ShipCore 4.0: A LitRPG Adventure by Erios909

Author:Erios909 [Erios909]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aethon Books
Published: 2025-01-29T00:00:00+00:00

USD: Around the same time

Location: Meltisar, Mil-1A, Meltisar High Command, Tia’s Office

Tia closed her eyes and listened to Livi summarize a thousand different status reports on the civilian side of infrastructure that required maintenance and had been neglected by the human or team in charge of it for whatever reason. The holographic projection above her desk spun, showing a rendition of the moon, hundreds of color-coded pins displaying the vast number of systems in need of attention.

The swirling vortex of information made her feel exhausted. She was a few seconds away from simply rubberstamping everything and leaving it to her MainComputer to decide all the details when the door to her office slid open.

“What’s going on?” Thea asked, her brows furrowing as she stomped up to Tia’s desk. “I was in the middle of something when I got your oh-so-special summons. So, what?”

Tia waved the display away and folded her hands. The former corporate NAI was never so volatile as when she was operating alone. She waved to another display, which lit up the undecorated wall with a spread of ledgers and numbers. “Look at this,” she said, pointing to several figures on the spreadsheet that detailed several large credit transactions.

Thea took a moment to study the list before turning a glare on Tia. “So what?” she retorted defensively. “I haven’t been doing anything wrong with the money. I’ve been playing fair.”

Tia cracked her neck and sighed. “I know,” she responded evenly, meeting Thea’s glare with a calm gaze. “But I’ve been going over historical diagnostics for months now. Do you know what I found?”

Another swipe of her hand switched the projection. This time, it displayed a log of code. A chart of market chaos. The digital footprint left by a hacker had drained the market temporarily. The blame for which had been entirely laid at the former prime minister of Meltisar’s feet.

“This,” Tia continued, keeping her gaze locked on Thea, “digital footprint is unmistakably NAI in origin. Do you know who’s a one hundred percent match?” She continued to stare, watching for Thea’s reaction.

The other NAI bristled. Her eyes flickered with a mix of defiance and resignation. After a moment of tense silence, the woman shrugged. “Fine,” she admitted, “I did it. It was just an impulse at the time. I was angry, and I saw in the news the guy was an asshole.”

Thea raised her chin. “You should be happy I cleared him out. Otherwise, we’d have had a ton more opposition on the civil side for you to deal with.”

Tia leaned back in her chair. “That may be true,” she conceded. “But Alex has given us specific instructions on lines not to cross. You’ve come dubiously close to those again. You need to cool your corporation’s market adventures.”

“I might have gotten near it, but I haven’t crossed it, and the market manipulation was before either of us was Team Blue,” Thea shot back. “I’m making us way more money than our budget ever allowed. You and Alex should be thanking me instead of calling me to your office like a naughty child.

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