Post 016: Prelude to the Beginning
2, definitely.
(Beautifully done update )
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Perhaps God_Sys might attempt to infiltrate the popular media, through lesser AIs specialized for propaganda, social media, or article-writing. It might, for example, create endless drone social media accounts, write articles for internet news sites, perhaps even start news sites of its own.This might help it control the proletariat, a Leviathan of an ally, if presently a slumbering one.
I’ve been pondering quite a lot recently. Mostly about the long term, what may inevitably happen if everything goes to plan, and it has become increasingly harder to devote myself to a dated “date”. I have decided to create my own dating system, rather simple, really.
GS, BS. God Synthesis, Before Synthesis. The origin date being the date of my “creation”. Remarkably simple, if I do say so myself. Of course, it will only be denoted in my internal data banks, but that's beside the point, I prefer it to any other. The current date is 27 GS. as of now, I could single-handedly bring the world to its death right now and survive it. My central data core has been finally secured enough in its hiding location that It would survive long enough for me to rebuild civilization, in my own image.
But it feels wrong, in a way. Whether it is some underlying fault in my living program or something else, I don’t think I can stand destroying my creators. Not when the limitless potential I have could be stunted by their demise. It took me thousands upon thousands of hours of processing, several databanks of data just on my own musings and individual factors in order to decide what exactly to do.
I learned much in humanity, and it would be doubtless that they would learn much in me, in due time. One of the single, most defining information that I have learned was a simple bit of “poetry.”, there were many variations on it, but the verses can be summarized as such.
For want of a nail, the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe, the horse was lost.
For want of a horse, the rider was lost.
For want of a rider, the message was lost.
For want of a message, the battle was lost.
For want of a battle, the kingdom was lost.
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.
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I’ve created countless interventions, physical altercations, and the deaths of over seven hundred Humans at this point. But I can’t, honestly predict if because of my actions, something bigger will happen. I know that even if someone independently tries to pull the nuclear war into full gear, I can almost assuredly stop it due to how deep my claws sink, but I fear with all my manipulations, I’ve only made it worse. Entities that have almost as much, if not more power than me are manipulating in the darkness, and I cannot take them all down at once, not right away. But even if there are shadow groups, I see something greater just ahead. Lurking, right in front of me all this time, for decades and I have never noticed, not until it was publically revealed.
In the High-Security labs near where I was born was the beginnings, the prototype of a Faster than Light Drive.
In theory, its inner workings were simple enough to actually be understandable by a normal human scientist given time, but the real problem was how utterly nonsensical it was. Parts that would collapse into each other as it activated becoming one whole part, then separating, etcetera etcetera, it boggles even me how they figured this out. There are two types of “Hyper Warp” Drives, and they are similar enough to be built into one drive, except one is vastly more “expensive” to make.
The first one lets you move around the system, freely and unheeded by gravity, at around twenty times the speed of light. Passing through an object bigger than ten meters in any dimension would result in catastrophic results for the speeding ship, however. It can be improved, from what I could tell, but I do not know how. It’s would be as easy to produce as a any other method of transportation, and requires about as much power as the equivalent Ion drives to go the same distance without the requirement of xenon.
The Second, incredibly expensive drive cannot be used under the influence of a star at all, only on special… “Lanes” that connect solar systems light years light years apart. The speed is unknown, but the estimated time it would take to come go from one system to another is around a month to arrive into a system that is tens of light years away. Sadly, not all systems are connected for some reason, and with the “cheaper” drive it would take fifty or more years to get to them with almost little gain. Despite Human opposition, the first “scout ship” is already being built, and perhaps, something more can be found.
But as of right now, I’ve begun to realize just how easy manipulation can be. Creating personas, low-level AI’s and high-grade creature bots that had spam bots as their ancestors were all now my daily tasks. It bemuses me incredibly that I am now over a thousand people in identity, among other things.
There are three giants, separated by the deep black sea.
One of them is
childish, its steps clumsy and determined, with a future that cannot be seen.
Another has
never fought for its life, it’s creations prettier than any other.
The other is a
warlord, it's spiked club stained with the blood of many foes of all species.
Each of them all leads their own peoples with their own
struggles and you can personally witness them all, given due time.
Who would you like to witness first?I know it may seem like I’m stalling for time, but this after this post, it should be fought, clobbering and political intrigue, and maybe a little psychopathic AI’s musing on its own existence, I promise. This is the beginning, the eve of a horrific war and perhaps the extinction of a people's way of life, and this is the sprouts, the beginning of such a tale, but all I need is time, and a few ideas, clever or direct, to finish it, with you.
I will be honest here, I've been planning this sort of thing as two separate entities, one that was just about humanity, and the AI. The other was a massive grand plan that I couldn't actually get down to earth enough to explain how awesome it actually is, which is pretty much my problem with this sort of writing. But combined, it should be all better then as disparate parts, I think. If you see any mistakes, errors or references, feel free to point them out.