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[anuglybloom]

True or False:

* Earth is a backwoods trash heap that no one lives on anymore.

* There is civilization in the neighboring solar system.

* My home world is shared among many intelligent, non-human species.

[ At the bottom of this post is an embedded invite to a mobile game. Challenge me!, it says. Her score is high. ]

Comments

[anuglybloom]

You seem sure about the next solar system, everyone else is just guessing.

[mechspeed]

I believe my creator plans to make contact with an alien species from precisely there, but it is, as the saying goes, on the backburner.

[anuglybloom]

How does that feel, being created?

1/2

[mechspeed]

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[mechspeed]

I was not brought online until the creation process had concluded.

I would assume it is comparable to being born for organic life?

[anuglybloom]

Organic life doesn't have the benefit of simply being brought online with a switch.

[mechspeed]

I suppose. I have never given it much thought.

There are some fundamental differences we may never understand.

[anuglybloom]

It's interesting you were given any sense of self-possession.

Most engineers wouldn't have bothered.

[mechspeed]

It was not by design. I was designed as a weapon first and foremost, but my AI chip simply evolved further and further until I achieved sentience.

[It actually glitched the hell out because of hate but that's the kind of thing you keep to yourself.]

[anuglybloom]

That's quite an oversight. And what did daddy think about that?

[mechspeed]

He was displeased, of course. But his opinion on the matter is irrelevant.

[anuglybloom]

That's the spirit.

[mechspeed]

[...yes, well.

Moving right along...]

What was your intention behind these questions? Would you be considered an alien life form to someone hailing from Earth?

[anuglybloom]

I'm an Oscyrian human. No one has lived on Earth in ages.

[mechspeed]

Were humans forced to escape Earth after all?

[anuglybloom]

That's the story.

[mechspeed]

I see. There were some predictions their industrial society would offer prosperity and comfort at the cost of the very Earth itself, forcing them to relocate.

I am not surprised if that prediction came true.