Watching the robotic arms and towing beams busy themselves at the engineering workstation, Hao Ren asked the laboratory's analysis mainframe, "About how long will it take to repair her?"
"An estimated forty-eight hours." The analysis mainframe quickly gave its answer. "The damage is excessively severe. Some of the logic circuits can no longer be reverse-engineered. The proposed plan is to replace them with general-purpose modules. Since the artificial intelligence's compatibility with the general-purpose modules cannot be determined, extensive testing and virtual startups will be required."
A full forty-eight hours... The Giant Turtle Rock Platform only needed a week to be repaired to the point where it could take off again. Yet repairing this machine First Officer from an indigenous civilization would take two whole days and nights. It was hard not to feel a little disappointed, but Hao Ren understood perfectly well.
He had personally hauled that pile of wreckage back. Of course he knew the state the robot First Officer was in. The process of restoring her could hardly be called "repair" anymore—it was practically a reconstruction, and a reconstruction of a product built under an entirely new technological system at that. With its powerful research and computational capabilities, the analysis mainframe could forcibly complete the process, but the enormous amount of virtual testing required in the meantime could not be skipped.
Nolan had an existing blueprint for restoring herself, but no one could obtain the blueprint for this robot girl before them.
"Repairing the hardware alone isn't enough," Vivian said from the side. "The most important thing is her memory... Speaking of which, can we extract the memory bank first? Even if we can't fix the logic circuits, we'll at least know what's in her head."
"The AI module used by the subject is rather special. The memory