PC Projects (7/20/19), 4.5 PCs Rolled

>Bioprosthetics [Level 2: Cybernetic Testing]
>Difficulty: 15-2 (NPC rolls, player may assist)
>Number of Successes: 1 [1 more needed for next level]
>Description: The Angelic Layer Company has successfully begun the mass production of brain-controlled artificial limbs using aluminum and titanium alloys, giving them greater institutional knowledge of mass manufacturing. The next step is creating tactile feedback approximating that generated by the nervous system.
[Doctor Hojo's expertise has permanently reduced the difficulty of this project's checks by 2.]
>Previous Levels: Level 1: Mass Produced Prosthetic Limbs

>Temporal Housekeeping [Level 3: The Future Past]
>Difficulty: N/A, see Description
>Number of Successes: 3
>Description: Initial uses of Return to the Past for purely observation have proven fruitful, and the group is slowly beginning to whittle down possible foreign entities to the current timeline. This has not gone unnoticed. [To continue, a SS must take place with Haken concerning this project.]
>>Previous Levels: Level 2: Begin Revised Return to the Past Testing; Level 1: Searching for Temporal Deadends

>Pokemon [Level 2: Pokemon Transporter & LC.EXE]
>Difficulty: 7
>Number of Successes: 1
>Description: The Pokemon Storage System developed by a contractor named "Bill" has proven to be quite successful in allowing for safe storage, but not useful for its intended purpose in securing Pokemon transactions. Bill has claimed the PSS was necessary as a backend and offered to upgrade the system by hiring several of his colleagues - Lanette, Bebe, Amanita, Cassius, and Molayne - to create the trading functionality necessary to be officially sanctioned. They refer to it as 'Project Link Cable'.
>>Previous Levels: Level 1: Pokemon Storage System

>Temjin [Level 2: Advanced Social Diagnostics]
>Difficulty: 10 (SECRET, only Kuremi Kyoko, Aelita, Franz Hopper, or Kamishiro Yuuko may assist)
>Number of Successes: 1 [1 more success to next level]
>Description: Temjin has successfully been uploaded into an artificial humanoid shell, and data from first excursions proves promising. While clever, Temjin’s programming concerning ‘meatspace’ customs will need some fine-tuning in order to maintain project secrecy.
[With parts that have been reverse-engineered from Wily's Robot Masters and Kagura's body now entering the commercial market, the costs of repairing Temjin's humanoid shell have been reduced by 43%. However, repeated damage will cause serious strain to the Foundation's financial resources unless new sources of income are secured.]

>The T-Series [Level 3: Compare T-Series Navis to Light's Work]
>Difficulty: 10 (Roll must be initiated by Mirei, Rita, or Kagura)
>Description: Initial results from the T-Series from Tempo, Haruhara, and Marino have proven hard questions. At Marino's request, a direct comparison between MegaMan.EXE and the T-Series will be performed.
>>Previous Levels: Level 2: Study Initial Results; Level 1: Spinning Up the T-Series

>Robo-Ethics [Level 3: The Trolley Problem]
>Difficulty: 10-1 (SECRET, a Brain Burst PC must roll or a Brain Burst NPC must assist)
>Number of Successes: 0
>Description: After an intense discussion within the Foundation, it has been determined that human-created AI like WOPR are prone to operating according to logic alien to humans – absent any ethics or morals, purely by logic and numbers. By running an initial template AI through the Unlimited Neural Field from Brain Burst, it may be possible to develop a basic set of right or wrong that can be easily exported to other formats.
>>Previous Levels: Level 2: Moral Relativism; Level 1: Post-Asimov Theory
[Marino's discussions with Rita on whether AI have souls has opened new avenues for testing. Project difficulty reduced by 1.]

>Contingency Planning [Level 3: Emergency Digital-to-Reality Transfer]
>Difficulty: 8 (SECRET, only Twilight Foundation NPCs may assist)
>Number of Successes: 3
>Description: While escaping into the Net has been considered as an option for safe escape, the Foundation is too large to ensure that valuable resources and personnel aren't left behind. By acquiring digitization lasers from ENCOM, new tactical options can be pursued.
>>Previous Levels: Level 2: Securing Continuity Operations; Level 1: Contingency Planning
[The Pokemon Storage System is currently headquartered in the abandoned factory. Unless further progress is made on that project, all evacuation planning will have to account for this.]

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>Hire Medical Staff
>Description: The Foundation has acquired the services of Doctor Emu Hojo. Additional staff will be located by Dr. Hojo.