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believes that the POW’s have proven their loyalty.
“Besides,” the Captain thinks: “the 10 remaining augmented humans, along with
the ship’s AI should be able to hold the ship in the event that a mutiny should
occur.”)
    Then Captain Nemo returns to the conversation with Danion, so that he can
find out how the AI plans, to board an enemy vessel. “Danion,” he says
“How are you planning on getting us aboard the enemy vessel?”
    “Here sir” replies the AI. “I could go first and infiltrate their
Artificial Intelligence. Before I removed the Verm AIs from our vessels,
I studied their architecture and observed a number of weak security
points. The Verm are way behind us in AI development. If you can
get me into their vessel, I will be able, at a minimum, to disable their
sensors, so that they won’t see you as you approach. It is even possible
that I can gain control of their Command and Control algorithms, their
weaponry, and possibly, their Life Support.”
    “Wow,” exclaimed Captain Nemo. “What an awesome thought. How
do you expect me to get you, inside their vessel and connected to their
computer?”
    “I haven’t quite worked that out yet, Captain,” replies Danion. “I was
hoping that you might have a good idea about that part.”
    “Not at the moment,” muses the Captain. “But we can brainstorm the
problem. I’ll call a meeting, of senior officers, to begin in 3
minutes. You can brief them on your plan, and we will see where it goes
from there.”
    “Aye sir. See you there.”
    ***
    Command Conference Rooms – both vessels
    …….. Danion finishes his briefing …So, there you have it. All you
have to do is figure out how to get me, aboard the enemy vessel, and into their
computer.”
    Captain Guilles comments first: “Danion, you say ‘all you have to do’ as
if it is a simple problem. But we all know that if it was ‘simple’ you
and Captain Nemo would have thought of it already.”
    “True,” replies the AI. “Perhaps, I did understate the difficulty
of the problem.”
    “Yes,” inserts Captain Nemo. “It’s a difficult problem, until we
find a solution. And then we will probably see that the solution was
simple. Does anyone have any thoughts?”
    “I have a question for Danion,” says Commander Farn – the verm POW.
“Do we have to get your physical body there, in the form of a computer core, or
can you be transmitted the way a computer virus can be transmitted?”
    “Excellent question, Commander Farn,” Danion replies. “I can
imagine getting a hook into their computer by entering through data or voice
communications. But there is a massive amount of data in my algorithm,
even without my personality – which, by itself, more than doubles the file
size.”
    “What if we were to broadcast a highly encoded message to the planet
Parin,” Commander Farn continues. “I bet the Verm commanders would
intercept the message, and would then spend hours trying, to decode it.
Would that give you time, to get a copy of yourself, started?”
    “That would be large enough for a virus to enter, but not for me,”
responds Danion. “And their virus protection is good. The weakness
in their AI’s can only be exploited by me gaining access to their
personalities, via their update functions.”
    ‘We need a ‘Trojan Horse,’ comments Tactical Officer Wier.
    “What is a ‘Trojan Horse?” asks Commander Farn.
    “Oh, sorry,” replies Lt. Wier. “Once upon a time, one city was able
to enter and conquer another city, by tricking them. The attacking forces
made a huge wooden horse, and presented it to the city under siege. The
city under siege brought the wooden horse inside the city gates. There
were soldiers hiding inside the ‘Trojan Horse’, and that night they exited the
horse and opened the city gates. The attackers, subsequently, rushed in
and destroyed the city.”
    “I see,” replies the Commander. “But I can’t think of
anything that the Admiral would