Back in the Day

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Synthesis

What do you get when you mix steampunk AI, politically correct chirping from a multi-species crew, and a British writer trying his hand at American shoot-'em-ups? Wantum mechanics. If the editor wants 'em, in it goes. Technobabble follows as Will's jaw sets hard:

I read this on Halloween night. While the kids were getting their treats,(and the goblins downstairs were gibbering in their beer) I was busy blowing up planets, tearing vast holes in space, and wondering how a mysterious lost race solved the propagation problem in a continent sized computer made of gold and brass cogs.(pace: BDO) But the wetminds (that's us) won, and that is what counts.