Alicia smiled again at the suggestion, though she hadn’t even through about trying to watch the jump from the bridge.  Maybe because she hated being around the higher ranks, and avoided them as much as possible when she could.<span style="color: Cyan">“Yeah, maybe your right, that would be crowded as hell.  I may hate military officers, but the crowds would be worse.”</span>She said a moment, noticing though the glance from Sophia towards the camera that Shakti was likely looking through.  This girl wasn’t stupid, not at all, or just paranoid enough to be right. She just kept a smile on her face made her look innocent, as if everything was normal, and the women were not being watched.<br/><br/>A Distraction though came as another Petite woman, strangely dressed in a skintight suit moved by into the bridge for a moment before leaving again.  Alicia couldn’t help herself as her eyes followed that woman, the outfit itself seemed a bit of a curiosity, and not really practical like the researcher’s outfit that Alicia herself was wearing.  Even though, to be honest, Alicia couldn’t help but enjoy the view from her point.  That distraction only lasted until the other woman was out of sight and the computer technician noticed that Sophia was heading back towards the Bridge.<span style="color: Cyan"> “Yeah, I’m coming.”</span><br/><br/>One of the tables there on the bridge was already being cleared by Sophia when Alicia followed her into the room.  The method was a little more violent than Alicia’s, but it seemed to work at chasing off the cleaning crew.<span style="color: Cyan">“The jump is almost ready.  Just hang out here and watch, then clean up after she leaved.”</span>She said a moment to one of the scared off civilians before moving over to the pilfered chair and taking said seat.   She leaned back as much as she could and slouched into a relaxed position watching the space outside.  She didn’t notice the access to the dataport.<br/><br/>The actual jump itself though didn’t happen as soon as they would guess as the speeches from the leaders came over the ship’s speakers.  The Alliance President’s was nothing different from any of his speeches.  He usually made them encouraging, and congratulating.  It sounded like any speech before a momentous event.  though Alicia could tell by his tone, the President actually meant everything he said, even though it was a cookie cutter speech.  The next person who spoke though, even she was surprised by it all.<br/><br/><span style="color: Cyan">“The Tyrend Emperor?  Since when has he had the guts or the health to leave Mars?”</span>She said, obviously stunned by her tone.  She obviously didn’t care if the Imperials on the bridge heard her, she was too surprised to care… even if she didn’t care normally.  Past that though she was silent as she listened to his own speech, more unique than the President’s… though he made it sound more like they were to be conquerors, not the explorer’s that she had thought of themselves as an expeditionary fleet.  The fleet of ships was for protection…<span style="color: Cyan">“Sophia… Am I going crazy, or did he actually say and make it sound like he wanted us to conquer the galaxy for him?”</span><br/><br/>…………………………………………..<br/><br/>Shakti didn’t give a damn about what was going on with the speeches or anything else past her study of Alicia’s roommate in the hall outside the bridge.  After that she had focused all her processing on finished the study of her system checks.  It was good she had finished the baseline checks of all the AI systems by the time the Admiral’s system check had went out, she had been able to give the green light to the bridge console.  The Class III AI was ready for any call immediately after those checks, and the green light was given for the ship to fully power on.<br/><br/>Almost immediately after those though and the speeches started, Shakti detected access to the cabinet and database through it.  The cover of a security program over her detection program for the code of the intruder had worked.  She received the warning of the access as whoever it was reached into the database.  She stopped all processes she was doing and focused all her attention on that access.  She entered the virtual world of the AI’s creation.  Her avatar appearance flashed into existence  there behind him, blocking the path he had created for a quick exit.  The Rogue AI was creating the image of the chains for her false program overlaid over the information cabinet.<br/><br/><span style="color: Lime">“Nice imagery for the distraction security program.  You completely overlooked the alert sent out by your access of the database.  Should have left before changing the image.”</span>She said, the program she referenced appeared under the chains he had made, his colored code appearing inside a circle of her blue code before disintegrating.  Immediately after that she stepped on the line connecting him to the port he had entered through, disconnecting it so he would have to find his own way through the system again..<span style="color: Lime">“I had guessed the unauthorized access had been an AI, but I had hoped not.”</span>She couldn't figure out what class he was though, he had the appearance similar to a Class 2, uninventive.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>