ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE HAS ITS ADVANTAGES

MICROBOTS make terrific spies.

These nosey maintenance bots are as small as mice.

THOUSANDS OF ROBOTS are are flat out on the MadHop doing a zillion things 24/7, from domestic cleaning chores to heavy-duty maintenance patrols inside the fusion reactor.

A computer with soul

All ruled over benevolently by the A.I. quantum computer, only the second one ever built, which has unexpectedly, amazingly, become sentient, after the ship survives traveling through the Vortex, an awesome dark matter maelstrom of titanic proportions. Where the quantum molecular core of the A.I. was bombarded with anti-neutrinos and left spin tachyons of an ultra intense and extremely spiritual kind. However, the computer has wisely kept very quiet about all this. Only Dinky and Maggot, it's two human children friends, have any idea. But the beautiful golden aliens are becoming suspicious, whom bots have observed in detail plotting to "take over the starship from the pathetic humans".