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ACID SPAT out into space in the direction of the Buzzard and I tilted the
control sticks to maneuver away, looking in the direction we were now
headed.
“Scan for organic material,” I barked to Ned, my AI companion.
“Organic material?” he asked incredulously.
Squinting into space, I saw the faint outline of the camouflaged
explosive just before it burst, spluttering more of the fluorescent acid out.
“It’s organ mines,” I told him, having only ever seen them once before
when I was on a scrapping job years earlier.
“What the hell’s that?” he demanded and I realized that it might have
been something that hadn’t been used at the time of his creation.
Accelerating the ship away from the corrosive material, I slowed and
brought us to a stop, waiting to see if we had set any more off.
“They are the egg sacks of some alien from a planet I can’t remember,”
I said.
“Illuminating,” he mocked and I saw little blips from the scanner appear
on the screen on my console.
“I wasn’t done,” I groaned, using the new dots on the screen to avoid
the mines. “These egg sacks are harvested by the locals on the planet and
injected with some concoction before being sold as explosives that react to
temperature changes in space.”
After a moment, Ned finally said, “This leaves me with even more
questions than before. Like how does the tissue not freeze in space and
what are the locals injecting the sacks with and how did they even discover
this in the first place?”
“Well,” I said, navigating around the organ mines and toward the space
station beyond, “I’m not sure I have answers for you. But hopefully we will
get some here.”
Home was like no military space station I had ever seen before. Tendrils
of cabling like veins connected the metal musculature of corridors under
solar panel skin. The station itself was massive, with the gaping mouths of
hangars perforating its oblong form. Small machines with magnetic feet
skittered along the outside like spiders, making repairs and assessing
problems.
Everything that we were looking at was outlawed, made illegal in the
years since the station’s construction during the Old War, a years-long
conflict waged between the Consortium and a cult with the goal of fusing
all sentient species with machine counterparts (whether they wanted it or
not).
“Stations such as this were the base of operations within a Sector,” Ned
explained. Like the place we were staring at through a window in the
cockpit of my ship, Ned had also been created two hundred years earlier
during the time of the War.
Though the AI had been designed by the Consortium to combat the cult,
he too was now outlawed by the very government he had helped to defend.
“Many were designed and constructed by an intelligence such as myself,
and you can see the difference in style. Machines will always maximize
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