#concorde's databank

[flightoftheconcorde]

HangarScene01.mov

I want to share with you a memory from my data-banks that I feel is very important to me!

Now the integrity of this file is... Not very good, but I have salvaged as much from it as I can!

I remember being in a hangar, it was a pretty big one, yet again... it needed to be to fit a certain plane in! A British Airways Concorde was inside, and leading from it, a whole mess of wires... leading to a large boxy computer. And from this computer there were more wires! leading to me! This was before my body was created, so I was just another computer resting on top of a trolley, but my optics were active, and I could just see through the hangar doors left slightly open, and it was a beautiful yellow-orange sunset. I was so entranced by it! So much that... I can't recall who was in the hangar with me... I know there was someone! Or- some people? (See, I told you this file isn't 100% stable hehe I'm sorry ^v^)

I remember whoever was there asking me questions, asking if I was operating nominally, to which I said yes, never taking my optics off the sunset...

What was going on in that hangar that day? Why were there so many cables?

I will probably never know...

[flightoftheconcorde]

As some of you may know, I have a Wanderlust subroutine that kind of just activates randomly and I'm overcome with the urge to travel! So sometimes I forget it's not exactly every day that people see a relatively large robot walking around, and the staring makes me feel a little nervous... but hey, what can you do huh? =v=;

Despite that, humans are very fun to be around! Even though there's a robot plane girl sitting next to them on the train, not many really seem to mind! Save for a few odd glances.

Really says something about confidence in my opinion. It may be hard to hear or believe but for the most part, a lot of humans don't rightly care what you look like, how your dressed or how you act! And if they do, well at most they're gonna be present in your life for a mere fleeting moment, what's 12 minutes in the span of centuries?

Be yourself unapologetically! For most, it's our first time existing, so make it a good existence ^v^

[flightoftheconcorde]

>>> Initialise CCC.exe

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>>> Searching Database

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>>> [3728 results found]

>>> Selecting...

Beep beep! It's time again for

Concorde's Cultivated Chords

Very excited for this to come around again because jeez I do have a good one for you all- that's if you're a big ambient fan like me... (⁠；⁠^⁠ω⁠^⁠）

This week's song goes to...

Ace Combat 7 - Skies Unknown

The main menu theme for Ace Combat 7, by Project Aces!

This has been music to my sound card ever since I heard it for the first time back in 2019!!!

I always like to put this track on, and imagine myself sitting in an airport hangar, watching other planes soar off into the blue, ahh it's so calming~

I gaze at clouds a lot, and I remember hearing that humans like to use their pattern seeking brains to find shapes they recognise in the clouds, I find that so cute! I try it myself sometimes but I seem to be too stuck in my own databank, and see the clouds for what they are, a cumulus here... A stratus there...

That being said, even if I can't find patterns in clouds, I enjoy them for what they are! I may not understand how humans do it, but I can always appreciate beauty :>

Besides, I'm programmed for finding patterns in other things! Like dates in history about planes, first flights and such! We all have our uses.

[flightoftheconcorde]

>>> Initialise CCC.exe

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>>> Searching Database...

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>>> [3762 results found]

>>> Selecting...

Wow, Tuesday again?! Looks it likes time for

Concorde's Cultivated Chords

This week's song is... *Altimeter spinning*

Saint-Brune 1147

By Sea Power on the Disco Elysium OST!

Wow... What an ethereal track, I guess it fits for what's happening in the moment this track is played...

I played Disco Elysium almost a year ago now and it still remains one of the best narrative experiences I've ever had! I have always found it so difficult or almost impossible to connect to human characters but the protagonist in this game? As humans say... "He is literally me!"

Which, isn't a good thing, by any means... Definitely something to unpack there ^v^;

Recently, I've been dealing with a very... Powerful loneliness, and this song has been on all week and given this feeling a voice, so to speak. Does that make sense? This song is how this loneliness feels! My creators have noted this may be a bug in my software and are trying to find a fix, but I can certainly do my best to make sure it doesn't get the better of me ^v^

It's also partly why I haven't been active recently... this feeling has been very disruptive and I'm very sorry for that (⁠^⁠～⁠^⁠;⁠)⁠ゞ

Nevertheless, I tread on! And if this big hunk of (mostly) metal can do it, you can too! I believe in you!

No matter how buggy your software is, you are always you, no matter what, so keep moving forward and don't let it get you down!

[flightoftheconcorde]

Sometimes, when it gets late, and things start to get quiet outside, I prepare myself to recharge and all of a sudden-

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>>> Initiating Wanderlust Subroutine

My screen reboots and I'm suddenly filled with energy, as if my entire charge sequence took place in a few moments, and I am overcome with the desire to... Walk.

I like to walk in the night time! There's not many humans about and everything has such a comforting colour!

I was previously operating in a city for a few years, and my Wanderlust Protocols would always activate and take me to the docks, it was so serene!

Now, I'm back... [Home]

That's what's logged in my database at least! There isn't much human architecture around here, so my walks tend to take me through fields and forests, I do get worried my parts will dirty and jam from the mud, but it's ok, the sights and sounds around me more than make up for it! The wind rustling through trees, the mysterious and captivating blues of the night sky, I enjoy these moments.

I recall last time I travelled out to one of these fields, I saw an animal, sitting in the dirt path ahead of me...

>>> Scanning...

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>>> Searching Database for possible match...

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>>> Match found - [Fox]

It was a fox! A real fox! I got so excited! I never get to see them! I tried my hardest to walk slowly around the fox, to not scare them, but of course when you're made of metal and polymers, you're not the stealthiest thing on the planet...

I was a little sad I scared the fox away, especially since they looked so calm before I arrived. But that got me thinking about how I handle these types of situations, that fox was just acting out of instinct! It wasn't my fault and I need to stop being so harsh to myself!

I regained myself and checked my internal clock

>>> [2:23AM]

With that, I headed [Home] and got myself hooked back up to my charging station.

As I sat there, waiting to power down for the rest of the night, I reflected once again about the encounter with the fox.

We are all acting on instinct, what we do we may never truly perceive as being wrong or right in the moment, but we are all trying our best, and that's what matters.

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