Lost Connection

[Inferno]

GAMMA_M6V -Omicron Gamma

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. . . . .A Sentinel moves along a flight path to a gravitational anomaly. The drone does not think about why it follows this path, but it knows that the end will be where it needs to go. The path it had chosen wasn't a choice it was given, but rather, one that was embedded into its own memory, and followed it blindly.

. . . . .The local inhabitants of the system GAMMA_M6V did not care much regarding the Gammu AI. In the past, it was a common occurrence to see their drones taking tentative peeks into the system, or even silently passing through to destinations unknown. The occasional pilot, full of arrogance, courage, or alcohol, would take it upon their own initiative to "clean up" any spotted Gammu, but often times ambition would be their undoing. This time, however, the Sentinel slipped by unnoticed. If it had been detected, it was promptly ignored, leaving the unit none the wiser to observation.

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41_5600000 - Omega-41

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. . . . .The Sentinel streaked through the asteroids and stellar remnants that littered the system. The neutron star at the heart, despite hardened plating and highly effective shielding, was slowly eating away at the hull of the drone, making an extended stay within the proximity of the neutron mass a hazard. The rush through the system to the target - a gravitational anomaly known to the unit, however, would take several days, at least, to reach.
The trek through the Omega-41 system was as quiet as the one before, but the radiation had started to take its toll on the Sentinel.

::<statement> [unknown_entity] {detected} -> [local_proximity] -> [Sentinel] "Phi-34"::

. . . . .A false positive for an unknown ship was detected, just out of range for identification. It followed the drone, never moving out of its range, nor did it approach any closer. The Sentinel, attempting to process how it was able to move in such a way to avoid finer analyzation, but also never leaving its detection, ended up "following" the signal for quite some time, until the ionizing radiation of the system damaged the sensor array further. In an instant, the contact vanished, and the Gammu quickly forgot about what it had been sidetracked by, and raced to the next destination.

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48_K3IV - Omega-48

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. . . . .48_K3IV - otherwise known as Omega-48, was the last known location of Relay 01 - Primus Outpost. The Sentinel searched its internal memory. The location for Primus was likely to be very far removed from the memory of the drone, given the vast time the drone had spent offline, as well as the ever-changing nature of the area it had been constructed within. The unit listened, waiting for a familiar signal, but heard nothing.

. . . . .The unit passed through the Walker Nebula, the body Primus was last located in. As it did this, the limited computational power of the Sentinel was used to predict the outpost's location.

Prediction 1 - Relay_01 is in resonance with all the objects within its local proximity. Accuracy variance is less than 10000 units.
Prediction 45 - Relay_01 is ejected from the Walker Nebula by a rogue asteroid influencing the orbit of the station. Accuracy variance is over three trillion units.
Prediction 162 - Based on the stability of the masses that pass by the Sentinel, Relay_01 is still within the body, but has changed its position relative to the centroid of the entire body. Accuracy variance of 45523 units.

. . . . .The Sentinel plans a path of travel through the nebula, based on a self-predicted position of Primus Outpost having been perturbed from their established orbit by no less than 300 units a second. With a course set, the unit slips into the Walker Nebula.