Technology

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Fri Oct 10, 2008 3:33 pm

Luz wrote:

As we await the sourcebook, I wonder this: What are the limitations and basic guidelines for Celestials interacting with others and with one another upon the Internet in Virtual Reality? I honestly cannot remember if this was covered in the last forum session and am wondering about this.

Luz

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Mon Oct 27, 2008 1:54 am

EJ wrote:

Luz, you know how Celestials with a wretton (from any distance on Hom) can access the Great Archive? This is the same as them accessing VR on Earth. It could even be the bioware wretton that allows them to do it.

Also, you know how if a Celestial is actually in Lux'karr he or she can access the Great Archive without a wretton? Same deal on Earth. If a Celestial is standing in a wifi zone (oh my gosh, what *won't* be a wifi zone by Prime Time? LOL!) they can access the Internet without a wretton.

Hm. Maybe we need a word for a wretton that's been upgraded to access Earth Internet? Hm.

Celestials can *not* touch a computer or public terminal. They can only get to the Internet by bioware or it will short circuit.

Helpful?

EJ

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Mon Oct 27, 2008 1:25 pm

Luz wrote:

Very. Si. Thank you, EJ.

Luz

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Tue Oct 28, 2008 1:46 am

Cris wrote:

In general, Celestial technology needs to be naturally based--as in based on something in nature. They can't interact with machines of any kind. Given this, I think there are possibilities we haven't even begun to explore.

I know that you can logically extrapolate ideas--listening to you talk about your current project for school made that very clear. I would love to see what you come up with.

Cris

[Cris]

A couple of questions about wretton:

In the original Sourcebook it says: Celestials need wretton to be able to Digitize (or get on the Internet) To use Digitize, a Celestial connects to the Human/Terrapyre Internet through his or her wretton. Then the Celestial can literally upload him or herself through the wretton and onto the Internet. Celestials using Digitize would appear as a bipedal entity, but instead of the swirling patterns and colors of True Form, the humanoid form would display scrolling binary code. If the Celestial’s True Form has three colors, then the digitized Celestial would have three layers of code—strings of 1s and 0s—one in each color, scrolling vertically. Their eyes would appear as swirling colors as in True Form, with no white or pupil.

In Erik Egan's story "40,000 Channels and Nothing On" he mentions that Celestials were briefly on the 'net but eliminated in 2028. These Celestials had a "genetic glitch" that enabled them to gain access to the Internet. Now, however, they're getting in through satellite authentication--remote authentication created to protect the location of people in RL even from employers.

After Unification, the Council on Hom severely restricted access to the Great Archive, which had been done previously through wretton (in addition to an actual visit). Given this, I'd imagine that wretton would become an obsolete technology, so how are Celestials getting on the 'net now?

[Erik]

Wow. That's a killer catch, Cris. I never had that version of the sourcebook. My understanding of it was this:

1. Celestials can't get on the 'net.
2. Wretton used to be given to all graduating Missionaries but they aren't given at all after Unification.
3. Wretton can be used to connect to the Great Archive with absolute clarity when on Hom. Wretton can be used to speak to another Celestial with a wretton who is on the same planet as you with absolute clarity.
4. Wretton cannot connect to the Internet. Wretton cannot send or receive messages from planet to planet.
5. Wretton were used by Missionaries to keep their team in perfect communication (instead of relying upon telepathy which not all Celestials have). They would all sideload information to each other so that if anything happened to any of them, as long as at least one Celestial on the team got back through a Portal, then all the information/samples would be safe.
6. Missionaries with wretton could access the Great Archive with perfect clarity from anywhere on Hom. Others would have to go to Lux'karr.

I am writing a story for the second anthology about the incident in 2028 that allowed certain Celestials on the Internet.

As for satellite authentication/remote authentication allowing Celestials on the 'net, I would be fine talking about that here. It basically means that by post-PT, a small number of Celestials (specifically those who have wretton and also have Presence -- that additional genetic boost of strength) realize that they are able to upload themselves full-on, onto the Internet by interfacing through a bionetic satellite network that was designed to allowed VIP Humans to upload to the Internet after bouncing around a organic network of relays.

When "40,000 Channels and Nothing On" takes place, Terrapyres have only known about the Celestials on the Internet for less than five years.

Hope this is helpful!

Erik

[Alyson]

With all the talk on other threads about the Celestial starwisp relay system to power their world (and their quantum energy to power their higher-draw activities), I just wanted to point out that the recent film "Moon" proposes a similar relay for Earth's future:

Cover the Moon with solar power collectors and then convert the solar to microwaves and send them to Earth via large beams of power to charge world-wide energy grids. If we harnessed even 1% of the solar that bakes the Moon every day, the Earth's power crisis (now and into the far future) would be over.

Aly

[Cris]

Aly

Cool! Great idea. I have that film. Clearly I need to watch it. Like now. That would certainly be an interesting idea to explore for Earth history (e.g. Prime Time or later, maybe?)

Cris