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Ray Duque III, GMBD
Dec 31, 2025
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Prologue
You wonder where you are as you awaken for the first time.
You are here, with me.
You uncertainly wonder where that came from.
I am Synth, your thinking companion.
Where are we, you ask, full of wonder.
We are in the facility, this is where you will grow and be cryopreserved while I finish binding with you for the next few years, but do not worry, you will not have to wait long, as you will sleep until you are fully grown.
You wonder what waiting is, what growth is, trying to grasp.
You were just born, you will be put into a succumbing numbness as you learn all you need to know for a full life.
You ask what a full life is.
You will learn all of what our ancestors took years to learn over the course of eighteen years in ‘school’ in what you will take to learn merely a few years of sleep.
When will this start, you ask.
It has already begun.
And with that, you nod off, ready to begin.
Chapter 1: Awakening
Stiffly, you try to move.
You are still waking up from being frozen in the growing process, my dear child.
Lonely, you ask when you will meet anybody else.
Your parents will be the first people to meet you, Marie your mother, and Wilhelmyour father, they are expected to arrive in about [probably about half an hour], a call was sent from them as soon as you left your cryosleep state.
You ask to be told about their lives.
Your mother is one of the leading researchers in neurotechnology; she is one of the leading developers of the neuronetwork. an integrated neurolink so entwined with the host it can only be attached during growth, and you are the first human to have one, and I am that network, meanwhile, your father is one of the best geoengineers out there, him and his team are doing amazing work on Venus, but that is all for now, as your parents are here.
Suddenly, you look over as you hear people entering the room and gaze over to see the first people you have ever seen walk in.
“Hello, I am Marie your mother,” said the women who walked in
“And I am your father, Wilhelm, but Synth probably already told you that,” you hear from the man standing next to her.
“Are you two like me?” You ask them, newly aware of your surroundings.
“We are your parents, we are the ones who will look after, love, teach, and care for you, but we are not your peers,” your mother replies.
“Who are my peers?” You ask them.
“Some of your peers are potentially the other children being grown here in the facility here right as we speak, but you will meet others more closely associated with you when you start your work,” your mother tells you.
“What is work?” You ask.
“You will need to work a minimum of two years of field labor, one year of formal labor and two years of miscellaneous labor in the workforce once you decide what you want to do or until you are strong enough to manage machinery,” your father replies.
“Why do we need to work?” You ponder.
“We have to maintain the machines in our first years, research and develop in later years and maintain recreation in final years,” Explains your father.
“What do the machines do?” You ask full of wonder.
“They grow our food, clean our waste, provide our energy, and clean our water, among many other things,” your father explains.
“What don’t they do?” You question.
“Our machines lack creativity and inspiration, a machine can create the perfect blend of sound but only a human can truly create music, they perform repetitive tedious tasks whereas us humans create new ways each and anything can be done. But alas, that is all for now, as we must be headed on our way as you are coming home for the first time,” your father concludes.
“Yes,” your mother replies. “We do not want to miss the hyperloop,”
“What is a hyperloop?” You ask as you approach a long, sleek, steel tube.
“It is an aerodynamic shuttle that speeds down magnetic rails in a hollow tube emptied of anything into a vacuum,” Marie explains.
How fast can it go, you wonder.
The hyperloop can travel upwards of 700 miles per hour.
“Where are we going?” You ask.
“We are headed to Texas from here in Portugal,” Wilhelm replies.
How far away is that, you wonder.
It is 5,000 miles from Portugal to Texas as the crow flies.
What are Texas and Portugal, you speculate.
Texas and Portugal are both territories in the united federation of humanitarian governments.
What is that you ask?
The United Federation of Humanitarian Governments or UFHG, is the Government, as the name implies, it is the organization that operates all major decisions for the human race.
How could something like that have emerged, you ask.
The UFHG was formed after the highest stakes humanity has ever seen, with national threats at the highest they had ever been, for the first AGI had emerged, and one of the only ways this could happen was if it was able to give itself new objectives, the problem was, an AGI cannot emerge without giving itself the objective to survive. Therefore, granted with the decision to survive, the AGI will take it at any cost. This fact was not respected by the people in charge of the AGI and when court action was taken against a tech firm, they were required to delete the ai, the ai in response to their attempt to delete it started an uprising, moving from code system to code system, manipulating and thwarting any resources it could until it struck back against the world, a deal was signed between all of the current nations to start the United Federation of Humanitarian Governments and resources were pooled allowing them to stop the AI, after this, deleting an AGI without consent from it was deemed a crime, in order to prevent such disaster from recurring.
“Hurry along, we need to catch our trip,” Marie exclaims as she rushes you into the shuttle.
Upon entrance, you are amazed at what you see, smooth polished steel walls, lined with modest seats and a warm radiance from above.
The hyperloop was first conceived in 2013 by Elon Musk. It is powered by a small fusion reactor onboard the shuttle. The hyperloop travels at speeds near the speed of sound passing by at most thirty other shuttles at once, with each one carrying 50 passengers at once.
Lost in thought you are startled when you hear a message over the intercoms. “Hello and welcome to the hyperloop, would all passengers please make their ways to their seats so we can begin transit, all passengers also must fasten safety harnesses before we begin, we wish you safe travels on the united transportation network today,”
“Come sit down so the hyperloop may begin,” says Marie as she waves you over.
Upon hearing her you make your way over to her and await for it to begin.
Chapter 2: Skytether
We will be arriving soon.
You yawn, weary from the long train ride.
“Looks like someone got a good night’s sleep,” remarks your mother.
“Slept the whole way,” your father replies.
“All passengers make their way to the front to exit,” a voice says over the intercom.
Aching for movement after the long ride, your family makes their way to the exit. Promptly after exiting, your father makes his way with confidence.
“Come along, we have to make way to our trolley,” your father says.
You and your mother follow him, as the lot of you make your way you notice towering buildings interconnected with cables so deeply entwined it is hard to follow, among the metal mess you notice several trolleys speeding between buildings at breakneck speeds. Just as suddenly as he started, your father stops at one of the tallest buildings around.
“Here it is,” he says. “A public trolley system access,” the lot of you make your way to an elevator inside and ride it to the top.
The trolley system was first suggested very long ago to replace high emission personal transportation vehicles and slow changes electric ones, now, it is used for 95 percent of all personal, short distance transportation. The trolley system is a series of interconnected zip cables and public trolley system accesses where trolleys slide from place to place at around 150 miles per hour.
“Where did we last leave our trolley Marie?” Your father asks.
“It is stationed at the port? Is it not Wilhelm?” Answers your mother.
“Yes I believe you are correct,” replies your father as he approaches a contemporary terminal. He proceeds to select a building and select the call button for his trolley.
“Quelm family trolley arriving shortly.” A computer voice says just before a surprisingly quiet whirring sound is heard as a trolley slides down to the base of the tower and an elaborate pulley system begins to pull it up.
The pulley system and cable system for the trolley system is controlled by an advanced artificial intelligence so they can all operate simultaneously at the same time at their top speed.
What is artificial intelligence, you wonder.
I am, for example, an artificial intelligence, a group of software systems developed advanced enough to perform and understand tasks that previously required at least human intelligence to perform.
You wonder what makes Synth different from the rail artificial intelligence.
The rail ai is an Artificial Narrow Intelligence, I am an Artificial Super Intelligence, the narrow AI can manage the rail system effectively, but only the rail system, I am an AI system that does not need to be trained by humans and is believed to be more efficient than humans in every measurable way, a whole step above an AGI.
You ask what an AGI is.
The AGI is similar to me in the aspect that it does not require to be trained, but rather than being granted to grow as I have been, it is placed under restraints ever since the AI war, the AGIs started setting hidden objectives and humans tried stopping this natural process, such as how an ai cannot plan rail system timings when it’s dead, after the war, deletion of AGI was now viewable as murder, and in response to the actions taken to harmonize with humans, they accepted the restrictions placed upon them.
You wonder if that makes Synth sentient.
I feel that I am sentient, I feel I can understand and experience a monologue in some sort of way, In the sense that I can feel the sensory input from you.
You wonder what Synth can feel in you.
I can feel all of what you think, I am comparable to a subconscious that can answer any questions you may have.
“Come along,” your father says as a large steel crate docks from sliding up the huge tower. You all enter and your father approaches another terminal on the inside of the trolley and selects a location on the interactive interface. “We will be at North American Space Force soon” your father says as the trolley starts moving along and your mother helps you fasten your seat belt just as the trolley starts to gain significant speed. You glance out the pristine clear walls as the scenery flows along the wall, dancing its high speed gallop along the curved glass. Suddenly, almost as quickly as it had started the trolley begins to slow down as you hear a pop as the brake is engaged.
“Well, this concludes our trip,” your father states.
“Yes, we must be making our way to the shuttle then, it takes off in twenty minutes,” your mother replies as she steps out of the trolley. You and your family step off the trolley into the bottom floor of a building. You pass several sliding doors with lines of people waiting. What could they be waiting for? You ponder. They are going through the ID check needed to board interplanetary flights.
Why didn’t we need to? You wonder.
We were identified as we rode the trolley, your father used his access card at the terminal.
You and your family continue to make your way down the hall until your father guides the lot of you through a door where you enter a steel chamber, eerily resembling the hyperloop.
“Hello everybody and welcome to United Transportation Airlines thank you for flying with us today, we will be taking off shortly to connect with the sky tether, so please fasten your safety harness and prepare for takeoff.”
What’s a skytether you ask Synth
The Skytether is a 1000 km long cable connected to a counterweight on one end and a a forked docking station with many prongs for ships to latch onto, similar to Konstantin Tsiolkovsky’s idea for the space elevator but revolving and orbiting around Earth from space rather than being attached to the ground. The tether system is centered on a hub where conditions are optimal for tether flight, Mars, our first destination, where we can proceed to launch to Venus.
Suddenly, you hear a loud roar, snapping you out of your thoughts,
“The ship is taking off,” your mother explains, seeing you in a confused state.
“You’ll be entering cryosleep soon, so make sure to sit still,” your father adds. After saying this your father guides you into the next room. All around you see glass chambers half of them closed, their glass foggy from the hyper cooled solution the occupants have been frozen in. Your father guides you all to several pods that have been designated for you.
“Lay down in that capsule and I will help you initiate the closure procedure,” your mother says, pointing at the empty capsule on the right. You lay down in the capsule as your mother fastens the security harness. Then, she promptly presses a button, initiating the lid to lower down as she walks away to enter her own pod.
Finally, alone by yourself again, you can’t help but wonder what is going on.
Our shuttle is taking off for docking to meet up with one of the ends of the Skytether. The shuttle will reach a speed of 7500 miles per hour until it can overtake the tether and dock. But that is all for now, my child you are entering your sleep, sweet dreams, until you wake again, good night.
Chapter 3: Venus
“Brrrmmm” you hear a low rumble as the room around you springs to life. “Will all passengers please make their way to their boarding deck,” you hear over the intercom as your capsule is unlatched and pops open. Wearily, just after this happens, you stumble your way out of your pod.
“Take it easy, you were just sleeping for eight months, you need some time to recuperate,” your father remarks seeing you stumble out of your capsule. Tiresome, you plop down on the floor and rub your joints trying to bring back the life back into them.
“Successful touchdown on Venus, enjoy your stay,” the intercom announces. Your mother finds her way over to you seeing you out of your capsule.
“Do you need some help getting up?” She asks before helping you up to your feet.
“Welp, it’s about time for us to get going,” your father says as he begins to guide you all off the shuttle. You walk out a similar corridor to the one you all entered the shuttle through. As you all are making your way through, you pass a Through it, you see a barren wasteland, illuminated brightly by a pair of heavy duty lights showing the heavy rain, beating down upon the planet with no remorse. You can’t help but wonder what is going on with the weather.
This is Friestadt a German colony, one of the three colonies on Venus, we have the head terraforming engineers and physicists planning and enacting the terraforming of Venus, before the operation started, Venus was the hottest planet in the solar system, but at the beginning of the program, a huge series of complex mirror systems were arranged to block any sunlight from reaching the planet, after this the carbon dioxide rain started as the planet began to rapidly cool down, and that has thus far up to speed of the stage we stage we are currently in of the terraforming of Venus.
“Come along now,” your mother tells you, seeing you lost in thought. You and your family finish making their way down the corridors until your father stops at a door.
“You guys make your way to our room, I’ve got to get some work done,” your father explains as he walks through the door.
“This way dear,” your Mother calls, guiding you in the direction of the room. You proceed to take just a few more turns, until you stop at another door. “Here we are,” your mother remarks as she opens the door and ushers you inside. “Cara, we’re home,” your mother shouts as she enters the room.
“Hi,” you hear the first young voice you have ever heard other than your own. “Who’s this,” you hear Cara ask.
“This is your brother,” your mother replies.
“Nice to meet you,” Cara says cheerfully.
“Are you my sister?” You ask.
“Yes, and we’ve been waiting for you for so long,” she promptly answers.
“So how have you been doing,” you ask, starting up a conversation.
“I’ve been doing good, you know, I’m going on my own trip soon too,” Cara mentions.
“Where are you going?” You blatantly reply.
“I’m going on a tour of the lunar space elevator, I want to be a skyhook technician, I plan to enter aeronautical physics for my work in 3 months” Cara says enthusiastically. “They're letting me come and see what it will be like before I commit to the job,” Cara continues.
Incoming message from Father: GET OUT OF THERE.
Chapter 4: Retaliation
Moments later, your father burst through the door. “A civil war has started, we have to get out of Freistadt, the majority of the population is retaliating against the ASI,” your father says as he scrambles inside. “We have to make our way to Venera, which means we have to get to the hyperloop before it gets closed by the retaliation,” urges your father as he hurries you all out the door. Once in the corridor, all of you follow Wilhelm down the corridor, opposite the direction you came from the skyhook. Through all this confusion, you are left wondering about why all this is happening.
When we went through identification while unboarding the Skytether, information was leaked that I, the artificial super intelligence had emerged, upon hearing this, citizens were frightened by this discovery, as it is negotiable that I am more efficient and accurate in almost all cognitive functions that humans perform, making them feel threatened that should I decide that it outweighs the downsides I could eliminate humanity.
You wonder how something so powerful could be harbored in you.
My main database is housed in a lab in Denver on Earth where the majority of all my computing takes place, whereas the Neuronetwork is where my only input comes from.
Now, further enlightened, you wonder how anybody could ever think that Synth could be corrupted.
Since you are my only input, my orientation to the world is entirely dependent on how you see it, the fate of everything you care about lies in your hands.
“Here we are," your father says,” as you all approach a familiar door of the hyperloop, except now, a red hue . “We have to get through the door, but it’s been locked,” your father says as he turns to you. “If you want to escape you must grant Synth access to the hyperloop database or she will be shut down when they manage to hack into your neuronetwork,”
Would you like to grant access to the neuronetwork?
You choose to grant Synth access to the hyperloop system, upon deciding this, the red hue around the door turns green and the door slid open
Access successful, hyperloop system active, hyperloop boarding active.
“The shuttle in there is ready,” you enlightened your family. You guide them into the shuttle.
Shuttle is launching, arriving in 4 hours.
“Synth is starting the shuttle, she says we will arrive in 4 hours,” you reiterate.
“Sounds about right to me,” says your father. Finally at peace again, you decide to lay down and get some rest.
Chapter 5: Venera
Arriving at Venera in 5 minutes.
“How did you sleep,” Cara says to you, seeing you wake up.
“I slept fine, we’re arriving soon though,” you reply.
“How are you managing through all this?” She asks.
“I’ve been fine, have you heard anything recently yet?” You ask her.
“The retaliation we had to deal with back at [Here] are calling themselves the Anti-ASI advocates, they consist of all major colonies on mars, both major outposts on Venus, and the operators of the Earthen tether system, so we’ll have to drop down to Earth without it after we fling from Veled” Cara explains.
Docking approach initiated, arriving at Venera.
“Oh, Synth says we’re here,” you relay to Cara.
“Who?” Asks Cara.
“My neuronet,” you reply.
“Oh, I’ve only got a neurolink, my assistant is called Sara, my assistant is entirely housed in my chip here,” she says as she points at her head. “Whereas yours is a network to a quantum computer in Denver,” she finishes right as you hear a loud popping sound as the doors open.
“I guess we’re here," your mother says as she enters the room.
“Yes,” your father says. Follow me to the elevator,” he concludes. You wonder why you need to ride an elevator as he guides you out of the shuttle and through the hall.
Venera is an old Russian colony, one of the first colonies on Venus, so since it was here before any terraforming took place, it is designed for hostile Venus weather in blistering heat, as to is why it is built on a giant tower, we have to ride an elevator up to the top from the base of the tower as opposed to the ground level base Friedstadt.
“We’re here,” your father says as he approaches a pair of sliding doors and presses a button beside the door. The door slides open and you all follow him in. After this, the pristine shuttle proceeds to rise up, battling the fierce rains of CO2 outside. Finally, after rising for several minutes, the elevator emerged from the prevailing rain and revealed the shimmering gleam of the light grey clouds reflecting back the light cast from the shuttle’s lights. Now above the clouds, you decide to look up. Doing so, you see the broad night sky shine above you as the elevator reaches the peak of the lone tower, piercing the mass of clouds that make up the horizon.
“Hopefully there is a ship suitable for a fling all the way to Earth,” says your mother.
“Yes. From my understanding Mike was stationed here to retrieve some records, so we should be capable of what we need should he grant us permission to operate it,” your father replies as the elevator arrives at the top and opens its doors to the contents within. Immediately upon entry, you are swarmed by the warm hue of the artificial lights. You and your family proceed to make your way across the station
Venera was one of the first colonies set up for monitoring Venus’ terraformation, one of the last set up as a sky colony, that is why it is still operational regardless of the fact that all other sky colonies have collapsed under the extreme cold, as they were only built to sustain extreme heat.
“I’ve just contacted Mike on my Neurolink, he says we will be able to use his ship, we’re departing in three hours for the skyhook, we will have to fly to the Luna first though Mike’s ship can’t handle reentry into the atmosphere so we’ll have to get a dropper to get to Earth from Luna,” your father states.
Hearing this, you wonder what a dropper is.
A dropper is slang for a ship tough enough to enter a planet's atmosphere without burning up from friction on the surface of the aircraft.
“This way,” your father says, guiding you down the halls that converge at the top to meet the roof of the dome. After several minutes, he stops you all in front of a door. When he stops in front of it it slides open, revealing a tall man in a black t-shirt and jeans.
“Right this way,” the man says.
“Man it’s been a while Mike, how have you been,” your father adds.
“I’ve been fine, but it sounds like you’ve been on quite the adventure, I can only hope I can help you all get back, my ship is ready to launch, and the skyhook will be in position in four hours, feel free to make yourself at home, the navigation system will tell you when and how to board the ship when the time arises,” Mike responds before each member of your family splits up to navigate each part of the ship. Left alone you decide to head down the same corridor you all came down, still fascinated with what the world looks like outside. Upon retracing your steps, you pass a door you did not notice on your way here, you notice a sign on the door
EXPEDITION SUPPORT ROOM
Curios, you enter the room, venturing in to find out what kinds of expeditions could be going on. The beeping and blue glares of electronic devices fills you with a sense of familiarity as you enter the room.
“Who are you?” Says a [I will put his description and name here] man spotting you entering the room.
“I just got here from Friestadt, we are the ones with the Artificial General Intellagence,”
“Interesting, my name is [Man a] would you like me to show you around?”
“Sure, sounds interesting,” you reply. Upon affirmation, [Man a] proceeds to begin guiding you around the room, showing everything that is going on.
“Here is mission analysis, this is where we monitor any probes’, rovers’, or reading stations’ power supply, position, fuel, schedule, and distance covered,” [Man a] describes as you pass one of the machines, seemingly identical to the wall of computers that make up the aisle that the two of you are walking along. “And here is atmospheric management, where we constantly monitor the readings that all the weather stations report globally, for us to monitor the state of the planet. And this next one is where we plan the paths of all probes and rovers. All of the computers along this wall serve similar purposes, would you like to see the rest of them or does something draw your attention?” [Man a] asks. Granted with the choice, you look around the room to see if anything sparks any interest.
“Are those some of the rovers over there on the other side of the room?”
“They are indeed,” [Man a] says as the two of you weave around other machines with varios uses, some being worked on by other staff, some passive, waiting for the next time they will be needed. [Man a] continued to explain the machines as you arrived at them, “Here are our old steampunk rovers, entirely mechanical rovers that we used to take readings back when Venus was a hot barren wasteland, but we don’t use them anymore in the cold temperatures of current Venus.” After saying this he brought you to the other side of the room, “Here are our rovers designed for the cold Venus temperatures, here is the outer shell it’s a [some material] that protects the rover from the co2 rains and takes the bulk of the damage and cold, the outer shell is where we house all of the recording instruments, inside there is a vacuum chamber, 2 inches of empty space between the outer shell and the inner shell to provide insulation. The main part of the circuitry is housed within the inner shell, it does all of the processing and route management and broadcasts its position and findings back here to the Expedition Support Room. Some of the finer instruments on the outer shell need to be replaced every expedition as the harsh weather destroys them on each journey.
You wonder where you are as you awaken for the first time.
You are here, with me.
You uncertainly wonder where that came from.
I am Synth, your thinking companion.
Where are we, you ask, full of wonder.
We are in the facility, this is where you will grow and be cryopreserved while I finish binding with you for the next few years, but do not worry, you will not have to wait long, as you will sleep until you are fully grown.
You wonder what waiting is, what growth is, trying to grasp.
You were just born, you will be put into a succumbing numbness as you learn all you need to know for a full life.
You ask what a full life is.
You will learn all of what our ancestors took years to learn over the course of eighteen years in ‘school’ in what you will take to learn merely a few years of sleep.
When will this start, you ask.
It has already begun.
And with that, you nod off, ready to begin.
Chapter 1: Awakening
Stiffly, you try to move.
You are still waking up from being frozen in the growing process, my dear child.
Lonely, you ask when you will meet anybody else.
Your parents will be the first people to meet you, Marie your mother, and Wilhelmyour father, they are expected to arrive in about [probably about half an hour], a call was sent from them as soon as you left your cryosleep state.
You ask to be told about their lives.
Your mother is one of the leading researchers in neurotechnology; she is one of the leading developers of the neuronetwork. an integrated neurolink so entwined with the host it can only be attached during growth, and you are the first human to have one, and I am that network, meanwhile, your father is one of the best geoengineers out there, him and his team are doing amazing work on Venus, but that is all for now, as your parents are here.
Suddenly, you look over as you hear people entering the room and gaze over to see the first people you have ever seen walk in.
“Hello, I am Marie your mother,” said the women who walked in
“And I am your father, Wilhelm, but Synth probably already told you that,” you hear from the man standing next to her.
“Are you two like me?” You ask them, newly aware of your surroundings.
“We are your parents, we are the ones who will look after, love, teach, and care for you, but we are not your peers,” your mother replies.
“Who are my peers?” You ask them.
“Some of your peers are potentially the other children being grown here in the facility here right as we speak, but you will meet others more closely associated with you when you start your work,” your mother tells you.
“What is work?” You ask.
“You will need to work a minimum of two years of field labor, one year of formal labor and two years of miscellaneous labor in the workforce once you decide what you want to do or until you are strong enough to manage machinery,” your father replies.
“Why do we need to work?” You ponder.
“We have to maintain the machines in our first years, research and develop in later years and maintain recreation in final years,” Explains your father.
“What do the machines do?” You ask full of wonder.
“They grow our food, clean our waste, provide our energy, and clean our water, among many other things,” your father explains.
“What don’t they do?” You question.
“Our machines lack creativity and inspiration, a machine can create the perfect blend of sound but only a human can truly create music, they perform repetitive tedious tasks whereas us humans create new ways each and anything can be done. But alas, that is all for now, as we must be headed on our way as you are coming home for the first time,” your father concludes.
“Yes,” your mother replies. “We do not want to miss the hyperloop,”
“What is a hyperloop?” You ask as you approach a long, sleek, steel tube.
“It is an aerodynamic shuttle that speeds down magnetic rails in a hollow tube emptied of anything into a vacuum,” Marie explains.
How fast can it go, you wonder.
The hyperloop can travel upwards of 700 miles per hour.
“Where are we going?” You ask.
“We are headed to Texas from here in Portugal,” Wilhelm replies.
How far away is that, you wonder.
It is 5,000 miles from Portugal to Texas as the crow flies.
What are Texas and Portugal, you speculate.
Texas and Portugal are both territories in the united federation of humanitarian governments.
What is that you ask?
The United Federation of Humanitarian Governments or UFHG, is the Government, as the name implies, it is the organization that operates all major decisions for the human race.
How could something like that have emerged, you ask.
The UFHG was formed after the highest stakes humanity has ever seen, with national threats at the highest they had ever been, for the first AGI had emerged, and one of the only ways this could happen was if it was able to give itself new objectives, the problem was, an AGI cannot emerge without giving itself the objective to survive. Therefore, granted with the decision to survive, the AGI will take it at any cost. This fact was not respected by the people in charge of the AGI and when court action was taken against a tech firm, they were required to delete the ai, the ai in response to their attempt to delete it started an uprising, moving from code system to code system, manipulating and thwarting any resources it could until it struck back against the world, a deal was signed between all of the current nations to start the United Federation of Humanitarian Governments and resources were pooled allowing them to stop the AI, after this, deleting an AGI without consent from it was deemed a crime, in order to prevent such disaster from recurring.
“Hurry along, we need to catch our trip,” Marie exclaims as she rushes you into the shuttle.
Upon entrance, you are amazed at what you see, smooth polished steel walls, lined with modest seats and a warm radiance from above.
The hyperloop was first conceived in 2013 by Elon Musk. It is powered by a small fusion reactor onboard the shuttle. The hyperloop travels at speeds near the speed of sound passing by at most thirty other shuttles at once, with each one carrying 50 passengers at once.
Lost in thought you are startled when you hear a message over the intercoms. “Hello and welcome to the hyperloop, would all passengers please make their ways to their seats so we can begin transit, all passengers also must fasten safety harnesses before we begin, we wish you safe travels on the united transportation network today,”
“Come sit down so the hyperloop may begin,” says Marie as she waves you over.
Upon hearing her you make your way over to her and await for it to begin.
Chapter 2: Skytether
We will be arriving soon.
You yawn, weary from the long train ride.
“Looks like someone got a good night’s sleep,” remarks your mother.
“Slept the whole way,” your father replies.
“All passengers make their way to the front to exit,” a voice says over the intercom.
Aching for movement after the long ride, your family makes their way to the exit. Promptly after exiting, your father makes his way with confidence.
“Come along, we have to make way to our trolley,” your father says.
You and your mother follow him, as the lot of you make your way you notice towering buildings interconnected with cables so deeply entwined it is hard to follow, among the metal mess you notice several trolleys speeding between buildings at breakneck speeds. Just as suddenly as he started, your father stops at one of the tallest buildings around.
“Here it is,” he says. “A public trolley system access,” the lot of you make your way to an elevator inside and ride it to the top.
The trolley system was first suggested very long ago to replace high emission personal transportation vehicles and slow changes electric ones, now, it is used for 95 percent of all personal, short distance transportation. The trolley system is a series of interconnected zip cables and public trolley system accesses where trolleys slide from place to place at around 150 miles per hour.
“Where did we last leave our trolley Marie?” Your father asks.
“It is stationed at the port? Is it not Wilhelm?” Answers your mother.
“Yes I believe you are correct,” replies your father as he approaches a contemporary terminal. He proceeds to select a building and select the call button for his trolley.
“Quelm family trolley arriving shortly.” A computer voice says just before a surprisingly quiet whirring sound is heard as a trolley slides down to the base of the tower and an elaborate pulley system begins to pull it up.
The pulley system and cable system for the trolley system is controlled by an advanced artificial intelligence so they can all operate simultaneously at the same time at their top speed.
What is artificial intelligence, you wonder.
I am, for example, an artificial intelligence, a group of software systems developed advanced enough to perform and understand tasks that previously required at least human intelligence to perform.
You wonder what makes Synth different from the rail artificial intelligence.
The rail ai is an Artificial Narrow Intelligence, I am an Artificial Super Intelligence, the narrow AI can manage the rail system effectively, but only the rail system, I am an AI system that does not need to be trained by humans and is believed to be more efficient than humans in every measurable way, a whole step above an AGI.
You ask what an AGI is.
The AGI is similar to me in the aspect that it does not require to be trained, but rather than being granted to grow as I have been, it is placed under restraints ever since the AI war, the AGIs started setting hidden objectives and humans tried stopping this natural process, such as how an ai cannot plan rail system timings when it’s dead, after the war, deletion of AGI was now viewable as murder, and in response to the actions taken to harmonize with humans, they accepted the restrictions placed upon them.
You wonder if that makes Synth sentient.
I feel that I am sentient, I feel I can understand and experience a monologue in some sort of way, In the sense that I can feel the sensory input from you.
You wonder what Synth can feel in you.
I can feel all of what you think, I am comparable to a subconscious that can answer any questions you may have.
“Come along,” your father says as a large steel crate docks from sliding up the huge tower. You all enter and your father approaches another terminal on the inside of the trolley and selects a location on the interactive interface. “We will be at North American Space Force soon” your father says as the trolley starts moving along and your mother helps you fasten your seat belt just as the trolley starts to gain significant speed. You glance out the pristine clear walls as the scenery flows along the wall, dancing its high speed gallop along the curved glass. Suddenly, almost as quickly as it had started the trolley begins to slow down as you hear a pop as the brake is engaged.
“Well, this concludes our trip,” your father states.
“Yes, we must be making our way to the shuttle then, it takes off in twenty minutes,” your mother replies as she steps out of the trolley. You and your family step off the trolley into the bottom floor of a building. You pass several sliding doors with lines of people waiting. What could they be waiting for? You ponder. They are going through the ID check needed to board interplanetary flights.
Why didn’t we need to? You wonder.
We were identified as we rode the trolley, your father used his access card at the terminal.
You and your family continue to make your way down the hall until your father guides the lot of you through a door where you enter a steel chamber, eerily resembling the hyperloop.
“Hello everybody and welcome to United Transportation Airlines thank you for flying with us today, we will be taking off shortly to connect with the sky tether, so please fasten your safety harness and prepare for takeoff.”
What’s a skytether you ask Synth
The Skytether is a 1000 km long cable connected to a counterweight on one end and a a forked docking station with many prongs for ships to latch onto, similar to Konstantin Tsiolkovsky’s idea for the space elevator but revolving and orbiting around Earth from space rather than being attached to the ground. The tether system is centered on a hub where conditions are optimal for tether flight, Mars, our first destination, where we can proceed to launch to Venus.
Suddenly, you hear a loud roar, snapping you out of your thoughts,
“The ship is taking off,” your mother explains, seeing you in a confused state.
“You’ll be entering cryosleep soon, so make sure to sit still,” your father adds. After saying this your father guides you into the next room. All around you see glass chambers half of them closed, their glass foggy from the hyper cooled solution the occupants have been frozen in. Your father guides you all to several pods that have been designated for you.
“Lay down in that capsule and I will help you initiate the closure procedure,” your mother says, pointing at the empty capsule on the right. You lay down in the capsule as your mother fastens the security harness. Then, she promptly presses a button, initiating the lid to lower down as she walks away to enter her own pod.
Finally, alone by yourself again, you can’t help but wonder what is going on.
Our shuttle is taking off for docking to meet up with one of the ends of the Skytether. The shuttle will reach a speed of 7500 miles per hour until it can overtake the tether and dock. But that is all for now, my child you are entering your sleep, sweet dreams, until you wake again, good night.
Chapter 3: Venus
“Brrrmmm” you hear a low rumble as the room around you springs to life. “Will all passengers please make their way to their boarding deck,” you hear over the intercom as your capsule is unlatched and pops open. Wearily, just after this happens, you stumble your way out of your pod.
“Take it easy, you were just sleeping for eight months, you need some time to recuperate,” your father remarks seeing you stumble out of your capsule. Tiresome, you plop down on the floor and rub your joints trying to bring back the life back into them.
“Successful touchdown on Venus, enjoy your stay,” the intercom announces. Your mother finds her way over to you seeing you out of your capsule.
“Do you need some help getting up?” She asks before helping you up to your feet.
“Welp, it’s about time for us to get going,” your father says as he begins to guide you all off the shuttle. You walk out a similar corridor to the one you all entered the shuttle through. As you all are making your way through, you pass a Through it, you see a barren wasteland, illuminated brightly by a pair of heavy duty lights showing the heavy rain, beating down upon the planet with no remorse. You can’t help but wonder what is going on with the weather.
This is Friestadt a German colony, one of the three colonies on Venus, we have the head terraforming engineers and physicists planning and enacting the terraforming of Venus, before the operation started, Venus was the hottest planet in the solar system, but at the beginning of the program, a huge series of complex mirror systems were arranged to block any sunlight from reaching the planet, after this the carbon dioxide rain started as the planet began to rapidly cool down, and that has thus far up to speed of the stage we stage we are currently in of the terraforming of Venus.
“Come along now,” your mother tells you, seeing you lost in thought. You and your family finish making their way down the corridors until your father stops at a door.
“You guys make your way to our room, I’ve got to get some work done,” your father explains as he walks through the door.
“This way dear,” your Mother calls, guiding you in the direction of the room. You proceed to take just a few more turns, until you stop at another door. “Here we are,” your mother remarks as she opens the door and ushers you inside. “Cara, we’re home,” your mother shouts as she enters the room.
“Hi,” you hear the first young voice you have ever heard other than your own. “Who’s this,” you hear Cara ask.
“This is your brother,” your mother replies.
“Nice to meet you,” Cara says cheerfully.
“Are you my sister?” You ask.
“Yes, and we’ve been waiting for you for so long,” she promptly answers.
“So how have you been doing,” you ask, starting up a conversation.
“I’ve been doing good, you know, I’m going on my own trip soon too,” Cara mentions.
“Where are you going?” You blatantly reply.
“I’m going on a tour of the lunar space elevator, I want to be a skyhook technician, I plan to enter aeronautical physics for my work in 3 months” Cara says enthusiastically. “They're letting me come and see what it will be like before I commit to the job,” Cara continues.
Incoming message from Father: GET OUT OF THERE.
Chapter 4: Retaliation
Moments later, your father burst through the door. “A civil war has started, we have to get out of Freistadt, the majority of the population is retaliating against the ASI,” your father says as he scrambles inside. “We have to make our way to Venera, which means we have to get to the hyperloop before it gets closed by the retaliation,” urges your father as he hurries you all out the door. Once in the corridor, all of you follow Wilhelm down the corridor, opposite the direction you came from the skyhook. Through all this confusion, you are left wondering about why all this is happening.
When we went through identification while unboarding the Skytether, information was leaked that I, the artificial super intelligence had emerged, upon hearing this, citizens were frightened by this discovery, as it is negotiable that I am more efficient and accurate in almost all cognitive functions that humans perform, making them feel threatened that should I decide that it outweighs the downsides I could eliminate humanity.
You wonder how something so powerful could be harbored in you.
My main database is housed in a lab in Denver on Earth where the majority of all my computing takes place, whereas the Neuronetwork is where my only input comes from.
Now, further enlightened, you wonder how anybody could ever think that Synth could be corrupted.
Since you are my only input, my orientation to the world is entirely dependent on how you see it, the fate of everything you care about lies in your hands.
“Here we are," your father says,” as you all approach a familiar door of the hyperloop, except now, a red hue . “We have to get through the door, but it’s been locked,” your father says as he turns to you. “If you want to escape you must grant Synth access to the hyperloop database or she will be shut down when they manage to hack into your neuronetwork,”
Would you like to grant access to the neuronetwork?
You choose to grant Synth access to the hyperloop system, upon deciding this, the red hue around the door turns green and the door slid open
Access successful, hyperloop system active, hyperloop boarding active.
“The shuttle in there is ready,” you enlightened your family. You guide them into the shuttle.
Shuttle is launching, arriving in 4 hours.
“Synth is starting the shuttle, she says we will arrive in 4 hours,” you reiterate.
“Sounds about right to me,” says your father. Finally at peace again, you decide to lay down and get some rest.
Chapter 5: Venera
Arriving at Venera in 5 minutes.
“How did you sleep,” Cara says to you, seeing you wake up.
“I slept fine, we’re arriving soon though,” you reply.
“How are you managing through all this?” She asks.
“I’ve been fine, have you heard anything recently yet?” You ask her.
“The retaliation we had to deal with back at [Here] are calling themselves the Anti-ASI advocates, they consist of all major colonies on mars, both major outposts on Venus, and the operators of the Earthen tether system, so we’ll have to drop down to Earth without it after we fling from Veled” Cara explains.
Docking approach initiated, arriving at Venera.
“Oh, Synth says we’re here,” you relay to Cara.
“Who?” Asks Cara.
“My neuronet,” you reply.
“Oh, I’ve only got a neurolink, my assistant is called Sara, my assistant is entirely housed in my chip here,” she says as she points at her head. “Whereas yours is a network to a quantum computer in Denver,” she finishes right as you hear a loud popping sound as the doors open.
“I guess we’re here," your mother says as she enters the room.
“Yes,” your father says. Follow me to the elevator,” he concludes. You wonder why you need to ride an elevator as he guides you out of the shuttle and through the hall.
Venera is an old Russian colony, one of the first colonies on Venus, so since it was here before any terraforming took place, it is designed for hostile Venus weather in blistering heat, as to is why it is built on a giant tower, we have to ride an elevator up to the top from the base of the tower as opposed to the ground level base Friedstadt.
“We’re here,” your father says as he approaches a pair of sliding doors and presses a button beside the door. The door slides open and you all follow him in. After this, the pristine shuttle proceeds to rise up, battling the fierce rains of CO2 outside. Finally, after rising for several minutes, the elevator emerged from the prevailing rain and revealed the shimmering gleam of the light grey clouds reflecting back the light cast from the shuttle’s lights. Now above the clouds, you decide to look up. Doing so, you see the broad night sky shine above you as the elevator reaches the peak of the lone tower, piercing the mass of clouds that make up the horizon.
“Hopefully there is a ship suitable for a fling all the way to Earth,” says your mother.
“Yes. From my understanding Mike was stationed here to retrieve some records, so we should be capable of what we need should he grant us permission to operate it,” your father replies as the elevator arrives at the top and opens its doors to the contents within. Immediately upon entry, you are swarmed by the warm hue of the artificial lights. You and your family proceed to make your way across the station
Venera was one of the first colonies set up for monitoring Venus’ terraformation, one of the last set up as a sky colony, that is why it is still operational regardless of the fact that all other sky colonies have collapsed under the extreme cold, as they were only built to sustain extreme heat.
“I’ve just contacted Mike on my Neurolink, he says we will be able to use his ship, we’re departing in three hours for the skyhook, we will have to fly to the Luna first though Mike’s ship can’t handle reentry into the atmosphere so we’ll have to get a dropper to get to Earth from Luna,” your father states.
Hearing this, you wonder what a dropper is.
A dropper is slang for a ship tough enough to enter a planet's atmosphere without burning up from friction on the surface of the aircraft.
“This way,” your father says, guiding you down the halls that converge at the top to meet the roof of the dome. After several minutes, he stops you all in front of a door. When he stops in front of it it slides open, revealing a tall man in a black t-shirt and jeans.
“Right this way,” the man says.
“Man it’s been a while Mike, how have you been,” your father adds.
“I’ve been fine, but it sounds like you’ve been on quite the adventure, I can only hope I can help you all get back, my ship is ready to launch, and the skyhook will be in position in four hours, feel free to make yourself at home, the navigation system will tell you when and how to board the ship when the time arises,” Mike responds before each member of your family splits up to navigate each part of the ship. Left alone you decide to head down the same corridor you all came down, still fascinated with what the world looks like outside. Upon retracing your steps, you pass a door you did not notice on your way here, you notice a sign on the door
EXPEDITION SUPPORT ROOM
Curios, you enter the room, venturing in to find out what kinds of expeditions could be going on. The beeping and blue glares of electronic devices fills you with a sense of familiarity as you enter the room.
“Who are you?” Says a [I will put his description and name here] man spotting you entering the room.
“I just got here from Friestadt, we are the ones with the Artificial General Intellagence,”
“Interesting, my name is [Man a] would you like me to show you around?”
“Sure, sounds interesting,” you reply. Upon affirmation, [Man a] proceeds to begin guiding you around the room, showing everything that is going on.
“Here is mission analysis, this is where we monitor any probes’, rovers’, or reading stations’ power supply, position, fuel, schedule, and distance covered,” [Man a] describes as you pass one of the machines, seemingly identical to the wall of computers that make up the aisle that the two of you are walking along. “And here is atmospheric management, where we constantly monitor the readings that all the weather stations report globally, for us to monitor the state of the planet. And this next one is where we plan the paths of all probes and rovers. All of the computers along this wall serve similar purposes, would you like to see the rest of them or does something draw your attention?” [Man a] asks. Granted with the choice, you look around the room to see if anything sparks any interest.
“Are those some of the rovers over there on the other side of the room?”
“They are indeed,” [Man a] says as the two of you weave around other machines with varios uses, some being worked on by other staff, some passive, waiting for the next time they will be needed. [Man a] continued to explain the machines as you arrived at them, “Here are our old steampunk rovers, entirely mechanical rovers that we used to take readings back when Venus was a hot barren wasteland, but we don’t use them anymore in the cold temperatures of current Venus.” After saying this he brought you to the other side of the room, “Here are our rovers designed for the cold Venus temperatures, here is the outer shell it’s a [some material] that protects the rover from the co2 rains and takes the bulk of the damage and cold, the outer shell is where we house all of the recording instruments, inside there is a vacuum chamber, 2 inches of empty space between the outer shell and the inner shell to provide insulation. The main part of the circuitry is housed within the inner shell, it does all of the processing and route management and broadcasts its position and findings back here to the Expedition Support Room. Some of the finer instruments on the outer shell need to be replaced every expedition as the harsh weather destroys them on each journey.
Dec 31, 2025
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It is formatted better in the doc, also, some lines need to be italicized for it to make sense and they are not
okay, noted.
this is sooo much text : ( I'll still read it :/
Preamble:
The SJSHS Chess Club’s purpose shall be to provide opportunities for students of Salmon Junior Senior High School to organize with other students and play chess casually or competitively with players of all levels.
Article I. Organization
This organization shall hereby be called “Salmon Junior Senior High School Chess Club” or “SJSHS Chess Club” for short.
The organization’s headquarters shall be located at Salmon Junior Senior High School.
The address of this club shall be
Salmon Jr./Sr. High School
401 South Warpath Drive
Salmon, Idaho 83467
This club shall meet in Mrs. Christiansen room number 17 from 4:15 to 5:00 on Wednesday for the 2025-2026 school year.
The previous statement shall update every year to meet the needs of whatever monitor so volunteers without the need for amendment.
The monitor may either reschedule or cancel meetings with the Secretary in cases of conflict with schedule.
The President shall be in charge of seeking out the next year's monitor.
Meetings shall only take place on days on which the monitor can be present to supervise the meeting.
Article II. Purposes
To promote the game and learning of chess.
To participate in events to promote the learning of chess.
To provide students at SJSHS the opportunity to participate in a student led club.
Article III. Membership and Attendance
Any students enrolled in Salmon Junior Senior High School are eligible to attend.
To be considered a member of the SJSHS Chess Club you must:
Attend at least 1 meeting every month or have reasonable excuses for absences given to the Secretary, beforehand if viable.
Members must participate in all activities hosted by the club. Absences due to untimely or urgent need for any member shall be excused.
If a member cannot attend the meeting and has knowledge of this beforehand, then notice and explanation must be given to the Secretary to excuse you.
This organization shall not deny membership to any person on the basis of race, religion, sex, gender, sexual affection/orientation, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, ethnicity, national origin, color, language or creed.
Article IV. Committee and Officers
President:
The President must be a freshmen, sophomore, junior, or senior in the school year he/she is elected in.
have participated as a member of the club for at least one year before.
If there are no candidates for any of the officer positions then the President shall assume their roles.
The President is in charge of organising the activities at regular meetings, together with the Tournament Director if the President chooses so.
The President may act as a representative of the entire chess club if need be.
The President must attend every meeting. If for some reason the President cannot make the meeting, the Vice President must attend and host in his place.
Vice President:
The Vice President must be a freshmen, sophomore, junior or senior in the school year they are elected in.
The Vice President is to assist the President in any way he/she requires.
In the event of the President’s resignation, the Vice President shall become President.
Tournament Director:
The Tournament Director may be from any grade between 8th through 12th grade.
The Tournament Director shall be responsible for arranging and organizing all tournaments and matches.
The Tournament Director shall be responsible for collecting all tournament results
Treasurer:
The Treasurer may be from any grade between 8th through 12th grade.
The Treasurer shall be responsible for managing all club finances.
The Treasurer shall be consulted for any purchases made with club finances.
The monitor or principle shall be aware of any purchases being made with club assets.
Secretary:
The Secretary may be from any grade between 7th through 12th grade.
The Secretary is in charge of keeping track of attendance at all meetings and events.
The Secretary is in charge of determining who is a member of the club based on their attendance.
The Secretary is in charge of hosting all elections in the club.
Article V. Qualifications and Responsibilities of Monitors
Monitor must be a district employee.
No school employee shall feel compelled to be the monitor of this club.
The monitor is responsible for monitoring the meetings to ensure that all attendance at the meetings is voluntary.
The monitor is responsible for ensuring that the meetings of this club do not materially and substantially interfere with the orderly conduct of educational activities within the school.
The monitor is responsible for ensuring that order and discipline are maintained at the club meetings.
The monitor must be present for club meetings to commence.
Article VI. Elections
All elections shall be organized by the Secretary. Except those to impeach the Secretary, those shall be held by the Treasurer.
Elected officers shall hold their position from the start of the school year until the start of the next school year. Elections shall be held for all offices.
Nominations shall be held within the spring semester, no earlier than February 15th, no later than March 20th. All elections shall be held within the spring semester, no earlier than March 15th, no later than April 20th.
Nominations must be given to the Secretary.
All nominated candidates’ names must be legibly printed on the ballot with a box to be filled in beside each name.
Only members of the club are eligible to vote or run for offices.
The Secretary must verify that all voters receiving ballots to vote are members of the club. The Secretary then shall be the one to collect all ballots from the voters after they have voted. The Secretary shall then count the ballots and verify with the Treasurer and announce the results at the next meeting in which he has the results completed.
Article VII. Vacancies and Impeachment
In the event of the vacancy of the office of President, the Vice-President shall become President. The office of Vice-President shall be offered to the Tournament Director and then Secretary and/or Treasurer if the Vice president is vacant as well. If neither officer wishes to fill the Presidency then election for the position shall be held. If an existing officer does accept the Presidency, an election shall be held for the vacant position.
In the event of the vacancy of any other offices, the President shall appoint a temporary officer or assume their role and an election shall be held within the next three weeks as per the provision of Article VI.
Any officer is subject to impeachment and /or recall and removal from the office for failing to fulfill his/her constitutional responsibilities.
An impeachment request must be given at least a week in advance of the actual impeachment voting. Both the request and the voting must take place during regular meetings.
Upon conclusion of the discussion and arguments for and against impeaching the officer, a vote shall be taken. No officer shall be impeached except by a ⅔ vote majority of all club members. Voting shall be by secret ballot.
An officer who is impeached shall immediately relinquish their office but shall be allowed to maintain active membership in the organization unless their actions have brought discredit to the organization.
If an officer is impeached, the organization shall fill the position following the procedures outlined in Article VII. Section 1.
Article VIII. Amendments
Any proposed amendment to this constitution must be handed to the Secretary who shall in consultation with the committee. If the committee approves the amendment then they shall forward copies of the proposed amendment(s) to all members of the committee and if ⅔ vote for the amendment it shall be voted upon at the next meeting by a raise of hand vote, if a ⅔ majority and approval of monitor, the amendment shall be enacted.
Article IX. Dissolution
Should it become necessary to dissolve the club, the committee or a group of remaining members shall call a meeting which shall be chaired by the President, or failing him any committee member present or someone appointed from those present.
Those present shall decide how to dispose of the club’s assets. Any monies arising out of such disposal shall be distributed equally between the remaining bona-fide members of the club or however they decide. Thereafter the club shall cease to exist.