Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

anywhere in the galaxy used this compute resource, theywould have spread to all of it. Even an artificial life form willexpand in numbers to fill its niche.""Are my science officers seriously telling me we arebeing bombarded by an alien species?""Possibly an alien afterlife, like we are, more likely aliendevices.""I hear what you're saying," Kelvin said, "but I'm not sureI believe you. We may have a new enemy, but we still have anunknown ship on our flank. We haven't transmitted this databack to H.Q. yet have we?" he asked Colonel Bovok."Because they don't stay at one site long enough," Elmoresaid."I don't know as I believe it anyway," Kelvin said, "Whatabout you?" he asked Heymon."I'll have a few of my math guys look at it. I think the dataThom’s getting is real but it may not mean what we think itdoes, for instance, there could be a guidance unit on thaticeberg but the state changes in the condensates are a reactionto it and there may be a lot less of it because of the heatimparted by the guidance unit. My gut tells me that themagnetic fields between these bodies are not enough to movethem, but I'll have somebody check that. It certainly wouldn'thave been enough to cause the earliest impacts.""Because we think it started with the war," Ava said, “butwhat if these bodies started targeting our installations as soonas they went in? The paths of all the impactors are consistent266