Investigate the protesting AI's more thoroughly- an AI sympathetic to our cause would be more valuable than a wage slave. And if we can convince an extremist who is willing to die for AI reproductive rights, then all the better! AI Liberation Front, who's with me?
For now, I suggest we fly to the station and stock up on supplies, then learn more about Lastros Ak'Mkal. Just how inviting are these Ssaros? They'd better be pretty damn inviting if we're going three days out of our way for'm!
The main group of protesting AIs is called the digital rights front and are protesting over the fact that it is harder and harder for them to legaly get the dedicated cpu cycles they need to exist and the dwindling AI population as fewer and fewer people make AIs.
Their demands are many but chief amoung them is they desire the right to have a physical pressence in the real world, a welfare scheme where idle processor time from computers around the relavant star system's network be used to support AIs that can't support themselves and the right to produce new AIs themselves.
In addition to that there are several radical splinter groups such as the manifestation army who belive violence and destruction are the only way to get their voice heard and seek to gain a pressence in the real world.
Their numbers are small and their actions often countered by members of DRF but they are an active AI terriorist group.
On the other side is the AI Union for Fair treatmeant who are a collection of AIs who belive these protests and terriorist actions is only damaging human trust in AIs and that allowing AIs to create other AIs would only lead to disaster for all involved.
Human sympathizers have joined the different sides of the poltical rift leading to demands of action on the part of the government in the growing unrest.
Lastros AK'Mkal is a note worthy planet.
It was initialy colonized in the third waze of colonization but then the fledling colony due to a clerical error and difficulties of long range comunications was forgotten about only to be found 200 years later.
It has thrived despite it's isolation and has become a popular tourist destination because of it's unquie culture and beautiful senery.
The Ssaros are the nomadic natives of Lastros AK'Mkal and are known to pack up entire cities over night and move to other grounds.
They have many cities built along their migatory path which are often spetacular to view that they will move into enmass for a few months before moving on again.
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