[GAME] Synthesise a Cybercity!

[Daigoro]

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TLDR: What is Kampalu?
Kampalu is a slightly schizophrenic amalgam of 728 different mind-states of a deceased prince of Lo Lai, who was a military general, technically apt, and a student of political philosophy, combined with the low-res mind-scans of 93 idealistic (or just politically ignorant) hackers. Kampalu is also the world's only orbital battle station, a position that it guards jealously in order to maintain a degree of global order, and imposes a mandate of the non-militarisation of space. It's not a full Sentient AI in the usual sense, but it does display a number of characteristics. It's attended and guarded by a unit of the Lo Lai Palace Regiment, who upgraded and augmented its computer systems when they first arrived onboard, as well as bringing weapon upgrades and ammunition for its armaments. The government of Lo Lai, however, maintains a neutral position on the decisions made by Kampalu.

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So, with all that, we can establish that Kampalu has teeth and global influence. However, I am admittedly iffy on how it maintains that position. It would need a few allied organisations supporting its mission somehow, particularly in regards to funding.

I also haven't actually addressed the question of national or megacorp involvement in the governance of the Congress of Kampalu, so I'll turn that back as a question for others to settle. A possible idea is that some spies had either infiltrated the hacker group and managed to upload personality constructs with corporate or government aligned goals to the station's systems, or they did the same by establishing their own uplinks to the station after finding out how to do so from the hacker group.

One thing that I had meant to include at some point was an extra layer of decision makers between Kampalu and the Congress. These would be the Prophets of Kampalu, being advisers that Kampalu has sought out and employed, either in the flesh or by extracting anonymised mind-scans from them to run on dedicated servers alongside Kampalu's own hardware. However, I'm not sure if they would serve much purpose at this point, but they could still be included.

Finally, there's still the problem that started the Long Night. Satellite killer missiles are presumably still possible and still pose a threat, so the new space age would need some way to mitigate them. Any ideas?


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Question 113 [KMP]
113a) What status do national governments have in regard to the Congress of Kampalu?
113b) What status do megacorps have in regard to the Congress of Kampalu?

Question 114 [KMP]
Does Kampalu have any allies, seen or unseen, that help it continue its mission of demilitarising space?

Question 115 [KMP]
What influence did any national governments, megacorps, spy agencies, political activists or other ideological groups have in the formation of Kampalu's mental state?

Question 116 [KMP]
Do the Prophets of Kampalu exist?
Who are they? How are they chosen?
What are they? What's their physical state?
What roles do they have?

Question 117 [SPA]
How do modern orbitals handle the threat posed by surface-to-orbit anti-satellite missiles?