Educational General Academic Research Unit aka “Edgar” is part of the first production line of non-limited Artificial Intelligence’s. He is currently one of the House Tindal researchers, and is Professor Gage’s second-in-command. Also one of the members of the Crystal One development team.
Jeremy Haas, cosmologist. Creator of the Haas Deep Space observatory. One of the members of the original Crystal One development team with Clarence Gage,Edgar, Kathleen Adair, and James Thalim.
Kathleen Adair, Theoretical Physicist and childhood friend of Hakon BlackAxe. Best friend of Clarence Gage, and primary member of the Crystal One team.
House Tindal. Physicist, Head of the Crystal One development team and all around curious man. A late term cancer patient, Dr. Gage heads out to Bellisarius Territory to settle his own curiosity about some flaws in the eyewitness reports. He now finds himself spending the last days of his life with his reformed team of Crystal One scientists in an attempt to prevent the literal end of the world.
I kind of like the robo-squid. It (he? they? I’m not going to presume gender on an entity that only has a body in the first place when it needs one) seems pretty good at the whole open and honest thing to put our heroes at… Well, not at ease, these people are way too paranoid about everything to be at ease, but at least convince them to tamp down on the itchy trigger finger reflexes at least for now.
… of course, that could be the point entirely, but I think we’ve discussed before that the Towers are plenty powerful enough not to need to resort to that kind of subterfuge.
I kind of like the robo-squid. It (he? they? I’m not going to presume gender on an entity that only has a body in the first place when it needs one) seems pretty good at the whole open and honest thing to put our heroes at… Well, not at ease, these people are way too paranoid about everything to be at ease, but at least convince them to tamp down on the itchy trigger finger reflexes at least for now.
… of course, that could be the point entirely, but I think we’ve discussed before that the Towers are plenty powerful enough not to need to resort to that kind of subterfuge.