Questions and answers

[runners_low]

[1]
[Felicita feels better now, so it's time to explore the Chalice! ... Not that she is going to suddenly leave the ward bed. Let's be realistic. Instead, she holds one of the precious few physical items she may call as her own - a tiny robotic probe.]

Go, drone!


[And, it flies away from her hands, controlled by a tablet also in her possession. Later, you may find the small thing exploring and being curious all over the White Chalice. You may or may not know already that it belongs to Felicita, and that she can talk through it.]

[2]
[Late at night - Felicita is fast asleep, snoring loudly and looking much happier than usual. But look, the drone is still active! Who might be controlling it?]



This is Colomba Arlotti.
DISCLAIMER: You are talking to a basic AI with a pre-recorded database and limited ability to learn. It is based on my personality and I gave it knowledge of all facts you will need.
White Chalice, I know you had questions. Questions regarding my daughter and the Deva project. Questions Orsini Industries considered classified.

They are classified no longer. Ask.

[Strange may be the AI's way of talking, but it definitely sounds like Felicita's mother - for those of you who heard her talk, at least. Now is the time to get answers some of you really hoped for!]

Comments

[paladin_robot]

[Richard is down in the hangar, tinkering with something. He pauses slightly after turning a nuts, before pulling off the wrench he's been using, and sighing.]

Its just not the same as the old... Huh?

[He turns and... blinks, at the odd little device floating nearby.]

Where'd you come from?

[runners_low]

[The spherical machine backs off cautiously, realizing it suddenly has your attention.]

I wanted to see the hangars...

[It doesn't exactly answer your question now, does it.]

[paladin_robot]

Well... thats fair enough. So long as you're not an enemy, feel free to look around. Though, if you were an enemy, it'd be way too big to navigate properly.

[Richard laughs slightly, before gesturing at the machine with his wrench.]

So are you another sentient machine, or is there someone behind your movements?

[runners_low]

There are sentient robots? I'm here, in the hospital bed... but I wanted to see Deva and others...

[zetahatsudo]

Who are you? Who are you?

Eh? Haro, what are you looking at? [well now.] Hm?

[runners_low]

Ah! A robot!

[The probe centers its camera on Haro.]

I'm Felicita.

[zetahatsudo]

Well hello there, Felicita. I'm Kamille, and this is Haro.

Hi, Felicita! Hi, Felicita!

You're one of the newer arrivals, then?

[runners_low]

Yes, I've been here for only a week.

[How laconic. Probably because Felicita is so busy observing Haro's reactions.]

[tad_overkill]

And you find Trowa up on the deck watching the sky, he doesn't realize the probe's there.

[runners_low]

[To enjoy the open air so stoically... Felicita doesn't know a lot of people like that. The drone inches a bit closer and from a side, as if joining Trowa in the sky watching.]

[tad_overkill]

He turns his head feeling like he's being watched and quirks a brow.


"Okay you're different."

[runners_low]

D... different?

[A voice comes out from the robot. Someone sounds surprised, and not in a good way.]

N... no, that's not it. This is just a drone I control. It's like a floating camera...

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[mecha_eihwaz]

Aw, how cute!

Hello, little creature. Are you lost?

[runners_low]

[The drone's camera focuses on Lily. There's something unusual about this person...]

I'm not lost... I'm just exploring.

[mecha_eihwaz]

Are you new to this ship, then? I didn't know Earth has intelligent non-humanoid robots...

Well, except Haros. But they're not really sentient. And I guess 8 and Alice would've counted too, if they had actual physical bodies...

[She goes on an absent-minded tangent now.]

[runners_low]

Ah, uhm.
I'm not a robot.

[If small round machines could look apologetic, this one certainly would.]

This is a drone and I control it from where I am now.

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[emorangerpink]

[The drone finds Laura in the Arboretum, where she's watering flowers with Xue Yi while Nuan Chun makes sure Goldie stays out of trouble. The Pepen is quite clearly trying to pretend it doesn't enjoy the attention.]

Oh! Hello there. What are you?

[runners_low]

[Felicita didn't expect to find plants on a ship. It takes her a while to realize there are people there - and one of them not only talks to the probe, but she's familiar too.]

It's me, Felicita.

[emorangerpink]

Ah! Your drone! The notes on the Deva mentioned it.

Girls, say hello to Felicita. She's a new pilot on board. This drone lets her see and hear you.

This is Xue Yi and Nuan Chun, my goddaughters. And Sovereign, a Pepen.

[Xue Yi squints and waves up at the drone. Goldie warks at it, waggling a flipper at Nuan Chun's prompting.]

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[2hell_weride]

[[A probe might happen along a large red and black mech, kind of looking like a Gundam (kind of). Around it is LOUD (music)... a LOT of LOUD!, so you might wanna turn things down on your end.

But, it would seem to be that there's someone at the center of all the music, which has managed to drown out most of the sounds of welding and such being done by a young, long-haired teen.

When he does look away, hiding behind a welding mask, he notices the drone and tries to tap it with the torch; unlit mind you.]]

[runners_low]

[First all the LOUD and now someone is trying to assault the drone with a tool? No thank you - little by little, it tries to float away cautiously!]

[2hell_weride]

I'm not going to burn you...

[[Yeah, as if the machine responds. But hey, Servbots...]]

I'm just trying to figure out what you are...

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[possibly_here]

[... Pre-recorded database or no, it probably wouldn't hurt.]

Felicita said that Deva was made for her, so she could interact with the world. And the only way you could get funding for it was to make it a weapon.

Is she going to have to be a soldier until the day she dies just so you have a workaround for her illness?

[runners_low]

No. I only need to prove to Orsini Industries that Deva makes a good combat unit. Suitable for mass production.

Felicita travels with White Chalice as means of proving that.

[possibly_here]

And when it's mass produced, that will be the end of that? She'll like... use a civilian-use version of the machine then?

She doesn't have the look of a fighter to her, and it doesn't sound like you want her to be one anyways.