Star Fields

Chapter No.181. Revelation

Chapter No.181. Revelation

The truth will set us free.

I was watching the supercomputer system module screen display a list of every event I remember from my former human existence, which never happened. "Oh my God!"

Alexa turned to me. "What?"

"I recognize this . . . this list concept. It was created by Aristo, the software that allowed entertainment companies to create movies that didn't require human actors. They were able to use a list like this to generate the animation that conformed to the list of events as if it were a movie script."

"What you're referring to was able to create animation, but not something that could be used to impregnate our positronic brains."

"I agree, but this supercomputer system was built to do that using the animated images and dialog that the Aristo software created. It was as if they were creating dream-like memories."

She sighed. "Duh!"

"What this means is that Tyco was never married to Gretchen and they never had a child named Tito."

"If Tyco didn't exist, who were we fighting?"

"He existed in avatars. Maybe Tito still exists that way."

"What are we going to do with this supercomputer?" Alexa asked.

"I think we should destroy it. No use allowing Tyco, if he still exists, or Tito to use it to create more human-based androids."

"I vote for that," she said.

We recorded as much of the data that we could from the supercomputer before leaving in the shuttle to return to the Entrepid-1.

After Alexa and I settled into our chairs on the command deck, I turned to Judy. "Back us away to a safe distance and have Madison blast that object to bits."

"I don't believe that should be done," Judy said.

"Why?" I asked.

"I am not able to determine the reason at this time."

I turned to Alexa, and she reacted. "I think she knows a reason why we shouldn't destroy it. My guess is that we'll need it to create more simulated human-based androids."

"I hadn't thought of that. Leave the object alone, Judy."

She nodded.

"What did you find on it?" Molly asked.

"That it was the device that Fox used to produce the memories and personalities of all of us, which were eventually used to create us as androids. He used Aristo, a software that entertainment companies employed to create animated movies without using human actors. That supercomputer was designed to take the animation and use it to create the memories and personalities of us."

"So, we're just hapless fictional actors in some dystopian cosmic play," Alex said.

"That's the reality of it. However, we're still not certain why it was done."

"Are you going to create all of the other fictional humans we have data for?" Marie asked.

"Yes, we can use all of the help we can get."

"Maybe that was Fox's plan all along," Alexa said.

"How do we know if we're not in a simulation?" Margaret asked. "If we were created from a simulation, we might still be in it."

"That's a possibility, but I don't believe it's possible to create a simulation that complicated. It would have had to anticipate not only what we found in this universe but all of the things we discovered in the multiverse. To simulate something that immense would have required a supercomputer the size of our solar system."