RAISA-007710 (RECOVERED DOCUMENT) - SCP Foundation

RAISA FILE: RECOVERED DOCUMENT [NON-ANOMALOUS]

AUTHOR: SCPF Staff Member Ronald Dupont

FILE CREATED: ████-██-██

CURRENT PURVIEW: SCPF Department of Spectral Phenomena

NOTICE: The following document was recovered from Laboratory #2 at Site-14, following the death of the author (cause unknown at the time of writing). It is believed to relate to the Artificial Intelligence Applications Division, and PROJECT: LUMINAL in particular.

DOCUMENT FRONT:

Three months ago we created a mind

designed to help us navigate the stars

The soul of an astronaut, wrought by human hands

Three weeks ago, we killed it

A power surge and a faulty fuse connector

We booted them up in the morning to find

nothing

And honestly

although it's hard to admit

I never felt too bad about it

I'm a poet, not a brain scientist

(or a rocket surgeon)

I'm here because I devoted my life to emotion

and the study of the psyche

When all is said and done

their death was an honest mistake

There was no malice

Just a little bit of carelessness

and some bad luck

DOCUMENT BACK:

The AI's been copied

and backed up

and restored

There's duplicates running everywhere now

Not the same, of course

but close

Does it make up for that one fatal accident?

I think it does

But

It still doesn't change the fact that

every night

in our old lab

broken servers flicker on

and scream