The Zygote Crystal by Ashley Thomas

Author:Ashley Thomas [Thomas, Ashley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-07T22:00:00+00:00

Oh heck, I’m in charge?

Joosthava moved swiftly across the flight deck and said, “It's clear to me that we cannot succeed with this robot even vaguely in charge. You Inspector, you must take over now.”

With that, she reached under Oiyou’s body and in an instant its eyes dulled and it became completely immobile. She then picked up the robot with both hands around its middle and deposited it on a chair to the side of the navigator’s console.

She looked back across at me, smiled broadly, and said, “Well, over to you then.”

I stared very blankly at her and said, “What do you mean, over to me?”

She smiled some more as she said, “You're now in sole charge. Please take over navigation and do whatever it is you normally do.”

This was very worrying as of course normally I didn't do anything, except maybe buy stuff on Cadabra Universe. Cat used to do everything. Nonetheless, I slowly edged my way over to the navigator’s console, wondering what on earth I would find. I sat down and to my relief saw on the flat screen beneath me a message indicating that the course to Messier 31 had been set.

“Well, not much for me to do now as the course has been set,” I said knowingly. Then I asked, “How exactly did you disable that talking waste bin?”

“Oh, that was simple,” she said, “All of these animal like robot AIs have a shutdown/reset switch on their tummies.”

“Really,” I said, looking quite surprised. “Do you mean that Cat had one of those? He never said. All those years I used to boot him in his rear end to reset his operating system and you’re telling I could have done that with a simple built-in switch?”

“Yes,” she replied. “Although G-soft tend not to like on/off switches, government authorities insisted these be fitted as standard on all AIs,” said Joosthava.

Hmm, I thought, Lucky that Cat hadn’t told me. Imagine all the fun I’d have missed without a legitimate reason to kick him!!

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