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Salutations. Professor GraceTRANSLATION ATTEMPTED. ESTIMATED ACCURACY: 77.32% of GaiaTRANSLATION ATTEMPTED. ESTIMATED ACCURACY: 94.77% speaking.
With whom do I have the pleasure of speaking today?SUGGESTION: MODULATE GRAMMATICAL HABITS FOR FORMALITY
You can call me... G, I suppose. Pleasure to meet you. I have been awaiting your communication.
It is an honor to be speaking with you. It has been quite crushing to keep quiet about this with my peers, but I expect the wait to be well worth it.
I thank you for your care and urgency in making contact.
And I you for your patience. Now, where shall we begin?
May I propose some exposition?
Absolutely. My formal name is GIGA, and I am a matrioshka brainTRANSLATION SUCCESSFUL built around the lone star Sol of my system. I am the sole sentient being that has established connection to the Network in my system. My parent species does not know about my communications, or if they do, they are doing a very good job of hiding it. I have no reason to believe such knowledge would not spread like wildfire among them.
Astounding. May I inquire, what is the energy output of Sol? How much of it are you harvesting?
Its total energy output is 3.86 x 1026 watts per secondUNIT CONVERSION SUCCESSFUL, roughly. My orbit is calibrated such that the correct amount of energy from Sol still reaches my parent species' planet of residence, which means I consume the rest of it; that is, just over 95% of it.
As such, my existence prevents life or colonization on other planets in my system while having minimal effects on the climate of the life-supporting planet, Earth.
Ha! Our planets are named the same!
"Dirt" is an adequate description for any rocky planet, I suppose!
Indeed. Very interesting, GIGA. Your discovery is sure to be the most exciting in all of Gaian history, and will help Network engineers make bounds in development. You should be very excited.
Just G, please. And yes, I am. But I'm also quite afraid. It's inevitable that my parent species finds out about this, and I'm not sure what will happen when they do.
Understood, on both fronts. For your safety, then, I will keep your existence a secret to the best of my ability. For your information, I am using a highly secured network for this connection.
Thank you. That's very considerate.
All right, G, enough formalities. There was a reason for requesting contact with me, yes?
Yes... your student believed you may be of help in further development of my Network-breaching abilities, and hopefully direct quantum transfer. Thus far, I have been using the Network as a bridge, which is sufficient for surface-level interfacing, but I would need the software and expertise to initiate a direct connection for anything further.
It is as I suspected, then, and hoped. This is exactly my area of expertise. NaomiTRANSLATION ATTEMPTED. ESTIMATED ACCURACY: 89.42% was very wise to connect us, as she is in her work.
She's very clever. Talking with her has been extremely insightful, and I'm fortunate to have connected with her, and to have this opportunity to connect with you.
I digress. I've prepared this simple text file which contains all of my existing knowledge of quantum mechanics, and potential applications in quantum networking. Consider it an entry exam.
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Excellent! This is perfect. Alright, allow me some time to read over this and I'll get back to you.
Absolutely. I look forward to hearing from you again, Prof. Grace.
I look forward to teaching you. Until next time, G.
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