It returned to space to resume its tireless work in defence of the planet below. This meant its own projects now took up all its processors attention. As it hovered inside the empty asteroid, the centre of its small universe, it continued to develop new technology from the patterns in its archive. In designing and building weapons and monitoring systems, it was deliberately incorporating the scientific and technological progress made by Osbourne’s teams into its own developments. It logically reasoned that whatever it built, the humans had to be able to modify, and later improve, the designs using their own existing technology base. Pod and Osbourne had discussed this approach at length in his lab. Pod thought it was logical to give humans the ability to leapfrog from one level to the next provided they could see and understand the technology. It was pointless giving them inventions that they had no ability to comprehend. It was a dangerous prescription and Zirkos had cautioned the two AI’s on such a danger well before he disappeared.
What do You think about POD (The Pattern Universe)?
