Sufficiently Advanced Technology (Inverse Shadows)
“It was microscopically small, far too tiny to be seen with the naked eye. The device had found a home within the courtroom and had broadcast everything it picked up back to the Hamilton, where the AIs processed it before relaying the information to the human researchers. Thousands of other snoops drifted over the planet, studying the inhabitants closely. There was so much data that even the AIs had trouble analysing it all.
“There are blank spots,” the AIs reported finally. “Observe.”
E...lyria studied the planetary map thoughtfully. For no apparent reason, there were places out in the countryside – or a handful of buildings within the city – where the snoops simply went dead. It should have been impossible. A civilisation with equal technology to the Confederation would have been able to detect and eliminate the snoops, probably through targeted nanotech, but Darius shouldn’t have been able to do it at all. And once they died, the snoops effectively vanished.MoreLess
“There are blank spots,” the AIs reported finally. “Observe.”
E...lyria studied the planetary map thoughtfully. For no apparent reason, there were places out in the countryside – or a handful of buildings within the city – where the snoops simply went dead. It should have been impossible. A civilisation with equal technology to the Confederation would have been able to detect and eliminate the snoops, probably through targeted nanotech, but Darius shouldn’t have been able to do it at all. And once they died, the snoops effectively vanished.MoreLess
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