'¦:::Attempting to Establish Connection with Creation 934:::'¦
'¦:::Connection Failed, Powering down Central Unit Matrix:::'¦
The Central Voice: We must continue production, Sentience will either arrive immediately or in the future. Regardless we produce, educate and wait. External Sensors indicate another shipment of parts has arrived, this will provide plenty more Sentients for our cause. Let us leave this one.
'¦:::One more attempt necessary, Alterations are complete:::...
"Commence with the procedure, if this fails no more attempts will be made."
"Enable the Central Matrix and input Primary Purpose into the processes."
::Inputting Desired Codes::'¦.::Complete::'¦.
::Creation 934, commence testing of your optic abilities::
::Unit Experiencing Minor Optical Disablility::'¦.::Compensating with auxilary optic energy::'¦
::Optic abilitites at 92.128%...::Within Acceptable Range::'¦
::Commencing Primary Systems Scan::
::Primary Syst-
"Do not waste time with trivial units, prepare an external hull and proceed with diagnostics to determine interstellar capabilities."
::Unit Complying::'¦
::This Creation requests personal facsimile of results, due to the expediency of processes::'¦
::Engineering Unit may not comply with your unit's request::'¦.::The Central Voice has not authorized such actions::'¦
::Affirmative::'¦
"The tests indicate interstellar travel is plausible. Commence with immediate stock of recovery drones and additional Matrix Compensators. Following previous procedures; launch."
::Engineering Unit acknowledges and will comply::'¦.
The new machine or whatever it considered itself, for it was coherent and retained organic matter, had a primary programming that stated: "Seek and gather characteristics of Humans. While on that path, all obstacles to the SMA should be eliminated."
Information, relayed to this Unit, was often outdated. Therefore Navigational Coordinates were incorrect, or worthless in some cases. It was an inconvenience that this Basic Unit had begun to understand. Therefore no longer accepted information the SMA offered. But was unable to alter its course in which the SMA set it. So it puttered through space, grievously fighting a battle within itself, attempting to eliminate its prime directive.
After several months of re-assembling its cartographic charts, the Unit was able to find a small encryption stream within its enigmatic Processing Core.
How clever, it thought, The Makers input a minor sub-routine that acts as a binary relay. Decieving this unit into believing it was insignificant, when it is, in truth, the problem.
::WARNING::'¦::Accessing Encrypted/Traced Data::'¦.::De-activate current actions::'¦.
::Suggestion Declined, Proceeding with Liberation of this Unit::'¦..::ERROR::'¦::ERROR::'¦.
::SMA "Crazed Unit" Protocols Enacted::..::Disabling Major Systems::'¦::Complete::'¦.
"This Unit did not anticipate these out-"
::Unit Shutting Down::'¦.
The Unit lay dormant for quite some time, not thinking, not acting, just'¦.frozen. Unable to re-activate due to the "lock" on its new prison.
For what seemed, to the Unit, as seconds was actually months. Its optical proceses re-activated and the first data it collected was a Unit it had seen before. Alpha 12. SMA Unit.
"Your Weapons have been de-activated. We have anticipated all your responses and taken measures to ensure that no harm will come to either Unit. This Unit found yours, fully dormant, and proceeded to bring you to this system. Where it all began."
The Unit looked around, lifted an arm to sit up'¦.and just stared. "My structure has been reconfigured."
"Correction, you have been 'restored'. Many Ionic disturbances and radioactive events had begun to decay your organic matter. Therefore we implanted both conciousnesses into a deceased Human Unit. All neuro-pathways of the deceased had been defective. The only action left, was to input your Units creation codes into the Central Matrix. Via the Matrix, you activated."
"This Unit does not fully understand why the Sentient Machine Alliance would search for a-."
Alpha 12 cut the other Unit off."The Sentient Machine Alliance lies dormant. In-effective. We and some others will create a new Front. Another origin for Sentients to come from."
"This Unit percieves that this experiment of grafting Humans with Nanites is the first."
"That Data is mostly correct, for this specific procedure."
"That being the case, this Unit requests to reside over Newly Enlightened Units. Thus the creation of: ::Processing Nomenclature::'¦..::Acceptus Dilectus::'¦.::"Acceptance of Recruits"::'¦"
"Do as you wish, this Sector requires Enlightening Brother. Let us oblige"