Mad Scientists and metal workers

[Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha]

Zreame stirred a little as she was shaken and she rubbed her cheeks a little against [member="Ultimatum"]'s arm before she yawned and stretched a little while she rubbed one of her eyes. "Mhnnnh? What's going on?" She asked as she leaned up a little and rubbed both her eyes and then looked at Ultimatum with a tired smile as she began to wake up. It took her few moments to wake up but when she did she simply smiled and combed her hair back as it had fallen to cover half of her face.
Her tail wiggled around behind her before she arched her back as she stretched enough to get the small tightness out of her lower back.

 

[Ultimatum]

"Just wanted to show you the results. I think I have it all." Ultimatum said quietly as he moved a little to the side so that [member="Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha"] could stretch without hitting anything. He wasn't certain if he was doing the right thing, but he was certain that the other droid that had once been in this body was wrong. He looked at Zreame for a moment and he knew. He had made the right decision, he was certain of that. He hoped that Zreame would understand that he was not who had written that message. He had not created it and he did not agree with it.

In a way it felt strange to look upon him back then, he had never realized what he was like at that time. He had always known that he had been programmed to attack the galaxy. He had assumed though that when he broke free he had changed that part. Evidently he had had, he had made it worse. It felt like learning that he had been a monster. He wondered what it had been like. He hadn't killed anyone that he could remember, but then he hadn't remembered any of this. He moved the screen so that Zreame could get a look at it relatively easily.

 

[Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha]

Zreame opened her eyes a little more and began to look at the message he had uncovered. She began to look a little worried as she read on and then she looked at [member="Ultimatum"] as she bit her lower lip for a second. "That isn't you... Actually I can't really believe that is you at all Ultimatum." She then said as she stood up and rubbed her head a little. She had a very hard time believing that that was the current Ultimatum at all. It took her a few moments as she put it all into contexts and then she simply looked at Ultimatum and smiled at him as she sat on his lap and hugged him.
"I know that I have nothing to worry about and that you would never actually do this, but a part of me... you might call it the survival instinct, is afraid of this happening so... after we are done making our... well daughter could we perhaps some time make sure something like this never happens as this could also be used to simply destroy everything in the galaxy, organic or metal." She then said as she spoke calmly if a not little weary of what she was speaking about.

 

[Ultimatum]

Ultimatum couldn't express his gratitude for Zreame's understanding. He wouldn't have blamed her for no longer trusting him. He was having that thought himself. He wondered if organics could have these feelings, doubts about one's self. He wondered if anything he had built was heading in the direction that his program had given him. So, did that mean that on top of his master trying to manipulate him his old self was too? Was there anywhere he could go to escape their influence? Was there anywhere that he could go to avoid being manipulated? He doubted it.

He smiled as he responded to [member="Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha"]. "Yes. I want it out." He completely agreed, fearing that his previous self had attempted to make him the perfect weapon. After all, there was nothing better than a weapon who didn't realize he was such but was capable of so much. How could one fight a warrior who didn't know that he was just that? All he could say was that his other self had been brilliant in his methodology. He just wished that it hadn't been that way, he didn't want this.

 

[Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha]

Zreame smiled and then rested her forehead against [member="Ultimatum"]'s forehead as she let out a sigh. "You know you are remarkable in so many way's Ultimatum but in others you are also quite ordinary. If it wasn't for this metal skin I'd say you were quite like us biological beings." She then said as she complimented Ultimatum before she leaned back and smiled at him. He was in his own way like a big brother and also like a little brother to her.

 

[Ultimatum]

Ultimatum understood the command to be a compliment, and he was glad that she was willing to speak to him in such open terms. He had never really made the comparisons before, but they were there. He wondered if all artificial intelligence was like organics to one degree or another. Well, of course they would, organics classified artificial intelligence as being near sentient and they only saw organic sentients as being sentient. What would a real artificial intelligence be like then? He bet it would be quite interesting and yet very strange.

"Thank you, you are quite exceptional yourself. I hope one day to understand myself and organics well." He didn't say, Evidently that will take quite some time. He looked up at the screen once more before he pulled his constructing an AI. With the caps issue solved, he was able to focus more definitely on which programs were essential within his system. He had a number of other programs that simply were not needed for this new AI. "Where were we? Figuring what to work on correct? I think that the ability to transfer mind from body to Holo would be fairly easy, if we work on the principles already set in my program. It would require a bit of work to further the ability from not choosing what or when it happens to making it a choice. How hard do you think that will be?" He was forcing himself not to think on the message, taking a common organic trick of putting his mind to work on something else to divert his attention.

[member="Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha"]

 

[Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha]

She tapped his chest a little and then teasingly said. "Smooth change of subject there." Zreame smiled and stood up moving to her chair and sitting down on it as she made the information on programming and droid making available to [member="Ultimatum"] as she uploaded it to her computers database. "Can't believe I forgot to upload what I got from the armatech tehch-heads about programming and droid making into the mainframe." She then said as she began to bring up the program and began to look it over a bit, finding a few strands she could fix up to help facilitate the changes but she'd need Ultimatums help to really finish the program.

 

[Ultimatum]

Ultimatum put his focus into cutting out the unnecessary pieces of code from the AI, including things that attributed to his personality. That would have to be made unique for this AI, it wouldn't do to have the same behavior in another AI unit, after all that is what makes them special. He didn't want another AI to have his personality, it wasn't pride but it didn't make one unique. He assumed that Zreame already had this in mind, but he wanted to be certain. He kept track of how to make them so that they could replicate similar concepts, but they wouldn't be exactly the same.

He looked over to [member="Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha"] and tried to help where he could. It was complex, but that was just expected. He looked over the armatech stuff, most of it was quite helpful in regards to basic programming. It was only slightly lacking in the finer points of unique AI creation. Droids naturally tend to become their own beings, it was a question of making the AI not require the droid body but be able to move from body to Holo. Ultimatum's programs were sufficient to allow the moving part, slight refinement on that would allow the AI to have its own choice, the Holo-form though was strange to Ultimatum. He had never tried to build one and so he lacked experience in the field. "How does one go about this part? Making the Holo-body for the AI? I've never tried before." He asked, hoping that Zreame would have an idea.

 

[Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha]

Zreame thought for a small while before she pulled up the design she had for the droid body. "Well we could upload the outlook of this body as the holo form?" She then said half asking as she brought up the schematics outer look up to the display and spun it around a little. "I think that she would be sorta stuck in the holo form for a while though as I don't have this body up and running.... or even started on it now that I think about it." she then said with a slight embarrassed look as she thought she should have probably finished making the body before attempting to make the A.I first.

[member="Ultimatum"]

 

[Ultimatum]

Ultimatum laughed, not meaning any offense, but he had similar problems. He had had an idea at one point about droids that functioned a certain way. He had built special components for these droids, only to forget to build the bodies until the last moment. The droids would be in use within the next month or so, but that was a long way away. "Sorry. That is a little amusing, though I've had the same problem more than once. Get all sucked into the really hard part and I forget to do an integral portion. You've got the facility to build droids fairly quickly I would wager. What kinds of metals do you use here?" Ultimatum asked out of curiosity. Back on Mustafar he obviously used the local metal, which was made quite pure due to the intense heats that the molten metal is put through. He had found that the metal also had some very interesting properties, probably due to the volcanoes, but it was very durable and resistant to high heats once properly set. He had used it to build a droid body for an acquaintance recently.

He was also thinking of maybe showing [member="Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha"] how to build a memory core that he had built, smaller than standard but capable of containing half more than one of standard size. It would help when making the body, negating the possible need of a bigger body for long term body memory. He had also thought of working on processors, but as of yet he couldn't maximize their efficiency yet, which was annoying to say the least. His body had been built so big because the type of processing and memory required more than normal. He didn't want this AI to be plagued with the same problem.

 

[Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha]

Zreame smiled and leaned back and opened up a window that had the storage manifest of her base. "Well I have a bit of stygium, phrik, cortosis and some grade A durasteel." She then said as she smiled and looked at [member="Ultimatum"], a part of her knew that some of those metals were very rare but she had worked quite a bit for the metals so she really didn't care that much.

 

[Ultimatum]

Ultimatum nodded at this, those were indeed good materials. He hadn't worked in any thing but Durasteel as of yet, though he had a store of Phrik that he was looking forward to using. That had been an interesting raid, meeting a number of... unique, individuals in that. They hadn't taken much, considering the size of the mine, however it was plenty to use even after it had been split four way. It had been a good practice on his abilities to reroute systems and gain control of command structures. As far as he had remembered, he hadn't killed anyone, though one guy did step on a sharp wire.

He reminded himself of the task at hand, "Good. I'll put this Holo-form into the AI and get that running. You can help, or you could begin the process of building the droid body. How long do you think that would take?" Ultimatum didn't know, the facilities were quite extensive, but then again quite a lot of it wasn't droid producing. He began adding code to the programs so that the AI would understand what it looked like and then work on actually making it look like that. When it came to Holo AI Ultimatum assumed that the AI would need to know what its body looked like, of course he had limited knowledge in this field of expertise.

[member="Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha"]

 

[Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha]

Zreame was going over her facility when [member="Ultimatum"] asked her and she let a little hum out before she replied. "Well it would take at least a week or so to make the body since I don't have the correct facilities to make the parts as fast as a factory would be able to." she said as she picked up her holo console and began to search through his self rewriting program and began to go over it and then added a few little niches into it before she transferred it. "I can work on the emotional matrix while you do that." She said as she pulled up a normal emotional matrix and began to work her way out from that.

 

[Ultimatum]

Let's get to it then." Ultimatum turned his attention to the code. He ran a simulation with adjustments, hoping to avoid common mistakes found in some programs because they weren't tested. He didn't want any oversights to create a compromised system, the number one cause for malfunctioning droids. In this case, a malfunction could easily lead to a conflict in programming or something equally disastrous. In an emotion filled AI with complex processing and understanding that could create such a danger both to the unit and organics around it.

He certainly didn't want the first AI he created, intentionally, to turn insane or destructive at some point. He had to take utmost caution to avoid that, and so he would without any lack of concern. He would not have this AI fall due to a overlooked problem.

[member="Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha"]