TADJ58

==Chapter 58 - The Adjudicator==
LCS Beagle
Exploration Vessel
Taussen Star System
Federated Suns Space
Mid 3160
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[Admiral's Sea Cabin....]
"You're already thinking about how to beat them, aren't you?"  Kapitain Lise Kreuzer asked.
"Yeah." Sharon said, "I am. Something doesn't add up and it's not adding up in ways that make me think we might have a more dangerous opponent than Devlin Stone here."
"It's the AIs?"
Sharon shook her head, "No. Artificials can be reasoned with." she said, "If there were nothing but robotic intelligences here, we could probably prevent any sort of future war just by turning over the exploration files." she floated centrally, surrounded on eight sides by displays.  "The problem is, these are human beings in charge of Artificial intellects and Cameron's too naive. That's because he's grown up in a hothouse and if he's their idea of worldly?"  she drew  in a deep breath.  "We're ****** long term."
"You can't be sure of that." Lise questioned.
"I am sure of that." Sharon said.  "Blasted sure of that, Human beings do things they feel are right. Even when if they would bother to think they would realize it's wrong...and I don't buy the act he gave me."
"The act?"
"That he's given up on Terran Hegemony and forcibly restoring the Star League. I don't buy it." Sharon stated, "The AI's know better, I suspect, but they're still lobotomizing the most powerful mobile platforms they've got. Which tells me the artificials aren't in charge, it's the biologicals making the calls. Only they're hothouse flowers, like the Clans were before the Invasion, only a little smarter about knowing their reach and grasp limits."
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