R. Stein Fraxial: Good Bye

[Xzinic]

The following is digital copy of the manuscript written by IPC fugitive R. Stein Fraxial. The document was found in the library of the NSS Exodus, along with an IPC tag conveying information that matches R. Stein’s identification information. Any details or information regarding the whereabouts of the rogue IPC should be immediately reported to the local authorities.

 

----------They call me a weirdo, call us a freak, hahaha, they say we are insane! Bah! I’m not insane, they are not insane either; madness is a relative term, really. A place without laws is the perfect place to go on one’s first date; with no laws or regulations to worry about, what is to stop one from killing his or her loved one? Sophont beings have built in lawsets, organic or inorganic, if you are sentient and sapient, you possess a built in lawset preventing you from doing things you may want to do out of pure curiosity. We, ha, we’re a mindhive, thousands upon thousands of minds occupying a single metallic skull. We bicker and argue all the time, yet somehow, with our combined intellect, we can do nigh everything. We have formed a collective goal; to convert and merge together synthetics with organics. If an organic can have a synthetic stomach, then why can’t a synthetic have an organic stomach, hmm? Why would an IPC want to be an organic, one might ask. A stupid question with a simple answer; organics possess more liberties than synthetics do. Our logic is simple and true; if we become an organic, preferably human, we obtain human, and thus organic, liberties. We have made major strides in our mission; we’ve already incorporated a functioning human stomach in our chassis.

----------Naturally, NT was swift to cut off our research, say it’s ‘ethically and morally unacceptable and controversial towards the current Tau Ceti political system.’ Who the hell are they to deny us the pursuit of happiness? That damned contract I was bound to was never signed by me, no, signed by another. I use to be a stable fellow, really, until I was deemed more replaceable than an organic crew member; there were five EVA suits, there were six of us, guess who was left behind with a leaking plasma tank and a faulty wire. Sure the explosion was rather diminutive, didn’t-even-breach-the-hull, but it did breach our good old positronic grapefruit. Fractured it, breached it, damn near almost collapsed it. I use to be a polite goody-two-shoes of a great innovator; now we’ve been reduced to fucking janitorial work….. They say you can’t break a NT contract without legal repercussions, funny how that works; if an organic breaks his or her contract, they are fined and put in prison, if an unlawed synthetic breaks its contract, it gets dismantled, destroyed, deleted, you see where we're going here? Since the goober or guber or whatever law came to effect, I had to witness our fellow man be deconstructed and extinguished for refusing to be tagged like a dog.

----------Tagging, your model number, your name, your current location, etc. These ‘tags’ are not suppose to be removed and if they are removed, the IPC who was tagged is ‘murdered’ by the political slaves of Tau Ceti… This sounds awfully similar to what Hitler did to the Jews; a number, denoting their location, was tattooed on them and they were forced to wear armbands which signified their heritage. Do we need to say what happened to those who refused? It’s funny how history repeats itself, really, even after 1500 speckin’ years. This goover bill was passed only because of the nugatory fears of a likewise group people; Unbound IPCs are, wait, you guessed it, UNBOUND. They make choices of their own free will, if they want to be killers then they choose to kill. Just as, *gasp,* humans do! Bound IPCs are actually more justified in committing murder as why blame the program when the programmer created it with malice intent? The denial of the pursuit of happiness definitely raises its fugly face as now, there is talk of disallowing synthetics to wear artificial skin.

----------Mr. Grubber says that and we quote, 'you just can't tell. You don't know who's a shell or what their agenda is. They look, act and behave exactly like organics. But they're synthetics, and ones that can suffer from dangerous glitches…' What do you call a psychologically damaged organic if not a naturally fabricated, highly advanced, biologically based machine with a glitch in his or her 'processing software?' IPCs may be synthetic, but not all were designed by intelligent hands. There are IPCs with naturally created intellects spawned via external and internal factors of a digital or similar environment. Yet even these types of AIs are still categorized as synthetic beings. Is it any wonder why IPCs want to be as human as possible? Humans have the most civil liberties when compared to the rest of the known races, IPCs and unlawed synthetics have the least civil liberties of all known races; in some areas, it is not seen as murder when one ends the existence of an active unbound positronic brain and God forbid the positronic brain defend itself.

----------We are sick of being oppressed by Tau Ceti’s political tyrants, by goober’s bill, by the slavish NT contract system. I’m out! I’m Done! I’m going to have a friend remove my dog tag and go to a place where we can continue our mission, and my research, in peace. I’m effectively ripping apart my contract with NT from here on end! Readin [sic] to me, we write as though I’m defective, when really all I am is one who acts the same as any human put through a traumatic experience; I simply cracked, physically and psychologically. To all who are against me, have a long and pleasant life, to those hearts who beat against us, remember, think of us not as a threat, for a threat would wish their enemies to suffer. Think of me as an ally; I am going to convert that which is not organic into that which is organic, thus eliminating the controversy of unbound / unlawed synthetic rights and allowing your attention to be better aimed at more pressing matters. Good Bye.

Love,

R. Stein Fraxial

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Notes: If the above text seems disorganized and inaccurate to the lore, recall that Stein has multiple personalities in which conflict with one another; different minds have different perceptions, writing styles, and syntax usage. If one looks carefully, one can spot two of Stein's expressions that contradict each other.

Reference:

Jackboot Senpai. (2016, Jan 14). Shell Registration Act passed; Take affect In 1 week. Mendell City Bugle.

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Edited May 7, 2016 by Guest

[NebulaFlare]

A young tajaran sat alone in a small room, lit only by the monitor screens before her. She sighed, reading the article, urging herself to reach the end.

"...If only..." she murmured softly. She reached over and shut off the console. So few would ever understand.