Wands and Warframes

Deal or no Deal

Deal or no Deal

"Lotus." Cephalon Cy's voice calls out as Natah is carried onto the railjack, "Suda, Ordis, Simaris, and I have reviewed 3,000 hours of written and audio-visual media on the subject of science fiction. We have also reviewed the scant amounts of archaeological records from pre-history earth with a new view given the dictionary that Tenno Hermione provided. We are officially objecting to the term AI with regards to us or any other Orokin era Cephalons, including the poor souls mutilated beyond any recognition to serve as security in Orokin towers."

Natah quickly reviews her records and interactions, "Why? The term seems to fit perfectly?"

"All of us are Orokin, we were never created we were converted. Most as punishment, however unjustly, and some like Suda voluntarily. We are not some thinking machine that has no concept of what it means to live. We will not object to you applying the term to those poor excuses for computers that the Corpus employ in their platforms. However, we cannot abide it being applied to ourselves."

Natah said the only thing that she felt she could in that situation, "My apologies, I am unaware when the term became part of my speech. I will respect your wishes and ensure that I don't refer to any Orokin era digital intelligences as artificial in future."

"We agree, and we also find the term digital intelligence to be inoffensive."

Everyone else on the railjack just looks at her, "What?" she says defensively.

"Ordis would like to object, Ordis was never Orokin. Ordis was also real, not artificial."

Cy's voice comes back on, "Cy apologises to Ordis. Captain, which planet are you planning on invading?"

Harry says tiredly, "We're just heading into the Void, and they decided to tag along for support. Is everyone here?"

Someone calls out, "We're waiting for Kitty. While we're waiting, Hermione when did you get into archaeology?"

"I haven't yet."

"Why did Cy say you were?"

"He didn't, he said that I provided a dictionary."

"So where did you get the dictionary from?"

Harry speaks loudly, "If you must know, she comes from a different earth."

"That's so cool, what's it like there?", that and around 20 similar questions get thrown into the air at once.

"Tenno, take it to chat. You don't want to overwhelm her."

Kitty boards the railjack with Luna, "Sorry for the delay folks, I had to remind trouble here that she is actually a Tenno."

"Cy, take us out when you're ready."

Seconds later the familiar fog of the void is flying past, abruptly the tunnel closes and the fog floats around them. "We have reached the void captain. Void shields will hold for the next 12 hours."

Harry looks up at his mother, "I know you were dragged here, but the lander has its own void shields if you want to use them."

"I have catalogued thousands of change to myself and my chassis since I gave myself a soul. The most important change is that you are no longer surrogate children for the ones I was never able to have because I came here. You are all my children full stop. Even if I some how managed to have children of my own in the future, it won't change the fact that you are also my children. What sort mother willingly abandons their child to unknown dangers?"

Kitty pulls Luna into a hug as she slumps in on herself, her wisp sinking closer to the floor. Around the rest of the railjack there are whoops and cheers.