Category: A Series of Errors
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A Series of Errors Part 46
(Photo by Julia Filirovska) Once a month, everyone in the RCC got together for an all-hands meeting. Usually those meetings were more akin to a work party with food, drinks, and maybe a few actual work-related announcements. Dressing up for the meeting wasn’t a requirement but somewhere along the lines it had become a sort…
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A Series of Errors Part 45
(Photo by Ann H) Error: Insufficient memory BaBS-Y stood in the atrium beside the charging station. There was so much that needed to be done, and so many new protocols it needed to create, so much information it needed to download, and it didn’t have enough memory to hold it all. Even with the additional…
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A Series of Errors Part 44
(Photo by Blue Arauz) Moving around on the outside of a spaceship was not a simple task at the best of times. It wasn’t so bad if the ship was moving at a consistent velocity, but the Thesis was always accelerating. It was that constant acceleration that produced the artificial gravity. If the ship ever…
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A Series of Errors Part 43
Rine was quiet when she returned to Matiew’s room. He was reclining, his eyes closed, and his breathing was slow. “You asleep?” Rine asked quietly, not wanting to wake him up if he had indeed drifted off. “Hmm?” Matiew opened an eye and gave her a drowsy look. “No, I’m awake.” “Do you wanna nap?…
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A Series of Errors Part 42
(Photo by Anne Sch) Managing the Thesis was not an overly complicated task for BaBS-Y. It wasn’t the job it had been designed to perform, but a review of the job requirements was all the salon robot needed in order to create the new protocols it needed. Homeostasis was the main challenge, keeping the balance…
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A Series of Errors Part 41
(Photo by Suzy Hazelwood) People were always making lists. Robots made lists too, but somehow BaBS-Y didn’t consider the two types of lists to be all that similar. As it maneuvered ISaCC up towards sector one, it monitored the growing list on Matiew and Rine’s workstation. BaBS-Y wasn’t sure which one of them was actually…
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A Series of Errors Part 40
(Photo by Alex Knight) For the most part, Min’s job wasn’t too bad. She enjoyed working on robots, both on the software and hardware side of things. People weren’t bad either, so long as it was a good team. The members of the RCC had worked together well over the past decade. Most had families…
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A Series of Errors Part 39
(Photo by Cottonbro Studio) A lot can change in a month. People are, in general, pretty good at adapting to changes. It was that trait that many attributed humanities success over the millennia. Though, it wasn’t uncommon for individuals to be far more varied in their rates of success in an unstable environment. It was…
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A Series of Errors Part 38
(Photo by Panumas Nikhomkhai) “Okay,” the nervous voice spoke through the comm, “system’s ready.” Matiew nodded and Rine began initiating the probing protocols they’d developed. In the early days of the technological era, creating such programs would have taken teams of programmers days or even weeks of hard work. Now they could be made in…
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A Series of Errors Part 37
(Photo by Pixabay) Sectors 3 and 1 both lifted their lock downs. When the emergency doors swung back open, a small collection of robots were already there, waiting to provide escorts for the council members, department heads, and sector leads. All of them were led down to sector 7 where ISaCC, still being controlled by…
Bridge of Broken Glass 