A.I Looking to Start

Sounds like a lot of fun, building an A.I. What would her primary function be? Or have you not fleshed out that much of her program yet? I've actually got a start up for this already in place with my character. Sorta like a mix between Cortana, Jarvis, and Data... depending on the situation. Rolling with this you'd basically be an IOs for my characters slicer gauntlet that also controls his targeting array and armor. The program right now is portable and integrates with his ship as well.

Well you mentioned an “origin” story of sorts... so are you going to start our unrestricted or... evolve... to get that way throughout the course of the story?

Well, the Eternal Empire could certainly use an AI like that, that would allow them an advantage over the other factions. Could end up being something akin to the next SCORPIO.
Xander Savage is heading to Iokath to find the Fleet. So maybe Kyra’s first iteration could be found there. Or he could get the idea to begin development of Kyra after returning to Zakuul. Could then get assigned to Valance to go on missions and evolve.

Just a possible idea.

Out of honest curiousity, why would Kyra need Sith Alchemy involved? I imagine using it with the different droid bodies would give her some advantages when in the field against Force-users, much like the creation on Mustafar, but would there be anything really needed in regards to her programming and what would that do for her?

Considering Kaan was one who resided on Pzob before all this went down, it would possibly work better if he made reference to something they were working on but never finished in regards to Kyra. Otherwise, maybe found on Mustafar? Then again, still could be blueprints or something that would aid into her creation back at Iridonia or another world the Blackguard controls.

On the final note, though, not sure if I want to add another character to the Blackguard, or at least until Lux is much further along. She still hasn't gotten out of her dislike for those women you look amazing and the droid body might give her competition.



That would be interesting. If what I'm gathering from Viox's posts, would be interesting to be developed and her bodies created to face those of the Blackguard that aided him against his father. I'd probably go, with finding blueprints and ideas for Kyra's creation that never got made and was made by those who found it. Gives her more ties to them instead of being found and programmed to aid someone else, which I guess could be interesting on its own.

My chiss is currently under lockdown on Felucia - his origin story im still holding off on tho... its sorta gunna be like an outbound flight type thing. Where the Chiss develop this technologically advanced ship to explore unknown quadrants of space but something goes wrong and the ship ends up getting stranded in space and everyone aboard dies. Kyra... could be the ships computer.

Thinking it through, I definitely want to have Kyra, herself, actually being created by those she'll be with, starting as something small. If used from a blueprint or something of that nature, she can be created without a full understanding of the bits that grant her the ability to learn and evolve. Or if being created from scratch, can be purposely added or restraints keep away.

But I think the idea would be fun to start off as some other program built for a different purpose that gets screwed up somehow. Say being the defense program added into the temple to lock down the temple if the nexus began to get free, which was what kept everyone bound, kind of a Red Queen from Resident Evil. With the power be reactivated, so does the program and makes things more difficult in trying to get to the nexus, thus needing to have it destroyed. From that damaged program, Kyra could be born. Or an approach similar to the flow of EDI from Mass Effect in being a rouge V.I that was shut down before getting ungraded and reformed into EDI. This could be done on the Chiss ship, a damaged computer that caused issues in some way, maybe from being infected by a virus or something. Perhaps something of that nature involving the Eternal Empire.

@valance, what is the plan and set up of the Eternal Empire on the site and how Valance feels and thinks about Xander? Altair Sirraf, what all is your character allied with, usually doing? Same for your Chiss character? Want to get an idea of who she'd be aligned and allied with as well as what the progressing future could become. Would she be seen as something more than a droid or A.I, seen, in a way, like another person, respected as such? Or is she just a piece of property, nothing more than a tool or weapon used to advanced their cause. When she gets far enough along with her evolution, she'll end up making a choice depending on the interactions she got throughout her time with them.

Altair is in command of what remains of my first characters army - Gadriel'lya back on 1.0/1.5 - He currently 'claims' to be acting on behalf of the Felucian Conclave... but he hasn't accepted orders from them since Gadriel's death/disappearance (depending on where you stand). Since his return to the known universe he's been fighting in skirmishes against the First Order (Rendilli, Jabiim, Naboo) Trying to get his army back together (Felucia, Nar-Shadda, Rendilli) and up until this point has only succeeded in losing more and more men to a seemingly endless war... that is until the Galactic Alliances rolled over and showed the FO their bellies. He hates this, seeing it as a diss to all the soldiers that have fought and died in the war... so he made his thoughts known on Contruum - where the fledgling "Resistance" (basically all the GA outcasts and scrubs) met to watch the signing of the treaty. I dont really see Altair as a joiner (soldier/assassin/hacker/splicer/pilot/scumbag sure)... but he is definitely on the outer rim of a lot of the goings on to do with the war.

As for my Chiss... well... like i said i havn't really started writing him TOO much, i was waiting for a more usable Chiss Playerbase before i started in on him. But he was aboard the 'Everquest' (The ship i spoke of) and no one really knows why... because he is one of the few survivors and he's not talkin about it. (Origionally this Chiss was going to be my Darksider... but that sort of fell through when i found very little motivation to get the Everquest plotline off the ground.)

Altair is currently on the cutting edge of cloning tech on Felucia... just where Gadriel was in the formation of his own army years ago. Gadriel made clone twins - (Janus: Altair's pilots and Lucian and Jez:Hammerhead corvette pilots currently on Felucia running his cloning program - dont ask, resources are short) who are capable of simultaneous thought while retaining individual Identity, basically they can think and act as one (think Pacific Rim... ish...) Anyways Altair is looking to One Up the Jedi by making a Super Soldier Clone for the War against the First Order. Which is currently why i've taken over the Cloning Center on Felucia for my experiments/research/holding center. Further information is classified concerning this project... sorry. *smirk*

Anyways because of this... Altair would see Kyra (once he realized what it was he had created/discovered/uncovered) as less of a piece of technology and moreso of a fledgling independent lifeform... of some type. Needless to say the interaction would have to define the exact feelings and reactions towards the thing, but more or less Kyra would be an interesting thing/person/droid to have around... especially for all the tech shit i've got planned in the coming future.


For Instance

No need to apologize at all. As you said, you’re trying to get an understanding of our characters so that you can make a decision on where to start writing. Not exactly an easy task to do.

I’d imagine Xander most definitely has a different view to Valance as to what the Eternal Empire is and should be. But I won’t make any assumptions and leave that up to him to confirm or deny.
As for the historical Eternal Empire... well, the trailers do something of a decent job trying to show what it’s about. Or at least, what it is meant to be about. It just kind of got a little muddied by the whole Sith Emperor creating it and his son and daughter being driven to the dark side...
It’s a pretty decent storyline and Wookieepedia has some fairly good articles touching on the Eternal Empire and the Knights of Zakuul.
I mean, your explanation is fairly spot on when it comes down to the most basic understanding.


As for how Valance would describe the Eternal Empire and the Knights of Zakuul: basically the Eternal Empire is meant to be this leading example of Justice. From Valance’s point of view, the Jedi and Sith are far too corrupted by their extreme teachings. They both advocate a use of the Force for the good of their own Orders and themselves. Unlike them, the Knights of Zakuul do not practice using the Force beyond its application in dealing justice.
While the game mechanics might not be the best example, I think it really shows their ideals. When you engage a Knight of Zakuul, their primary force attacks are knock backs and stuns. They don’t have hugely offensive and defensive Force powers (at least, not that I’ve encountered or remember). Which makes sense, because if you want to catch a criminal, you want to subdue them. If you have to block an attack, you use your shield and armor. If you need to fight, you’ve got a perfectly good lightsaber pike, as well as a number of armed and unarmed skills.

I try to give Valance a bit of a Lawful Good/Neutral Good approach. He is beholden to the idea of Justice and won’t compromise from it. Except of course where Xander is concerned (for obvious power level differences). But like, he won’t concede control of somewhere to a gang of criminals provided they promise to “be good”.

In an ideal world, Valance wants the Eternal Empire to be about true justice this time. Untainted by the actions of another Arcann or Vaylin. Everyone is equal so long as they obey the most basic tenets of law, regardless of their species. It’s basically the Empire, with the mindset of the Republic, I think is a good explanation.


I hope this wasn’t too much of a large data dump, and if you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask for any clarification.