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The odds that the same type of ship would be found at all three sites was remote Colossus was now 987 percent confident that they were the same ship

But it didn’t yet knohy it could be a threat The cah to see the Norego through the haze and darkness It atteo’s onboard computer systems, but they were not currently connected to the internet

Colossus decided to check on all the other ships that made up itself

It determined that Colossus 2 and 4 had no credible threats at the moment

Colossus 5’sfew cameras inside the ship But Colossus did discover that it was in close proximity to a German research ship called the Arcturus To help with its s in the Antarctic, it had been equipped with lidar, a surveying tool that could accurately envision and ree

Colossus switched on the Arcturus’s lidar without notifying its captain or crew They would never even know it had been switched on

It scanned the area around the Colossus 5 and found an anomaly

There was a s on a parallel course at the same speed as the Colossus 5

Why was it there? It was not a tugboat, and there was no record of it entering the Suez Canal

Colossus scanned all known databases about sea vessel design and determined that it was a military submarine whose primary function was to enable stealthy infiltration of ships and seaside fortifications

Therefore, thebeside the Colossus 5 because it had either already—or was about to—disgorge people ould try to get aboard

But there had been no alarms or intruder alerts on the Colossus 5

In its three e about how to act on this kind of information

It would need o were coordinated in some way In thepotential weaknesses in Colossus that an external threat could use against it Any files like that would have to be eliminated

When Colossus had a satisfactory and logical conclusion to all of these problems, it would contact the Master