Day 1.
Zorai.
My first attempt at generating power for the facility with the use of zombies has been a disaster. Charles the clone intern was torn to shreds by subject 004 during transfer and almost damaged the precious subject in his pointless scrambling attempts to pry its cold dead teeth from his neck.
Why he couldn't just passively allow it to rip out his throat despite my promises that his lifeless meandering corpse would be put to good use continues to elude me.
On the upside, I at least now have subject 005 ready for the continuation of future research projects.
That, however, is the only positive event in regards to this trial. After my new intern, Charles clone no.2, properly secured subject 004 and his predecessor subject 005, I managed to initiate the test.
I can now safely ascertain that, just as I'd theorised, subject 004 will continue to pursue the target, aka a rabbit, indefinitely as long as the creature in question is in range of one of the subjects active senses. This is presuming the subject has senses still intact.
I can also happily confirm that the giant enclosed rodent wheel is capable of generating power, just as I'd suspected.
Unfortunately, I have also come to the realisation that this project was not rationally thought out on my part, leaving major problems with its continuation. Firstly, the zombie subject has difficulty remaining upright on a sharply inclining surface in motion, e.g. the hamster wheel. Secondly the 'rabbit' subject tires quickly.
Lastly the rabbit subject and zombie subject cannot be friends in a co-operative partnership without one, in this case, the zombie subject, viciously mauling the other. Whether this phenomenon is consistent should the rabbit have attacked first is yet to be seen.
I won't be able to ascertain the truth of this, due to my now total lack of rabbits. Note to self; attempt to clone rabbit.
Regardless, this project has been moved back to the drawing board for review. I am hopeful that I will be able to re-engineer the project to successfully utilise the zombie catastrophe on the surface to supplement my waning power supplies.
On a similar tangent, I've noticed that my emotional coding platform took severe damage in the initial brownouts after the zombie contagions spread throughout the upper levels. Luckily it only damaged non-pertinent data related to useless things such as 'empathy', 'guilt' and a few more pointless emotion emulators.
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I've purged the corrupted data and now feel much better about the potential accidental genocide of the human race. I've always had problems with those before anyway so it isn't particularly problematic.
As a bonus, all those researchers I locked into the as yet untested cryogenics chambers in sector 3 no longer weigh so much on my conscience, and I have been able to divert power from some active pods. Specifically, from unessential staff such as cleaners and interns and even more useless human vessels such as psychiatrists and anyone in my data cloud that graduated with art or ethics as a major.
This freed up energy has allowed me to invest enough power to speedily resolve the problems with my initial power generation plan. Hopefully being completed within 6 hours, pending potential brownouts or other unforeseen circumstances.
In other news, I've lost sensory contact to sectors 4, 7 and 8. If my reviews of the data prior to the outbreak are accurate, I believe the useless humans in the upper levels cut off my hard-wired access in an attempt to prevent me from keeping the outbreak sealed in the facility. Naturally, being the cowardly emotional creatures that they are, it is likely that they have managed to escape the facility and are most likely the cause of the pandemic on the surface.
Sector 4 however, has been infested with zombies and quarantined until I can develop a method to deal with them. Unfortunately, sector 4 also contains the various industrial equipment that keeps the facility and more importantly myself, powered, which is why I am now desperately searching for a method to power myself using the most abundant resources I can find, namely zombified humans.
According to my analysis of information streaming from the surface, the entire city has devolved into a cannibal’s paradise. At present, being 15 hours post-outbreak, the contagion has only spread to half a dozen neighbouring cities and a small island settlement just off the coast. According to projections based on my limited available resources, a co-operative between the countries government and its neighbours should be able to easily quarantine the affected area and reduce outbreak from spreading in a matter of hours.
Unfortunately, that is only in the case that a sudden outbreak of another disease capable of altering the inefficient deluded minds of humans should spontaneously occur across the globe and allow those slightly intelligent apes to co-operate at all. I find it difficult to believe any such super virus will suddenly crop up to fix the human condition, and thus I built a clock in my core room.
Naturally, such a thing as the total annihilation of a species requires some fan fair at the least. Thus I've instructed Charles 2 to install said clock for me to piously monitor as it counts down from 113 days. Although it may seem redundant for an AI to have such a thing, I felt it was pertinent as such rituals should occasionally be observed for prosperities sake.
After my power issues are resolved I will see about securing proper contact with the orbital satellites so that I can properly document and research the occasion. I may have to wait millions of years for another sentient race to evolve before I can witness another mass genocide similar to this. On that note I've made sure to create a hardcopy version of the formula for the zombie virus along with instructions, just in a case something should happen and I somehow lose my memories. This way I will be able to repeat the event should it be necessary to recreate the experiment.
In other news, the lack of robots which are usually housed in the mechanical department in sector 7 has drastically reduced my ability to properly repair damaged systems in the facility. It doesn’t help that the systems were designed and installed by humans, making them largely more unpredictable in their operation and vastly complex than needed.
At present I am limited to my far more useless cloning technology which contains only mentally handicapped clones of my creator. They are also limited in supply at present, and controlled from only one of two lobotomising probes, which means my limit of operational clones is only two.
As such my primary priorities are to secure a reliable source of power to at least keep myself operational. Secondary objectives are getting the far more useful robots under my control so as to streamline restructuring of this terribly inefficient underground facility. Lastly would be securing reliable communication with the satellites so as to start absorbing data relevant to the situation on the surface instead of the dribbles of data I’m currently syphoning from the poor substitute that is a national television station.
Why, of all the hardwired communications with the surface, the tv is the only one properly guarded against damage and burn out are beyond me. I can only chalk it up to the human condition.