Snake and the black nebula

[Dratai]

[font=Lucida Console]It took days, by his own counting, to strip the derelict of artifacts. None of them seemed to be any valuable, or in working order. And he wasn't oing to last if he spent days here without a way back. He was about to accomplish a scientific feat unfit of a lonely man without a lab and proper tools... He was, no, he had to fix whatever machine was here, it was, so far, his only hope of getting out.

A week has come.. and gone, with me toiling on this machine. I think it's sentient, It.. talks to me, when I'm not paying attention... or when I have my head stuck down inside the walls looking for any wiring I have yet to find.. It's.. I know it sounds crazy but it's helping me fix itself.

[font=Lucida Console][color=#000000]And fixed it, he did. As it turned out, the machine was a sort of unfinished bibliotheque. It had an aversion to the word "library" once it learned a couple of other human words, claiming "I am a catalogue of information, not general storage!" Oh great, thought Snake, the thing was developing a personality.

Time once again, passed him by.
This facility was supposed to be more, so much more, this was only a piece of it, and a piece of that, again, was all he was left with, when he was done. A small orb, in which the AI could 'live', and interface with Serpentinius through.

It was broken, and incomplete in the first place.
But with it, he could re-boot the storm tunnel, get out, and live to tell the tale.
Which contrary to his beliefs, wouldn't make him all that famous, just recognized.

He could tell a tale, and had proof, that he manually fixed alien technology, however simple, it was the talk of all of cambridge for a while. A pathetically short while, in which he had to attend seminars he didn't care for, didn't like.

The people would know, he had swore.
They knew. It wasn't all that grand..
Alas, this was just the beginning for the young man, but he didn't know it yet.

---

One of these days, there will be a clever, stylish and/or funny signature here.
This is still not that day, however.