Salvage and Destroy [antikvár]

Something I never knew still existed, something too deadly to exist, was emerging from the darkness of the freight compartment into the light of the passageway. A metallic horror moving on metal tentacles, armored sensors glinting. All of us crowded around the viewing console jerked back, as if the image were the thing itself. "What's that?"The Battle-Captain knew. "A boarding machine." My ancestor was speaking with cold authority, masking his excitement, his fear."A fighting machine that's programmed to kill every living being it meets, to force its way to the flightdeck, to hold the flightdeck against all attacks until its masters arrive to take over the ship. If there are no masters to arrivethen it will hold the flightdeck forever. And we will all be dead."