Vigil VII: Strife Amidst the Clouds

[Ironsmith]

[Eun's Lab]

Eun pales as the implications of what she's seeing sink in. She knew this thing was intelligent, but her assumption was that it was maybe, at most, an abnormally intelligent AI, not a reality-breaking clockwork mind-reader. No wonder Mia was so afraid of it.

But as Eun reads the machine's description of itself, she... notices a couple of odd similarities. The power source was strangely close to that of a device she'd worked with all her life. What it was meant to do, also similar. And the way it did it...

And now she's torn. On the one hand, she feels she knows just enough about this technology to know exactly why she should be afraid of it. But on the other hand, it's familiar enough that she... sort of isn't. She feels something like she imagines Orville and Wilbur Wright would experience if they got on a modern jet plane.

Following on this, Eun feeds the machine a simple schematic. Well, comparatively simple. It's a turbine of sorts, which uses a series of one-way membranes along its interior. Random noise goes in, a steady current comes out. The kicker is that this noise is, itself, extradimensional... the product of particles with a four-dimensional velocity momentarily intersecting their space; a high-tech sail, in effect. It's the basic device that powers most technology of her era, from Hotboxes to the shuttle she arrived in.

"Please recreate this device. [REQUEST][SIMULATE][DRAW]." Eun asks as she resumes her own drawing, likely to finish her depiction of the room at around the same time as the turbine is complete. She wants it to know she actually understands what she's looking at... to a degree.