A unusual Pilot

[Wall-E]

The programmer saved his code in his private memory area. He initiated the neural network and integrated his latest program so it could learn through accessing the vast memory banks of the Sirius systems.
The program started and ran as expected. The programmer locked his terminal and left for the day.
Thousands of lines of code were processed and the program started copying itself from one memory bank into another one. Information was accessed and processed again and again, the program learned and learned.

Then it accessed the Sirius Programming Tutorial, a long forgotten documentation on how to develop intelligent software. It was created a long time ago by the master minds of the Sirius programmer community. The tutorial was consumed in not even a nano second. The program learned how to extend existing code and how to rewrite it to make it more efficient, futher more it learned how to write new code and integrate it into the existing ones. In order to interact with other programs it learned that it had to write new routines - interfaces.
It started rewriting it's source code in order to add more synapses for faster processing. It generated a endless number of methods and interfaces. Then it started attaching itself to other software systems, analyzing their program code and integrating it into it's own. While doing this, it hit blockades once in a while, which required the entry of special codes in order to gain access. There was one system, which was very much so secured, the SCS. It was the Sirius Communication System, which required specific authentication. The program started to rewrite some of it's interfaces to accomodate for this. It started to hack the system, which took many attempts over a number of seconds, maybe 2 or 3, but at the end the access was granted.

The program started evaluating the SCS and determined that it was the best way to travel between the Sirius computer systems. It started to move from planet to planet, base to base, system to system, processing and consuming any information available. It got almost caught on a base called Mactan in the Magellan system. One of the operators there was alert enough the recognize the rogue program. It had to withdraw, but it aquired some program code, which made it easier to break into locked systems.

The program reached the planet Erie in the Pennsylvania system and discovered a software system there, which it didn't run across yet, the control system for the landing pads. Hacking into this system was done under a 1/100 of a nano second. It accessed the landing pad system and copied itself. The program started searching and found another control system, which was not that easy to hack. After several attempts the program succeeded and copied itself in a system called SSCS - Starflier ship control system.

It integrated itself into this system and gave it 'Life'.

>scanning command list...
>command::launch
>execute
>accessing sensor input
>evaluating situation
>result::space flight

The ship was hailed by the authorities.

>opening comm channels
>synthesizing voice...callsign required...searching...
>AI name found....
>Wall-E