Chapter 11: Fatal Error Summary

Dairine wakes stiff, hungry, and still on the smooth surface of the planet. She picks it up to look at it, noticing the rest of them have wandered off. She asks the computer to call them back while she examines the one that remained a little closer. Soon, two hundred of them are gathered around her. She names the first one Gigo and it sits down, content to have an identity and Dairine realizes she will have to give them separate names to enable them to behave independently. She decides to call their creator 'Motherboard', and goes into her computer to make some changes to the original design, allowing for the kind of equipment they would need to survive. She turns several legs into arms, giving them six claws each that she programs to behave as four fingers with...