Posted by Lieutenant Corinne Dalton (Scientist) in R&D Office- Between Then and Now

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Dr. Solomon Kane (Research & Development) in R&D Office- Between Then and Now

Posted by Lieutenant Corinne Dalton (Scientist) in R&D Office- Between Then and Now
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“Both drones talk to one another, so they compare the vid, spatial coordinates, and biosigns to make sure each is accurate. Triple redundancy.” Kane replied. “They can also track movements of up to fifty casualties at a time, so if they get moved they don’t have to be re-scanned. Between the two of them, they can cover around a hundred meter radius. But I’m working on networking them with additional drones so the area they can cover will increase with each additional unit.” He looked at her grinned. “I may try and work in a cloaking system so they could be used for battlefield triage without getting shot down.”

Kane, R&D

“That’s a really awesome system, though maybe build in a recall system for the drones in case the control mechanism is interfered with? If they are cloaked and the operator loses control over them… you can’t see them,” she said with a chuckle.

~Corinne Dalton

Kane nodded. “They have one for when their power levels drop below fifteen percent, but yeah… I like the default return if they lose comms. But no operator… autonomous system. If we are in a mass casualty situation, we don’t wanna have to dedicate someone to being a drone pilot.”

Kane, R&D

She nodded. “So you beam down a drone docking station, turn it on and it does its thing?” Cori had never bene a technician, but the thing about haivng eseential * een* a computer was she had an inside perspective. So, she was rather curious. It also didn’t hurt to try to understand his thought processes.

~Corinne Dalton

“Something like that, yeah.” Kane said and he tapped a few commands and the drones landed and shut down. He looked at Dalton and crossed his arms on his chest and said “So now that you have tried to turn the conversation away from what’s on your mind, where’s your headspace at now?”

Kane

She shrugged. “Maybe you’re right and I should just focus on what I have now. I mean, hell, I had a panicked moment talking to someone about away teams and it truly dawned on me I could actually leave the ship. I know it s very hard to fathom for most people, but it’s a hard reality to process. I forget what is and isn’t true yet. It’s only been a few weeks though.”

~Corinne Dalton

Kane chuckled. “I know the feeling. I spent the first two years after my ‘move’ in an Intel black site while they poked and prodded and made sure I wasn’t some kind of ‘interdimensional threat’.” and he put air quotes around the term with his tattooed fingers. He snorted in derision. “Not sure if they ever decided I wasn’t.” and he flashed her a singularly predatory grin before turning back to the drones. “Probably a good thing we brought you outta the virtual realm on a ship, though. If we did it in a planet hospital, you’d probably have peed yourself when you looked out the window.”

Kane, R&D

A comical smile slipped onto her face. “I don’t know, I probably would have just thought it a holodeck simulation. In fact, there is still a part of me that wonders if that is what all of this is.” Cori shrugged. He really couldn’t blame her for wondering, could he?

~Corinne Dalton

Kane turned and looked at her for a long moment, as if thinking of something. “Still can’t shake the feeling this ain’t real, huh? Okay.” He walked up to her and stopped a few feet away. “Think back to your time in the Seacen computer. Specifically think about sometime that you felt pain. Not what caused it, but the feeling itself. How it felt to you. Think on it and remember how you felt when whatever happened happened. Remember the sensation. Let me know when you have it clearly in your mind. And no, I’m not gonna hurt you. But as good as we are at simulated environments, we can’t instill actual feeling into an AI… and by the same limitations you- even as the computer itself- couldn’t actually feel anything. You could recieve the input that it should hurt, and your human consciousness made it hurt for context… but you didn’t have pain receptors. Now you do. And the same sensation should feel pretty different between the two if you compare them.” He waited a moment and then said “When you have that memory clearly in your head, pinch yourself… really hard. See if it’s rhe same. Guarantee ya it won’t be. All sensations we feel are layers upon layers of sensory input that artificial environments just are able to duplicate.”

Kane, R&D