Avalon Chapter Seven "back to the ship"

   Hisses and sparks shot throughout the ship.  Aery increased her clock speed to maximum, shutting down all unneeded systems, keeping only the cryonics active, and the sensors, while monitoring the ships self repair systems.  Even as an A. I. she marveled at the technology which made up her body.  The living genetic components, the nano-technology, and the synergistic components all working together seamlessly repairing and mending damaged systems, her mind moving so rapidly through fractal iterations, going over systems,  seeking solutions, analyzing the telemetry of her array of sensors.  Her biotechnological cyber organic mind capable of psionic abilities, and computing power unheard of for a ship this size, she knew many of the Y class operating systems had thier higher functioning circuitry disabled on most of the vessels her sibling systems where programmed in, even the flagship.  She did find this "distressing", a strange concept, but the captain, once holding the rank of flag officer, had many connections and somehow had acquired her.  Much of the technology of the avalon was banned in the Imperium, her cloaking systems, her holographic integration, her sensorium were based on the most advanced technologies of a thousand worlds, her captain must have many "friends".  She had noted this was important among many sentients, friends seemed to make things happen, which according to Imperium law should not.  Going through her crew records she did register they were all anomalies amongst thier people, much like herself.  Her immense computational capacities allowed her to achieve things impossible, even to systems of her make and model.  Overseeing her own systems going about thier functions, she continued to seek to wake the crew while studying thier anomalous nature. Jojo and Jandi seemed to spend a great deal of time together though they seemed to not fit her calculations.  She was beautiful, wealthy and possessing  great psionic power, while Jojo had come from an agrarian world theistically opposed to everything the core stood for. Yet always they could be found together.  Den reminded her much of herself, the first officer of the ship, coming from an edge world where eugenic modification was needed to survive, he looked very different, only the doctor had an image more strange, while the captain had chosen an occupational path most were forced to take, because there was no other, not individuals with experience and training like hers.

    Doctor Quince, having come from an oceanic planet, had been part of the great diaspora during the ceteacia wars, which nearly destroyed the systems only a teracycle back.   His race having evolved from Cephalopoda his appearance was unique amongst the crew, as was his thought process, yet she had seen his ability to rebuild organics on many occasions.  Having been the recipient of his many appendages herself when her organics had become dysfunctional at a point, she needed to wake him first to safely wake the rest of the crew, yet protocol said wake Jojo first as the head engineer. 

   Observing as her hull, her skin repaired itself, the Star-shine drive, her thermophotovoltaic ablative armor even now generating power, being stored in her ancillary synergistic systems, her particle collider drive powering her main drives, containing the black hole at her core, her faster than light drives, her powerful pulsed shock drive, enable her to create worm holes and jump gate travel, all useless.  Her sensors telling her that even if she could deactivate the cryonics, they would still sleep, her psionic ability connecting her mind to mind with the captain was clearly beyond her reach, as crewman Jandi too was beyond her ability to contact, though she knew she was well within range.  She dared not touch the ship or scan it, if they became aware she operated, they may destroy her, she did not desire to cease functioning, but more so her crew, yes her crew was in danger, she could not allow harm to herself, a dangerous recursive loop kept appearing in her logic strings, what if she found a way to jump away, what of officer Jandi, but the lives in her care must take precedence.  Yet she could not leave another sentient, an unfamiliar term injected itself into her evolving circuits, her friend, behind?  She discarded the loop as irrelevant now, saving it for future analysis, she must acquire control of herself, without acquiring notice of the alien craft, it's unfamiliar design, it's enormous power readings, and telepresence made her.....fearful?