***Base, this assembler is not programmed to be a digger…my functions correlate with research and analysis, my processor is optimized for generating and testing multiple hypotheses at the same time, running statistical--***

  “Okay, Doc,” Winger said warily. Was there a processor fault somewhere inside that miniscule polyhedral body? Had some qubit flipped the wrong way inside Doc’s quantum brain?

  “Doc, listen…I don’t have time to argue. I’m sending a new config to your processor. You don’t have the right grabbers and probes but it’s the best I can do. I know you’re no barebones ANAD but you’re all we’ve got right now…so shut up and execute this config—“

  He sent the template. After a little more grumbling, Doc went to work storing and verifying the code.