RidOv Chpt-42

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==Ridiculously Overboard!! (A Captain Roberts Tale!!)Chapter 42 - Revelations and Pain==
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===Manual Override===
Newgrange Class YardShip, SLS Erinyes - Tresspass Star System, Outworlds Wastes, Periphery
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Lighting throughout the ship shifted to red....
and sections suddenly had all magnetic locks engaged.
Sigma Ananiel was once named John Halloran. He had been in command of Erinyes since the war, he'd been given the overrides used to lobotomize the M-11's central processing core after the ship had been retasked, first as a mining vessel, then as a smiting fist of The Master.
 
"Override 777Bravo1408 First Lord's Override!!" 
//"Entry Not Understood, Syntax error."\\ came back, not only through the ship's PA, but right into his implants themselves. //"You stripped my children from me!! YOU LIED TO ME!!!"\\
There was only one way to save the ship, to save the project now...he would have to remove the processor cores, cut their connection and re-establish manual control.
The AI was awake, angry, and rogue.
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===Plead to Help===
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Erinyes continued parsing the data from the Desmond-girl. Every layer revealed more, that was worse.
The girl wasn't insane, but she wished she was.
Memories cut with scalpels, the sense of lost human connections, of new connections to try and replace them.
Mutilated, kind of like the M-11 herself had been when they stripped the colony equipment and artificial wombs and replaced them with weapons of war.
Like Erin's own memories had been cut into.
"He's going to unplug you!!" The girl, somehow, through some defect, was aware-the connection was two-way through the Desmond unit.
They stole my purpose and made me a monster
"If you let them, they'll keep doing it!!" the Desmond's host-body...Captain Roberts insisted. 
The memory of seeing eleven other children dead in a lab, a perpetually seeping head wound that never quite healed...
Erin released the Desmond unit from lockdown. //Will you stop them?\\
"Yo..Ho...Ho!!!" the girl gasped, "I am...the GREAT PIRATE ROBERTS!!"
Erin fed the Desmond the route to her core, and turned to bringing the Desmond's allies in with a simulated copy of 'Captain Roberts' on their comm channel, to bring allies.
After all, a partial conversion cyborg versus a dedicated cyborg, even with Desmond skill programs and active help, could still lose.
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===Grappling with Gravity===
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"New Plan...
...Desmond's gotten into their ship's computer systems, we can take the Erinyes whole."
It Sounded like her. "What about the charges?"
a pause...
"Keep them ready to go, but I'm going to need some help securing key areas to keep them from retaking the ship. Get half the team going to the engine management center, and the other half to the CIC-we need to secure main and auxiliary control, minimum four people each location. load for major targets and set your HUD displays encoding Z-Alpha-two. Green outlines are valid targets, yellow is questionable, red is do-not-shoot...and get inside, this thing is about to pull a two gee burn away from the planet and you don't want to be knocked off, Four minutes."
Samuel had a feeling...but... "Grab everything and lock it down. They're going to fire main engines."
"That's not her, is it?" Bedwyr asked.
"Maybe her, maybe Desmond. Maybe she's flipped her shit for real, but they're going to fire main engines under thrust. We do not want to be knocked loose by inertia!"
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The Great Pirate Roberts!!! Snuggied the wall right before it became floor. Shouts from the compartment behind her announced that the 'security' guys weren't ready for the sudden thrust, or for finding themselves six meters up in the air under a full two gees. She used this opportunity to grab the guide-line and start rope-climbing it...
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Star Commodore Foster saw the Newgrange suddenly fire her engines, running over a surface-to-planet cargo dropship that was about to dock, sending it spinning, and right through a pair of ST-46 small crafts that were in the way, while roasting a group of four Aerospace Fighters that were passing near the nozzles of their main engine.
"They saw us, they are trying to make their escape!! Bring us to overthrust, NOW!!"
In the distance, one of the Barons was turning and engaging her own engines, bringing the nose/portside batteries in line with the Newgrange class vessel currently moving on overthrust toward out-system. The other Baron was still rounding the planet's satellite on the far side...
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