Book 4: Chapter 30: Starfleet Attack
Bill
Same Day
Epsilon Eridani
Garfield popped into my VR without a ping or an invitation. He was generally pretty good about that kind of thing, so something was up.
“We’ve finished mapping the outages,” he said without preamble. “There’s a pattern of sorts.”
“Really? I haven’t been able to see one. They’re all over the place.”
Garfield shook his head. “It’s not spatial. The stations that are affected were all running more or less autonomously, without anyone actively administering them. Like systems without a resident Bob.”
“Oh, daaamn,” I said. “That means it’s deliberate. But there have been no announcements or anything, and no one has claimed responsibility. How many Bobs are still online?”
“One way or another, about thirty percent. We’ll probably get back another ten to twenty percent from systems where Bobs are able to physically access the station and do a reset. But that might take up to a couple more weeks.”