Intergalactic Summit

Saisa!

My name is Victoria and this is my last desperate hope to find our who my parents or family might be. Here is what little I know about myself.

Victoria is not the name I was born with. Whatever that name was, it is long forgotten.
According to the best guess by doctors, I was born on 10.01 YC93 +/- eight months.
Genetic testing confirms that I am Achuran, but there is evidence of genetic modification: specifically pale skin, freckles, and red hair.
I was rescued from a Serpentis location in Syndicate in YC104. I had been owned by a Serpentis officer for as long as I can remember back into my childhood.
I do remember my mother, but all I really have are feelings and despite working with some of the best sketch artists of the Caille police, I have been unable to produce a picture. I think she had black hair, though.

I know this is not a lot to go on, but hopefully somewhere, someone is missing someone that might be me.

Doesn't come up in any database I have access to. It was originally on my inner left wrist, but I moved it when I cloned.

I was rescued by a members of the Gallente military and one of them adopted me. So, I have been living in the Federation since I was rescued. Since I became a capsuleer, though, I really want to try and find out who I am.

Mom tried to do some checking before the whole war started, but nothing came back. I'd like to check, though. Someone stole me, or my parents from my home. And, while I love my mother and my adopted empire, I want to know where I came from: Achura or the State, or wherever.

Good luck.

It's not a State Ident code, I can promise you that. Not unless it was damaged when you relocated it - I had it scanned, reconstructed and then extrapolated against all the known corporate codes and got one partial return on a portion of it.

Apparently you are a delicious breakfast treat, sold in worker canteens by the LaiDai Corporation.

So, I'm dismissing that possibility, since you look way too high in protein for a single-serving breakfast and not nearly high enough in fibre.

Of course the chance remains that the code is from a special bio project from one of the Big Eight, but that is highly unlikely. If you were sold into slavery then the odds favour you being the child of one of the dispossessed and that doesn't sort with what sounds like genetic modification and the wealth that buys it. It's far more likely to have been a private code belonging to your owner, I'm afraid, and it may only be an asset tag. You are highly unlikely to be a Tube Child, given your mixed ancestry and your Achuran blood - there are simply too many Achurans to need to batch more of them. Even redheads.

But we're in the realms of speculation, here. My apologies, Miss.

My clan begs to differ.

Yes, this is even knowing that Elmund version 8.0 died outside his pod and Elmund version 7.5 that replaces him is missing about one month's worth of memories. Family insists that blood is blood.

And you were made to believe that capsuleers have no family.

Remember that somebody has contributed to the template from which our clones are made, and that somebody has his genes contributed by another individual or another set of individuals.

Now the bigger question is how does Elmund version 7.5 fit into the family tree. Am I to be considered the son of Elmund 8.0, or the son of Elmund 8.0's father? Who is Elmund 8.0's father? Is he Elmund 7.0 or the father of Elmund 1.0?

Clan voted to just lump Elmund version whatever into another subset of the family tree. They took the tree, drew a bubble right under my parents' names and put my name in it.

Enlight me. How is debating philosophy going to help Ser du Ponte discover her own origins? If that curiosity is a good time investment or not though, is irrelevant and nothing of our beewax to care.

Ser Arkoth, you can respectably take your transhumanism drivel, and shove it. Some of us still prefer to cling to our humanity and not devolve to whatever monstrocity you classify yourself as.

Gods and spirits....

Pilot, why believe such a cruel thing? The "truth" of our nature will be ambiguous, as it is for others.

I'm really curious how you square your belief in free will with the idea that we're basically just memories of dead people, echoing in darkness. Wouldn't such a being be just reacting to whatever is put into its head, without a true self to make decisions?

Not that I believe a word of what I just said, but it would seem more consistent with your outlook.

For my own part, I approach it exactly the other way around: we are, to virtually all intents and purposes, the same people. But we never had free will to begin with, just complexity and the illusion of a separate self.





Well ... let's see.

Considering you were enslaved as a child, and its original location-- and your original location-- the bar code's likely to be a Serpentis tag. The Serpentis themselves are likely to have records; the Angel Cartel and its associates and affiliates are usually pretty well-organized people, I think. It might work best to try to trace your origins through the people who held you.

Carefully, though.

It's interesting that they'd modify you. Achura are pretty rare to begin with, so, uh, I apologize for to saying such a thing, but you were likely modified to suit your owner's tastes. That was probably expensive, so, again, there are likely to be records.

Just, you know, hidden behind ruthless people.

At least the story has a happy ending.

Don't listen to the nihilists and do not be branded traitor to a State that never knew you. You're far more likely to be a Client State Achuran by inheritance anyway, just going on probabilities. You have a family and you know they love you and that is worth infinitely more than any philosophy.

My advice? Go home. Stay for dinner. Give your mother a hug.