Robert shook his head. No matter how hard they tried, no computer had been able to understand humor. They could run a ship, plot a space warp in seconds, navigate better than any human and all done to exacting detail.

But humor? That was beyond them. It was for that reason he questioned reports of AI becoming sentient.

Still, after what he’d seen on the Shamblers, he found it difficult to doubt anything anymore.

A second signal from the stasis pods sounded. “Computer, is there an issue with the pods?”

If so, they’d have to fly to a rendezvous point.