@tubetime thanks for sharing, that was a *fascinating* read 👀. It genuinely wouldn’t be out of place as a story on the deck of Star Trek TNG (including the impressive competence of crew)

“For engineering purposes, disk fragments are assumed to have infinite energy at the moment of release”
- truly remarkable sentence

“the pilots concluded that following the computer’s instructions would be inadvisable”
- as a software engineer who also loves sci-fi, this brings me immense comfort