The shattered edge

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As all these events happened, BAAL worked on getting his weapon systems back on-line, after a final bypass of damaged circuitry and wires he finally got the Weapons Array back on-line, however even with the weapons back on-line the shields on the Storm Chassis would not withstand another attack run, one more and they would fail.

BAAL calculated the odds and best courses of action at speeds no human could fathom, finally after an agonizing 2.1 seconds he began to initiate his plan. BAAL using it's Communications array began to match it's signature to that of the Drones, attempting to mimic it's IFF Signal, the Drones Firewall however was making progress slow, even for the advanced AI. Still BAAL continued to bypass the fire-wall's defenses one small part at a time.

The enemy was almost to the ship...It was now or never. BAAL in one last gamble tried a seemingly random algorithm, surprisingly, even to the AI, he managed to get very basic access to the IFF, quickly BAAL modified it's own IFF signal to match that of the Drones, at the very last second the drones veered off from BAAL and headed towards a new target, the Social Credit, trying to catch up to it and leaving BAAL's Chassis alone...How long this trick would fool the Drones was not known, could be minutes or even seconds, either way it gave BAAL precious time to re-route power to his shields...