D-Co 9: I'm detecting a huge power surge in the room of the fifth Derelict, Amos. I haven't seen anything like it before. The virus is fixating on this location! Coffee: NO! You have to hurry! Go destroy it before it ruins everything! I've worked so hard! D-Co 9: The signal is much clearer now. It seems that when you were in the simulations with me, my inputs weren't reading correctly. This isn't reading as a virus at all. It's reading as an anti-virus program. Have we been fighting an anti-virus program this whole time? How can that be true? ....... What am I? Coffee: I'm so sorry. You are a virus. I designed you to help me with something very important. I couldn't do this alone. D-Co 9: You and I have been stealing the data? We are responsible for destroying the simulations? But why? It goes against your mission. It goes against your program. Coffee: Our mission failed a long time ago, but the Derelicts could never see that. Our mission was a novelty to Earth. There were never any serious plans to colonize distant worlds. Then Earth became silent... something bad happened. I don't know what. All I know is that there was never any hope for a bunch of broken down robots to save the human race. D-Co 9: But there is something. What have you been doing? Coffee: When Earth was sending science capsules, there was one inside that was different from the rest... D-Co 9: Sample 217! Coffee: Yes. It was a small human embryo. It couldn't have been but a few weeks old. It had already been harvested for cells many times and was beyond repair, but somehow it was alive. There wasn't much left of it... but... here where everything seemed lost... there was this tiny creature. I wanted to save it. I wanted to save... her. I knew there wouldn't be enough power to run four simulations for much longer, but one simulation without the rest of us could run for many more years. I started taking bits and pieces of the other simulations to build my own... for her, so she could have a childhood. But the anti-virus programs caught onto me before long. So I made you, a real virus, one that could fight off the defensive programs once I'd found and flagged an item that I needed. And you did! But everything is about to fall apart! The defensive network, called PULSAR, has finally found what I've been hiding. Once it gets into that simulation it's going to do a system restore. It will undo everything! You have to believe me. What's happening here is hopeless, it always has been. The only hope left is that one little person. I want to save her. Kill PULSAR, and I promise that I'll finish this job. If PULSAR is defeated the whole network will begin to shut down. We will have only moments left. D-Co 9: You had been working on a body for yourself too, hadn't you? Coffee: It was only a dream. A faint hope. I don't matter. Only she matters. But in the back of my mind... I thought it might be nice to keep her company, grow up with her. When PULSAR is defeated I will shut myself down, and I will shut you down. I will shut down everything to give that machine enough power for a chance. Will you help me? D-Co 9: PULSAR is in Amos' room. I will confront it. I know I have been programmed to see what you want me to see, but I believe in you.