Re: Return to X8T-121: Aerielle
"Okay, so you're saying there's some sort of automated system here, which at least is functioning like a computer," Eric says. "It could very well have integrated circuits, but maybe not necessarily the little chips, right? And I've yet to see any display screens."
"It seems to me as if we are missing something. A piece of information, a piece of technology... something that makes this all work together as a coherent whole."
"We are also missing key data about these people. I'm disinclined to think these are prisoners simply because there are no jailers."
"Here's what I propose: we'll head up one level and take a quick survey of the occupants of two or three dozen cylinders... see if that gives us any more data... genders, ages, horns, etc. In other words, anything that stands out as different, even clothing. They were all dressed, right?"
"Then we go up... what is it? Three levels, to the first non-hibernation level? And see what we can see."
"Lucky, you take point. Sannis, bring up the rear."