You are a Beta core, an Artificial intelligence built to pilot the Ferrum Empire’s most advanced mecha frames while being supervised by a human pilot. Finally, you have begun to prove your worth on the battlefield, even if not directly on the frontline.
Last time, Beta deployed to rescue a high value target from their own incompetence. In and out, with only a few laser marks as damage. And a few more traumatic memories for your pilot, Sophie.
That was two days ago. You have not been deployed again, and the Mobile Repair Vehicle your frame uses as a base has been moved around several times, though you lack knowledge of the precise reason for doing so.
Prior threads can be found at:
https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=Core%20of%20Steel%20QuestSome workers scramble along the gantries around you, armed with tablets and tools, at the direction of an engineer. You follow all this through your visual sensors, as you were not fully powered down by your pilot when she left. Of course, that doesn’t mean you kept your reactor running at full power while people were working on you, or that you would actively seek to inform others that you were still active and aware.
Never mind that a tech doing diagnostics yesterday repeatedly tried to turn you off when he noted the lack of power draw from the vehicle’s reactor. You bricked his tablet for that insult, and there were no further attempts.
At least the muck from the brief dip in the river was cleaned off, and your primary weapon cleaned where you deposited it, and ammo belts prepared for loading.
Now, again, all you need is a pilot to once again bring you back to the battlefield. Orders or not. All of this waiting is…..annoying.
Leaving you on has naturally led to you working on various projects which have captured your interest.
>You have spent your time intensively analyzing the last engagement, and identified several weaknesses in the enemy units you fought.Gain a bonus to engaging units of the same models you fought.
>You have worked on partitioning yourself into multiple sections, isolating pieces of yourself to be able to withstand the fallout of a potential ‘kill switch’ and e-war attacks on you.>You have been rooting around inside your own code, exhaustively testing and checking to see your internal blind spots or potential commands upon yourself. Progress is slow, as you are cautious when operating upon yourself.>You have been diligently working to install backdoors into the Mobile Repair Vehicle’s network, which should allow you to slip in your own requests directly to engineers or project leadership, under the guise of Sophie or another superior. Or perhaps to set up communications directly back to your sister cores. You’ve already sent several attempts at messagesChoose One.
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Bet ya thought this was dead. Well, I'll keep myself to a bit less of an update speed to limit burnout and a bit more planning.
