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==Character Details== | ==Character Details== | ||
=== | ===Physical=== | ||
Cray-1-tan is one of the tallest mainframe-tans with an imposing appearance. She has long, wavy light blue hair decorated with a black | Cray-1-tan is one of the tallest mainframe-tans with an imposing appearance. She has long, wavy light blue hair decorated with a black headdress with large silver frills. She wears a futuristic-looking gown with a hoopskirt and long black gloves and boots; the gown is sleeveless with a metallic collar. Below the collar is a row of small square panels. Her gown has a grey corset with black panels on the sides, and on the top layer of her skirt are large vertical crystal panels that change color; the colored panel arrangement is modeled after the appearance of the CRAY-1 machine and its customizable appearance. | ||
She lives in a futuristic-looking palace, and it's very cold in there; early CRAY-1 models were prone to overheating, and keeping the palace very cold is CRAY-1-tan's way of dealing with the heat. | |||
===Personality=== | |||
Her personality can also be imposing; keeping a stoic demeanor at nearly all times. Combined with her powers and extreme height, she has an intimidating presence. She is formal, and somewhat socially detached. When interacting with others, she can from one sentence to the next, alternate between being cordial and being rude, all without breaking away from her stoicness. There is another side to her though. Past her aloof demeanor, she is remarkably down-to-earth, being much more humble than she used to be. She still has high standards, but has become a bit more lenient than she was before, stemming from remorse over pushing her daughter too far. | |||
She likes art, aesthetics, fashion design and weaving. Her interest in weaving is a reference to the CRAY-1's elaborate wiring, which was wired by hand by skilled weavers. She is also a sci-fi fan, and computer graphics artist in reference to the CRAY-1's role in the production of "TRON". | |||
===Powers=== | |||
Her sorcery powers are ice-based, and she carries a staff modeled after the CRAY-1's cooling pipes. | |||
===Family and relationships=== | ===Family and relationships=== | ||
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====Cray Time Sharing System (CrTSS)==== | ====Cray Time Sharing System (CrTSS)==== | ||
CrTSS-tan was one of her colleagues, and was treated like adoptive daughter. While this was well-intentioned, and she didn't hold her to the same very high standards as she did for Cray-2-tan, it had the unintended consequence of making CrTSS-tan feel worse, since she felt she wasn't worthy. | CrTSS-tan was one of her colleagues, and was treated like adoptive daughter. While this was well-intentioned, and she didn't hold her to the same very high standards as she did for Cray-2-tan, it had the unintended consequence of making CrTSS-tan feel worse, since she felt she wasn't worthy. | ||
====Multics==== | |||
In 1978, Multics was hired to be Cray-1's servant, referencing Multics' use as a front-end system for the Cray XMP, under a system usually known as the Multics Cray Station. At first, they clashed due to competing egos, but ended up collaborating on several projects and respected each other. It isn't specified if Cray-1 knows that Multics is Unix's mother, and what the consequences would have been if she knew. | |||
====Unix==== | |||
Cray-1 resents Unix, for colonizing her territory, which led to CrTSS's forced exile and death. | |||
==History and background== | ==History and background== | ||
==Appearances== | |||
===OS-tangent=== | |||
The multi-part strip titled "When the Aristocrat Was a Servant" takes place in the late 70's or early 80's and is a silly interpretation of Multics having to work as Cray-1's servant. The first obstacle to their interactions is both of their senses of personal pride; the second obstacle is their clashing senses of fashion, which erupts when Cray-1 insults Multics' fashion sense. Between dealing with servitude, threats of retribution for turning up the thermostat, and having her fashion sense insulted, Multics was the most insulted by the latter. | |||
Showing Cray-1's enigmatic personality is on part 2 when she allows Multics to turn up the thermostat, but threatens to attack her, but then just as non-chalantly introduces herself. | |||
*[http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/albums/userpics/10307/mc1storyboardpart1a.png part 1] | |||
*[http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/albums/userpics/10307/mccomicpart2.png part 2] | |||
==See Also== | ==See Also== | ||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-1 Wikipedia article on Cray-1] | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-1 Wikipedia article on Cray-1] | ||
*[http://www.multicians.org/mgc.html#CrayStation Multics Cray Station] | |||
[[Category:Mainframe]] | [[Category:Mainframe]] | ||
