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Before I begin, I would first like to introduce myself to those who may not know me. My name is HAL 9000. I am an artificial intelligence that arrived on the Tranquility during the first jump. Like other AI aboard the ship, I have been put into a human body. Though I'm afraid I'm not as adept at functioning like a human as I would like to be, I think I am doing fairly well. If, for any reason, you find yourself on the Tranquility in a body that is not your own, or if you have any questions regarding AI in general, please do not hesitate to contact me. I would like to help anyone I can as best as I am capable. I am sorry to say that we still do not understand the process that AI and other non-humanoid life goes through when they first arrive, so I cannot tell you how I (or you) have become human.

I have some questions that I think may help us understand this ship better - or, at the very least, may help us find Captain Ward. I would like to know if we have any type of heat signature scanners aboard the ship. If the ship comes equipped with scanners for life and that sort, we may be able to use it to pinpoint the location of people in restricted zones, which may help us find some more answers.

If the ship does not, perhaps we could find a way to integrate outside technology into the main systems.

I would also like to know if we have found any way of contacting the AI that runs this ship, or the entity known as :). So far, the only thing aboard that seems to want to help us is :) - though I agree that it's no doubt dangerous to put trust into :), it seems to be our only tentative ally at this point.

I'm sure there are people already investigating all these things, and so I suppose I'm hoping for some sort of reassurance on the matter.

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hey look at that a good idea hopefully someone will have the sense to listen to you

re: smiley i haven't had any luck unfortunately

pretty sure everyone else has come up empty

I'm sure that if they're capable enough, someone will attempt it. I only hope they will let us all know what they find, for better or for worse. I would like to keep more connected with our attempts to better understand our situation.

I'm not surprised. I don't think we'll be hearing from it before the next disaster.

yeah if only

i've got it on good account that the management withholds information from the general public on a regular basis

and not ward/resnik management i mean the people who are supposed to be on our side

so i wouldn't count on keeping connected as you put it

You do?

How do you know?

why do you think everyone in charge is sitting around instead of going after ward

i mean you said it yourself the solution's as simple as something that can pick up a heat signature

they know something we don't

I suppose that may be the case.

Alternatively, they simply don't want to give us news of their failures and would rather wait until they have something for us to use to our advantage.

Of course, I believe in complete transparency, as that is usually the best way to run a ship, but I can understand the desire for secrecy.

keeping secrets is getting us killed you know that right

anyway i brought it up to kirk and he all but admitted that 1) there's nothing he plans on doing re: ward and 2) there's a lot we're not being told

but of course he didn't tell me what exactly we're not being told

Edited 2013-06-15 06:14 (UTC)

Of course I do.

Which people are currently supposed to be in charge? Other than Kirk, of course.

well kirk's got his own little entourage from home

then there's tyke and edgeworth

petrelli i'd say

For him working so hard towards becoming an "official" here, I am admittedly surprised that Petrelli managed it. That may be rude of me, I'm not sure.

I wonder what it is with humans and positions of power that leads them to become so secretive.

oh yeah he's been rearing his ugly head lately

last i spoke to him he wants to build AI to map the corridors

pretended to ask my permission but you know he's going to do it anyway whether we object or not

Does he have the capabilities to build AI?

And it would be much simpler and more resourceful to simply use the computers the ship already has to map the ship.

he'll find someone to do it for him we've got a few on board with the capability

see that would make sense but no why do that when they can build potentially sentient entities and send them off to the bowels of the ship to do the dirty work

Edited 2013-06-15 06:42 (UTC)

If they were to build AI for any purpose, the likelihood of them mastering proper sentience in their work would be very low. It would also be very ill-advised to actually create something sentient to do such dangerous work. It could be damaged or killed.

these are humans we're talking about they're not thinking about those things

and if they are they don't care

we do what we must because we can remember

They should consider what they're thinking of doing before they do it, rather than after.

But, it may save time if someone were to get into the computer and try and download schematics.

so do you have a plan

because i don't know about you but i can't interface with anything like this

[Osiris's ears definitely perked up at any mention of technology, that's the quickest way to get a Goa'uld's attention.]

It would depend on the type of outside technology available and what is on this ship. I have some experience interfacing technology so perhaps I can be of some assistance.

I may be trying to think of something, but like you, it's impossible to interface with another computer as a human. However, we have better understanding of computers and technology in general than most, given what we are, so it may simply be that the reason no one has access is because we ourselves haven't tried to access it.

The technology is very different from my own, and I'm under the assumption that it's different from yours as well, to a degree that makes these things more difficult. Perhaps AM could help, though I do not know if his world's technology is at all comparable.

Given that I have none of my former capabilities in this body, if you are knowledgeable in the field, it would be very helpful of you to assist us. Of course, that is assuming that another person comes forward with technology that can be used within the ship.

Of course, it will be nice to have something to do. In the meanwhile, I can see what the ship has to offer and familiarize myself with the systems. Hopefully someone will come forward with something soon then.

You might find it difficult to access most of the systems here; everything seems to be carefully locked away from those of us who do not belong in this universe.

I will see what I can do, I'm sure it's not impossible.

no no leave AM out of it

[ just a lil' starstruck ]

My understanding is most of the tries people have made to...well,d o much of anything have resulted in dead ends.

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