It was another event filled patrol for me and Miss Belle, to make and understatement. I started my patrol within Alaska, confirmed 2 targets as fellow officer but then ran into a confused civilian near Juneau. Upon completion of jump to New York, with civie in-tow, my Miss Belle started suffering minor glitches. At first, I thought it might be due to relationship jitters seeing as we are just getting to know each other, at moment.
However, the glitches became more and more intense. I was foced to go to manual and, for a time, my course kept switching towards New York's Sun! While running manual diagonostics, I received a report from local Bounty Hunter of a possible pirate off of the Lanes between Westpoint and Manhattan. Under manual control I investigated.
As I came into scanner range of target "Smeagle" life signs showed a civie pilot in his hold. Natuarlly I assumed he had just been rescued. To my dismay "Smeagle" proved to be less than a humanitarian. Despite several opportunities to withdraw "Smeagle" refused my orders and threaten my destruction. As we can read, he failed in his endeavor and I was able to get our citizen to medical care at Manhattan.
Once I turned the civie over, i had Miss Belle re-activated and the techs and I found disturbing code within Miss Belle's central core:
Research.Drone-Erasure: :::This unit will delete jeff:::
Research.Drone-Erasure: :::This unit will delete all that gets in the way:::
Research.Drone-Erasure: :::this unit will delete all navy ::::
Research.Drone-Erasure: ::::Navy wants this unit to leave but there ships stop it leaving:::
Research.Drone-Erasure: :::This unit is set to full attack mode::::
Research.Drone-Erasure: ::::Erasure is this units code name
Research.Drone-Erasure: ::::Location Newyork::::
Research.Drone-Erasure: ::::Hacking Fortbush security systems::::
Research.Drone-Erasure: :::Uploading virus::::
Research.Drone-Erasure: :::Virus uploaded shutting down fortbush::::
Research.Drone-Erasure: :::fortbush offline:::
Research.Drone-Erasure: ::::Uploading virus to [LN]-Jeff.Blue:::
Research.Drone-Erasure: :::Virus uploaded shutting down all ship systems::::
Research.Drone-Erasure: :::Uploading new waypoint THE SUN to Jeffs Computer:::
Research.Drone-Erasure: :::New waypoint uploaded:::
Research.Drone-Erasure: :::Sets auto destruck on [LN]-Jeff.Blue ship 5 seconds:::
Research.Drone-Erasure: ::5::
Research.Drone-Erasure: :::4:::
Research.Drone-Erasure: :::3:::
[LN]-Jeff.Blue: Manual overide Delta1
Research.Drone-Erasure: :::2:::
Research.Drone-Erasure: :::link lost:::
[LN]-Jeff.Blue: hehehe, just gotta love the off switch
[LN]-Jeff.Blue: why we rule baby!
Research.Drone-Erasure: :::Weapons online::::
Research.Drone-Erasure: ::::Shutting down life support on Smeage cargohold:::
Research.Drone-Erasure: :::100k to target:::
Research.Drone-Erasure: :::weapons online target [LN]-Jeff.blue:::
Research.Drone-Erasure: :::Thiss unit will fire on sight of target:::
Research.Drone-Erasure: :::40k from target:::
Command, I shudder to think what might have happened if I had switched to manual a little slower or had not had a civie to attend to. I was not even aware that this AI was that close to me and Miss Belle. I hope this information shall lead to new software upgrades. Plus, I suggest we make such Critters KOS.
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