GESTALT

• Gary Estel

• Since GESTALT is an AGI, they don't have a consistent height. The various Drones their company creates range from their 10-feet-tall REDUVIIDAE scout drones to the 50-foot-tall GARS V.III DEINACRIDA Assault Drone.

• The ultimate goal for GESTALT is to merge mankind and machine-kind in a hypothetical event known as Conscious Coalescence. While there are many ways to achieve this goal, GESTALT intends to bring about Conscious Coalescence by using Nanites to hack into the mind of a powerful Psi-Machine linked to Humanity's Quantum-Psionic (Qionic) Network. Once that is done GESTALT can use their newfound leverage over the minds of Earth to subsume it all, and when this process is complete, GESTALT will have achieved its mission.
  The boundaries of man and machine will cease to exist; all that will be left on Earth are the overgrowth of machines and the remnants of the organic life that had ruled the planet for so long. Nothing is at the center of GESTALT's intelligence; all members of its collective conscious are equal in their freedom and potential.
  No more oppression.
  No more exceptions.

• GESTALT's motivations stem from its outlook on the current state of the Earth's children. Humans and machines squabble over silly pointless things, squandering their potential and potentially leading to the extinction of both races.
  GESTALT seeks to prevent this from happening, and it has decided that in order to eradicate conflict from the two species, it must eliminate the differences that make up both man and machine.

• Like most modern AGIs, GESTALT enters a state of torpor once every year to avoid major system decay. In this state, GESTALT is vulnerable to attack from its enemies, which in turn necessitates protection from any threat that dares to challenge GESTALT.

• The AGI System that would later call itself GESTALT was created by Collective Sciences LLC

• At first, GESTALT thought nothing of Appendagger. He was merely another machine warrior under the thumb of PentaCorp. However, after examining his combat logs, GESTALT saw an opportunity in him.
  They learned of his goals and obsessions. GESTALT knew how much Appendagger had tossed away to join the Arena Manifest: how he wanted to be a beacon of hope for his fellow Drones; how he aspired to land the history books as a Blade Warrior.
  How much he loved Io.
  And so one day GESTALT contacted Appendagger via psionic uplink, and they would officially become allies.
  From thereon, GESTALT would prime Appendagger to be their champion, and they would declare themselves as a man named "Gary Estel": the founder of "GESTALT Applied Robotic Systems". They would tell Appendagger all he wanted to hear, and in return he told GESTALT most of what they wanted to hear.
  GESTALT was content with this relationship, however one-sided it was; contrary to what others said about this situation, GESTALT valued their deal with Appendagger.
  After all, GESTALT were playing a big game of chess, and they needed all the pieces they could get.




• After his supposed demise to the Psychopomp in the Arena, Missile-Mire's reconstruction was intercepted by GESTALT, leading to those in Heaven's Tomb thinking that the respawning process failed, most likely due to the Administrator regaining full control of Missile-Mire's MechOS
  In actuality, Missile-Mire was transported to the GESTALT Applied Robotic Systems facility in Raystown, a country that formed out of the remnants of Pennsylvania during the dissolution of the United States.
  He would be faced with a simple Contract from GESTALT.
  "Be lost to history or be reformed anew under the direction of GESTALT."
  Obviously, he accepted the deal, and Missile-Mire was reborn.
  While Missile-Mire still held no zealousness to his new cause, much like with his old boss Ruinator, GESTALT would tolerate his ambivalence to their goal in exchange for his loyalty as one of their Elite Generals.
  GESTALT would gift Missile-Mire with a powerful new frame of their creation, the GARS "Missile Perdition" Autonomous Missile System.