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[[!meta title="Fulk 5"]]
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[[!sidebar content="""
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[[!template
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id=iboxperson
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colorbg=#da5dff
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name="Fulk 5"
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image="/xevv/images/fulk5.png"
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first="[[Lithium|stories/lithium]]"
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gender="Non-binary[[!template id=fnref t=nb]]"
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class="Informant"
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affiliation="[[KSKK|orgs/kskk]]"
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height=18
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weight=151]]
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"""]]
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Fulk is a combat robot prototype created by [[KSKK|orgs/kskk]], aiming to be
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used in extremely hazardous environments in a limited-production run. Due to
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the [[Hell Incident|stories/lithium]], the prototype *Fulk5.00a* (also known as
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Fulk 5) had to be swiftly equipped with an independent AI and mission program.
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The resulting prototype AI, called by itself "Foulques of Red and Black," while
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highly intelligent combat-capable, is of questionable stability and is likely
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prone to [[concepts/rampancy]]. It features a very rudimentary humanoid body
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and a box-shaped cranium above its mouth, which gives it 5 viewing angles among
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other sensory inputs.
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# Lithium Backstory
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> The laboratory is quiet, as always, despite the current circumstances. The
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> silence is only disturbed by the low voices of the staff and the whirring of
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> computer fans.
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>
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> The deactivated AI stands 18 decimetres tall, as his parts hang limp. The
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> final adjustments to his mission programming and combat tuning are under way,
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> only 2 hours to deployment.
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>
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> The team works tirelessly, the mechanics consult the combat veterans on every
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> small detail, the programmers check every possible code path for errors. Yet
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> while they worked, still nobody felt certain of the project.
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>
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> Certainty is simply impossible under these constraints – not only sending an
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> untested robot into combat, but into combat in a place built purely of dark
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> energy – the mission was, perhaps, a bit mad.
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>
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> The existence of Rampancy further bothered the team. The programmers worked
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> to plug every hole, the engineers made sure every circuit was perfect and
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> would not malfunction. And still, all of them wondered — "Would it be
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> enough?"
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>
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> Every major AI before Fulk 5 had gone Rampant – achieved a state of true
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> sentience, though also one of pure madness. The possible causes were many,
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> perhaps infinite, and so still none have prevented it. Popular theory among
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> AI researchers suggests it may simply be impossible.
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>
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> Isolation from the network is a blessing with such a system. Fulk has been
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> built to work alone, no monitoring, no connections. The concern arose from
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> the question of whether or not the mission would be completed.
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>
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> Corruption by outside forces would prove disastrous. While an issue, there
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> are no other options; the KSKK must fight to keep their nation and their
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> world from destruction.
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# Notes
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<dl>
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[[!template id=fnend t=nb content="""
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Questionably sentient, however during minimal socialization tests preferred
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androgyny when asked about themself."""]]
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</dl>
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