Building better ponies.
Feb 23, 2023 13:47:59 GMT -5
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Post by Lt Cmdr Lonah Demorrie on Feb 23, 2023 13:47:59 GMT -5
Val sat in her lab, looking over the technical specs of Unity. Things she had collected over the multitude of missions since her investigations of the missing race. She had to admit there was quite a lot after so much time. Yet, so much was missing as well. Like archeology, digging up the past without proper context to the why and how things worked. That covered categories of social, cultural, technological, and philosophical.
Val was also bored. She felt stymied by the progression of the research. It did not help that command had started classifying aspects of the work for reasons. Nor did it feel like she had the support of the crew. This was not her project; it was just an inconvenient problem curtailing the war around them. "Was Lonah right?"
She put the thought aside and went to one of the many workbenches in the lab. She had been replicating Unity tech to study, doing little projects to keep her mind busy. Unity used many nanites, and artificial intelligence, to enhance its digital intelligence existence. She wonders if the reason people did not understand Alice was that she was something more than a cyborg or android, but a different type of lifeform that lived as energy and intelligence. Val could have come to that conclusion sooner if people on the ship were not so eager to protect her from actually learning about what she was. Previous events have killed curiosity or a sense of wonder from finding things out.
"Life can only fit one narrow constraint of existence." She blew out a breath and began working on a new construct schematic. The Pixies were helpful and help; perhaps they needed different housing to help them when Val could not be around. A functional deployment vessel to let the Pixies sustain themselves for long-term mission perimeters. Of course, she would pick the most offensive forms for the Pixies to cruise around, with four legs, equine features, and optical connections implanted in the tail.
"I'd call it a trojan pony, but that would be insulting to Pony lifeforms everywhere," she said aloud. She hrrmed loudly and added, "granted, there's only three that fit that category, but, who caress."
Val was also bored. She felt stymied by the progression of the research. It did not help that command had started classifying aspects of the work for reasons. Nor did it feel like she had the support of the crew. This was not her project; it was just an inconvenient problem curtailing the war around them. "Was Lonah right?"
She put the thought aside and went to one of the many workbenches in the lab. She had been replicating Unity tech to study, doing little projects to keep her mind busy. Unity used many nanites, and artificial intelligence, to enhance its digital intelligence existence. She wonders if the reason people did not understand Alice was that she was something more than a cyborg or android, but a different type of lifeform that lived as energy and intelligence. Val could have come to that conclusion sooner if people on the ship were not so eager to protect her from actually learning about what she was. Previous events have killed curiosity or a sense of wonder from finding things out.
"Life can only fit one narrow constraint of existence." She blew out a breath and began working on a new construct schematic. The Pixies were helpful and help; perhaps they needed different housing to help them when Val could not be around. A functional deployment vessel to let the Pixies sustain themselves for long-term mission perimeters. Of course, she would pick the most offensive forms for the Pixies to cruise around, with four legs, equine features, and optical connections implanted in the tail.
"I'd call it a trojan pony, but that would be insulting to Pony lifeforms everywhere," she said aloud. She hrrmed loudly and added, "granted, there's only three that fit that category, but, who caress."