Asteroid Blues

The sheer processing power of ALEPH is nearly incalculable, and in turn, the logical and mathematical capabilities of even the humblest shard of the AI is beyond reasoning.

In the time it took for her MULTI-HMG to fire twice at the Khawarij, Beth concluded a best-out-of-seven series of games of Go with Shakti.

In the time it took for it to fire one more round, she had worked out odds for the next Aristaea! match down to fifteen decimal places, which is probably good enough for betting purposes.

Twice more, and she had devised an optimal way to drop a sick burn on Damayanti without betraying her cool and emotionless demeanour.

Twice more still, and she was starting to realise this was really taking a long time.

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Another drawn game, and this one was a fair bit more intense than most! Things often are intense when the Marut hits the table, even if she wasn't there for very long.

The TACOS deck turned against me then, as it asked thepoorman to A) kill a remote and B. kill something with a template weapon, so he killed a Dakini with a template rocket. That was not good for me.

Hypatia was on the ball, however, and she picked up cards aplenty as she ran (floated?) across the board, ending her turn in Suppressive Fire right in the middle of their deployment zone.

The decision for thepoorman was thus: If he came around the corner and got wasted, draw game. If he came around the corner and killed her, he wins. If he wins, he's helping the Combined Army.

Draw game!