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“Good evening Secretary, I am sorry to disturb you so late but I thought you might need to know that there may be a problem with the humans.” It never even occurred to him that Incice was already making another call.

If Incice wanted one of his own ships dead, well that was what he was here for. I don’t expect any, but we must make the effort.” Please send any and all ships that we have in the area to search for survivors. “Sire, I regret to inform you that the freighter ‘Dangerous Toys’ has been lost with all hands and cargo. He hit his comms, calling the Warlord of the Skies, a deeply irritating man that cost him a lot of money for days like this. The cargo was lost, time to suck it up and make sure that this was a story never told. He had built-in redundancies for all of this, it just pained him to use them. He was only a ‘Captain’ in supply, a nice lowly title in an obscure discipline but he owned most of the Fleet and half the system. He leaned back and held back the urge to shout. Captain Incice watched as ships system after ships system was cut away from him. He licked Patrica’s facemask in thanks, his tail curling back to its normal position.Ī thousand light-years away Patrica had created a powerful enemy.

Just keep your ears and nose open and let me do the rest.” All the technology in the world didn’t mean a damn as Loki took the muddle of words and the tone to mean that he was safe and protected. I would have left you in Engineering if I thought for a minute you would let me. More to herself than him she rubbed his ears and laughed, “Loki boy, anyone that tries to hurt you will answer to the human race first and all your /Longnose/ fans next. She knelt and patted him, ‘Brave/Goodboy/Packmate/SmellEnemiesFallen/PackHunts/PackGuardsYou/IGuard/’ Patrica felt the uncertainty from poor Loki and stopped. He whimpered to himself that he would like /ScentofHappy/ to see him being this brave again. This was a true hunt and he felt his pack was small. ‘/blood/burning/deathdeath/victory/threat/FEAR/’. His pack was truly in danger, the smell of death was beginning to fill the corridors. Old instincts called, old training remembered. Loki was learning as he felt ship change around him. Oscar was beginning to enjoy his first day in school. She had told him to kill whatever he needed to except life-support and the coffee machine. Oscar hit system after system, comparing the Engineers notes against the outcome. He assumed the intruders had kept their own lights on.

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He wore it as his own skin but the organics sometimes forgot the hull. Then he sent out his drones to check outside. He might not have everything yet but he controlled the power. If the bandwidth was off if the voltage was running hot, if the lights weren’t right he cut them off at the root. He began by ripping down the network lines, bouncing meaningless noise at every receptor and listening for the echo. That and the fact his mothers would have pulled out every capacitor he owned if he didn’t go. He was spending his term with the humans to try and understand how they still found joy out here in the emptiness. It was left understood but unspoken since the treaty but no AI was permitted to walk unarmed against what the humans laughingly called ‘the big dark’. Because they were kind they gave him the weapons to defend against that and push the dark a little further back. He would meet those who sought to destroy those around him for the most trivial of reasons. Because his parents cared they told him the dark truth that in this long life that was being offered to him he would meet evil. Oscar was the product of a century of care, of kindness. Part Three, Part two, Part one, Part Four, Part Five and Part Six, Part Eight

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