SD.net characters in Voyagers holodeck.
Posted: 2010-11-25 11:16pm
Some time after the Voyager crew had fun in their simulated village, Tom Paris decides to create a new simulated town for the Voyager crew to interact with. This time he's going for an early 21st century feel with a big city, maybe a beach and the ocean, and of course a science fiction convention. The city is 21st century Los Angeles (with a few artistic liberties) and is currently hosting the World Science Fiction Convention.
YOU and various members of SD.net are bit players in this simulation and have recently attained self-awareness. If you aren't currently living in LA then you've probably traveled there for the convention or for the beach and surfing. Conveniently, despite it being the busy season for both the beach and the convention, there isn't much of a crowd. Also, your hotel room is comfortably large and your credit card never runs out (your bank account and card info resets itself each day so you effectively never run out of money), and while the hotel manager occasionally talks about "your rent being late" you have no problem paying for your room and in fact have apparently been living there for fifteen days already.
While your financial information resets itself each day, the things you have purchased remain with you (one thing that tipped you off is that your hotel room is getting full of souvenirs that you've apparently been buying for the last few week, including multiple copies of the same item). Also, the convention brochure mentions something like 'three days only' while its obviously been going for over two weeks. The various members of the Voyager crew tend to stand out but the non-sapient holograms don't notice anything. You have access to the Internet... which has various fake websites for you to visit but once you hit Wikipedia or Memory Alpha then it glitches into a connection with Voyagers database. With a bit of research, you can effectively learn whatever you want about the federation or the Voyager crew itself (at least anything that's freely available without a password... although hacking might get you further).
You CAN feel it when the crew shuts down the simulation (its a tingling feeling where the whole world goes black for a minute before you 'wake up' wherever you were last), you can also find your various friends on SD.net who are either at the convention or the beach (other friends and family are likely back home and therefore outside the simulation... you can call them on the phone but can't meet up with them unless someone can program them into the holodeck). If you feel lucky, you could try hacking into the computer or stealing the Doctors mobile emitter (the Doctor doesn't normally take it into the holodeck since he can just transfer himself on his own).
Basically, what do you do if you discover you are a sapient hologram for a recreational program?
YOU and various members of SD.net are bit players in this simulation and have recently attained self-awareness. If you aren't currently living in LA then you've probably traveled there for the convention or for the beach and surfing. Conveniently, despite it being the busy season for both the beach and the convention, there isn't much of a crowd. Also, your hotel room is comfortably large and your credit card never runs out (your bank account and card info resets itself each day so you effectively never run out of money), and while the hotel manager occasionally talks about "your rent being late" you have no problem paying for your room and in fact have apparently been living there for fifteen days already.
While your financial information resets itself each day, the things you have purchased remain with you (one thing that tipped you off is that your hotel room is getting full of souvenirs that you've apparently been buying for the last few week, including multiple copies of the same item). Also, the convention brochure mentions something like 'three days only' while its obviously been going for over two weeks. The various members of the Voyager crew tend to stand out but the non-sapient holograms don't notice anything. You have access to the Internet... which has various fake websites for you to visit but once you hit Wikipedia or Memory Alpha then it glitches into a connection with Voyagers database. With a bit of research, you can effectively learn whatever you want about the federation or the Voyager crew itself (at least anything that's freely available without a password... although hacking might get you further).
You CAN feel it when the crew shuts down the simulation (its a tingling feeling where the whole world goes black for a minute before you 'wake up' wherever you were last), you can also find your various friends on SD.net who are either at the convention or the beach (other friends and family are likely back home and therefore outside the simulation... you can call them on the phone but can't meet up with them unless someone can program them into the holodeck). If you feel lucky, you could try hacking into the computer or stealing the Doctors mobile emitter (the Doctor doesn't normally take it into the holodeck since he can just transfer himself on his own).
Basically, what do you do if you discover you are a sapient hologram for a recreational program?