"Horanckk was very strict about his upgrades. And once we joined the Vizsnunishne, he had access to the best defensive code available." Not to mention offensive. "There's probably dozens of him right now, on various Fleet ships in various dimensions, and," she paused, "and I hope he's looking for me."

Anwei's magnanimous plan to start keeping track of Stacy's punitive payroll had been a bit derailed by her discovery that time varied from location to location within the ship, which made an hourly rate very hard to calculate.

"You seem like a good fit for Security, especially with an AI partner. I'm in Engineering for now - I'll probably move over to the dedicated Computing subgroup once it's fully enabled."