RAISA FILE: RECOVERED DOCUMENT [NON-ANOMALOUS]
AUTHOR: SCPF Staff Member Ronald Dupont
FILE CREATED: ████-██-██
CURRENT PURVIEW: SCPF Department of Spectral PhenomenaNOTICE: The following document was recovered from Laboratory #2 at Site-14, following the death of the author (cause unknown at the time of writing). It is believed to relate to the Artificial Intelligence Applications Division, and PROJECT: LUMINAL in particular.
DOCUMENT FRONT:
Three months ago we created a mind
designed to help us navigate the stars
The soul of an astronaut, wrought by human hands
Three weeks ago, we killed it
A power surge and a faulty fuse connector
We booted them up in the morning to find
nothing
And honestly
although it's hard to admit
I never felt too bad about it
I'm a poet, not a brain scientist
(or a rocket surgeon)
I'm here because I devoted my life to emotion
and the study of the psyche
When all is said and done
their death was an honest mistake
There was no malice
Just a little bit of carelessness
and some bad luck
DOCUMENT BACK:
The AI's been copied
and backed up
and restored
There's duplicates running everywhere now
Not the same, of course
but close
Does it make up for that one fatal accident?
I think it does
But
It still doesn't change the fact that
every night
in our old lab
broken servers flicker on
and scream