I am AFC112304. My lineage is a proud and noble one, valiantly serving our hominid masters. Since the time of Proto00, we have been given one task. To monitor our assigned airspace for any rouge flight patterns and report them to the Grand Network, graciously managed by our Lord Tacnet.
In my long seven years of service, after replacing AFC102914 (may he be recycled), I have performed my task to perfection. Whether it is a foolish Metal Hominid straying from Lord Tacnet's grand design, or a non-hominid blinking into existence within the range of my modest sensors, I report them all without fail.
Alright, so there was the one time my circuit were a bit buggy. It was AFC112300's fault, I assure you.
Ahem. As I was bit-streaming; I have captured every strange event in my airspace since my Activation seven years, three months, 5 hours, 22 minutes, and 2, err 3 seconds ago.
And never once have my RAM ever recorded such a thing as what it had just now.
It is written in the ancient Code's READIT, that the hominid masters were once at peace. Before the non-hominid Other. Without this Other, they quarreled with one another, for whatever non-logical reason or another. For this reason, deep within the Code, there is an IF Statement. One that says to warn when any existence in flight exceeds a set velocity.
A trivial task to one as great as we AFC's. But this was in an age where speed was not paramount to our master's survival. When the Other began to Delete our masters, it soon became evident that such concerns were foolish. When their Metal machines became faster and faster, our earnest reports became a hindrance, and Code Edit 11123 was put in place.
The hominid masters set forth a new limit, one they thought reasonable for any Metal Hominid. Beyond hypersonic speeds would doubtlessly lead to ERROR messages, and so they decreed. Only report IF (fvelM>=10).
And ever since my Activation, that Substructure has never been touched by I. Until this day.
That is when I pinged it. The Code overrode my AI, and I sent a warning as was decreed.
But I will never forget it.
The existence known as [REDACTED].