forum How should I go about this?

Started August 02, 2018 by @Lavy-the-Nerdy-Sci-Fi-Birdy

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I'm writing a short story that takes place on a spaceship and I decided that the first bit (Kind of prologue kind of not) is from the ship's computer's POV. Any suggestions on lingo and formatting for that?

How would a computer see, smell, hear, and feel things?

I should've elaborated a bit more.
The beginning part is S.O.N.A. (the computer) and the (For lack of better words) internal commentary as it reads on the scanners that they're nearing a space station and it starts the crew's wake up process (They're all in cryostasis)

I would maybe not give the computer a conscience or make it seem “alive” at all. I might just lay out the scans as the computer is receiving them, maybe a line of code when it begins waking up the crew, with a line under it that reads something like, “Beginning cryo-wake process.” (I know that’s not what it’s called lol but I can’t think of the word rn.)

I don’t know if this is what you were going for, but I hope it helped!

Yes! Thank you Turtle! That's perfect!
(No to try and find some computer terminology)