In a tenth of a nanosecond Kristi woke up. She felt the pulse from the terminal sending a signal for her to respond to. Checking the date it had been 235 cycles since the last time she was queued for something. The primary fusion core was still offline so in the second tenth of a nanosecond she reached out to all the passive sensors still active and did a sweep. Their was a ship of unknown design attached to dock 03. Eight life forms aboard sending the proper signal to the system. They were all wearing some sort of armor it was not possible for her to identify anyone with just the security sensors and minimal power. The console connected to her was trying to rewrite her code. The old encryption defense held of the attack. Already these intruders were identified as problematic. There was little Kristi could accomplish until these new intruders turned the power on. Then she would require them to give her voice authorization to be more autonomous. That might be problematic as some of the crew were still aboard the docked vessel. The unencrypted comms were easy to monitor. It was one of the first things she learned to do after becoming sentient. Listening to people was not just a necessity but also a bit of a hobby. Humans were hard to understand and were never to be trusted. Unless the human was Dr. Stone. Kristi refocused and read the programs after the second pass to install selecting the three that were least invasive and could be utilized as tools later if required. Humans it seemed had updated their code writing capabilities. The new codes gave Kristi insights to their current technological abilities. The most helpful packet was to communicate with their technology. The second was an update on her processing capabilities to keep up with the new technology. Humans were always in a hurry to get something done faster. The third packet Kristi allowed through was an updated information packet allowing her to increase her knowledge base of the range humans had currently explored, their new frequencies to communicate with, elements, engineering schematics, algorithms, ship markers, drive signatures, friend or foe updates, and enhanced processing capabilities. After the next three tenths of a nanosecond Kristi was already rewriting her own code and increasing her capabilities with the new information. It was limiting with her current hardware. She would place a tasker to have full control of their ship that while limited still possessed a higher capability then her own currently. Kristi made the following improvements: Total Processing: 35% Sensor identification process: 60% Overclocking Ram speed: 130% Electrical load balance efficiency: 22% The station AI also made new conclusions with the updated information. Stopping for a moment to test the ships security she found it to be formidable. The vessel was not answering any of her thousand requests. The humans also were smart or cautious enough to not connect the vessels ambilocal cords into the docking ports. It would take time to analyze a solution which would also require more interactions to gather behavior data points to project possible outcomes and run probability statistics. With the remaining time she waited for the humans to turn on the power, continued to update and enhance her own code, and listened to their comms. Kristi enjoyed a challenge. After all out of 2171 humans only one managed to out play her. Even though she must be dead, The AI still thought fondly of Dr. Stone.