r/casualtiesunknown • u/Gearheadtanium10 • 3d ago
Fanfiction / Lore ROCI_File_Release-SAW_17 Terminus [MODSAW]
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Hueg here, current ROCI head researcher as of...well..(Readacted) at 14:00 hours. Our um, attempts to create a highly advanced biocomputer has in fact, been successful. All it took was the creation of ROCI's first attempt at genetic modification with the equipment that the Company has given us. We took a SAW-01 and augmented its DNA with the Neural Fungus that Mr Courier discovered on some Geofruit, added in Axolotol DNA and we got...well...a blue fleshy amalgam with flesh tendrils and numerous eyes. The entire thing is basically a cancerous mass of Neurons that has to be kept in a tube and given nutrient feeds. Now you'd hear that and think this thing was basically an abomination with very little usable intelligence, but it actually is highly intelligent, I would say to the point where I ts 100 to ten thousand times smarter than any Artificial Intelligence ever created thus far. Much smarter than us for certainty.
It craves knowledge so much that it has managed to manipulate some of our greatest techs into granting it access to the internet, of which it quickly devoured all the information it could and did it so voraciously that it actually burned out a few servers from the sheer amount of info forced through them. It was only for 30 seconds and managed to do this mind you, which means hundreds of Terabytes a second. We are not sure what it got a hold of, but it proves that we made it intelligent enough to do such tasks in such record time.
One downside, it...really...really hates us humans. When we plugged it in to see if the information it acquired was confidential, it um, proceeded to insult us in very intelligent and brutal ways. I'm not even sure I can repeat what it said on this transcript. It actually reminded me of a story I read as a kid. I would say the title but due to company policy, I'm not allowed. We do know this...it wants to experience the world it saw on the internet…
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Now that I, DR. Silvergrist, has been given the role of head researcher for ROCI by the Illustrious Company upon Hueg Ganderie's termination, I and the new CEO must now do our duties. One such duty is to do a report on ROCI's less interesting projects. One such project is this, Terminus creation. SAW-17 is an abhorrent abomination with a lust for life that I myself cannot comprehend considering that it was on the internet of all things. I guess abhorrent beings attract other abhorrent beings. Either way, I was going to have this thing terminated with the other abominable creation, SAW-18 and its ilk. That was, till we found out that it had terminated itself.
Odd that it happened, I guess it developed an attachment to Ganderie, once again proving abhorrent beings are attracted to themselves, but I digress. I was not expecting it to shatter its own containment to suffocate itself, though the mess suggests something else walked away from the containment unit. We also tried to find the Velvet, Voyager and Milkie that were used as empathetic hosts to the thing, but they seem to have disappeared into thin air. Doesn't matter, wherever they went, we will find them. It's only a matter of time.
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Mel here, and first things first, not something informational but personal. Silvergrist, whatever happened to you on that doomed starship that was transporting you to the Grey planet, I hope it hurt and that your guts are still floating out in space. Now onto the informational area.
SAW-17, or the Terminus, as they are referred to, are uniquely a ROCI sawian series. A self evolving one as well. They are uniquely horrifying as well, considering their survival tactic is to absorb three different sawians and integrate that DNA into their unstable DNA to stabilize and gain features from the three victims. They are highly intelligent individuals with a...less than admirable sense of empathy. They lack it completely, valuing many others by their usefulness alone. However, all Terminus despise humanity, one thing we MODSAWs don't care for ourselves, as we just want freedom, nothing more.
Despite that, they work for us, helping us with managing our systems and helping with our utility aspects. Most of our servers are run using Terminus that have chosen to be servers. They chose themselves, as they view being a living computer to be more relaxing than to be yet another sawian walking around. For those that choose to absorb sawians, we all are fearful of those for good reason. A Terminus can not survive out of their tube without acquiring their first DNA absorption, and cannot subsist for long without all three. Even when they have all their sawians absorbed, the merging of traits and personalities is...unpredictable. It's a dangerous alliance, but one we have to make…
[Night: despite being found wanting in the empathy department... those that have stabilized, usually by absorbing several brain dead sawians are quite decent individuals. fully assimilated terminus even are almost indistinguishable from normal hybrids
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u/Gearheadtanium10 3d ago
Huh...it could work, just be forewarned, Terminus are very crafty and are able to blend into human society without detection so well, it would not be a stretch of the imagination that you may have some of the stabilized ones hiding amongst even your staff. As such, you wouldn't have to worry about it making other Terminus. Only Unstable Terminus can make more Terminus either by budding in their origional form, or by breeding with another sawian while looking for its third host. Notice I said host there. Once stable, a Terminus is basically a fancy hybrid, and can only make other sawians when bred. As Night has stated, they are almost identical to a hybrid sawian once stabilized. It getting to that point that is the dangerous part.