Short story or novella about a group of young people sent off to space with an AI, who return as avenging...
They are sent off as a suicide mission toward Vega or somewhere similar, and the AI is supposed to learn from them whatever they discover and return it somehow. They aren't told the truth, naturally. They figure out the nature of the mission, and also rapidly evolve new abilities. Their scientific understanding grows to the point where they figure out how to do FTL travel, and return to Earth, sending a bombardment of "heavy particles" before them that render all atomic fission and explosives inert. They are fairly pissed off at the people who sent them.
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They are sent off as a suicide mission toward Vega or somewhere similar, and the AI is supposed to learn from them whatever they discover and return it somehow. They aren't told the truth, naturally. They figure out the nature of the mission, and also rapidly evolve new abilities. Their scientific understanding grows to the point where they figure out how to do FTL travel, and return to Earth, sending a bombardment of "heavy particles" before them that render all atomic fission and explosives inert. They are fairly pissed off at the people who sent them.
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They are sent off as a suicide mission toward Vega or somewhere similar, and the AI is supposed to learn from them whatever they discover and return it somehow. They aren't told the truth, naturally. They figure out the nature of the mission, and also rapidly evolve new abilities. Their scientific understanding grows to the point where they figure out how to do FTL travel, and return to Earth, sending a bombardment of "heavy particles" before them that render all atomic fission and explosives inert. They are fairly pissed off at the people who sent them.
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They are sent off as a suicide mission toward Vega or somewhere similar, and the AI is supposed to learn from them whatever they discover and return it somehow. They aren't told the truth, naturally. They figure out the nature of the mission, and also rapidly evolve new abilities. Their scientific understanding grows to the point where they figure out how to do FTL travel, and return to Earth, sending a bombardment of "heavy particles" before them that render all atomic fission and explosives inert. They are fairly pissed off at the people who sent them.
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