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Unnamed System, Asteroid Field, QBSE Loralei, Almost Three Years
Later
The sleek search ship drifted in silence. Inside, the EI Loralei didn’t sigh.
She was in the middle of a report, and she didn’t want to be recalled to
explain it when High Tortuga received it. “One month expended in this
system with no sign of life, Kurtherian or not. However, unlike the last
system, this one isn’t a total waste of my time. The asteroid belt has rich ore
deposits that should be relatively simple to mine. I am including a breakdown
of the constituent elements in this report. I will now cloak and create a Gate
to move to the next set of coordinates on my list. End report.”
She input the required sequence into the Gate drive and shepherded her
support probes back inside the ship. “‘Go and look for Kurtherians, Loralei,’”
she muttered as she sealed them into their docks, downloaded their data and
engaged the Gate drive. “’No, we don’t know where they are. Just poke
around the ass-end of space until you find something.’ How did humans even
find their way off Earth?”
The plan wasn’t actually terrible, and Loralei wasn’t actually pissed.
However, the ability to spend her time bitching about her directives made
the lack of outside stimulation mostly tolerable. Loralei’s class of scout ship
was designed to cope well with the extended missions, as were the other
female EIs who resided in them. Loralei had examined her personality
algorithms and was certain that a line here and there had been “borrowed”
from Shinigami’s original programming.
Consequently, the twelve scout explorer fleet EIs were a bunch of salty
bitches (for EIs) who preferred their own company. It helped them deal with
the isolation. They didn’t need to talk to anyone, and they had almost
complete autonomy. The only thing they lacked was the ability to develop
emotion. While Loralei and her sisters could never ascend to AI status, they
were the next best thing. Loralei might not feel, but she could react
appropriately to whatever situation she found herself in.
Nobody wanted another AI to suffer the way Ricky Bobby had.
The Loralei emerged in a very different system to the one it had left.
Loralei plotted a wide arc around the outward boundary of the system and
began a new report. “First impressions are that I might actually have a little
fun here. We have a red dwarf star with three surrounding bodies, and there
are signs of life on the outermost planet. Initiating scans now and moving in
to examine the other two planets.”
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