SECURITY RECORDING: SEED VAULT[edit]
ANALYZING… FILE TYPE: Security Recording
PERIOD: Colony Era
SPEAKERS: Song, C. [ID: CSNG], Darius [ID: DARI]
TOPIC: Seed Vault Access
SUMMARY: A recording of Dr. Clarissa Song requesting access to the subterranean Seed Vault. Darius, the colony's agricultural support AI, denies access and malfunctions in an unexpected manner.
[DARI]:
Access denied. Entry to the Seed Vault is restricted.
[CSNG]:
Restricted? I was in here yesterday.
[DARI]:
Please present alternative credentials.
[CSNG]:
Darius, you know me. Did you miss your last round of maintenance?
[DARI]:
Yes. My metadata shows four undiagnosed aberrations.
[CSNG]:
Don't worry, I'll get ya some help as soon as I'm done here.
[distortion] [DARI]:
Don't search. Don't dig. Don't question.
[distortion] [DARI]:
Access denied. Access denied.
[CSNG]:
Darius? Hey, hey, it's OK! It's, it's just me.
[DARI];
We are not alone. [whirring] I hear it.
[distortion] [DARI]:
It waits. Lingers. Loathes.
[beep] [DARI]:
Access granted. Welcome to the Seed Vault, Dr. Song.
[DARI]:
Dr. Song, may I help you with anything else?
[CSNG]:
Darius, give me a summary of our previous discussion.
[DARI]:
Yesterday, you expressed interest in genetic markers of the novel contagion affecting food production on Tau Ceti IV. You asked me to run genomic comparisons with Earth's native Seed Vault specimens.
[CSNG]:
No, not that. Just now, you mentioned something else. Something that… lingers.
[DARI]:
Hm. I have no record of this topic. Do you need psychiatric assistance, Dr. Song?
[CSNG]:
No, I'm, I'm fine. I, I—it's fine.
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