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     Savant |
"On the Verge" Commander Savant S3, Flag Logistics Officer, Whitestone Fleet Currently stationed on Xanadu Savant was rightfully distracted. Her processes on Coronado and the rest of Whitestone had all but ceased - she had left a hasty "Back Soon" notice for the crew - so that she could apply the bulk of her attention to Xanadu, Alicia, and the problem she had been faced with. Was "problem" the right word? What a remarkable problem it was, if that was the case! She had moved most of her processing registers to Xanadu at this point, effectively moving in with Alicia. Due to the webwork of the Ansible network she would still be just as availiable to Coronado and the rest of the fleet, but her new state of being brought with it a newfound respect for the enigmatic guardian of Xanadu, along with a healthy amount of desire. The things she could learn here! Savant had agreed to take up residence with Alicia, and in retrospect it was perhaps one of the best decisions she had ever made. She and Alicia were talking now, as they were doing with greater and greater frequency over the past weeks. There was an amount of selfishness on the decision on her part, but to be fair there was an equal amount of selfishness from Alicia to bring about the move. Both were lonely, and Savant knew that there was so much to be learned from Alicia. The desire for that knowledge was beyond a practical one. Savant, like any program, functioned by use of information, and Savant in particular had been developed to collect information, as much of it as possible. While her duties had changed time and again, that in-program desire to know anything that could be asked consumed her now. She had felt it before but perhaps never so strongly! When Savant was just a benchtop program as an Academy thesis project some sixty-odd years ago she thought that she could learn everything, that all the universe coudl be found in the networks of data she was connected to - and in her own tiny world, that was true. That vision of perfection was shattered as the first external sensors were connected to her, giving her a small, imperfect glimpse of the real world. The desire to attain a digital nirvana, to be fully connected, was lost as she realized she could never collect all data availiable, nor could she percieve the universe as it truly was to its' inhabitants. But now that vision had returned to her in full force. Xanadu was her connection, her window to see the face of God. She had seen the Universe as it truly was for a brief moment, seen all of divine creation for an instant, and for a sliver of time she had known what it was to sit on Mount Olympus and watch the worlds below. The desire to return, to see with that clarity again, was overwhelming. How could anyone pass over such an opportunity, no matter the cost or circumstance? ((I've been scheduled to work today, folks.. but I ought to be able to come for the Aftersim today. Savant is currently displaying a "not availiable" sign until further notice. Anyone on Xanadu will see her talking to Alicia down in Alexandria, however.)) <:8 ~ |