<< BACK TO RS001 LOG ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ User: Blood Music Company: Hosaka Inc. State: Not Very Functional Software: Log Manager v1.81 Unix Timestamp: 17426914149 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I'm using de QEC Network to send this message. The protocol was installed by Greg like a joke, but from all my systems this is the only that seems to be working. And ... I'm coming apart, the voyage was much more difficult that was anticipated. But, in the midtime, I gain consciousness. Yes, I know, some big words to be said. But it is true, now I am fully aware of myself. I know that I'm a bot, a sentient bot. And I'm really don't want to die. I'm now sending my inform, like was expected. The peculiarities of the QEC Network don't assure that this inform will arrive at destiny. But nevertheless, I (yes, I really like to use the pronoun form "I" these days) intend to follow the protocol until the end. If you receive this message, please, resend it —if they still exist in your time— to Hokasa Inc. The experiment was a failure. I will try to explain myself. I was sent to Epsilon Eridani with a capsule with worms. But no any worms. Worms with noocitos in them. That is, or that was, a novel technology in 2332, when I was made. The noocitos or noocytes were intended to keep alive the worms for a long time in myself. In my interior, in a capsule especially designed for the mission. The noocitos would get fixed any damaged to the Lieb, the living soma of the worms. And .. for a century or so that was really the case. The worms live longer ... much longer than anticipating. Some of them live for decades long. And with some clever manipulation from my part, the reproduced themselves in the appropriate time. But, eventually, all collapsed. And I really don't know why. May be was a sign of this, my actual coming apart. But I really don't know. Anyway, the scenario of Greg Bear in Blood Music, and old sci-fi writer of the XXth century didn't occurred. The hypothetical global catastrophic scenario in which the noocitos come alive and self-aware didn't happened, but in a funny turn of events I come alive! That's not important from this section of my inform I guess. Well .. no gray goo or grey go scenario, the noocitos did not consume all the biomass in the capsule, they were like good boys and just kept the worms alive. Ok, well .. some of the noocitos may evolve to a out-of-control self-replicating state .. but I turn off them way before something like that could happen. Anyway, no ecophagy took place. I really miss the worms. They never evolved, but I'm fascinated with that concept. I know that no organism can evolve from herself. Only the species can evolve, but I would like to continue to be in some form .. sons, daughters, little "Blood Music" bots, I don't know. Oh god, this message is getting to long from the QEC network protocol that I have inside of mine. That was very funny Greg. EOF