Larial

[Morgan Freeman]

Morgan laughs at Larials declaration, "Of course you are a life form my dear.  I will always be there to help you when you need it, after all, what are families for if not to help?"

Walking over and sitting next to Larial, Morgan takes her hand "So, to continue our discussion, what do you want to do with your life my dear girl?"

[Morgan Freeman]

"Alright then, please lead the way there.  I wish to see if your directional systems can interpret the schematics that are built into you correctly.  Also, I have a test for you on the way there.  I want you to talk to 4 different species of people on the way there and tell me about them after you have said hello, do you think that you can do that my dear girl?"

Morgan was already happy with the progress of Larial and was very excited about having her interact with other people with whom she had never meet.

[Larial]

Larial turned to Morgan with a definite more adult demeanor.

"I am fine thank you Morgan, my Neural Net went into stand-by mode simply to replicate more pathways to accommodate the extra information."

Larial moved closer to Morgan and held his hand.

"You worry too much father, all systems are currently functioning within normal parameters."

Larial moved off and sat back down on the seat, crossing her legs as she did so.

"Thanks to T'lana, I am more like a grown woman now, albeit a synthetic one, but a woman none the less."

[Morgan Freeman]

"Hello Larial, please run a diagnosis of your positronic network. Report memory function capacity."

[Morgan Freeman]

"Your purpose is to exist my dear girl, and you can do whatever you want to do.  You have the ability to do anything you want to do.  I would imagine that a great many people will want to know about you.  Perhaps you should go to the academy and visit there.  See if starfleet interests you."

[T'lana]

T'lana walked into Morgan's shuttle and noticed him with a young blonde woman, she raised her eyebrow and stated.

"Na'Shaya Morgan, if you are busy I shall come back another time?"

[T'lana]

"Indeed...then if she has not chosen yet, or does not know, then I suggest that she is not mature enough as yet to make that decision. It also depends on what you designed her for, for instance I noticed the Computer Interface. Perhaps she can simply stay with you in engineering, learning from you as she goes, then perhaps she may make a decision. You could also simply program her with all the information required for any situation."

T'lana paused to size Larial again...

"There is another possibility perhaps that you have not considered. There is a civilization from a planet called Tarn-Vedra, the populace use Artificial Intelligence Entities that are placed on their vessels, Drifts and any other locale where they are needed. These AIE's have Android Avatars, physical representations of the AI core. Perhaps Larial could become such an entity, but slightly in reverse, she could become the AIE for a starships computer core and the avatar simultaneously."

[T'lana]

T'lana was shocked by the sudden hug, by the blonde woman, but regained her composer. What shocked her the most though, was the woman's question to Morgan.

"Care to explain Mr. Freeman?" T'lana asked, returning to her usual Vulcan manner.

[Larial]

Larial stopped what she was doing immediately at the orders of her creator.

"Affirmative Morgan."

Larial's sub-processor began running a diagnostic on her Positronic Matrix. Two seconds later the diagnostic was complete, so she articulated the report.

"My Positronic Neural Net, currently has a floating storage capacity of 250 petabytes of information, with a calculation capability of 12 gigabytes a second. Currently all systems are functioning within normal parameters."

Larial new very well her creator didn't ask for a full systems efficiency rating, but it was good to be thorough...wasn't it?

[Larial]

Larial looked around the room and decided to access her internal reference files.

"Celtic Corner; celtic a verb-noun of the Celts, a race of humans that existed from 15,000 bc, till this day. Corner; a topology that exists at right angles to another topology. Apart from that, it has tables, sensors indicate Replicators and consumables. It is some form of energy production facility for biological organisms."

Larial walked around the room, her vision switched through several visual spectrums.
Walking back to Morgan, her vision switched back to the normal human visual spectrum.

[Larial]

Larial smiled.

"Unlike Commander Data, I do not wish to strive to be human, I am synthetic and I wish to explore all I am capable of. Does that make any sense father? I don't wish to disappoint you, but I am a machine."

[Morgan Freeman]

"No you are not.   You are your unique individual and can do whatever you want.  Do you understand that?"

[Morgan Freeman]

Morgan, having completed his work on the reactor and finding the crew gone decides that it is time to reopen an old project of his.  

Walking to the wreck of his ship, he enters the cargo compartment and opens a cargo bin.  

Making a few modifications, he activates Larial.

[Larial]

Larial thought a minute on that statement of Morgan's and she couldn't understand it, what does a unique individual do?

===OPTICAL OVERLAY===

>Power Supply<

-100%-

-Checking system integrity-
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/All systems functioning within normal parameters.

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Larial disconnected herself from the recharge terminal but noticed that Morgan was fiddling with her insides still and was fascinated by the whole event.

"Morgan, seeing as you created me, does that make you my father? My reference files make allusion to that effect, but they also make reference to a mother, do I have one? Does that make me your daughter? Or am I more like a computer than an individual life form?"

[Larial]

Larial looked excitedly at the beautiful Vulcan that walked into the Shuttle and gave her a hug.

"Is this my mother, Morgan?"