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to resupply for the fear that using my accounts could be traced to the organization, we too are getting low on general supplies at this moment but should be able to do what we came to do, before we run out or have to ration.” They locked stares for a moment before the Captain turned away and started bringing up reports and accounts for the Admiral to look at on his comp screen.
The Admiral leaned back in his chair and steepled his hands under his chin. The Admiral lost himself in thought for a few moments. “Do you have anything to drink Captain, preferably something with alcohol? I could use a drink after that news. Hmm, this is bad Captain but not a total loss. I have assets that would have gone undiscovered and have faith that some of my operatives escaped whatever fate the Esii and Roche had planned for them. Now onto the reason why we are here. To be more frank how exactly did you find the coordinates that led you to this empty bit of space around a dead star Captain? The only place on board this ship that had them, was in my locked personal files.” Feng got up and poured the Admiral a drink, from the only bottle of liquor Feng kept on board-for just this occasion.
“I had no choice Sir, to continue with the mission I had to know where you had planned on taking the human. I knew you had personal files on board and if they would be anywhere they would be there. The tech team you provided me was good enough to get that information for me, Sir.” He looked the Admiral straight in his eyes and said, “Besides I knew if you had survived you would have come here not knowing where I was.” It was a huge lie and the first he had ever told the Admiral, but there was no way he was going to tell the Admiral that he had let the Pure Strains AI loose in his ship. The Admiral had been quite clear on that point years ago saying it would be better to destroy the ship and start over from scratch than allow it to gain access anywhere outside the AI core. This ship had too many ancient systems for the AI to access and infect to be allowed outside. If the Admiral found out about it, his life wouldn’t be worth spit. He was glad he stressed that point to the tech team while they were working with the AI to crack the files. This would all be over soon anyway, he hoped, so what did it matter. The AI was locked up safely in the core and there should be no traces in the files to indicate it had been there. Feng was thorough and he knew not to truly believe someone was dead until he saw a body. So he had made sure that there were no traces of anyone but the techies to be found in those files.
The Admiral took a sip of the fiery liquid he had forgotten he was holding. “I was not aware the team I had assigned you was that good, to have gotten in my files so quickly. I obviously was not paying them enough. Moving forward to the future. How is our pet human doing?” He took a longer pull from the glass in his hand.
“He is , in fact, ready to go and we were just about to enter the system and head toward the facility they’re in when you made your presence known. Dr. Sky has finished all her work and we tested the human with the short range probe device you gave us. He was able to take full control of the probe and even to a lesser extent get a feel for the probe itself. He said he could sense the intense cold and pressure the probe was under but also knew that it was operating well within its tolerances. Contact lasted for less than three seconds. He had gotten a clear image of this ship, a feel for the probe and did the probe’s job of mapping the stars. Though he didn’t know about that one because after he came back and we downloaded the information on the probe, we found the readings he unknowingly took with the probe. The readings were of a much higher quality than we could have produced from our own sensors.” Feng leaned forward and rested his arms on the
The Admiral leaned back in his chair and steepled his hands under his chin. The Admiral lost himself in thought for a few moments. “Do you have anything to drink Captain, preferably something with alcohol? I could use a drink after that news. Hmm, this is bad Captain but not a total loss. I have assets that would have gone undiscovered and have faith that some of my operatives escaped whatever fate the Esii and Roche had planned for them. Now onto the reason why we are here. To be more frank how exactly did you find the coordinates that led you to this empty bit of space around a dead star Captain? The only place on board this ship that had them, was in my locked personal files.” Feng got up and poured the Admiral a drink, from the only bottle of liquor Feng kept on board-for just this occasion.
“I had no choice Sir, to continue with the mission I had to know where you had planned on taking the human. I knew you had personal files on board and if they would be anywhere they would be there. The tech team you provided me was good enough to get that information for me, Sir.” He looked the Admiral straight in his eyes and said, “Besides I knew if you had survived you would have come here not knowing where I was.” It was a huge lie and the first he had ever told the Admiral, but there was no way he was going to tell the Admiral that he had let the Pure Strains AI loose in his ship. The Admiral had been quite clear on that point years ago saying it would be better to destroy the ship and start over from scratch than allow it to gain access anywhere outside the AI core. This ship had too many ancient systems for the AI to access and infect to be allowed outside. If the Admiral found out about it, his life wouldn’t be worth spit. He was glad he stressed that point to the tech team while they were working with the AI to crack the files. This would all be over soon anyway, he hoped, so what did it matter. The AI was locked up safely in the core and there should be no traces in the files to indicate it had been there. Feng was thorough and he knew not to truly believe someone was dead until he saw a body. So he had made sure that there were no traces of anyone but the techies to be found in those files.
The Admiral took a sip of the fiery liquid he had forgotten he was holding. “I was not aware the team I had assigned you was that good, to have gotten in my files so quickly. I obviously was not paying them enough. Moving forward to the future. How is our pet human doing?” He took a longer pull from the glass in his hand.
“He is , in fact, ready to go and we were just about to enter the system and head toward the facility they’re in when you made your presence known. Dr. Sky has finished all her work and we tested the human with the short range probe device you gave us. He was able to take full control of the probe and even to a lesser extent get a feel for the probe itself. He said he could sense the intense cold and pressure the probe was under but also knew that it was operating well within its tolerances. Contact lasted for less than three seconds. He had gotten a clear image of this ship, a feel for the probe and did the probe’s job of mapping the stars. Though he didn’t know about that one because after he came back and we downloaded the information on the probe, we found the readings he unknowingly took with the probe. The readings were of a much higher quality than we could have produced from our own sensors.” Feng leaned forward and rested his arms on the
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