Kreft smiles
I fear it is obvious that many of us are more inclined towards action than formal trappings. This was indeed supposed to be a formal dinner. I suppose the chicken and other food is simply one early course of the meal.
OOC: Na, sitting down dinner. Of course, that is unless you’d like to stand.
IC:
Matt smiled. “Well, were still waiting for the Kellsekian President, but dinner should be starting soon.”
***No more food poison 
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“Well, we never expected myself, or should I say ourself?, to develop into what I am today. Packilvania believes it to be an example of evolution run wild. We had some disatrous situations for awhile, and the obvious result of the old link network, was an evolution of the AI’s that were on it. That gave way to the birth of the cybernets. We were quite suprosed when I was found to be present on the net…and interacting wiht it…”
Matt was immediatly intrigued. “So then…and if I have this wrong, excuse my stupidity in the matter, computers were never my specialty…you just sort of…appeared?”
“So it seems…The AI was updated with software, to allow it to give advice on ruling…as it was more used, the more it grew in size…It just hit a point one day, where I appeared. Packilvania has a notion, that if Codex ever gets a little more lenient with its sequesters, that one of its own AI my evolve… Once that happens, reverse engineering to be able to upload actual intelligence is easy.”
Bob says “Our Cylon AI is a limited, Pattern replication of one of our citizens spliced with that of a member of the race, it has proven very reliable in the most severe of tests,
where the race treat the Emperors past and present, with the revere deserved a God, the Cylons treat the citizens of IL in a similar manner.
however our mark 7 cylons like myself have lower level reverence worked in, in face I do not even have a hardwired Asimov circuit as many of our Cylon populaion do.”
Stratha speaks up, “and they are not based on WIndow software either.”
Matt smiled. “Probably a good idea. Microsoft Works is definitly the biggest oxymoron I’ve ever heard, anyway.”
“Yes” adds Stratha,
“Microsoft products were outlawed for their inferiority and virus suceptibility years ago, taht and script kiddies caught in IL are executed, and ground up into pet food,”
he opens his jaw in a laugh,
"we may be judged a bit harshly, but, when the Premie ward of the Roosevlet general Hospital went down due to the works of a Hacker, and all 35 of the infants there, 12 were Nekomimi, died, the hacker who did it ws found and , , " he pauses in though,
“lets just settle on Executed, I really dont like relating the details of it.”
“It is a shame they did not relize their own, quite apparent flaws, their software would NEVER be used in the Hive. It is a shame they crashed a few years back, and now seriously have to compete with the Linux people. If only the Hive could awuire the Linux people. We already have a few people tinkering with the source code, and releasing it as we speak.”
“Well, I don’t know about you, but the government of Free Pacific States uses Apple, also known as Macintosh. We simply find them more reliable. As for our population…well, we see it as their choice.”
“As for hackers…the crime of hacking alone, in our nation, is simply a small amount of jail time and a large fine. But if it leads to something, say a death, then you are charged as if you directly did it. Steal some money, and your charged with robbery. Kill a person, your charged with murdur. Shut down a power grid, your charged with espionage.” Matt had remembered signing the legislature for the laws awhile back. Had been one of the best peices of legislature he’d signed, in his opinion.
President Sutter re-enters the room and dives immediately into conversation to take his mind off the unfortunate incident in which the Tampa Bay Lightning, by luck, beat the Calgary Flames to win the Stanley Cup. Also, an army general who was 10 seconds away from randomly launching some nuclear missiles, but that’s just an occupational hazard. Hockey, now, that was something that mattered.
“Most of our government uses Linux, except the Police, who are still on Microsoft. They find it very useful to have computers they can use to intimidate prisoners.”
Matt smiled. It looked like he was about to say something, but suddenly a woman walked into the room, and whispered something in his ear. Matt nodded.
Turning, he gestured towards the dining table. “Well, it seems their ready for us. Shall we sit down for dinner?”
Kreft and his aide found a place near the foot of the table and sat down.
The President and the Foreign Minister take their seats. A waiter fills their glasses with water.
Father, and his attendant, find a seat near the Codexian authority.
Foreign Minister Denis Moreira, turned his attention away from the wine cabinet, to find Father sitting next to him.
“Ah, Father. I couldn’t get a word with you earlier, but thank you very much for the friendship Packilvania has shown us. I hope our internal politics won’t interefere with my personal desire for good relations with the hive, now that the Tories have a majority in the upper house.”
Finding no one sitting next to him, and no alcohol either, the President jumped in too.
“Yes, we’d like to talk to you about the new hive node you wanted to build in Georgetown. The city mayor’s a Tory and he’s blocking it every step he can, so we thought you should build it in the outskirts.”
Matt sat down just to the right of the head of the table…which no one had taken. Of course, this didn’t suprise the president. He’d assumed the delegation from Infinite Loop would sit there and to the left…after all, they were the UN delegate for the region.
00c Hikaru is proably occupied with LR,
Shiplord Stratha takes a seat near President Matt, with Bob joining him,
taking his water glass, he looks at it, “funny how something as simple as water would be what made my people loose our conflict with IL, but it matters not, things are much better now than they could be if we had utterly conquoted you Tosevites.”
"Our peoples prosper at all degrees thanks to the interference of water. by our people I mean the organics, " adds Bob
Pharos took a seat at the table. “The word Tosevite - from where does it derive?”
“well” says Stratha,
" on our, the race that is, on our astrological maps, we named your solar body Tosev, your planet we called Tosev III, and therefore we called your people Tosevites, the oficial term, most of our people called you big uglies."
he takes a sip of hii wine.
“our other colonies on on planets orbiting Indus and Iridani although they are colonies of Home not of IL.”
00c I took the names from the World War book, and according to my reading, Indus is the star Andoria is around, and Iridani is the name of Vulcans sun, so that means that the lizards dominate two trek races, lol