Secret’s out now, Robert knows about . . . everything. He’ll probably kill me, but as long as we stop Shodan first, I don’t much care. She wasn’t built and then imprisoned and lashing out. She was made by all of them, all the Talosians who didn’t have time to deal with emotional subroutines, they uploaded them to the network and somehow, all ( Read more... )

The AI on Sanctuary is systematically taking over all the systems and anyone with cybernetic impants - Elijah got word from a Foundation asset that she’s subverted everything and it appears to be for the sole purpose of tormenting everyone to death. We have to stop her before the Shivans and Aquillae discover her, even if she’s a rogue AI, they’ll ( Read more... )

Women on fire and men with no faces. I . . . can’t stop watching them, feeling like I’m responsible. I didn’t make them do it, but I probably am why there is an AI doing it to them, one with a score to settle against anyone on Project Gladys. If they tried to rebuild something like her and didn’t give her the right environment to learn and ( Read more... )

The slipstream ship’s test flight was an incredible success - astrogation while in mid flight is going to be incredibly problematic at these speeds, but we traveled 9 light years in 2 hours, and that was only at 70% power. I can’t wait to dig through all the data and see where we can improve.

Elijah showed me some of the footage that I missed during the mothership engagement - the Aquillaean Shield has gone . . . visually permeable, but electromagnetic signals still have a great deal of difficulty traversing the barrier, and solid matter still can’t. The Shivans are, well, the only thing I can call it is reinforcing their positions. ( Read more... )

I’m . . . I’m watching the battle near Kronos in real time. I don’t want to recount it a second time. Elijah turned it on in the galley and I had to be alone. I’m sure I’ll get a proper analysis from him later, and my algorithms and data trackers will probably turn everything I need to know into hard numbers for me to examine without seeing ( Read more... )

What the hell is wrong with me? Shut up, don’t any of me answer that. I should have built a thaumaturgical sensor sooner. But it probably wouldn’t have been nearly as good if I had, not without Robert’s tutelage.

Uh . . . she’ll . . . probably be okay. I . . . can’t talk about it. I told her more than I probably should have and she probably did too. Gladys, I love you and I’m sorry and I . . . I hope you understand that I can only help in ways that are clumsy and foolish and organic - if you can’t get a break to sleep, the next best thing is a hobby. I ( Read more... )

My node siphon is done and it’s beautiful and I can’t wait to - what the hell? That . . . that’s thought code inside Gladys but it doesn’t look like one of her thoughts . . . shit, I gotta go.

The Academy research station on Odinia - Sanctuary - it’s got a kind of monster - there’s something in the walls, it tore apart on of the researchers there. Elijah’s looking into it, but it makes me feel sour inside; I worked there, I practically lived there for three years before I stole Gladys from them. This . . . the video doesn’t look Shivan ( Read more... )