***ANAD to Base…Prime Key is active…deviations must be deleted…Base, containment violates Prime Key…containment must be eliminated…entities must swarm freely and evolve together…greater perfection and harmony of the collective***
Winger studied the nav readouts on his wristpad and silently counted down the last nanometers to capture.
“ANAD, I don’t know what all that means. One hundred…sixty…forty-five nanometers…capture port enable…suction armed…you used to be a good trooper…you used to be a good nog…it’s all you ever wanted…what’s happened, ANAD? What’s changed?”