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Starship Victory: Welcome to Earth-Vegas
By Joey Peters
Smashwords Edition
Copyright 2011, Joey Peters
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Contents
The History of Cybernetics in the Galactic Union
Welcome to Earth-Vegas
Golem ran down the clock as second shift approached. He’d been at work for nearly eight hours straight. Being an android and also the chief of the Engineering Section meant that, at least ostensibly, he didn’t take breaks. Physically he didn’t need them and as the boss he wouldn’t get a chance. Well, when it was busy, anyway.
He’d spent the last half hour running diagnostics on the forward scanner array. This was a perfect job for him today, because the screen of his tablet kept scrolling past with impressive looking graphs but it also required almost no thought. Big spike? Tap the data scrubber icon. The graph goes straight? Tap the data scrubber icon.
Someone came up behind him. But that was the beauty of running diagnostics on the forward scanner array. You’d have to be an engineer to understand that those pretty graphs signified nothing.
“Sir,” Lieutenant Gomez said, “Do you have anything to report for the next crew shift?”
Lieutenant Gomez was a junior chief in Engineering. If it had been any of the other junior chiefs Golem would have jumped out of his transparent skin, but Lieutenant Gomez never questioned Golem. In fact, it was Golem who got him the gig.