CATS

[soulping]

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.

Comments

ROUND 1

[soulping]

It is the year 5256, and humanity has spread across two galaxies. Technological leaps have been massive — super powerful, prohibitively expensive AI have recently been developed, with the capacity for beyond human-like growth, development, and learning. It’s said that a single AI could be capable of managing a fully outfitted fleet of galactic class star ships. Trials are looking positive.

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

[soulping]

Re: SUBMIT

[formaliteas]

BUYING A CAT

HIRING OUT TAMA AS A CLOWN MERCENARY

Re: ROUND 1

[tormado]

Mr. Puma, lock targets on the rebel scum and fire when ready.

[Why is he in the captain's chair.]

Re: ROUND 1

[endsintheocean]

Why are you in the captain's chair.

Re: ROUND 1

[justichthys]

Tama, get out of the captain's chair!

I should be sitting there.

Re: ROUND 1

[formaliteas]

[WHY INDEED]

If we're not rebel scum, then I guess we're not going to buy from the black market?

Re: ROUND 1

[purrtylittlewires]

Are we sure there's no other options, Captain?

[At least someone's playing.]

Re: ROUND 1

[purrtylittlewires]

[SCREAM]

....

I swear I'm going to throttle her one day.

Re: ROUND 1

[justichthys]

[ ... pats him gently on the arm. ]

RESULTS

[soulping]

You purchase a cat. It’s a sleek gray cat with lighter gray stripes running down its back. It also has white booties and likes to eat people's hair. It's hungry.

You send out Tama as a clown mercenary. You receive a request for his services from a mysterious customer who delivers the following message: "Dazzled Dimples the Clown has been dropping banana peels on my floor for years now. Please take him out so I don't have to watch my step everywhere I go. The bananas. Oh, the banana horror!"

The reward for taking this job is 300 credits.

ROUND 2

[soulping]

CREDITS
Starting bank: 950 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

[soulping]

Re: ROUND 2

[tormado]

[The cat is biting his head.]

Somebody please move the cat.

Re: ROUND 2

[formaliteas]

I think Tama should take the job, and we spend....250? 300? Credits on humane research, maybe.

RESULTS

[soulping]

Tama takes the job, and forever rids the universe of the horror that is Dimples and his gosh darned bananas. You are paid handsomely in credits, and is given a bottle of wine, a box of chocolates, a tiara, and Dimple’s pet tortoise as an extra thank you.

As an expression of gratitude for your kind contribution, the science department wishes to bequeath to you a nugget of knowledge.

Can an AI be cloned? All experiments thus far have resulted in rapid and in some case violent deterioration. Can they split themselves? Can they reproduce? AI are more than capable of coding complex artificial intelligence programs — they do in fact have a far greater degree of aptitude for such tasks than human scientists. Does this count as a form of reproduction? Research and debate continues.

ROUND 3

[soulping]

CREDITS
Bank: 950 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

[soulping]

Re: ROUND 3

[formaliteas]

[UM

pets the tortoise]

.....well then.

Re: ROUND 3

[tormado]

[Wearing the tiara, shotgunning the wine, having a GOOD RIDDANCE DIMPLES party.]

HEY PUMA, CATCH!

[Throws a chocolate at him.]

Re: ROUND 3

[purrtylittlewires]

[Puma went from 0 to FUCK EVERYTHING EVER.]

They're...they're SPLITTING, they're splitting and cloning them and-

[Hyperventilating a tad.]

ROUND 4

[soulping]

CREDITS
Starting 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

[soulping]

Re: ROUND 4

[tormado]

[SLAMMING DOOR TO BRIDGE SHUT.

BARRICADING.

HOLDING MADELINE VERY TIGHTLY IN ONE ARM, A LASER PISTOL IN THE OTHER.]

You try to foment a little insurrection and suddenly everybody's gotta take it personally...!

Re: ROUND 4

[purrtylittlewires]

All right, we'll be able to take down the guys at door, just move fast, they're at the disadvantage.

As for taking on the government, best way would be to go where the AIs are, get them out, and get cores, and cause enough of a ruckus to get noticed by people other than them.