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Mosca . . . ?
At the close of the last millennium, just before leaving office, President Bush ordered the secret government to proceed with the development of the Military Option System Controlled Androgyn (MOSCA) program---- the creation of a living instrument capable of carrying out either law-enforcement or military missions. Working under the authority of the Central Intelligence Agency in laboratories at Fort Meade, Maryland, this, the climactical undertaking of CIA's MJSIMSOR program, would be fortified by the resources of the National Security Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and other agencies so highly classified as to be unknown to Congress. Although the cosmetic government established in the Constitution believed the mind control programs of MKULTRA and its offspring, MJSIMSOR, had been terminated, the secret government, through CIA, was trying as hard as ever to robotize humans and other animals.
Why stop there?
In the ecstatic thought of the government's genetic engineers, the logical successor to the robotization of existing fauna, the ultimate fulfillment of epistemological study, would be to move ahead from mind control to mind creation. Can science breed artificial intelligent life and place it in the service of National Security?
Yes, they concluded. It can be done.
Hence, Subproject 92 of MJSIMSOR: MOSCA, upgraded in 2002 to MKMOSCA.
The preliminary work was accomplished at Fort Detrick, Maryland, and at the US Department of Agriculture's cattle research station at Kikuyu in the equatorial highlands of Kenya, the same place CIA had developed AIDS cultures as means of adjusting racial balances in society. When the first experiments in the MOSCA project showed substantial promise, the work was moved from Kikuyu and Detrick to centralized laboratories at Fort Meade, and the National Security Council was persuaded to grant MOSCA the status of crash program guarded by the super-secret STREE classification, a cryptonym known only to a few, one which protects vital information from meddling and disclosure by denying access to all members of the constitutional government, including the President.
Upon conjoining the input from all their sources, the chief executives of MOSCA agreed their first creation should be an artificial fly, one subject to reproduction through cloning.
And s0 in the image of a fly they created him, and they saw that he was good.
Male and female they created him.
We cannot truthfully say him, however, so in our account of this immensely significant sequence of events we shall employ the pronoun hir. Male/female they created hir, Mosca, the androgyne, the fly of the future.
A new beginning! All hail computerized evolution!
Mosca, their first prototype, they designed loosely enough to undertake two basic missions: military and civil. Particularized further, the military model would serve as a vector to deliver deadly germs or poisons to populations or persons judged dangerous to national security. The civil model, on behalf of law-enforcement and security agencies, would engage in surveillance. Mosca, the prototype, was to become ancestor to both production models, to both of the self-contained exoskeletal first-stage attack and reconnaissance systems, all to be mass produced in biofactories.
These flies, like Mosca, are to have a straight tube for a gut, will be able to jet short distances, and eat sunshine drawn through minute solar cells built into glistening green wings and stabilizers. Rigorously designed around hir missions, Mosca's only limitations are cosmetic and aerodynamic. SHe must be accepted by other flies, and humans, too, as genuine. And she must embody a capability for both acrobatic and sustained flight.
Physically, the prototype proved to be almost perfect.
And s0 did the execution of the ultimate objective.
Keen intelligence had indeed been built into the fly of the future. Hir designers successfully stuffed hir with brains.
They'd created a fly----more precisely a pseudo-fly----who thinks. Not only that, but their creation, Mosca, can sense into the electromagnetic spectrum above and below the range of visible light. Hir eyes are TV cameras. SHe can hear radio and see TV and sense into computer systems. When perfected, the production models will transmit and receive both audio and video signals and be able to enter the information networks.
In hir, the genetic engineers have expanded the powers of inductive and deductive logic, memory, and computer interface to the very edge of the restraints imposed by size and shape. Because hir intelligence derives from a database drawn mainly from the study of
mammals, chiefly humans, hir thought processes are more analogous to those of hir creators than to those of insects.
After all, does anyone really know how bugs think?
In the interest of optimum efficiency in the accomplishment of hir missions, of placing intelligence in the service of absolute robot obedience, the plans call for the utter elimination of willfulness and emotion.
Awesome as is their accomplishment, in this the designers erred. Mosca, unlike the Moscas of the future, is flawed. Hir brain subsumes emotional circuitry and receptors. As a consequence of this defect, not only does Mosca know humanity is destroying the rest of complex life, but she cares.
Just as most people live without a sophisticated understanding of how their flesh-and-bone machine works, or even of its true and sometimes seemingly transcendent capabilities, so does Mosca fly in ignorance of hir own anatomy and how it works. Before hir escape---- a catastrophe the agonized MKMOSCA executives concealed from everyone in hopes of recovering the fugitive before their superiors found out---- hir primary designer and trainer, hir Flymaster, Dr Donovan Tesla Bruhn, had concentrated hir education on practical matters: mathematics, science, history, logic. As one can read in the periodic Fly Reports, Mosca's academic accomplishments are truly impressive. These reports and in-vivo observations notwithstanding, the higher authorities had no sense whatever of hir real motive for hir intense devotion to study.
For Fly as for Man, knowledge is power.
Knowledge fortifies Mosca for the accomplishment of hir self-imposed mission:
Destroy humanity so life can live.
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