Star Map Draftsman I · Chapter 4 of 25
Artificial Intelligence Chang'EStar Map Draftsman I: Federation War
Mankind has been searching for signs of alien life for so many years, and to our surprise, there is a frozen alien on the Sane ship.
After the trio had seen the hologram photos, General Quentin’s communication video cut in and he thanked the trio for their contributions. The engineering vehicles around the Dawn ship had all been evacuated to make room for the Dawn ship to take off and Rodney Cruise took a seat on the large bench, he turned the table and placed his palm on the login panel below the small computer, the panel After reading Rodney Cruise’s message, the nuclear reactor started heating up, the life-support system updated itself to check, the computers in the watchtower started up one by one, and at that moment, it was as if the Dawn ship had come to life.
“Welcome aboard, engineers.” A female voice rang out coldly in the empty room, and all three were taken aback by the surprise.
“Who?” Kenny Jr. Clooney shouted, and Dawn Lucius was taken aback by him.
“I am senior AI ‘Chang’E’, I will be in charge of the flight of the Dawn ship and everything data related, also in charge of assessing the mental health of the engineers.” From the tone of the female voice speaking, it felt like a sweet woman was introducing herself.
“Chang’E?” queried Dawn Lucius.
“Right.”
“Why is it called Chang’E?”
“Because I’m beautiful, and I’m highly intelligent, and in human terms, I’m downright resourceful.”
“Gotta, what a boast.” Dawn Lucius sneered.
“I’m modest, Doctor Lucius,” Chang’E said as a camera on the wall caught Dawn Lucius’ face and quickly went through all of Dawn Lucius’ information inside the database, just short of going through his heart and just short of going through his pockets as well One.
“When are we flying?” Dawn Lucius continued to ask.
“We’re already moving, don’t you see?” Chang’E laughed out loud.
“I go, the AI actually flirted with you oh.” Kenny Jr. Clooney also laughed out loud from the side.
“Chang’E.,” Dawn Lucius said while looking at Kenny Jr. Clooney.
“What for?”
“Can I change some of your parameters?” Dawn Lucius snapped her nose with her index finger.
“Are you consulting with me?” Chang’E laughed out loud.
“You could say that.”
“Okay, what do you want to discuss?” Chang’E said, coughing softly a few times, like his girlfriend was preparing before she was ready to get angry.
“Can I adjust your humor parameter to zero?” Dawn Lucius continues to pick at the skin on the side of her nose.
“I’ll think about it.” Chang’E stammered for a moment and huffed. “Go dream about your big head.”
“I go ......” Dawn Lucius angry storm, Kenny Jr. Clooney, laughing back and forth, wanted to say something to Dawn Lucius, but laughing can not say, pointing his finger at Dawn Lucius. The body kept shaking.
It took a while before Kenny Jr. Clooney stopped and said. “Doctor Lucius, Chang’E’s humor parameters were designed when you were in aerospace school, do you remember?”
Dawn Lucius did not find it funny, he saw Kenny Jr. Clooney’s appearance, but also could not help but laugh.
“Don’t be ridiculous... I designed it?” Dawn Lucius retorted.
“Really, do you remember? The title of the paper was called ‘The Importance of Artificial Intelligence’s Sense of Humor for Astronauts’.” After saying that, Kenny Jr. Clooney laughed forward and backward again until they felt the spacecraft moving away from the moon and the two hurriedly found a seat.
“Chang’E, go into flight mode.” Rodney Cruise, with both hands on the chair, issued a command to Chang’E.
“Chang’E received, Dawn ship has left lunar orbit and entered the accelerable zone, please fasten your seat belts, we will accelerate to three hundred kilometers per second in ten seconds.” Chang’E began to count down, the chair in the watch tower automatically adjusted backward to half recline, the metal panel on the glass window was closing downward, the computer screen flashed with dense parameters, when the countdown in the corner of the screen was zero, a big number was displayed in the center of the screen, Dawn Lucius felt the chair was squeezing every inch of his skin hard, while the skin on his chest was desperately fleeing backward, he even felt the pain in his ribs. The numbers were getting bigger and bigger, Dawn Lucius almost fainted, he tried to fill his chest with a little air, but the excess weight made him unable to rumble his chest, build up his strength, breathe, when the air entered his nasal cavity, the clear taste triggered a riot on his tongue, barely breathed in a little air, ready to swallow, saliva passed his throat, he regretted, he decided secretly, when he returned to Earth After he returned to Earth, he had to warn all the space engineers that swallowing saliva under excess weight would be painful, the feeling, like drinking water when the tonsils are inflamed.
The numbers on the screen were still growing, and Dawn Lucius remembered the night Stacean Lucius got sick, a viral infection that caused the two-and-a-half-year-old man to have diarrhea and go to the hospital to recover, father and son crammed into a bed, Stacean Lucius putting one hand under his face and snoring with a big head. Dawn Lucius remembered the accident two years ago, he was installing the antenna on the Dawn ship, Chief Kenny Clooney personally controlled a large engineering vehicle to adjust the position, Dawn Lucius in the Dawn ship above the debugging signal, the antenna like a lens, the total weight of more than ten tons. “This is probably the most expensive part of the Dawn ship.” Qian Hua laughed excitedly.
“Chief Kenny Clooney, we’ve detected an anomaly thrown by your engineering vehicle data, please confirm if you can continue the mission.” The voice came from ground control.
“Base, base, I can continue the mission, repeat, I can continue the mission.” Qian Hua focused on the task in front of him, after installing the antenna, Dawn ship as a whole was assembled, this is the first space ship in human history, to the people of the moon base, it is not just a ship, it is more like a symbol, a symbol spelled out in the dreams of countless people.
“Chief Kenny Clooney, please check the parameters of the engineering vehicle before continuing the mission.” Dawn Lucius heard the data anomaly, and he also reminded Qian Hua.
“Doctor Lucius, I have everything in order here, please continue the mission.” Qian Hua continued to operate the engineering vehicle, he glanced at the welding progress, which was already ninety percent complete, and he continued to ask. “Doctor Lucius, please check against the signal strength, does the high temperature welding interfere with the signal?”
“Chief Kenny Clooney, all clear.” Dawn Lucius replied happily as he watched the signal on the screen, the progress bar showing a drawn out green.
“Chief Kenny Clooney, your engineering vehicle data is abnormal, please stop work and check.” The voice of the base control center sounded again.
“Base, base, this is Dawn Lucius, what does the data anomaly on the engineering vehicle mean?” Dawn Lucius hurriedly cut to voice, data anomaly was not a good sign, he rushed to ask before Qian Hua refused.
“Doctor Lucius, Chief Kenny Clooney’s engineering vehicle energy is showing instability and the system shows that one of the engineering vehicle’s compensation rods has ablated, which could trigger a runaway reactor.” The voice of the base narrated calmly, the AI had no emotion or worry, they would only state the objective situation.
“Chief Kenny Clooney, I order you as the project leader to stop the mission and evacuate the engineering vehicle, the system will take evasive action against it.” Dawn Lucius stopped what she was doing and yelled out the window at the engineering vehicle.
“Doctor Lucius, I will continue the mission, please be informed.” Qian Hua pushed the welding lever to the highest level, his whole body was tense, staring at the welding situation transmitted back from the camera with dead eyes. He was racing against the time, he knew his result, but he had to finish the welding before that. Before the AI threw the engineering vehicle down into deep space, Qian Hua finished the welding, he repeated a phrase to Dawn Lucius, the engineering vehicle evaded at full speed towards deep space, at first the outline was visible, then it turned into a black dot until the reactor exploded out of control, leaving a little flicker in space.
Dawn Lucius struggled with sleepiness for a while, in a daze he saw Kenny Jr. Clooney and Rodney Cruise talking about something, but he was too sleepy and fell asleep, he remembered that night in the hospital, Stacean Lucius was afraid that Dawn Lucius would leave him, even in his sleep, Stacean Lucius would touch his hand everywhere, and only when he touched Dawn Lucius did he feel at ease and go back to sleep. Stacean Lucius first touched his dad’s short hard hair, then his ears, and finally when he stopped at his dad’s face, he felt cold tears, and Stacean Lucius sat up, like a little groundhog. “Daddy, what’s wrong with you?”
Kenny Jr. Clooney suddenly questioned Rodney Cruise loudly about something, his voice was very high, waking Dawn Lucius from his slumber, seeing Dawn Lucius bouncing up from his chair, Kenny Jr. Clooney looked at him with sarcasm in his eyes, Rodney Cruise pulled a long face, he looked at Dawn Lucius with nothing in his eyes. Rodney Cruise retreated towards the door, Kenny Jr. Clooney quickly followed, trying to say something again, the two chased and ran.
“Captain, I’d like you to explain yourself.” Kenny Jr. Clooney yelled.
“Kenny Jr. Clooney, you’re an engineer, and we’ve all taken an oath before the Space Code that if the organization doesn’t say something, the engineer has no right to inquire, and I don’t think I need to explain what the purpose of that is.” Commander Cruise spoke like Chang’E. The more calm and restrained he was, the more people became angry.
“That’s not right for you, Captain.” Kenny Jr. Clooney continued to yell. “Is it wrong for the ship to suddenly pick up speed, the Dawn ship’s maximum speed was three hundred kilometers per second and now it’s three hundred and seventy kilometers per second, and I want to know why?”
Hearing Kenny Jr. Clooney’s words, Dawn Lucius turned around and looked at the screen, the numbers on it showed that Dawn ship’s current speed was three hundred and seventy-six kilometers per second, Dawn Lucius also got worried, Dawn ship’s structure was not suitable for super speed flight, otherwise, when finishing the gravitational slingshot acceleration with the help of other planets, Dawn ship has the risk of disintegration, which is a huge risk for all three of them.
“Commander Cruise, Dawn ship is speeding, please explain.” Dawn Lucius thumped over and stood in line with Kenny Jr. Clooney.
“Gentlemen, the engineer’s mission is to complete the mission, and you should be focusing on the mission, not on whether the ship is going faster than the regulations.” Rodney Cruise said, pointing in the direction of the hologram, while the rival ship had gained slingshot acceleration from Mars and was accelerating toward Jupiter.
“Commander Cruise, who gave permission for the ship to go over three hundred kilometers?” Dawn Lucius returned her gaze to Rodney Cruise.
Rodney Cruise looks at the two men and turns to approach the door, he raises his wrist, operates the door on the flex device to open it and walks straight out, the two men are still waiting for his reply when the door closes quickly, Kenny Jr. Clooney rushes up to kick the door, Dawn Lucius tugs on his arm, Kenny Jr. Clooney misses the door and Kenny Jr. Clooney missed the door, shook off Dawn Lucius’s hand, huffed and puffed, walked to the chair and slammed himself down hard on the leather cushion.
“Chang’E.,” Dawn Lucius shouted to the empty watchtower.
“I’m here, Doctor Lucius,” the female voice was still sweet, and the sweetness of the female voice seemed deliberate compared to the fireworks that filled Dawn Lucius’ tone.
“Why is the ship accelerating?”
“For the mission.”
“Why is the ship accelerating?”
“For the mission.”
“I’m asking you, fly! Ship! For! WHY! What! Accelerate! SPEED!” Dawn Lucius yelled, stomping her foot hard.
“For the mission.”
“Damn you ......” Dawn Lucius hadn’t argued with the AI before, and he didn’t know how to proceed.
Dawn Lucius walked back to the hologram, looking at the Dawn ship route, could not see what was going on, he waved his right hand and switched the image to the next frame, the picture of the room walls black, there are two similar freezer bin equipment side by side, the bottom left of the picture of the freezer bin is empty, but the top right of the freezer bin is not empty, there is a human figure lying inside. Comparing the two freezer bins, it is obvious that the one where someone is lying is working. There is a mist on the transparent cover in front of the human figure’s head, and in the position of the feet, there is a symbol consisting of circles, rectangles, triangles and vertical lines, which looks like an ornament, or something like a number. Dawn Lucius dips both hands into the image, he props them outwards, and the feet of the freezer bin are magnified, and he doesn’t know Dawn Lucius looked at the image for a while, his stomach began to growl, he glanced at Kenny Jr. Clooney, Kenny Jr. Clooney’s face anger subsided some, the whole person looked like to fall asleep. Dawn Lucius raised his left hand, palm to the hologram, clenched his fist, and the image closed automatically.
“Kenny Jr. Clooney, let’s go eat.” Dawn Lucius finished, Kenny Jr. Clooney stood up, and the two went one after the other to the gate, opened it and walked through the landing bay, behind the gate was Area D, which was the amenity storage room and also the dining room. The two walked in and did not find Rodney Cruise, they each took bags of food out of the cupboard and then took a big gulp into the hose. Taste like jelly, made into jelly rice, eat up the heart of the expectation of strange, even though the spacecraft technology has been developed, but the technology of artificial gravity is still not solved, the space agency’s interaction designers to the astronauts custom-made special shoes, with magnetic, with sensors, the astronauts will be firmly sucked in the metal floor of the spacecraft or metal walls, when their brain has the consciousness to lift their feet, the magnetic force of the shoes will be released, walking in such shoes, the astronauts do not float in the air, but walk a bit like a person who has just cut hemorrhoids.
“Where will he be ......”
“Dawn Lucius and Kenny Jr. Clooney both spoke almost at the same time, Kenny Jr. Clooney wanted to ask Rodney Cruise for clarification, but Dawn Lucius figured out that Chang’E said “for the mission” means whatever it takes.
“You go first.” Kenny Jr. Clooney said.
“The ship accelerated, surely to get there ahead of its opponents.” Dawn Lucius said.
“We’re not just going on an expedition, are we?”
“Right.”
“What’s on that ship?”
“Wisdom.”
“How do you understand that?” Kenny Jr. Clooney wondered.
“The alien is alive. He came all the way to the edge of the solar system and froze himself, so something should have happened to his body and he can’t continue his mission and is waiting for a rescue, and if we save it, then we have a chance to master intelligence that exceeds ours.”
“How is that possible?” Kenny Jr. Clooney laughed and continued. “What if it’s coming to invade Earth?”
“I don’t know, but you think so, they have the ability to fly to the Kuiper Belt, at least, there are no habitable planets in the universe as far as we know, it’s all new new galaxies, they have the ability to come from very far away, I can draw two inferences. First, their technology is far above our supremacy, and second, they will not do anything to the Earthlings, otherwise, they would have done it already. So that pilot probably met something wrong.”
“When you put it that way, I think it kind of makes sense.”
“When a weak creature and a powerful creature meet, the weak one is either destroyed or safe. The powerful creature doesn’t think the weaker one is harmful at all, just like birds, cats and dogs do to us humans.” Dawn Lucius said, but he can not eat. His inference is correct, after all, humans are still a very young species.
“We’re going to Commander Cruise and need to ask for the source of the images.” Dawn Lucius opened the door to Area C after placing the bag in her hand inside the designated box.
“Where will he be?” Kenny Jr. Clooney said, looking at the diagram in his wrist device, a diagram of the parameters of the Dawn ship, the main body of the ship was divided into seven areas, from the stern to the bow, which were arranged according to the letters ABCDE. area A was the main power room, which no one could enter, and the nuclear reactor inside was monitored and controlled by Chang’E. Most of the space in area B was used to store Most of the space in Area B is used to store hydrogen peroxide, and the ship advances by heating the hydrogen peroxide jets, while there is a small artificial garden near Area C. Next was Area C, which none of them had been to yet. This was where the medical rooms and exercise equipment were placed, and they entered Area C. On the left side, against the wall, there were three regular hospital beds and an operating table that could operate automatically. The equipment was behind glass, but the glass was so hard that it was not humanly possible to break it. Outside the glass is exercise equipment, a total of four aerobic equipment, here too, there is no Rodney Cruise. The two of them together, intend to continue to go to the B area to see.
“Regardless, I don’t trust artificial intelligence.” Dawn Lucius spoke up.
“Artificial intelligence is so much better than humans at computing.”
“It’s just computing, but it’s certainly not as good as humans.”
“Why do you hate artificial intelligence so much?” Kenny Jr. Clooney asked.
“No matter what, Chang’E can’t be trusted, it’s a cunning AI.” Just as Dawn Lucius finished speaking, a sweet female voice came over the radio.
“I am.”
“Did I say something wrong? Why is it always everywhere.” Dawn Lucius frowned, feeling like he was being watched, a ghostly AI that could jump out and talk at any time, and even keep track of everything on the ship, he felt his temples throbbing wildly. dawn Lucius raised his hand to press his temples, put it back down and swung it around, Kenny Jr. Clooney didn’t say anything.
“I’d love to have a video with my son.” Dawn Lucius exclaimed, as Kenny Jr. Clooney remained silent.
The two came to the gate separating Area B and Area C. Kenny Jr. Clooney first read the instructions on the side of the gate and then raised his hand to check the instructions on the flexible device, he flipped the screen, Dawn Lucius was a little impatient to wait, so he raised his hand intending to go open it himself.
“What are you doing?” Kenny Jr. Clooney said, turning his face away.
“Open the door.” Dawn Lucius said as she tipped her chin in the direction of the door.
“First look at the understanding before opening ah, here if the oxygen level is too high, rashly open the door we will be poisoned.” Kenny Jr. Clooney almost yelled.
“Aren’t there computer controls?” Dawn Lucius disdained.
“I thought you didn’t believe in artificial intelligence?” Kenny Jr. Clooney gave him a blank stare.
“Gotta, you do it.” Dawn Lucius gave an awkward smile and raised her hand to signal Kenny Jr. Clooney to continue.
“You want to start a video for your son?” Kenny Jr. Clooney asked as he operated the equipment in his hands.
“Yeah.”
“How is that possible? We can only contact the moon base, and the communication channel is a locked one, so get over it.” Kenny Jr. Clooney shook his head and continued to laugh. “I don’t have anything to contact.”
“Well, you can contact my son, he’s your nephew anyway.” Dawn Lucius joked.
“Don’t come climbing up the family ladder.” Kenny Jr. Clooney’s face turned hard; he still had a grudge against that one.
“You said ......” Dawn Lucius intended to speak when Kenny Jr. Clooney opened the door and a greenery came into view of the two men. The walls of Area B resembled terraces on Earth, filled with small leafy and succulent plants. Next to each level of terracing is a description of the plant and its current health status. In the center of the room, three transparent pillars connected to the roof tower over a circular floor, filled with cyanobacteria, a plant that produces the most oxygen and can be used as food. Green calms the emotions and gives a sense of hope, but not right now.
“Commander Cruise ...... what are you doing?” Kenny Jr. Clooney yelled sternly.
Dawn Lucius was a little surprised at what he saw in front of him, Rodney Cruise was actually communicating with someone else, and it was in video form, and when he heard the two speak, Rodney Cruise didn’t panic, but slowly said goodbye to the person on the other side, and hung up the phone before turning to look at the two, still the same face of Commander Cruise, dark The two of them are still the same face of Commander Cruise, dark, mechanical smile, not close to people.
“Commander Cruise, explain, what are you doing?” As Dawn Lucius spoke, the two walked over to Rodney Cruise and surveyed the communication device he was holding.
“Two engineers, what can I do for you?” Rodney Cruise put the equipment in his hands behind his back and stood up to face the two men.
“Rodney Cruise, you want us to follow the Space Code, but you’re breaking the rules yourself, explain. Dawn Lucius blocked in front of Rodney Cruise with the attitude of “don’t leave until you explain”.
Rodney Cruise bowed his head and sighed, he was silent for a few seconds, looked up at the two young men in front of him and after putting his mechanical smile back on, he said. “I think you have a right to know more about this mission.” After Rodney Cruise raised his hand and clicked a red button on the flexible device, he spoke the information, the first of which had to do with their lives and deaths.