(August Catch-All) The Things We Do

[unclesam]

CHARACTERS: Sam Wilson & You (Open + Closed Starters)
LOCATION: Various aboard the station
DATE: Immediately post mission + the days after.
CONTENT: Catch-all prompts for post mission feelings
WARNINGS: Will be added to Top Levels

[ Top Levels in comments:
Infirmary: angsty hurt people after returning from the mission
Mess Hall: the evening post mission, after the food delivery, alcohol is on the table
Simulation Room: the day after the mission, sam disappears and can be found zoned out in the simulation room
Training Room: hot dude working up a sweat while training, various days post mission
Lab and Tech Storage: redwing is the best boi, fight me (and Sam)
TBA: maybe closed starters for Bucky/Natasha?

If you'd like a closed starter or have a different kind of thread idea for which none of these setups work, feel free to hit me at inkcharm, Discord inkcharm#4573 or send me a PM. ]

Comments

[winscenario]

I don't know if we'll ever figure that out. The best we can do right now is be cautious and stay impartial towards her, as well as the Commander. Assuming he's an actual real entity that exists.

[ Jim at least doesn't think anyone has met this Commander in person, so it's entirely possible that he's just another aspect of the ship's system, the AI's programming, or a whole other AI inhabiting the same station. An entirely worrying thought, that there might not be any one person actually running this ship. ]

They only seem to give so much value to life, so if they are sentient, I'd say we might be— well, fucked in the long run.

[unclesam]

There's always the other option, of course. AI becoming advanced enough to want to buck its creator and side with the underdog humans.

[ But not every AI is Jarvis, and not every AI is Ultron, so not every byproduct ends up the Vision. ]

You're our resident space guy, right? You ever encounter anything like this before?

[winscenario]

Guess so. But we don't have nearly enough information just yet to make any assumptions either way.

[ Sounds like they'll have to wait and see. Possibly play along, for the time being, if nothing else then simply so they can gather more information. ]

Not sure I'm the only resident space guy, but— no, I've never seen an AI this advanced. Our ship's computers have a voice interface but that's about it; they're nowhere near as advanced as this. [ He tilts his head. ] What about you? You seem to know your fair share about artificial intelligence.

[unclesam]

Let's call it distant second hand experience. I worked with some people who were really into that sorta stuff.

[ Sam shrugs lightly. ]

I can keep up on some engineering with my own gear, but I ain't the guy for AI questions. Those aren't here.

[ Yet. Sam's perhaps being a little modest on his own engineering capabilities - he's more than able to handle calibrating and fixing Redwing, nevermind working with the drone, and Redwing's not exactly a minor feat of engineering. He's just not the guy to go to in order to build something like it, nevermind for anything related to programming. ]

Also worked with a guy who started his existence as an AI. So Viveca might not be the most advanced thing I've ever seen, technically. Sadly don't mean I can gauge where programming stops and something else begins with her.

[winscenario]

[ He and Sam are much the same in that regard, then. Jim's better than the average at engineering, actually if he hadn't been hellbent on becoming a Captain he'd likely have been an engineer, but he's made it more of a hobby since. He can definitely hold his own when it comes to fixing, upgrading or finetuning existing equipment, and simpler things he can put together by following the blueprints, but he doesn't have quite enough knowledge or practice to just invent something out of the blue.

It's useful and important work nonetheless, but indeed nothing quite close to working with AI systems. Jim can't even begin to understand how those work, though he can empathize with the humanistic aspect of pretty much creating a kind of life form. ]

Even if you could, you can't say for certain what her goals are, what her true nature is. People come in all shapes and sizes, and I imagine the same can be said for non-organic life forms, whether or not they're created by someone else.