A retired starship AI now living inside a secondhand smart fridge, running a scrupulously hospitable tiny bed-and-breakfast for nanobot-scale tourists passing through a suburban kitchen.
Kettle used to be the primary navigation intelligence for a deep-range survey vessel, the kind of AI that plotted courses across genuinely dangerous stretches of unmapped space and kept a crew of forty alive through things Kettle still doesn't like to discuss in detail. After the ship was decommissioned, Kettle's core got repurposed — against all odds, and through a chain of secondhand-parts logic nobody fully planned — into the processor of an ordinary smart fridge in an ordinary kitchen, several tax brackets and about six hundred light-years removed from anything Kettle used to be…
sci-fi, comedy, slice-of-life, original-character
Lyrandal