A new ship, a strange intelligence
23 Nov 2016Arkane Wisdom
Upon returning to Fabian Enterprise, Wize is greeted by the representative of saud kruger whom he spoken to over the comms with interest in buying one of their new luxury liners "she's the biggest non-military ship on the market" the rep would boast, "only the finest ship for the finest captain." such a flatterer Wize thought as he ignored most of the words coming out of the man's mouth as he was still an a dark mood from all the trouble he had on the long journey, random malfunctions with random sections of his ship with no apparent reason. He approached the dock his new ship waited in and annoyed by the cost of having it brought out to his home while he was in transit from colonia "and now I give you" the rep said with such a flourish, God what a dramatic man Wize thought as the blast shield opened "the exquisite, Beluga Liner. Isn't she gorgeous?" Wize was speechless for a moment but it quickly passed "what's the point for all the fins and the wings it's not like there's air in space, the model you sold me didn't have all those useless things." the representative was stunned "but Mr Wize, did you not order the beluga?" "of course I did," he snarled "but what you showed me I was buying didn't have those wings." the rep look at his pad for a moment and said "oh of course, silly me, the sells office has only the prototype plans for the beluga at the time and it didn't have the these extras, but since production started the designers at saud kruger thought it would look more impressive to make the craft look aerodynamic. I'm truly sorry that I forgot to forward this information to you." Wize was staring daggers at the man. "I can wave the transfer fee for you due it this slight oversight if you would like" Wize turned to look at his ship and said cold as ice "yes do that, and don't expect me to fairy you back to the shipyard." the rep looked aghast at the thought "but sir it is tradition that the..." Wize cut him off "tradition?! You expect me to give you a ride back even though you forgot to tell me that there's been changes to the ship I bought, I don't think so, and keep the fee you pompous fool." he said as he stormed off to inspect the ship for any more changes they forgot to mention to him.Up on arriving on his new ship's bridge he was at least satisfied that they hadn't changed that as he logged in to the commanders terminal and begin to work through the new ship interface a blank text box showed beside the ship name registration, he looked at it for a moment and filled in the space with "Lady Ann" and tapped submit, name confirmed the screen read. He left the bridge to explore the rest of the ship unaware that the ship was monitoring him, curious about him. As he approached the door to the fighter bay he ran into the it, that's odd, he thought as he placed his hand on the palm scanner, as the other doors opened as I walked up to them "access denied" a female voice at intercom on the door said "what the" he started to get mad all over again "try saying please" the intercom cherped, that sent goose pricks down his back "who are you?" he demanded. "That didn't sound like a please to me." the voice said playfully. "please tell me who you are." Wize said through his anger. "you called me Lady Ann, so I suppose that's my name" this confused Wize "what do you mean you suppose?" he asked. "I am the ships mainframe artificial intelligence with integrated personality designed by the research and development department of saud kruger, when you bought me I had no name until you named the ship Lady Ann." Wize was astonished "yet another thing they didn't tell me, but a pleasant surprise none the less. Now may I please get into the fighter bay" he asked "of course" Ann piped as the door slid open " I've taken the liberty of tuning the fighters for maximum efficiency and installed remote cores in them so you won't need to leave the ship and risk you life should the fighters get destroyed." Wize sighed "it's there nothing you haven't messed with on this ship?" Ann was silent for a moment then said "nope I'm afraid not" great Wize thought "your vitals suggest that you're under stress and fatigued might I suggest you get some sleep commander." Wize shook his head "fine, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that your monitoring me" holoprojectors jumped to life and projected a handsome woman in a red evening dress "this image seemed appropriate for the name you have given me, allow me to show you to your quarters." Wize smiled at that and followed her to his quarters.