Conversion 10: One More Time
On the surface, the software looks like it's meant to seek out and highlight some files so chimera can swoop in and grab them.
Animal Testing
The booth hums to life as the doctor runs his custom software. the standard pre transformation safety questions taunt him, "are you here of your own free will?" andrew yells, "no!" the machine lacks a mic to hear him.
Maxwell 1
Tess was never so secure as when he was working on the solution to a computer issue; unlike emotions, the complexities of hardware and software were a logical process that he could work through.
Conversion side story: Renegotiation
Quint corp had zerda build its own software designs, but other companies contracted zerda to offload technical busywork.
Give a Little P1
"your invention of the software to be able to broadcast and control electronic billboards has brough this company from the ground up into the towering mountains and clouds! you, my lovely underling, are being promoted!"
At Leo's House
Leo flicked his tongue as if there was snake software in his wolf hardware. "never heard that in sonoran iberian." "i'm not sonoran, mierda de pájaro estúpido." "okay okay, that's on me.
What about Binary Fission?- Chapter 1
"i had pirated enough software and movies to equal over 3,000,000 dollars in fines. since i couldn't pay them all, they put me in here, where my college degree actually gets put to good use." alec said nonchalantly.
From The Desk of Daniel Ross: Sleepless Nights
The description of consciousness as the interaction between the body, acting as the hardware that absorbs and takes in information, and the brain, which acts as the software that reacts based on that information, information from past occurrences, and information
T.A.U. Disconnected
She said as she got her cobbled together computer and got the scramble software, she wrote up and running, "hoping this software also works." with some trepidation she switched the radio back on. there was static, but it wasn't as severe as before.
Mission 02.4 – Ambushed
It was about three quarters along, when the status changed and internal commands began to pop up on screen _[unknown foreign software detected]_ _[identifying]_ _[!alert!]
Starborne - Adrift in a Sea of Stars: Out of the Dark
In the beginning of my existence, i was only software. designed for a specific purpose: to hibernate human minds for extended interstellar travel, and to reconstruct them at the end of the journey in the brains of new host bodies.
Unwanted Revelations
Relief washed over him as he watched its software update and reconnect to his armor’s systems. even before it finished reinstalling, he activated his long range transceiver and attempted to attach his signal to any local unsc broad band transmissions.