Typhon
Typhon has been a figure is several great Kupopolis stories, such as “Quiet Mining Colony” “Typhon: Seraphim Orisons”, and was the focus of the second seraphim saga—a term used to describe the posts pertaining to the character Clay Reynolds after the first protagonist, Abdiel Zion, takes over as CEO of Diamond.
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History
Typhon is first mentioned in the last posts of the first seraphim saga, as Zion discovered secret papers explaining the creation of a “doomsday seraphim”. This is enough cause for alarm that the man finally takes the final steps to overthrow his previous bosses and take over the company.
Now in control, Zion heads up cleaning up the mess left by his predecessors. To do this, he re-hires and assigns Clay Reynolds to find missing seraphim machines and to hunt down the mysterious Typhon—the doomsday seraphim.
Previous to this, unknown and almost forgotten, a newly created mining colony tests out their seraphim, only to inadvertently discover that one of the machines, known as Gaea, is in fact a machine to create a factory to produce typhoon machines. The entire planetoid and first colonists are wiped out, only to leave the empty shell of space factory floating in the solar system, slowly devouring planets to create Typhon.
Over the course of time, A Typhon is created and ultimately ends up floating in space, where it is discovered by as Tasnican mining colony. Rumors of he power of Typhon are widespread by this point, and the space miners decide to use their newly found doomsday machine as leverage for a better quality of life.
Ulimately, the Tasnican government decides that it is far too dangerous to leave the machine in the hands of the colonists, at which point the colony is destroyed. This is not before a Celpo operative, a soldier under the wing of the Grand Army’s Intelligence division, manages to sneak the machine out of the colony and into Celpo’s hands.
However, one of their operatives later steals the Typhon and escapes with it uo yet another unnamed space colony, only to be mortally wounded. Here, a former Skurd mercenary named Varius Rufus is given charge of the machine and is told by the operative of the machines power, to which he perceived as a divine order judge if society is worth existing.
Coessentially, by this time the space factory has swallowed up a second planet and is on a trajectory to head for Tasnica. Taking note of this Zion coordinates a offensive attack with the aid of several seraphim pilots as well as the Grand Army, brining in Celiose Cole and Praxer Riose to get enough firepower to take the factory down. (This due to the fact that the factory itself is heavily defended with robotically controlled weapons.)
Hannibal De’Zama, a known seraphim enthusiast is brought on the help spearhead the mission. During the initiall siege of the Typhon factory Hannibal spies a second Typhon machine (one planetoid = one typhon) to which he attempts to commandeer. It is however later decided to destroy it along with the factory.
Meanwhile, personal experiences causes various to use his Typhon to destroy the space colony he was on. Clay Reyolds is diverted to take care of the situation, as Diamond had created for him a seraphim codenamed Rhea, a potential Typhon-killer. An anti-climatic battle ensues upon his arrival, as the deranged Varius laments over society and the debacle is brought to a close by a fistfight between the two men in which Clay smashes Varius head in with a rock.
Later events suggest that although Zion gave orders to toss Typhon into the sun, Diamond keeps their Typhon hidden under lock and key in their seraphim factory that orbits Tasnica airspace. It is assumed some of it technology has been applied to the Seraphim R—the third generation Seraphim robot machines.
The remnants of the second Typhon as well as the Typhon factory were collected by the Grand Army—the Celpo—and are carefully studied. The technology of Typhon is suggested to have been applied to the Celpo’s necromancy and precognition studies. Not understood how exactly, but the second Typhon is slowly rebuilding itself from ‘thin air’.
During the second Robotics Tournament, Skurd militants stage an attack on the host city-state of the Republic of Hill, only to mistakenly have in their possession Gaea. Before Gaea is fully activated and the entire planet is turned into a Typhon factory, Zion destroys Gaea, ending any known future chance of creating more Typhon.
Attributes
Typhoon has several unique attributes and characteristics that make it seem almost god-like. The first being its enormous destructive power. The only weapon ever detailed of the machine are its large talon-like claws, which have the ability to form into some sort of laser canon. This canon has only been fired once, which had enough destructive power to completely obliterate a city—suggesting one shot was as powerful as a u-missile.
Other more interesting qualities include the fact that the machine seems to be alive beyond mere robotics—although never truly able to communicate with human beings, the machine has sent out cryptic massages to other machines, and it is assumed that it has some derivative of the seraphim machine ‘subconscious AI’—that is, an artificial intelligence that not completely self-aware of its own existence. Its ability to communicate with other machines expands what is capable with known devices, as it is able to send messages across space and time. It has been suggested that all typhon machines share the same ‘networked’ subconscious AI--and that are essentially then the same machine.
Typhon also sports a pair of massive bat/bird-like wings which somehow permits it to levitate and fly if desired, although not by traditional wing mechanics. The Seraphim material it is created of holds anamorphic properties and unlike other forms of seraphim plastic, which must be created in the zero-gravity of space, its material can regenerated in planetary gravity conditions. This is partly due to extensive nano-machines.
Typhon in Seraphim Solid
In Seraphim Solid, the antagonist, a individual who seems to be a member of the seraphim cult as well as a former Celpo operative, attempts to resurrect Typhon to grant him immortality and/or enlightenment.
Attributes are granted to Typhon that are not yet seen in the Kupopolis plotline proper. One is that Typhon seems keep a digital replica the personalities of the people. Praxer Riose is seen projected holographically by Typhon, who has a one-sided communication with the characters of the story.
Morso, Typhon is suggested to exist beyond the scope of time itself—its regenerative properties are partially nano-machines going back in time to when it was whole, atom by atom. In this way, the personality constructs within Typhon are essentially immortal.
Typhon, The Celpo, and Neromancy and Fortune Telling
The Celpo have shown interest in Typhon since its conception. First detected by their physic-adapt operatives, the study and capture of Typhon has long since been a pastime by Celpo director Praxer Riose. Riose himself has toasted champagne upon the initial capture of the doomsday seraphim.
Typhon technology has been used by Celpo in their necromancy projects—the result of which can be found in cyborg operatives such as Agent Gamma, Agent Caliber, and Agent Zone. Agent Zone seems to be the furthest extent of such experiments, as he appears to be at his core a miniature skeletal replica of Typhon, although connection between to two remain unclear. He does retain typhon nano-machine abilities, as well as a seraphim core.
Its technologies have been applied to foreseeing and precognitive applications. Having tapped into the both Typhon’s ability to exist outside the scope of time as well as placing an cybornetic operative into Source, a place where time and space and matter seem to compose and decompose, the Celpo have created two separate devices to predict the future. One is known as the ‘Cumaean Sibyl’, the other as the ‘Libyan Sibyl’.
