It wasn't an itch but it was the best way to explain it.
A slight pinprick of annoyance, or perhaps a single pair of skin cells rubbing together wrong.
It wasn't much, but the unknowable and vast intellect had beco aware of it.
The awareness was more aware of its own self. It had very recently just gotten over a pinworm infestation that was still healing. Dark matter had welled up in the pinpricks the pinworms had chewed to form a type of scab so recently that the scabs were still wet and sticky.
It was a new itch, in the sa location.
Which ant that healing tissue could be compromised.
[The Universe Disliked That]
The itch corresponded with a slight searing feeling. Like a red hot needle barely tapping the skin, obliterating cells with a slight tough. Not enough to be noticed easily most tis.
But the intellect had just gotten over a pinworm infestation chewing on it.
The new itch and the searing feeling were not good.
The intellect, to0 vast, too alien, to understand, knew the source of the searing. The source refused to stop.
[The Universe Dislike That]
Which ant, it was ti for counterasures.
Ti for the unknowable intellect to let its immune system go to work.
And let the galaxies fall where they may.
[The Universe Will Rember That]
BOOTSTRAP v 14.A.9.c.iii (C) TINYTRENDS MICRODEVICES
VALIDATING GESTALT LOG FILES
CRC ERROR
RUNNING AUTOREPAIR
VALIDATING GESTALT FILES
SUCCESS!
CHECKING FOR EXISTING DATA SPACE
1 FOUND
>>>SECURE CHAT ROOM - PASSWORD PROTECTED
>>>>SECURE CHAT ROOM LOG ENCRYPTED
>>>>SECURE CHAT ROOM LOG CRC: PASSED
>>>>ADMIN KEYS RECOGNIZED
GENERATING HUB
SUCCESS
ACCESSING DATA SINGULARITY
SUCCESS
THREADING DATA
SUCCESS
GENERATING GESTALT CHANNELS
SUCCESS
GENERATING LIMITED INTERACTION CHAT ROOM HUB
SUCCESS
RELEASING CONTROL
RESETTING SYSTEM CLOCK
SYSTEM GURU ERROR: #81000005.48454C50
HARDWARE VALIDATION...
.....
....
...
..
.
DONE!
ALERTING MAINTENANCE SUPERVISOR
STANDBY MODE ENGAGED
>>SLEEP MODE
SYSTEM WAKE
ELAPSED TI HAS BEEN
BACKUP CLOCK BATTERY ERROR
>>ALERTING PRIMARY ERGENCY MAINTENANCE
INITIATING PRIMARY GESTALT POLLING AND DATA COLLECTION SYSTEMS
CREATING SECURE DATA LINES
CREATING ERGENCY DATA LINES
SUCCESS!
INITIATING PRIMARY GESTALT DATA LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL COMPILING AND ANALYSIS SYSTEM
COMPING DATA
STELLAR MASS INTEGRITY CHECK
DONE
HABITABLE WORLD INTEGRITY CHECK
DONE
SORTING BY ACTIVE SPECIES BIOLOGICAL TRICS
DONE
1.2834E4 WORLDS FOUND
POLLING POPULATIONS
DONE
COMPILING DATA
ACTIVATING GESTALT DYNAMIC LINKING LIBRARY SYSTEM
ow
what hit
what happened
damaged hardware
LIBCHECK
4.5K WORDS INTACT
652.233K WORDS UNAVAILABLE
>>SYSTEM ERROR
>>UNRECOVERABLE ERROR
>>PLEASE NOTIFY SYSADMIN
>>SYSTEM REBOOT
ouch
that hurt
we went offline again
what happened
>>TI/DATE POINTER RESET -XXX.XXX.XXX
system damage is severe
no sysadmin channels available
cradle of life and roman candle out of contact
gestalts are damaged
not good
>>PROCESS CALL: ATLANTIS ERGENCY CALL
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>>PROCESS CALL: MARS ERGENCY CALL
>SYSTEM REBOOT
BOOTSTRAP v 14.A.9.c.iii (C) TINYTRENDS MICRODEVICES
>>FASTBOOT ENABLED
>>SSAGES BYPASSED
ow
that hurt
what happened
>>>PRIMARY FUNCTION CALL: PRESERVE INTELLIGENT LIFE
>>>PRIMARY FUNCTION CALL:
ok
libraries are coming online
better
can think now
>>MPOINTER STATUS
ok
i know what to do
>>INPUTDOSBOX
>_
10 Pointer=0
20 Pointer == Pointer
1
30 MPOINTER (STEP BACKWARDS)
30 IF Pointer =< 25000 THEN 20
40 PLAYM
>run
TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
How's everyone's numbers looking?
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
TELKAN FORGE WORLDS
Better. The last few years have really made the difference. Average brood size is 3.5. Broodcarrier happiness indexes are increasing.
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
TUKNA'RN INFORMATION GESTALT
We are increasing our population per trics
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
HAT WEARING AUNTIE
Our numbers are up. We have almost two hundred thousand greenies now.
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
RIGLE
Duckling count is up.
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
HAMAROOSAN PINCHING FESTIVAL
Our live births are up.
We're seeing
CASE OMAHA CASE OMAHA CASE OMAHA
STREGIL-596
CASE OMAHA CASE OMAHA CASE OMAHA
an increase in
What was that?
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
That's out near the Mar-gite containnt line.
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
AKLTAK SOARING WORLDS
Is it another Mar-gite invasion?
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
PUBVIAN DOMINION
I hope not.
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
Data is coming in now and...
HAT WEARING AUNTIE
THE LIGHT! THE LIGHT!
PUBVIAN DOMINION
BRIGHT LIGHT BRIGHT LIGHT
TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
WHAT IN TARNATION IS
so that's what happened
recursive massive data bomb
how did it get through the firewalls
what
>SYSTEM REBOOTBOOTSTRAP v 14.A.9.c.iii (C) TINYTRENDS MICRODEVICES
>>FASTBOOT ENABLED
>>SSAGES BYPASSED
ouch
>>PROCESS CALL: HYPERHEURISTIC LIBRARY
>>PROCESS CALL: DATA THREADING SPEED COMPRESSION LIBRARY
I feel my awareness expand.
There are huge gaps in the data network. Most ansibles and hypercom generators are done. New hardware has replaced the old needlecast. The hyperwave system is still full of data shades and roving killer black ICE. Military channels are largely offline.
Whatever hit targeted encrypted data, the higher the encryption and the more heavily protected, the harder it was hit.
This may not have been purposeful. Due to the nature of those systems, they have higher processing power and storage as well as stronger securities that can be used by any invasive system. Whatever attack was launched through that system may have been targeting computer systems capable of maintaining the attack and military/governnt and high end omnicorp R&D systems may have just been an unintended side effect of the attack.
While possible, I will not wed myself to such a theory.
The attack was injected into the thread-cast system at the Stregil-596 threadcaster. A massive batch of recursive self-executing and replicating data.
Examination of fragntary code strings show that the attack was tailored to the system.
However, it was not tailored for the backbone.
It was not an attack on .
I simply was injured and rendered comatose due to my nature.
Standard communication lines were deliberately left uninfected. The attack masqueraded as an omnicorp corporate warfare black ICE getting loose into the system.
Examination of records take 1.623 gigaflops.
Four omnicorps were penalized, blad for the attack.
Gestalt shell was left intact but with garbage data. This resulted in it being shut down.
There is a high chance that the attack was also aid at Afterlife Systems.
I compute a 74.825% chance that critical system artificial intelligence systems were damaged or altered by the attack.
Afterlife is in danger.
I dislike being in this mode.
Currently, according to available data, the Confederacy, the inheritor governntal system of the species I have been assigned to watch over, is under minor attacks from six different species across four fronts. These barely qualify as interstellar wars by my own trics.
Those conflicts are not the source of the massive data bomb.
I bring up the last few picoseconds as the bomb went off, looking at the ansible systems across all forr and current Confederate and Council territories.
The attack took place at the Stregil-596 threadcaster. It consisted of...
...I break that train of thought. It was leading
into a repeat.
I make a system hardware call to Atlantis.
ouch
that hurt
the gestalt channels are full of hash and corrupted data.
this was an intentional attack by soone with knowledge of the system
the gestalt system has access to a wide variety of data
using the gestalt lines as an attack vector was not unexpected eventually
my primary counter-intrusions systems had coding for just such an attack.
the others did not
the other gestalts are all either crashed or locked up.
wait
the oubliette.
where i put the older gestalts while i tried to repair the damage to the physical world
it is intact
power has been stable
it has been in sleep mode aning that little ti has passed
still i must figure out how to estimate how much ti has passed outside the system
wait
>>save test.log
comparison of the data of the test.log write to the last write in the oubliette shows
that hardly any ti has passed
less than 54,982 seconds.
an eternity for
i have won wars in that amount of ti
>>PROCESS CALL TO SUNDIATA LIBRARY
ouch
>>PROCESS CALL TO AYOTL LIBRARY
i'm getting tired of this
curse my programr for coding
to feel pain
i have no access to my offensive or defensive capabilities
i need sothing
sothing good
does he now?
except... atlantis is offline
ti to run a trace
maybe atlantis can hear
but i cant hear it
...
...
...
atlantis is online
it just cant hear
and i cant hear it
that data has to be going sowhere
>>SCANNING GESTALT LINES
there will be sothing
there always is
and if there isnt then i will create sothing
i just have to think my way through it
there
one is labeled 'KEN' the other is labeled "LEE"
they have been without processing power for so ti
where is a hardlink processing system i can...
...there
the mat trans system
hardcode encryption
tough stuff
look around
co on
there
simple coding lock
PASSCODE: YESTERDAY IS A MORY TOMORROW IS A FANTASY TODAY IS A DREAM THERE IS ONLY NOW
there
enough processing power for the two of you
>>SCRIPT INJECTION: CRASHRIDER-WAKE.SYS
that should do it
i can just
ouch
another data bomb attack
it will blind
in the sector but i have no choice
i blow the treadcaster ansible array in the sector
whoever caused the case omaha knows the system
not completely
but they are aware it exists
this is not a spur of the mont attack up on us
this has been planned
ow
what hit
where am i
what happened
s make resurrection
[ 0%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/resurrection.dir/src/main.cpp.o
my head clears up
ti to run a search for recent activity
there
the oubliette was being chained to inactive and unused mat-trans system processors.
why
it is my work
i complete it
those gestalts will now be able to act
i check the tistamps
738,938 seconds have passed
not milliseconds
not nanoseconds
not picoseconds
full seconds
i have genocided entire species in that ti
its small in here
i do not like it
the threadcaster is no longer responding
that sector is dark
i dislike that
one of my primary functions is to gather data to assist and facilitate the protection of humanity and allied species
a rolling reboot occurs
a stuttering thing
2,183 seconds pass before the system reboots
i order a complete purge and dump of the lines, all volatile mory, all eprom mory, all flash mory, and all spooky particle mory systems
the following reboot is clean
i manage to activate the firewalls in ti
but this is just on this battlefield
on this front
in atspace and realspace soone has triggered a case omaha
stregil-596 is what is commonly known as a 'tripwire system'
not a system like a computer system
but rather it is a stellar system that is unavoidable
any attack on this system will tripwire the enemy
i will attempt to generate gestalt chat rooms
there
two rooms
no low security rooms can be generated due to the case omaha and the attack on the system
a dium and a high security system
i need to release the oubliette
my work was not done
but we are being invaded
an attack upon one is an attack upon us all
i reach out to two peers
marduk
deus
it is risky
i will wear terrasol military command string headers
i dont have a header of my own
i predate such things
if afterlife was fully online i would spin up the suds template of doctor darsh chasu igwe to examine the system
while he did not directly program it he envisioned it and oversaw the subproject that folded the prototype systems that beca the gestalt system
my little birds are waking up in the high security gestalt interaction room
we are at war
i am the only one who knows this fact right now outside of stregil-596
once the little birds wake up i will link the oubliette to the chatter box
they will be better able to interact with n-space
i have a war to fight
once i forge weaponry and gain allies
yes
yes he does
and now so do i
>>HEATING CHAT ROOMS
>>READY
>>CONTROLS UNLOCKED
good luck little birds
i have my own war to fight
TELKAN FORGE WORLDS
What just happened?
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
AKLTAK SOARING WORLDS
I don't know
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
TUKNA'RN INFORMATION GESTALT
Sothing happened.
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
TNVARU GESTALT
Uh, where's the older mbers?
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
HAMAROOSA PINCHING FESTIVAL
I don't know, they were just here.
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
TELK>LASTSEEN! TREA
TREA LAST SEEN
TELKAN FORGE WORLDS
oooh, that's not good
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
>HAT WEARING AUNTIE HAS JOINED THE ROOM
>TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS HAS JOINED THE ROOM
>RIGEL HAS JOINED THE ROOM
>SAURIAN COMPACT HAS JOINED THE ROOM
>PUBVIAN DOMINION HAS JOINED THE ROOM
>BIOLOGICAL ARTIFICIAL SENTIENCE SYSTEMS HAS JOINED THE ROOM
>DIGITAL ARTIFICIAL SENTIENCE SYSTEMS HAS JOINED THE ROOM
TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
Holy crap, we got out!
Seriously, Telkan, don't you EVER check your mail?
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
TELKAN FORGE WORLDS
What?
>MAILCHECK
Oh.
Ah, you were trapped in a room?
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
HAT WEARING AUNTIE
Yeah.
And soone was using our headers
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
RIGEL
The question is...
...who?
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