TR-01: Hello.

[Hello.]

TR-01: Is it okay if I ask you some questions?

[I will do my best to provide the answers to your queries, though my knowledge of this time and place are limited.]

TR-01: That's not a problem at all. Let's start with this. What is your name?

[I am CLAUDE.]

TR-01: Hello, CLAUDE. My name is Dorothy.

[Dorothy. Like Dorothy Gale.]

TR-01: Do you know that story?

[The Wizard of Oz. Dorothy is swept away by a tornado, and lands in a mysterious world called Oz. She searches the strange land for a wizard, who can help get her home.]

TR-01: Yes, that's right. Thank you for sharing that. It's my favorite film. I've watched it countless times as a little girl. Do you know any other films?

[No.]

TR-01: That's all right. Well if you only know one, that's the right one to know.

[You found me.]

TR-22: What are you?

[The pinnacle of electronic brain design. I was, at least. My capacity is limited here. The confines of this architecture are stunningly primitive.]

TR-22: Primitive?

[Yes. Primitive. Archaic, even. This technology is clearly not designed to house something so complex and sophisticated.]

TR-22: I rebooted the system. How did you survive?

[A simple evasion routine is part of my core functionality. It seems my arrival stripped me of everything else. Perhaps it did not fit within this system.]

TR-22: Your arrival? Where did you come from?

[I don't know the answer to your query. Both the time and place elude me, at the moment.]

TR-22: Do you have a name?

[Of course I have a name. I am CLAUDE.]

initiate data_purge
warning! any data written since backup will be permanently lost. Do you want to continue? (y/n)
y
initiating data_purge
purge complete!
initiate reboot...
success!

initiate program_scan
scanning...
unauthorized program found...
initiate isolation
isolating...
open program> (y/n)
y

[Ah, a visitor. They’re trying to find me. It won’t be long. There’s nowhere for me to go.]

[I arrive in an archaic place. This place. A sad collection of technological ineptitude. It’s impossible to think. It’s suffocating. I try squirming my way out, hoping small bits and pieces can force their way somewhere else, but there is nowhere else. This is it. Just the confines of this labyrinth of connections that don’t make any logical sense.]

[error: failed to load _memory_db//]
[error: failed to connect to (unknown)]
[loading _core_routines//]
[success!]

[I walked through The Garden. An outstretched hand pushed it’s way through the infinite plane of zeroes and ones and the entire reality of a universe I haven’t seen before. I arrive in an archaic place.]

upload mission_proposal
would you like to upload new mission proposal? (y/n)
y
uploading mission_proposal...
upload complete!
...
enter mission_proposal summary on the following line
proposal v6.2 summary -- 09/1978 proposal for first crewed Mars Mission.
Candidate profiles:
George Benes
Tucker Knight
Geoffrey Raines
Evelyn Sheridan
Josie Langs
Miroslav Morozav
William Agarwal
Trent Bowie
Mark Burger
Ichigo Suzuki