“We know anything about it?” Iasked. “Not much, major. Just that it’sheaded this way. The odd thing the ship doesn’t seem to be in anyparticular hurry. It’s going at regular warp speed, nothingmore.” I frowned. If the ship was manned bygolden boy’s friends, the speed was understandable. Not having anyemotions, they are devoid of a sense of urgency. Humans would beracing at the fastest speed possible. But not robots or androids oreven AIs, which I was guessing these aliens were. Golden boy didnotseem to have highly advanced intelligence, but someone or somethingdesigned him; chances are they made an advanced race too and anadvanced one, these days, needed to be AI. But AIs had no emotions either. Nosense of being connected with their fellow machines. No lives wereatstake so there was no