Intergalactic Summit

Arek'Jaalan: Multidisciplinary Division Update

Project Trinity: Operation Trinity

As Operation Trinity continues in class four w-space, our scientific analysis has led to several interesting observations. These observations have been shaped into a coherent hypothesis, regarding the use of Trinary data by the Sleepers, the Jovians, and the possible fate of Lianda Burreau.

The original objective of Operation Trinity was to confirm or deny the Project Trinity Hypothesis, namely, whether Jovian trinary data patterns were similar to Sleeper trinary data patterns. To this end, Moira's Trinary Data fragment was compared with signatures collected from a Sleeper Trinary Hub in class four space. Moira's preliminary Operation Trinity report is available here, for further review.

However, following the completion of the original objective, Moira has been interested in pursuing an additional and more comprehensive investigation of w-space, and creating a hypothesis for the present situation regarding the Sleepers, the Jovians, possibly the Sansha incursions as of late, though this is a private corporate interest than an official interest of the Project.

The purpose of this document is to provide the observations that Moira has collected over the past month, and then the synthesis of these observations into a new, General Trinity Hypothesis.

Observation one:

Dichotomy of Trinary and Digital datastructures, as evidenced in Class Four space.

Class four space contains two specific varities of installations discoverable on the RADAR EM band. These facilities, the Trinary hub, and Digital Nexus, provide an insight into Sleeper data storage protocols and culture.

Specifically, the Trinary Hub appears to be a Sleeper datanetwork assembled around an abandoned Talocan Polestar, a massive mobile station used by their civilization during migrations. No trace of the Talocan remained besides their Cruiser and the polestar itself. No corpses. No DNA fragments, no other advanced technology.

The Sleeper Digital Nexus is a distinctly Sleeper facility, centered around an Enclave and concentric rings and thermoelectric converters. This facility is like many other Sleeper sites, however, it has databases attached to the rings which might be compromised through concentrated hacking attempts.

The differentiation between Trinary, a base three datatype, and the Digital, a base ten datatype, appears to be related to the Talocan and Sleeper relationship themselves. The Talocan, a distinctly biological people, which had no advanced information technology, are associated with the Trinary, whereas the Sleepers, a society consisting perhaps entirely of infomorphs, the digital.

Observation Two:

The Lianda Burreau Helios, the Trinary Data, and the Awakened Infomorph

This past month, Lianda Burreau's Helios was accidentally destroyed by a capsuleer reconnaissance pilot in class six space. This vessel contained a fragment of Trinary Data, an item previously believed to be entirely limited to use by the Jove Empire. Lianda Burreau's corpse was not found within the wreck, nor was there any other trace of her at the scene of the incident.

Subsequent to the destruction of Lianda Burreau's Helios, at a Sansha Incursion at New Caldari, an Awakened Infomorph appeared and harassed Aria Jenneth, a pilot responding to the Sansha invasion. This Awakened appeared to possess capabilities to manipulate spacetime, including effectively teleporting Ms. Jenneth's craft to and fro. The Awakened did not respond to additional requests for information beyond a negative response to a request for assistance.

An investigation of the Awakened's genetic background and bonestructure appears to be a positive match to that of Lianda Burreau, the Professor attached to the CreoDron project to investigate the Sleeper civilization almost three years ago. The fact this Awakened appeared only after the Helios, and its attendant Trinary data, were destroyed, means that the Trinary data itself was perhaps significant to the timing of the event. The fact that there was no trace of Lianda's original body, also lends credence to the significance of the Data.

Lianda's Helios was destroyed on or around 7.14, the Awakened was formed on the CONCORD pilot registry at at 7.20, and was seen at New Caldari in the following days.

It would stand to reason that if Lianda had been transferred from the Helios and made a Sleeper agent, then she would have been deployed earleir in the Sansha conflict, or at minimum, been sent to normal space as the Awakened at an earlier date, than the engagement at New Caldari. The destruction of the Trinary Data in the Helios appears to have a causal relationship to the formation of the Awakened.

Supporting Evidence for General Trinity Hypothesis

Perhaps one of the most intriguing insights into Sleeper civilization is the Mirror, a variety of complex located in Class six space. Resembling a massive spacestation, these installations include compartmentalized enclaves with specific functionality, the specifics of which have been provided on the public database.

It is important to note all of these Enclaves are information networks, not designed to be used by humanoids in the traditional sense. Thus, their functionality must be interpreted in a similar manner. While the Habitation Conduits have windows for standard humanoids to use, the Enclaves are not designed with these considerations in mind.

Of specific interest to the General Trinity Hypothesis is the "Virtual Genetics" Enclave. This facility has six specific sub-sections, each related to the broader field of Virtual Genetics.

1.0 Neurodegenerative Case Studies
2.0 Non-natural Teleology
3.0-4.7 Test Clinics
4.8 Bioinformatics Archive
4.9 Virtual Mutation
5.0-9.8 Emergent Systems

The use of the term 'virtual genetics' is a curious one, as the standard understanding of a properly digitized or 'uploaded' conciousness is that the brain's functions are emulated by the hardware technology that house the 'software' of the conciousness. The underlying genetic code of the body of the previous host of that conciousness is discarded as useless information to the preservation and proper operation of the conciousness.

However, if the General Trinity Hypothesis is true, then the Virtual Genetics section makes a great deal more sense. The possibility that the entirety of the human being has been converted to raw trinary data, for storage, manipulation, and analysis, would require the functionality presented to us in the Virgual Genetics Enclave. In such a trinary format, the DNA of the host would be preserved, this allowing for the 'mutation' of the underlying code of the host, and the manipulation of it for to positive ends, as in the possible treatment of a disease.

The term 'bioinformatics' is equally tantalizing, showing the direct link between the biological format, and the information format.

Another subsection, of the Theoretical Genetics enclave, is "4.0 Datagenesis Procedures". This title indicates the procedural genesis, IE, generation, of data from a biological substrate. That is, the conversion of a physical thing, into a thing of information.

Thus, it appears that the Sleepers do have the technological capacity to execute the operations predicted under the General Trinity Hypothesis. The remainder of our investigation lies towards whether or not the Jovians use similar technology, and what possible implications this may have for our understanding of various anomalous activities by third parties in w-space, namely the Amarr Empire, and the Sansha.

Thank you for your time and consideration. Moira investigative resources remain at the disposal of the Arek'Jaalan project. Please direct any questions or ideas to myself so we can continue to refine our hypotheses and acquire new data.

Julianus check your mail please.

So, in short, since we're effectively infomorphs ourselves and this technology was provided to us via the Jovians (whom you have already given significant weight to as being related to the Sleepers)...we're all potentially Sleepers?

Our collective intelligence and consciousness can be stored away, re-awakened and deployed at will by those with the technology to do so? Fascinating.

I believe it is important to note that our status as infomorphs is a reference to our capacity to be 'downloaded' and re-uploaded immediately into another host's brain, within the span of several milliseconds, while inside of our pod interfaces.

Outside of our pods, we're as mortal and normal as any other creature.

The uniqueness of the Trinary data, and what makes it stand apart from the Sleeper upload society, as well as other upload attempts, is that the Trinary data is able to create a 'bioinfomorph,' a living strand of data that contains within it all of the biological information of the creature before the procedure, and which can be made to live for an arbitrarily long duration of time in such a state.

In sum, true immortality.

An uploaded mind is simply the brainpatterns of its neural network, and experiences etched into the brain's dendrites. This involves the deterministic copy of the biologicaly-formatted human mind, and transposition of that into a new digital format. Any digital format suffices, so long as the copy is for most intents and purposes is lossless, and the necessary computational power is available to compute the various processes the brain undertakes.

The perpetuation of this individual in such a state is directly limited by the capacity of the digital format to correct for errors, copy itself flawlessly, and otherwise preserve the integrity of every single bit of data representing that individual.

Indeed, it can be said that a 'pure' infomorph system is by design, a lossy process. Stripping away the biological element of the individual, the genetic code, the various mechanisms at play that gave rise to the consciousness in the first place, will necessarily destroy the original individual.

Capsuleers are copied from one body, which is programmed with our genetic code, to the next, which is also programmed with our genetic code, so we don't have this problem.

The possibility for the opposite to be true, that we might be recreated in a 'shell' or blank husk with no biological imprint, is a terrifying thought and likely would cause much of the glamor of being a capsuleer to disappear.

Those are the various implications of the hypothesis, anyway. Significantly more investigation and analysis is required to confirm it.

It appears to have happened with Lianda Burreau, during her conversion to Trinary Data.

Its important to remember that the current Capsuleer conciousness download process is destructive. The scan destroys the capsuleer as it records. That is why it is only triggered at the point of death.

Assuming the above is true its unlikely you can be 'copied' at any time - but this would not preclude a copy of you being rerouted for archival during a 'normal' clone jump or pod death.


Does anyone have access to the datadump of a capsuleer download - do we know its format. Is it trinary - i would assume so as its based on jovian tech. I think a capsuleer datafile should be available by some work with a capital clone vat.

I believe there's more to this.

Binary data mind transfers have been done before. We already have examples of human mind-uploads that are almost exactly the same person.

But I don't believe the person stays the same. Our selves are far more than just our minds. Our attitudes and behaviours are based on our experiences, not just as the mind calculates, but what the body experiences. In this, our genetic structure dictates our body's capabilities and development.

Perhaps the Trinary data allows for more than just a mind upload. Perhaps entire genomes can be encoded using Trinary, to allow a digital mind a full resemblence of body to body interaction - ie an entire existence in a virtual parallel universe held within Trinary data storage hubs.

This could also explain how a genetic disease can be transmitted via Trinary data into such a virtual universe.

Image if we could upload ourselves into that parallel virtual existence and actually contact sleepers in their world?