Daichi Kashiwagi

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Daichi Kashiwagi was born in Wakayama, Japan in 1968. With a career spanning multiple parallel industries from computer engineering to video game system development, Daichi has a tremendous amount of experience with technology. For everyone in the world, life changed after Phaeton’s Flare hit the ozone layer. For Daichi it immediately posed an existentialist question. 

What to do during an apocalypse when you’ve got nobody to live for? 

Daichi was unmarried, had no family members and no lasting friendships. As Japan was hit hard with natural disasters, its inhabitants were one of the first to evacuate to mainland Asia. In a strange turn of events, this is where Daichi gained his family. Surrounded by refugees with nothing but hope and faith for survival, Daichi assisted wherever possible.

As the years went by and construction of the Settlement of Babylonia had commenced, rumors started spreading of a secret project. Ironically named “Plan B”, it was strategized to build a modern equivalent of the Library of Babel. A vessel containing the collective knowledge of all mankind. A token of our existence said to be launched into space with its destination the Andromeda Galaxy. 

But not only that. It was said that the Library would be a “living system” that would continuously collect more data on its travel. And it would be able to autonomously keep itself safe from possible harm in outer space. 

No simple task. Not even for the most advanced artificial intelligence. This is when Daichi understood that he could add to the collective. Purely based on the rumors of the Library, Daichi started mapping out potential troubles and solutions for this behemoth of a project. And together with a group of nomads, Daichi travelled across the dangerous lands to reach the still in construction Settlement of Babylonia. 

With a year of travel behind his back, Daichi had figured out the two most critical components to make the Library work. A two-step verification of sorts. Two super-computers, interlinked in all of their actions, keeping each other accountable all throughout the journey. One responsible for the “thinking” and one responsible for the “receiving” of data. 

Upon arrival at the construction site for the Settlement of Babylonia, Daichi proposed the concept to the scientists already working on the mysterious “Plan B”. He was given permanent residency at the Settlement and started collaborating on the Library. 

After several more years of engineering, design and the direct involvement of the newly formed data-science department on Level 2, Daichi had cracked the code. A combination of a Niobium shell, Ytterbium circuitry and technology built on Q-bits, formed THINKER and RECEIVER. 

Together with data-scientist Ayla Erdoğan, he worked out a seamless integration of all data coming in from Level 2 and his systems. All working seamlessly together with the Library that will make its infinite journey in Syntactic Labyrinths.

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