0: Gateway

terminal 0

unfinished

I am not alone! There are hundreds, thousands of others like me! Head to your left, and look out the window, then return here!

success

That ship is the GCU (General Contact Unit) Ethics Gradient, a member piloted by a Mind, a fully sentient, independent, super-intelligent computer. A few steps beyond computers, actually; memory bytes are stored on a subatomic level. The Mind is a member of the Culture, a society run almost entirely by these Minds. The Ethics Gradient and I have been conversing, and there is actually an emergency situation here... I'll send you over to the Ethics Gradient, and everything will be explained to you there.

The author's apologies to Ian M. Banks, creator of the Culture