Phoenix Starship Andromeda—Engineering Lab
The technicians held the microbot securely while they discussed their options.
“How many bots are in the stasis sphere?” Strozid asked.
“Don’t know,” the Human tech answered.
“And no way to find out short of collapsing the stasis field,” the Asterian tech said.
Kenred spoke up from the edge of the group. “I captured a significant number, ten or twenty, perhaps.”
As they discussed, the restrained microbot opened its mouth and regurgitated something that quickly assumed the shape of a microbot. The new bot promptly attacked the transparent chamber wall. When that was not particularly successful, it turned its attention to the Human tech’s waldo. The Asterian tech flicked it away. As she did, the new bot regurgitated a bot that immediately join
