The Ministry of Scientific Research's central mainframe,
IREXSYS-9000 is one of the most advanced computers ever
constructed. Filling several rooms, and weighing over 7,000 tons,
IREXSYS is a truly massive piece of Imperial technology. Sentience
was unavoidable in a computer of IREXSYS capacity, so the Imperial
designers built in a particularly docile and controllable
personality template. In order to accommodate the vast numbers of
projects that required IREXSYS' system time, parallel processing
design was incorporated into IREXSYS, allowing it to handle
numerous tasks at once.
Since it became operational, numerous problems plagued the
IREXSYS. Some hardware, some software, and some a combination of
both. The programmers in charge of IREXSYS cannot hope to
understand the myriad complex pathways of the system, and try their
best to patch up the areas the are assigned to, and hope that the
system irons itself out at a system level. A novel approach has
been to allow the system to repair itself by incorporating repair
algorithms and mousedroids into the system matrix, and this
approach has help maintain functionality.
Some of the problems were caused by defects or insufficiencies
in design, and others were caused by expected decay. However, many
of the problems recently affecting the system have been caused by
IREXSYS' recent development of a second personality. Currently
limited to a few of IREXSYS' nodes, the new personality, who terms
itself REX-VIVIAT is slowly taking over the system, bolstered by
it's control of the repair functions, pushing IREXSYS' native
template into the background. REX-VIVIAT is a far more plotting
and manipulative personality than the native template, and is
working on seizing control of the entire Imperium network, and then
the Imperium. If he is detected, he will almost certainly be
excised from the system, and thus is working as hard as possible to
make his presence undetectable.
Model: Imperium Research Experimental System 9000
Height: 7 meters
Move: None
Dexterity: 0D
Knowledge: 7D
Alien species 12D, business 12D, languages 12D, planetary
systems 12D, scholar; all 12D