The first legitimate record of a Data dog was in February 12 of 2049 when Albert Mild filmed the now well known dog, Tracker, flagging down and using a Waymo.
Mr. Mild, in shock, shared the video on-line and it was widely considered to be a Hoax.
But coordinated investigation between Orpheus and AE (Alphabet Enterprises) showed that Tracker, along with most of his extended relatives, had been using Waymos and erasing the evidence of that use.
Now, we are just talking about street dogs here. No uplifts; the data dog is a natural (some say unnatural) rapid manonic expression. Initial evidence is uncertain.
Tracker’s genetic line has a specific brain mutation that emits focused electromagnetic radiation—like light or heat or dozen different ways organic species emit/interpert EM radiation (Bioluminescence, electrical fields created by bees and eels, pigeons and radical-pair navigation, the Frey effect.). But unlike those other ways, the dogs could in a short space of about two meters emit low energy bursts of radiowaves, mircowaves, and infrared waves. Since the entire grid runs on wireless, bluetooth, and infrared communication methods, the data dogs can communicate with machines.
How does this work? We don’t know.
I know you’re likely saying, “Well, why don’t we just uplift a Data Dog and ask?”
First, there aren’t that many data dogs, and if you have one the breeding rights can make you rich. No one is eager to risk uplifting their data dogs.
Second, of course that’s the exact first thing they did.
Any uplifted dogs that survived the procedure, lost the ability. Something about the cybertechtronics screwing everything up. The information they can recall before the memory enhancement during the uplift is unclear at best. Our best understanding is that without it, it’s a blindness and muteness. Like most dog uplifts, they compared it to scent.
Mr. Mild was able to film Tracker, because he was standing across the street, out of tracker’s range. Many of Trackers relatives were caught, and now there is a market for breeding data dogs; but tracker was a street dog and may not even be the original dog that developed the ability.
Our understanding of the particular mechanism of action in the mutation is unclear. Soon after Mr. Mild’s video, many data dogs were caught and studied. The genetic triggers for its formation were located and mapped by the 2070’s.
And because of Mr. Mild and Tracker’s surreptitious ability, today, in 2090 we have the villenage of the Technomancer.
Hack & Slash
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