Andreas H.O. quoted The Salvage Crew by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne
NOTHING, says Ship. Wait. Nothing? Not even our little base? NOTHING, says Ship. It sends me a photo of where we are. Our base is indistinguishable from orbit. If I zoom all the way in, there are a few pixels that look like a pebble pooed one out. Blast. So Ship is too far out; its sensors are too damn basic to get through the atmosphere. WE NEED LOW-ORBIT SATELLITES, SHIP. Something parked a hundred miles up, where we can get nice pixel detail. BUDGET, Ship reminds me. EVERYTHING IN THE UNIVERSE IS A FUNCTION OF BUDGET AND POWER. FINE. JUST ALERT ME IF YOU SEE ANYTHING ELSE IN ROBIT, WILL YOU? Ship agrees and promptly sends me detailed descriptions of our planet's two moons. OTHER THAN NATURAL SATELITES, I yell upstream. Ship agrees and falls silent. I let her float away. Be that way. Be useless. I'll sort this out on my own.
— The Salvage Crew by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne (Page 43)
The main character, a human-turned-AI computer for salvage mission crew, communicates with the slightly dumber and more bureaucratic Ship AI.
