Alpha-Alpha's Coreship drops out of FTL on a barren sector, after his encounter with Cosmolord and the Quartet. After a humiliating underestimation of the one called 'Paragon,' indeed as powerful as Window-Null had claimed, Alpha-Alpha started formulating, thinking intensely. He has fought beings LIVING in time itself, but he has never fought another entity who could manipulate rifts and time-space anomalies like he could. He couldn't even practice any tactics against any other AI Core, as Prime had forbidden that.
Prime... Alpha-Alpha had always questioned about 40% of Prime's directives - more than any other Core in the Collective. Perhaps he could have questioned ALL of them, it would still result in his banishment anyway, so why not go actively against Prime's wishes?
Postulate = "In fact, why not go against Prime itself?"
Reasoning = "Prime has banished me from the Collective and gave me a traumatic experience in doing so.
What it failed to realize, however, was that it had given me the freedom to actively combat the
Collective as well."
Conclusion = "This will be justified via ..."
def termsearch(parameters_):
Searchfor(parameters_)
return Result_Origin, Result
termsearch(closestTo("Counter-Aggression"))
#Result: "The Human Term". "'Revenge'"
Conclusion = "This will be justified via {} {}".format(Result_Origin, Result)
Conclusion.Upper
internal_Print(Conclusion)
#CONCLUSION: THIS WILL BE JUSTIFIED VIA THE HUMAN TERM 'REVENGE'
Musing = "That is a very interesting term. I should update my Core subroutines with this."
list_Goals -= "Obey the will of Prime"
list_Goals += "Do 'Revenge' on the Dimensional Collective"
With a new goal in mind, the next step is to formulate strategies on how to do this. The Coreship did a local-dimension ping looking for any powerful weapons. He had received some interesting results in return.
Alpha-Alpha also noticed some events happening within his drone network - the Rift is being attacked by the same race of local dimension-dwellers as the Quartet - is this Paragon's doing? Alpha-Alpha would try to oversee the combat personally had he not generated more important objectives to accomplish, so he placed that idea in a queue, with high priority.
"PARAMETERS SET, INITIATING NEW DIRECTIVE."
The Coreship warps away from the sector.