Chara and the Planet

Chapter No. 58

Chapter No.58.

Continued scans of the Earth-like planet revealed that the species that evolved on it had become extinct. The cause appeared to be disease not an attack by a robotic species. This assumption was based on the fact that there was no evidence of damage consistent with a military attack. However, the possibility of a biological attack was still a possibility, but there was no evidence of panic or mass death from a weaponized pathogen.

Ryan decided to propose a possible solution to their dilemma. He did the discussion while on the command deck of the Achiever. Chara's face appeared on the main screen.

"As you probably realize, we can use the android control center to remove bad programming from android code and reboot the system to return your brain functions to normal. Perhaps this method could be employed to end the robotic attacks on us. We might be able to broadcast this pacifying code through subspace. If these robotic androids are tuned into subspace as a means of coordinating their military agenda, the reboot signal could penetrate their command system and essentially pacify them."

"Yes, that could work, but we would need to have verification of its success. That would require physical evidence. The only possible way to do this would be to come under attack when we approach a habitable planet and then do the cure and determine the effect."

"I agree. I will begin a search for the pertinent code in their AI database."

Chara nodded before her face was replaced with a view of the planet.

"Do you really think you'll find them in subspace?" Evan asked.

"I don't know, but it would make sense that they would be coordinating their attacks by that method."

"I suppose it's our only chance at success. Otherwise, we'll be constantly under duress as long as we're out here."

"I agree," Ryan replied. "Our only hope for peace is to pacify them."

"I can smell a big battle coming up," Myra said.

"Hopefully not, but if we have to fight, we'll do it with all of our capability."

"Shit!"

Her feeling of despair was unanimous.

Ryan realized that if he were going to gain access to the robotic marauders' command system, he needed a powerful computer system, and the only one that could fit that bill was the combined brains of a hundred thousand androids. This meant that he had to find a way to combine their brains into a unified system that he could use to invade the evil robotic computer system.

He spent his time working on the problem in the android command lab. Myra helped him by devising a matrix that would house the combined weaponized computer system. She began by determining how many android brains she could merge into a unified system. This required scanning each brain and ascertaining if it was adequate for the job. Some android brains needed repair, something that would take many hours of work, hours that were not available under the critical situation she was facing.

Ryan was busy trying to determine if a combined brain computer system could mount a unified attack against the robotic system. He also had to determine if subspace could be used to infect the robot system. He needed Myra to find their system in subspace, assuming it was like the android system.

After hours of work, Myra smiled. "I think I've found it. It's at the same quantum level as our system."

"That proves that this is a Space Command attack on us," Ryan said. "If that's the case, I wonder if it would make more sense not to try to track them down out here in the vastness of space."

"What do you mean?"

"We're wasting time chasing around from solar system to solar system hoping to locate them. Wouldn't it make more sense to go back to Chara's planet and just wait until they try to attack us there. We would have the advantage because we could mount a much more coordinated defense."

"Yes, that makes sense, but I wonder if Chara will agree."

"There's only one way to find ou.," Ryan said before he swiped a hand in front of him to cause a communication screen to appear.

Chara's face appeared in it. "Have you discovered their system?"

"No, but I have a better idea than us searching for them out here."

Chara tilted her head as a sign that she didn't understand.

"I think it would make better sense to go back to your planet and wait for them to come to us. It would give us a tactical advantage because we would have all the android brains connected in a unified system."

"I am in favor of that," she replied. "We will go back to the planet as soon as possible."

The communication connection ended. Ryan turned to Myra. "I'm beginning to think that she has finally accepted us."

Myra smiled. "It's about time."

"I think I've found a method to combine the android brains into a coordinated system we could use to infect the robotic system. It turns out that there is a back door coding that would allow that. I suppose they devised that to stop a system wide breakdown."

"Hopefully, we can get it online when we get back to the planet."

Ryan gave her a satisfying smile. "You and I can do it."

Myra wasn't as sure, but she expressed her hope that she was on board with a conciliatory smile. She accepted the fact that they were at war, but the war was more of an electronic variety than a shooting one. She knew that it was the primary method of waging war, and that was something that had come onto the military stage more than a century back. Her problem was that she was not really into electronic attack methodology, but she was painfully aware that her survival depended on adapting to the unholy situation.