Onboard of Secunda

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Location: Unknown / War Vessel Secunda
Date: 5th June 835 A.S

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Oliver Taylor sent a transmission to ARM stating that the situation is back in control two days ago. It was normal that no news from their sides reached them because of the distance between Omicron Delta system and this unknown system. Oliver was sighing, waiting that Martin Peterson gives an update about the Secunda's status. As he was about to stand up to leave his quarters, on his PDA, he gets a notification from Duke Silverton, Red Admiral of the ARM. Because of the distance and interferences, Oliver Taylor understood the principal which was to maintain communication and to make a detailed report once arrived to Durban. Easy to say than to do at the moment. Oliver had no updates about anything since Sarah told him that the engineers are working with no rest to set the engine online. ''Finally... an answer...'' He said to himself a bit relieve. With all the interferences, he could only answer the only thing he knew so far. In the engine area, a team of engineers with Martin as leader was working on some wires. They replaced the wires that were judged as 'infected' because of the fear that the A.I was still capable of something. Since they are not really technicians about robotics or artificial intelligences, it was more a careful move rather than fear. It took some hours to decide which wire to change. There was so many. ''Once this zone is over, we move to the jump drive section. Make sure to verify every connectivity before to set the zone green.'' Said Martin to the engineers. They all responded in unison. Martin had a cold sweat running on his forehead. He remembered when he contacted contacted AresTech Arms and Manufacturing. The feeling when it was 776-28X who responded, it was the same uncomfortable feeling. ''I swear... those artificial intelligences.. I can't be at peace around them...'' He murmured in his breath. He knew that 776-28X was not a danger, but the feeling was stronger. Not mentioning Subject-A001 which was not known to him yet, he just overheard that the A.I that Zoe Williams was working on went rogue and brought the ship to this unknown system. As the work in the engine area was getting finished, an engineer reached to Martin to speak about a matter. ''Sir, we do not have any wire anymore to change. And we only have one meter available... we cannot change the wires that connects the jump drive to the navigation systems...'' It was a bad news, but at least, the engine was about to get done. Martin sighed, a bit disappointed, but at least, no weird things should happen. ''Alright, I will let the commander know about this.'' He replied to the engineer before to send him to work again. Elsewhere on Secunda, in the laboratory, Zoe Williams and Sarah Baker were staring at the console a moment in silence. Both knew that if they tried to do something with Subject-A001, it will try to counter whatever they will do. Sarah sighed with frustration first while breaking the silence. ''Zoe, what's your plan now?'' While the question seemed not important, it was. Zoe and Sarah where in charge of the project Saphitax which was quite only not detailed as it should be. Basically, it was to make a Gammu Artificial Intelligence in their side with no need to corrupt it and having less crew to maintain a war vessel, but with the results so far, it was far from the goal. Zoe looked at Sarah. ''I do not know! Bring me what was already the project documentation.'' Sarah walked to a table, grabbed a PDA where the project was stored on. Project Saphitax Authorized by █ █ █ █ █ Eyes only: Zoe Williams and Sarah Baker Description: Top Secret Goal: Having an artificial intelligence originated from Gammu to operate a war vessel type Mako. Means: All means are favorable. In case of failure: In case of failure, another specimen will be sent and will be the new test subject. After reading this, Zoe bite her lips. ''Why is it not detailed?! And why is it spoiled who approved this?'' Sarah shrugged and replied. ''I do not know, but it's clearly a failure and we need to purge this one. Maybe another one will be better?'' Zoe finally nodded before to add something. ''Fine, but only when we are at Durban... We can't do this right now because if somehow we do a bad manipulation, it could be catastrophic. We are so far from Omicron Delta.''

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