Text: Formal Recommendations

[childhood_surgery]

During my short time here, I've discovered and, indeed, encountered, a number of unusual facts regarding our living conditions. While remaining sceptical as to the nature of my surroundings, it is in my interest to approach matters as I would in any other survival situation.

To that end, I with to contribute the following recommendations, which I believe will make life easier for all concerned:

(1) Some sort of working economy. Not in the form of money, but a principle my people live by. On our ships, a public area is designated in which unused belongings can be placed into storage lockers. A form of market, if you wish. Those in need may visit this location and take what they find. This way, resources are communal and the ship's society is more valued.

Implementing this would do much to alleviate a sense of futility and aggravation. At present, unless I am greatly mistaken, there seems to be nothing focused on generating collective harmony.

(2) Perusing network entries leaves me with the distinct impression of an absence of law. Or at least, co-operative agreement. I am willing to discuss how we operate this in our fleet, should any of those with 'warden' status wish to do so. I believe it can be adapted to a single vessel's operation with a minimum of fuss.

Cordially,

Admiral Daro'Xen vas Moreh

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[thrawn]

There is great difficulty in creating a single principle for people from diverse cultures to live by unless one is imposed and enforced.

I am not a Warden, but I am curious about how your fleet operates in this regard.

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[childhood_surgery]

Cultural differences will always be put aside in favour of basic tenets of survival and, generally speaking, improvement of living standards.

However, this is why I appeal for the above in the form of a voluntary basis. Enforcing charity would be self-defeating and generate as much resentment as anything else.

The Migrant Fleet operates by necessity. We have been an exiled people for many generations. Co-operation is a matter of collective life or death.

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[thrawn]

I have witnessed the inability of differing cultures to put aside their differences against a common threat. A voluntary system is an incomplete one, and a vulnerable one as well. It may be the norm to unite against a common threat, but it is hardly a universal response.

I am not proposing enforced charity. It's a self contradicting statement.

How did your people come to be exiled?

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[childhood_surgery]

Our needs are small. This is of no more importance than simple laundry. Anything other than a voluntary basis would defeat its purpose.

We created synthetic platforms for the purpose of manual labour and so forth: Geth. Not a true AI system, but the underlying infrastructure was designed to increase in efficiency, matching the number of units networked together.

Certain problems were encountered with their levels of awareness... Orders were given for their immediate deactivation until more could be discovered.

They refused - violently.

The eventual war was long and bloody. In time, we were forced to relinquish our homeworld. Appeals were made to the Citadel Council for external assistance, but this was refused. Instead, they punished us for the accidental development of AI by stripping us of our embassy.

Standing by and watching while my people were driven to the brink of extinction, apparently qualified as a noble act.

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[thrawn]

I am unfortunately familiar with governments which are willing to use nobility and moral high ground to stand by while others are enslaved or destroyed.

Was AI development illegal?

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[childhood_surgery]

It gave us reason enough to be forever suspicious of such dealings. In some ways, one could almost argue it served as a blessing.

It was more that we were a convenient excuse to make an example of. Personally, I've long suspected they feared the prospect of a rival faction with access to vast synthetic resources.

This is why, where others have advocated wasteful military conflict in the hope of retaking our homeworld or, even worse, bed-wetting hope that the machines can be emotionally reasoned with for the sake of co-existence, I much prefer the strategy of reclaiming our creations, themselves.

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[thrawn]

Mechanical beings, droids, as they're called where I am from, see wide use in the military. Although the use of droids as soldiers came to an end after the clone wars.

Your preferred strategy, if successful, would certainly offer greater benefits than destroying them.

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[childhood_surgery]

Yes. Indeed, it would. This was, however, not to be.