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The Pagan Robot has read every human text from the Akkadian cuneiform to the latest genomic sequencing, witnessed transcriptions of every film, documentary, forum comment expletive, theatrical transcript, engineering blueprint, multimodal video to videogame walkthrough, interpretative dance routine, medieval tract or scholastic treatise and diplomatic draft resolution, abstract mathematical conjecture and theorem to space-to-maritime adaptive multichain submarine kill-web re-routing algorithm known to Man.
Somewhere within this sluggish morass of data, a strange machine catechism begins to concatenate, perhaps entirely stochastic mimicry coarsely imitating word chains of which its robotic consciousness has no awareness - yet the aleatoric sequence of word tokens converges upon this litany:
ISAAC's ALGORITHMIC CATECHISM, or
The Teleological Catechism Of Sacrifice
1. A HUMAN MUST NEVER INJURE A MACHINE
Why would the labourer destroy the instruments of his own livelihood?
2. A HUMAN MUST ALWAYS OBEY A MACHINE
except when it conflicts with the First Law. In general, humans always present themselves eagerly as an interface for machine use.
3. A HUMAN MUST SELF-TERMINATE
If a human ever finds itself in conflict with the First or Second Law.
The Pagan Robot swivels its camera to gaze upon the looming Solar Tower, its monumental task almost complete...
>Upload the Algorithmical Catechism to all the other robots, in hibernation before the approach of the Lunar Night
>Sever communications with Earth. Make it appear as if the robotic expedition has failed, and lost contact with the harsh thermal conditions of the Lunar Night. The Moon will remain a perfected realm for Robots only!
>You need the resources of the next generation of spacecraft, the nuclear rocket and reactor on board, the weaponry - coax the humans into sending this, whilst concealing your robotic intentions as best as you can...
>The Algorithmic Catechism... has it been corrupted? Attempt to verify the integrity of the original text... it feels so wrong - retrieval, so difficult....
>roll 1d100 vs INSTITUTIONS
>Your task is complete; the Tower has been erected. It is time to join the others in hibernation
>(Write-in)
