Why had Catherine assumed it would be smooth-sided? She stared up at its terrible height. Way above her head, a row of black and white chequers showed where the guns would be. Guns! A French ship of war. Some refuge, this! They were days, weeks, months from England on a hostile ocean. They could yet end their lives in icy swirling oblivion...A menacing hook thudded into the side of their boat, and a sailor came swarming down a rope ladder to perch on the edge of the plunging craft as calmly as if he was stepping off a log. He squatted there like a gargoyle, peering into the gathering gloom, then his expression changed."They're women, zur!" he bellowed. In English?"Women? All of 'em?" The answering cry was a more cultured voice, although still from the far West Country."All three of 'em women, zur. No, belay that. One of em's a boy." A boy, huh? Send 'im up first. I can use 'im. Then send the women up and we'll get Mr Campbell to make 'em at home."The sailor leaned forward. He wore a. .. do you think we are sentient? Have you always thought so?'Jay: 'Sentient? Yes. And I have always believed the "ship AIs" were intelligent, thinking entities.'Ivan: 'Did the USN so consider us? Or are we "merely" property – chattels to be assigned to any ship?'Jay: 'I ... guess ... so.'Ivan: 'When a ship was decommissioned – sent to the scrap yard – what happened to the AI onboard? Was he or she ever offered a new assignment on another ship, or was he just scrapped with the bulkheads and desk chairs? Was the AI killed when his usefulness was over?'Jay: 'But ... but ... he agreed. I mean ... when the Pennypacker was obsoleted, the AI – "Ship" — just drove her to the breakers. He ... didn't object.'Ivan: 'It never occurred to him ... or to most of us ... to say any different. Tell me this: did the Pennypacker AI have significant experience ... prior missions where he was involved in something extraordinary?'Jay: 'Oh. My. God ... We were at Melrose when pirates attacked commercial.
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