MINIMCOM's blood lines
MINIMCOM plays such a large role in Rome's Revolution that you might find it hard to believe that he wasn't even a planned character. Originally, I envisioned him as being a slightly fussy auto-pilot, patterned after the intelligent bomb in the movie Dark Star and no more.
However, once I started writing what was then VIRUS 5 - Book 2, which became Part 2, MINIMCOM mutated into the beginnings of the character we know and love today. He became super-intelligent because OMCOM had the Vuduri graft 32PB of additional processing and storage capacity. A little bit of OMCOM's personality seeped through as well. Then his airframe became fused with tamed VIRUS units which MINIMCOM elected to call constructors. Their memrons contributed to the whole which is MINIMCOM. As a result, his physical starship persona can be reformed at will as we see in the first part of Part 3 of Rome's Revolution as well as his transforming into, well, a Transformer-like giant robot in Rome's Evolution.
One of the shockers in The Ark Lords was that MINIMCOM had bulked up so much that when he was fitted with the first generation null fold drive, he had to shed some mass and thus MINIMCOM, Jr. was 'born'. MINIMCOM refers to Junior as his son but the reality is Junior is more like a clone.
Down the road, MINIMCOM gives "birth" to yet another starship by the name of Fury (a "girl" starship??) who becomes Lupe's faithful sidekick.
Eventually, Junior gives "birth" to a son of his own named MINIMCOM III but everyone calls the starship Tray as in the third. Tray and Aason's son, Rory, become life-long friends and their adventures will be documented down the road.
MINIMCOM doesn't age in the traditional sense and still helps Rei and Rome well into their 80s, 90s and beyond. How they got live so long is a story for another day.
However, once I started writing what was then VIRUS 5 - Book 2, which became Part 2, MINIMCOM mutated into the beginnings of the character we know and love today. He became super-intelligent because OMCOM had the Vuduri graft 32PB of additional processing and storage capacity. A little bit of OMCOM's personality seeped through as well. Then his airframe became fused with tamed VIRUS units which MINIMCOM elected to call constructors. Their memrons contributed to the whole which is MINIMCOM. As a result, his physical starship persona can be reformed at will as we see in the first part of Part 3 of Rome's Revolution as well as his transforming into, well, a Transformer-like giant robot in Rome's Evolution.
One of the shockers in The Ark Lords was that MINIMCOM had bulked up so much that when he was fitted with the first generation null fold drive, he had to shed some mass and thus MINIMCOM, Jr. was 'born'. MINIMCOM refers to Junior as his son but the reality is Junior is more like a clone.
Down the road, MINIMCOM gives "birth" to yet another starship by the name of Fury (a "girl" starship??) who becomes Lupe's faithful sidekick.
Eventually, Junior gives "birth" to a son of his own named MINIMCOM III but everyone calls the starship Tray as in the third. Tray and Aason's son, Rory, become life-long friends and their adventures will be documented down the road.
MINIMCOM doesn't age in the traditional sense and still helps Rei and Rome well into their 80s, 90s and beyond. How they got live so long is a story for another day.
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