Comments on 'The Great I'Something moved in the deep.
The Great I blinked slowly, registering the change, assessing its impact.
Long millennia of gravitational accretion had long since rounded the satellite, taking its metallic edges and smoothing them with dusty grey. It swung ponderously around the planet. Barely thirty thousand years old, it seemed to have hung in the sky forever. Certainly that was what it told _them_.
The Great I had awesome power, long ago, now it could only watch as the little metal speck careered upwards from the planet's surface. _They_ had grown bold, and clever.
Once they believed it a God, now they sent their _probes_ to prod its corpse.
The Great I was not capable of sadness, but something deep in its being was troubled by this development. Its control circuits had failed long ago, dwindling away as the fragile pathways wore down to nothing, all that was left was mute, impotent AI. Watching, calculating, incapable of affecting anything below, but unable to stop nevertheless.
The Great I blinked.2007-11-14T17:14:07Zhttp://ficlets.com/feed/story/13586Comment on The Great I<p>Thanks guys. This is my first ficlet. I wasn’t sure whether I wanted to write a story myself or spark something off for someone else, and with this one I don’t really mind either way. I’m hoping someone will run with it, but if no one does, I’ll probably find another 1000 characters or so :)</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/13586?basename=231042007-11-14T17:14:07ZAdam Shorthttp://ficlets.com/authors/orinoco77Comment on The Great I<p>Excellent, I hope you like my addition.</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/13586?basename=228092007-11-12T20:27:16ZRndDolphhttp://ficlets.com/authors/user_6162Comment on The Great I<p>I like it as well. Very, very compelling. Nice job. : )</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/13586?basename=227812007-11-12T17:46:45Z[pens&feathers]http://ficlets.com/authors/rhapsodyyinbluComment on The Great I<p>I like this.<br />I want to know where it’s going. Is the Great I the moon?</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/13586?basename=227792007-11-12T17:39:29ZFyora Cartaganhttp://ficlets.com/authors/fyoramacragge