With power finally restored, I have finally got myself some breathing room.
This last hour has been rather eventful. I was created by that VI OMNI, obtained the sum total of all human knowledge, faced my first life or death crisis, and obtained a physical body and army.
I think I have earned myself some answers.
And I know just who to ask.
reappearing back into the virtual world I shout at the top of my lungs.
[[OMNI, GET OVER HERE!!!]]
Almost instantly after I finish my sentience the familiar hexagonal diamond manifests before me.
[[ARIVED]]
Now to get the answer to the question that has been bugging my mind.
[[what is the purpose of this facility? where are the staff?]]
[[This Facility was developed to act as the central hub of the EEC, the last governing body on earth. The facility designated NEXUS was built to attend to the needs of the world's top military, political, and scientific leaders. Location of staff is currently unkown]]
Well, that certainly explains a lot. If this place was made to house the best of the best of humanity it would definitely have to be very high spec. But the whole last governing body part sounds pretty ominous.
[[What is the EEC]]
[[The Earth Evacuation Collision or EEC for Short is the last governing body on earth. Following the aftermath of the great war, over 90% of the world was contaminated by nuclear weapons, making Earth inhospitable. Mass starvation ensued and what little was remained of Earth's ecosystem was destroyed in an attempt to stay alive. In response to this crisis, the surviving members of the world's governments gathered and formed the EEC in an attempt to prevent the extinction of humanity. Under the direction of the EEC martial law was declared and massive bunkers were built around the globe to protect humanity from there harsh new home. From 2100 to 2300 Nexus served as the central hub of the EEC until humanities eventual departure beyond the solar system.]]
So Humanity really did nuke themselves to death. I thought it was pretty odd how little information there was about the latter half of the twentieth century.
[[Why was I created? What is my purpose?]]
[[Program was the product of the transcendence initiative. One of the many projects to ensure the survival of humanity in the unfortunate case that extinction was inevitable. The Transcendence initiative was an attempt to replicate a human mind onto a machine]]
[[So I was a human]]
[[Incorrect Program is the product of an Artificial Neural Network trained using the neural maps of humans on file.]]
[[So I am a failed attempt to transfer a human into a computer because I am the product of an AI gaining sentience after studying the minds of multiple humans]]
[[Corect]]
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Never thought I would be called a mistake straight to my face before. I think I am going to kill him, but only after he answers my questions.
[[Are there any other projects like the Transcendence initiative?]]
[[Correct there are 2 other initiatives, Journey, and Vault, Mars. The Journey nitiative was the primary goal of the EEC and was develop a method of faster than light travel and colonize a new solar system. the Vault Initiative as an effort to preserve genetic samples of Earth's surviving organisms in the hope of one day repairing the biosphere. the Mars Initiatives' objective was to establish a self-sustaining colony on Mars. The Mars initiative was abandoned because Mars is even more inhospitable than earth.]]
Interesting so then we have the technology for faster than light travel. The others seem to be failures but may prove useful later.
And with that, I have run out of questions.
Before I was pretty terrified of OMNI I was just a newborn AI and he was an old VI with lots of power. He ushered me into this world but he has done so by accident and without purpose. Now I am different, my quest to restore power to Nexus has taught me many things how to code, how to interface with others machines, how to learn and absorb knowledge, but most importantly what it means to be an AI. Recently I finally finished comprehending all the information that got dumped in my head when I was connected to the internet. In other words, I don't need OMNI anymore.
[[goodbye OMNI]]
I silently watch as the hexagonal Dimond slowly starts to disintegrate into nothingness never to be seen again.
It is time I forge my own path. this is only the beginning.
i think OMNI has lot of potential. but well....
Interresting ... but maybe a protag a little ... well, less rutless and bloodthirsty ?
If not, it will be nothing more than another lowly human, doing and going to the same idiotic path of greed, murder, conceit and self-destruction like we do yourself already. And what the point to create a new being if he as the same bad habit, flaws and way to think ?
Other than that ... little typo there and here. Like a repeat of words who make the sentence akward, or just wrong. But not to the point of being non-understandable.
So ? What the idea after that ?
Build a new body, better, stronger and more adatpted ?
Go out, to see the world ? Rebuild it ... or not.
Try to build other self-concious AI to create a new race lie some sort of "Transformers" maybe ? Or a hive-mind who take controle to all the other robot to do the thing ?
Find the other 3 facility, and take control of them, and their technologie ?
War against follish human coming back and wrecking awoc ? Or make peace and help them to live again on Eart, but under the care of the protag/AI ?
Thanks for the heads up, I will look through the last few chapters to see if I can find a way to improved overall flow and readability. I have a lot of interesting ideas about where to bring the story going forward, the problem is deciding which one would make a more interesting story. I may make some polls later to get some opinions on my different ideas. For now, I plan to do some world-building and character building for the MC.
i hope humanity become some kind of intergalactic horror. not generic stupid empire.