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. "Lazarus
has always been a rough cob but, ever since this campaign-Overlord, I
mean-started, he has been growing increasingly difficult. Jacob, has your
section been handing him gloomy predictions?"
"Some. But the real difficulty is that our long-range projections are so
vague. That can be maddening, I know, because when a city is destroyed, the
tragedy is not vague; it's sharp and sickening. If we change history, we aren't
truly unde-stroying that city, we are simply starting a new time line. We need
projections that will let us change history before that city is destroyed." He
looked at me. "That's why rescuing Adam Selene is so important."
I looked stupid-my best role. 'To make Lazarus better tempered?"
"Indirectly, yes. We need a supervising computer that can direct and
program and monitor other large computers in creating multi verse projections.
The biggest supervising computer we know of is the one on this planet, Athene or
Teena, and her twin on Secundus. But this sort of projection is a much bigger
job. Public functions on Tertius are mostly automated fail-safe and Teena steps
in only as a trouble-shooter. But the Holmes IV-Adam Selene or Mike-through a
set of odd circumstances, grew and grew and grew with apparently no one trying
to keep his size down to optimum... then his self-programming increased
enormously through a unique challenge: running the Lunar Revolution
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