Untold Podcast 73 - Calculated Risk by Steve Rzasa - The Untold Podcast

Untold Podcast 73 - Calculated Risk

2/19/2018

Story: "Calculated Risk" by Steve Rzasa
Genre: Science Fiction
Rating: PG

A Rescue Operations robot must put its existence on the line to save a crew shipwrecked in space.

Untold Podcast 73 - Calculated Risk by Steve Rzasa

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The six-brace cargo vessel had been family’s livelihood. One wrong maneuver too near a planet’s gravity well, and it was fast becoming their graveyard.

SN127-AK3 hurtled across the empty kilometers of space between his home aboard a Rescue Operations starship and the six-brace, solar winds and the planet’s pull accelerating it faster than a human’s body could stand. He was a three-meter-long Rescue Ops Survival Servitor, a robot designed to contort itself into the tightest spaces of the most twisted wreckage. His body was 10 centimeters across, with a micro-armor surface covering self-repair systems, dozens of servos that let him twist into all manner of shapes, and delicate sensor arrays, as well as five storage compartments. Like standard ROSS units, he’d earned the sobriquet “space snake” from his biological directors, who like to replace the designation “Servitor” with “Serpent.”