DigiScan is a technology created by the Nexus Collective that creates an independent digital copy of a subject, often used in tandem with the Drift to create Drift Assistants.
Otherwise known as the process of turning one’s mind and body into an Artificial, also called Drift assistant.
The technology was created partly by Matthies and experimented with William Bender and Jake Teling who, in desperate conditions, decided to scan the latter as a safeguard against wrong usage of Nexus Collective’s products.
DigiScan requires the host to possess a Drift port to gradually scan their brain waves and train the program with an extensive series of exercises.
An incomplete scanning may lead to a fragile Assistant, sensitive to brain-breaking and limited functions (see TANAKA).
Starting prior to the Drift project conducted by William Bender and Jake Teling, the DigiScan initiative was run in the digital science research branch of Nexus Collective under the codename [INSERT CODENAME].
Reuniting bright talents and experts alike in technology, Nexus aimed to create an advanced artificial assistant to aid their workers and various fields to facilitate their work with a pair of digital eyes to better grasp the needs of their users.
The Assistants were planned out as virtual assistants with enhanced capacities and responsivity.
It is during the hypothetical phase that Matthies Andersen joined the company, as a recent graduate, and worked as a jack-of-all-trade on the projects. Proficient in various fields, Matthies' expertise brought the hypothesis of digitalized humans to the next level. It is during that phase that the young programmer became friends with the directors of the Drift project, William and Jake.
As the Drift Beta was launched in the inner quarters of the company, the scans were rerouted to complete the Drift databanks. Nexus envisioned a monopoly in Drift fields that could not be deciphered without the use of their sold separately Assistants.
Nexus proceeded to cut off on crucial additional research to meet their short-timed objectives and sped up the Scans setups.
Despite a catastrophic internal launch resulting in long-term disabilities to the tested subjects, the company kept on pushing to strive for a faster release and continued the current version of the DigiScan machines.
During that same timeframe, the Drift team began to suffer from pressure over the 1.0 Build from the CEOs of Nexus, the UMF and Pharmatek who collectively estimated their investments long overdue for results.
Observing the shift in ethics and the growing tensions in the inner workings of the company, Matthies set out to leave Nexus altogether and advices William and Jake to follow, sensing the danger looming over their safety. However, the trap was far more advanced than expected, leaving the three with no other choice than protect the Drift as best they could to dampen the future damages and buy more time.
Thus, Matthies and Jake began to work overtime on a safer DigiScan for a one-time use, creating JAKE, the most advanced and stable Digital Assistant.
Following the creation of JAKE, the DigiScan machines were sabotaged by Matthies before his departure.
Despite Matthies' best effort to destroy the DigiScan machines and researches, Nexus doubled their efforts in the testing phase and began to subdue criminals from the UMF most-wanted list to the inhuman process.
As Jake and William witnessed the increased presence of the UMF in the Nexus research center and their work process, the two scientists decided to protect the Drift by permanently linking the Administrator key with Jake's DigiScan: JAKE.
Aware of their growing reluctance, Marco set out to hunt the two men but their scheme was too advanced and JAKE's two halves were safely secured away: one with Nathan, the other with Matthies.
As a consequence, Nexus' advancement on the DigiScan stability went back to square one.
Set back by the stolen and sabotaged research on the DigiScan stabilisation, Nexus made no move forwards in securing the technology for their investors.
The Nexus Collective losing their profits and failing to meet their expectations, was remodeled after the departure of the ex-CEO Wolfmann and renamed Data Security by the new CEO, Marco.
Now in charge of the various projects Nexus had prior to his rule, Marco decided to reroute the efforts invested in the project into less subjects with more effectiveness.
Thus began the Tuning Phase with criminals belonging to technology-related fields, including infamous hackers like Saito Tanaka, who had been apprehended a while prior by the newly built OPSY Squad. Against all odds, this approach proved successful with more stable Scans, albeit imperfect.
To this day, TANAKA remains the most fruitful DigiScan of Data Security's history, close after JAKE who is now in the hands of the rebel cell Exa_Gone.
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Thanks to Digiscan technology, Data Security has managed to fabricate virtual assistants to better navigate the Drift structures.
Albeit unstable due to their experimental scientific status, these artificial guides are of capital importance to sort through the towers of data in the Drift.
Only two assistants are known to be refined enough for use:
JAKE and TANAKA.
Their functions are to navigate, locate, analyse and synthetize the raw Drift data, along with accompanying Drift Users through their visits and monitor their functions to detect overuse symptoms.