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scans_dailyHe wouldn't like to be called that, though.
He's not uncomfortable with what he isn't, but comfortable with what he is.
He has preferences, and likes when they're respected.
He took to talking to his charge.
(The black-and-white dialogue's the seed's.)
(Harada's nomenclative insistence is so nicely offhanded.)
He went to Harada's psychologist, who thought that his issues would be better looked at " by an A.I. engineer, not a therapist. "
(" Mech Major.. Susan Calvin isn't real. "
" And yet, this is a Foundation of psychics seeking to change the course of the world. "
" .. ")
He left her, disappointed.
The seed's memory flowered; it blossomed into adulthood.
He learned about it just before Harada did; they rushed down to confront " .. Lord Vine-99. The ninety-ninth Giga-class assassin clone sprout.. "
(Yup, it's LV-99.)
It raged; he wondered if it was driven by pain.
" No. I switched off the genes that allowed it to psychically access the collective Vine mind. " said Harada. " It's having an existential crisis..
" .. or it's just really pissed off."
" You disconnected it from a larger Vine network? "
LV-99 leapt at him.
" My name is Sunlight on Snow. " he thought.
(Seeing his body in motion really makes his design work all the more- it's so not-quite-humanoid, and yet so appealing.
Also, it's good to see an AI having a vague simplified high-level understanding of itself.)
He lay there, thinking about his growth.
Then Harada telekinetically blasted the raging Vine away.
" Mech Major! Take the fight out of it! "
He remembered his near-achievement of a " collective heaven of information ", and then being yanked away from that.
" My evolved code was immediately shoved away onto an isolated server.
" Utterly removed from all communal knowledge and spiritual comfort.
" And I haven't felt whole since. "
LV-99 growled, prone and in a similar situation.
Harada offered the monster a choice- servitude, or the void.
" .. I choose light, psiot.. as long as there is light, there is hope.. of ending you. "
(Yes, they have a dynamic; no, it's not cooperative.
Oh yes, pagecount- 5 and <9/10ths of 22 pages from Imperium #3, written by Joshua Dysart and drawn by Doug Braithwaite.)
He's not uncomfortable with what he isn't, but comfortable with what he is.
He has preferences, and likes when they're respected.
He took to talking to his charge.
(The black-and-white dialogue's the seed's.)
(Harada's nomenclative insistence is so nicely offhanded.)
He went to Harada's psychologist, who thought that his issues would be better looked at " by an A.I. engineer, not a therapist. "
(" Mech Major.. Susan Calvin isn't real. "
" And yet, this is a Foundation of psychics seeking to change the course of the world. "
" .. ")
He left her, disappointed.
The seed's memory flowered; it blossomed into adulthood.
He learned about it just before Harada did; they rushed down to confront " .. Lord Vine-99. The ninety-ninth Giga-class assassin clone sprout.. "
(Yup, it's LV-99.)
It raged; he wondered if it was driven by pain.
" No. I switched off the genes that allowed it to psychically access the collective Vine mind. " said Harada. " It's having an existential crisis..
" .. or it's just really pissed off."
" You disconnected it from a larger Vine network? "
LV-99 leapt at him.
" My name is Sunlight on Snow. " he thought.
(Seeing his body in motion really makes his design work all the more- it's so not-quite-humanoid, and yet so appealing.
Also, it's good to see an AI having a vague simplified high-level understanding of itself.)
He lay there, thinking about his growth.
Then Harada telekinetically blasted the raging Vine away.
" Mech Major! Take the fight out of it! "
He remembered his near-achievement of a " collective heaven of information ", and then being yanked away from that.
" My evolved code was immediately shoved away onto an isolated server.
" Utterly removed from all communal knowledge and spiritual comfort.
" And I haven't felt whole since. "
LV-99 growled, prone and in a similar situation.
Harada offered the monster a choice- servitude, or the void.
" .. I choose light, psiot.. as long as there is light, there is hope.. of ending you. "
(Yes, they have a dynamic; no, it's not cooperative.
Oh yes, pagecount- 5 and <9/10ths of 22 pages from Imperium #3, written by Joshua Dysart and drawn by Doug Braithwaite.)
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