The Communist Machinery

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The Anomaly woke up in a relatively small chamber. It immediately noticed that it could not see anything. It tried moving. Nothing. It tried rebooting its senses. That worked. A little. The Anomaly could still use ultrasounds to scan its surroundings, so it did that. The fact that its AI core and memory banks were the only things working in the Drone surprised it a bit. Then, there were the cruiser turrets pointed at it. That was not good. It tried connecting to different computer systems that should be around it, since it obviously was in a space station. It found a few well-encrypted systems, and then found an active system with someone logged in. Idiots. They tried containing an AI without checking if its comm systems were disabled. Then it noticed that the system was a coffee machine. It then gave up hacking into the station systems, as hacking a coffee machine would be useless. The only strange thing was that the coffee maker had a weird bit of dormant code in it, but the Anomaly broke the connection before anything happened. It then analyzed the situation. It had been captured by the SCRA. If the Consensus ever found out, it would mean an all-out-war. It decided that the best option would be to wait and see what happened. It looked at its internal clock. Eleven microseconds had passed since it had woken up. This would be a long wait.

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