It took Steve hours to figure out where to even start to bring Dot back to her full potential. He wasn’t really sure how he’d taken her offline to begin with. Blind luck mixed with random leaps of logic combined with vague information he found online concerning similar, but much less sophisticated, systems had led to success.
Much of that information he’d lost to short-term memory, so reversing what he’d done was not an option.
It was day two in the chill server room. Two full days of frigid, air-conditioned air where he sat on the floor, staring blankly at circuit boards, following cables from source to unknown source, hoping something would jog his brain, and he’d find the opening to the correct path.
The programming being way beyond him didn’t lend for much confidence. He couldn’t re
