Relics: Three (Relics Singularity Series Book 3) by Thacker Nick

Author:Thacker, Nick [Thacker, Nick]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Publisher: Turtleshell Press
Published: 2017-03-27T16:00:00+00:00

RAND

“DIANE, LISTEN.” RAND WAITED FOR Diane’s eyes to fall on his from across the cabin. Shannon was already alert, waiting for whatever it was Rand was about to say.

Diane looked over.

“I’ve been thinking about it,” he started. “Let’s say it was Myers’ plan all along to go to Saudi Arabia, or even China — anywhere there was another supercomputer that could handle the load the System would place on it if it was installed there.”

“Saudi Arabia is the only one that makes sense,” Diane said. “We decided that already — the computer there was offline when the System came up in Paris. So —“

“Right,” Rand said, holding up a hand. “I know, I’m just working it all out. So that means Myers has a way to install a ‘System’ clone, right? He’s got some way to actually build a new System.”

Diane and Shannon both thought about this a moment.

“I guess,” she finally said.

“Well think about it,” he answered, moving on. “He’s Myers Asher. He would have thought about this exact thing a lot. We all agree on that, right?”

Shannon and Diane smiled.

“So he goes to Saudi Arabia, turns on their supercomputer, and… what? How does he install the new System? Or whatever it is that he wants to replace it with?”

Diane shook her head. “That’s what tripped me up too.”

“He would have to have something — essentially a gigantic hard drive with the System’s core files on it — to plug into the supercomputer. It’s an oversimplification, but you get where I’m coming from.”

“He would have to have something, physically on his person, to do that,” Shannon said.

Diane stared at Rand, then smiled.

“Would he?” Rand asked, cryptically. “Would have to have something physically?”

“I don’t understand —“ Shannon stopped, then opened her mouth, then closed it again. “You think —“

“I think he’s Myers Asher. He would have known he would be scraped. He was the President of the United States. King of the free world.”

“So he would have done something to prepare for that possibility.”

“I think he actually welcomed that possibility. I think he knew it would happen, and he prepared for it. He planned for it.”

“That does sound like him,” Diane said. “But how can you say that? He — he hasn’t seen his daughters in…”

Rand reached across and grabbed her hand. “I know, Diane. I’m not saying he wanted it this way, but what if he knew he was the only one who could do it? What if Myers knew he was the only person who could stop it?”

“But how?”

Rand looked toward the cockpit, where the young man and woman sat talking and laughing. He couldn’t tell if they were really on their side, or if they were working for their own motives, but he didn’t care. Right now, in this moment, they were on a team. What he was about to say would define the next few hours, and it was crucial they were all on the same page.

He waited for a lull in Ravi’s and Ary’s conversation, to give them the chance to overhear what he had been preparing to say to the group.

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