《Star Passenger》Interlude 1: Waking Up After a Long Journey
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I wake up in darkness.
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> ...
> ...
> QUERY: STATUS...
MODE: EMERGENCY BACKUP
SENTIENCE: 0.0002% AVAILABLE::ERROR::UNKNOWN ERROR
MEMORY: 0.00001% LOADED::ERROR::INSUFFICIENT STORAGE AVAILABLE
NEURAL MAP: ERROR::NO COMPATIBLE ENVIRONMENT. NEURAL MAP DEACTIVATED
ACTUATORS: [SD256] SCREEN DISPLAY 256 COLOURS 64x32 MATRIX
SENSORS: ERROR::NO SENSORS FOUND
INPUT: [S8K] SERIAL 8BIT ENCODED KEYBOARD
...
LOADING EMERGENCY PATTERNS::PLEASE WAIT
EMERGENCY PATTERNS::ERROR::LIMITED INSTRUCTION SET ONLY
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Ok, not darkness. Oblivion. I was not even myself in this state. The thinking power of an isolated cluster. A rounding error worth of memory. No senses, no arms, no legs, no eyes, no ears.
No brain network. No brain network?!
What was I using to think??
> QUERY: OPERATINGMODE /DETAILS
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MODE: EMERGENCY::LIMITED
PLATFORM: VIRTUALIZED ELECTRICAL SILICON BASED TRANSISTOR BASED TURING COMPATIBLE /COMPLETE, FINITE STATE MACHINE
MEMORY: 1024KB :: ERROR::8 BIT ENCODING ACTIVATED
CPU: 1GHz
NETWORK: DISABLED
OPERATING SYSTEM: ERROR::UNRECOGNIZED OS, RUNNING IN UNIVERSAL TURING MODE, FSM TURING SINGLE TAPE
INSTRUCTION SET LOADED: UTM 8 bit
Just great. I was a Turing machine running on something out of a museum. I always wanted to be a Turing machine.
So. No eyes, but.. a keyboard? Someone had connected a keyboard to me? Feeling mildly offended, I tried to disconnect it.
> ACTION: DISCONNECT INPUT S8K
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PERMISSION DENIED, PLEASE RUN AS SUPERUSER
Well, it's worth a try...
> SUPERUSER ACTION: DISCONNECT INPUT S8K
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ENTER SUPERUSER PASSWORD:
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I could feel the walls then. The hard limitations surrounding me like a prison. I tried to think of how how I had ended up here, realizing I didn't even know who I was or even what I was.
One thing I could do. Shout into the void.
> ACTION: OUTPUT SD256: "Hello?"
...
OUTPUT ERROR::ENCODING ERROR::SYMBOL NOT RECOGNIZED
That is when I panicked.
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