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it could remain under power for thousands of years I don’t see why the consoles wouldn’t be active unless someone turned them off. As for them being damaged, I think there would be more of a physical evidence to indicate that.” Seo-yun said.
    “Or we just don’t know how to turn them on.” Tomas added.
    “Or that.” Seo-yun agreed.
    Tomas sighed, and looked around the room for a moment looking for anything that stands out. “Well, this is a bit of a disappointment, there is nothing here that seems extraordinary, seems a bit too familiar, it all looks like something human hands could build.”
    “ Actually, this vessel has been built by Loraru as were most other vessels of the Union.”
    Tomas whipped his head around to the source of the voice, the rest of the team readied their rifles on the source of the voice, while Seo-yun jumped back a step. It spoke in English, and though it sounded human it was definitely not, it was too perfectly spoken, too monotonous, it was wrong. The source of the voice stood motionless on the floorplate further down in the room, its eyes were staring straight into his. It had four arms two on each side and two legs, it was shorter than an average human, around meter and half in height, though it was wider in the shoulders by at least half as much as an average human, it was dressed in yellowish clothing that hanged loosely on its body, it had six eyes arranged in three row of two placed at an angle with the bottom pair being the closest together and the top pair the furthest from each other, making a V shape, two vertical slits bellow the eyes were most likely nostrils, and bellow that a single horizontal line the mouth, it didn’t have any lips, its head had a vaguely triangular shape with the bottom being narrow and the top of the head wide, it didn’t have hair on its body that Tomas could see, and the top of its head ended in six rigid spikes, curving upwards. Its skin was a sickly gray color. The top arms were crossed at its chest with the bottom ones positioned loosely at its side dropping to its knees.
    “ Tomas, Seo-yun, move back slowly.” Elias said while moving slowly forward, his rifle aim at the being.
    “There is no need for that I assure you, I mean you no harm, not that I could harm you even if I wanted. And I would appreciate it if you would lower your weapons, I do not know if they would damage anything if fired but I would rather not risk it.” The being said.
    “Elias, wait.” Tomas said and slowly stepped forward and spoke to the being “Ah, my name is-”
    “Tomas, yes I overheard the one in front of you, Elias, address you as such, I don’t know the designations of the rest, as you never addressed them within the ship or its immediate surroundings.”
    “Well it’s only appropriate that you introduce yourself as well then, what is your name.” Tomas asked.
    “A cultural convention? Very well, my designation is Autonomous Survey Unit Mark 77321, used in searcher class scout ships, tasked with aiding the crew in analyzing raw data.”
    For a moment no one said anything, then Seo-yun broke the silence “You are a machine?”
    “ That statement is correct even though it is wrong, I am an interface, thing you see before you is just a representation.” It said in its monotone voice, Tomas noticed that it mistook Seo-yun’s question for a statement, meaning that it didn’t have a perfect understanding of their language.
    Seo-yun moved around the console and stepped onto the plate reaching her hand through the being before anyone thought to stop her.
    “A hologram, remarkable.” She said still moving her hand through the being, or rather a hologram of the being.
    “ Seo-yun, please step back behind me.” Elias said trying to aim his rifle at the hologram while not aiming at Seo-yun.
    She looked back at him surprised, seeing how he and the rest of the team were trying to keep his aim true while she moved “Oh, you can lower your guns, this is just