Lost Empire 70

0001 – Tempro

0003 – Conner- Thomas

0097 – Ace – Zimmel

0098 – Lucy

0101 – Shelby (mother ship)

0125 – Lars

0200 – Ellen

0250 – Tendra

0301 – Rodrick

0403 – Johnathon

0667 – Marco – Brown

0778 – Jan

0798 – Celeste – Shelby (human)

0805 – Toran

0808 – Radella

0908 – Tara – Mara

1000 – Sherry

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Ungrown – unnumbered

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0999 – Zan – still lost

Rescued from Tendraxians so far

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6 on Shelby

8 on Lucy

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Known and OR numbered

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0501 – Thaddeus

???? – Lena

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I have had a few readers ask how the Tendraxians were able to access the A.I. boxes. I am sorry for the confusion they never really accessed them completely, more a way to fool them with a type of mental warfare. That is why the A.I. boxes were confused at first not believing what they were seeing was real. I hope that this clears up the confusion. Also, many might or might not have noticed that as soon as they interacted with Lucie, that almost all of the A.I.’s gained a great deal of sanity.

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Both Kimison and Rayburn were perplexed. They had worked for two days, adding as much data as they could. With the adjustments that Kimison had discovered, they were making far better progress. Though, with them needing no less than two terabytes of the data, adding only ten gigabytes at a time was slow going. Kimison was glad that he had discovered a way to add more than two.

Then there was the fact that they had to wait for over an hour to allow what they had added to stabilize. Still, after two days with only four hundred eighty gigabytes, they felt they would never finish. They didn’t even have half a terabyte yet.

Both of the males had tried unsuccessfully to expand what they knew. To add more data in a more stable manner. So far nothing was working, this was what had led to their frustration.

Tempro had been keeping an even closer eye on the two, especially since Kimison had managed to shut Tempro down. He was also keeping as close an eye on the brain enhancer as they called it.

Tempro was still upset that Kimison had managed to get past him so easily. He had been working nonstop to make sure that it didn’t happen again.

‘Well,’ Tempro thought, ‘he hoped that Kimison couldn’t do that to him again.’ A moment later he was drawn from his thoughts by Kimison.

“Tempro? I know that you don’t expect it. I have to say this to get it off my chest.” Kimison stated.

“Sir? Would you like me to call the Emperor?” Tempro replied.

“No,” Kimison said his head down slightly. “I have to apologize to you, for what I did to you.” Kimison held up his hand to quiet Tempro when he tried to speak. “I was feeling desperate, I couldn’t get around the problem. Hell, I am almost there now, I feel that I only got around it a small bit. I forgot that you are as alive as I am, I am truly sorry that I hurt you as I did.”

Tempro appeared before Kimison his mouth hanging open. The colonel was apologizing to him? “Sir, there is no need to…”

“Yes, there is, you are alive, you deserve to be treated that way. Not like a machine that is only to be used, then left alone. Alone, to only be used when the need arises I have been there Tempro, locked away ’til the next battery of tests.” Here Kimison was vigorously shaking his head. “I will never allow that to happen to you again, I remember, so please forgive me.”

Tempro couldn’t speak, this was by far the most like a living entity he’d ever been treated.

Tempro bowed his head to Kimison, a stray tear falling from his eyes. “Thank you, sir, you and the Emperor are the only ones to ever treat any of us like we are alive.”

Kimison nodded, “I will endeavor to remember from now on.”

Then just as suddenly, Kimison turned back as a new idea came to his mind. I hope this works. Looking at Rayburn, he nodded as he started to adjust faster and faster while Rayburn added the data. His hands almost a blur, Kimison hoped that he could keep this up. When the data hit twelve gigabytes, Rayburn’s eyes went large when he saw that the data stream was stable. He didn’t know what Kimison had done, though it appeared to be working.

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Lucie returned almost half an hour later with the three females in tow. Upon entering they all rushed to the bio-bed that a fourth Tendraxian female was still unconscious on.

Lucie checked on the readings then called Johnathon. “Johnathon, has her condition improved?”

“No prime Hartwell, though it has stabilized. I am afraid that her physiology, is far more unknown to me. I am attempting to access all databases that I can. I am doing all I can to bring her out of her comatose state. I…” Johnathon suddenly stopped as; a steady beeping grew stronger.

Lucie was staring at the readings, still not quite sure about a lot of them. Unfortunately, this was one of them. “Johnathon? Is she dying?”

“Strange,” Johnathon stated as several instruments came out of the bio-bed. “Oh my.” Suddenly the beeping became even louder as several of the instruments pointed toward Lucie. “I say prime Hartwell, her life signs are climbing. It appears that this started as soon as you came closer to the bio-bed. Another ten minutes, I’d say she’d be out of danger. Apparently, the energy that allows them to travel in transwarp, is also healing her body.”

Lucie could only stand there her mouth hanging. She was the cure? Ok, this was going from weird, to just plain bizarre!

She turned, looked back at her brother who was looking through several files. “Did you know about this?” She asked.

Johnathon could only look at her with astonishment. ‘Damn,’ he thought, ‘he knew that she had spent a hell of a lot of time in transwarp space. Looking at the readings again he shook his head, good god the readings were off the scale!’

“I knew that you being there helped to counteract the energy that prevents them from entering transwarp space. Though, I had no idea that it would also help to cure the malady, of them being poisoned by it. My god Lucie, it’s like you filter the energy for them.