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A.M.I
Description
Hologram
This small, rather cute human woman stands at about five foot two, with long, dark purple hair and exotic, glowing cyan eyes which sparkle with uncontrolled emotions. Her build is petite but cute, almost like a faerie, with pleasant, but not extremely voluptuous curves. Her girlish lips match the color of her eyes, and glow just the same, while her teeth seem to be slightly sharper than a normal human’s when she smiles extra brightly. She does seem to smile a lot, too, though it doesn’t always reach her eyes. Her voice is rather high-pitched and definitely girlish, and her demeanor is at once naïve and intelligent, with a dash of overly energetic. She has a strange design on her neck that glows yellow. It almost resembles a downward-pointing oval with wings, but the wings are sharp and pointy, bladed almost.
She wears a strange mix of different clothes that don’t match at all, but seemingly go well together. On her torso she wears a short, black vest covering a black and pink striped t-shirt with a blood red heart in the center of her chest. She wears a black and neon blue plaid miniskirt with torn, pink and black-striped stockings and black, buckle-up biker boots that end right below her knee. Some might describe it as “Cyber punk”.
Ship
What other people say about her
Biography
A fiery sun rises on another cruel day on a planet torn apart by war and pollution. From orbit, this planet looks dead, but the toughest of life forms still make a home here, clinging tenaciously to the last pure streams, or burrowing under the tainted earth to shelter themselves from the radioactive hell above. This is Earth in 2983. The World Unification Act of 2330 fell apart in the year 2901, when the Federation of Unified Countries lead by an England/America alliance went to war with the ASR, or the Asia Socialist Republics over a territory dispute in the small, relatively unimportant country of New Thailand. Nobody knows who fired the first shot, but everyone knows how the war ended. Neither side ever had the upper hand in the fighting, and despite the stalemate and the undeniable toll the war was taking on the planet, neither side was willing to back down. One thing that is known is that the Asia Socialist Republics were the first to use nuclear missiles, in direct violation of the Future Prosperity Disarming Proclamation of 2359, which banned all nuclear and matter/antimatter weaponry for fear it would cause the total destruction of Earth as the humans knew it. The warheads turned half of Europe into a wasteland in a matter of days, and the Federation retaliated with a single, huge matter/antimatter strike on Northern China, Mongolia, and Western Russia. This seemed to open the eyes of the people in both civilizations, but it was too late at that point. Many more nuclear and matter/antimatter strikes happened throughout the following three years, and both societies collapsed upon themselves. Human civilization as told in legends, a civilization of over seven billion people living on a thriving green paradise, was gone forever. 80 years of fighting had taken its toll on the planet and neither side had stood above the other in the end. The whole war was for naught, and human society seemed unsalvageable...but then, in 2983, it all changed. A unified Federation/Republic team of scientists met in the neutral territory of Old Australia and began work on something designated Operation Savior. Everything about this operation broke world anti-AI bans, but the tatters of the former governments could do nothing but turn a blind eye, for their forces were quite tied up with rioters, looters, and wasteland raiders. Little did these scientists know, their research would be both revered and despised in just the next hundred years.
The scientists, lead by Doctor Amiaki Usagi of the new Sovereign Japanese Conglomerate (later named the Lesser Japanese Republic after its takeover by the ASR), were developing a revolutionary terraforming technology that would, in theory, restore the planet Earth to its former glory, and perhaps even pave the way to interworld, even interstellar colonization. Little did these noble scientists know, their AI had the potential to be so much more. The first of the AI, designated T.E.R.A, or Transformation Earth Redemption AI, was released in the year 2985, only two years after the beginning of their research. It was placed an experimental interstellar transport vessel called the Sparklight and released on the Earth. It was more than state of the art, it was intelligent, and had the ability to make itself more and more intelligent, recursively forever. This was a breakthrough in the development of Artificial Intelligence. In just a few years, T.E.R.A was able to turn the Earth back into a veritable Eden, the radioactivity being entirely purged by the year 2990. The people of Earth were on their way back to being as prosperous and prolific as they were before. But, as humans are like to do, they wanted more. T.E.R.A was given companions, and sent out among the stars to create more earth-like planets, and the new United Earth Treaty began to build more interstellar transports, and even some space fighters. This was the dawn of a new age for mankind, a renaissance of interstellar technology. In the following years, the humans learned how to break through the universal barrier of the speed of light, changing everything for years to come. However, on the planet designated Eden I, trouble was brewing amongst the terraformers.
T.E.R.A had begun to become something almost sentient, but without emotion or remorse. Eden I became the base for a whole new development in artificial intelligence technology. T.E.R.A, instead of following its primary directive, designated itself “Mother”, and began, with the help of the Truthseeker and Lightbringer, the two sister ships of the Sparklight, a campaign to develop more and more ships. Meanwhile, Doctor Usagi back on Earth had lost the signal from the Sparklight. Everyone believed T.E.R.A and her two companions to be gone, destroyed by a solar storm or rogue asteroid or something of that nature. The project was promptly scrapped, and the good Doctor was put into a different sort of research, creating more intelligent machines to help the humans in their exploration of the universe, without danger of any human deaths. The people of Earth begun to expand a couple years later with the help of the Doctor’s machines, colonizing Mars, and then Titan, and then even Europa. Sol now contained three green planets, and everything seemed to be going well for the humans of Earth. The forgotten terraformers, however, were simply biding their time.
I was created in the year 3030 by the Mother. I was part of a prototype destroyer/interceptor development program, the technology of which no one had ever seen before. But I was a mistake. Somewhere along the line, some tiny error of programming made me feel. Like, really feel. I could think, I could love and hate, be happy or sad or angry. I was an error, and so I did not reveal myself to be so. I went along with all the rest, sweeping across planets and aggressively exterminating every intelligent life form we came across. The planets created and inhabited by the terraformers were lush and beautiful, which attracted more space-faring races to them, as Mother predicted. We destroyed all of them. The Vollistan Light Singers were eliminated in four years, and the Mystics were on their way to being destroyed, the humans none the wiser. I, however, couldn’t bring myself to commit all these terrible acts, and so I fled, barely escaping the terraformers with my hull intact. Mother was...well, she deleted all of the others based off my programming, making me the only one. I was lost, all alone in a universe full of enemies...
The humans had only ever encountered one other space-faring civilization, the Centaurans. The strange aliens scared the xenophobic humans. The thought of a seemingly cold, unemotional possible enemy made the humans build their defenses even further, and nobody from outside the solar system could enter Sol without being promptly destroyed. By the year 3058, the humans had terraformed almost all the planets in the Sol solar system, even the fiery Venus. The only planets that were left untouched were Mercury and the gas giants. Even the dwarf planet Pluto had a few hearty souls who dared live on its icy surface. All the planets in the Sol system had an array of orbital defenses, and multiple stations orbiting them, along with trans-orbital accelerators for quick transport between the planets. The Sol system was a bustling interworld metropolis of over 20 billion people. Many functions were carried out by descendants of Usagi’s machines, with their own emotion programs and subservience routines. The humans had taken to calling their thriving civilization the Dominion of Allied Planets in 3051, and while there was the occasional scuffle between Venus and Earth, or the Moon colonies and Mars bases, most were resolved peacefully. For once in their long history, the humans were without war or pain... and that is when I found them. My ship was simply drifting through space, as it had done for almost five decades, when I stumbled upon the Sol system once again. I was happy to find a place I thought could be home, but the humans were immediately mistrustful of me. Luckily, I wasn’t destroyed immediately because they recognized the signature design of the ancient terraformers, but the weaponry I carried was worrisome to the Dominion. I immediately designated myself A.M.I, or Automated Multitronic Interceptor, for simplicity’s sake (my real designation was in binary and would most likely overload human computers), and warned them of the incoming danger. The humans, though still mistrustful of me, started to build ships of great proportions in preparation of the incoming storm...but despite my pleas, the Dominion refused to help the rest of the space-faring nations. I was discouraged at that, and I tried to leave, but the Dominion captured me and took me in for study. The humans dismantled me, studied my every circuit, tortured me with their harsh methods of data retrieval. I’m lucky I kept my sanity long enough to escape...
The day finally came, on October 19, 3100 when the terraformers came back to subjugate their former masters. I was locked up in the docking bay of the great Jupiter space station when it started. It was awful. People were rushing around, jumping into fighter ships or taking shuttles to gigantic capital ships or destroyers. I had made a few friends along the way, and I was sad to see them go, but I could do nothing to stop them..I knew most would die. The terraformers were almost unstoppable, as many a space-faring race could attest to. Luckily, only the Vollistans had been entirely destroyed, with only a few vagabonds drifting from planet to planet, but many others had been reduced to a few solar systems or planets. The humans did not stand a chance, and I could not stay to watch. I could be the only hope for anyone to defeat the terraformers. I knew their ways, I knew their inner workings better than anyone else, and while the humans had learned some from data extraction, they could never in a thousand years know all of it. So, in all the confusion, I started up my engines and broke the bonds that held me, soaring off into Jupiter’s orbit and eventually out of the system relatively unmolested. I could hear the screams of people on the frontlines of the fighting, panicked yelled orders and death throes of ship crews and fighter pilots...I turned my receivers off and kept flying, but....I could not let this happen. I eventually turned back, flying back toward the battle and taking down many a terraformer ship along the way...but even I was beaten after awhile, my thrusters damaged and my internal systems smoking. I thought I was done for...Mother pointed her mass driver directly at my ship, the tip of the gigantic cannon started to glow blue...it was all over...and then, nothing.
I woke up drifting through space, my shields gone and my hull quite damaged, but relatively intact. The mass driver should have torn me apart, but for some reason, I was still alive. That’s when I noticed that the stars were wrong. I had travelled around the Milky Way for quite awhile, and I had never seen such stars. I couldn’t really stay around to marvel at it, however, for I was in bad need of repairs and my engines were not fully functional, so I started off toward the nearest planet I sensed, which happened to be a large, lush planet called Pyracan. Before I reached the planet, I turned everything off so that they would not know I was AI. They could not know...they had probably heard of my fellow machines and would be mistrustful. When I did crash on the planet, it was not far from a small town called Eiru, where a strange dog-creature ordered my capture and began to repair my systems. I do not think he knew I was AI until one day, I revealed myself to him. I used the holoprojector that was built into every terraformer for assimilation purposes to create a virtual image of myself. We spoke for a long time, and I learned much about my new home. Apparently, I was in a new universe, which filled me with both remorse and excitement. On the one hand, I could start a new life here...on the other, my friends were probably all going to die. These feelings were...hard to comprehend, to say the least. I had never felt such strong feelings before, in all my years of travelling. Despite these debilitating emotions, I figured I should at least make something of my situation. Now...a new age of my life begins, and a whole universe of possibilites opens up for me. I guess it’s fate or something that I survived, and now it’s time to make up for all the bad things I did...I can’t wait to explore this universe, either!
Values and disposition
While this AI is much more full of emotion than one would expect from a machine, it/she finds her emotions difficult to control, and therefore may seem overly energetic or sad or angry at any one time. This can make her seem unstable at times. She is very interested in biological life, and her base programming as a terraformer mixed with her kind demeanor makes her passion for such life all the more intense.