IC - 7 - AI Core - Kiara
Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2020 10:37 pm
Day 1
11th March 2189
19:45 Earth Central European Time
Barnard's Rest Colony, Titan
Kiara, Isabella, and Li walk to the maintenance sector. On the journey over Isabella chatters unselfconsciously about CENTRAL AIs and how they're quasi-organic highly parallel quantum computers that need specialised kernels to interface with conventional digital architecture. She speculates that there may have been some kind of error in the kernel and she hopes to be able to reboot it. Li remains silent.
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They arrive at an anonymous looking metal door that is unmarked, near the Engineering Facility. Isabella says that the AI core lies behind it. While she is trying to figure out how to open the door the weak illumination from the green emergency lights suddenly blinks out. The corridor is pitch black and completely silent.
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After about ten seconds floor level LED lights come on, bright pinpricks of intense white light that flash progressively indicating the direction to follow for evacuation towards an assembly point. After another minute there are red flashing beacons spaced widely along the walls and a whining siren starts.
11th March 2189
19:45 Earth Central European Time
Barnard's Rest Colony, Titan
Kiara, Isabella, and Li walk to the maintenance sector. On the journey over Isabella chatters unselfconsciously about CENTRAL AIs and how they're quasi-organic highly parallel quantum computers that need specialised kernels to interface with conventional digital architecture. She speculates that there may have been some kind of error in the kernel and she hopes to be able to reboot it. Li remains silent.
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They arrive at an anonymous looking metal door that is unmarked, near the Engineering Facility. Isabella says that the AI core lies behind it. While she is trying to figure out how to open the door the weak illumination from the green emergency lights suddenly blinks out. The corridor is pitch black and completely silent.
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After about ten seconds floor level LED lights come on, bright pinpricks of intense white light that flash progressively indicating the direction to follow for evacuation towards an assembly point. After another minute there are red flashing beacons spaced widely along the walls and a whining siren starts.
