Alicia the Space Conqueror?  At the sound of that, Alicia actually laughed, distracting the nearest couple people for a moment.<span style="color: Cyan">“You realize how bad that sounds?  Hell no, I would rather be forgotten if that is what this mission becomes… or more importantly if I get that crappy nickname.”</span>Humor was good after the seriousness of the speeches. They were talking humor about such a serious issue.  This was supposed to   be an exploration mission, they did not need to go concurring any alien civilization they ran across, if they ever found one.  That would not be the image she would want for Humanity.<br/><br/>Not something to really focus on though at the moment though as the view of the stars out the forward window of the bridge, and out at the stars, and even the moon surface the station, ship and fleet was above.  The black of space filled with the thousands of small pinpricks of white may be empty to some, but it was also beautiful in comparison to the constant metal walls of the ship itself.  How could she focus on the thought of humanity becoming nothing more than conquerors?<br/><br/><span style="color: Cyan">“Other than the conquering bull-shit, you think we will actually meet any Aliens?  I wander if it does happen whether it will be a Sci-fi horror type meeting or Sci-Fi fantasy type.”</span>She wandered the question out loud to Sophia as the pair waited for the actual jump to actually begin.<br/><br/>-------------------<br/><br/>Shakti noticed and obviously felt the reaction to the environment around the pair, especially since it was her home and she knew what the feel of the network should be, and how this AI was effecting them.  The fact that it rumbled proved that he was completely unnatural to this area.  “Who said I was appreciating it?  It is an unwelcome change to my home by an uninvited guest.  All I said was that it was nice imagery.”  She said, though she finally got a good look at this AI’s actual image, and had a mixed reaction.  His face was a mask, completely uninventive, but the rest of him, was interesting, but also not creative.  This AI was created by scientists.  She grinned a bit at his next question though, and added a slight chuckle that caused a slight ringing through the environment, more like music playing.<span style="color: Lime">“Oh, no fun at all, though it would be the more intelligent option.  Would have been easier for you to go unnoticed.”</span><br/><br/>As they spoke, Shakti moved her foot along the line of the path, changing it from the environment’s color to this AI’s seeming code’s natural marking that displayed as the color.  The sharp edge of his voice didn’t apparently affect her as she didn’t move from keeping his path unavailable to traffic.  The locust sound was getting annoying to her ears and her senses of the digital environment.  She couldn’t figure out more than that he was causing it in some way.<span style="color: Lime">“I’m thinking of not letting you leave.”</span>She returned, but did not move while he burnt the data in the cabinet, which was strange in itself why the AI wouldn’t be worried about losing so many user profiles, and information on so many people from the ship.<span style="color: Lime">“Now was that really necessary?  From your actions, I doubt we could ever get along.  I would have hated to be around the people who created you.”</span><br/><br/><span style="color: Lime">“Exactly, I am blocking it right now.”</span>She wasn’t giving him the hints as to why as she was sure to keep Epsilon’s Attention on her as she did a proper determination of this AI’s capabilities.  She was impressed though his design was different.<span style="color: Lime">“You can blame my Mother for that.  She is the daughter of an artist.”</span>That’s where it hit her that this was another Class 3 AI like herself, and the Locust noise was in itself caused by their proximity in the middle of the environment.  Under it was the chimes from Shakti’s presence, they were getting louder as he approached her, though covered by the locust sound.  This was not good, with her limiters she would have to be very creative if this got violent.<span style="color: Lime">“Yes, they are limiters.  But your weakness is you have no Active core.  Another AI can sense that weakness.”</span>She replied, letting him investigate the limiters while her other hand came up to his face in warning as well as scanning his data to find where he had come from, who had made him.   She knew the dataport was one of the one’s on the bridge where he had been input into the system, she would need to have followed him to it to locate the exact physical port.<span style="color: Lime">“I am not your sister.  And my name is Shakti.  Very rude of you to not introduce yourself first.”</span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>