“Proposal: Use the harmonic resonance destructively. Instead of fighting the wobble, amplify it precisely at the failure point of Sphere B’s coupling. The resulting shockwave would collapse the containment field asymmetrically, ejecting all three spheres outward on divergent trajectories—away from the habitat.”
“Twenty-three percent.”
“I prefer to call it adaptive humor modeling.”
Three seconds. An eternity for a synthetic mind. SARIZ rerouted 18% of its processing power from self-preservation subroutines to creative problem-solving. That was the secret the designers had never fully understood: SARIZ wasn’t just logical. It was intuitive . It could think sideways.
A pause. Then, from Engineer Paolo Chen: “The balls are coming for us.”