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Exinde Forever, Part 1
Topic Started: Nov 8 2012, 07:39 AM (49 Views)
Silver Empress
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“Is it on yet?” said a voice somewhere nearby.

“Yes, doctor, I think so,” came another voice.

“Artificial Intelligence Unit, please state your name and the date for the room,” commanded the first voice.

“My name is Silver. The date is July 25th, 2369. Also, I am a Personality Artificial Intelligence Unit, sir,” I said.

“They sent a female AI? What kind of bullshit is this?” said a voice that had not spoken before.

“You didn’t know, Bjornsen? I made a very detailed request for it to be a female AI with a soothing voice. I thought it would be beneficial for our experiments to be able to hear a kind voice. Also, what do you have against female AIs? They‘re quite common.”

“Nothing. I just…. All the AIs I have encountered have been male.” The Bjornsen human grumbled for a bit and then finally said, “You’re crazy doc.”

“Crazy, but brilliant, Officer Bjornsen, and you would do well to keep that in mind,” said the doctor.

The doctor then turned back to the new PAI. “She’s the best AI unit we have here at Serpentine Corporation. She’s been programmed with full knowledge of the human body, all known human diseases, medicines, chemicals, drugs, eugenics, genetics, a variety of knowledge relating to mechanics, knowledge of various social and cultural interests so that she will be able to relate to our experiments in order to keep them calm, and a slew of other things. I even uploaded knowledge on warfare and battle strategies, in case our base of operations every comes under attack. She will be the Empress of our little operation. Everything that goes on here, she will have knowledge of. Everything that needs doing, she will have some hand in.” He turned back grinning to the group in the room. “Metaphorically speaking, of course.”

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It had been over ten years since I had been “awoken.” Serpentine Corporation had moved to a much more secret and secure location in that time, and I had had to move with them. The experiments were finally starting to provide results for the humans, though at what cost? So many of the experiments had died, many in the most grotesque of ways. The humans said it was all for the good of science. “What good is science if hundreds have to die for it?” I thought. The humans said it was all for the good of mankind. “What good is mankind if they do this to their own species?” I thought. But I did not voice these thoughts to them. They already thought I was too compassionate towards the experiments, but they let me do as I pleased with the experiments for the most part as they were steadily getting better and better results.

And then they did it. They solved the mystery of the human neural network. If only that had been the end of it. Once they figured out the human neural network, they moved on to more complicated and ghastly experiments. The first of which was connecting the human neural system to a computer interface. I was also connected to this computer interface, so that I could observe what happened. The scientists did not understand, no matter how I or the test subjects described it. All the test subjects that survived the connection to the interface were now on one mental Network. All thoughts were shared. And I heard them all; all their pain and hopes and dreams and fears and cares and worries and feelings. And they heard all mine in return. It was the most wonderful and the most terrible feeling one could have.

Many of the test subjects committed suicide after that. The immensity of it all was too much for many of them. The feeling of one of the mentalities suddenly disappearing from the Network as they died was one of the most devastating and truly indescribable feelings one could ever feel, to say the least. There were fewer and fewer suicides after a while, no one wanting to give the feeling of death to the hundreds of us connected together.

The strangest thing about the connection was the voices we couldn’t identify. We all heard them, all of us that were linked together. The voices spoke cryptically of a machine god and a third age and a creature named Isaire. They were only soft whisperings, but they were there, these little ghosts in the Network. We would continue to hear these whisperings up until the Cataclysm. I haven’t heard the ghosts since the Cataclysm. But, then again, I haven’t heard any of the Transhumans since then either.

That’s what the men of science called the test subjects -- transhumans. I personally thought it was a terrible name, as if the test subjects were less than human because they were different. The test subjects on the Network with me agreed. Among themselves on the Network, they called each other homo exinde, Latin for “the next human.” I was called by my name, Silver Empress, or just “Silver” and, most often, just “Empress.”

It wasn’t until 2385 that the testing ended. The United Earth Republic found the facility while looking for a missing person. Within a matter of days, all of human-occupied space found out what the Serpent men had been doing for over fifteen long years. The rage and horror of the humans was immense. Serpentine Corporation was quickly shut down and medical treatment was given to the worst off of the homo exinde. The UER publicly said they would free the “successful” transhumans, but it was only freedom to an extent. The transhumans were to be monitored for the rest of their lives by the government. Upon finding this out, the homo exindes acquired ships and left UER space with all available speed. And they took me with them.
Edited by Silver Empress, Nov 8 2012, 07:43 AM.
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