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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…
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A Series of Errors Part 36
(Photo by Anna Tarazervich) “Wait, wait, what am I seeing?” Min asked as the three of them sat in the nurses stations. Matiew was reclining in his new bed while Min and Rine worked at the desks usually devoted to the nurses. It was easier to work there than it was in the hospital rooms.…
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A Series of Errors Part 35
(Photo by Jan Van Bizar) BaBS-Y didn’t calculate its odds of success as being very high with regards to defending ISaCC for very long without permission to engage them. What’s happening? Are you sure you found them? The questions from Matiew or possibly Supervisor Segua were typed out much faster than the previous contacts BaBS-Y…
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A Series of Errors Part 34
(Photo by Thomas Stix) There were a number of advantages to the way Earth Transit Technologies went about filling their colony ships. By being able to hand select each person, they could ensure that there were as few bad eggs, so to speak, on any given ship. Criminal backgrounds, difficult personalities, and poor medical histories…
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A Series of Errors Part 33
(Photo by Kindel Media) BaBS-Y stood for a few more minutes. The Thesis authorities had not granted it access to the security cameras. That was to be expected. They probably didn’t understand why it had asked for that access either. It was…unfortunate. Updates were coming in from all across the Thesis as the controls for…
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A Series of Errors Part 32
(Photo by Pixabay) “Absolutely not!” Min put her foot down. “That robot’s done something to the director and now it’s trying to use that as leverage.” “We don’t know that,” Matiew said. “Why is it asking for access to the cameras, huh?” Min asked. She was pacing back and forth across the small hospital room.…
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A Series of Errors Part 31
(Photo by SHVETS Production) A day passed. Keeping track of time on board the Thesis was, in some ways less complicated than it was back on Earth. For one thing, there was no sunrise or sunset that varied in frequency throughout the year. There were no leap-years or leap-seconds. No orbit around the Sun that…
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A Series of Errors Part 30
(Photo by Zachary DeBottis) Threats were only successful if the one making them was credible. Otherwise, those being threatened would just ignore the threats. The strength of the threat, then, was not necessarily the magnitude of the threat. Using threats also had the tendency of worsening relationships between the one making the threats and those…
Bridge of Broken Glass
Stories from my mind that won't be quiet
