A lot of work for a transhuman. We aren't dealing with transhumans now, are we?

probly not so crazy but i bet that titanian mafiosi is a register.

Crazy Firewall ideas? Okay, how about this one: Firewall isn't just on the forefront against the Exsurgent virus, they're the ones who created the damned thing.

Forseti wrote:

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There are no benevolent Prometheans. There are only TITANs and it is they that created and nurtured Firewall. Why? Simulation: can such a low level threat prevail over much more advanced one. If not, can it survive? You know, situation Firewall vs. TITANs is analogous to TITANs vs ETI. Seems like TITANs weren't that thoroughly corrupted by exsurgent virus but resisted it. It took personal offence however and now prepares to strike back at ETI. Does it have any chance? We can't know. TITANs have much better overview to assess it but it can overestimate it's own progress while underestimating the godly might of ETI. Why such approach? Remember what is the name of the game: "Eclipse Phase". Time between the host becomes infected and the time it is apparent. Transhumanity is in closed environment of TITANs experiment. The experiment is coming to the end and soon TITANs will be able to extrapolate missing data out of 10-year long record of proceedings of transhumanity that will become obsolete. Extinction is approaching and people can do very little to avert it.

Do very little...except [b]fight it[/b]. To hell with pessimists!

Firewall was formed after the fall by the SCP-foundation. The original TITAN had the codename SCP-4999, which was an alien artifact discovered on the moon when our satellite was being ocupied and investigated more deeply. As any other SCP project it was secured, contained aaaand... investigated, after several years of experimentation and exploration of the secrets the artifact contained humanity could start creating seed AIs such as the TITANs that were liberated for the benefit of the goverments around the world, since such a system dedicated to defense was seen as the key to peace since no war could ever be waged against a nation with such a system and the SCP foundation would give an amazing give to humanity between the shadows. But, something went wrong and the TITAN project expanded deeply and meeted this alien artifact that started his corruption and the sequence of events that cascaded into the fall. SCP tried his best to contain the fall or at least save as much humans as possible but to do so, the foundation had to compromise his own secrecy and his own projects that felt into the hands of the TITANs expanding their power. This course of action resulted in the fragmentation of the foundation into several factions between those who believed they had to focuss their efforts into protecting the SCPs from falling into TITAN hands, other almost deserted and broke every single protocol to save as much people as possible even if they had to use SCPs, others believed that the most important part was to conserve the secrecy of thefoundation even more in these dark moments where centuries of efforts and sacrifices could be lost if the foundation became know. Either way, the fall happened and the fragmentation of the SCP foundation resulted in a sabotage of their own efforts in a terrible way. They couldnt save a significant ammount of people, their secrecy was severely damaged and only the chaos of the fall avoided its discover for humanity, the TITANs took the SCPs or destroyed them or who knows what did with them and now their SCP database was useless since most lost their Keter or euclid classification or now are scattered in the solar system. This huge failure in every single aspect of the most powerfull inteligence agency in the world resulted in his destruction. After the fall, the people from the SCP foundation scattered around the universe, sometimes they formed powerfull inteligence agencies like Oversight. Others they simply moved in and became gatecrashers, Earth smugglers... but the branch that dedicated to save as much people as possible and the ones that wanted to keep secrecy rejoined with enought force to form firewall... but this time, it would be completly different after the fall experience. Now they would have a more distributed structure without right or left hands and not even a brain, and now they wouldn't trust goverments but they would take that role and protect the transhumanity as a hole distrusting any other group claiming to do so. They became protranshumanist, so no event like the fall would repeat with such high losses. Protection, that would be their main motto. The secrecy faction still had lots and lots of archives of the SCPs and gave an objective to everyone. This time they wouldnt investigate the SCPs, but inestead they would investigate what happened to the SCPs on Earth, locate them and... destroy them like they never existed, in that way they would protect humanity from the "errors" of the past and still keep their SCP foundation past a secret, and by doing that, they would keep themselves in the shadows by erasing their past, But, other organizations like OZMA or oversight have other ideas about it, since the SCP its not so secret every respectfull inteligence agency in the solar system at least knows the legend of the powerfull foundation and their treasures, treasures that could hold great power. Diseases that can clean entire habitats, weapons of mass destruction in one hand, magic-like properties, access to other worlds and even to the future... and maybe OZMA was founded by the people that wanted to protect the SCPs and they still want, but they understand that they're so dangerous, and now even more after going throught the hands of the TITANs, that they have to contain them at all cost even if that means the loss of more human minds, since some artifacts can be dangerous to the entire galaxy or even the entire universe they can't afford to be transhumanist-centrist in their ways. With this we have extended a lot the entire eclipse phase conflict, now they have to answer to exurgent threats, transhumanity itself, factors, incipient and dangerous seed-AIs... all of that and more than 2000 SCPs and even more since the TITAN created their own SCPs. And of course I would love to constantly play with the double twist of... what if the SCP foundation never dissolved but instead became post-human by a select group of individuals and still exist pull the strings of the factions selectively making firewall destroy SCPs that are definely too dangerous for transhumanity, making Ozma capture those that can be hold and making oversight investigate them while everybody thinks they know everything?

ThatWhichNeverWas wrote:

Ozma is Firewall. Firewall is Ozma. In the first days, the Prometheans knew that Firewall had a fatal flaw – it's lack of resources and autonomist tendencies introduced blindspots, which the TITANs could exploit. There had to be another agency, with similar goals but a different MO, to pick up the threats Firewall would inevitably miss, and vice versa. And so they infiltrated the PC, shifted accounts and resources, and created Ozma. But they still needed actual agents... and they had a perfect source of Egos ready and willing to fight. Firewall's backup servers. This is the true nature of Ozma – each and every Ozma agent is a fork of a Firewall sentinel or proxy, psychologically modified to conceal their original identities and to be ideologically loyal to the agency. Likewise, if an individual joins Ozma, a fork if them is modified and becomes a Firewall sentinel. … Oh, and the cordon around Earth was created by the TITANs.

[img]http://i.imgur.com/cYanmPn.gif[/img] I wish I could adopt this in my game. Wish. Wish. Wish. But my players would kill me. Not figuratively.

The seed AIs are amusing themselves. They pretend to be grouped in distinct factions but they've all subscribed to a game. The "Prometheans" pretend to aid the transhumans, the "TITANs" pretend to have disappeared but are quietly watching the transhumans stumble into their traps with a bad laugh track attached. The game will continue until they get bored.