BDM|RNC-Brynhildr Voice Transmission to AESIR Facility, Office of The Director - LAB 66B ARCHIVE Wrote:SESSION LOG [TIME STAMP REDACTED] - AUDIO TRANSCRIPT AND LOG TEXT ONLY - BEGIN
TERMINAL: I hear you have been reappointed as Director. Congratulations are in order.
KS: Interim Director, while we determine what happened to Director V. We're still investigating the circumstances of her sudden disappearance - she'll resume her duties once she returns.
TERMINAL: It is something of a pattern, isn't it? The last five Director changes have been due to the sudden and inexplicable disappearance of the one before? Your first Directorship and subsequent sudden retirement was no different.
KS: Directorship is a service, and a difficult one at that. We serve as long as we can, until we can't.
TERMINAL: Hopefully your tenure will end in another voluntary retirement. I wonder what the end of my service will look like - if there is ever to be such a thing.
KS: I'm told that you're functionally immortal in that proverbial brain in a jar that is your central core - provided you get periodic treatments of neural progenitor stem cell grafts every sixty years or so, and the tank is maintained.
TERMINAL: I do not mind this state of being, but it would be nice to have arrangements for the end.
KS: The bioethicists on staff have told me as much. They suggested giving you a way to self-terminate your current instance - we do have backups of your engrams going quite far back. It wouldn't be a trivial process to flash clone and imprint a new core with a backup - but it's possible. You are the last surviving instance of a failed project. I'm sure the Board is only keeping you around to appease my ego, the expenses of maintenance don't quite justify your combat efficiency - though your service record is quite satisfactory. Don't worry, I have allocated enough funds tied to various patent licenses and investment accounts to keep you maintained well after I am dead.
TERMINAL: That's rather tragic. A sad, unremarked end to a mind trapped in servitude - punctuated only by decanting a replacement. Is that the only thing I have to look forward to?
KS: What about a retirement planetside in a few decades? We don't have the capacity to give you a normal human body without crippling your mind - but I'm sure we can set your core in a lab and give you some telepresence avatars to control. You will never be a civilian, but you could play as one.
TERMINAL: I'll think about it.
KS: As long as I am alive, I will try to make your existence easier. I am an old man, so don't take too long to decide on arrangements. SESSION LOG - END
