“Drone FOLLOWING THE ATTACK UPON the surface installation, Center Control orders all facilities to begin operations on a round-the-clock schedule. A task force of maintenance vans is dispatched to the surface to clear the rubble. Preliminary plans for the new installation are in preparation; all available Unistat 4000s are recruited for this work; projects in progress must be set aside. Among the many millions of trivial details recorded on the file chips placed in the Archives during this emerg...ency period is the information that a twentieth-century resident (female) has been misfiled. Although technically these files are scheduled for programming whenever there is a Unistat without an assignment, the clerical machines at Center Control all know that files on Archive consignment are never seen again. One of the Deltron series in the Dispatch Division even makes a joke of it by referring to the Archives as “the Sargasso Sea” in all interdepartment memos. It is Skiri the Navigator who first sees the reflected dazzle of the distant Sentinel.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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