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beatupgrass) wrote2014-08-13 02:24 pm
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Character Notes
MCU HALF-WORLD
Half-World was founded by doctors and scientists, seeking to find a place to cure the incurably insane. Asylums and labs were built on its surface and the Galacian Wall was built as a means to protect the planet from hostile enemies and preempt any escape from the "loonies," a derogatory term that spread throughout the community. Animals were brought to the planet and experimented on to increase their intelligence so they could be used as suitable companions and caretakers for the patients, while the doctors observed from a distance, refusing to engage unless it was to perform medical experiments on their patients, with most of the care the animals weren't capable of performing conducted by robots. Between the increasingly questionable experiments and the lack of results, eventually funding was cut, and the patients were collected and sent to other, better funded and less experimental facilities to receive care.
Most of the doctors and scientists stayed behind, however, having developed a taste for their experimentation and realizing they could get away with nearly anything so long as they stayed out of the sight of the authorities. They engaged in illegal trafficking of drugs to fund their research, and turned on the animals (usually the young that they had been breeding), increasing their intelligence even further, and combining them with used parts from dismantled robots that had assisted the scientists on the planet. The end result was Half-World flourished as a planet of illegal experimentation, outside the realm of galactic law and spoken of only in legend.
For the most part, their experiments were merely for their own interest, though they had plans to perfect their cyborg animals to sell to the highest bidders as foot soldiers and infiltration agents. It eventually fell apart when several of their experiments escaped, though all but one were recovered. Realizing they had a long way to go before they could make obedient soldiers, the scientists continued their research in secret.
Other Notes
-Given Rocket's ranting while drunk and the fact that he remembers enough of what happened to him to suggest he had extreme lucid periods, it's highly likely he wasn't made in a legitimate facility. While genetic experiments of that caliber are probably illegal in various parts of the galaxy, the offhand way Dey mentions it suggests that whatever made Rocket was probably a shoddy and haphazard operation at best- the results were enough for them to consider Rocket a sentient lifeform able to be tried, but not dangerous enough to be euthanized on the spot (which probably would have happened if he were an illegal experiment from a high-end facility).
-The shoddy workmanship (and the fact that they're EXPOSED) of the cybernetics in his back suggest he was probably made out of bargain bin parts that weren't made to fit something like him. (It would also explain why you can hear his servos working sometimes, but you can't hear Gamora's- his aren't as high caliber as hers.) The fact that Rocket calls himself a "monster" rather than an "experiment," also seems to suggest that whatever the hell they were doing to him, it wasn't for any real reason. Some scientists were goofing around and made a cyborg raccoon for the hell of it.
-So basically Rocket was created as a result of someone tampering with bargain bin cybernetics in a dirty back alley lab with minimal anesthetic and he was conscious for most of this and well aware the whole time there was no point to it.
-Headcanon says Rocket is an actual earth raccoon. He was born on Half-World to two raccoons that had been captured on Earth some time before and has no knowledge of Earth or his own species. (There IS a similar species on Drax's home planet, but it's likely that Rocket's appearance is easily mistaken for any small, mammalian vermin.)
-Rocket considers himself to be a functioning, intelligent member of society (if not a unlawful one). Being referred to as an animal or "dehumanized" (which isn't the proper word, since hah humies) in any way is liable to set him off, because it's a firm reminder that he doesn't belong. If he knew what a raccoon was, he'd probably still be insulted, even if it is his correct species. He's Rocket. Respect, yo.
-His specific cybernetic enhancements are likely as follows: Custom hips, capable of "locking" his legs in an upright or all-fours position; custom joints, enhanced/extended bones in his fingers, making them more disconcertingly human-like; extra spine support to allow him to walk upright or on all fours with no physical harm done to it; cybernetic enhancements to his vocal chords that allow him to speak; enhancements in his eyes that allow him to see color clearly, reinforced support in his shoulders, enabling him to carry and fire guns with no damage due to weight and recoil. This is on top of the fact that his entire skeleton is made out of fusocarbon alloy and some of his organs are likely mechanical.
- The majority of the experiments conducted on Rocket were after he was a year old, though the enhancements to his vocal chords occurred at six months and the enhancements to his feet and hands were done at eight months.
-He is currently six years old. He spent two years in the lab, two years on his own, and two years with Groot.
Half-World was founded by doctors and scientists, seeking to find a place to cure the incurably insane. Asylums and labs were built on its surface and the Galacian Wall was built as a means to protect the planet from hostile enemies and preempt any escape from the "loonies," a derogatory term that spread throughout the community. Animals were brought to the planet and experimented on to increase their intelligence so they could be used as suitable companions and caretakers for the patients, while the doctors observed from a distance, refusing to engage unless it was to perform medical experiments on their patients, with most of the care the animals weren't capable of performing conducted by robots. Between the increasingly questionable experiments and the lack of results, eventually funding was cut, and the patients were collected and sent to other, better funded and less experimental facilities to receive care.
Most of the doctors and scientists stayed behind, however, having developed a taste for their experimentation and realizing they could get away with nearly anything so long as they stayed out of the sight of the authorities. They engaged in illegal trafficking of drugs to fund their research, and turned on the animals (usually the young that they had been breeding), increasing their intelligence even further, and combining them with used parts from dismantled robots that had assisted the scientists on the planet. The end result was Half-World flourished as a planet of illegal experimentation, outside the realm of galactic law and spoken of only in legend.
For the most part, their experiments were merely for their own interest, though they had plans to perfect their cyborg animals to sell to the highest bidders as foot soldiers and infiltration agents. It eventually fell apart when several of their experiments escaped, though all but one were recovered. Realizing they had a long way to go before they could make obedient soldiers, the scientists continued their research in secret.
Other Notes
-Given Rocket's ranting while drunk and the fact that he remembers enough of what happened to him to suggest he had extreme lucid periods, it's highly likely he wasn't made in a legitimate facility. While genetic experiments of that caliber are probably illegal in various parts of the galaxy, the offhand way Dey mentions it suggests that whatever made Rocket was probably a shoddy and haphazard operation at best- the results were enough for them to consider Rocket a sentient lifeform able to be tried, but not dangerous enough to be euthanized on the spot (which probably would have happened if he were an illegal experiment from a high-end facility).
-The shoddy workmanship (and the fact that they're EXPOSED) of the cybernetics in his back suggest he was probably made out of bargain bin parts that weren't made to fit something like him. (It would also explain why you can hear his servos working sometimes, but you can't hear Gamora's- his aren't as high caliber as hers.) The fact that Rocket calls himself a "monster" rather than an "experiment," also seems to suggest that whatever the hell they were doing to him, it wasn't for any real reason. Some scientists were goofing around and made a cyborg raccoon for the hell of it.
-So basically Rocket was created as a result of someone tampering with bargain bin cybernetics in a dirty back alley lab with minimal anesthetic and he was conscious for most of this and well aware the whole time there was no point to it.
-Headcanon says Rocket is an actual earth raccoon. He was born on Half-World to two raccoons that had been captured on Earth some time before and has no knowledge of Earth or his own species. (There IS a similar species on Drax's home planet, but it's likely that Rocket's appearance is easily mistaken for any small, mammalian vermin.)
-Rocket considers himself to be a functioning, intelligent member of society (if not a unlawful one). Being referred to as an animal or "dehumanized" (which isn't the proper word, since hah humies) in any way is liable to set him off, because it's a firm reminder that he doesn't belong. If he knew what a raccoon was, he'd probably still be insulted, even if it is his correct species. He's Rocket. Respect, yo.
-His specific cybernetic enhancements are likely as follows: Custom hips, capable of "locking" his legs in an upright or all-fours position; custom joints, enhanced/extended bones in his fingers, making them more disconcertingly human-like; extra spine support to allow him to walk upright or on all fours with no physical harm done to it; cybernetic enhancements to his vocal chords that allow him to speak; enhancements in his eyes that allow him to see color clearly, reinforced support in his shoulders, enabling him to carry and fire guns with no damage due to weight and recoil. This is on top of the fact that his entire skeleton is made out of fusocarbon alloy and some of his organs are likely mechanical.
- The majority of the experiments conducted on Rocket were after he was a year old, though the enhancements to his vocal chords occurred at six months and the enhancements to his feet and hands were done at eight months.
-He is currently six years old. He spent two years in the lab, two years on his own, and two years with Groot.