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space. Even if the
Gelnott proved themselves a true threat, with such new relationships between
the species, the other treaty worlds may worry that we weren’t any better than
the Knomen. It wouldn’t be true of course, the Knomen did it for control,
this treaty was about all the worlds having freedom, except of course to attack
or interfere with their neighbors.
Al was silent for a moment, and then replied, “I would say
thank you, but I estimate a high probability that you were being sarcastic.”
I grudgingly smiled, “You would be right, but that doesn’t
make me less thankful for your input, keep me apprised of developments.”
“Will do Alicia.”
I frowned. I’d asked him to call me by name a great
number of times, this was the first time he’d actually done so. Whatever
Shelly’s new A.I. design was doing for Al’s responses and capabilities was
obviously still in flux. I started to wonder more if the changes would
ever stop, rather than wondering when they would stop. The problem with
that is Shelly did want to eventually start selling them, so I decided we
needed to judge it on stability rather than any kind of consistent action or
response.
It did make sense, the new A.I. matrix was supposed to adapt
to its user, I just hadn’t thought it would be so… ongoing.
As long as I’d been distracted from my work, I looked up
some business figures as well. First, the inter-galactic taxi service was
a bigger hit than I’d expected. I started it up after having ten built
out, and they were almost constantly in use now. Each time I added two,
the work seemed to increase. I was sure that would flag some before we
hit our taxi goal of a fifty, but so far it was paying off. Since all the
patents and designs on the ships were mine or Kristi’s, it wouldn’t take long
before materials were paid for and I’d actually start making a profit from
them.
It wouldn’t be much in comparison to my current royalty
amounts coming in, but it wasn’t insignificant either. Even a small
amount of gold per trip added up.
I’d also received personal thanks from twenty-eight of the
thirty-nine treaty worlds to make my business available to their governments
during a treaty emergency such as mutual defense.
The gravity ball had increased in sales as well since Vegas,
or I should say the amount of times the pattern has been sold on many fronts to
Fire departments, police, and even military such as the coast guard and SAR
units on air craft carriers.
The only other thing that was going on were the nanites,
which were selling as fast as we could make them. I considered the idea
of setting up an auction to sell off the rights to both manufacture and sell
them to the public, mainly the fabricator companies, but car companies as
well. I didn’t want to wait too long, since it might bite us in the long
run if we do. I wrote up a quick proposal for it and forwarded it onto
Kristi and Caroline for their input.
After that I got back to the data for the new technology I
was trying to understand, and some testing. I kept making tweaks and educated
guesses by what I was seeing for results to inform the next set of
changes. No luck though, I was obviously missing something vital, perhaps
something not even in the data, but I kept looking anyway…
Chapter 11
Al woke me up early the following morning, “You need to go
visit your family.”
Huh? My mind was having trouble with that.
First, A.I.s don’t tell their owners what to do. Secondly, I was
sleeping, and it was only five in the morning.
“Explain, and this better be good.”
Al said, “There has been a surge of anti-alien opinions
lately. I surmise too much has changed and too fast, and people fear
it. The world is slowly splitting between those that don’t want change
and support their countries, to those who see this as an opportunity to come
together. Almost all of them, on both sides, credit you with providing
the
Gelnott proved themselves a true threat, with such new relationships between
the species, the other treaty worlds may worry that we weren’t any better than
the Knomen. It wouldn’t be true of course, the Knomen did it for control,
this treaty was about all the worlds having freedom, except of course to attack
or interfere with their neighbors.
Al was silent for a moment, and then replied, “I would say
thank you, but I estimate a high probability that you were being sarcastic.”
I grudgingly smiled, “You would be right, but that doesn’t
make me less thankful for your input, keep me apprised of developments.”
“Will do Alicia.”
I frowned. I’d asked him to call me by name a great
number of times, this was the first time he’d actually done so. Whatever
Shelly’s new A.I. design was doing for Al’s responses and capabilities was
obviously still in flux. I started to wonder more if the changes would
ever stop, rather than wondering when they would stop. The problem with
that is Shelly did want to eventually start selling them, so I decided we
needed to judge it on stability rather than any kind of consistent action or
response.
It did make sense, the new A.I. matrix was supposed to adapt
to its user, I just hadn’t thought it would be so… ongoing.
As long as I’d been distracted from my work, I looked up
some business figures as well. First, the inter-galactic taxi service was
a bigger hit than I’d expected. I started it up after having ten built
out, and they were almost constantly in use now. Each time I added two,
the work seemed to increase. I was sure that would flag some before we
hit our taxi goal of a fifty, but so far it was paying off. Since all the
patents and designs on the ships were mine or Kristi’s, it wouldn’t take long
before materials were paid for and I’d actually start making a profit from
them.
It wouldn’t be much in comparison to my current royalty
amounts coming in, but it wasn’t insignificant either. Even a small
amount of gold per trip added up.
I’d also received personal thanks from twenty-eight of the
thirty-nine treaty worlds to make my business available to their governments
during a treaty emergency such as mutual defense.
The gravity ball had increased in sales as well since Vegas,
or I should say the amount of times the pattern has been sold on many fronts to
Fire departments, police, and even military such as the coast guard and SAR
units on air craft carriers.
The only other thing that was going on were the nanites,
which were selling as fast as we could make them. I considered the idea
of setting up an auction to sell off the rights to both manufacture and sell
them to the public, mainly the fabricator companies, but car companies as
well. I didn’t want to wait too long, since it might bite us in the long
run if we do. I wrote up a quick proposal for it and forwarded it onto
Kristi and Caroline for their input.
After that I got back to the data for the new technology I
was trying to understand, and some testing. I kept making tweaks and educated
guesses by what I was seeing for results to inform the next set of
changes. No luck though, I was obviously missing something vital, perhaps
something not even in the data, but I kept looking anyway…
Chapter 11
Al woke me up early the following morning, “You need to go
visit your family.”
Huh? My mind was having trouble with that.
First, A.I.s don’t tell their owners what to do. Secondly, I was
sleeping, and it was only five in the morning.
“Explain, and this better be good.”
Al said, “There has been a surge of anti-alien opinions
lately. I surmise too much has changed and too fast, and people fear
it. The world is slowly splitting between those that don’t want change
and support their countries, to those who see this as an opportunity to come
together. Almost all of them, on both sides, credit you with providing
the
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