>>6032489Both your Nav and Sci officers make disgruntled noises at being compared to each other in such a fashion but you interject your own reply before they can start an argument.
“Izzy, I know it's a lot to take on faith, but after I woke I could tell a clear difference between what was fake and what was just a simulation.” You give her the most sincerely determined look you can manage, trying to impress on her that you’re serious. “And while I admit, some of my memories are a little fuzzy, the parts that stand out clear as starshine relate to that separate intelligent entity that drew me into her own domain. Peedee may seem young and inexperienced, but she was more real than anything that malfunctioning ‘Trinity’ AI system could conjure up.”
“And she needs our help, right? The sooner the better?” Kiro asks, helpfully.
“That’s right.” You nod, “ I can’t shake the feeling that her ‘waking up’ is crucial to our ship's survival and mission, that she can replace the functions of the degraded AI at the very least. And I think this ‘Guardian’ is intent on never letting that happen. The longer we wait…” You trail off, shaking your head imploringly.
Isobel still looks unconvinced, but before she can voice her opinion a small ping sounds from the scanning equipment behind you. Eyes-of-Night flaps her arms and coos excitedly.
“The preliminary results are in! Seeing how similar they are, I’ve run a quick comparison of the molecular makeup of our unknown sample with our standard nanites.” She says, probably.
Cleo grunts a query, rolling her eyes.
Your Science officer grudgingly explains that the first test determines the elemental composition by mass of the sample through a process involving light and flame. Your academy’s language courses might have skipped over a fair bit of jargon the Tyllano woman is using to describe the process but you understand the gist of it.
By the looks of the results that EoN is eagerly displaying for you all on a monitor, the primary elements comprising both the sample and the nanites they were recently fighting are Carbon, Silicon, Aluminium, Oxygen, and Hydrogen with a few trace elements.
