A visitor

[Arant]

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She didn't really know what to expect when it finally came, beings and things that had evolved over hundreds of thousands of years from nothing to something. A whole race of individuals, hive-minds, consensus's, logical processes, and whatever else the machines had crafted for themselves since their sentience became a reality; that developed on their own away from almost all human contact until now. Since coming out of her ship Lillian had been exercising some basic scans of the AI ship, rudimentary at best but it was important to note down even the simple, taking note of the make of the metals and it's construction mostly. Anything that the SLRC could one day use to benefit and expand. Of course she'd have to keep all of this data secret for a while as things proceeded. Perhaps she might even make it out alive instead of being turned into a high-school science project.

Her scans had just concluded when the robotic construct came strutting along, it's feet clanging off the barren hull that had none of the creature comforts a human would have gotten used to since their eight-hundred year exodus. Taking a breath she exhaled and clipped the scanner to where her pistol used to be. The canopy to the Wanderwell was already closing as the Unit came along, it was a dingy little thing, an old Dagger that she'd found in Zoner auction yard. It was rugged, far from new, and had some dents and dings from when she had to engage and evade those strange ships from before. Yet it was functional and the interior had the latest in technology that skilled, over-paid, Zoner engineers could install.

Crossing her arms as the Unit came over, she looked up at the towering figure and examined it as well. It certainly didn't need a unit to function because she doubted it had any actual physical connection to maintain - then again she didn't really know much about the Artificial Intelligence and this was for certain a step forward in the frontier of fringe knowledge.