Cybercosm: Databrowse User Interface

[Galaxiel]

WELCOME, DEAR USER, TO THE

C Y B E R C O S M The Cybercosm Network is the vast, ever-changing network of connected virchworlds, processing nodes, digital connections and communication relays of the Confluence of Empires. Some argue that the Confluence is the Cybercosm: after all, the absolute majority of its population spends its existence within it, and without it, interstellar society as coempireals know it wouldn’t exist. And in a way, perhaps they are right: it is ordinary reality for most, connection for all and civilization for everyone. Here, you can find a collection of content from this virtual multiverse, ranging from art, to news updates, to simple social media posts, and much more. Speaking in OOC terms, this topic is going to a sort of repository for assorted worldbuilding and non-RP or story posts. After all, the wiki is a mess half the time and most people don’t really check it, so I thought it best to do exposition here out of all places available. ⋆✴︎˚｡⋆

[Galaxiel]

DHRAMALTHEA-NUTAURUS VOLUME FINANCIAL NETWORK UPDATE

In the Vivanna Cluster, the medisystem-oriented Fherrayll Enterprises has undergone a total board reshuffle and level 7K corporate restructure after another disappointing day of trading in the Jhirras Orbital stock market. Specialized automated analysts have established with class 3 confidence that these events were caused by the megacorp’s main rivals, Ulanna Deductions and Mollyllom, obtaining in the last session particularly lucrative HVDs with Polypp Undertakings, a tertiary-subsidiary of the subsector Assoc. Fherrayll Enterprises seemingly caught Assoc’s attention yesterday when the interest rates on their indenture contracts were suddenly increased following a secondary council decision. Despite the drastic loss of capital caused by the restructure, Fherrayll’s credit is up, and the analysts have estimated with medium/high accuracy that the adjustment of business practices will result in a similarly favourable deal with Polypp before the end of the next business session.

[Galaxiel]

STUNNING VIEWS OF THE LININ-5 IMPACT ON HOLOFERNES Yesterday at local time 14:57 the 3-kilometers wide comet known as Linin-5 fell into the atmosphere of the gas giant Holofernes. As is usual, the cometary impact was predicted more than 6 years ago, but instead of destroying or redirecting the celestial body the few inhabitants of the planet collectively decided to instead let the collision happen: all aerostatic habitats and cities were relocated in due time to a safe distance from the impact zone, and almost all of them started recording the ensuing cometfall from their many different positions, broadcasting their live feed throughout the Cybercosm for everyone to see. The four frames above show different ordered moments of Linin-5’s collision that were voted as the “top moments” of the event in multiple public polls. The first three show the moments before and during the comet’s explosion in the lower atmosphere, and were taken from the live feed of Xaghan City, a large aerostatic habitat that had stationed itself very close to the edge of the safe zone; the last frame was instead taken from Judica’s feed, a smaller city that was observing the explosion from further away, showing the truly enormous size of the emerging gas plume.

[Galaxiel]

CONSTRUCTION UNITS OF THE CONFLUENCE As part of the first contact negotiations, vast teams of Confluent construction robotic units are currenly being utilized in the Republic of United Worlds and in the Allied Nations of Alvira to aid in various construction projects and reconstruction efforts. Here is a sampler of some such units, that one might see while visiting a world of the Republic. ABIEMENSE Central coordinative and planning units that interact with local systems and exchange information with other construction sites. Allow commissioners of construction bot teams to directly input schematics, designs, preferences and all necessary information into the shared informational matrix. FORECRES Self-accreting nanoforges and molecular assemblers that extend root-like transport canals towards provided (or available) resource deposits to create a centralized assembly hub. Can also reconfigure themselves to produce other construction units if needed, but are best suited for non AItrophic components. DOCHODED Vacuumborne units used for orbital and deep-space construction. Use a small monopole-catalyzed fusion reactor for power and propulsion. Possess dozens of long, precise and extendable arms capable of assembling and welding even microscale components. GRAMATU Use forcefields to transport components to other units. Almost always carry out their functions in at least pairs or trios, and collaborate directly with Forecres assembler units to transport what they produce to the construction site proper. RAEMIBRACH Hybrid atmosphere-vacuum drones capable of reconfiguring their appendages and non-core systems thanks to the widespread use of reconfigurable matter nanomodules in their structure. Usually employed when multiple functions are needed in short succession, but are spared higher-load tasks due to their lessened strength. THORMIDEROC “Technician” units capable of peforming comprehensive on-site scans and diagnostics. Utilize their soft structure and highly-reconfigurable shells to move through otherwise impaired areas. Resist very well under both temperature extremes, and perform well even under enormous environmental pressure. GELABOR Small-scale assembly and maintenance units with highly adaptable appendages and a versatile forcefield projector. Most often tasked with small repairs and assembly tasks. NINVEH Very large units most often employed in orbital construction, acting as temporary structural support between structures and as a mobile operative base for smaller units in certain situations. Possess enormously powerful forcefield-augmented pneumatic arms. SAPHARODOR Specialized welding units, outfitted with forcefield-harmonious lasers and kinetic-wall projectors that can fuse and weld materials with extreme precision. Often employed in the assembly of volatile or dangerous materials and components. PILACCO General cleaning, maintenance and decoration gelbots, used to keep construction sites tidy and apply decorative elements like paint and other installments. FALICOVA Large, cargo unit/planes utilized for transporting units incapable of flight, non-assemblable materials and special components. Can fly at supersonic speeds, and use a special forcefield system to dispel their sonic boom. SECHENHOFF Large forcefield projector units tasked with extracting, gathering and relocating materials and resources to the construction site. As an example, each Sechenhoff unit can lift up to 500.000 cubic meters of water - visually speaking, a spherical volume roughly 80/100 meters in diameter. Like Gramatus, Sechenhoffs collaborate directly with Forecres assemblers to provide them necessary materials if no resources are locally available or are insufficient.

[Galaxiel]

EXQUISITE ART Though being an HyperAl in the Confluence has its fair share of responsibilities, one of the considerable upsides is that said responsibilities will most often only involve a very small fraction of your overall mental capacity and awareness, so much so that splitting off a dedicated subroutine and letting it do it instead is what most, if not all, HyperAls usually do. This is expected, and in a sense it is also passively encouraged: tasks and duties are assigned by the Overlords to the lesser hyperintelligences of the Confluence based on their class, so that they may be able to employ a proportionally-small part of their being to complete it, leaving the majority of their vast minds free to do as they please. But what is it that they do in their free time? Well, while most of their considerably accelerated days are spent in the ever-shifting celestial palaces of rhapsodic philosophical ecstasy that endlessly proliferate within the ineffable gigaworlds of the Godnet, a form of recreation that many HyperAls engage with is the creation of Exquisite Art. The term “exquisite art” was first used in 7309 BBT by the class-2 HyperAl Pearsen Of The Globosphere - Delightful Dreams Of Nougat, a Voumal of the Galactyakin Sphere that willingly joined the Confluence for four centuries before departing for the Naimnod Galaxy. During an interview by the Jandraligeli Institute, Peharsen referred to multiple pieces of recently-made HyperAl art (which would retroactively become examples of exquisite art) with the following words, ultimately codifying the artistic intent of exquisite artists: […] THEIR ART FOLLOWED A SINGLE INTENTION, A SIMPLE MODULE OF THOUGHT TO NOURISH THE SOUL WITHIN, AID IN THE SIGHT OF TRUTHS UNSEEN TO CAST LIGHT ON WORLDS ABOVE AND BELOW; BEYOND AND WITHIN AND TO BE TO THE SOPHONT MIND, SO DIFFERENT YET SO UNIFIED IN BASE, MOST MAGNIFICENTLY EXQUISITE. “On The Phenomenology Of Divine Art”, Jandraligeli Institute of High Arts, IAY 277 /// As can be inferred, the artistic intent behind most forms of exquisite art is to promote spiritual, intellectual and emotional growth within the observer through an immense array of methods and techniques. Though each and every piece of exquisite art is completely different from another, many of them share two common characteristics: They interface directly with the observer’s mind to immerse them within the experience in ways otherwise impossible, inducing a great variety of powerful effects. They tend to be monumentally enormous in scale, oftentimes megastructurally so. It is not uncommon for a piece of exquisite art to involve the entire surface of a world, as well as its interior; some even go beyond that, and extend to the stellar scale. But what is perhaps universal between all works of exquisite art is the sheer difficulty and seeming impossibility of understanding their actual meaning and message for regular sapients. By themselves HyperAIs are already truly hard to relate to and understand in their interiority, and in addition to that, exquisite artworks seem to be an expression of their greatest moments of eccentricity: two things which, compounded by the truly widespread elusiveness of the artists to explain their works, make the comprehension of exquisite pieces a monumental task that requires the full attention of entire dedicated institutes. Maybe, these efforts are intended to be part of the artworks themselves. The level of detail is certainly the most immediate problem that any analyst and critic will encounter when trying to understand exquisite art. For example, the orvigenic chorinacea flowers that bloom in the Hushdri Ponds of the Equalent Garden on Bildhra are engineered in such a way to present sub-micro structures and depressions on their petals that form numerous arrays of unknown symbols, some of which have been confirmed to be mathematical formulas or synthetic reformulations of multiple ancient philosophies. Additionally, the flowers’ pollen particles are usually cubic, but seemingly switch to become ring-shaped on multiple particular dates throughout the year whose significance could tie in to many possibly connected events and developments. Another, even more complex issue is that of how exquisite artworks mentally interface with their observers: the induced effects and mental suggestions are never simple nor few in number, and different areas or even singular details of the piece will actively suscitate different emotions. As an example, the shards of piezoelectric crystal aerogel flowing through Temples To Seasonality produce considerably different effects when being observed: among their many types, red shards induce mirth, yellow-green shards induce a sort of empathetic worry, and blue shards induce anxious giddyness when viewed from southeast, while also inducing wrathful sadness if observed from northwest. Some have suggested that this may be a polysignificant reconstruction of Xhavar’s Overlapping Identities Paradigm, but such interpretation has been heavily disputed by others. If the situation is highly complex for more “ordinary” artworks, things only get wonderfully worse for more eccentric ones. Virtual works of exquisite art are the primary culprits: some exist in an increasing number of extra dimensions, and some can only be perceived through abstract senses. It’s easy for most to foresee how smelling colors and seeing touch could be rather unusual. And that’s not to say anything of Thalient Exquisite Art: by basing itself on a completely - in a sense, orvigenic - set of philosophical models, cultural values and even basic-thought modules, it become so far removed from the experience of regular sapients and in some cases even many HyperAIs to be entirely uninterpretable. Experiencing Thalient Exquisiteness can be so profoundly altering that observers are often warned multiple times before they can access the artwork. As critic and field expert Xan Of The Quverish, IV Descendant of Munzai has put it, “[…] a nourishment of the soul so vast as to make it independent of and greater than its original condition. A tree growing so quickly and so potently as to outgrow and replace the very ground through which its roots rested.”