Plan 9

Plan 9-tan
Character Information
Common Names	Plan 9-tan
Other Names	Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Human Name(s)	Glenda Bell
Faction	User Space Gang
Lineage	Bell Labs research Unix
Appearance
Height	160 cm (5'3")
Hair Color	White
Eye Color	Light grey
Weapon(s)	Necromancy, zombie minions
Design
First Appearance	Mar 2007
Technical Information
System Personified	Plan 9
Developer(s)	Bell Labs
Debut	circa 1993
Latest release	unknown

Technical details

Bell Labs created Plan 9 to be a successor of Unix and to take the Unix idea of simplicity even further. Everything can be accessed as files: network connections and resources, processes, devices, files. The name of the OS is named after the movie Plan 9 from Outer Space.

Character details

Plan 9-tan is portrayed as an eccentric rabbit-eared girl with horn-rimmed or square glasses, short white hair, and pale eyes. She mainly wears form-fitting space suits in grey and white. In formal dress, she wears a low-cut gown modeled after Vampira's.

In her youth, before she founded the User Space Gang, she used to have medium-length black or dark-grey hair, and wore business-like clothing. She originally modeled herself after UNIX, wanting to be just like her but more, to show herself as a worthy heir. After defecting, and after the Unix Wars, she changed to her current appearance.

Her bunny ears white hair and white suits are references to Plan 9's mascot, Glenda. Her formal dresses, space ship and that she is a necromancer are also references to Plan 9 from Outer Space.

Personality-wise, she is very strong-willed and likes well-planned, elegant solutions. She is described as 'alien', or, 'just plain weird, and having no sense for aesthetics to most other OS-tans, the latter referencing Plan 9's less than elegant GUI.

Her special abilities are as a necromancer. She can temporarily bring deceased OS-tans and hardware-tans from the dead, but only as mindless zombie-like minions that die off again after a short while.

Family and relationships

UNIX

She is one of UNIX's daughters, created to be "more UNIX than UNIX", so she was born to be the heir to the dynasty.

Her attitude towards UNIX in the present day is ambivalent. She doesn't want to fight her, and deep down she wants to see UNIX as her mother and not an enemy. She still condemns her mother's actions in the Unix Wars, but is upset at the thought of hating her instead of just her actions, or what she became at that point. She still leads the User Space Gang, in part because it's fun for her and her friends, but also in protest of UNIX's (and the main branch's) hardlined, stuffy attitudes, and commercialism.

Inferno

She is very protective of Inferno-tan, her daughter who she nominated as the heiress to her own faction, which she'd like to expand into the User Space Dynasty. However, she feels bad about indoctrinating Inferno into hating UNIX.

Plan B and Octopus

Plan B-tan is Plan 9's first clone, who she created to help her manage the User Space Gang, and is sort of a second-in-command, whose main duty is to write down everything Plan 9-tan says, and use the written notes to teach Inferno-tan. She and Octopus are technically Plan 9-tan's younger sisters, though Plan 9-tan sees her as more of a sister figure, and Octopus as more of a daughter (or grand-daughter?) figure.

Multics

It's unknown if Plan 9 actually met Multics, and she doesn't know that she is her grandmother, but being a necromancer, a lot of people think it was her who brought Multics from the dead. However, it couldn't have been her since Multics is completely alive and has her free will intact.

History and Background

She admired Unix at first, wanted to be just like her, and was eager to take up UNIX's responsibilities at first, but disagreed with her actions during the Unix wars. She complied for a while in the wars, but what finally set her off was when she reported Xenix's death in the war to UNIX, and was appalled by UNIX's apparent indifference.

She did not want to be UNIX's heir if it meant going against her own ideals, conforming to the things she hates and having to harm her family further. Plan 9-tan left and teamed up with FreeBSD-tan, OpenBSD-tan and NetBSD-tan and started their own faction.

She now also has a daughter ( Inferno-tan), a clone ( Plan B-tan) and a granddaughter/clone ( Octopus-tan).

See also:

• List of OS-tans