The revelation hit her a couple of months after Ashriel had gotten her mind off the predicament she saw them in. She would design an indestructible artificial intelligence and fill it with all the knowledge she had been given. Consequences be dammed, she was not going to let her people become extinct. Her tinkering occurred largely when her husband was not home, which wasn't often of late as the baby was due anytime now.
She closed her eyes to block out what the birth of their child heralded. It wouldn't be long now and the aliens would come to enslave them. They had both seen it. The sheer depth of power that these strangers commanded was awe inspiring. Even the combined might of the "masters" on this planet was the barest sliver of the lowest Rakata's might.
Her shoulders slumped as she sensed her husband enter their abode. Tears pricked the corners of her eyes.
Sensing her distress and realizing where it stemmed from, Ash hurried to her side. "Shhh, honey. It will all work out and you know it. She will lead our people to freedom and her descendants will drive the slaver's back."
She gave him a weak smile. "And they will eventually rediscover our home here." As she lead him out to the balcony overlooking the lake their home overlooked. In the distance , between the cliffs you could barely make out where the others had started to set up a small encampment to begin exploring the wilderness. "It is a small consolation that our soon to be lords will actually build here too. Especially seems they will raze the current dwellings to do so."
"We will have to ask them to hold off."
She snorted and turned leaning on the railing. "Baby they are going to do this from orbit. We need to get everyone to the caves and you know it."
He was about to say something when the tapping of footsteps could be heard on the stairs to their home. A young boy, barely fifteen, came to a breathless halt in front of them. "Masters. They have discovered a system of caves about two klicks out from home base. Master Ashriel's presence has been requested to help investigate." The boy panted while in a half crouch with his hands on his knees.
Shom raised an eyebrow at Ash. "He'll be along shortly Seidal." She watched as the boy made an official bow in parting and ran back off. "Timely." She smiled. "Make sure they are suitable and we should start stocking them." She suggested at this retreating back.