<span style="color: Cyan">“Good point, rushing the jump would probably be the death of us all according to one of the AIs.”</span>She mentioned, a hesitant chuckle at the thoughts that the Engineering’s Ai had mentioned what could go wrong.  Not be best images to have in the head, but she shook that off at the thought of possible aliens.<span style="color: Cyan">“Ha, Hippie aliens, probably as bad as human hippies.  God that would be so annoying.  Though I would definitely not agree to attacking first like the Imperials seem to like going the majority of the time.  Though there are ways to stop such stupidity…”</span>She began to say, but stopped when all the talking began with the command there on the bridge.<br/><br/><span style="color: Cyan">“Well, no more time to talk, time for the show.”</span>She said with the orders flying around and she just leaned back in her chair to wait as all the preparations were made to engage the jump.  At least she stayed silent until the jump actually started, and that huge black maw opened up infront of the ship, looking like a mouth opening up from some beast to eat them whole.  She couldn’t help but be scared at the sight.<span style="color: Cyan"> “Holy Shit…”</span>Almost immediately after they entered it, the turbulence started, and sending Alicia and her chair reeling back onto the ground.  As soon as she hit roughly, she rolled a little, and her head was sore from the hit on the floor.<br/><br/><span style="color: Cyan">“Ow… son of a… that hurt…”</span>she cursed loudly when the jarring and turbulence finally stopped and she was able to pry herself off the ground holding her head and leaning against one of the consoles behind where the table had been.  The light dimming for the moment and reaching for the dataport completely skipped Alicia’s attention with all the commotion going on on the bridge, and then by the distraction that everyone was focused on out the front window.<br/><br/><span style="color: Cyan">“Oh my god…  that is beautiful…”</span>Alicia said, obviously surprised and completely enchanted by the swirling rainbow of colors that seemed to snake and attach itself to the barrier field that protected the mothership and fleet.  It took her a moment before she reached up and touched the headset comm.<span style="color: Cyan">“Hey hun… please tell me that this is being recorded.  If not by you then at least by the scientists?”</span><br/><br/><br/><br/>A couple seconds later she got her reply, and smiled, still enjoying the sight out the viewscreen.   She never noticed the woman she had spotted earlier when she had entered the room, she was too distracted by the view outside to notice really anyone at first.  She only came out of that admiration a little after the mention of food came.<span style="color: Cyan">“Hey, a banquet for all of us?  Want to go?  I haven’t eaten yet really other than a sandwich for breakfast.”</span><br/><br/><br/>---------------------------------------<br/><br/><br/><br/>He actually had an active core?  There were no signs of it online within the network.  So he was at least telling the truth, it wasn’t connected to the system at all that she could detect.  So he was severely limited without it’s resources behind him.  That actually gave her a chance in this environment if the entire meeting became unpleasant.  She was silent while studying this Epsilon AI, through all his words.  At him grabbing her hand, Shakti blocked any of his attempts to return the scan if he tried.  Though he didn’t seem to try.<br/><br/>Also, she wasn’t surprised when he displayed his own limiters, it would make sense, an un-limited Class 3 would be much stronger that he seemed.  But she didn’t reply to anything he said, there really was nothing to say to this one.  At least not until after he was done talking about himself  and was ready to go.<span style="color: Lime">“Any rogue AI is a threat to the ship.”</span>She said as Epsilon was leaving, waving her hand to send tracking programs after him to see what he does, and watching him through them while she turned her main attention to the Datacache he had damaged.<span style="color: Lime"> “And you’re lucky you had caused no real damage, this data was backed up yesterday. “</span><br/><br/>The actual jump didn’t really matter to the AI as much as it did to the biological, she didn’t care.  Her focus was the mainframe and computer systems of the ship.  She made a copy of the damaged data and sent it to the mainframe in the AI lab for study, and determination of damage while she began the restore program on the cache.  It began rebuilding as Shakti returned to her own core in the lab, where she was alerted to Epsilon leaving, and the detection of the core connecting for a moment before disconnecting again after the small power surge that blew the light on the bridge.<br/><br/>The data that was retrieved about Alicia would contain the basic knowledge that anyone on the ship would know, her history from before joining the Alliance military, and the couple times she got in trouble for hacking.  It also showed that is was as if she hadn’t existed for about 2 years a little after joining the military.  After that empty hole in her biography it shows she was honorably discharged from the alliance and went o this mothership’s project as an AI Technician.  Half a year after that she replaced the Tyrend head technician for the Computer systems and specifically the AI.  Nowhere did it say she had created Shakti, though the woman definitely had the credentials to be able to do such a thing.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>