Precipice of Darkness by M D Cooper

Author:M D Cooper [Cooper, M D]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Wooden Pen Press
Published: 2018-08-22T16:00:00+00:00

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Silina’s over-earnest voice interrupted Garza’s thoughts. <A drone from Commander Wrentham has just jumped in.>

<Right on time,> he replied. <Deliver its datasets directly to me.>

A moment later, Garza received the latest upate from Lisa, and a packet including the details of each mission she had planned for her clones.

He still found them—not to mention Lisa’s own altered appearance—rather disconcerting, but there was no arguing with the results. Lisa and her Simulacra got the job done.

The message sender was listed as ‘A1’, the designation Lisa had taken on when she decided to fully assume her Widow persona.

He understood her rationale for it—she didn’t want to create a scenario where her clones saw her without her guise, so she wore it at all times, even on the Link and in communiques to him and other leaders in the Orion Guard.

Sometimes he wondered if A1 was one of the clones and the original Lisa was long gone. He wasn’t even certain that there would be a way to tell anymore. There may have once been, but now that Lisa had altered herself to perfectly mimic her creations, there was no apparent differentiation other than color, and that was easily altered.

She had told him it was necessary—her clones were as clever as she was, and they would see through anything short of a total transformation.

Garza had to admit that it bothered him less now than it used to. Now that he was also using clones, he couldn’t argue with the effectiveness of being in multiple places at once.

It’s like the old saying goes, ‘If you want a job done right, you have to do it yourself.’

He pushed aside the concern that A1 may herself be a clone. It didn’t really matter, anyway. She followed orders and completeled her tasks efficiently and without argument. If she did raise concerns, they were intelligent and always came with solutions.

Rather like a human AI, kept well at heel.

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