01/16/26 – Not Hacked

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The Clentitian sat up and told them, "I was hired to program it. But I found out that someone had hacked the ship's computers to sabotage it. And my project manager laughed at me when I told him. He told me it wasn't hacked, that it was Rostlin Kern herself who directed the extra code be added. Then there was a large zap noise, and that's the last thing I remember." Val said, "Huh. So what does the extra code do?" The Clentitian said, "Horrible things. The food synths won't make booze or sweets, the entertainment units will only play one movie, and rather than go to planet Haurk, it instructs the ship to fly directly into our system's star." Shocked, Audri said, "Surely whistleblower retaliation isn't legal here, is it?" Val said sarcastically, "Yeah, that's the first thing that came to mind for me too."

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Oh nooooo!!!! Not just one movie!!!!

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The Clentitian sat up and told them, “I was hired to program it. But I found out that someone had hacked the ship’s computers to sabotage it. And my project manager laughed at me when I told him. He told me it wasn’t hacked, that it was Rostlin Kern herself who directed the extra code be added. Then there was a large zap noise, and that’s the last thing I remember.” Val said, “Huh. So what does the extra code do?” The Clentitian said, “Horrible things. The food synths won’t make booze or sweets, the entertainment units will only play one movie, and rather than go to planet Haurk, it instructs the ship to fly directly into our system’s star.” Shocked, Audri said, “Surely whistleblower retaliation isn’t legal here, is it?” Val said sarcastically, “Yeah, that’s the first thing that came to mind for me too.”

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7 Comments

  1. Efogoto

    Hey, relax. Food synth vodka tastes like asteroid anyway. To really let everyone aboard feel the pain of only one movie, the ship is running only on impulse engines at one-quarter power … it’ll take years to reach the sun.

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