LXVIII - SOMEWHERE ON THE GALAXY
The Shem ships dropped out of hyper and swam through the darkness of space. There were planets, six of them, all worthy of investigation. Scouts were dispatched, probes were launched, and samples were taken. The Hoon was busy, very busy, but nowhere near capacity. The Artificial Intelligence had time to make backup copies of itself, plunder the newly discovered star system, and run the fleet, all without missing a beat. The AI also reserved some of it's processing capacity for small, unexpected anomalies, especially those that were interesting and potentially dangerous. This one took the form of a request for information from a unit that didn't need it - a highly unusual occurrence that set off alarms. Curious as to why a machine would do something like that, the Hoon assigned a ti
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