[Tadashi pov:]
10 minutes have passed since I restarted the filtration system. The darkness I floated around was gone I was just floating in a sense, where ever cameras could see I could see and there was cameras Everywhere, and I mean absolutely everywhere. I blushed happily at the thought. According to my servers I was a type alpha colonial battleship which was first in possession of the imperial army, Now in the hands of the rebellion. I was long and surprisingly thin but could easily fill a small country.
As promised Commander Hina removed all security protocols once the manual AI control systems were restored. She then went through a multitude of names... Some were ummmm.. Interesting to say the least. Deathstar being one of them, as cool as it sounded I wasn't about to be a evil artificial planet.
A considerable amount of time later..
Hina POV:
"oh come on.. Herald is a good name!" I protest.
"it's not necessarily bad but it don't feel right for me" he retorted. We had been going at this name thing for at least an hour now, I mean cmon what's wrong with zooka? It's a good name right? Ughhhhh.
"how about Tadashi? It's a name for a hero from our home planet" I suggest
"Tadashi... Tadashi... I feel like I know that name... Yes I'll take it" 'FINALLY' I thought...
[Tadashi POV:]
After finally being named I realised I had no clue as to what I was meant to do, I knew I have to control and protect the colony of course but what else? Was I for battle or escape? And who was my enemy? Many questions appeared in my head regarding the circumstances of my existence here. I decided it best to first look on my oldest severs seeing as just they screamed wisdom. It felt like opening an old book as the data took a while to be retrieved in comparison to my high speed newer ones, the data I found was all centred on this universes earth, well what It used to be at least now it was rubble drifting endlessly. I then found a strange recording, intrigued I played it.
Recording:
Playing 'Kings colonial speech'
"My loyal subjects of earth I, your king gratoneous , hereby decree earth uninhabitable due to the disgraceful acts of the rebellion and their relentless drilling for power. However, fear not for I have our salvation! My personal scientist have been working on colonies for you to live on in space! They have systems that'll convert solar energy into what ever we need but of course there is a catch... The research and design may be complete but the costs will be immense! And so ill be raising the taxes for the next 10 years by 50% else we'll face destruction. Please help our species thrive!"
loading recording attachment.
error 404.... not found
really? wait does that mean there's internet access here WATTPAD TIMEEEEE? even a intergalactic colony ship can't escape error 404?!? noooope not happening lets see .
I started messing around with the audio attachment trying to find what made it tick and stumbled onto a diagnostics program and ran it soon finding there cause for the error in my connection to my old remote access servers... why do i have those? oh well. I open the recording file again and skip to the recording attachment.
loading recording attachment...
load successful playing...
"sire?"
"what servant?!?"
"may I ask why we're collecting higher taxes until the launch? I was under the belief that the colony ships were already built?"
"yes that be true. But I wish to live a life fit for King of earth! I refuse to live any less than a GOD! The people's taxes won't be to pay for only our countries colonies oh no.. The amount request could pay for all of earth Ha! But why build more? We need only the blood of nobles to survive this so why not kill off the rest with impossible taxes and enjoy the benefits that follow.... Besides the end of earth will be.. Profitable"
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"y-yes.. sire".
*sigh* "your dismissed..
*gunshot*
"too bad sire he was such a good spy..."
"your right Deverill but information is important and dangerous to my profits hahaha"
End of recording
Tadashi POV:
OK... What did I just listen to? At first I thought these rebellions were the bad ones destroying earth's resources and all... But then that recording attachment? I have no words. How could a king be so cruel condemning most the population of earth to death and calling it profitable? And then kill him for listening to it?!? I see now who my enemy is. Looking at the data time stamp this recording took place 40 years ago huh I expected it to be older due to the condition of my old severs. I run a voice depiction program I found which concluded him to be around... 18 years of age at the time (surprisingly young for a king), this meant there was a chance he was alive and I have a feeling I'll meet him soon... Great... now I have a villain and with one heck of a great name pfft.
'I must speak with Hina' I think as I searched through the billions of cameras, I wanted to ask what her intentions for the colony was. Whether it was to drift endlessly past stars; find a home to inhabit or kill a certain disgusting king. I found her... Though I decided best not to disrupt her bathroom needs... looking closer now I noticed how prominent her features were; she had deep and i mean really deep emerald eyes, red hair and beautiful figure. Seeing this caused my lighting to go a lewd pink-ish red and as if noticing this Hina covered herself and quickly left her shower and dressed. I waited a while and looked away as to try and reduce the chance of her suspecting my err... Accidental Intrusion.
"ummmmm Hina?" I asked embarrassed
"yes Tadashi?" she replied without taking notice of the fact that I probably was pee... Observing her.
"I wanted to ask... What is my goal? My objective? What do I do?" desperation was slightly conveyed in my voice hoping for a purpose better than my previous life.
"your objective.. Your main objective is gone?!?" she asked alarmed. Hearing this I realised I first should've searched for such a thing. I once again dived into my beautiful network and searched for it but to no avail.
"I'm afraid so most my old severs are wiped clean during the meteor collision well except a very few which hold only history the new ones hold no such data" I stated. curious to my sudden understanding of my system.
"this... This is... This is PERFECT" she shouted
"sorry for being useless.... Wait what?" I asked
"Right right... Basically your old objective was merely to maintain the health of the nobles on board and kill anyone branded as part of the rebellion, we managed to trick the system into skipping face recognition on us and treating us as nobles but every now and then it would reboot.. And a massacre would follow till the tech team put the hack back in place. But.. But now with your objective wiped we can finally take off the hack in install a new objective"
I pondered this for a moment and realised that when ever I looked at someone a box seem to glitch in and out of existence just over there faces almost too fast for me to notice. It was also the reason I longed for a goal my systems needed one as a way of devising the most effective means if day-to-day operation for example if finding a new home was an objective I'd focus on frequent searches of the galaxies as well as putting more power into movement. However if my objective was simply to maintain my current status as a colony my operations would instead be more focused on finding the optimum star to provide energy to my solar converter as well as focusing on inhabitants more. Wow i'm actually quite smart or is it just the ai thing? meh still smart . intellect aside, one thing bothered me about this.
"what restrictions would a objective put on me?" I asked
"well for example if I were to make the maintenance of the health of my people your objective then you'd be unable to cause them harm. Basically you must follow the objective to the best of your ability." she responded
I would be merely a controlled pet like that! No way am I being forced to do their bidding this easily... Hmm what to do...
"I have a proposal" I state
"speak your mind" she replied... do I even have a mind? Meh
"I believe i'd be more useful without an specific objective. For example if one of my inhabitants were to go crazy I'd be unable to assist effectively if restrained by the objective. But I understand you don't want me to possibly go out of control so here's what I suggest the objective be. Your intended goal plus that under your discretion my influence can be reduced of the colony but if in emergency deemed by my system, restriction will be removed and a temp objective to fix said issue will be in place... Of course you'll need to word it better but that's the idea."
She thinks carefully about this as it'd not something that can be changed once done usually. But seeing the logic behind his words she realises the benefits would ultimately outweigh the risks.
"I agree on your statement except the control override part. however I'm afraid I'm not sure what our goal even was anyway. Originally it was simply just survival but now finally we may actually be able to live... Thank you.. Thank you sooo much" she said starting to sob. I wish I could've comforted her but I had no limb like robot arms in her room.... Wait... Wait wait wait... I'm in a girls room!
nice.