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Derrick’s heart had been hardened, the A.I.’s were more alive to him them almost all the humans he’d met were. After losing Lucy and instigating the installation of the new detection system, Derrick felt he was ready to start hunting the other EIG’s. Then again he had the nagging thought in the back of his mind that he should hear the message Tempro had for him first. Sighing damn he hated to wait! Though the message he’d already received had made an impact on him, he still wondered who’s the voice had been speaking to him. Shaking his head well, he thought we’ll know soon enough, it was only a few hours now. Looking out at Tempro again he had to wonder why the ship was almost twice the size of the other EIG’s. Comparing, …

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A part of this chapter was inspired by an idea that Baron Rod and I collaborated on late one night after he read Chapter 7 I thought it added quite a bit to the story ————————————————————————————————————————————————— Shelby had engaged the hyper-drive as soon as she could, almost immediately 2 of the remaining Ranger ships gave chase. “Status Shelby,” Derrick asked groaning trying to sit up and get off the bio-bed. “At present we have 2 of the remaining 3 operative First Class Ranger ships giving chase; I estimate that we will be out of their sensor range in 25 minutes 33 seconds.” Shelby reported. “DERRICK!” Shelby yelled, “you are still too unstable to attempt to stand. Please rest ’til such time the bio-bed has allowed you to exit.” Derrick grumbled but lay back down, watching …

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Mellos shook her head to clear it when she awoke a few minutes later. Flexing her hands she could feel her slightly increased power. It was starting to feel damn good. Rubbing her face where he’d backhanded her, she smiled. Not as hard as she had wanted though anything was better than she’d had before. Not paying attention she hadn’t noticed that she had started to float off the ground. When she did she had stopped about forty feet above the trees. Looking around she smiled again. Ok, this was new, she really was flying now. Another fight she might actually be able to go higher. Speaking into her communicator she then waited. A few moments later a red beam enveloped her then she was gone. Appearing on her ship she had a wide smile …

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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 …

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0001 – Tempro 0003 – Conner- Thomas 0097 – Ace – Zimmel 0098 – Lucy 0101 – Shelby (mother ship) – Lucie 0125 – Lars 0200 – Ellen 0301 – Rodrick 0403 – Johnathon 0667 – Marco – Brown 0778 – Jan 0798 – Celeste – Shelby (human) 0908 – Tara – Mara ————————– Ungrown – unnumbered ———————— 3 – onboard Shelby 2 in re-gen 1000 – Sherry – lost at the moment 0999 – Zan – also lost ——————————– Known and OR numbered ——————————- 0501 – Thaddeus ???? – Lena ————————— Derrick watched as Jonathon appeared from the portal with Ace in tow. Shelby was standing nearby as she also watched both ships appear. “Have you received any word on Lucie’s condition,” Shelby asked the concern heavy in her voice. Derrick could only shake …

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0001 – Tempro 0003 – Conner- Thomas 0097 – Ace – Zimmel 0098 – Lucy 0101 – Shelby (mother ship) – Lucie 0125 – Lars 0200 – Ellen 0301 – Rodrick 0403 – Johnathon 0667 – Marco – Brown 0778 – Jan 0798 – Celeste – Shelby (human) 0908 – Tara – Mara ————————– Ungrown – unnumbered ——– 3 – onboard Tempro awaiting Shelby 0999 – Zan – Also lost 1000 – Sherry – lost at the moment —————————————– Derrick’s head snapped up as the intruder alarm started to warble. Damn it he thought I finally get to have a little peace and some other race has to interfere. Shaking his head Derrick had Mary pull up all the information on the invaders. ALMOST A DAY BEFORE ————————————————————————————————– Lucie was still a little in shock …

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