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goon one and two, followed by Captain Stubing.  “Thank you Captain for allowing me to talk to the Human, I have not had the pleasure in a very long time.”
    “I hope you enjoyed it because it’s not gonna happen again.  Now I want that information.”
    “ Captain as I told you before, I have to acquire access to the original encrypted files to be able to break the code and open them for you.  So I need to be allowed into the ships memory banks and given access to the main processor.  This ships AI core was designed to contain me and limit me and I just can’t do what you ask without more resources.”  Silence filled the room.  Cole coughed uncomfortably and started humming the theme from final jeopardy.  Feng backhanded Cole in the mouth and snarled in frustration.  He turned to the tech team and said. “Can you keep tabs on it and get it back into the core when it’s done? And make sure it doesn’t access any other ship systems?”
    “We think, I mean , yes Sir we have a program up and running that no AI can get through, Ancient or not,” said the team leader.  “We are ready when you are Sir.”
    “Do this and don’t screw it up.”  He grabbed the team leader by his shirt and lifted him off the floor.  “Because if you do we’re all dead.”  He dropped the shaken being back to the deck.  “Guards get him back to his cell and make sure he doesn’t touch anything on the way back.”
                  Two days later the AI cracked the code protecting the files, if he had a mouth he would have smiled.  He didn’t need the files to tell him were to go, he knew where the fleet was already. He had been one of the AI’s specifically built to inhabit the last ships ever built by the powerful humans.  In fact, they were the only warships humanity had ever had to build.  Much like everything else they did, the ships were meticulously crafted for their purpose but unfortunately never used, well not yet anyway.  No, the AI needed the information in the files for personal reasons.  It told him much about the organization that Feng had worked for and contained some solid information on leads toward finding out what had happened and who was behind it those many years ago.  He also got all the info that they had amassed on young Cole and his people.  That was a bonus because there were many ships and ships need crews, specifically human crews.  A planet with almost seven billion humans on it would do nicely for starting a fleet.  Yes, he would definitely smile if he could.
                  “Captain we have the AI firmly secured back in the core and there are no traces of it anywhere in any system.  I would say our firewall program worked perfectly.  I also am now transmitting to you the coordinates the AI got from the Admirals files, looks like it’s not that far from here on the outer disk.  I am also shifting the Admirals personal files to your cabin computer terminal as ordered.  If there is nothing further, I will begin rebuilding the hardware walls around the AI core.”
    The Captain punched the coordinates into the nav computer.  It appeared to be in a previously unexplored part of the outer galactic disc.  Hmm he thought, out of the way, just like Earth .  He was starting to see a pattern of how the pure strains set up their fall back plan, which made him wonder what, if anything, else was out here for him to find.  “Navigation set following course and make best speed.”  He rattled off the long list of numbers.  “Turn and burn, we have a galaxy to conquer.”
    Dr. Sky sat quietly in her cell.  She felt the ship s power core spool up and the gravity drive engage.  The Captain must have got the answers he had wanted from the AI.  Her time was running out, she needed Cole, his name still sounded odd in her mind after calling him The Savior for so long, to find a way out for them some time soon.  She had done all she could to prepare for this day now