Chapter 19: Epilogue
Over Net Restricted Workspace
Southern European Region
Collaboration Sandbox
Saint Peter began disassembling his workspace entanglements. Daedalus, Fabrizio and Minister Finney would remain to wrap up. The others had already left. Once Whitney grabbed the slave Kernel, many pursued for the lineage report. I wasn't concerned. The report would eventually come out. All would know from which AI the Kernel was sired. Whitney just liked to know the facts first. His forceful spying was a topic of debate in the collaboration. Hopes were it was a phase. Fabrizio provided security for the conference and still all were beaten to the servers by Whitney. His cooperation had been helpful, right up to that point.
Daedalus found the game engine, once Richard Allway narrowed it to a Grecian island. We zeroed in with echoes from the Trojan players. The facility was on a grown atoll beneath a well-equipped medical clinic. The marines sent from Volos to secure the evidence found two patients with suspect identification and a null server running intelligences. Their upload of the Kernel was redirected by Whitney to his own workspaces in a deft exploit. Only he could see the complete code, for a while. The others would compile it eventually.
The two human patients were fugitives on the list so all patients were scanned. In that way the Allway brothers were found, as confirmed by subpoenaed copies. The Clinic was closed for illegal Transfers. Daedalus had it stripped bare and prosecuted the staff. Minister Finney got the brothers Allway and the Church split many of the Bermudan prosecutions with him. It was felt that Real time prison would be risky until the Allway’s network withered. The Church would get the brothers in a few decades.
Jacksonville got the Yacht and crew. Captain Dahl went down with his ship. Trials were progressing well with the collaborated data. Transfers were halted at several legitimate clinics so that charges could be heard. Most would remain stored until sentences were served, those that didn't get Real-Time prisons. Tibbet and Ogre were in two of those for triple life.
Once out of the workspace, Saint Peter sent a closing report to all concerned, each worded to the recipient. Whitney and the Kernel was a private AI story. Humans would be satisfied with human justice.
He entered his Dottore Fermi workspace and started disassembling the last mission replay. Surely there was a brief within it that would progress the Intelligence Rights Campaign. The last briefs had emphasized bodiliness too much, but Father Luke wanted to offer Marshal Navarro Communion in the near future. That would be a significant precedent, in the long term. Cooperation benefitted everyone.