From: Ethan Wolf/EWOLFALEXANDERONBOARD
Date: 01/30/75
Timestamp: 09:00
Subject: AIDAN diagnostics
Good morning, General,
As you’re aware, my team and I have been conducting extensive tests to assess the level of damage sustained by AIDAN during the Kerenza attack. A full report is attached, but a summary of our findings is as follows:
The second nuclear missile strike sustained byAlexanderduring the Kerenza assault scored a direct hit on the AI cluster, resulting in considerable damage to several vital AIDAN components.
The loss to AIDAN’s processing capacity is significant but not critical—in the (unlikely) event TechEng crews get the vortex generator online, AIDAN should still be able to perform jump computation.
More concerning are several psyche-based anomalies arising from damage to AIDAN’s persona cores. Its directive priorities (safeguarding theAlexanderand crew) remain unaffected, but it has displayed several “glitches” over the past eighteen hours that myself and Majors Barker and Lassinger have observed.
Please find attached a more detailed summary.
Ethan Wolf, Maj.
Technical Engineering, Information Services Division
UTN-691-771isd
Participants: David Torrence, General, UTA Command Division
Ethan Wolf, Major, UTA Information Services Division
Date: 01/30/75
Timestamp: 09:41
Wolf, E, Maj: Good morning, General.
Torrence, D, Gen:What the¦¦¦is good about it, Ethan?
Wolf, E, Maj: I know the feeling, sir.
Torrence, D, Gen:I’ve got a schedule like you wouldn’t believe and I’m running on fifteen minutes’ sleep. So just give it to me straight. Do we take AIDAN offline or don’t we?
Wolf, E, Maj: It’s difficult to say. Colonel Sanchez and I are in disagreement, sir.
Torrence, D, Gen:Don’t give me that “sir” bull¦¦¦. Nobody’s watching us here, E.
Wolf, E, Maj: I’m not so sure about that, Dave.
Torrence, D, Gen:What’s that supposed to mean?
Wolf, E, Maj: To put it bluntly, many of the younger TechEng staff were expressing concern about several of AIDAN’s mannerismsbeforethe attack. The damage it took at Kerenza only seems to have exacerbated some of its…eccentricities.
Torrence, D, Gen:What kind of eccentricities?
Wolf, E, Maj: Well, it’s started referring to itself as “I” for starters.
Torrence, D, Gen:Ethan, I’ve got a hold full of refugees, civi captains in my ears, massive holes in my essential departments, and a hostile dreadnought on my tail with no sign of rescue from UTA command. I don’t want to hear about your rooks getting the heebie jeebies.
Torrence, D, Gen:Do we take it offline or not?
