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aesculapianavowal) wrote2012-07-31 09:40 pm
aesculapianavowal) wrote2012-07-31 09:40 pm
SETTING & HISTORY
Okay, so. Hippocrates has a kind of complicated setting, due to more then one factor, so I figured I might as well write it here? I have a policy that I'll answer any questions asked in the comments, especially about the setting, and I understand that some of the setting elements sound kind of silly, so consider this an HMD for the setting, too! Tell me if you feel something's silly/convoluted/etcetera, or just doesn't seem to fit that well.
SETTING:
The idea that prompted Hippocrates' existence, as well as the existence of his fellow kids, was something of a 'well, we have the resources - social experiment time!' rather than anything oriented towards real productivity. The Earth of his day has made significant technological jumps - duplication of materials and simple electronics, cloning of past figures without the need for DNA via a method somewhat similar to time travel (though determined incredibly unsafe for human use due to the fact it won't retain anatomical structure - enjoy being a blob of human!), as well as FTL travel and the ability to create basic AI. The idea was simple: what happens when you clone a huge amount of historical figures and otherwise, and place the resulting babies on a ship to a planet to colonize? Given, a few adults to moderate and a robo-parent for each child were included for the reason that babies probably can't survive on their own, no matter how famous they'd been in life; as well, as many books as could be gotten - about history, people's biographies, as well as a wide variety of fiction, nonfiction, and books detailing subjects from mythological legends to xenophobic tendencies in modern society. The intent - to provide books without the cognitive bias the kids might gain from growing up in the current society - required them to send as few humans as was feasible and yet enough to be sure the robodaddies were kept in line. A group of about 15 was sent along, to assist in caring for the children and helping the robots construct a new home. The things sent along were varied - a sort of duplication machine for materials, food supplies, and so forth.
Arrival found nice weather and horrible monsters intent on devouring the new visitors - thankfully fought off quite easily. It took very little time for their roboparents to be commanded into building the wall that sealed their new settlement off from the rest of the wild world. While the roboparents mediated between construction of the city itself and caring for their charges, many of the children began learning - first, languages, followed by basic math, and things like that - things that would help them survive, even if the roboparents weren't around. Which, unfortunately, happened soon - around the age of 7-8 for the children. A few months after the city's construction was completed, a few of the roboparents - those whose AI had evolved - banded together and killed one of the adults. This active act of rebellion from the robots led the humans to force an exile of all roboparents, leaving the kids without parents at an age barely old enough to take care of themselves. However, many of them by this point had already picked up what their predecessors had written or documented about themselves, deciding to learn about their past life and what they'd done then rather then struggle at hardship. Many went out of their way to pick up the places their parents had left, picking up jobs, trying hard to be responsible (or, you know, bullying and threatening everyone to try and get their way; both happened in equal strokes.) The adults have taken several kids under their wing, but are unable to care for everyone - so while they try and support people via media broadcasts, they're a little bad at it.
As such, many of the jobs today are manned by young 11-12 year old children, and while some have picked up gang-esque streaks of bullying, many more have actually picked up jobs and are working hard to make a living using the coupon allowances many businesses get (which allow them to purchase food items and use the duplication machine). Notably, there are few hospitals and two impromptu-militia forces, driven by mythos the adults pressed onto them and a feeling of duty. One is a generally fast, melee sort of force; driven and reliant on the concept of the brother of time. Similarly, the others are slow and brutish ranged forces, reliant on the brother god of emotions and rage.
There is more than enough mythology in this setting to go on forever, so if you're curious ask in the comments! Hippocrates knows little to none of it; only the brother and sister gods of time (the sister being one he actually idolizes) and the aforementioned god of emotions.
The major form of communication involves a two-part naming scheme as picked by the kids, in order to ensure names being unique. Many of these names were an assisted decision at 5 with the help of their caretaker parentbots; Hippocrates' was not.
HISTORY:
Hippocrates mostly falls in line with the above. He grew interested in reading about his predecessor from a young age, and was well educated by the time his caretaker was exiled. He reacted to the exile rather well - he took his teachings to heart and understood that moping and flailing would get him nowhere, even though he gave into the urge more then once. It only took a little reading about cooking and so forth for him to be able to feed himself, and due to the gang violence and bullying has taken up learning to use a crossbow as well as his scalpel in combat.
He works as a successful nurse/surgeon/doctor at one of the major hospitals for the city, and sees more than enough people to know how to treat many major injuries. He's used to working the front desk there, seeing as he's the generally most mature and friendly looking person of most of the staff, and doesn't mind filing paperwork when needed. His apartment he lives at is about a block away, and he's more then used to walking to places because of it.
He has very, very little friends- mostly only the hospital staff. And even so, he keeps a fairly professional relationship with them regardless.
SETTING:
The idea that prompted Hippocrates' existence, as well as the existence of his fellow kids, was something of a 'well, we have the resources - social experiment time!' rather than anything oriented towards real productivity. The Earth of his day has made significant technological jumps - duplication of materials and simple electronics, cloning of past figures without the need for DNA via a method somewhat similar to time travel (though determined incredibly unsafe for human use due to the fact it won't retain anatomical structure - enjoy being a blob of human!), as well as FTL travel and the ability to create basic AI. The idea was simple: what happens when you clone a huge amount of historical figures and otherwise, and place the resulting babies on a ship to a planet to colonize? Given, a few adults to moderate and a robo-parent for each child were included for the reason that babies probably can't survive on their own, no matter how famous they'd been in life; as well, as many books as could be gotten - about history, people's biographies, as well as a wide variety of fiction, nonfiction, and books detailing subjects from mythological legends to xenophobic tendencies in modern society. The intent - to provide books without the cognitive bias the kids might gain from growing up in the current society - required them to send as few humans as was feasible and yet enough to be sure the robodaddies were kept in line. A group of about 15 was sent along, to assist in caring for the children and helping the robots construct a new home. The things sent along were varied - a sort of duplication machine for materials, food supplies, and so forth.
Arrival found nice weather and horrible monsters intent on devouring the new visitors - thankfully fought off quite easily. It took very little time for their roboparents to be commanded into building the wall that sealed their new settlement off from the rest of the wild world. While the roboparents mediated between construction of the city itself and caring for their charges, many of the children began learning - first, languages, followed by basic math, and things like that - things that would help them survive, even if the roboparents weren't around. Which, unfortunately, happened soon - around the age of 7-8 for the children. A few months after the city's construction was completed, a few of the roboparents - those whose AI had evolved - banded together and killed one of the adults. This active act of rebellion from the robots led the humans to force an exile of all roboparents, leaving the kids without parents at an age barely old enough to take care of themselves. However, many of them by this point had already picked up what their predecessors had written or documented about themselves, deciding to learn about their past life and what they'd done then rather then struggle at hardship. Many went out of their way to pick up the places their parents had left, picking up jobs, trying hard to be responsible (or, you know, bullying and threatening everyone to try and get their way; both happened in equal strokes.) The adults have taken several kids under their wing, but are unable to care for everyone - so while they try and support people via media broadcasts, they're a little bad at it.
As such, many of the jobs today are manned by young 11-12 year old children, and while some have picked up gang-esque streaks of bullying, many more have actually picked up jobs and are working hard to make a living using the coupon allowances many businesses get (which allow them to purchase food items and use the duplication machine). Notably, there are few hospitals and two impromptu-militia forces, driven by mythos the adults pressed onto them and a feeling of duty. One is a generally fast, melee sort of force; driven and reliant on the concept of the brother of time. Similarly, the others are slow and brutish ranged forces, reliant on the brother god of emotions and rage.
There is more than enough mythology in this setting to go on forever, so if you're curious ask in the comments! Hippocrates knows little to none of it; only the brother and sister gods of time (the sister being one he actually idolizes) and the aforementioned god of emotions.
The major form of communication involves a two-part naming scheme as picked by the kids, in order to ensure names being unique. Many of these names were an assisted decision at 5 with the help of their caretaker parentbots; Hippocrates' was not.
HISTORY:
Hippocrates mostly falls in line with the above. He grew interested in reading about his predecessor from a young age, and was well educated by the time his caretaker was exiled. He reacted to the exile rather well - he took his teachings to heart and understood that moping and flailing would get him nowhere, even though he gave into the urge more then once. It only took a little reading about cooking and so forth for him to be able to feed himself, and due to the gang violence and bullying has taken up learning to use a crossbow as well as his scalpel in combat.
He works as a successful nurse/surgeon/doctor at one of the major hospitals for the city, and sees more than enough people to know how to treat many major injuries. He's used to working the front desk there, seeing as he's the generally most mature and friendly looking person of most of the staff, and doesn't mind filing paperwork when needed. His apartment he lives at is about a block away, and he's more then used to walking to places because of it.
He has very, very little friends- mostly only the hospital staff. And even so, he keeps a fairly professional relationship with them regardless.