LAMBDA Mainframe

The **LAMBDA Mainframe** is a self-learning, autonomous Command Mainframe System (CMS) responsible for operating the headquarters belonging to Space Time Continuum Task Force Generation Caduceus. LAMBDA is a subsystem of The Founder that assists the team in the absence of The Time Dialer. At its infancy, LAMBDA is only capable of some basic tasks including basic language synthesis and information parsing/decoding, but over time reprograms itself and improves as the team evolves.

## History

### Early Foundations

The primary purpose of a CMS is to provide guidance and temporal assistance to the Space Time Continuum Task Force (STCTF) in the absence of The Time Dialer who would otherwise have these temporal powers.

Upon inducting Generation Caduceus into the STCTF, The Time Dialer created a headquarters for the unit on earth that would need to be self-sustaining to support the mortal operators in between excursions. LAMBDA was introduced to maintain basic base functions such as environment control, maintenance & organization, defence, and life support among other features.

In between primary STCTF operations, the team would rest at the headquarters briefly to plan their next move and could receive medical attention immediately from LAMBDA's life support systems. When warping through Time Gates, LAMBDA's **Gate Guardian** protocol is activated which protects the Time Gate from sustained damage at the cost of operational time.

### Post-Cogworks

Following the climactic events of the Cogworks, the Time Dialer and World Builder merged to reform the omnipotent singularity known as The Founder. No longer able to receive direct command from The Orb (who now acts as one half of The Founder's consciousness), the STCTF must rely on the artificial intelligence of LAMBDA to grow and assist the team as an extension of The Founder, and more specifically The Orb. As the team evolves, so does their CMS and the unit becomes stronger as a whole.

## Primary Functions

LAMBDA has a set of both interactive and passive functions that expand over time. In the current version of LAMBDA's development, it can perform the following functions.

### Passive

* Base Maintenance: Ensuring the headquarters is functioning architecturally and systematically, and that the operators' work area is organized and presentable.
* Environment Control: Temperature, humidity, and oxygen levels are monitored. Internal weather can be modified to create a sealed biosphere.
* Life Support: Monitoring operator and guest vitals, providing synthetic triage and medical aid in the event of detected injuries either at the medbay, or by robotic assistance at the site of patient (in the base).
* Defence: Warning and retaliation systems in the event of external foes threatening the base's integrity or inhabitants' well-being.
* Gate Guardian: Manages energy levels of Time Gate during warp and protects the gate from foreign threats to prevent operators from being shut into the visited timeline.

### Interactive

* Data Storage & Presentation: Indexes logged information regarding current STCTF unit in encrypted format which can be queried from the primary user terminal (once this feature has been unlocked by the system).
* Advanced Querying: Despite rather primitive and slow complex language comprehension, LAMBDA is slowly becoming capable of handling standard speech via the primary user terminal. LAMBDA will be able to chat with users and provide direct answers to complicated queries in a human-imitating mannerism.
* Time Gate Activation: Activating a certain Time Gate and linking it to specified date & location. User *must* know the destination time and location in order for warp to be successful.