Tales of the Courier – Best the Eight Ball
Once. That was all it had taken. 1courier downshifts, and brings the ride to a quick halt along the side of the highway. He has just skipped the drop-off. He has also skipped the convergent pick-up.
Along this side of the road, there is a service highway. It is a human only road. For service access to the AI highway. 1courier guides the ride to the service road. He can sense the curiosity through the logic circuits of the advanced machine. Furthermore, he knows with very little effort he can feel it first hand.
However, this isn’t the time. If this is going to work there’s only one shot. He keeps the ride moving southward and steady. It may take twenty minutes to get there at the reduced speeds but he doesn’t mind the slow down. Especially, since this is hunch anyway.
Tales of the Courier
The road is paved with traditional earth asphalt, therefore its travel is slightly jarring. All AI highways on Nalphia, were built using nano-tech, self repair technology. Additionally, they were always pristine. 1courier downshifts again, and hits a cursed pothole. Indeed, such things were almost unheard of, except for the occasional monstrosity.
Another ten minutes passes, and he begins to see signs of the place he seeks. Furthermore it’s as he remembers. His hopes for success climb. He passes another of the large junctions. He was getting much closer. The nano-tech self repairing technology required large amounts of power.
Therefore the system was built with redundancy as its core. The massive high power generators, were located every quarter mile. Indeed, placing them along the service road off on the side, prevented the electromagnetic fields scrambling the AI traffic.
1courier grins. He has a visual of scrambled AI traffic. And now he feels a little hungry too. When he arrives at the generator station, he can feel the change in the air. In fact, it feels charged and crisp, and he can feel the currents of electricity. It was shocking. He grins again. Then he parks the ride beside the massive generator station.
Furthermore, he needs to be as close to the source of the EMF* as possible. Clearly, this meant he had to be where the field was generated. Right at the source. In this way, he could get the maximum effect. Stepping out of the ride he can feel the supercharge in the air.
Best the Eight Ball
Feeling like he has some sizzle, he grins and walks over to the massive generator housing. He tries to hear it through the steel. Then he touches the steel..
He watches himself fall. It’s peculiar because he knows it’s himself. Furthermore, it doesn’t hurt. But it looks like it did. He grins, or thinks he does. He knows his hunch has paid off. The tracking code of the link has been disabled. The link was disconnected from tracking.
Now he hears the AI chatter and they know where he is and they are on the way. He is ready to race off. However he has fallen and he’s not getting up. In fact, he’s just laying there next to the generator. He wills his body to move. And his wheels roll forward…
Between a vessel and vehicle, he feels a little divided. He grins, maybe he should look into comedy. The first of the heavy freighters blasts through the side of the highway retainer wall. Causing debris to rain over the generator station. He decides he can’t afford to quit his day job just yet….
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