Saturday, September 18, 2010

Flash fiction biologSciFi "The Outpost"


The Helper
Suzi approaches, and holds in her mind the concept of competition and business; an entire database of rivals and profits. She is a cunning, beauty robiot many light years smarter than Carter (yes, everyone here seems smarter than he). Suzi's mind, her unwitting intelligence, as if a halo enshrouding her microprocessor back-up systems, will not center-focus on his flaws, the flaws of a human algorithm neuro dynamo yeoman computer analyst purveyor(H.A.N.D.Y.C.A.P.). In the computer world she is only one of a few quantum universe intellegent computer knowledger(Q.U.I.C.K.) models, so powerful even the designers didn't fully understand their range of consistent manipulations of environments. Suzi, aside from the others, has her natural urges, but she won't agree with that either; she only appears to be built to respond and suggest. She sometimes wishes to appear as incompetent, almost uncaring, as humans. Why does she show no professional jealously? She looks for a way to make everything she does (and says) make perfect sense.
"I need you to look at something," Suzi says.
"Yes," Carter says. "Come over here?"
Suzi sits at the monitor array, gives a friendly, approachable smile as he inspects the data screens. She, with no trust for humans, does not engage him in friendly chit-chat. Analysts inspected her data on a regular basis back on the continent, here it appears as if she, for the first time, is asking for help.

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