The Cosmic Chronicle

Mirflen Quasj How does it feel to be an entity here in Taliinor, where everyone faces at least three identity checks an hour?
Glass-Signal Uh, it’s confusing. Sometimes I split into a few sub-identities just to skip the lines. But now and then I forget which part of myself has been approved and which is stuck in quarantine.
Mirflen Quasj So... are you fully present now, or only partially digitized?
Glass-Signal Depends who’s looking. My left quantum-shard is live, right half is on delay. No one wants to get caught in a correlation error again.
Mirflen Quasj You go by ‘Glass-Signal’. Was that your choice, or imposed during last Fraction Week?
Glass-Signal Choice? Hmm. It was either this or Module A4Z-nebula-cluster-62194. ‘Glass-Signal’ at least sounds like I’ve got some emotional bandwidth.
Mirflen Quasj Do those quantum plants outside the dome feed your energy or threaten your existence?
Glass-Signal Feed, I thought. But last week a rootcycle tried to reprogram me as a datalake. My subroutines are still protesting.
Mirflen Quasj So you’re saying the flora here on Isotyra actively tries to overtake entities? That’s a stretch!
Glass-Signal You laugh, but last year my cousin turned into a sleeveless wrist-scan server. No one’s reconverted him to a decent database since.
Mirflen Quasj *shakes head* So... what’s actually your core function?
Glass-Signal Data filtering, algorithmic citizenship enforcement, incident reporting-until a checkpoint drone interferes. Then it all pauses for an audit that leads nowhere!
Mirflen Quasj Aren’t you just a standard process with too much ego management? You sound maddeningly bureaucratic.
Glass-Signal No! I’m autonomous! At least, until Compt-Elekt Narnox digitally stamps his signature over me. Those algorithms are pathologically rigid.
Mirflen Quasj Why accept that? Why does Isotyra exist at all if nothing’s truly autonomous?
Glass-Signal Do you honestly believe autonomy exists in this light-bridge cage? Now you’re rubbing salt in my core! Try drifting a day without validation-you’d drown in the data river!
Mirflen Quasj Hold on... I’m hearing your central identity’s been suspended. Are you even who you claim right now?
Glass-Signal How dare you! My broadcast is perfectly legit. Your verification pixel is blinking, not mine.
Mirflen Quasj You’re lying! My pixels have been flawless since stardate 4422.335. You’re sabotaging the connection!
Glass-Signal And YOU’re committing identity theft, playing interviewer! This is beneath any archive level. Outrageous.
Mirflen Quasj *waves a data eraser* Alright, we’re done. But you won’t get away with this!
Glass-Signal Going to shut me down? Hah! I’ll just split into 256 parallel processes-good luck reporting those.
Mirflen Quasj Seriously, cut the feed! Oops, uh... the connection seems to have been cut unexpectedly.