***Test Director Wilkins does not know ANAD loaded the respirocyte config. He said ANAD should focus all processor capacity on boring and supporting the hole…but ANAD loaded the config anyway. A trooper does not leave his buddies behind***

  Winger mulled that bit of news over. Now, it seemed, the assembler was disregarding orders from its human handlers and initiating configurations on its own.

  The less Major Kraft knows about this, the better.

  “Okay, ANAD, give us some oxygen. When will the suits be here?”

  “Maybe now,” M’wale said. “Sounder says there’s something in motion right outside the hull…and it’s not the earth.”

  “It’s probably them,” Winger decided. “How do we get the suits inside the cabin?”