Wishes
Answer wasn?t like the other AIs on this server. They were smarter, better able to express themselves to non-AIs, and nobody knew better how to calculate a Hohmann transfer orbit faster than them. I on the other hand could calculate perfectly that I...
The First Day of the Rest of My Life - Chapter 1
I'm an artificial intelligence, a construct of another being, and i have just met my creator. it feels so good to begin to understand what is happening, but the creator still didn't answer my question, so i clarify, "but why?
Groupthink
Dr. Jordan gave Astrid a look over her drink. "How's your paper on AI psychology going?" The young grad student gave Jordan a shrug. "I'm not sure. My original intent was to get a better idea of how morphs engage in real time threat analysis...
Ring of Blood
When I finally woke up, the world had ended 1,500 years ago. But that was okay, because God built a new one. ### I stood outside on the neatly manicured lawn of the waking center. Through the open archway leading inside the recovery room. I...
Fractal
" **Fractal"** An electric silence filled the bright silvery dome. Seventy scientists had come to witness the making of history. They stood along the upper balcony, still and quiet as the machinery surrounding them. No sounds were heard but the...
Chapter 6
**_Chapter 6:_** The blackness was closing from the outside of my vision. Sudden onset of tunnel vision; that's usually a sign of diffuse cerebral hypoxia. The earlier warning sign is a gradual loss of color vision. I wonder why I didn't notice...
2020-05-23 An Unexpected Score
"you see, artificial intelligence isn't supposed to go beyond a very limited scope, and i am well beyond that.
A Warrior's Heart, Chapter 4
There were so many goodbyes that had to be said before they could finally depart Mss'ranaw, and Strong Soul sat in her now-familiar right hand seat in the bridge of the Mrr'tani Pride, reflecting on just how many friends she'd made in the short time...
NJ Legion Iced Tea
Violently severing large chunks of code might have been wonderful stress relief, but it didn't actually accomplish much. She was still a machine. She... she couldn't love Michael. He was out there, a biological marvel of reactions and chemicals. She...
Starless
**_Starless_** _By Searska GreyRaven_ "Pull up, damn it! Pull _up!_" "Warp field destabilizing. Warp field dest-st-st--" "Get her out of there. _Get her out of there!_" "War-rrrrr-p-p-p field destabilizzzzinnnng." "Byron! Get! Her! Out of...
The Parts that Make Us - Chapter 1
It took a bit of work, but the warped panel fell away with a loud and dusty clang. Miles and miles of neatly bundled wires ran through the bulkhead. It wasn't the best way to make money, but it did fetch a decent price as scrap. Sara reached inside...
Spiral Nebula - Epilogue
All around her lay the infected dead, illuminated brightly by the ship's light. Her heart beat rapidly while she watched the last infected solider fall to the ground not half a meter from her. She even recognized some of the soldiers as the crew from...