Ah, excellent.

Begin the story here: http://ficly.com/stories/16559

This overseer is turning out to be quite an important character. I should try and do character development on it some time.

I’ve been kind of visualizing the overseer as something of a rudimentary intermediary between the life form and the crew, with a bit of the original invading code still buried somewhere inside it, if that helps at all. :)

The overseer was meant, originally, to be an interface between the ship’s human-constructed systems and the alien jump drive systems (much like the cartographer is the intermediary between the human navigation computer and the jump drives), but it has since evolved beyond that.

It’s no matter. We can assume the overseer was much more than was assumed by the human engineers.

Well, sure, I get that. I see this as new functions for the overseer, enhancing its abilities beyond the original scope of the program.

Ah, assumptions and evolutions, the key to sci-fi. I’m not entirely following, but I’m having fun. Let’s see if I can add without derailing.

Nit-pick, that last statement being set apart makes it look like it’s the carto talking, but it seems like it should be Harrigan.

Note that the quotes didn’t close on the previous paragraph. Big clue right there. :)