My navigator-verse

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2002-12-30 10:01am

Tired of being confined to thier hulls and wishing to experience things, also saddened by the deaths of their breathern whenever a ship died, the sientient computers began questioning the nature of the "other spaces" that they traveled through on their Faster then light Voyages. After a very long, time, of the ships working on the problems, and communicating with each other in "Other Space" they figured out how to code themselves into other space. Thus when the "ship Body" was lost the data would not be lost. Eventually the relationship between the two spaces was solved by the "Ghosts" (Computers whose ship bodies had ceased operating), and the computer intellegences figured out how to make "Avatars" and contact living minds to be their "Agents"

So where would these existential sientient "Computers" wind up under power level. Note they can make anything they want in 3d space by simply "Coding" it in their own "Other Space" They can also edit files on any "Program" existing in 3d space.

Raxmei · Post by **Raxmei** » 2002-12-30 10:19am

If I understand you correectly, essentially omnipotent. Their abilities are bounded only by their intelligence.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2002-12-30 10:34am

Of course anything that understands there are more then three demesions to reality, and have defenses against such manipulation, or an active FTL system are uneffected by their coding.

Raxmei · Post by **Raxmei** » 2002-12-30 10:46am

You have to deal with the problem that they can make anything. Unless you can suppress a huge volume of space, they can cook up an invincible armada to knock you down. If you ever let your guard down they can see all of your secrets. That gives them at least tech parity unless you are perfectly vigilant. They also have an industrial advantage. They don't have to build things, it's just copy and paste.

How easy is it to reach into their realm from here?

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2002-12-30 10:50am

Since it was their version of hyperspace, probly fairly easy providing you have FTL capabilities, or have analysed their old FTL (Since they now move by Cut & Paste)

Post by **NecronLord** » 2002-12-30 10:56am

Can they de code an object? as in simply stop it existing?

How long does it take them to code say a sol type star.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2002-12-30 11:07am

Depends, they usually have to examine it, look at it and copy or erase it.
New things have to be looked at, and checked for it's relationship to the rest of the reality's "Operating system" that takes them a long time. Inserting an app (cuting and pasting say a ship) can be done very fast since they have already debugged the app.

Raxmei · Post by **Raxmei** » 2002-12-30 11:12am

From my impression so far this seems to be more powerful than the Culture. The Blight (from A Fire Upon the Deep) might be able to take them down, but not in the sense of a conventional battle.

I get the feeling that there is a great deal I have not been told. How much of this universe has been committed to words?

As an aside, has anyone else noticed the coincidence that all participants in this discussion so far joined these boards on the same day of the week?

Post by **NecronLord** » 2002-12-30 11:14am

Odd. All Hail Mon-30th.

Yes. How much of this has been committed to words?

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2002-12-30 11:21am

I came up with it as a concept in Highschool.

To this day it's still just a concept, the Idea of computers that became so advanced they saw their universe as a gaint operating system.

Post by **NecronLord** » 2002-12-30 11:55am

Looks like a fascinating Worldbuilding Concept. If you need a hand count me in. They seem to essentially be gods. An uber race for Vs... If they ever needed to destroy something they could code in a black hole, or simply overwrite the target with empty space... Oh the possibilities...