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“Monitor. Action needed.”
<span class="mu-b">”What is it?”</span>
“Anomaly detected. Approaching at sub-light speeds.”
<span class="mu-b">”What is it?”</span>
“Currently unknown. Relaying data now. Object mass is within known ranges of spaceships, but no ship signal is being emitted. No communications devices, nor computer systems that can be pinged to confirm identity.”
<span class="mu-b">”Other likely possibilities?”</span>
“Asteroid or grouping of gas. These will burn up harmlessly in atmosphere at this size. Caution. Momentum is not congruent with gravity pull of planet, hence why this is an anomaly.”
<span class="mu-b">”Okay, so what is it then?! Visual data?!”</span>
“Unknown. No visual contact. Sound alarm?”
The computer here is asking for your imput now. It has no more useful information to give you. So if it doesn't seem to be a starship, then it has to be space junk, but its space junk that acts strangely. It has the gravity of an object with mass but isn't obeying normal gravity rules. No wonder the AI is asking you for advice here. You need to go with your gut.
Truth be told, you've been thankful every day you haven't had to make a decision like this. The truth is that sounding the alarm willy-nilly sounds easy for this job, but it isn't. You are the space monitor for the entire planet. If you sound the alarm, the citizens on this planet, including your own wife and child, will run to cover in the nearest bombardment shelter. It's what you were put here to do. Naturally, you could save so many people by giving them a warning in advance. But it isn't that simple; sounding an alarm when it isn't needed is going to fuck everything up. Imagine how many people that would impact; <span class="mu-i">billions</span> of people having their daily schedule interrupted. All those soldiers in training, all those business people and factory workers and AI managers doing things; any disruption from a false alarm will cost billions of DM to the government. And very likely, a harsh punishment or replacement to the monitor who falsely sounded the alert!
Wrix is no longer the Unspeakable. You wouldn't fear for your life the same way if you made a single mistake in your position now, but that doesn't make a mistake any less costly. You don't want to screw up, but even the AI can't make a call here. What's the right call? Is there any reason to believe the Esaal are behind this? What should you do?
>Sound Alarm
>Give All-Clear
