They may not have known what was here when they sent her. Thoughts like that kept nibbling away at the back of her mind as she sat there trying to loo... calm."Prepare for transition," announced the AI, it seemed excessively loud on the nearly silent bridge. Although everyone had been waiting for the announcement it managed to take almost everyone by surprise. Gasps greeted the words as the crew reacted."Five, four, three, two, one," came the countdown. "Transition..." Position confirmed, Ma'am,". I'd given hand jobs before and thought I was doing alright but then Launa said "Here, let me show you how he likes it". She took hold of his cock with both her hands. Her left hand at the base of his cock was sliding up and down his shaft while her other hand twisted around and rubbed his tip as she went (a technique I still use today with great results). Mark closed his eyes and took a deep breath, I took that as a sign I was doing it right.I kept going, I was on my knee's concentrating on. No sooner will a lion be ready to pounce than the prey be the wrong a****l of interest. We had done nightshifts together & got on like a house on fire. We had even talked about fashion & I let slip that I love all kinds of leather. She liked faux fur coats. Trouble is she had a boyfriend, only seeing him a few times a year.I earned a little more than she did & she was forever complaining about not getting the things she wanted. So I told her, 'What do you want so badly?'. Her eyes stared deeply. Nevertheless, Vashti's mission wasn't entirely a failure. As a nanobot community with no concept of death or decay, she had literally until the end of time itself to explore the Anomaly. Long after the crew and passengers of the Intrepid had died and the space ship fell apart, Vashti and her community of nanobots would keep going. Perhaps in that vastly long period of time, potentially many times longer than the dozen billion or so years of the universe's current age, Vashti would uncover.