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What exactly are Aleph's troops? Are they supposed to be robots, or are they full bodied cyborgs like in Battle Angel Alita and Ghost in the Shell? Or are they actually AIs that just get uploaded into different bodies? The descriptions of the various troops on the website don't make it especially clear except that the Proxies seem to be personalities that are uploaded onto the net that can harness multiple bodies at once. But, where those personalities from actual humans, or were they just AIs that had proven themselves?

 Barzam wrote:
What exactly are Aleph's troops? Are they supposed to be robots, or are they full bodied cyborgs like in Battle Angel Alita and Ghost in the Shell? Or are they actually AIs that just get uploaded into different bodies? The descriptions of the various troops on the website don't make it especially clear except that the Proxies seem to be personalities that are uploaded onto the net that can harness multiple bodies at once. But, where those personalities from actual humans, or were they just AIs that had proven themselves?

I think it´s a little bit of everything. Some of them are bots like Deva Bots and so on. But most of them are aspects of Aleph downloaded into a Lhost, something like a specially generated body. These aspects of Alpeh are downgraded to special tasks and got something like memory software to get something like an personality and learn combat aspects and better movements. They are something like super humans, looking like like popstars fighting like Jean Claude van Damme...

All Aleph troops are artificial bodied troops and robots.

Robots are easy, the artificially bodied troops are mode different, for starters the more in contact with humans they are supposed to be the more human the body in, the Assault Subsection that is as much an army as is a public relations image or the Devas has perfectly looking human bodies, on the other hand Sophotects who are a combat unit are more rough.

What is in the head is another chapter, most troops are artificially created personalities a shard if you will of Aleph, with various degrees of autonomy depending on their combat role, the possibility of having their link severed ectr.
Posthumans are true humans having their consciousness digitalised, for them they wear the bodies like clothes jumping from one to another, the Assault Subsection is a mix, with few exceptions, mainly Achilles, Patroclus and Penthesilea they are not simulated personalities but artificially crated ones let to go wild, they are created as babies and grown in a mater of days to adulthood and then downloaded to bodies, this makes them quite independent, more human like and in many cases quite psychotic, Alke been a prime example of split personality.

Hope this helps a bit.

The Lhosts are biomechanical body replacements. Basically grown biological bodies with nanomechanical upgrades.

All non-robots are Lhosts with an aspect of Aleph inside them. The aspect can be

a) a recreation, as in Achilles, Patroclus, Penthesilea, Aleph Liaisons to the other factions. The recreation is created by Aleph to be the best of the best with the ability to make independent choices.

b) a operative (The Vedics), such as a Deva, Asura and the like. The operative is a personality created by aleph that has has a simulated training. The target is to create an effective operative that does exactly what is told no matter the cost. As such they tend to be cold and "non-human".

c) a Myrmidon (or Thorakitai or other ASS member). The personality is created by aleph using random generation. The personality is then put to a simulated training to see if it is viable. If the personality is too wild, dangerous or otherwise unsuable, it is scrapped. If it is viable, it is put into a Lhost and sent to boot camp where it learns as opposed to is created with the knowledge of its body, weapons and the like. This type of aspect is the most human-like with most of the human traits such as working in a illogical manner.

The myrmidons can also have psychotic episodes, mental illnesses and such as they are not "logical" beings. See Nesaie Alke, Machaon.

The Myrmidon type takes the longest to create after the recreations, some weeks in simulation, then 6 months in the boot camp.

Okay, so it sounds like the non-robot/cyborg members of Aleph are kind of like the Replicants from Blade Runner, the Realians from Xenosaga, or the Bioroids from Appleseed. Basically they're artificially created humans with more or less premade personalities uploaded onto them.

So, most Aleph members have some degree of an actual personality to them, then? The Operatives I'm guessing are pretty much just straight robots, but the Mymidons and Recreations sound like they're all capable of independent thought and actions. So other than the Operative types, Aleph's members are in fact unique individuals. Is that right?

 Barzam wrote:
Okay, so it sounds like the non-robot/cyborg members of Aleph are kind of like the Replicants from Blade Runner, the Realians from Xenosaga, or the Bioroids from Appleseed. Basically they're artificially created humans with more or less premade personalities uploaded onto them.

So, most Aleph members have some degree of an actual personality to them, then? The Operatives I'm guessing are pretty much just straight robots, but the Mymidons and Recreations sound like they're all capable of independent thought and actions. So other than the Operative types, Aleph's members are in fact unique individuals. Is that right?

The Mymidons are created with base child mind randomized for traits, including traits most would find not desirable. Then while still just a digital personality they go to school to learn the skills they need, in a accelerated virtual environment. So while it seems like years to them, it is only weeks or month of real time. That are just capable of independent thought and actions, they are just like us, just trained (brainwashed) by ALEPH for complete loyalty. It might even be possible for them to go rouge of there own choose.