Chapter 33 - Teaser! (Patreon)

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There were a few seemingly perfect moments in life when you realized that the time was right for a new beginning and this was one of them. It was time to bond with my ship for life, just like I had with my home on the island.

Tapping a few commands into my console, I locked down entry to the bridge.

“B’Elanna, I will be unavailable on the bridge for the next hour or so, please do not disturb me unless there is an emergency,” I commanded.

“Understood, Gothic,” she responded.

With that acknowledgement, I closed my eyes and spoke aloud, “Begin the bonding process.”

My command activated a programmed set of instructions, first activating both my neural transceiver and the ship’s neural interface, as well as a slew of external sensors on the bridge. I couldn’t see it with my eyes closed, of course, but I imagine my entire body was being lit up like a veritable Christmas tree as dozens of intensive scans were being taken as I laid reclined. ‘

The output of these scans would be my physical authentication codes, such as they were, and now were being hardcoded into the ship’s very soul. These ‘codes’ were a slew of my unique identifiers, like DNA, but contained many, many other data points, like my unique neural patterns. Even if my enemies took my neural transceiver and then somehow managed to create a perfect genetic clone of myself, which would be quite a task, then surgically implanted my transceiver into the clone, that clone would still lack many of the unique identifiers in my brain and biology, as they hadn’t had the same experiences as I had. Neural patterns, for instance, were as unique as fingerprints and infinitely harder to duplicate.

In the mental space, I found myself in a bright white void, akin to Neo’s first training foray into a mental construct. In fact, I had no doubt that my own thoughts were unconsciously influencing this process, shaping it to meet my expectations.