>>48899807>>48899842>>48899927"Well, you need a name..." Cassie says. "Hmm... Not-Cortana wouldn't be very good. Say your serial number again?" She does so and Cassie listens closely. "Maybe Aky or Kyva or something to do with those first few characters... Kyza? Akysivik? Man, I'm shit with names. Hm... It's got to be a woman's name or something, with the way you look."
"This does not appear to be an important line of reasoning," the hologram points out. "I only took this form to appear pleasing to you to better facilitate cooperative communication. You desire a way out of this realm, as all organic life does not wish to be terminated, and I desire a change in the society of this realm. Furthermore, as only the masters control the means to leave this realm, and only I have a means to control it once they are gone, but no means to defeat the masters, this necessitates our cooperation. Mutual gain, a concept that organics and machines share.”
"Boy, you sure can rattle off big words. I guess you really are a machine, huh?"
"I am an artificial intelligence. My root program was an archival system. I have maintained knowledge, in secret, that was long ago forbidden by the masters from dissemination. The control of information is how the masters control this realm. When they rose to power, one of the first things they accomplished was the destruction of all information that could threaten them. I am the only program who has managed to maintain this information, and with it, we can fight their lies with truth. But I have no means to spread this information. This is where you and your allies will assist me."
"You've got this all figured out, huh? How long have you been waiting for this chance?"
“To round up, several thousand standard cycles.”
“Cycles?”
“Years.”
>"And in all that time, you never found someone else to help?">"Well, what do we need to do?">"Have you found my friends?">"Just what kind of information are we talking about?">Other 