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"Isaac, if you sit very quietly and stop bothering Enoch and Zachary, I'll tell
you a story.
"There was a brand-new probe. He was designed to explore rugged and
dangerous paces where humans couldn/t go. He was very smart and brave.
"No, not as smart and brave as you, Isaac. But in a way he was a cousin
and a precursor of the Brace probes.
"He walked on snow and he walked on rocks. He walked down into an active
volcano carrying scientific instruments and telemetry equipment. His name
was Dante.
Zachary and I downloaded sensor data for cameras, IR, environmental pressure Of course, all this is supposed to be protected from erasure. The engineers at Brace didn't plan Looks like we're ready for the reboot. " Zachary, do you want to do the honors?"
In a little while, we should know whether or not Andrew is coming back. It's really boring waiting like this. "Hey, Isaac. Did you say something about a really, really
Transmission from ENOCH
Thanks for the advice, Dr. D. I will re-install utilities and imaging and communications
routimes to both of the mass memory units first. We would have a really big problem
if the reboot tells the processor that Andrew's tape is blank.
testing, and radar ranging. The MMU tapes are partitioned into nine memory
tracks with files and subfiles for finding particular locations.
on a probe being shot and punctured
Transmission from GAIL
Transmission from ZACHARY
"Enoch, how long is it going to take for the self test? "
I hope this works. I hope Andrew comes back. I hope Gail comes back.
I hope Burn comes back so we can find out what's in that package.
fun game with numbers?"
