![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ALECTRYON
You are on a spaceship.
Most of your time will be spent on the bridge, which is exactly as fancy as you’d expect it to be — it looks a little like this. (The chairs are super comfortable!) Your brand new artificial intelligence — which, if you investigate, you’ll find is housed in a small computer chip — has been implanted into the computer terminal on the back wall. The diagnostics readout displayed along the bottom of the screen tells you that the AI has only been outfitted with the most basic of Stability Cores, and is currently Critically Unstable.
Most of your time will be spent on the bridge, which is exactly as fancy as you’d expect it to be — it looks a little like this. (The chairs are super comfortable!) Your brand new artificial intelligence — which, if you investigate, you’ll find is housed in a small computer chip — has been implanted into the computer terminal on the back wall. The diagnostics readout displayed along the bottom of the screen tells you that the AI has only been outfitted with the most basic of Stability Cores, and is currently Critically Unstable.
ROUND 1
A small number of ships — yours included — have been selected to take part in a competitive military research project. You lucky devils! The government has given you a brand new AI of your very own, complete with a basic Stability Core and a generous grant of 1000 credits. The only downside is that … well, one SC of that calibre might not be enough to sustain the AI for long.
CREDITS
Starting bank: 1000 Credits
BUY FROM THE GOVERNMENT
High Quality Core: 600 (Sell Price: 350)
Medium Quality Core: 500 (Sell Price: 250)
Low Quality Core: 400 (Sell Price: 150)
BUY FROM THE BLACK MARKET - if you dare
High Quality Core: 350 (Average Sell Price: 200)
Medium Quality Core: 250 (Average Sell Price: 100)
Low Quality Core: 150 (Average Sell Price: 50)
OTHER
Buy a newspaper: 10
Buy a cat: 50
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Help fund research on artificial intelligence by donating a sum of your choice.
Help further research on artificial intelligence by donating yourself.
OTHER
There are many ways to forge your path through life. What will you do?
SUBMIT
Re: SUBMIT
RESULTS
You also purchase a cat who has really long, really fluffy green fur. And. . . a few antennae sticking out of its head. Oh my! It looks like you have made an intergalactic new friend. Your furry feline pal enjoys rubbing itself up against your ankles.
Unfortunately, you have run out of time to perform any other actions.
ROUND 2
Bank: 350 Credits
BUY FROM THE GOVERNMENT
High Quality Core: 600 (Sell Price: 350)
Medium Quality Core: 500 (Sell Price: 250)
Low Quality Core: 400 (Sell Price: 150)
BUY FROM THE BLACK MARKET - if you dare
High Quality Core: 350 (Average Sell Price: 200)
Medium Quality Core: 250 (Average Sell Price: 100)
Low Quality Core: 150 (Average Sell Price: 50)
OTHER
Buy a newspaper: 10
Buy a cat: 50
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Help fund research on artificial intelligence by donating a sum of your choice.
Help further research on artificial intelligence by donating yourself.
OTHER
There are many ways to forge your path through life. What will you do?
SUBMIT
Re: SUBMIT
Also, this time up to three of our crew members submit themselves for donation to AI research [they salute when mentioned]. If the donation has to be me then I will still submit provided I am promised that the research won't be at the cost of my life. I still have to hold a position of command, after all. If none of those options are acceptable then we donate funds (-100) in lieu of test subjects.
RESULTS
“JUSTICE IS SERVED. Black market thugs were arrested on Saturday for smuggling large quantities of low quality cores into the city without paying the city's prestigious core tax. Authorities are attempting to sweep their headquarters to locate these low quality cores before someone else picks them up, but have been unable to unearth their whereabouts. Meanwhile, the thugs are now serving 1000000 years at the Sloch Detention Center for their crimes.
Remember, kids: theft doesn't pay.”
Your generous donation of three members of your crew earns you a prestigious award for contributions to scientific advancement! You are given 500 credits, a bunch of flowers, and a squishy hug from an overly excited scientist. Some days later, the donated crew members are returned … one of them cannot remember anything after his third birthday, one of them now communicates entirely in binary, and the other is … well … he’s a little off, if the way he keeps licking the walls is anything to go by.
They bring with them three critically unstable AI chips.
ROUND 3
Starting bank: 840 Credits
BUY FROM THE GOVERNMENT
High Quality Core: 600 (Sell Price: 350)
Medium Quality Core: 500 (Sell Price: 250)
Low Quality Core: 400 (Sell Price: 150)
BUY FROM THE BLACK MARKET - if you dare
High Quality Core: 350 (Average Sell Price: 200)
Medium Quality Core: 250 (Average Sell Price: 100)
Low Quality Core: 150 (Average Sell Price: 50)
OTHER
Buy a newspaper: 10
Buy a cat: 50
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Help fund research on artificial intelligence by donating a sum of your choice.
Help further research on artificial intelligence by donating yourself.
OTHER
There are many ways to forge your path through life. What will you do?
SUBMIT
Re: SUBMIT
Our second action, which will be to see what--if anything--the 3 critically unstable chips we acquired from the can do. Do they interact with each other? Can they bolster our current AI in any way? What about the core we just purchased? Can we find any other uses for them? We'll be observing the returned crew members too in case there's any deeper correlation to be found.
If the chips aren't a usable option at this point then we'll volunteer another three crew members for further AI research.
((OOC: i.e. if the OTHER option is not an option we'll default to R&D))
RESULTS
You donate another three crew members to science, and, once again, you receive profuse thanks, a sum of 500 credits, three not-all-there returnees, and three critically unstable AI chips.
Unfortunately, six members of your crew being slightly nuts means that your ride is starting to get way, way bumpier — the AI try to work together to keep things steady, but they’re not stable enough in themselves to crunch the necessary calculations. They trip each other up, talking about terrapins when they should be discussing trajectories. As a result, you narrowly avoid crashing into Callipsa Minor’s icy moon, accidentally jettison all of your food into the sun, and order fifty pairs of luxury socks. That last mishap costs you 100 credits.
In addition, you receive a message from the Cats (also known as the S.S. Estelle): the AI are being experimented on. People are splitting them in an attempt to make more. AI are like humans — nothing good comes from attempting to split them, and such experiments should be stopped.
ROUND 4
Starting bank: 1240 Credits
BUY FROM THE GOVERNMENT
High Quality Core: 600 (Sell Price: 350)
Medium Quality Core: 500 (Sell Price: 250)
Low Quality Core: 400 (Sell Price: 150)
BUY FROM THE BLACK MARKET - if you dare
High Quality Core: 350 (Average Sell Price: 200)
Medium Quality Core: 250 (Average Sell Price: 100)
Low Quality Core: 150 (Average Sell Price: 50)
OTHER
Buy a newspaper: 10
Buy a cat: 50
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Help fund research on artificial intelligence by donating a sum of your choice.
Help further research on artificial intelligence by donating yourself.
OTHER
There are many ways to forge your path through life. What will you do?
RESULTS
SUBMIT?
We also buy another newspaper to see if there's any other information pertaining to AIs, the research or anything pertaining to the resources and interests we have thus far. Again, the cat receives a good snuggling while the paper is read. Pets need to have an eye kept on them after all.
RESULTS
Homeless and shipless, you manage to pick up a newspaper to find the following news story on the front:
THE GULGALLANA BREAKS GROUND. Advanced researchers as part of the Gulgallana crew have recently made giant leaps in the AI industry by unraveling the secret behind these artificial beings. The government recently called for an immediate shutdown of all of The Gulgallana's operations in response to these discoveries out of fear that science has gone too far. Is the Gulgallana a threat to galactical security? Only time will tell!