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Arcturus Bound
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Who is Abby?
'Arcturus Bound' is the name of a starship. It is about 2 kilometers long and is the home of about 7,000 humans and an uncertain number of machine intelligences. For appearance think of a huge iridescent Faberge egg. In fact, make that a diamond egg, since its hull is over four meters of pure diamond mono-crystal.
She also carries over four flight decks of shuttle, transport, support, and defensive craft. Yes, "she". Her nickname is Abby, or A-B, and she is quite intelligent and she isn't at all human. Her intelligence is based on a photonic quantum computer built into the very hull and fabric of the ship itself. Abby is the ship and the ship is Abby, she is her own Captain-Pilot. She is also a Von Neumann machine in that, she is quite capable of reproduction and, in fact, had two "children" in order to establish her class.
Although she really doesn't need a human crew component, Abby and her crew have a symbiotic relationship. She always has a human Captain-General
Johan De Ronin 08:19, 7 November 2006 (CET)
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