DWAINE Telescience

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Introduction

The DWAINE computer is powerful tool that still surrounded by a lot of mystery. This page aims to teach its user how to operate a Telescience teleport pad.

Scripting

The telesci commands are very repetitive, thus its better if you use scripts to facilitate your job. Either make your own or use existing scripts.

Basic Commands

Access to the teleman requires Super User Access. The program itself is located at /sys/srv/teleman but its easier to work with if its copied to your home directory.

Telepad ID

Every telepad connected to the mainframe has its own ID number which increases sequentially in number starting at 1. The telepad can be referenced by using -p ID. Running teleman without specifying the ID will default to 1.

Setting coordinates

Before using other commands the teleman must be first configured to a coordinate.

teleman -p 1 coords X Y Z sets the teleporter pad coordinates. This process is very repetitive, thus its better

Scanning

After the coordinates are set the telepad is ready to receive commands.

teleman -p 1 scan will scan the coordinate and return to you whether the coordinate you selected leads to an invalid coordinate or not.

Example Outputs

• ]Invalid coordinates (XYZ): The coordinates inside the parentheses are invalid.
• ]No atmosphere.: The coordinate is valid but it leads to somewhere without atmosphere, likely space.
• ]Atmosphere: O2: 21.8249, N2: 82.1031, CO2: 0, Plasma: 0, Farts: 0, Fallout: 0, 293.15 Kelvin, 101.325 kPa,: Coordinate is valid and leads to somewhere with an atmosphere.

Send

Sends the object or person on the telepad to the configured coordinate.

teleman -p 1 send

Receive

Receives the object or person on configured coordinate to the telepad.

teleman -p 1 receive

Portal

Creates a portal on the telepad linked to the configured coordinate.

teleman -p 1 portal

Relay

A bit different from the other commands, this one doesn't need to have a coordinate configured first.

The relay command attempts to receive from a coordinate X1 Y1 Z1 and send to a coordinate X2 Y2 Z2. It operates as if the user first sends the receive command then the send command.

teleman -p 1 relay X1 Y1 Z1 X2 Y2 Z2

Finding valid coordinates

Space GPS

The section in Telescience - Decoding the teleporter goes in detail on how to get valid coordinates using the space GPS.

Utilizing a website like Vortex1942 Telescience Map is also very helpful.

The 300 300 Method

Sometimes using a space GPS it not an option, either because you're too far away from the telepad or if you're an AI without any cyborg shells with their built in PDA Space GPS. This math heavy section aims to teach a more savy player how to find telescience coordinates using only the teleman command. If you haven't already, you're strongly recommended to get some scripts for this part.

Map Coordinates

The map is a 300 x 300 grid that starts at 1 and ends at 300. Every coordinate outside this range is an invalid coordinate.

Offsets

• Rc: Real coordinate ( map coordinate, the one you can find with the space gps )
• Tc: Terminal coordinate ( coordinate you send to teleman )

The formula for a coordinate is a simple linear function (y = a * x + b):

Real Coordinate = Slope * Tc - Intercept

Each axis X and Y have their own slope and intercept values.

The slope only has one of three values: 1, 2 and 4.

The intercept is a random integer from 0 to 100 inclusive.

Slope

Lets take Real Coordinate = Slope * Tmaxc - Intercept and get the highest value the Real Coordinate can go, that is 300, with Tmaxc being the highest valid terminal coordinate we can go.

300 = Slope * Tmaxc - Intercept

If we then rearrange to find the intercept: Intercept = Slope * Tmaxc - 300

Now we need to find a value for the intercept that satisfies the equation 100 >= Intercept >= 0. That means 100 >= Slope * Tmaxc - 300 >= 0, 400 >= Slope * Tmaxc >= 300

• Slope = 1: 400 >= Tmaxc >= 300
• Slope = 2: 200 >= Tmaxc>= 150
• Slope = 4: 100 >= Tmaxc>= 75

Meaning: If we scan 300 and its a valid coordinate, it means the slope is 1 otherwise its either 2 or 4. Doing the test again for 150 will give the slope of the equation.

Intercept

Given that we now know the slope, we can test values to find the highest Tc we can find, which we will call Tmaxc.

With the maximum value on the real coordinate, we need to find the highest terminal coordinate that does not give an error on the terminal when scanned.

This coordinate Tmaxc will satisfy the equation: Intercept = Slope * Tc - 300

Note

• Slope = 1: Tc moves in multiples of 1/1 = 1
• Slope = 2: Tc moves in multiples of 1/2 = 0.5
• Slope = 4: Tc moves in multiples of 1/4 = 0.25

Example

Tc = 300	Invalid	Slope = 2 or Slope = 4
Tc = 150	Valid	Slope = 2
Tc = 170	Invalid	Go lower
Tc = 155	Valid	Go higher
Tc = 158	Valid	Go higher
Tc = 159	Invalid	Go lower
Tc = 158.5	Valid	Tmaxc = 158.5, therefore Intercept = 2 * 158.5 - 300 = 17

Formula

Now that we know the slope and intercept, we can simply further the formula.

In a terminal this could be written as: eval $Slope $Tmaxc * $Rc + 300 - $Slope / to Tc

Note: Do not use , for decimals in DWAINE. Use . instead.

Putting it all together

It's round start and you are a bored AI. Lets try finding the slope and intercept for the X, Y axis and a valid z-level for the Z coordinate.

It is less confusing to do one axis at a time, but more experienced players will do both at once to save time.

Caption Coordinates

X	Y	Z	Teleman
300	300	1	]Invalid coordinates (YZ)	SlopeX = 1
350	150	2	]Invalid coordinates (YZ)	If Tcy = 150 is invalid, then we know that SlopeY = 4 so Tcy = 75 will be valid.
375	85	3	]Invalid coordinates (XZ)
365	95	4	]No atmosphere.	The station z-level is the first available, so Station Z-Level = 4.
368	98	4	]Invalid coordinates (X)
367	99	4	]Invalid coordinates (Y)	Tmaxcx = 367
367	98.75	4	]Invalid coordinates (Y)
367	98.50	4	]Invalid coordinates (Y)
367	98.25	4	]No atmosphere.	Tmaxcy = 98.25

From this info we can gather:

	Slope	Max Coordinate	Intercept
X	1	367	67
Y	4	98.25	93

Griefing

Since anyone who can fake a SU access to Dwaine can access teleman, it means anyone can interfere with TeleScience work.

Setting the telepad coordinates remotely will not update in the telescience computer, which in turns makes scientists very confused when the coordinate in their computer sends them to a very different location or explodes in their face.

In case of interference, players will usually always blame the AI first.