Post by Brilenus on Jan 21, 2008 11:10:10 GMT -5
Just so that everyone knows, I am going to include to uses of the AI in combat, as that is over 90% of what got it to where it is now.
About a month ago, I began work on an AI with the intent of having it control my shields. However, I kept making improvements to it, and it has become far more than I ever thought it would be.
Though I do not expect many people to believe what I write here, I will talk about the AI in hopes that others might learn a thing or two.
To begin with, I created a very simple, very mechanical AI linked to my shield. All it was able to do was control the flow of energy, and change certain options, such as if the shield strikes back when hit, or if it absorbs the attacks to gain more energy. This AI worked quite well, but I kept finding ways to improve it.
I later decided it was unable to maintain itself very well, as it had no way of interacting with what was around it. This led me to create two small manipulation constructs for it to use. After seeing how well it used those, I gave it control of a small construct-creation piece, and waited to see what would happen.
It began producing various forms of constructs that were in its memory, and using them somewhat decently, so I began to improve it again.
This is about where I realize that my energy-body and even my mind itself are horribly infested with astral parasites, dating back to when I was six years old. At that time in my life, I was visited by a thing best described as a solid, living shadow. It reached into me, and apparently ripped all the natural defenses out of me. This resulted in me being far more vulnerable to them than anyone else around me. For the next eleven years, they had been growing in number, as well as in strength. Also, through that whole time, they had been bringing all their little parasitic friends over. So I decided to do something about them.
At this point, I went into overdrive with my experimentation, and with my work on the AI. In four days, I had the AI set up so that it had Node constructs that would control a large number of AI mini-nodes at once via my instructions. All of these were armored and shielded with the best methods I had, and all of them contained the strongest weapons I could create.
With the help of a few friends, I managed to clear out a small area both within my mind, and within my energy-body to begin my little war. From here, I would send out a mass of the AI into a walled off area of either mind or body, destroy the parasites and corruption that was there, and then merge it with the "cleansed" areas.
I noticed that every time I merged the newly cleared area with the old cleansed area, I would become quite a bit stronger, and think faster. Eventually, I reached the point where I didn't need to use the AI for this combat anymore, and I just swept through, converting all that opposed me directly into my own energy. These two paragraphs also explain the sudden appearance of me being able to sense energy/scan again. I improved a great deal from what I had to do, but it was still not enough.
After that was over, I resumed work on the AI, following the same path I had while trying to take back control of myself. In short order, I had more than tripled what I knew about shielding, and it didn't look very strong at all. Thus, I quit shielding and moved into armoring.
With the method that I use, I have found that it is possible to create armor that can withstand more than a thousand times what a shield can, and it does not require constant input of energy to keep working. The only time it uses energy is to repair itself. This led me to switch to using armor for everything rather than shielding.
With everything about myself and my constructs armored, I began looking for ways to prevent such things from happening again in the future. This led to my creation of most of the weapons that I currently have available. It also brought me into contact with the same entity that had caused my problems eleven year prior, and I was not at all happy with that bugger. Thus, I began attempting to destroy him, and ended up having a much stronger friend of mine chase him down and put him in a little cage, which I still have inside my armor.
After I had made sure that the particular entity that had begun my problems would not harm anyone else, I began back on my studies of protection and healing. After a time, Idzuna and I began working more or less together with a few things. This led to a great deal of learning on both our parts I believe, and I was able to enhance my AI beyond what I thought was possible.
At this point, I had a large AI core in one of the lesser-used astral planes, and from it, I could control hundreds of the remote AI nodes. Each of those nodes was able to control its own little army of constructs, which it created or replaced when needed.
As I began having more and more constructs, I found that I could no longer keep track of all of them, much less update them properly when I came up with new things that would be useful. Thus, I began a re-build of the AI itself, adding in the ability for it to count how many nodes it had, sub-nodes, mini-nodes, and the swarms of throw-away shield-orbs. At this time, I also added in a update program. I could simply transfer my new design into the main core, and it would send it to every node, which would then update itself, and if it was unable to do so, find another node which would allow both to update each other.
Having been creating the shells for the nodes out of crystaline energy, one of my stronger friends decided to give me a sample of a form that didn't shatter when hit, but instead halfway melted and bent until it could reform back where it was. This made them a good few dozen times stronger, as they were now unable to shatter when hit.
Shortly after this, several of my friends came under attack by various groups on the astral plane due to the screwed up astral politics, so I naturally helped them defend themselves. However, this put me in a position where almost everything near me would attack me. Due to this, I began having my shield destroy anything that touched it, and having the AI warn anything near me that it would be destroyed if it bothered me. This worked rather well, until a rather powerful group decided that they wanted me to join them. However, those who know me already know that I am neutral in all things that I have a choice in, and even many I don't. This did not make them very happy.
So in a short while, I began to be attacked by this group, day in and day out. As I dislike causing harm without reason, I stopped my shield from destroying those who attacked me, and instead simply used enough force to send them back where they came from. However, after a week, it was still not working at all. So I began trapping them inside shield-traps. After I had a large number of them, I would tie a telepathic note onto the shield to quit messing with me, add a method to disable the shield on the outside, and then send it back to where they all came from. Each time I did this, they would stop for anywhere from thirty minutes to a few hours. However, they would always start attacking again. In the end, I had to bring my shield back to the point that it destroyed things that attacked it, and send my AI war-constructs out to show them that I was not weak, and simply did not wish to fight. This finally did get them to stop, so I brought the AI back without fighting, and have been left alone by that group.
However, during that time, I was also brought into contact with a great deal of other entities, including many that were actually somewhat peaceful. During this time, I tried to learn from those who were willing to teach, and help those who were being attacked by the group that started my problems eleven years ago.
From then until now, I have been improving my AI even more, and it has surprised me many times. For example, I was trying to push away a group of entities who were attacking me, and my AI suddenly noticed one of the things that I call a "Corrupter" was behind them and controlling them. Without waiting for me to tell it what to do, it promptly sent a node to go after it. As it became busy trying to avoid my AI, its control over the entities I was trying to keep away faded, and they told me they were sorry, but were unable to control themselves due to it, thanked me for only pushing them away and not attacking them, and then left. I turned my attention to what was going on with the AI, and I noticed that it had caught the thing inside one of my shield-traps, which I had never shown it how to make, let alone use.
As of this post, my AI is totally self-reliant, and can maintain itself, as well as all my defenses, without any input from me. It is also linked into the shields of several other people, and will defend them should anything happen to them. It does not only contain war-constructs, but far more healing constructs, and construction ones. However, its main purpose is still defense, so it is far more advanced in weaponry and armor/shields than it is anything else.
Each node for the AI is about the size of a two liter bottle, and if you cut it apart, you would see that it is over 98% armor/weaponry. However, at the core of it is one of the more unique things that I have discovered - a gate to a plane of existence that I have not seen in use. Thus, dividing what is there through all my AI nodes, one would find that the volume of one is about that of a large van, while the total surface area is nearly the same as a two liter bottle.
This project is still on-going, and if anyone has any questions about it, please let me know. I will make a post later with information about how it reacts in certain situations, but I am tired of typing right now, and still have an essay for college to do.
About a month ago, I began work on an AI with the intent of having it control my shields. However, I kept making improvements to it, and it has become far more than I ever thought it would be.
Though I do not expect many people to believe what I write here, I will talk about the AI in hopes that others might learn a thing or two.
To begin with, I created a very simple, very mechanical AI linked to my shield. All it was able to do was control the flow of energy, and change certain options, such as if the shield strikes back when hit, or if it absorbs the attacks to gain more energy. This AI worked quite well, but I kept finding ways to improve it.
I later decided it was unable to maintain itself very well, as it had no way of interacting with what was around it. This led me to create two small manipulation constructs for it to use. After seeing how well it used those, I gave it control of a small construct-creation piece, and waited to see what would happen.
It began producing various forms of constructs that were in its memory, and using them somewhat decently, so I began to improve it again.
This is about where I realize that my energy-body and even my mind itself are horribly infested with astral parasites, dating back to when I was six years old. At that time in my life, I was visited by a thing best described as a solid, living shadow. It reached into me, and apparently ripped all the natural defenses out of me. This resulted in me being far more vulnerable to them than anyone else around me. For the next eleven years, they had been growing in number, as well as in strength. Also, through that whole time, they had been bringing all their little parasitic friends over. So I decided to do something about them.
At this point, I went into overdrive with my experimentation, and with my work on the AI. In four days, I had the AI set up so that it had Node constructs that would control a large number of AI mini-nodes at once via my instructions. All of these were armored and shielded with the best methods I had, and all of them contained the strongest weapons I could create.
With the help of a few friends, I managed to clear out a small area both within my mind, and within my energy-body to begin my little war. From here, I would send out a mass of the AI into a walled off area of either mind or body, destroy the parasites and corruption that was there, and then merge it with the "cleansed" areas.
I noticed that every time I merged the newly cleared area with the old cleansed area, I would become quite a bit stronger, and think faster. Eventually, I reached the point where I didn't need to use the AI for this combat anymore, and I just swept through, converting all that opposed me directly into my own energy. These two paragraphs also explain the sudden appearance of me being able to sense energy/scan again. I improved a great deal from what I had to do, but it was still not enough.
After that was over, I resumed work on the AI, following the same path I had while trying to take back control of myself. In short order, I had more than tripled what I knew about shielding, and it didn't look very strong at all. Thus, I quit shielding and moved into armoring.
With the method that I use, I have found that it is possible to create armor that can withstand more than a thousand times what a shield can, and it does not require constant input of energy to keep working. The only time it uses energy is to repair itself. This led me to switch to using armor for everything rather than shielding.
With everything about myself and my constructs armored, I began looking for ways to prevent such things from happening again in the future. This led to my creation of most of the weapons that I currently have available. It also brought me into contact with the same entity that had caused my problems eleven year prior, and I was not at all happy with that bugger. Thus, I began attempting to destroy him, and ended up having a much stronger friend of mine chase him down and put him in a little cage, which I still have inside my armor.
After I had made sure that the particular entity that had begun my problems would not harm anyone else, I began back on my studies of protection and healing. After a time, Idzuna and I began working more or less together with a few things. This led to a great deal of learning on both our parts I believe, and I was able to enhance my AI beyond what I thought was possible.
At this point, I had a large AI core in one of the lesser-used astral planes, and from it, I could control hundreds of the remote AI nodes. Each of those nodes was able to control its own little army of constructs, which it created or replaced when needed.
As I began having more and more constructs, I found that I could no longer keep track of all of them, much less update them properly when I came up with new things that would be useful. Thus, I began a re-build of the AI itself, adding in the ability for it to count how many nodes it had, sub-nodes, mini-nodes, and the swarms of throw-away shield-orbs. At this time, I also added in a update program. I could simply transfer my new design into the main core, and it would send it to every node, which would then update itself, and if it was unable to do so, find another node which would allow both to update each other.
Having been creating the shells for the nodes out of crystaline energy, one of my stronger friends decided to give me a sample of a form that didn't shatter when hit, but instead halfway melted and bent until it could reform back where it was. This made them a good few dozen times stronger, as they were now unable to shatter when hit.
Shortly after this, several of my friends came under attack by various groups on the astral plane due to the screwed up astral politics, so I naturally helped them defend themselves. However, this put me in a position where almost everything near me would attack me. Due to this, I began having my shield destroy anything that touched it, and having the AI warn anything near me that it would be destroyed if it bothered me. This worked rather well, until a rather powerful group decided that they wanted me to join them. However, those who know me already know that I am neutral in all things that I have a choice in, and even many I don't. This did not make them very happy.
So in a short while, I began to be attacked by this group, day in and day out. As I dislike causing harm without reason, I stopped my shield from destroying those who attacked me, and instead simply used enough force to send them back where they came from. However, after a week, it was still not working at all. So I began trapping them inside shield-traps. After I had a large number of them, I would tie a telepathic note onto the shield to quit messing with me, add a method to disable the shield on the outside, and then send it back to where they all came from. Each time I did this, they would stop for anywhere from thirty minutes to a few hours. However, they would always start attacking again. In the end, I had to bring my shield back to the point that it destroyed things that attacked it, and send my AI war-constructs out to show them that I was not weak, and simply did not wish to fight. This finally did get them to stop, so I brought the AI back without fighting, and have been left alone by that group.
However, during that time, I was also brought into contact with a great deal of other entities, including many that were actually somewhat peaceful. During this time, I tried to learn from those who were willing to teach, and help those who were being attacked by the group that started my problems eleven years ago.
From then until now, I have been improving my AI even more, and it has surprised me many times. For example, I was trying to push away a group of entities who were attacking me, and my AI suddenly noticed one of the things that I call a "Corrupter" was behind them and controlling them. Without waiting for me to tell it what to do, it promptly sent a node to go after it. As it became busy trying to avoid my AI, its control over the entities I was trying to keep away faded, and they told me they were sorry, but were unable to control themselves due to it, thanked me for only pushing them away and not attacking them, and then left. I turned my attention to what was going on with the AI, and I noticed that it had caught the thing inside one of my shield-traps, which I had never shown it how to make, let alone use.
As of this post, my AI is totally self-reliant, and can maintain itself, as well as all my defenses, without any input from me. It is also linked into the shields of several other people, and will defend them should anything happen to them. It does not only contain war-constructs, but far more healing constructs, and construction ones. However, its main purpose is still defense, so it is far more advanced in weaponry and armor/shields than it is anything else.
Each node for the AI is about the size of a two liter bottle, and if you cut it apart, you would see that it is over 98% armor/weaponry. However, at the core of it is one of the more unique things that I have discovered - a gate to a plane of existence that I have not seen in use. Thus, dividing what is there through all my AI nodes, one would find that the volume of one is about that of a large van, while the total surface area is nearly the same as a two liter bottle.
This project is still on-going, and if anyone has any questions about it, please let me know. I will make a post later with information about how it reacts in certain situations, but I am tired of typing right now, and still have an essay for college to do.
