Cirrial's Characters

[Cirrial]

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[Cirrial]

Hey, he's too good to die. >_> NAINE, I RESURRECT THEE.

NAINE'S DESCRIPTION

Name:
Naine

Age:
Unknown and most probably irrelevant, no real scale to compare against.

Description:
Naine is, most basically put, a bottlenosed dolphin in a specialised robot. Naine's biological cetacean form is suspended in a container moulded to his body, containing water with a high oxygen content. Various wires and tubes are connected to sockets painfully and permanently embedded into his flesh, effectively making the robot he is contained in a part and extension of his body. The robot exobody is a blue hue with dark blue stripes, bipedal, has two arms, and a "cockpit" - the only transparent part revealing Naine actually inside the machine. Naine can see from this transparent screen, despite the fact that neural implant feeds from cameras on the exterior of the robot serve just as well.
As Naine would not ever be able to leave the metal shell of his new body extension without fatal damage, his arms and legs can be interchanged with weaponry, and sockets on the the back can be used for weaponry storage.

Abilities:
Although his innate echolocation skills have essentially died with the new form he was forced into, Naine now makes up for that with several small cameras mounted on key points around the exobody, capable of seeing in several different spectrums. So not only does he now have eyes in the back of his head, but eyes that can see the "invisible".
Naine never sleeps - the need for any "sleeping" as a dolphin has now rendered completely unnecessary with neural jacks, implants and chips keeping him ticking.
As he cannot talk conventionally, a voicebox concealed in the front articulates his thoughts in the same way a human articulates their thoughts with larynges.
He has neural sockets on the back of his exobody, allowing him to either "jack in" to a simulated reality, or into someone's mind.
A second mind dwells physically in his exobody in the form of a golden octahedron, and Naine may sometimes permit it to override the exobody's functions.

Species:
Dolphin cyborg

Weaponry:
- Gauss rifle built-in to right arm. Fires controlled bursts of steel fragments. Quick, efficient and comes with an aimer-module, allowing a heads-up display of information to be fed straight into Naine's brain. Not a lot of ammunition, normally.

- Prototype ion cannon built-in to left arm. Takes about a week to recharge. Fires a concentrated beam of assorted negative ions into the air, causing a blue arc of electricity to hit the nearest conductive thing. Best not used amongst metal allies.

- Unidentified blue sphere. Unknown effects, but has "USE IN DIRE SITUATIONS ONLY" written in twenty different languages on. Also has the
phrase "Deus Ex Machina" embedded in gold paint.

- Sockets and interchangeable weapons mean that these weapons aren't Naine's only arsenal. These are just examples. The more weaponry attached, the more cumbersome Naine becomes. It will be stated at Naine's introduction what weaponry he is carrying, and it will be extremely hard for him to change weapons instantaneously, as he will need to be familiar with the weapon and be able to have the weapon plugged into him.

WEAPON SOCKETS:

- Left arm
- Right arm
- Two front sockets
- Two back sockets
- Two shoulder compartments for ammunition storage

History:
Naine is one of the many products of experimentation into biological-mechanical fusion. He remembers very little of his former water-borne life, and his most recent memories up until being placed in a bipedal robot are of "swimming in blue shining water", which he is sure has a profound significance he is unable to place.

Shortly after being merged with his exobody, he was tasked with the obliteration of an alien machine. The Omegalith, an advanced AI system implanted into a large metal body. However, the body of the Omegalith was constructed of millions of tiny units, akin to biological cells,
allowing the Omegalith to rearrange its form as it saw fit. Processing of rock and metal allowed it to rebuild itself. Its intelligence and
regenerative capabilities allowed it to destroy many of Naine's creators' homes and cities.

Naine, along with four others who were killed by the Omegalith, failed to destroy it, and it has since been one of his greatest regrets and fears. This failure to perform his task - his *purpose* - lead to him being forcefully exiled from the world he was "created", and those responsible for this erroneous waste of resources were decommisioned in shame.

He wasn't allowed any form of space ship, and was sent through the atmosphere as he was. Luckily for him, his exobody was airtight, and he was sent by an orbital mass driver (originally meant for the sending and receiving of supplies from colonial planets) out to a randomly chosen unexplored planet. He went into stasis to preserve his dolphin body while flying through the void of space, leaving little time for anger and self-hatred to flare up.

He awoke badly damaged, having landed a few inches away from the peak of a mountain. While this meant he didn't get impaled on the mountain, he ended up smashing down the side of it. With a damaged exobody and shattered morale, he trekked onwards before coming across a bizzare object.

A platform with a golden octahedron. And sockets on the octahedron corresponding to those in his exobody - neural sockets.

After carefully jacking into the sockets, inhibiting current while his exomech's rudimentary AI analysed it, he was surprised to find that the abandoned golden octahedron was a fully cognitive AI. After introducing themselves to each other, Naine explained his story of exile, and
the AI explained that it too had been exiled, previously the brain of a sapient robot tasked with a similiar mission to Naine's original. The AI had piloted a hexapod tank to destroy a device with disturbingly similiar attributes to the Omegalith Naine had faced previously.

After the two realised they had both failed to destroy exactly the same thing, Naine agreed to help the AI fufill their shared goal. The golden octahedron revealed it too was built in a similar fashion to the Omegalith, based on anaylsis of a shard of the "metal" the Omegalith was constructed from. It managed to rearrange itself to enter and store itself near the exotank's built-in rudimentary AI, assimilating its consciousness and replacing it.

There is a gap in Naine's memories as to how he was able to repair himself and leave the planet he was marooned on.

Naine, with the unnamed AI, still search for the Omegalith, much as Ahab searched for Moby Dick. Of course, knowing how long it takes, he's happy to take up the challenges he finds as well, as a way of proving himself.