Lost Empire 2_(1)
The cold and unforgiving dark of space can be a hard mistress when searching for something. It had been two weeks now and Derrick was no closer to finding more of the A.I. brain boxes than when he started looking with E. Having extrapolated the exact position of the last battle and moving from there (not where they found 0999), Derrick thought it would have been easier than this. Always having been extremely smart, Derrick had tried to write several programs to aid 0999 to act more independently, but so far he’d failed miserably. Hell, it appeared that even the first emperor hadn’t had as much trust of the A.I.’s as had been written about him. So far Derrick had found 30, seemingly redundant programs that were stopping independent actions and thoughts outside of certain …