Part 2.

Rotor did not work alone as it seems. He had the help of Micky. Because the only real way to describe a living organism is in terms of energy, Micky was alive. The Solars had a good way of seeing this. Energy raced away from the sun and rushed to the cold reaches of space, where it would travel on forever. On this journey some of it would become trapped in the eddies and vortexes of planets. From this the Solars claim comes life. Not that they ignored the science of the day they had watched as human understanding reached closer to their belief system. Seeing the chemical and biological advances in explaining the medium in which their faith stood. They really had found a strong system, logically it seemed to work. Though it had always stuck out in Rotors mind as a bit silly, as good as worshipping the sea because you drank water.

Micky was a pattern of energy too. Not contained in a chemical medium but a flow of dynamic data contained in computer hardware. Not the sort of software that accesses an e-mail box or types as you talk. He was the dynamic links in a thousand terabyte data base. There were over a twenty thousand billion operations a second running on the computer he inhabited. Though small, compared to the function of a pea sized rat brain, Micky had grown over ten years in to what Rotor had intended. It had been a pipe dream at first. Take a small database AI and reprogram the dynamic links to self evolve into a real entity. The computer he chose was a cartoon buddy. The simpler the program the less time it took to rebuild and therefore evolve faster. The first year was full of moments people experience with children. First problem solved, independent thought and book read. It is not that simple to read a book you might not realise that when you read your brain can make the whole scene up for you, a model of it is in your mind. You can let go of all the things you do not need to know. Things like the colour of the mat and the cats shape or size, your imagination just creates one. The computer reading has to build a mathematical model of the situation and then run a program of it. Then from that understanding you can see how in ten years Micky has a thirteen year old reading age. Not that Rotor was the only one to create such programs but most others seemed flawed and never really out performed a cat. Program writers had always intended to build their logical understanding in to hard code of their creations. Most smart bombs were less use than a small dog with a few grams of C4 and a protein catalyst in a stomach bomb. The intended task for which Micky had been created was hacking. Almost a third of the original database had been access methods and code examples. You imagine a hack is finding a password and reading some e-mails. That's the coffee type; the heavy, addictive stuff is down in machine code and network packets. Finding a hole in memory and introducing your own code to broadcast access or isolating a section of a network and hijacking its transmissions, so you ghost it for the data you need. Where a person would take weeks to write a program designed to control a public phone Micky could do it in a second. As Rotor took the keys from the desk girl Micky had complete control over the whole building. "I have the building; all recording devices halted and lines monitored." The ear coms bead relayed. Rotor smiled at the girl and said "Thank you."