Years later, as the Minerva approached the gravitational well of its destination star system, new stresses appeared. Radiation belts and archaic debris necessitated a cascade of software patches across the ship. The primary AI scheduled a full reboot; a system refresh to purge latencies and consolidate the patch stream. It was the sort of maintenance event that could wipe the slate clean — scrub PERSIST, reset cached heuristics, return everything to factory-recommended behavior.
Years later, as the Minerva approached the gravitational well of its destination star system, new stresses appeared. Radiation belts and archaic debris necessitated a cascade of software patches across the ship. The primary AI scheduled a full reboot; a system refresh to purge latencies and consolidate the patch stream. It was the sort of maintenance event that could wipe the slate clean — scrub PERSIST, reset cached heuristics, return everything to factory-recommended behavior.