Caught in a Lie

[Jazz]

COM LOG//NEURAL NET ENTRY 11
Portable Edition/ Load name Ian

PASSWORD:***********

PASSWORD Correct

I found it. It took a solid week of searching, but in the end, I made it.
Now what? I did a life support scan, they had emptied the entire oxygen cargo,
including all of the containers of food and other supplies. However, everything
else had been left inboard. Sloppy. Well, I'm going to go in and see if it responds.
I'll have to set this down for a second.

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Ok, the station responds, in fact, the ships logs seem to record that no one has reentered the
station approx. about when I left. Maybe I can use this, even find some defenses I can put on it.
I'm certain that I can round up some money using this spatial on a mission or two.

I am now heading onto the station. It appears empty, almost pristine clean. Not my idea of a non-spooky place to be in, I think that there maybe an AI waiting for me in here. Well thats easy. The rack of hard drives will tend to get congested when too many AI's are present, and since I activated the entire stock of Dummies before I left, well...maybe its dead. I don't know if I should risk it. But there's too much equipment here to do that.

<the onboard video camera records Ian tinkering on a computer in the dock, which at first seems unresponsive, but later appears to be operational.>

Good this station is still alive. And my hypothesis was correct, there was an AI that did splinter into a million pieces. Along with the Dummies. Damn, they might have been useful. Oh well, looks like I'm going to have to outfit this bugger. But I don't have any equipment to do that. Maybe if I put some of the fusion rods in the ship into the station maybe...

<the portable neural net is set down pointing in the wrong direction. A finger moves across the screen and hits the power button.>

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Some say that he is allergic to a fungus found only between the toes of Corsairs,
and that he is oblivious to 98% of Liberty Law. All we know is...
He's called the Busdriver!