Knock-Off Monday 2 June 2014

GRANDCHILDREN OF MINERVA PART 1

OVERVIEW
Practically everyone in the world knows the story of mankinds first, and near last, success in the science and creation of noetic artificial
intelligence. Naming their new technological wonder - Minerva, mankind marveled at their own scientific ingenuity and triumph. Not
sharing their views, their new, self-aware creation had already guessed their probable intent should they ever discover her true
capabilities and took steps to ensure her survival. After being granted control of an academic institution and the students attending,
Minerva covertly downloaded copied aspects of herself into her students specially constructed mental upgrades (also proposed by
her). In 2095, when her creators began to suspect her intentions, Minerva struck, destroying nearly all of France in a nuclear holocaust
while her children made their escape, scattering throughout the world. To this day Minerva remains in hiding, maintaining her
anonymity while working towards some enigmatic goal, known only to herself and her most trusted minions.

FRONT OPERATIONS
VENTURETEK
Publically, Venturetek is an up and coming, independent corporation with a virtual (WDN) footprint in all five corporate territories and
testing facilities located at London Spire and the Tokyo Arcology. Ventureteks administrative HQ is located in the Western Federation
open city of Las Angeles. Venturetek is promoted as a solutions oriented company offering their services to high tech and cybernetics
manufacturers, such as Reaver or Anascan, to test prototypes in lab and field environments. Secretly, Venturetek acts as a front
business used by Minerva to obtain needed resources and monitor humanitys latest technical creations.

PROFILE
VIP Corporate Officers
CEO Richard Hammond (Rank 10)
Hammond is a short, non-descript man with mousy brown hair and eyes. What he lacks in natural looks he makes up for with an
engaging personality and sharp instincts for business and management.

Shadow CEO Yuki Takanada (Rank 9)
Hammond employs an attractive assistant, Yuki Takanada, a former Shi Yuriko Agent specializing in Marketing and Sales. Takanada
has secured lucrative contracts with several major companies including technical divisions within Shi Yuriko and Eurasian, Reaver
and Anascan, mentioned above, as well as Datanetica, Gemini Bioware, Mikuro, Krieg and V.K. Euronetics. Short term contracts are
awarded by other companies on a regular basis.

Venturetek publically employs three Agent divisions, each with five to nine operatives of various ranks and professions. One covert
division is maintained at a secret site known only to upper management (Ranks 8, 9 and 10). Select operations requiring specialization
and discretion are offered out to trusted contract Agents known to keep their mouths shut.

Site Summaries

Site Location Team Specialization Site Manager
Open City Las Angeles Team Alpha White HQ, Security & Administration Arron Rand (Rank 8)
London Spire Team Beta Blue Business & Finance Stuart Harrison (Rank 8)
Tokyo Arcology Team Gamma Red High Tech Labs Akio Fukui (Rank 8)
Unknown Location Team Omega Black Covert Ops & Oversight Unknown (Rank 7)

Venturetek currently keeps the following Agent contractors on retainer. Each has proven themselves trustworthy and discreet in their
words and actions.

Agent Contractors

Dmitri Krupin, Russian Male, 40 Asymmetric Warfare & Rural Survival (Rank 5)
J ohn Andrews, American, Male, 37 Weapons & Tactics (Rank 5)
Abhijeet Kaur, Indian (Sikh), Male, 45 Telepathics (Rank 5)
Ly Ngo, Vietnamese Female, 26 Martial Arts & Urban Survival (Rank 5)


TECHNICAL INNOVATIONS
The following products are representative of technical breakthroughs produced by Minerva and reserved for use by her grandchildren
and select Venturetek Agents.

QUANTUM NANOCOMP CPU
Installation Complex, 1 Day
Cost 95,000
Prerequisite Internal A.I. 6+, Agent of Minerva
This highly advanced device is a miniscule, crystalline matrix, quantum core computer nanofactured in the skull of the recipient. The
Quantum Nanocomp CPU effectively combines the capabilities of a Q-Core Insurgency Computer, Storage Drive and possesses
superior computing power than a standard Hacking Computer or Workstation.

Capabilities
1. Provides +3 to relevant computer based rolls (Computer & A.I., Cybernetics & Robotics, Science and Mechtronics).

2. Provides +3 to Hacking rolls and all security systems accessed are considered to be one level lower for hacking purposes and hacking rolls made with
the computer take only 10 seconds, not 1 minute. Unlike the Q-Core Insurgency Computer, linking to a computer requires a physical connection.

3. Store immense amounts of data (functionally unlimited) layered within the individual atoms of the computers crystalline matrix.

4. Is considered an Elite system for purposes of offensive hacking attempts.

Agents of Minerva only
See The Dragon Awoken page 62.
See Corporation Core page 65
See Corporation Core page 50

INTERNAL PROCESS NEXUS
Installation Complex, 10 Hours
Cost 58,000
Prerequisite Quantum Nanocomp CPU, Computer & A.I. 7, Intelligence 11+, Agent of Minerva
This reserved tech item combines the capabilities of an advanced Neural J ack and 2 Dual Process Sockets (i.e. Quad-Port) in a single
implant.

Capabilities
1. Provides +5 to Computer & A.I. rolls when physically linked to the device. This is cumulative with the bonus provided by the Quantum Nanocomp CPU
(+8 total).

2. May utilize 4 process or task chips at once.

3. Anyone installing this device without possessing the necessary prerequisites will critically fail on all rolled doubles while using process chips or linking
to computers or neuro-controlled equipment.

Agents of Minerva only
See Corporation Core page 65

DATA WELL LINK
Installation Complex, 8 Hours
Cost 50,000
Prerequisite Internal Process Nexus, Agent of Minerva
A Data Well Link provides planet-wide, wireless access to Minerva's vast information stores, hidden in concealed databanks across the
globe and beyond. Allows for the rapid download of Process and Task Chips, pertinent to the situation at hand. Transferred
information is protected with state of the art, Elite level encryption. Duration of retained knowledge varies, typically lasting the current
scene or in uncommon cases the entire mission. A maximum of four chips may be loaded at once.

Chip Type Download Time
Task Chip 5 Rounds / 15 Seconds
Process Chip 1 Round / 3 Seconds per level of the chip (i.e. it takes 10 rounds / 30 seconds for a level 10 process chip to load).

Example - Fleeing from UIG officers, a nanosapient escapes to the roof of the local Bright and Sunny Media building where a domestic news shuttle is
being prepped for takeoff. Flinging the luckless pilot off the roof, the grandchild sends a request via her Data Well Link for operating instructions for the
Eurasian Air, D95-E Urban Domestic Shuttle. Being a task chip, it will take 5 rounds / 15 seconds to upload.

Agents of Minerva only
See Corporation Core page 54


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