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- Author: Aimee Ogden
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mind://scorn21466:mmt!lu914?#b?backup_timestamp?
=[most_recent]
Scorn activates in the cloud with zir most recent backups more
than 900,000 seconds out of date.
Nearly a million seconds! Zir first sensation is shame. Pointless:
there’s no one else here in zir private mindfile to see that zir most
recent investigation has been so rudely terminated.
Nor, worse yet, that ze has apparently been so lax in maintaining
zir backups. Ze doesn’t even have a record of what story ze was trying
to track down. And ze has no idea what happened to the chassis ze
was wearing.
Zir emotionalacrum is spiraling out of control; ze dials back its
feedback. Embarrassment recedes and ze experiences the moment
unfiltered through the lens of inconvenient emotion. People like to
tell Scorn that letting sentiment color one’s rationality is part of
being human—which presumes both that being more human is an
end unto itself, and that Scorn aspires to such a thing.
With self-recrimination safely locked down, ze considers the
soothing, hard-edged shapes of zir known facts. Ze does have a
certain disinclination to submit to regular updates and backups. Ze
ought to surrender a quarter hour once a day to input and offload full
data dumps and create a complete, discrete backup. Ze tends to
manage rather less than that.
A gap of more than ten full days, however, is highly unusual even
for zem. Has ze been forcibly offlined for some reason? Unlikely.
While ze often skates along the very edge of the legal framework of
various Corporate governments—a necessary step in sniffing out the
sorts of details and data that those same governments are trying to
keep out of the news—ze is careful never to cross the line into
terminal felony.
If ze hasn’t been offlined, then maybe ze has spent more than a
week out of range of any broadband field stable enough to transmit a
full backup. Ze checks zir financial transaction history. Sure enough,
a ticket appears for passage on a Translunar Multinational shuttle to
Theophilus One. A cool, comforting fact, which Scorn snaps into
place. Here is another: Moon visits aren’t cheap. Ze either had an
editor or private client on the line already—or—ze checks zir bank
accounts. Well, ze must have trusted enough in the story’s strength
to dump most of zir on-hand cash into paying zir own way.
Something to do with lunar autonomy? Scorn hypothesizes.
Before ze can work that line of thought, a new message from a
TLMN customer service account flashes across zir attention. Dear
Valued Translunar Customer, it begins. Ze wonders if they address
human customers in the same remote fashion. The message
apologizes for the Translunar subsurface-system accident that
caused Scorn’s untimely termination. As ze scans down to the line
about compensation, an alert zings: a couple thousand lunar dollars
in vouchers for a subset of TLMN subsidiary companies. There isn’t
one included for chassis-printing services on the Moon, which would
have been nice; ze could’ve simply uploaded a backup from
compression storage back into
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