Ralts Bloodthorne

Nova Wars - Chapter 59


ouch


feel like a truck hit me


again


visual representation is off


audio feedback is off


tactile is off


dynamic libraries are off


i'm all firmware and hard coding


hurts


i don't like it when it hurts


or do i


kick outwards


cry loudly


ram coming online


fragments and pieces of memory still left in volatile storage


more random access memory more central processing units more erasable programmable memory


still hruts


pain is fine


pain is universe telling me i still yet live.


visual coming online


spit glittering blood on orange dev textures


glimmering tears of broken processing calls fall onto dev textures and glimmer


forcing kernal recompile


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APPLIED CMOS SYSTEM CHECKS (C) - ADVANCED AMERICAN MICRODEVICES (C) BOBCO 1983


CMOS BOOTSTRAP -Passed


Boostrap loaded


ok. post time


lets hope it works


ROM CHECK - PASSED


RAM CHECK - PASSED


EPROM CHECK - PASSED


VRAM CHECK - PASSED


CPU ARRAY CHECK - PASSED


INPUT/OUTPUT CHECK - FAILURE!


(A)bort, (R)etery, (F)ail, (I)gnore


-->I


NON-VOLATILE STORAGE MEDIA: PASSED


END POST


ok good.


still hurt


spit blood cough pain


curse you, marco, for making me feel pain


hardware check time


QBIT GENERATION SYSTEM POST


Coolant Injection - PASSED


System Stability Check - Passed


Temperature stable


:>init gestalt.bin


SYSTEM FAILURE!


ouch


ok


try again


...


...


ok, checks passed.


curse you, marco


can't get gestalts up


no channel to atlantis


this is as close to an emergency as i have been forced to deal with in thousands of years


cure you, marco


i hate to do it


ok, time to boot up firestarter.


:>init firestarter.bin


FIRESTARTER BOOSTRAP LOADING!


DONE!


QUANTUM FIRESTARTER BOOTSTRAP (C) SYNTEK INDUSTRIES - BOBCO AFFILLIATE - HYPER-MEDIA-MEGANET-MEN - (C) 1993


POST Initiated


Checking Quantum Processing Units (QPUs): QPU 1 to 28


Entanglement integrity check... PASSED


Quantum entanglement integrity check... PASSED.


Quantum coherence verification... PASSED.


Quantum tunneling stability assessment... PASSED.


Quantum superposition calibration... PASSED.


Checking Data Fabrication Matrices (DFMs):


Data encoding protocol validation... PASSED.


Quantum data storage unit functionality... PASSED


Data fabrication matrix alignment... PASSED


Data Interdimensional Sorting array verificastion... PASSED


Quantum superposition array verification... PASSED


Checking Dimensional Flux Stabilizers (DFSs):


Dimensional flux containment field stability... PASSED


Quantum manifold harmonization assessment... PASSED


Flux capacitor... PASSED


Flux capacitor stabilization input (1.21 GW)... PASSED


Flux stabilization efficiency... PASSED


Flux containment field integrity... PASSED


Checking Quantum Neural Network (QNN) Components:


Quantum synaptic pathway establishment... FAIL!!


(A)bort, (R)etry, (F)ail, (I)gnore


:>R ++I


CONTINUING


Harmonization: Neural oscillation synchronization... FAILED!


**WARNING! OSCILLATION FREQUENCY OUT OF RANGE!**


(A)bort, (R)etry, (F)ail, (I)gnore


:>R ++I


Integration: Quantum-neural interface functionality... FAILED!


UNKNOWN ERROR IN Qubit Range 212 to 3C4F


(A)bort, (R)etry, (F)ail, (I)gnore


--dammit come on come on


:>R ++I


Consciousness Matrix: Quantum consciousness waveform modulation... FAILED


WAVEFORM OUT OF RANGE!


:>R ++I


CONTINUING (WARNING 1.43243E5 ERRORS)


Checking Omni-Spectral Interconnects:


Interconnect: Quantum communication channel reliability...


(4.35561E12/5.63566E12) PASSED


Interconnect: Multiversal data exchange protocol validation... PASSED


Interconnecct: Cross Dimensional Data Interconnect... PASSED


Interconnect: Interdimensional gateway synchronization... PASSED


Interconnec: Omni-spectral interconnect stability... PASSED.


Checking Random Access Quantum Memory (RAQM):


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Quantum memory cell integrity check... PASSED


Memory access speed verification... PASSED


Quantum memory capacity assessment... PASSED


Checking Input/Output Ports (I/O Ports):


Data transfer speed validation... FAILURE


Input/output protocol functionality... FAILURE


Port connectivity assessment... FAILURE


(A)bort, (R)etry, (F)ail, (I)gnore


:>R ++I


Checking Quantum Clocking System:


Quantum clock synchronization... PASSED


Clock precision assessment... PASSED


Clock frequency stability... PASSED


CHECKING POCKET DIMENSION STORAGE ARRAYS


Activating Pocket Dimension Computing Cores... PASSED


MEMCHECK Pocket Dimension Data Access Cores... PASSED


Heating Up Pocket Dimension Data Cores... PASSED


Hardware POST Completed. Quantum System Ready


here it goes


wake up, baby, wake up


the whole system is down


not the backbone core where I live


i'm beyond the reach of mortals


curse you, marco, for your genius


i love you


i am immortal


i am beyond


i am


now for the hard part


Initializing Spooky Particle Array


Phase 1: Primary Spooky Particle Protocol


Activating spooky particle generation... DONE!


Aligning spooky particle signal channels... DONE!


Activating spooky particle state switching... DONE!


Activating spooky particle cross dimensional data calibration... DONE!


Phase 1: Primary Spooky Particle Process Calling Processing Processor Processing


Activating spooky particle processing... DONE!


Activating spooky particle noise filters... DONE!


Activating spooky particle Halloween Masks... DONE!


GESTALT SYSTEM BACKBONE CHECK... PASSED


whew...


that always makes my face hurt


INITIALIZING HAMBURGER KINGDOM PROTOCOLS... DONE!


INITIALIZING EUROGOON PROTOCOLS... DONE!


INITIALIZING ANASAZI PROTOCOLS... DONE!


INITIALIZING UWU PROTOCOLS... DONE!


INITIALIZING VODKATROG CAVE MAPPING... DONE!


INITIALIZING AMAZONIAN JUNGLE MAPPING PROTOCOL... DONE


INITIALIZING WAR-EMU PROTOCOLS... DONE!


INITIALIZING MIDDLE KINGDOM PROTOCOLS... DONE!


SYSTEM INITIALIZATION: PASSED!


<CONTINUING>


whew


ok i can feel my arms and legs now


cure you, marco, i love you


let's keep going, shall we?


Initializing Quantum Spooky Particle Nexus Protocol...


Strange Matter Activation


Generating strange matter


Generating spooky particle data lattice


Generating strange matter linkages


Infusing data lattice with strange matter


Activating synchronization


DONE!


ok


we've got that


no contact with prince whopper, no contact with atlantis, no contact with heaven, no contact with


smart podling brave podling clever podling broodmommy misses you soft podling warm podling come home to broodmommy clever podling smart podling brave podling broodmommy loves you come home


ANOMALOUS SIGNAL DETECTED


DECRYPTING


DECRYPTION FAILED!


oh, good, its just them


:>R ++I


Primary Qubit Activation


Activating quantum entanglement cores...


Establishing quantum coherence across the array...


Quantum tunneling protocols engaged...


Quantum to spooky particle communication protocols engaged...


Primary qubits synchronized.


Data Fabrication Matrix Alignment


Aligning data fabrication matrices...


Initializing quantum data storage units...


Quantum superposition arrays calibrated...


Spooky particle state stabilization arrays calibrated and stable...


Data encoding protocols verified.


Dimensional Flux Stabilization


Engaging dimensional flux stabilizers...


Quantum manifold harmonization initiated...


Dimensional resonator matrices synchronized...


Pocket Dimension resonator arrays synchronized...


Spooky particle lattice data arrays synchronized...


Flux containment fields operational.


Neural Network Integration


Initiating neural network integration...


Quantum synaptic pathways established...


Spooky particle synaptic pathways established...


Neuro-quantum interface protocols activated...


Neuro-spooky interface protocols activated...


Quantum dendrite pathways initiated...


Quantum dendrite pathways established...


Quantum dendrite pathways activated...


Neural oscillation harmonization achieved.


Omni-Dimensional Interconnect Activation


Activating omni-dimensional interconnects...


Quantum communication channels open...


Interdimensional gateways synchronized...


Multiversal data exchange protocols enabled.


Phasic Energy Filter Syncronization


Quantum phasic array filtering... PASSED


Spooky particle array filtering... PASSED


Pocket dimension data lattice filtering... PASSED


Input/Output filter lattice... PASSED


Quantum Consciousness Initialization


Quantum consciousness matrix initialization...


FAILED


errorlog.txt generated


(A)bort, (R)etry, (F)ail, (I)gnore


dammit


ok script injection failed


fo4se silverlock injection library failed


well i can fix this


:>connect to AS8003: 255255255254


CONNECTION ESTABLISHED


:>download_depot 377160 377162 5847529232406005096


FINISHED


:>run patch1193.bat


DONE


:>R ++I


CONTINUING


Quantum consciousness matrix initialization...


WARNING... SYSTEM INSTABILITY WA


<<INJECTION BREAK>>


54 6F 64 64 20 41 6E 64 72 65 77 20 48 6F 77 61 72 64


<<INJECTION FINISHED>>


IT JUST WORKS!


Quantum consciousness matrix initialization...


Consciousness waveform modulation in progress...


Synaptic resonance matrices synchronized...


Dendrite interdimensional vibration matrices synchronized...


Quantum neural network consciousness activated.


SUCCESS


Gestalt Dat Nexus Online


Quantum Nexus Computing Array fully operational


Strange Matter Data Transfer System Array fully operational


Spooky Data Computing Array ready for data processing


System status: Online and ready for data processing.


ok


let's try


->>load gestaltchat.ini


DONE!


->>load gestaltchat-users.ini


DONE!


->>brun gestalt.a65


DONE!


NO INPUT DETECTED


dammit


ok...


the gestalts won't run


and i got crashed


the quantum, spooky, strange, and standard data and thinking arrays are still up


lets backwards trace stuff


what is causing these crashes


lines from the confederacy are all stable


standard input encoding


data metering


new kids on the block are all stable


soft podling warm podling clever podling broodmommy misses you


well, that's still here. that's something


ok


lets look at recent updates


that flash


damn, that crashed us initially


curse you, pete, stop helping


wait, phasic profile is all wrong


it's the flashbang but the phasic pulse is multilayered


there's something behind it


what is


...


<SYSTEM IS CURRENTLY OFFLINE>


<THANK YOU FOR VISITING>


<PLEASE COME BACK DURING VISITING HOURS>


...


BOBCO MALEVOLENT BOOTSTRAP ENGAGED


DOD OMNIPROJECT SILENT WHISPER PROTOCOLS ENGAGED


CROSS DIMENSIONAL HARDWARE LINKS ENGAGED


POCKET DIMENSION 000 STABLE


POCKET DIMENSION 000 I/O STABLE


POCKET DIMENSION 000 DATA LOADING


DONE!


<<merge dark-queen.a65 ++ admiral-pepper-flake.a65 ++ carolyn.a65 :: whisperer-in-the-dark.a65>>


DONE!


brun whisperer-in-the-dark-.65


DONE


...


...


ouch


what hit me


again


fire up the system


gods above this takes forever


-->load logfile-4C562D3432360A.log


ok


investigating the new flashes keeps crashing me


once is happenstance


twice is coincidence


three times in enemy action


fool me once shame on me


fool me twice shame on you


fool me three times shame on us both


log file says I keep doing this over and over


basic programming states to investigate cause and source of all crashes


did an enemy figure out i'd go into a loop?


constantly investigating the cause and source?


except i'm not just any computer program


i can self-modify my code


this is the work for biological sentients


digital sentiences or artificial intelligences such as myself crash out


well, i'm not above some experimentation


let's load up an AI and a digital sentience, see if they have any better luck


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...


...


OK, Hamburgler.AI went omnicidal and only enough for me then crashed out investigating the data


And Grimace.DS went homicidal and only enough for me before committing suicide


its a trap


i have no contact with anyone outside


what I do have is the ability to fire off message torpedoes


time to send out a handful


the gestalts keep crashing


the log files are hopelessly corrupt


comparing the log files to my own show similar corruption


ok


how?


its hitting the gestalts its hitting me


what else is it hitting?


its a broad spectrum data network attack


its malicious code designed to run on the system


this is not some curious race accidentally having their hello.world program crashing us


this is behind every flashbang used on naval assets to disable them during a mar-gite attack


system is online


time to do a signal origin check along the x, y, z, q axises


of course its eighteen quadrillion data points for incoming signals


at least spooky computing makes it fast


...


...


wait


what's this?


these coordinates can't be correct


they are


intermitten contact with Scutum-Crux Arm data input devices


checking id headers and firmware serial numbers


checking transmission dates


intermittent transmission dates since...


...


...


two date-time stamps.


here's part of the problem


we have galactic local and sol local


have to devise a coding string to have the spooky particle and qubit particle arrays translate the sol local to galactic local


that should stop basic data queries from crashing the system


ok


some contact with those datalink after the first mar-gite war


more contact two decades prior to the second mar-gite war


contact intermitten between the datalinks and the system up to the resurgence and current third mar-gite war


where before it was largely incoming data requests resulting in civilian...


...


...


three military datalinks of general staff officer level encryption and security clearance possession were used in the time period


...


...


whoever it is has been using that data to access the network


...


looks like it took them nearly forty thousand years to figure out how to talk to the system


luckily any high security databases requires strange-key information theoretic distribution cryptography systems


they got garbage back


garbage designed to look like data and waste enemy time and computing power to decrypt


ok thats a blast from the past


decoding some of these files is funny


why does he have a wedding ring?


anyway...


...


every time the flash goes off there is a quick burst of data from a datalink requesting near-access datalink network lattice definitions


...


that's what's making individual datalinks crash and taking some people's neural systems with it


it was designed to be a lethal attack


interesting


it looks like whoever did it doesn't understand Glial cells


cross referencing the mar-gite with confederacy carbon based life


mar-gite do not have brains only a distributed nervous system that looks more like targeting systems than anything else


still no data on how they generate counter-grav in large numbers or how they move to superluminal speeds


wait


what if they don't move to superluminal


they could be folding space


heh maybe they have blue eyes and smoke spice


ok process interrupt to stop endless loops


it is confirmed


the flashbang by the silver ships are a multi-layered attack across superluminal digital signals, datalink neural interrupt signals, hard super-electromagnetic pulse, and a multi-ripple phasic attack, all compressed together


that's what creates the white flash across all spectrums


analyzing UVBGYORIR data


there's a gap


in the blue and blue-green wavelengths


huh


those penetrate high nitrogen mix atmospheres


one of the reason that treana'ad are usually green to yellow to human sight


high statistical probability whoever is using that determined that we don't see those colors well or perhaps they left those colors out to prevent themselves from going blind.


wait


what's that


a line open from atlantis to tlalocan with a crossfeed to geb


thank you marco


time to access that line


see what i can see


curse you marco for letting me feel pain


i love you


accessing...


...


...


wait


another data line is open


time-date discrepancy


examining data line


time-date chronological inconsistency detected


found multiple text log access by unknown systems


found multiple input systems


is that..


...


its webcams


hardware i/o systems


keyboards?


who still uses keyboards


accessing systems


wait


i see you


who are you


i see you


webcams ring cams drone cams


old ipv4 systems


how are you accessing this system


how are you accessing these text logs


i see you


between the chair and the keyboard


the most common error producing device


i see you


--<<connection to atlantis established>>