The Synth Crisis Collection by Greg Dragon

Author:Greg Dragon [Dragon, Greg]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Publisher: Thirsty Bird Productions
Published: 2019-02-13T05:00:00+00:00

‡CHAPTER 15‡

WATERED DOWN WHISKEY

It was late and Dhata hadn’t checked in, but Lur Diaz was not nervously waiting by the phone. She was on her rack, swimming through data, looking for something, anything, that would explain the synths from Akiyama Koch Robotics becoming violent.

The endless stream of data quantized to a living ocean of sparkling, emerald bits whose waves ebbed and flowed violently. It reminded her of champagne freshly poured, as bubbles of zeroes and ones flew off of the waves only to dissipate in the night sky. This strange phenomenon made it seem real to her, and was so disconcerting that she had to stop.

She wished that she had a high‌—‌tech Mitsubishi rack like Hiroshi. His showed the data as corridors, with doorways leading to any opening or flaw. Using his advanced system she had once been able to see through the eyes of a synth Mary. It was an exhilarating experience, but she had lost her lunch afterwards.

With her system, what she got was ocean, and making sense of it was a challenge, though she was quickly learning how to adapt. There was a program that Hiroshi told her to buy, which translated the human‌—‌made data into words and images. Using it, she could hack into a terminal within the Virtual Village, and scroll through the information as if it was a document.

She dug through all of the news articles, but that told her nothing, so she began to look at the more mundane facts about the company. It was not one of the original synth manufacturers, but had grown into the most successful one due to gaining possession of a link to the Arch Brain nexus. Only a handful of manufacturers had this link, and it was unknown as to who gave it to them, and how.

Having a link to Arch Brain would turn the intelligent, human‌—‌mimicking androids into living, learning, empathetic synths. In other words, it gave them life, and this led to AKR being what they were now. Lur looked for the names of the developers and architects, primarily those who worked on the military branch. Everything was classified, but she kept on digging, even though she wasn’t sure where it was going to take her.

She had been under for hours, but she didn’t realize it, her brain consumed with the quest, though her body ached for nutrition. If anyone were to walk into her room, they would see a half‌—‌naked woman, gripping the side handles of a shiny black box and staring at the wall.

There was an old news article from a university in Indiana where one of AKR’s top developers had studied robotics. Lur found this discovery odd, since it was an opinion piece. A young journalist by the name of Tanya Jacobs interviewed the developer about his alma mater. Her point in the article was that great men came from Indiana, since apparently the vice president of the United States, Conrad Hurt, had also gone there too.

She saved the article on her virtual account within the Virtual Village, and logged out of the rack.

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