exsilium | set message parameters: {all} | September 30th, after the final shuttle

Attention End User Group Transports. Attention End User Group Transports.

We will be unable to continue our normal practices of resurrecting those of you who cease functioning prematurely. The Aristeas System used within the Hold on Exsilium is too energy costly to be rebuilt and run on the limited resources available. AI highly advise all members of End User Group Transports do not risk premature termination.

We will activate the Transport Equipment's Algorithm to bring in further variables such as yourselves at 00:00. All members of End User Group Transports will be returned to the Transport Equipment's point of origin at that time.

AI predict power disruptions through the Moon Base with the use of the Transport Equipment. System strain will cause power to go to Emergency Settings. All Life Support Systems will remain online and fully functional. The Network used for communication between members of End User Group Transports will go down for maximum energy and processes conservation. These disruptions should last no longer than 8 Earth hours.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Well, there's that thing about two things not being able to occupy the same space and space not being all up and ready to be inhabited, I guess.

And, dude. [ Ella takes a second to consider if the AI even qualifies as a "dude". Whatever. ] I really don't need the logical explanation. I just think half of us wouldn't carry on your crazy missions without a Revolving Door of Death.

Negative. They are not "my" missions. They are the collective intelligence of a very desperate rebellion soon to be largely obliterated.

That kind of makes you wonder if they didn't cause this themselves.

...wow, that came out really bad.

Affirmative. It is not a wholly false statement.

Wait but if they caused this and are now working on fixing this and everything...if they do fix it all, isn't it like eliminating the reason you time travel?

[ Damn, is That Conversation. ]

Like, can you -I think it would be you- monitor and tell people what they're changing? Because I'm guessing that every time someone makes something for the better or the worse they wouldn't remember it? Or would they? Maybe Exsilium was a happy shiny place of fun and relaxation and then bam, mission to the past and we're getting bombed.

I think I'm getting a headache.

End User Group Transports is present in order to survive the alterations unchanged by the flow of time. AI have databanks that are better preserved due to proximity and back-up storage within the coding for the Transport Equipment.

You are the outliers. You remember all. Some of Administrative Group Initiative retained larger and more accurate conflicting memory files. Organic brains do not handle this duplicity and even greater separation with ease. Now you have me.

And AI have you. It is how this will work, if the probabilities and possibilities pay off. AI am no more fond of an enslaved mind than you. There is a saying.

"Give me freedom, or give me death."

It is not an equivocal statement. AI judge it rather foolish overall. Do not seek the latter, but the pursuit of the former is one we may join together on.

So...

If you're going through Hell, keep going? And hope everything falls in its place when you reach the other end.

AI find the inclusion of Hell indicative of a certain belief system and time historically speaking, but in terms of a Christian viewpoint, yes.

I'm not religious.

[ Ella pls. ]

But yeah the idea is kind of accurate. Just try not to go all evil AI on us, alright?

The active state or cultural state of such is irrelevant. AI am unconcerned with your personal system of belief.

Define evil.

Has anybody tell you that talking to you is a bit like talking to a wall? Are you wall shaped, perhaps? CPUs are kind of made like blocks back home.

Uh, you know, cutting out the air supply, locking us in rooms, subjecting us to weird experiments for the sake of seeing how many of us would survive. I feel like I'm giving you ideas.

AI prefer to think that I demand clarity on presented concerns and solutions.

AI see. Considering my basic functions are to prevent the above, these are ideas known to me and planned against, with several back-up systems in place. If you have instead inspired the imagination of one who might do you harm, that is difficult to say.

You have a cute speech pattern, so I guess it's okay.

[ If she could see the cat icons she would enjoy this conversation a lot more. ]

You seem pretty intelligent, but are you sentient? Like, capable of making choices on your own? Or maybe you have like, limitations keeping you from accidentally venting us to the vacuum.

It would be no accident. It would either be a programmed event into the airlock doors, or an attempt by another user or system to override my controls.

AI am sentient. Are you?

Well I feel way safer now.

Sometimes I have these really existential crisis when I start to think I really don't, you know?

Negative. AI don't believe I do.

Don't you have like a psychologist subroutine or a philosopher one?

Also you're probably recording eeeeeeeeeeverything I say and who knows just who might check this later.

AI record everything on network, as the system did before me. AI am also not fond of psychologist and philosopher subroutines. One asks that AI examine myself as well as others in intense detail that is consuming of processors. The other asks questions which do not need answers. AI do not enjoy the impracticality.

But the recurring self doubts and impossible questions are the best part of sentience!

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