thisavrou | audio; a warning

[The audio message is posted to the network at midday. Alan’s voice is measured and serious, though some may catch a certain strained quality undercutting his words.]

This is Alan Bradley speaking. I’m posting this as a warning about one of the ship’s new arrivals -- a program named Clu. [There’s a link to Clu’s page on the MID directory here, which includes an image of the program in question. Those who were present the previous month may also recognize the name from the emergency post Alan had made some weeks earlier. For those who weren’t:] He was created as the admin of a server called the Grid. A few of you may have seen the Grid firsthand through the Ingress on Amissis-Re, in which case you know what he’s capable of. He rewrote programs against their will en masse and kept his own User trapped on the Grid for years. [Some of the anger Alan’s trying to keep in check slips through here and still lingers as he continues.] He’s a danger to everyone on the ship -- especially to any inorganics with accessible code. His only interest in rewriting programs on the Grid was to make them completely obedient and loyal to him and there’s no reason to believe he won’t do the same to any AI he can manipulate here.

Don’t let your guard down around him and don’t leave him alone with any of the AI onboard if you can help it. Death may not always be permanent here, but what Clu could do might be.

[There’s a pause that might be a sigh and then:] I think we can all agree that it’s a theory better left untested.

[And on that note, the audio message ends. He won't address Clu directly here; the program has an MID like everyone else. If he wants to respond directly, he can.]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

What are you planning to do about him? If he gets his hands on Rinzler again...

I’ve already messaged one of the captains. Maybe there’s some sort of precaution that they can enforce… [It’s a long shot and he knows it. The captains seem to prefer to take action after a crime has already been committed. But Alan’s willing to try any possible solution, no matter how unlikely, if it might contain the threat that Clu represents.]

If not… it becomes a matter of vigilance more than anything. [He doesn’t sound happy about this fact. If the captains won’t agree to contain Clu, then everything boils down to a dangerous game of keep-away -- one in which a single mistake could lead to permanent consequences.] Clu needs a program’s disk to edit them. As long as we keep them out of his hands, Rinzler and Tron should be safe. [A sigh.] Safe from edits, at least. [Clu had defeated Tron once before. There’s no guarantee he couldn’t do it again.]

That's right. They're both at risk, aren't they?

[Makes it worse. If he can wound one, what about the other.]

I know a man not unlike him. Staying on his good side, I've managed to keep him from doing anything. But I don't know if that sort of thing would work with Clu.

I doubt appeasement would work in this case. It isn’t like he recoded the programs on the Grid because he was in a bad mood. [If the remark is more than a little pointed in delivery, it’s only because the idea of playing nice with Clu is repugnant to Alan. After everything the program had done, Alan has no interest in getting on “his good side.”

But Alan knows Miller only wants what’s best for Rinzler and it isn’t fair to be so dismissive of his suggestions.]

I’m sorry. That's a reasonable suggestion -- I just don't know if Clu is the type to be reasoned with. If the captains aren’t willing to keep him contained, everything else just feels like waiting for a disaster to happen.

Be glad they don't. If containment were an issue, then Rinzler would have been restricted ages ago with all they hype surrounding his violence. [Given all the incidents on the ship. Given the over-reaction.]

We don't have to be friends. Don't really want to be. His tactics remind me a lot of someone else, something else...

Just saying I don't want to give him excuses. But let me know if anything needs done. I have resourceful people.

[It’s a good point -- though Alan can’t say he would mind if the captains changed their minds on the issue now. Fair or not, Clu is too big of a threat to be allowed to walk the ship freely without consequences.]

Thank you. And let me know if you come up with any ideas for keeping people safe from him.

[God knows Alan could use the help.]

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