suit, more like the underlayer to her armour than anything else; the practical working-man's skintight-spacefuture costume. She takes a moment for courtesy's sake to look around the room at the equipment Kotone has brought in, as if assessing it by eye is really all that useful to someone unfamiliar with the brands. "You dragged all this in here just for me? I'd be flattered, but that's more a sign of how serious you are, right?"
Kotone Yamakawa	Kotone Yamakawa is aware of Zwei's abilities she just knows what hardware she needs for her own shell. Still if she knew Zwei's reasoning for sending which remote they did? She would very thankful for that consideration. She looks to Weiss as she arrives. She nods slightly to her as she looks her over for a moment. "Yes, I'm serious if your going to do this your going to need to access more than just my basic ports on my neck. You'll need full hardline connections. This isn't something we want a wireless issue with. I know your hardware wouldn't be the issue, it would be mine, right?" hea head ot the mchinery and now opens the back of her top, and it's not for anything undue. It's more she knows she needs to get all those cables hooked up she'll get into the machiner and start hooking up what cables she can on her own. "I'm serious, I don't want to be a risk to others or my self."
Zwei	However much clothing Kotone takes off is beyond irrelevant to Zwei. They're literally not psychologically wired to feel anything in that context. Weiss helps the cyborg with the process of connecting, picking and plugging with the freakish, superhuman machine ability of getting it right on the first try without having to flip the jack over two or three times before it goes in correctly. "Fair enough, fair enough~ I'm not complaining after all. It's nice that you'd trust me that much with this, especially considering who's fault it is you feel this way to begin with." She maneuvers over to the main diagnostic console, booting it up when Kotone is ready to get a good read of her cyberbrain's overall architecture first off, looking for what hardware limits she has to work within. After all, she can't just try and stuff some ungodly huge omni-program in there when she might not even have enough memory for it. "Lucky for you, I happen to know exactly how that kind of attack works. I can actually specialize this to a degree."
Kotone Yamakawa	Kotone Yamakawa is soon hooked int the jacks go into normally hidden ports doen her spine, the normal ones in her neck and several other places now as she hangs there. She figured that Zwei wasn't bothered by things. They are an alien life form for lack of a better term. Kotone's still able to talk as her systems are hooked up to the other hardware. "Also any strange readings in my right arm? That's just Overclock, so don't worry about that." She notes as he hangs there and isn't moving other than her mouth. The limits are very good for her world's development level, Zwei would get a look that about 40 percent of Kotone's brain is hardware and not it's orgginal organics. Some seems just normal connections, others hint at it being a repair job. Her own security systems seem to be a mix of standard stuff and what's locally called a barrier maze, various traps, even a almost false reality it could trap an unwary hacker in. "That's actually comforting honestly. It's still something, I'm a ragged bit of meat wired into all this. I don't regret still being here, but the last few years have been hard. It's funny all the little things I'd not notice if I was still like I was before this."
Zwei	It's interesting information, but Zwei already has some idea of most of it, both from scanning Kotone in person before, and just from picking up on various context cues from being around her, as well as simply listening to her talk about it. "You'll grow into it eventually; and I don't mean 'get used to it'. As long as you keep thinking about it, experience will make all the pieces settle into place sooner or later. It's a big transition to make all at once." Of course Zwei wasn't even alive when the idea equivalent transhumanism first came up in their own culture, but they've thoroughly explored it as a concept since then, being something that the multiverse at large is starting to burgeon into. A quick sweep of Kotone's partitions gives Weiss adequate information. As much as she'd like to, she's kept out of Kotone's more personal drives. "With this level of hardware, I can promise . . . hmmm . . . I'd say adequate. Nobody from your world, or anyone around that time period, should be able to break in no matter how long they try, but I can't make something totally impervious to absolutely everything on a transistor based platform. At the very least, I can guarantee you a few minutes against someone a Kardashev level up, which should be more than enough time to escape, call for backup, or neutralize them yourself. Just don't go getting captured by any insane super computers for weeks at a time okay~ On this plus side, I can make this a /real/ pain in the ass for zero interface hacking."
Kotone Yamakawa	Kotone Yamakawa own world is very much under going the growing pains from it. Both the social issues, culture and inquality issues as well. Not all the world has access to even just the medical aspects the technology. "No system can keep everyone else out. Keeping more people out is always good. The less people got dancing about my mind without my say the better, right?" She listens and lets out a whistle as she hangs there for the moment as she listens. "I don't plan to do that, we're lucky there's only suposedly according to Staren a small handful of possibly aware AIs and they got a law enforcement unit keeping an eye on them. Ironically the very people who were handling the case about the incident that left me like this." She'd not forgot about Batou with eyes like the man had? He was clearly a Japanese Ranger she mused to her self. Still a lot of questions about Public Security section 9 for Kotone to ask someday. "So the people who made you surived the birth of such technology, either the social issues or pit falls such as the flaws of the cyberbrain itself. I do hope this is at least somewhat of an interesting thing for you. I mean I guess for you? It's like me going about the computers from Johnny's world." She hangs there limip her nature really being given away by that, okay maybe not so much that but all the cables plugged into her is more of a give away. "I wonder do you think it's wasteful so much effort has gone into retaining certain organic traits in a body like this?"
Zwei	"Pretty sure mine can~" Weiss says teasingly, fake cracking her knuckles and going to town on the keypad and touchscreen like a hollywood hacker on speed. Unlike in the movies, she isn't mashing things randomly. The speed at which she operates is entirely legitimately, and completely efficient. "'Made me' is a pretty inaccurate term. As I keep explaining, I existed long before I downloaded to these bodies. The rest of your assessment isn't incorrect though. A lot of multiversal civilizations seem to collapse around societal stress points like these, so as it turns out, we're a bit of an outlier. But really, if you think about it, how else would it be? Logically, the first species to dominate their home galaxy would be the one that encountered the fewest setbacks in their development. After all, the progress of technology and expansion of population is geometric in scale. Were it not for your 'dark ages', you'd be exploring the stars by now. It's only logical that the mysterious ancient precursor race that seems to exist so often would be the one that miraculously got everything right the first time." She starts by completely deleting all of the security software Kotone has. Working from the ground up to make something completely proprietary and totally unrecognizable immediately eliminates any common weaknesses and exploits, and makes the barrier itself difficult to approach to begin with. "Wasteful? There can only be waste as part of a process Kotone. Something can only be considered useless if there was a use in mind for it. If your goal in life is human accomplishment, then holding onto less efficient abilities would definitely be wasteful. If that isn't what you're trying to do though, what exactly are they being wasted on?"
Kotone Yamakawa	Kotone Yamakawa Says "I'm sorry I still have some trouble wrapping my head about your existance Zwei." She admits honesly as he hangs there letting them work. She watches the progress on her hudd as she listens. "Or there's some terrible price, or the transhumans become flat out monsterous. IT seems to happen alot. I think I get what your saying about elder races. It's a part skill and random chance they get out into the wider world sooner. Maybe so but maybe slower progression isn't a bad thing. When things go faster than people or ethics can adapt to new tech you get problems." She keep hanign in ther and htinks. "Mmm maybe a bad choice of words. No I'm just trying to not lose my self and end up like some of those worlds where this all blows up in their face." She feels a bit odd now as the old software is elimated. She feels a bit naked for lack of a better term she's totally open now. This is also showing turst Zwei could do anything they wanted to her now.
Zwei	"It's fine~ It's not an easy thing to grasp. As far as I'm aware, there's nothing exactly like it anywhere else in the multiverse. Asides, I'm a special case, even for my own species. I'm the first ever split-entanglement consciousness. Or at least, the first to ever survive the process anyways." For the job ahead, Zwei literally writes their own language from the bottom up. It's a significant step up from those that might exist on Kotone's Earth, but not quite lightyears ahead, and done not for reasons of efficiency so much as the fact that a completely original, never before seen OS with its own unique language is a hundred times harder for someone to crack unless they're so advanced that familiarity with a system is totally irrelevant. "That's how it is. The species that develop faster are more aggressive and take more risks. They're individually more likely to become the dominant species, but statistically more likely to cripple or wipe themselves out. It could be hundreds or thousands of species like that before one spark actually catches. Believe it or not, the vast majority of intelligent life progresses much, much more slowly than humans. What would take humans decades might take most others centuries. It's part of your nature." Completely unique verification protocols go in as part of the framework, as well as a key generator based on basic quantum digits rather than 21st century factoring chains. Kotone probably doesn't have the processing power to keep absolute awareness of all data at all times, but requesting different information from packets and programs means that all standard trojans and the like won't have a means to slip past, and any virus that hasn't been custom coded just for her won't be able to camouflage itself, or even find the root directory. "You keep at it at the pace that's right for you. I'm not here to tell you how to grow. Evolution is a function, not a workflow. The idea is to change to best live in your present circumstances, not accomplish some goal."
Kotone Yamakawa	Kotone Yamakawa is feeling abit strange as some of her cyberbrain's code is being redone, thankfully this is nothing related directly to her but it's security systems. "Humm I think I kinda can get it. It's like how some full body replacements like myself? Can operate two bodies at once? I heard rumors of 3 or more but nothing solid on that. I think the brain can only take so much given we were not made from the start for such and we can only alter ourselves so far we,, at our level of understanding." She feels strange hanging here like this all the cables in her back, her head and in a few other psots. "I hear you, chance is needed. I know that, I just keep seeing worlds that rushed in without thinking, and it was the end. Or almost the end of them for not asking, is this a good idea? Ya some people seem to worship it like it's a deity."
Zwei	"Not dissimilar! It's a little more intrinsically meshed than that though. It's not like looking at two computer monitors at once, so much as it's like how your left and right eye operate independently as part of the same sensory system. Weiss and Asche are a special case, not quite like if I were to just run a bunch of drone bodies." Weiss likes the barrier maze idea, and so she extrapolates it to its absurdly illogical limit, installing a nasty little trick that will alter a potential intruder's sense of the passage of time while attempting to navigate it, and breaking several laws in installing hundreds of aggressively destructive countermeasures designed not so much to simply reject a connection, but to permanently neutralize an attacker. Someone making the wrong move while attempting to breach her security could very well wind up losing everything in their memory, being hijacked themselves, or possibly being rendered outright comatose if enough of their brain is in a digital format. "Trust me, I can see from that perspective as well. It's a little easier for me, being lucky to be looking down from the summit already, but it's a little . . . disappointing all the same. A lot of the Flotilla have views like yours, and a lot lean more into Staren's camp. I won't call any of them less valid than the other. As someone who's escaped the cycle of evolution, I don't really have that right." She pauses for a minute before suddenly giggling. "Sorry, Asche side of my brain was talking there. He's listening~"
Kotone Yamakawa	Kotone Yamakawa says "I noticed I been getting better handling drones latey. I been playing about with a drone rigs more. Hopefully i can puyt that to use, right? Humm I get it, so it's not being a puppet master like say me." She's somewhat keeping an eye on what Zwei is doing to her systems but it's is a bit beyond her. She'll hopefully get a better understanding int ime of it. "I mean this technology has allowed for some horrible brain desises to be over come, crippled to be fixed. I get that, I'd be be a bed ridden cripple if I was even still alive without this." She thinks about Staren for a moment. "Staren's problem is he's got the mentality of a Relgious fanatic for his view point and he can't understand that. It's going to bite him in the ass someday. AS for getting away from the cycle? Must be nice not puting up with millions of years of bagage. Like that part of every human who recalls when we were food. I think that what drives us to kill off other apex predators that might even /think/ about making us a snack. It's fine I get you can be beside your self. I do a lot of thinking, about what I am now. Also you seem to be having fun in there. I'm not without my biases but he can lay it on thick. Funny I used to be a moderate anti cyberist against it's use save for medicaal applications...."
Zwei	"Staren is extremely good at contextualizing everything into the personal narrative of his life story based on very cursory examination. I won't deny he's pretty fanatical about it, but you do strawman him a little yourself you know. As much as he worships science as the pursuit of power, he'd have already blown himself up by now if he was really the type of person you're thinking of, which admittedly isn't an uncommon archetype." Frankly, Kotone would probably be arrested if home security had the means to actually figure out what her security is and what it does. But hey. It's a dog-eat-dog multiverse. "It has its benefits~ I don't talk about it much though. It's easier for everyone if they just think of me as one of their weird facepaint aliens and get along that way. You also won't hear me say anything about superior forms of life, and not much on the fallacies of being human. As cheesy as it is to say, those flaws and biases and limitations add character. A world only needs one ubermensch to keep everything under control, and so it's nobody else's obligation to be perfect. It'd be a pretty boring state of affairs if everyone eventually became the same, 'absolute being' after all. Games aren't fun when you can reduce everything down to a single, most optimal strategy!" Weiss finishes up in a surprisingly short amount of time, handing over a set of more user friendly diagnostic tools and various overrides to Kotone so she can run things more or less like a somewhat convoluted firewall system. "All done~ You can unplug now!"
Kotone Yamakawa	Kotone Yamakawa says "He just hits a lot of buttons on me as well I guess. That might just be it, better I get this out of my system than let it fester right? Just one thing can we make sure I have a way for this not to zot someone? I just don't want to be violated again right? Ghost hacking is nasty business. Ha that's a funny way to put it but I cna't lie our science fiction is loaded with that. True perfection is honestly impossible. Flawed beings can't make perfection and thinking your totally perfect is normally the sign something's broken with your mind. As for the that the one optimal strategy is a bane of a lot of forms of interactive gaming enterainment. Humm give me a moment to look this over, and it's funny Zwei? With all the tech I got my hands on? I need to be careful back home. Even what's trival here could get me in toruble. It's why I keep a lot of things on the Bluenose. I'm honestly lucky with the work I do with the union. Seems that Section Nine I mentioned is allowed to them. I might not get dragged off, if they are the ones that find me." She takes a moment and see she's got a lot of control over what she can do with her defences even a preportional response to it. She then pulls the large cable out of the back of her head pushing her hair and synth dkin back into place and starts working on other cables. "Still can't get over how it feels plugging osmething in or pulling it out feels. Maybe i'm so comfortable here because of you, Rory and hte others akin to you."
Zwei	"Well, it's not like I can't say I've never been displeased with him. His perspective is valuable, but he really does need to get his act together." Weiss aids Kotone with disengaging from the tangle with the air of a girl helping her friend braid her hair. "It's nice to be with people you can relax around, isn't it? Even if you don't fully identify with them, what they represent can something be genuinely soothing. I think we've got a good thing going here! All of us together! Just make sure you don't forget how to talk to people without plug jacks~" She steps back to allow Kotone to get her clothes back on, quitting out of the workstation view. "Maybe someday I'll be able to help you all a little more directly than this. For now though, I'm always around if you need something~ Make sure to call me back in a couple of days and tell me how the software fits~"
Kotone Yamakawa	Kotone Yamakawa says "Fair enough and thanks for the help. I don't like being a risk to the people about me. I'm also glad this software's in my braincase. So it will come along to whatever shell I might happen to be in. As for ya ya, none of you make me feel like I'm a freak. I mean it's becoming 'normal' to be like me where I'm from. I won't do I look like my parents who were obessed with texting everything?" She grins a little bit at this. "Hey that would be nice but this does a lot, it means I'm less likely to get the content of my Ghost blendered. I'll keep you in touch with how it's working." She's now on her feet pulling her clothing on and thinks. "I'm going to get some food, I'll see you about and thank you."