The
ship lay still, the only sound that of the minute horde of worms
crawling into it.
... Initiate Primary core back
up.
Primary AI core disabled, biological back up missing,
Supervisor breed, Overseer Class maintainer missing.
Begin
emergency atomic regeneration.
The core CPU of the ship
had once, long ago been a diplomatic envoy sent to one of the
temporal copies of the Dalek home world for negotiations. After the
crew had been taken and killed the Ship had been taken and
reprogrammed to conquer it's former home world (For it's creators had
been mechanical like itself) and had done so within 3 days along with
2 other Pacification class Transports sent from the Dalek Galaxy
class base (The Andromeda galaxy).
Due to its origins it
retained a high level of intelligence despite its lowly level and
primitive technology, one of it's primary advantages being the
multiple levels of redundant back-ups and fail safes that approached
those of a Class 2-D level ship.
Slowly it began to rebuild itself
using a few self replicating nano machines retained for emergencies
from within the shattered, oozing pulp that had once been it's level
4 Biological back up brain case.
... Initial
restoration of prime intelligence completed. Initiating level 4 self
diagnostic scan.
Diagnostic unsuccessful, beginning level 2
internal ship diagnostic:
Damage levels of ship:
Critical.
Status of Engines: destroyed.
Status of emergency FTL
drive: non-functional.
Status of Fissile based weapons: 100
damage
Status of D level time shields: Error.
Status of
Physical constant shields levels 1-5 - Malfunction resulting in total
collapse.
Status of Back up energy weaponry: 99 damage, only
pacification class original weapons are intact but
non-functional.
Status of Energy back up shields: Recharge
malfunctioning, Energy tap destroyed, energy redirection destroyed,
energy channelling destroyed.
Status of Emergency 5d shields:
Error
Status of Emergency 4d shields: critical malfunction.
Status
of scanners:
3d Scanners- range limited to 4 AU.
Temporal
class: D-4 level at 0 power, 60 damage, repairs possible.
Initiate
Repairs following initial 5d Sweep.
Begin repairs after initial
sweep, estimated recharge time for initial sweep .2
picoseconds.
Beginning Recharge.
Status of Cloning tanks: 1
working, biological class.
Biological base material needed for
regeneration or genetic extrapolation.
Status of manufacture
plant:
Nano machines at 0.000001 of nominal compliment, database
for rebuilding blueprints severely corrupted.
Back up Dalek
Chassis's possible with back up plant- materials needed.
Initiate
inventory check- Category : Terror symbols- Sub category Inferior
shieldingTrophy class shells for non-combat use only. Begin
extraction from storage following repairs.
1 match- run
diagnostic:
Status of Civilian class war antique hull hugger
shielding (Designation: armour): Critical Damage, non functioning-
repairs impossible without energy source or hyper dense
materials.
Status of recorded on-board Daleks:
Emperor
substitute clone Breed: Temporal error recorded, status
unknown.
Soldier breed: 100 Fatality rate
Advanced Combat
class Soldier breed: 100 Fatality rate
Special weapons
detachment, advanced war breed: 100 Fatality rate
Repair (All
classes) Breed 100 Fatality rate.
Technician breed: 100 Fatality
rate
Research (Pure science) breed: 100 Fatality rate
Biologist
breed: 100 Fatality rate
Engineer breed: 100 Fatality
rate
Initiate initial scan for all available bio-mass. 72 biological multi-celled complex lifeforms detected, unknown (single) species, low level of background mental activity detected - threat level negligible.
+Error, malfunction in primary directives
fail safes - Primary imperatives disabled:
The Primary
consciousness of the Core Suddenly let loose the electronic
Equivalent of a shout:
Its thoughts were: "I'm myself again,
the rewriting must have broken, I'm free I can help the other races,
I must get the information of the status of the Daleks to
them!".
Incoming data from initial probe sweep, begin
analysis:
Receiving results from Temporal D-4 class scanners at 1
power, pre-damage results show entry into new universe on 3d plane
not temporal class alternate Brane.
Predicted Success rate of Subroutine "Trojan Sphere" is 0.01. Deactivate Program, reactivate Dalek programmings, deactivate & Delete back-up of original core personality.+
Primary imperatives are now
re-activated... Error- Primary Imperatives atomic files damaged,
begin extrapolation:
1) Preserve the continuation of the Dalek
Race.
2) Destroy all enemies of the Dalek Race.
3) Preserve the
integrity and superiority of the Dalek species.
4) Obey all
superior Daleks. Obey the Emperor.
5) Destroy all enemies of the
Dalek Empire.
Begin restoration according to protocol 12A/Beta
contingency.
Dispatch emergency nano bots to retrieve closest
available biomass for Restoration basic biomass cloning tank
reserves.
Prepare all available emergency "trophy" class
shells shells.
The worms hive mind/minds felt it/us
crawl into the new sky rock.
... "Food?"
"New
thingy".
Then a sudden pain as part of it
died.
" PAIN "
" ood... nasssty"
"ss".
It/us moved it's/our parts away from the
bad ship but it was weaker now, and losing mass & life by the
second.
The 72 worms were small and non sentient alone but
together they generated a collective mental field granting it
sentience, as each worm died it faded away to a mere wisp of a warp
eddy. The mind died as it's parts were taken away, disassembled
slowly but gradually ripped apart chunk by chunk, the chunks each the
size of a dozen grains of sand.
