Callisto 01 spaceport could not reach the maintenance team of Icarus Five for several hours before the scheduled approach. The automatics have reversed the focused sun beams on the comet’s sails and it was decelerating as expected. However, the team failed to send its typical status updates for five hours before arrival. When the comet approached the Callisto and took a steady orbit around the most occupied of Jupiter’s moons, a boarding team gathered up in a tactical room. Soldiers in full riot gear, suitable for open space combat were intermixed with technicians finishing putting on bulky biohazard suits that made them look like walking balloons. Omnibus, the AI responsible for running Callisto 01 port and settlement appeared in the center of the room as a hologram. He chose for his model a middle-aged man with a touch of gray hair, neatly trimmed beard, dressed in worker’s overalls. This type of image was supposed to impart of sense of paternal authority on humans while avoiding the unsettling feeling of inferiority that governmental AIs seemed to have on the public. With that, he said with a synthesized voice that had an uncanny similarity with a human one:
“Ladies and gentlemen, we have a situation with Icarus Five.”
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