THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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Captain Nichols stopped cursing?or praying??and said, "Mutiny, that's
what! The robots have turned on us!"

He knew what had happened, or was almost sure he did. A radio impulse
had gone out, somehow, from the control tower. Something they hadn't
checked, that had been left on. There was just enough current-leakage
from the units in the robots to keep the receptors active for forty
years. The supervisor-robots had gone active, and they had activated the
rest. Once on, cutting the current from the control tower wouldn't turn
them off again.

"Put the switch in again, Anse; the damage is done and you won't make it
any worse."

When the screens came on, he looked around from one to another. The two
supervisors, big ovoid things like the small round ones they had used in
repairing the power reactors the first day, were circling aimlessly near