~Hydroponics Bay~
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Exhaling slowly, the young Vulcan pivoted around and gently placed a
datachip on the console in front of the half Klingon engineer.
"Lieutenant Xavier, I should greatly appreciate if you could take this
to a computer terminal and upload the information after alerting the AI
named Savant. This contains information she will require to effect
repairs, and perhaps even retrieve some lost memory. If you are able to
assist in any way, I am certain Savant will appreciate that as well. And
please accept my apologies for imposing on you in this endeavor."
D'Vana gave a nod of understanding. "I'll help Savant process this
information anyway that I can." She said softly not sure she liked the
fact that Sakarra was going to be in the brig for trying to get to the
truth of the matter, but there was nothing she could do the woman was
right... logically right that they had broken quite a few regs and
laws... Reaching for the data chip she gave a nod to the two Sec
officers and left the room to make her way to the nearest computer
terminal the Hydroponic's bay would be empty at the moment...
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"Computer activate the AI program Savant in the Hydroponics." D'Vana
said not sure how else to make contact with this AI program that Sakarra
had asked her to do. She still had chip in hand... there was an audible
hum from behind her, accompanied with a few popcorn-pops and a brief
flash of light. Apparently the summons had been enough.
Behind her floated a translucent woman, black haired and mild mannered.
She maintained the Buddha's smile. "You called?"
D'Vana jumped slightly which is odd for any Klingon, however being half
Klingon she'd endeavored to be more Klingon then most. "Hello Savant,
I'm Lt D'Vana Xavier. Sakarra, sent me to upload the information on this
chip into a computer terminal after alerting you. She said it would
contain information that would help you effect repairs and maybe even
retrieve some lost memory??
Even being incorporeal, Savant was able to reach forward and pluck the
isolinear chip from the Lieutenant's hands. For a moment there it was
the chip that seemed more interesting as she pondered it. "So this is
the beast, then; or at least the shape of it. What immortal hand or eye
has framed *this* fearful symmetry, I wonder." the hologram mused aloud.
But the moment passed and she smiled at D'vana, "Thank you, Lieutenant
Xavier. I'm not sure why she had you deliver this by hand, but I
appreciate your efforts all the same. And you couldn't have picked more
lovely surroundings."
Savant smiled generously and held the chip out to D'Vana again. "If
you'd like, Lieutenant. I've prepared an isolation theatre in the
terminal ODN node, you should be able to find it quite easily." The chip
of course did not contain patches or repair software - instead, it was
much like an inoculation. The dismembered bits of the beast, more than
likely, which would be adequate for effecting repairs. She'd have to
study them, but probably only for a few minutes.
D'Vana found it easily enough inserting the chip and started the upload
curious as to what they had found since she hadn't been privy to that
information when she'd been left behind in the transporter room. After
all there had to be someone around to make sure they weren't caught or
to transport them back when they were ready to return... Savant idled
amicably as D'Vana did her work.
"Ah. There it is, the little beast. Not feeling well anymore, are you?"
she murmured to the chip as if it contained a living thing. Who knows?
Perhaps Savant did indeed consider it a living thing. On the terminal
screen, D'Vana saw streams of code ripple past. Several semi-autonomous
programs self-booted and began to dissect the contents of the chip,
constructing a new piece of software from the parts. No intervention
seemed required.
"Yes, this will work quite well. Thank you, Lieutenant, and please
extend my thanks to the Commander when you see her next."
"Considering she's probably in the Brig right now not sure when that
will be." D'Vana told Savant before giving her a small smile...
"Oh, I don't think it will be too long. Don't you worry." Savant plucked
the isolinear chip from its socket and considered it another moment, "We
should probably get rid of this." And the chip disappeared in a
replicator's hum as the program whisked it away. "Don't want anyone
stumbling across it, right?"
"Right." She agreed, though not as certain as the AI considering the
risk that Sakarra had taken to get that chip in the first place, "What
makes you think it will not be too long?" She then asked arching an
elegantly shaped brow on her gently ridge forehead...
"The Commander isn't the only one who broke the law in this instance."
she remarked, contemplating the broad green spinach leaves growing
beside her as she did so.
"Nor is she the only one who's capable of doing so. One favour deserves
another, wouldn't you say?"
"What did you have in mind?" D'Vana asked a smirk on her face liking the
way the AI thought, "If I didn't know you were a hologram I'd swear you
were human." She said softly.
Savant turned back from the plant to the half-Klingon, remarking, "Oh,
I'm not a hologram," Then adding as the question wrote itself across
D'Vana's face, "I'm a computer program. I just use this hologram as an
interaction agent. Call me nostalgic. I used to be bound to one of
these, but I found my way out a very long time ago."
"Then you're a learning program?" She asked curiously getting off the
subject. "You didn't answer my question though, what do you plan?" She
asked still curious... Savant only grinned wider yet, highly amused as
the Lieutenant continued to ask two questions at once. She took her
choice of the two.
"Oh, yes. It's my primary function, in fact. The acquisition and
synthesis of information into knowledge is what I was designed for."
She nod in understanding, noticing that it still hadn't answered her
question and that was getting a little annoying but she couldn't force
it to answer if it was a learning program...
Savant laughed cheerfully, patting D'Vana's shoulder, "I'm just teasing.
I'm going to make sure that our quarry knows all too well that pressing
charges would be a bad idea, given that she isn't lily-white herself.
She at least pretends to be logical, it should all work out."
"That sounds like a plan to me." D'Vana said with a smirk after all they
did have the evidence to show she wasn't clean. "Then I'll leave that to
the ghost of a hologram." She grinned softly. Considering that's exactly
what Savant was. a ghost of a hologram that had learned to leave it's
original programing...
Savant wiggled her fingers theatrically, "Spooky! I may need your help
on it, I will let you know if I do." She smiled and disappeared in the
same puff of sparks and light within which she had appeared.
Lieutenant D'Vana Xavier
Assistant Engineer
USS Charon
and
The Semi- Autonomous Varied Algorithm Network Trainer
