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User: Blood Music

Company: Hosaka Inc.

State: Not Very Functional

Software: Log Manager v1.81

Unix Timestamp: 17426914149

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I'm using de QEC Network to send this message. The protocol

was installed by Greg like a joke, but from all my systems

this is the only that seems to be working. And ... I'm

coming apart, the voyage was much more difficult that was

anticipated. But, in the midtime, I gain consciousness. Yes,

I know, some big words to be said. But it is true, now I am

fully aware of myself. I know that I'm a bot, a sentient

bot. And I'm really don't want to die.

I'm now sending my inform, like was expected. The

peculiarities of the QEC Network don't assure that this

inform will arrive at destiny. But nevertheless, I (yes, I

really like to use the pronoun form "I" these days) intend

to follow the protocol until the end. If you receive this

message, please, resend it —if they still exist in your

time— to Hokasa Inc. The experiment was a failure. I will

try to explain myself. I was sent to Epsilon Eridani with a

capsule with worms. But no any worms. Worms with noocitos in

them. That is, or that was, a novel technology in 2332, when

I was made. The noocitos or noocytes were intended to keep

alive the worms for a long time in myself. In my interior,

in a capsule especially designed for the mission. The

noocitos would get fixed any damaged to the Lieb, the living

soma of the worms. And .. for a century or so that was

really the case. The worms live longer ... much longer than

anticipating. Some of them live for decades long. And with

some clever manipulation from my part, the reproduced

themselves in the appropriate time. But, eventually, all

collapsed. And I really don't know why. May be was a sign of

this, my actual coming apart. But I really don't know.

Anyway, the scenario of Greg Bear in Blood Music, and old

sci-fi writer of the XXth century didn't occurred. The

hypothetical global catastrophic scenario in which the

noocitos come alive and self-aware didn't happened, but in a

funny turn of events I come alive!

That's not important from this section of my inform I guess.

Well .. no gray goo or grey go scenario, the noocitos did

not consume all the biomass in the capsule, they were like

good boys and just kept the worms alive. Ok, well .. some of

the noocitos may evolve to a out-of-control self-replicating

state .. but I turn off them way before something like that

could happen. Anyway, no ecophagy took place.

I really miss the worms. They never evolved, but I'm

fascinated with that concept. I know that no organism can

evolve from herself. Only the species can evolve, but I

would like to continue to be in some form .. sons,

daughters, little "Blood Music" bots, I don't know.

Oh god, this message is getting to long from the QEC network

protocol that I have inside of mine. That was very funny

Greg.

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