Maya Patel's first day at the Galactic Technical Institute started with what she thought was just a small glitch. A moment later, her screen filled with every classified research file in the entire institute, including Professor Zix's top secret work on temporal mechanics. That evening, Professor Zix brought Maya to the core chamber, where the predecessor matrix itself resided. And that's how a first-year human student became the first true system administrator the institute had ever seen. And once, Maya's favorite, Maya who fixed the thing that annoyed me for 5,000 years.