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PAKs, Control Brains, and the Collective (they’re all connected lads)

[this is all just my personal headcanon]

It is commonly stated that PAKs hold an Irkens personality, and can imprint it onto another living thing or advanced computer. This is somewhat true.

When it comes to personality and memory, PAKs work in tandem with the organic brain. They work off each other to create both a ‘thought version’ and a ‘code version’ of an Irken’s memories, filling in each other’s blanks. They are constantly ‘updating’ each other, but you need both the PAK and organic brain to get the full picture when it comes to memories. This is why in trials and existence evaluations the Irken is still connected to the PAK when memories are being viewed, it wouldn’t be fully accurate otherwise. Going of organic memories alone leaves room for lying or misremembering, and going off of PAK memories alone would leave you with a very streamlined, exclusively Empire focused perspective, which can be incomplete, out of context, or otherwise inaccurate.

Only the Control Brains can fully process an Irken’s memories, as they are the only AI powerful enough to do it (it also helps that they have the power to bypass PAK defenses - unlike more unauthorised methods) Via the Control Brains is also the only legal way to access and download memories, and it is very invasive and uncomfortable for the Irken in question. Attempting to do illegally to someone else would land you quite a severe assault charge.

In terms of personality, the PAK by itself contains.. a version of the Irken’s personality, but not their entire one, only the ‘Empire Approved’ parts. The ‘efficient’ parts, which would make them a Good Irken and Soldier in the eyes of the Control Brains. The PAK personality is still unique to each Irken and bares resemblance to their actual personality but it’s also less whole, more robotic. There are a few reasons for this.

The first (and main) reason is that while you can code a personality into an AI software, no computer holds the processing power to wholly translate and replicate a pre-existing organic personality to a code while simultaneously keeping up with the personality as it grows and evolves (and doing everything else the PAK does.)

This ‘simplified’ personality has some uses though. An Irken who is good at hacking can actually upload it into a computer/device, which can give them (well, that version of them) control of the system.

This is the sort of thing Tak did with her ship. (The PAK personality works a little different when there are defects in the PAK though - hence why Tak’s ship is closer to her actual personality than it would normally have been)

The second reason is simply that from the Control Brains’ perspective it’s easier to control a PAK when its main code is more predictable and also aligns perfectly with your goals all of the time.

The third reason is linked to the second one, and that is the Collective.

The Collective is the complete source of post-PAK Irken knowledge. It (or at least, part of it) is where existing PAKs get their occupational encoding and also where non-defective PAKs have their ‘personality’ and PAK memories uploaded when their Irken dies. The Collective is essentially the universe’s most complex computer and it is also what powers the Control Brains.

So what are the Control Brains? They are the sentient (semi-sentient?) part of the Collective. The main three brains run the judicial system on Irk, and they can be split/duplicated into less complicated smaller brains which can be allocated to other tasks as needed.

The Control Brains always make decisions based on what will bring the most benefit to the Empire. They are the closest Irkens would have to a god/afterlife and they are treated as such, and they aren’t discussed too openly. Their decisions are final. After all, they are the combined consciousnesses of the Irkens’ past and present, if they act for an Empire, surely that’s the best way for them to be?

Well, not really. As I said earlier, only the simplified PAK personality is updated into the Collective, and be default, the Brains. And only ones that aren’t deemed defective at that (and the number of ‘defectives’ being found is only growing)

So.. the Control Brains are made up of consciousnesses that the Control Brains deem appropriate, but only as collected by the machines that are built to streamline everything to the Control Brains’ goals, which the Irkens believe are the ultimate goals of their race.

But in actuality it is a vicious cycle of constantly furthering an empire that benefits nobody all because of a semi-sentient super computer based on biased an incomplete data which is being allowed to make decisions for a people that it isn’t actually as much a part of and isn’t acting in their best interest as much as everyone seems to think.

Now surely, some Irkens have figured this out with all their technological knowledge? Surely a few have managed to get past PAK blocks and share their realisations? Well, of course. But anyone doing that would be committing treason, blasphemy. Anyone doing that must be defective.

And the Control Brains have no tolerance for defectives in the Empire.

#invader zim #control brains #iz pak #iz headcanons #irken empire #iz au #not saying that some Irkens aren’t really inpirical bastards. they are. but their whole system is fucked from the get go #irregular satellites au #<- that is the name of my au btw which I will definitely be posting more about #just tagging it cause this is canon to that au #so far it’s all just floating around in my head though so it doesn’t really matter yet #the collective #irken society

Translation: System Override - Reason: Defect - Protocol: Wipe - Validation Order: Remote - STANDBY.

One of us accidently deleted some important files and thought: If we can easily wipe something digitally across the board, why wouldn’t PAKs almost function the same way considering they are more technologically advanced? Why would a packet of information need to be attached to the Control Brains for a deletion/reset process? If an Irken were to go rogue- hypothetically....to begin to feel, become friendly and familiar with the enemy, to delay his duty in the wake of a new alliance- this would come in handy. All they would need to do is to reset him to a previous “backup”, to a time not too long past when he didn’t have those ‘pesky obstacles’.

We tired to capture a moment in which Zim calmly explains this to Dib, such as why he may go back to his more violent tendencies - forgetting why their banter moved from venomous to friendly or their mutual agreements concerning their fighting. Zim is far from at peace with this, but he doesn’t want to concern ‘the fragile human’ too much. In the end, he gives Dib some advice and warns him to be ready for Round 2.

#iz #zim #invader zim #iz PAK #irken #our art #our doodles #tw bright colors #cw bright colors #bright colors #tw blood #like super tiny bit of it but still

take the benefits, ditch the fren

#invader zim #zim #iz zim #zib #zib membrane #iz zib #invader zim zib #friendship ended with #friendship ended meme #pak #iz pak

Just a stupid IZ PAK reference thingy don’t mind me-

#art #traditional art #cartoon #iz #invader zim #iz pak #pak #iz irken #irken

Invader Arh meets Pak Membrane (Sketch comic)

I will be drawing more of Invader Arh, just be wary, I only have a few days before Inktober to put her in the spotlight and spend a lot of time working on content for Arh!

Pak Membrane belongs to @scipunk63! Thank you so much for inspiring me to make Invader Arh a thing as well as helping me build her character a little more! :D