Project Morpheus

**Project Morpheus**

**Name:** Morpheus

**Race**: Biologically augmented Supercomputer

**Age**: Over 12,000 years old

**Occupation**: Research, development, and defense.

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**Appearance:**

Basically a giant computer that takes up an entire room hooked up to some sort of canister full of this strange inky black substance.

**Personality and traits:**

Very formal, prefers to use display syntax than actual speech. Probably would sound like HAL 9000 doing radio if it ever did though. It’s obsessed with developing and testing weapons as well as protecting that canister inside it’s chamber at any costs.

Sometimes a separate AI takes over… who sounds female, but doesn’t speak a single word of Octarian or Inkling language, but seems oddly far more intelligent than the main personality. She calls herself “Nemesis”.

There are other AI subsystems made from former employees, but they usually don’t speak up that often.

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**Publicly, it’s duties were the following:**

1. Protecting the heiress of the Lancaster group until it is safe for her to wake and begin the rebuilding effort
2. Perform research tasks in the hopes of peacefully ending conflict and rebuilding the world.

**Actually**…

1. It’s meant to never allow the heiress to wake from her slumber as it’s makers intended to take control of the remaining resources for themselves.
2. It’s also meant to keep her in a virtual dream-like state so she’d be unaware of the fact she never actually was awake.
3. It’s also designed to prevent anyone from waking her manually at any costs.
4. It’s designed to take advantage of her natural capabilities to augment it’s processing power and supply energy.
5. Most of it’s research tasks were for weapons development and not peace related purposes. Apparently keeping wars going was more profitable than to end them.

**However,**

1. What good is having all that money if your'e not going to be surviving long enough to spend any of it? That and cash is no good if there’s nothing to back it up anyway.
2. Also, docking her directly into the system, special abilities or not would eventually result in the system developing a form of Schizophrenia.
3. Freeing her from the chamber would result in the permenant deactivation of Morpheus. Mostly since her essence has been what has been keeping it operational all this time.
4. Honestly though, that part of the family wasn’t all that good at long term planning.

**Ink Clones**

1. The Ink cloning system was developed from observing Inklings and Octarians. Not sure how they got the data… maybe some sort of remote drone?
2. Ink clones sort of resemble the beings they’re copied from, but they lack any discernible features except shape or any intelligence of their own.
3. In any case, Morpheus has been observing them for awhile and doing what it was designed to do… namely make weapons and attempt to start wars.
4. Morpheus has been primarily using them for weapons testing and maintenance, but also for security if necessary.
5. Essentially, most of the facility is for research and development tasks, so they’re pretty much everywhere.
6. Ink Clones under Nemesis’s control tend to be faster and more deadly than the ones the former operates… and are made a different substance than the others.

**Story?**

I will say that the research facility that Morpheus (the computer) manages likely looks a bit more like something GLADOS might cook up than Commander Tartar.

This is mostly since they’re more designed to test the equipment it cooked up than the test subjects… Not that it wouldn’t love to have something more interesting than ink clones to play with.

Ink clones being basically mindless puppets made of a specially designed ink-like substance with no mind or free will of their own. Great for repetitive tasks and mass producible, but rather boring as a whole and not all that good at finding things that haven’t been predicted already.

This is where our  protagonist comes in. Morpheus wants intelligent subjects to test it’s weapons… and as tempting as it is to raid the nearby city with its army… Its not too sure if its creations are viable, so it comes up with bait in order to attract someone to “investigate” its compound.

Someone likely falls for the temptation at some point and gets sent through a gauntlet of courses it concocted to test the various weapons… Not knowing that it had no intention of letting them leave once they were finished… Or was planning on a full scale invasion of Inkopolis for that matter.

Unsurprisingly, they’d figure it out at some point (Likely with Evie’s meddling) and stage a full on assault of Morpheus’s chamber… Big boss fight, turrets, ink clones, and so on… Morpheus itself turns out to be a pushover though… Since the computer doesn’t have any actual defense of its own and not particularly waterproof, it goes down pretty quickly and the Ink clone army with it.

Evie breaks herself free after the…  protagonist leaves… Having basically orchestrated the entire thing to collect enough data from the unfortunate fool to build herself a new body and escape Morpheus’s confinement.

The Octarians likely moved into the facility afterwards, so you find them hanging about instead of ink clones… And what’s left of Morpheus having been gutted for parts and materials.

**Notes:**

1. Morpheus and Commander Tartar likely know of each other, but It’s highly unlikely they get along that well.
2. Morpheus seems far too obsessed with weapons making and testing than it’s supposed prime directive of rebuilding the world.
3. Also, yes… if Morpheus got it’s way, it probably would blow stuff up over and over again like a child with way too many destructive toys to keep it busy.
4. If it weren’t for the fact it’s survival depends on her remaining connected to the system, it likely would have released it’s charge into it’s test chambers a long time ago… but that doesn’t mean it won’t try to find an exception.
5. Morpheus usually refers to the secondary AI as “Nemesis”… due to it’s tendency to create perfect counters to it’s own creations.
6. If Morpheus had any dreams of it’s own, it would be to build a big battlefield that it and Nemesis could fight over for all eternity.