In the vacuum of space, there was no sound. Nothing but the vast empty silence of the void. Inside the small Alliance scoutship, whose AI has suddenly gone rouge, there was a lot of noise…

“Uh oh.” The small catlike creature eyed the control panel and then grinned nervously at it’s captain. “Bad thing.”

“What’cha mean ‘Uh oh’?” chittered the larger cat thing. “Very bad like?” It hopped down from the control chair and snapped at the control panel. “Dumb dead-think”.

“Drive line fractured, no can fix. Stupid dead-think melted board.” The navigator snarled at the computer, and sneezed. “Maybe not put dead-think in next one?”

“Maybe not.”