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[Aseaheru]

To the engie land core!

[March]

Junkbot navigates toward the engineering AI core, through the wreckage of the ship. Entering the engine section past countless splayed out bundles of integration cable heading out in numerous directions, plasma conduit repiping, and coolant ductwork; it is apparent work has been done to reconnect engineering to the rest of the ship and lots of it. Entering the main engineering space and the location of the AI core, there is so much repaired engine components, assembled machines, and assorted parts, scrap, and broken things that the floor, walls and ceiling are completely obstructed. Amidst this is the unpowered AI core, signifying emptiness, and a lone AI shell in a hopelessly corroded state and clutching a ruined AI interface component in process of fruitless repair-work. The soft themed thump of the engines being the only thing alive here.

[Aseaheru]

See if there isint some way to transfer the AI in the shell to one thats less broke.

[Ozarck]

Check on the status of the infantry pods. Is the atmosphere breathable for the infantry units? Run a triage program, determining what is most salvageable, and what possible functions our scrapped ship and beings might use (i.e. modest colony base, possible planetary escape pods, military construction zone, telecomms system.

[Aseaheru]

Infantry are robots...

[Ozarck]

must have missed that.

[March]

The AI interface component is individualized for each AI shell, replacing it with any other often causes massive AI degradation, fragmentation, and error; the destruction of an AI interface component is as close to a death sentence to AI as it comes. Transferring this AI in good condition is impossible. The ships engines are in good enough state to maintain operation and if it was connected to the whole of or simply enough of the ship perhaps it could reach orbit.

[Aseaheru]

Right, Time to look for the bridge area. Its towards the back, right? I mean, noone decided to shove valuable, sensitive things at the front of a ship, where most interplanetary drives would need things, or atleast a ramscoop, right?

[March]

The bridge is simply another inactive AI storage section, active astrogation AI are migratory in the whole of the ship, it is more likely that the active AI is stuck in part of the ship then returned to the bridge AI core. The bridge core is in close proximity to the front section of the ship, and embedded in the ground.

[Aseaheru]

Try to get into the sodding thing.

[March]

Junkbot spends some time cutting, moving debris, and traversing wreckage. A path to the main bridge area is open, the room is in bad shape and nearly folded in half downwards. The floor juts upward and the ceiling is stretched apart and the walls are crumpled. The entire bridge AI core is shattered and scattered all over.

[Aseaheru]

Well, time to check other areas for AIs...

[March]

Finding a AI in a system like a ship isn't really possible; it could literally be trapped in a single length of integration cable, or transitory of any connected section. Even if Junkbot were to search every inch of the crash site it could still mean the astrogation AI is not to be found like this.

[Aseaheru]

Well, there goes our ability to get off this rock on our lonesome...

Check internal database for data on building communications

[March]

The ship doesn't have communications systems, its simply a delivery vessel.