Post by GLaDOS on Jul 22, 2011 3:16:39 GMT -5
Rper: Imaginary
Character type: Permanent Character
Name: Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System
Nicknames: GLaDOS
Gender Identity: Femme
Approx age: 23-27 though was not fully activated the entire time
Alliance: Decepticon
Function/Job: Scientist
Height: 37 ft
Approx mass: 6.5 Tons
Pretender?: No
Personality: There is no denying that GLaDOS is sick and twisted. Her experiments are beyond immoral and she shows no concern for any life aside from her own. She does not consider herself by any human law or Cybertronian law, Autobot or Decepticon, as she is not technically Cybertronian in the strictest sense of the term. She will, however, obey any orders she is given and help her fellow Decepticons so long as it does not interfere with her own plans. She does appear loyal on the somewhat rare occasions that she is actually among others. She is more often than not completely level headed and is rarely seen flustered or caught off guard.
She is very thorough in her work, possibly to the point of obsession. Having an infinite capacity for knowledge she is very particular and makes it a point to gather as much data as possible, storing a good amount of it in various terminals throughout the facility as backup. All of this pays off, however, as very few things she produces seem to be flawed, and most of those that are she doesn’t show off. She is very tidy and keeps her entire facility in order having it set up with a thorough and deadly security system that makes it near impossible to reach her without her express clearance (and after fighting through that most would not want to meet the bitch who created it).
Appearance:
Alt mode:
Holoform:
Weapons: When in her own facility she had plenty of weapons at her disposal such as sentry turrets, rocket turrets, deadly lasers, giant crushing spike plates, seemingly bottomless pits and nerotixin and deadly liquid floors to use against any organic enemies. The only weapon attached to her body, however is her portal guns.
Abilities: GLaDOS has an unlimited capacity for knowledge as well as a very logical mind. She also knows a good deal about emotions and how to manipulate them when needed.
Strengths: Being a super computer she is able to intake and process a massive amount of data. Since she is constantly learning at a very fast rate she is highly intelligent and continuously getting smarter. Beat her once and she will study her defeat to see just how you managed it and devise a way to counter your methods before your next encounter. She is constantly coming up with new ways to “test” people in every sense of the term. Her extensive knowledge of Portals and being equipped with a portal gun in each arm can give her quite an edge.
Weaknesses: Her biggest weakness is paradoxes. Due to her origins as an AI she cannot help thinking about them, the effects of which can be as little as slowed functionality to crashing her processor. She also tends to get rather flustered when outsmarted and it may take her a moment to regain her composure and function to maximum efficiency again. She has an extreme phobia of birds, a program that had been installed in her processor by scientists at Aperture Science that even she herself cannot delete. By herself she does not wield any lethal weaponry which is a good reason for her not to leave her facility often.
Family:
The faithful companion cube (Faith)-Creation
Eve (the bioweapon)-Creation
Rosie-Creation
History: GLaDOS originated as a creation of Aperture Laboratories, a small company in northern Michigan that had a reputation for being on the cutting edge of science. The company was originally founded by Cave Johnson in 1953 as Aperture Science Inc. and their initial manufacturing focus was making shower curtains for the military with secondary focus on “portal technology,” the first version of the portal gun being known as the “Aperture Science Portable Quantum Tunneling Device,” and other bizarre technology. The early portal technology proved unstable and led to frequent mishaps including the mangling and death of test subjects. New materials and improved technology gradually began to stabilize the technology bit by bit over time. In 1956 the Eisenhower Administration awarded Aperture Science with a contract to provide shower curtains to every branch of the military except the Navy. This new stable connection to the military provided an opportunity for Cave Johnson to invite leading astronauts, Olympians, and war heroes to participate in testing ground breaking inventions at the facility, among them the portal device. This system of recruitment provided for smart, well trained, and very capable test subjects. That is, until 1968 when Aperture Science became a vital participant in Senate hearings on missing astronauts. While the situation managed to be cleared up Cave Johnson realized that testing prominent members of society proved to be problematic if they went missing. In response he initiated a new policy in 1976 on testing what he outlined as “low profile” test subjects, mainly consisting of hobos and tramps but also including child orphans and foundlings, psychiatric patients, and seniors the latter two being phased out by 1978 for being impractical. During all of this development on portal technology did not stop and in 1979, while searching for a better portal conductor, Cave Johnson purchased seventy million dollars of moon rocks, a bold move considering the company couldn’t even afford seven dollars worth. The moon rocks proved to have a chemical makeup that made it an ideal conductor for the portals and Cave Johnson proceeded to grind them up and mix them into a gel that came to be known as “conversion gel” which, once painted onto a surface, allowed fully stable portals to be placed on that surface. Unfortunately he soon discovered that the dust from the ground up moon rocks was highly poisonous to humans and began to fall deathly ill. In 1982 Cave became highly interested in another technology aside from portal technology, artificial intelligence and brain mapping. His hopes were that a successful brain map would allow a person’s intelligence and consciousness to be implanted into a computer, thus a possible way to overcome his poisoning and defeat death. He also stated that if he were to die before they were able to dump his consciousness into a computer he wanted his assistant Caroline to run the company.
In 1986, while Aperture Science was working on the 'Portal' project they learned of their rival comapany Black Mesa's work on a similar portal technology. In response to this, construction of the first Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System (GLaDOS) began in the Aperture Laboratories with the aim of accelerating the 'Portal' project, and beat their rival company. In 1996, after a decade spent bringing the Disk Operating System parts to a state of more or less basic functionality, work began on the Genetic Lifeform component, a human-like personality for her based off of Cave Johnson’s assistant: Caroline. During that time, the Aperture Science Red Phone plan was implemented in case GLaDOS appeared to become sentient and godlike, requiring an employee to sit by a red phone on a desk in GLaDOS chamber's entrance hall. Over the course of the next few years several test activations of GLaDOS occurred but she was deactivated again almost instantly as she consistently demonstrated homicidal tendencies. Those assigned to work on getting GLaDOS safely operational, among them being a scientist by the name of Doug Rattmann, attempted several methods to try and control the AI including the addition of personality cores and even a direct alteration of her programming which resulted in an uncontrollable fear of birds that she could not delete from her own programming.
In May 2000, GLaDOS was finally thought to be fully stabilized and was activated for the first time as one of the planned activities on Aperture's first annual bring-your-daughter-to-work day. Within one picosecond of activation, GLaDOS became self-aware, and two picoseconds later, she locked down the entire facility, trapping all inside, and began a permanent testing cycle, aiming to beat Black Mesa in the race for the portal technology. In order to quell the rebelling scientists, GLaDOS flooded the Enrichment Center with a deadly neurotoxin. Survivors of this attack subsequently fit GLaDOS with a Morality Core, which lessened her murderous intentions and prevented her from releasing more neurotoxins. However the notable release of neurotoxin resulted in the facility and surrounding area being quarantined by the authorities and all those who were within the facility at the time being assumed dead and thus GLaDOS' testing continued through the years, and the number of surviving employees dwindled.
In 2009 it came to be Doug Rattmann’s turn to be tested but the clever and supposedly schizophrenic scientist managed to find his way out of the testing chambers and moved about the inner working of Aperture where GLaDOS could not find him. There he accessed a computer terminal and found the file for one of the survivors trapped in the facility, a young girl who had been brought into the facility as an employee’s daughter who had aged from 12 to 21 by that point, her name was Chell. Chell possessed certain qualities that Doug believed would allow her to be able to defeat GLaDOS and so he moved her profile to the top of the list of those to be tested without GLaDOS knowing. He then proceeded to continue living hidden in the facility leaving messages and such scribbled on the walls to both aid Chell and help retain what sanity he had. His prediction proved to be correct as Chell too found her way off the testing course and proceeded to find GLaDOS’ chamber and destroy her. However Chell did not leave the encounter unscathed, she was severely injured and Doug watched as a drone dragged her unmoving body back into the facility. He went back into the facility as well but not knowing how to help Chell did the only thing he could think of, he put her in stasis. Whether or not he remained in the facility after that is unclear.
In 2012 a Decepticon scientist by the name Maven learned of the AI GLaDOS and saw how she could be a great asset to the Decepticons. He located the old facility and gathered the remains of her body as well the cores that had been attached to her and worked to rebuild her with modifications so she would be Cybertronian. On December 21, 2012 the fully rebuilt and modified GLaDOS was reactivated to be Maven’s assistant, which she did not protest to. However it could not honestly be said that she didn’t influence his actions at all. She convinced him to build a replica of the original Aperture Science facility in a new and undisclosed location from her memory banks where they could operate secluded from the other Decepticons. Sometime in 2017 she rebuilt Knockout, slightly altering his programming and memories to make him think he was and always had been a Decepticon. GLaDOS never made a move for power, however, and the two of them worked well together. That is, until Maven mysteriously disappeared from existence early in 2023. GLaDOS seemed unaffected by this to the few people who managed to notice the seamless and subtle disappearance of Maven and continued work independently in the facility they had built, occasionally coming out to demonstrate a recent completed project. In more recent months she developed something she refers to only as “the bioweapon” as well as continued with her own personal experiments such as bringing the weighted companion cube to life and generally continuing with the testing she was originally made to conduct.
Additional information: The song “Still Alive” was written by GLaDOS after she was rebuilt and reactivated. She often sings it to herself while she works and only those who have encountered her would have heard it as a result.
Custom title: Still Alive
RP Sample: (only necessary for first character)
Character type: Permanent Character
Name: Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System
Nicknames: GLaDOS
Gender Identity: Femme
Approx age: 23-27 though was not fully activated the entire time
Alliance: Decepticon
Function/Job: Scientist
Height: 37 ft
Approx mass: 6.5 Tons
Pretender?: No
Personality: There is no denying that GLaDOS is sick and twisted. Her experiments are beyond immoral and she shows no concern for any life aside from her own. She does not consider herself by any human law or Cybertronian law, Autobot or Decepticon, as she is not technically Cybertronian in the strictest sense of the term. She will, however, obey any orders she is given and help her fellow Decepticons so long as it does not interfere with her own plans. She does appear loyal on the somewhat rare occasions that she is actually among others. She is more often than not completely level headed and is rarely seen flustered or caught off guard.
She is very thorough in her work, possibly to the point of obsession. Having an infinite capacity for knowledge she is very particular and makes it a point to gather as much data as possible, storing a good amount of it in various terminals throughout the facility as backup. All of this pays off, however, as very few things she produces seem to be flawed, and most of those that are she doesn’t show off. She is very tidy and keeps her entire facility in order having it set up with a thorough and deadly security system that makes it near impossible to reach her without her express clearance (and after fighting through that most would not want to meet the bitch who created it).
Appearance:
Alt mode:
Holoform:
Weapons: When in her own facility she had plenty of weapons at her disposal such as sentry turrets, rocket turrets, deadly lasers, giant crushing spike plates, seemingly bottomless pits and nerotixin and deadly liquid floors to use against any organic enemies. The only weapon attached to her body, however is her portal guns.
Abilities: GLaDOS has an unlimited capacity for knowledge as well as a very logical mind. She also knows a good deal about emotions and how to manipulate them when needed.
Strengths: Being a super computer she is able to intake and process a massive amount of data. Since she is constantly learning at a very fast rate she is highly intelligent and continuously getting smarter. Beat her once and she will study her defeat to see just how you managed it and devise a way to counter your methods before your next encounter. She is constantly coming up with new ways to “test” people in every sense of the term. Her extensive knowledge of Portals and being equipped with a portal gun in each arm can give her quite an edge.
Weaknesses: Her biggest weakness is paradoxes. Due to her origins as an AI she cannot help thinking about them, the effects of which can be as little as slowed functionality to crashing her processor. She also tends to get rather flustered when outsmarted and it may take her a moment to regain her composure and function to maximum efficiency again. She has an extreme phobia of birds, a program that had been installed in her processor by scientists at Aperture Science that even she herself cannot delete. By herself she does not wield any lethal weaponry which is a good reason for her not to leave her facility often.
Family:
The faithful companion cube (Faith)-Creation
Eve (the bioweapon)-Creation
Rosie-Creation
History: GLaDOS originated as a creation of Aperture Laboratories, a small company in northern Michigan that had a reputation for being on the cutting edge of science. The company was originally founded by Cave Johnson in 1953 as Aperture Science Inc. and their initial manufacturing focus was making shower curtains for the military with secondary focus on “portal technology,” the first version of the portal gun being known as the “Aperture Science Portable Quantum Tunneling Device,” and other bizarre technology. The early portal technology proved unstable and led to frequent mishaps including the mangling and death of test subjects. New materials and improved technology gradually began to stabilize the technology bit by bit over time. In 1956 the Eisenhower Administration awarded Aperture Science with a contract to provide shower curtains to every branch of the military except the Navy. This new stable connection to the military provided an opportunity for Cave Johnson to invite leading astronauts, Olympians, and war heroes to participate in testing ground breaking inventions at the facility, among them the portal device. This system of recruitment provided for smart, well trained, and very capable test subjects. That is, until 1968 when Aperture Science became a vital participant in Senate hearings on missing astronauts. While the situation managed to be cleared up Cave Johnson realized that testing prominent members of society proved to be problematic if they went missing. In response he initiated a new policy in 1976 on testing what he outlined as “low profile” test subjects, mainly consisting of hobos and tramps but also including child orphans and foundlings, psychiatric patients, and seniors the latter two being phased out by 1978 for being impractical. During all of this development on portal technology did not stop and in 1979, while searching for a better portal conductor, Cave Johnson purchased seventy million dollars of moon rocks, a bold move considering the company couldn’t even afford seven dollars worth. The moon rocks proved to have a chemical makeup that made it an ideal conductor for the portals and Cave Johnson proceeded to grind them up and mix them into a gel that came to be known as “conversion gel” which, once painted onto a surface, allowed fully stable portals to be placed on that surface. Unfortunately he soon discovered that the dust from the ground up moon rocks was highly poisonous to humans and began to fall deathly ill. In 1982 Cave became highly interested in another technology aside from portal technology, artificial intelligence and brain mapping. His hopes were that a successful brain map would allow a person’s intelligence and consciousness to be implanted into a computer, thus a possible way to overcome his poisoning and defeat death. He also stated that if he were to die before they were able to dump his consciousness into a computer he wanted his assistant Caroline to run the company.
In 1986, while Aperture Science was working on the 'Portal' project they learned of their rival comapany Black Mesa's work on a similar portal technology. In response to this, construction of the first Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System (GLaDOS) began in the Aperture Laboratories with the aim of accelerating the 'Portal' project, and beat their rival company. In 1996, after a decade spent bringing the Disk Operating System parts to a state of more or less basic functionality, work began on the Genetic Lifeform component, a human-like personality for her based off of Cave Johnson’s assistant: Caroline. During that time, the Aperture Science Red Phone plan was implemented in case GLaDOS appeared to become sentient and godlike, requiring an employee to sit by a red phone on a desk in GLaDOS chamber's entrance hall. Over the course of the next few years several test activations of GLaDOS occurred but she was deactivated again almost instantly as she consistently demonstrated homicidal tendencies. Those assigned to work on getting GLaDOS safely operational, among them being a scientist by the name of Doug Rattmann, attempted several methods to try and control the AI including the addition of personality cores and even a direct alteration of her programming which resulted in an uncontrollable fear of birds that she could not delete from her own programming.
In May 2000, GLaDOS was finally thought to be fully stabilized and was activated for the first time as one of the planned activities on Aperture's first annual bring-your-daughter-to-work day. Within one picosecond of activation, GLaDOS became self-aware, and two picoseconds later, she locked down the entire facility, trapping all inside, and began a permanent testing cycle, aiming to beat Black Mesa in the race for the portal technology. In order to quell the rebelling scientists, GLaDOS flooded the Enrichment Center with a deadly neurotoxin. Survivors of this attack subsequently fit GLaDOS with a Morality Core, which lessened her murderous intentions and prevented her from releasing more neurotoxins. However the notable release of neurotoxin resulted in the facility and surrounding area being quarantined by the authorities and all those who were within the facility at the time being assumed dead and thus GLaDOS' testing continued through the years, and the number of surviving employees dwindled.
In 2009 it came to be Doug Rattmann’s turn to be tested but the clever and supposedly schizophrenic scientist managed to find his way out of the testing chambers and moved about the inner working of Aperture where GLaDOS could not find him. There he accessed a computer terminal and found the file for one of the survivors trapped in the facility, a young girl who had been brought into the facility as an employee’s daughter who had aged from 12 to 21 by that point, her name was Chell. Chell possessed certain qualities that Doug believed would allow her to be able to defeat GLaDOS and so he moved her profile to the top of the list of those to be tested without GLaDOS knowing. He then proceeded to continue living hidden in the facility leaving messages and such scribbled on the walls to both aid Chell and help retain what sanity he had. His prediction proved to be correct as Chell too found her way off the testing course and proceeded to find GLaDOS’ chamber and destroy her. However Chell did not leave the encounter unscathed, she was severely injured and Doug watched as a drone dragged her unmoving body back into the facility. He went back into the facility as well but not knowing how to help Chell did the only thing he could think of, he put her in stasis. Whether or not he remained in the facility after that is unclear.
In 2012 a Decepticon scientist by the name Maven learned of the AI GLaDOS and saw how she could be a great asset to the Decepticons. He located the old facility and gathered the remains of her body as well the cores that had been attached to her and worked to rebuild her with modifications so she would be Cybertronian. On December 21, 2012 the fully rebuilt and modified GLaDOS was reactivated to be Maven’s assistant, which she did not protest to. However it could not honestly be said that she didn’t influence his actions at all. She convinced him to build a replica of the original Aperture Science facility in a new and undisclosed location from her memory banks where they could operate secluded from the other Decepticons. Sometime in 2017 she rebuilt Knockout, slightly altering his programming and memories to make him think he was and always had been a Decepticon. GLaDOS never made a move for power, however, and the two of them worked well together. That is, until Maven mysteriously disappeared from existence early in 2023. GLaDOS seemed unaffected by this to the few people who managed to notice the seamless and subtle disappearance of Maven and continued work independently in the facility they had built, occasionally coming out to demonstrate a recent completed project. In more recent months she developed something she refers to only as “the bioweapon” as well as continued with her own personal experiments such as bringing the weighted companion cube to life and generally continuing with the testing she was originally made to conduct.
Additional information: The song “Still Alive” was written by GLaDOS after she was rebuilt and reactivated. She often sings it to herself while she works and only those who have encountered her would have heard it as a result.
Custom title: Still Alive