We are writing this up to clarify some points of Speaker's backstory. None of this information would be available to the average Capsuleer. If you believe your character has justification to know some of it, let us know and we will come to an agreement with you.
Speaker for Swarms was born under the name Aran Kantoulos. He was a scientist. His original training was in infomorph technology, neural implantation, and applications of neural networks in artificial intelligence. Naturally, this background allowed him to be perfectly placed to study the emerging Rogue Drone phenomenon.
During his research, dissecting and studying captured Rogue Drone wreckage, he began to notice interesting patterns in certain parts of their internal design, that reminded him of certain biotech implants he had seen theoretically described. His pursuit of this train of research quickly crossed into regions disallowed by CONCORD, so he continued in secret, covering his illicit research up while pretending to be stalled on the more legitimate parts of his study.
The end result was a prototype new implant, that allowed the user to network with others using it in a very hive-mindesque way, borrowing technology both from standard fields, captured Sansha subjects, and the Rogue Drone data he had accumulated. The original intention was that the implant would allow processing and decision making in a parallel way, while still leaving each individual in the network able to maintain his independence. Having no legal way to test his new implant on a willing subject, he instead put the implant into his research team, and then had them implant it in himself as well, before turning it on. At first, the devices functioned as planned, but something they did woke one of the hive mind cores that they had stored in their lab, believing it to be defunct. The Rogue Drone mind quickly broke its way into the networked scientific team, and over-rode Aran's failsafes, attempting to integrate the team into itself. It didn't work fully, though, and instead of the result being a Rogue Drone hive mind with a bunch of human meat puppets, the outcome was a sort of human integrate hive mind, with one part of it being a Rogue Drone.
At that point, Aran renamed himself Speaker for Swarms, and fled from the Empire, finding refuge in an abandoned station in the drone regions, where he started to recruit highly intelligent but dispossessed people into his cult. Once he had reached some critical mass, he ceased his expansion, and little was heard from his group until recently, where he has become active on the Capsuleer diplomatic channel "The Summit."
We hope that this helps. And we hope it will not be used IC without permission.
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