[color=#33CC00]“ Greetings, I have sent this transmission on behalf of Universal Shipping Inc. Its been sometime since we last spoke of a deal and its time we speak of one now. I know where your mind ventures. I will take the liberty of answering the question “ Why now?”. The Answers lies in your mind. We have a powerful nation that vows to conquer Liberty and her sister. We have to supply our Sister House through Enemy lines and our Security wing has been working with “ Usual Technology” all these days and transporting Liberty’s “ Experimental Prototypes”. Now I think its time we use something special on our ships that will make our convoys passing through the Gallic lines safer and thus by making us to risk more Convoys through the War Zones. What I intend to ask you is to update our Security Ships with “advanced” equipment and the same for our “ Transports” too. I do not ask this as a favour for USI. I intend you to do a favour for Liberty and her allies”
To: Universal Shipping, Individual Unknown
From: Ageira Technologies Headquarters, Planet Los Angeles.
Sub: Upgrades.
To whom it may concern;
Ageira Technologies is more than happy to oblige. We are happy to arrange an overhaul for your security and transportation vessels - at a discount, of course, for our favourite shippers.
You'll need to be a lot more specific, though, as to what you are looking for.
[color=#33CC00] Well some experimental Technology of yours on it. Advanced Scanner and Armour Improvement. Repairs and Repainting Jobs. Whatever you can do to make it better!!
And one more.. We will need some AI ships so that we can use it for scouting and other purposes putting my men's life at safety.
We can get our ships hauled to you. Do not worry about that.
After you brought up more advanced and possibly experimental technology, Mr McCain saw fit to refer you to me.
Allow me to begin by saying that Ageira Technologies as Liberty and indeed Sirius' premier technology corporation strives to provide the best service and most advanced technology at competitive and practical prices. Specifically we aim to provide and serve the Republic of Liberty to our best ability and as a priority, through upholding her economy and maintaining the infrastructure and technology with which to transport, explore, defend and indeed maintain the healthy livelihoods of her citizens.
As such, we provide Universal as well as some other Liberty assosications, groups, forces, corporations or otherwise with again, the very best we have to offer with recompensation taking a less financial stake, and rather a continuing brotherhood of trust, influence, supply and demand.
This is all, of course, a rather long-winded way of saying that we provide you with almost everything we can already. Our experimental technologies remain highly-guarded even within Ageira itself. To have them used by a corporation outside our own, even one as trusted as Universal Shipping Incorporated, is unfathomable. The risk in having said technologies stolen is of large concern, but also the safety of pilots anywhere in the vicinity of prototypes remains an issue. Our experiments are as yet just that, and will not under any near-forseeable circumstances be deployed as if they were fully tested and approved until they indeed are.
While the concept of an overhaul and refitting of your ships with the most up-to-date and truly state-of-the-art equipment is achievable and simply awaiting arrangement, your query about ships possessing artificial intelligence intrigues me thoroughly. If you can tell me about the specific extent of the requirements placed upon these ships, such as remote viewing, autonomous function etcetera, I'll endeavour to find what we have that may fulfil your needs.
To that end, the term 'AI' is thrown about so much that it is forgotten that the definition requires the innate ability to learn in an artificial machine. That's quite another matter entirely to simple drones. So please, do contact me in reply with these requirements and any refurbishments you would like to have carried out, however I would kindly ask if you could provide your name and identification. We do need to know to whom we are speaking.
The arrangement for refitting of our ships with the most up-to-date and truly state-of-the-art equipment can be done. We are ready to move our ships to any base you need.
As for the Requirements, I am sorry. I am just a Businessman. Not some High-Tech scientist. But I can tell you what I want in those "AI" ships. We don't want it to learn much. We want it to follow orders. We will primarily will use it to scout out lanes before our convoys jump in the Lanes. Thats all we need it to do. Of course when the convoy is in danger, it should be able to combat a little to save the convoy. Thats all we need.
Hello again. We'd be glad to organise refitting of your ships.
For most of your projects you can visit our industrial centres on Planet Denver. Costs will be determined on a ship by ship basis, depending on equipment requiring replacement upgrade, not neglecting the flagfall for inspection.
Sir, I'm not in the engineering department either. When I mentioned requirements, I meant exactly what you've described, specifically the hypothetical tasking of these units. Scouting would require for example, remote operation at the least. While we have a large selection of ground based autonomous drones, space-based drones are more limited.
As I'm sure you're aware, movement and navigation of space is much more difficult, not to mention a much harsher environment. The risk to drones as well as those in vicinity of their use is heightened due to these circumstances. Despite this of course we maintain an award winning state of the art line of space drones. These are at a considerable price in comparison to our non-space bound drones, although this price is low considering their abilities and in comparison to competitor's models, especially with the partnership between Ageira and Universal in view.
While we can provide you with drones able to carry out scouting tasks under remote control or autonomously, combat abilities are another matter. As you can understand a drone capable of initiating lethal attacks remotely or autonomously require strong control around their usage and implementation. For the most part these permissions are limited to Ageira personnel or for military applications. Ageira for the moment will not comment on the combination of these abilities or taskings and any sort of artificial intelligence.
If you would like a scout drone, we can arrange that. Please specify whether it should be autonomous or remote controlled. If you would like a ship capable of combat for escort purposes, hire a freelancer sir. In the mean time, I'll talk with those few people at my level and above in the company to discuss addressing that aspect of your needs.