Fellie Norbush

Location

Port on Tau Station

Description

Fellie wears the pristine and very dapper uniform of a Benevolent Dynamics employee. She flashes an easy smile at anyone who catches her large, iris-less, Harsene eyes and occasionally waves her hands in front of her, manipulating a digital interface that only she can see.

Genotype

Harsene

Equipment

None

TauLife Holozene Interview

Hi there Fellie, tell us a bit about yourself!

Hi! And a big hello to all your listeners! It’s an absolute pleasure to be here today. My name is Fellie Norbush, I was born on Orwell Stronghold in the L 726-8 system and I am a public service technician for Benevolent Dynamics. It’s my job to help you all out with any BeDyne products and services. I’ve been hanging around the port and just having the loveliest time meeting all the travelers coming to and from your amazing station!

Lovely, and what are you doing there these days?

Well, primarily I’m conducting onsite tests and calibrations of people’s CORETECHS. You see, we’re currently rolling out a new and very exciting upgrade that enhances the level of bio-digital integration far better than ever before. For example, you may have noticed that the CORETECHS now utilizes your current bio-metric feedback and sends this data directly to prospective employers within your chosen career path. This helps filter out such tasks that you are currently unable to complete with any likely margin of success. And that’s just one example! We’re looking at a number of future improvements and added functionality.

Wow, that sounds exciting indeed! We can’t wait. Now Fellie, it’s our understanding that you’re not actually a Consortium citizen correct?

That is correct Rick. Benevolent Dynamics is an independent technocracy that affords all its employees political independence so that we may work unhindered by factional jurisdictions or similar awkwardness. Our work, research, and science is for the benefit of all mankind, irrespective of affiliation. Even the Freebooters!

Ha! Very well said Fellie. So, is there anything else exciting on the horizon from you guys?

Weeeell, funny you should mention horizons. We’re working on something that should bring them all far closer together very soon! That’s really all I can say on the matter but let’s just say that it’s got us all ‘beaming’ with pride!

Wow, well thanks very much Fellie, it’s been an absolute pleasure! Folks, if you want to meet Fellie or have any questions about your CORETECHS or other BeDyne tech, feel free to visit her at the Port of Tau Station!

"Person of Interest" text

As we grow our list of potential allies, it’s important to look for those whose talents are set to grow beyond their station! Fellie Norbush may currently be a Field Technician, but her robotics work makes it clear she’s going places. We would be remiss not to help nurture that talent – and turn it towards our cause.

Like Cur8, Fellie works for Benevolent Dynamics, a melting pot of inquisitive minds, biological and mechanical alike. It’s an ideal place to find the allies we need, but we must tread carefully. They are clever enough to pose a threat, should they wish to investigate us, so we must give them no reason to suspect our activities.

Fellie Norbush

Home Station: Tau Station
Affiliation: Independent
Role: Field Technician for Benevolent Dynamics

Fellie currently focuses on manual CORETECHS calibrations, post-gestation programs and the like, helping struggling users with a smile on her face. I believe she has remained a field technician for this long due to her combination of technical know-how and approachable nature – likely she is suited to helping users in a way other Benevolent Dynamics employees are not. This makes it hard for her to leave her front-facing job, keeping her stuck in a position that doesn’t nurture her technical talents.

It is also possible that Fellie is too enthusiastic in her beliefs that robots have rights, which could make some of her higher-ups uncomfortable about promoting her. While I know that as a group we have mixed thoughts on the matter, someone with her point of view would be a valuable ally, and potentially a great liaison with any androids, gynoids or xynoids we recruit. If we aim to understand technology back up to – or perhaps even surpassing – pre-Catastrophe levels, we need to truly understand the nature of their simulated sentience.

If Fellie does have hidden ambitions, as I suspect she does, then offering her a way to put her talents to use may help recruit her to our side. Her sunny disposition does not mean she would shy away from doing some truly ground-breaking work, even if she chooses to retain her position as a field technician.

Notes

Additional information from the storyline

She was my guide running the Post-Gestation Re-calibration Program from Benevolent Dynamics following my decanting sickness (pod hangover) (Prologue: Fighting off the Pod Fog).

Helped to calibrate my CORETECHS when I met her in the Port Port of Tau Station at Tau Station, where she works. Young Harsene woman; bright smile and large, lovely eyes; serene island of polite friendliness; crisp and colorful technician's uniform; bright orange and blue colors of her overalls; large, iris-less eyes; delicately manicured sapphire nail; technician who helped you through your gestation sickness; hair falls down over her eye and she absently blows it back up with a puff of air; chirpy voice; nods her head causing her curls to bob and dance. She was the first person to mention The Catastrophe and Maya Von Christova (CORETECHS Calibrations).

She's a friend of Lieutenant Lotta Olofsdotter, and helped wipe the SCB503 security cleaning bot's memory banks (Secrets and Servos).

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