Sadde and Bell in Worm
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"What-all do they do?"

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"They'll run on a non-bot AI - I really need to name the main bot - but network sort of like the flock, they'll take information about people's powers and direct calls for help appropriately, and the bots will talk to them and send people where there's civilians needing evac etcetera. They'll screen out or narrow down the audience for chatter."

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"Awesome! Why different AIs?"

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"Don't want random people needing to trust me far enough to be on my main network. Also, the more stuff I add to the main bot the more likely it is to wake up. I'm guessing, anyway."

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"Yeah, fair enough. And I never did suggest names for the AI, did I. Do you have anything you definitely don't like or are currently considering?"

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"Discarded a bunch of references like 'Galatea', sifted through Latin and didn't get anywhere."

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"How do you feel about acronym names?"

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"Neutral, why?"

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"Well, that's a way to name it, find some cool title whose initials create a pronounceable word and there you have it. Like, Distributed Operational System for DistrOS or something."

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"That doesn't come out to be a name."

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"Well it's an AI, it could be named weirdly."

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"It can, but like - in the way you can name a dog weirdly, not in the way you can name a committee weirdly?"

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"I was thinking in the way you can name a piece of software weirdly. You could also give it a very normal name, like... Jessica or something."

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"No, I'm not going to name it Jessica. I don't really want to imply a gender directly."

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"Sam? Andrea? Something in Latin, maybe, to go with your cape name."

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"I told you I went through some Latin; it's not a bad idea but I didn't find the right word."

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"Right. What did you try? You're armor, what are the bots? Weapon, sword, action, control?"

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"I actually started with the various kinds of historical, well, lorica, but the only one with a pleasing name means 'feathers', so. The bots aren't the same thing as the central software, anyway, the bots are eyes and ears and reach, the bot is like my assistant or auxiliary - self."

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"Soul? That's Anima, isn't it?"

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"Yeah, which I don't like."

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"Hmm... And variations? Spirit, core, center, mind, self, I?"

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"Do you know what any of those are in Latin, because I do and they all suck."

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"I don't, I'm just brainstorming. What about Greek?"

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"Not as bad but still not actually good."

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"Hmm... What is it that Lorica has and the other things don't, or vice-versa, that makes you like it and nothing else?"

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