Every Last Mother's Child

by William J. Carty, Jr

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  Junior the DeepSpace back up had seen Jonesy and had quickly built up a fire wall to protect him and the AI from the Republic’s Embassy. Technically the foreign AIs were to be isolated from the Trena Cybernetic infrastructure. But in reality each embassy had a way to let their AIs roam. As long as no harm was done to Trena, the security AIs didn’t worry too much. It could be bad news for a Trena AI who was found with a foreign AI and passing state secrets. After an investigation the AI was turned off and its memory was destroyed.

  “Man you have to get me out of here!” the DeepSpace AI cried to the Republics station chief. “If they find out that I fooled with the pass port system they’ll kill me.”

  “Now you just cool out,” The station chief said, “First off that program I gave you points to the theocracy and not to you. Secondly the way it was installed there are so many back doors into that system no one will suspect it is you to begin with!”

  “Did you see her?” DeepSpace asked. “That was the logistics officer for the entire Evacuation! She knows who I am and will turn me in.”

  “Don’t worry about it.” Station chief said. “She’s playing poker with a couple AIs from Embassy Road. We can nail her anytime we want.”

  “Man,” The sentient computer said, “I don’t like this.”

  “Now hush up and listen,” Station chief said, “I need to know the full inventory of all the special weapons that the militia has in its warehouse. I also need to know what the Kingdom is going to do with them.”

  “That’s a close hold item Station Chief,” Junior replied, “I can’t even get into the locked memory where they are held. It has got a fire wall and dead man traps all over it!”

  “I need you to open a window in a little while that will let this worm in.” the chief said, “once in it will tell me all that I need. I only need to get pass the first fire wall. The worm here will do everything else!”

  “That’s treason!” Junior said.

  “And what you’ve don’t till now isn’t?” the chief said. Reluctantly Junior took the worm with him back to the mountain.