#headcanon of delta nano development

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Headcanon - Delta Nano Development Part 2 - Code Expansion

Okay, so you know about the code expansion explanation in the last headcanon I wrote that was based around how Robot Masters were experiencing things, including Rock, Night Man, and especially Blues?

Well I did also say that Blues' Independence development was a big part in the development for X's free will AI. That is way more advanced than Blues', not for the fact that it can just evolve faster. That wouldn't be possible without the data collected on code expansion on Robot Master's experiences themselves, and studying what the properties of the Roboenza can do on Robotics itself and developing the technology to prevent any viruses from corrupting X's data.

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Reading @oofitsbethi's "Fallen Savior" fanfic, I thought that was definitely an interesting concept, and it definitely made the most sense. Since, to my knowledge, I do not think X's AI was ever explained in canon, and I hardly ever think of stuff like this on a dime. I usually ask other friends for help on stuff unless I know everything about the lore itself and how it works in canon. What I can do to change it slightly but still make it work.

I had my fair share of doing stuff like that in the Transformers fandom (albeit, I was still a beginner writer back in the day- any of you guys remember what fanfic I wrote, whaddup), so I had plenty to work with, and there was a lot to go off of in terms of terminology and mechanics, technology, hardware and software wise in terms of how machines and the Cybertronians themselves worked.

Here, for the Megaman fandom, from my understanding, we get the basics of how the Robot Masters work and what they do, and that's it. We get a few tidbits here and there for actual mechanics, but that's about it. We barely get an understanding of how X's AI even works. And it's based on variations of how it does, based on what version of the X series you're looking at.

All of those variations make sense if we put them all together and make it a less cohesive and complicated AI on what it can do. Since it's supposed to be forming what leads to X's potential. Same thing for his free will and how fast the code expands internally and doing whatever the fuck he wants.

Of course, some explanations of this coding needs specifics as well, such as the expanding code preventing viral infections as mentioned previously.

This is an explanation of more than just the "magic" element to Delta Nano, now, isn't it? Well, I don't blame you, since it does touch upon the technicalities of technology and the energies behind certain powers.

Now, I'll also go into a brief tangent that Delta Nano isn't equipped with chips officially. Hoooo nononono. They are installed into the Reploid's system once they're tweaked to their liking, and it's been tested multiple times. Axl and Lumine's cases are exceptions to this rule- sort of.

See, they have crystals they still use, the first four being prototypes, so they're unstable, and the other four are perfected, so they're controlled better by their owner aka Lumine. It doesn't have to be strictly connected to crystals, per say, but they do have the option to use crystals, and it's usually used up to four or less. Mostly one or two, since most reploids who want to use it don't know if they'll feel well controlled to use up to four, which is an understandable reason. It’s a breeze for both Axl and Lumine, but that doesn’t mean it’s a breeze for any other Reploid.

Would X want to have Delta Nano, is the next question. And to answer said question, no he wouldn’t necessarily want it. Now, his armors do come with them overtime, though they still aren’t utilized within his regular everyday armor. As he doesn’t use his armors very much to begin with, except with the moment for them to be presented and that's pretty much it. The exception being the Blue Jay Armor, but we'll also have to get into that another time.

He doesn’t feel he needs them. Except, he didn't realize he had it all this time, except it’s not brought out to its full potential. The Blue Jay armor harbored his Blue Jay wings he obtained, and his own code expanded to keep them after realizing he could, especially after Zero had acquired his own wings, them being Phoenix wings.

What about Zero's dark powers, you also may be asking? Well, that just staves off from the evil energy and maverick virus he master carries. Along with the experiences and memories he gained since being found after gaining amnesia. I'll probably make a part two to that as well. Maybe.

But that's all I'll input unless I make more development on Delta Nano again.

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Headcanon - Delta Nano development (along with some code expansion explanation)

THIS IS IT!! AT LAST!! THE MOMENT WE’VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR!!

This will be a headcanon explaining what “Delta Nano” is!! Finally touching up on it! If you saw my “Why Zero has Dark Powers” Headcanon post, I did mention this in passing. So, here we are! We’re talking about it now!

I didn’t know how to put it into words for the longest time since I’ve been developing this element in the AU for a LONG time. But I wanna keep a log of this so I don’t forget it.

Delta Nano is a power that emulates “magic” within Reploids. Meaning just power upgrades, but pertaining more to the elements. Like water, fire, air, earth, light and dark.  Also you can thank my friend Hex for coming up with this name since I needed one for this (check out his blogs btw @thedoctorscreations and @ultraxuma - of course he has more than just those but those are some of his best character portrayals and good ocs and world building I swear it’s great!!)

It also connects to code expansion. Which I will also get into for this headcanon world building post. It all started with that, so I’ll get into it.

It goes back to the Robot Master Era, where Rock started fighting off against Wily’s plans of world domination. It’s kinda like that moment in the Archie Comics where he wanted to up and help Dr Light get those robot masters back. It’s like gaining free will, but then not. Since Blues kinda obtained the prototype version of that type of programming.

As time progresses, Rock’s code expands whenever he saves anyone, makes new friends, or learns something new about Blues and his direct family.

Even Blues’ code expands, but more naturally and not on a spur of the moment kind of epiphany like other robot masters including Rock.

Another to expand on this idea of the tech is Night Man. The Bat robot master designed for deep cave exploration built by doctor cossack after MM4 (That’s another post for another day, esp since he’s not my OC, I just muse him lmao)

Thing is, the Evil Energy we know from MM8 actually appeared much earlier here, Cossack finding the stuff, but not really knowing what it was, and it appearing to be just dark matter looking energy at first. Of course it only took until MM8 for Duo to appear to get that Evil Energy but since Wily finally was in possession of it, it was used under the wrong hands.

Of course, with that all being resolved, Night Man being free of the energy itself but keeping the powers to control with ease, the code expansions continue, especially throughout the Wanderer group Blues assembled (another headcanon for another day I’ll touch up on)

With all that code expansion of free will, that was mostly used as research for X’s creation, since his free will programming was set to be way more advanced than Blues’. The Delta Nano project, however, didn’t start development until after MM11 at Chronos Institute, Quint starting to appear in this time. I’ll also touch on him and ViA, don’t you worry~.

They knew there was potential with raw element powers for Robot Masters. Of course, that was already prominent, especially with robot masters involving electricity such as Elect Man, Fuse man, etc. But the powers would be of more natural elements than them just being generated.

Quint has gone all around time and space to find raw elements to use for this tech, which wasn’t even called Delta Nano yet until later on in the Reploid/Maverick Wars Era. Thing is, not much time was made to develop it when humanity had enough of robots causing havoc amongst them because of Wily and also partially because of Dr Light.

Chronos Institute was then destroyed and vandalized thanks to the Emerald Spears (yes they’re in this verse too lmao). By this point, their movement has reached more humans and Rock, his remaining family, and the remaining Wanderers had to go into hiding. Which was left in vain, since being in hiding left them more vulnerable for decaying faster and not having easy access to e-tanks or parts to repair themselves. Add another in depth headcanon to the list lmao.

Fast forward to 21XX where X and Zero are Maverick Hunters. By the time of X4, a woman named Linda Kleimann founded the Delta Nano Project. Having the information and research from Chronos Institute thanks to Quint. They decided to partner up and restart a new era of time skipping, and develop new tech for reploids.

She then created her own once the Timeless Accident Arc happening at the same time (an event of a time travel accident to the past that happens with Xev and Zero), whom she named Axl, a friend of hers also created a reploid of their own, whom they named Jericho Nox. He became part of the team and one of the first reploids to join in as such. He and Linda became very close friends.

Both of them together decided to create crystals that held the raw energy that produced the power ups. The “magic” induced into them, and only to their assigned holders. Axl was not only one of the prototypes for a new generation for copying Reploid DNA, but also for the Delta Nano Crystals. He was assigned Cyan, Lime, White and Yellow crystals. Which held earth, water and light qualities. The Lime Green provides the greenery of earth, Cyan p[rovides water, while the other two provide light energy. White is the pure light, yellow is lightning, and cyan is water.

Numerous tests are made, Axl and Linda bond as well. And they bond flawlessly, having a sort of mother/son relationship. He looks up to her for guidance. There were others who wanted to take Linda’s project and Axl, including Sigma. Which made Axl aware of his existence.

Linda then made sure that Axl would be safe from then on and continued the research harder than ever before, knowing of her poor reploid being possibly taken from her.

By the Eurasia Incident, just before it all spiraled out of control with the Sigma Virus, Lumine was finished being built, and when the Nightmare Incident rolls on in, a group called Red Alert heard of Axl’s potential and stole him and his crystals. Leaving Linda devastated that she lost someone she bonded with as her son. Though, she still had Lumine and his other four crystals he had.

His are Lavender, Black, Orange and Red. Black is the pure dark energy, powered with evil energy, in fact, which Duo had to come back to Earth for numerous times. You think he’d only come that ONE time in MM8, did ya? Lavender is the more concentrated version of it. More a synthetic version experimented with. Orange is fire energy, and red is a mixture of viscous red liquid. That is left ambiguous and left up to your imagination of what that may be~.

After he was activated in the duration of post X5, in the three year gap of Zero’s death, Linda’s been working with Lumine, especially finding out he has a terrible mutative maverick virus that’s corrosive. Putting him in quarantine to be terminated. When Xevdex was told Lumine needed to be terminated, the numb and grieving Blue Jay had no emotion in needing to do so.

Lumine had a hatred for the Maverick Hunters and X by extension. I’ll probably have a post dedicated to Axl and Lumine and their relation as brothers.

After Linda’s disappearance throughout the whole process of eliminating Lumine, all her efforts of protecting him being in vain, him escaping to the moon, Jericho took over the project, and the development proceeded as normal.

Soon, Delta Nano would be distributed as crystals, and X and Zero would eventually get one of each or more for themselves.

PHEWW!! That’s all I got there!! It’s a little messy but there’s a lot that goes on for this and I apologize for it taking so long to upload.

Hope you enjoyed it~!!

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Headcanon - Zero having mysterious dark powers

I have this headcanon where Zero has mysterious dark powers that are linked to his virus and evil energy Dr. Wily gave him. It’s sort of linked to magic power equivalent to Reploids called “Delta Nano”, which is mostly upgrades and code expansions, and it has developed since the Robot Master Era, with Rock starting it all and Night Man surging it forward. That’ll be a separate headcanon post all on its own soon.

Which is pretty much why thinks himself dangerous, not only for his destructive behavior before he got his amnesia but also for the fact he learns about these powers around the X6 arc

He starts learning about them one day where he has an outburst. Since coming back to life in Gate’s lab was a little traumatizing for him, he felt pressured talking about it, thanks to Bass and ProtoBlues and he screams for them to stop. He has very bad nightmares (worse than in the X4 arc), and Omega is emerging on top of all that.

But while he demanded them to stop, he made a wave of dark energy emitting from his body. He realized seconds after that, he was charged with dark powers from the Evil energy, and the virus, along with his black armor upgrade from X3, made him pretty powerful. Which is what Wily wanted in the first place. For him to be the strongest Robot Master he’s ever created. But since Dr. Cain gave him emotions and empathy, he’s become an Android Master like X. That’ll be another separate headcanon post on its own.

After the X6 arc, he tries to train with those dark powers, and he finds it pretty useful. Omega then talks to him about them and how he got them in his past.

It makes Zero uncomfortable until he learns how to control them, which would be another journey whilst Axl comes into the picture and learns how to control his own powers with his crystals.