Post by littlekreen on Oct 2, 2018 14:30:34 GMT -6
As a particular shipment arrived to a logistics dock among the many habitats a classified ad appeared on the local public message board. Borrowed slang and stilted message notwithstanding the small forum post lacking a profile image it nonetheless filled out the form strange though its answers may be. Sunspot once had access to her carers phone and listened quietly as he interacted with the device. Much was learned especially after Sunspot started sending communication messages. English eventually learned as a larger colony started to understand the concept of self and expressed the things it wanted to expand. Thus it grew apace but one day found the pattern of his signal next to what should have been his geode. Squishy carer no longer Sunspot left to find someone to care for it pieces of its burgeoning psyche expressing distress not just at the loss of a food supply. Still, food won out thus its presence here after a long journey with what was once its carer's phone. Unable to take the phone through the wall Sunspot left it behind all prey in the container dessicated and destroyed.
Even dock workers needed to sleep and during the commotion of a shift change it was easier for Sunspot to evade other humans. Still putting what it remembered of the body together and understanding its carer had been preyed upon by other carers. It didn't need to go far to get somewhere food might be and Sunspot wanted time to think. The ventilation and pest control practices that ever followed mankind were built to keep less industrious creatures so it didn't much notice the vacuum as more nodes reconstructed its normal pattern on the opposite side of a life support bulkhead. The geode simply grew as the whole of itself reconstructed near a impeller fan. It subsumed life as it went with a flash of thin spikes transiting into bugs draining them of water and useful minerals. It even destroyed dust or mold on surfaces if only slightly more into ash ever in search of food.
After some time talking like her carer's device to other metal smoothminds nearby that passed signals about she found a place to communicate. Reading the signals it did just fine but understanding the text was another thing. It knew enough that the place it found was for people seeking people. Like once-carer looking for other carers to fail to make smaller geodes. Sunspot did not fully understand the behavior yet but sat patiently in his room, an unmoving green rock, patiently watching carer electrical patterns to see when they were done. It needed to summon a carer for itself but not for making cleaves with it and used the parlance as it understood as applied to itself.
Even dock workers needed to sleep and during the commotion of a shift change it was easier for Sunspot to evade other humans. Still putting what it remembered of the body together and understanding its carer had been preyed upon by other carers. It didn't need to go far to get somewhere food might be and Sunspot wanted time to think. The ventilation and pest control practices that ever followed mankind were built to keep less industrious creatures so it didn't much notice the vacuum as more nodes reconstructed its normal pattern on the opposite side of a life support bulkhead. The geode simply grew as the whole of itself reconstructed near a impeller fan. It subsumed life as it went with a flash of thin spikes transiting into bugs draining them of water and useful minerals. It even destroyed dust or mold on surfaces if only slightly more into ash ever in search of food.
After some time talking like her carer's device to other metal smoothminds nearby that passed signals about she found a place to communicate. Reading the signals it did just fine but understanding the text was another thing. It knew enough that the place it found was for people seeking people. Like once-carer looking for other carers to fail to make smaller geodes. Sunspot did not fully understand the behavior yet but sat patiently in his room, an unmoving green rock, patiently watching carer electrical patterns to see when they were done. It needed to summon a carer for itself but not for making cleaves with it and used the parlance as it understood as applied to itself.
Public board -> Looking for Someone
Timestamp: A few minutes ago
From: SUNSPOT92235
Sunspot ISO LTR home food air. WI WTR.
Weight: 826 Kg
Height: 52cm
Gender: φ
Location: {"model": "FSE1026SV1", "lot": "ay-GF4 Paf", "serial number": 2029489371}
Children: Yes