Star Fields

Chapter No.149. Perdition.

"What I don't understand is how these androids were created," Helen said. "Are they resurrected people that Tyco murdered?"

"That's a good question. We'll have to go through their personal data to determine how they were created."

"They are based on the primary human personality algorithm, as are many of us," Judy said. "Their profiles mimic the ones from the android production machines that we possess."

"So, what you're saying is that they are mass produced?"

"Yes."

I turned to Alexa. "You might be right about Tyco trying to overwhelm us."

She frowned. "I wouldn't put it past that bastard. There could be many millions more of them in the multiverse."

I sighed. "Yes, you could be right. This is yet another burden that befalls us in this digital hell."

The command staff met in the hidden chamber that evening, and everyone was somber because of our present situation. I needed to give them some motivation.

"It's going to take all of us to handle this crisis. We need plenty of uniforms and other clothing for the new additions. We also need to make plans on how to use them efficiently."

"Is there a leader in this group?" Alicia asked.

"I don't know." I turned to Molly and she shrugged.

"We'll have to find out," I said. "The other problem is that only Molly, Alex and I can install the engines and associated equipment in the new vessels. We're going to need some help if we ever hope to get these ships operational."

"I believe that your assistants could do the job just as well as you can," Alexa said.

"I hadn't considered that possibility. Our assistants supposedly do have our powers."

"Are you saying that your android assistants have the same powers as you do?" Molly asked.

"Yes, but there's no reason to panic. They are linked to us and will not act independently."

"How did they get your powers?"

"I think it was baked into them and by being linked to us their brains were activated."

"So, what you're proposing is that my assistants could do the intricate assembly of the engines?"

"Yes, but we'll have to verify that."

Molly shook her head. "This crazy android shit is unbelievable."

"Blame it on Tyco," Alexa said.

"When will it ever end?" Alicia said.

"Well, I have a problem with all of this android nonsense," I said in a calm voice.

They turned to me.

"I've been doing a lot of research into the development of android technology and I've come to the conclusion that we shouldn't be possible."

"Yet, we are," Alexa said.

"That's right. First of all, there is no reference to a positronic brain in any literature that I could find, and a lot of that literature is in Space Command secret documents. A positronic brain is a science fiction concept. No one had come up with an artificial Intelligent computer system that has emotions let alone all of our memories. We had no knowledge of that technology when Molly and I went on our journey in the Explorer-1. We thought that we had been saved by being made into cyborgs and that all of the other crew members were discarded after they had been murdered by the androids. It turns out that Molly and I were the only two crew members, and we had been murdered and resurrected as androids before we were put on Explorer-1. This tells me that this technology existed before that, but we haven't found out where it came from."

"I thought that we attributed it to Tyco," Molly said.

"He may have been a brilliant physicist, but I doubt that he came up with the technology all by himself. There's something intrinsically wrong with the idea that Space Command came up with it. The technology that makes up our bodies is way too advanced for anything that existed on Earth at the time."

"Are you inferring that it was alien?"

"We thought that at one time but haven't been able to determine what alien species came up with it. What we need to find is the origin of this android technology."

"That's not going to be easy," Molly said. "We don't have anything to go on."

"I understand that, but it's imperative that we find out how it was done. Our survival depends on it."

No one had a response to that, but what happened next gave us some hope.

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