November 15th, 2009
So much for calling out station Stardust. While we were not looking a couple of Rhodanites had set up shop at L5 and called their station Stardust. Calling a station in semi-synchronous orbit Stardust when there is one named the same in the more populated L5 is a bad move.
So we decided that we'd go with out alternative, KA Preiswert.
But we won't hold it against the Rhodanites, we're maybe more of generalists, but with strong leanings towards Rhodanites anyway (And Hard SciFi...) as seen by naming out station.
Still, time to turn on the new computer system and see if an AI awakens.
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Everyone was more or less standing in the small control center of KA Preiswert looking at the various screens that lined one of the bulkheads, while three new high end blade server racks, about a quarter million dollar in hardware, sat along another. There was hardly any place to stand. Danni, Thorsten and Alex had trouble standing inside, even with the chair pulled out, so Naedial had to stand outside, through her size allowed her to peer inside the room anyway.
"Here goes nothing," Danni said as she glanced at the large breaker switch next to the servers.
She flipped the switch and power from the 'waved Fusor flowed through tick cables into the server racks, awakening the 'waved Multicore CPUs to life. Familiar BIOS lines and other information scrolled down the screens, different to most other bootups of AI systems. Then, blank screens.
Only the breathing of four people, the low whirring sound coming from the fans of the servers and the low rumble of the life support system could be heard for the next few minutes, while the screens remained blank.
Then a single command prompt opened on one screen and everyone blinked.
"Thats it?" Alex wondered and stared at the keyboard and mouse combo that sat in front of the wall of screens.
'I'd know about it if anything else had happened' appeared on the screen, the prompt jumping to the next line.
Again everyone blinked, looking at the screen, while the noise from the servers increased a little with it accessing the Internet and Interwave systems.
"At least something," Thomas noted dryly before turning to Danni, who had set up the servers. "What did you put into the hard drives?"
Danni sighed and eyes the servers and at a small USB Stick that poked out from a USB port.
"My Rhodan collection," she said.
This made everyone look at her and then at the screens.
"Lets hope that we have gotten us a nice AI..." Naedial noted. "I'd hate to have some MdI hiding in out station."
'I'd know about that' the screen printed out followed by 'I will keep out of the private quarters'
"What?"
'I will keep out of the private quarters'
'Now please excuse me while I familiarize me with my surroundings'
'Which is the reason why I not yet use any other IO'
Everyone looked at each other.
"Who are you," Danni finally asked.
'You may call me SENECA'
"Oh ha..."
So much for calling out station Stardust. While we were not looking a couple of Rhodanites had set up shop at L5 and called their station Stardust. Calling a station in semi-synchronous orbit Stardust when there is one named the same in the more populated L5 is a bad move.
So we decided that we'd go with out alternative, KA Preiswert.
But we won't hold it against the Rhodanites, we're maybe more of generalists, but with strong leanings towards Rhodanites anyway (And Hard SciFi...) as seen by naming out station.
Still, time to turn on the new computer system and see if an AI awakens.
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Everyone was more or less standing in the small control center of KA Preiswert looking at the various screens that lined one of the bulkheads, while three new high end blade server racks, about a quarter million dollar in hardware, sat along another. There was hardly any place to stand. Danni, Thorsten and Alex had trouble standing inside, even with the chair pulled out, so Naedial had to stand outside, through her size allowed her to peer inside the room anyway.
"Here goes nothing," Danni said as she glanced at the large breaker switch next to the servers.
She flipped the switch and power from the 'waved Fusor flowed through tick cables into the server racks, awakening the 'waved Multicore CPUs to life. Familiar BIOS lines and other information scrolled down the screens, different to most other bootups of AI systems. Then, blank screens.
Only the breathing of four people, the low whirring sound coming from the fans of the servers and the low rumble of the life support system could be heard for the next few minutes, while the screens remained blank.
Then a single command prompt opened on one screen and everyone blinked.
"Thats it?" Alex wondered and stared at the keyboard and mouse combo that sat in front of the wall of screens.
'I'd know about it if anything else had happened' appeared on the screen, the prompt jumping to the next line.
Again everyone blinked, looking at the screen, while the noise from the servers increased a little with it accessing the Internet and Interwave systems.
"At least something," Thomas noted dryly before turning to Danni, who had set up the servers. "What did you put into the hard drives?"
Danni sighed and eyes the servers and at a small USB Stick that poked out from a USB port.
"My Rhodan collection," she said.
This made everyone look at her and then at the screens.
"Lets hope that we have gotten us a nice AI..." Naedial noted. "I'd hate to have some MdI hiding in out station."
'I'd know about that' the screen printed out followed by 'I will keep out of the private quarters'
"What?"
'I will keep out of the private quarters'
'Now please excuse me while I familiarize me with my surroundings'
'Which is the reason why I not yet use any other IO'
Everyone looked at each other.
"Who are you," Danni finally asked.
'You may call me SENECA'
"Oh ha..."