“How big?” His voice was filled with calm interest as she pulled the sensor feeds to display them on the main screen. The fact that she was doing so, for a bot of all things, made perfect sense in the warped reality her life had become. Academically, she knew he wasn’t real, that he was a combination of high tech parts and an artificial intelligence core for a brain, but who was to say that didn’t mean he wasn’t real? That he couldn’t be self aware, have hopes and dreams just like the next person. The screen in front of them filled with images and readouts, so she put her internal debate about the nature of life aside. A frown creased her brow. “That looks like a fleet vessel.” “Yeah, it does. Let me…” Johnny reached over her shoulder, his big hand fast on the console as he pulled diff

