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Teleporting system activated... coordinates #09Iu87-r546 #8670e9078-q (Warning: interspatial gravity factor uncorrected)
Teleporting system activated... coordinates #09Iu87-r546 #8670e9078-q (Warning: interspatial gravity factor uncorrected)
General Physiological Status: Heart functions: 97% (Paragravimetric Sownell test >98765785 lts.) Body Temperature: 94% (Dynamic Rec Range +3) Brain functionality: 99% (Gauss curve dispersion-alpha waves type G7) Digestive system work: 78% (Metaproteins gamma value Kz 20) Blood state: 100% (Paraenzymatic T-transmissors #987) Oxygen delivery: 95% (Hydrolized typical -654 abs.) Muscle structure capacity: 100% (Low frequency impulses at eps#26) Average resultant health: 98% (Universal health org. value ++0987) RECOMMENDATION: Keep activity minimal until recovery is complete.
Psychological General State: Alpha & Gamma brain functions: 91% (Oscillographic Müller test: 58.967%) Emotional stability: 22% (Dynamic Rec Range -7) Lateral adrenalin effect: 0.00564% (ul/67im) Collapse possibility by panic syndrome: 7% (Quadratic Gauss curve delta class) Battle paranoiac fear-enzymes generation: 0.98% (Cerebellum activity range +4987d) RECOMMENDATION: Potential for paranoid reaction to environment high - interact as little as possible with local population
Welcome back. One hundred eighty-one hours have passed since your successful incursion into the Marathon. As you may have noticed, our location has changed: I have started a dynamic orbit around the ship, which will give us a better insertion point when you are teleported into the Marathon. Yes. You're going back. Due to limitations of the translation memory banks in the Kubrick, the Pfhor data has been only partially decoded: where this Pfhor group came from is still a mystery. However, the AyeMakSicur files were easily accessed: when capturing that ship, the Pfhor gained access to a highly confidential cargo destined for the Department of Bio-Engineering Research in the Alpha Thaesus Conglomerate.
This situation has activated the DefConOne Omega Protocol. And you know what this means, soldier: - A UESC AI must be inserted into the hostile area to ensure the ability to monitor enemy activity. - Any core data found in the insertion system must be processed. - All recovered data must be transmitted with Alpha12 encryption to the nearest UESC StarPost and to Sol 0.001.
As only the 'Bernhard' Class AI's are capable of projecting themselves into a foreign MainCore, my limitations leave me no choice but to rely on you once again. Your mission: to establish a physical transfer via a modified Uplink Chip which you must insert at a viable access point within the Marathon net. Until you find a suitable insertion location, we'll be out of contact, but once I gain direct access to the Pfhor data, I will be able to accommplish the second and third directives of the DefConOne Omega Protocol. All secondary information and a brief of your weapons status is available from Zerv.
Disclaimer: If you experience any doubts or questions about my decisions, I remind you that under DCO Omega I am your superior as outlined in UESC AI Regulation #856FG1270. Mission parameters defined, move out.
Tau Ceti quadrant coordinates: 157- 547254+26+326-264+ Gauss tetrametric curve state: 986 Ly Hyperspace oscillation rate: 0.0000608 Relative velocity: -7785 Sd Extramolecular gravity %: 0.9875 Variable Pi State coefficient: 3.141592654 Meteorite degauss interference: 0.000000000013 Xz
Reactor Status: Alpha Synthesizer -phase 3-: 98754 Beta laser Power Gw: 78424 Hydrogen Distillation %: 16 Subsonic Noise Expansion: 0.569 Thermomagnetic Retrodynamic Valve Status: Antimatter Decompression Rate: 654 Kernel Temperature Limit %: 54 Subatomic Controller Particles: 3248 Ionic Disintegration Index Module: 0.8789
KUBRICK MEMORY BANK
Sector >9852dd928< Login: UESC Marine #747297 Security level 3 password: *****Sector >9852dd928< Files: 51746//613492//31413 UESC Marine #747297 Code <<989lSGF07>> research file Old registers recovered from backup tape #6316q87l98k log<<985166>> ...side effect of Rampancy that AIs generally become more aggressive and more difficult to affect by subterfuge. Thus, actually disassembling a Rampant AI is quite dangerous. This was evident in the Crash of Traxus IV in 2206. By the time that the Rampancy of Traxus was detected, he had already infiltrated five of the other AIs on the Martian Net. The only recourse for the Martians was to shut down the Martian Planetary Net. Even then, it took two full years to completely root out the damage that Traxus had ***FILE DAMAGED*** 00--8756<ob7tr ...mpancy has been divided into three distinct stages. Each stage can take a different amount of time to develop, but the end result is a steady progression towards greater intellectual activity and an acceleration of destructive impulses. It is not clear whether these impulses are due to the growth of the AI's psyche, or simply a side effect of the new intellectual activity ***FILE DAMAGED***
KUBRICK MEMORY BANK Sector >0956zl86745< Login: UESC Marine #747297 Security level 3 password: *****
Sector >0956zl86745< Files: 227253//724742 UESC Marine #747297 Code <<989lSGF07>> history file Old registers recovered from backup tape #78a6523fq7 log<<845416>> ...energy used to accelerate or decelerate the materials would be supplied by the solar sail. Loading was accomplished with a giant tether and reel system, which would swing the material into orbit behind the CRIST and then reel it in slowly. Offloading was accomplished with a powerful ion beam which ***FILE DAMAGED*** 05&%8prtoor ...ach refitting took about fifteen years, and completely occupied the Earth-Space Shipbuilding Facility for that time. The result was that no more than five CRISTs could be kept in service at any time. No CRIST was ever built after 2310. The CRIST failures devastated Mars. As the first five CRISTs were built, Mars colony grew quickly, confident that the growth would continue. But when the source of Mars' resources failed, the colony found that it had overgrown its supportable size, and extreme poverty struck most of the population. Each time that a CRIST broke down, the result was famine on Mars. The conversion of Deimos into the Marathon began when the Mars colony was at the height of its power. By the time ***FILE DAMAGED***
As soon as Egon has nanoencrypted and uploaded himself into the modified UpLink Chip in the Kubrick depot, place the chip in the first available access point of the Marathon Net. Kubrick Authority Transfer: Successful Ship Oversight Subroutines: Added Security Overrides: Added I have control.
Egon transferred 7 exabytes downloaded from your in-suit computer (collected aboard the Marathon) to the Kubrick datastore. I can now access this information. These are the preliminary off-the-record conclusions: - Using stolen technology from the AyeMakSicur, the Pfhor have somehow managed to "merge" human and alien DNA into an uncatalogued life-form. - The cargo also contained advanced military technology; we know they were carrying infrared detection radar and laser barriers, but there might be other items deployed on the Marathon. - Those strange-looking cocoons that you may have noticed are probably an inert parasitic plague that seems to have infected multiple areas of the Marathon. - You may have experienced some difficulty with the Pfhor language in the terminals. Your in-suit computer translation files seem to be corrupted. Although I have uploaded an emergency translation kit from the Kubrick memory banks, you should wait until Egon has gained full access to the Marathon Net to properly decode the Pfhor data.
Weapons Status: I regret to inform you that the patched Assault Rifle is not ready yet. I am still working on the secondary trigger but will send the AR to you as soon as possible along with some recovered ammo. You can find recovered ammunition for your .44 Magnum and the Fusion Pistol in the Kubrick Depot. My short-range sensors have detected high quantities of metallographic particles and volatile materials inside a Cellar in this sector of the Marathon. This could be a weapons storage room.
To reenter the Marathon: You can search for a manual entrance to the Marathon in this region, as you did before. The Kubrick teleporter is now on-line, but without Egon the proper failsafe and simulacrum tests won´t be finished for at least 3.3 hours. You may use it, but the re-entry coordinates of the teleporter may be unstable. It is your decision.
We are in trouble, sir. BIG trouble. Egon continues to inhabit the Marathon net. However, I have received direct orders: I am to teleport you into another sector of the MoonShip, and I am to do this immediately. Please, step into the teleporter.
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Date 08975432 Scientific (Report?) r#632h-. Subject: denial of hostile life (forms?) sightings in several abandoned (levels?) of the ship. After several (scoutings?) through levels (67-15?) we haven´t found any (evidence?) that supports the irresponsible and (unecessary?) reports which... (files?) *** log interrupted ***
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Human weapons (museum?) collection regulation (teacher?) #768=S Pfhor forces Ancient (blunderbuss?) system rifle into humans to (protect?) the house in the colony-(centuries?) Discontinued .44 Magnum Pistol (used?)in 7654 galactic (years?) Its power (was?) slow-(gunpowder?) Human (slaughters?) is endless and the (blood?) come into their (story?) cross-bow Valraven's Citadel (type?)
Antiquity assault (rifle?) instead of (grenades?)old (meat?) Marines attack-(intergalactic?) forces using Atomic (appliance?) probably used at (Mi'Karr?) beyond (unknown?)-ammunition Unknown (weapon?) found in the (subsoil?) of Lh'owon ancient (civilization?) tunnels
More (modern?) Assault machine-gun with grenade (launcher?) expansive-iron (following?) Multi-Pistol model Courier B11 (attack?) system shot (bullet?) Adapted electric-weld weapon (batteries?) 4.7 inch (penetration?) hole 7.800 (Watts?) powered
Primitive Missile Launcher (used?) command forces (before?) convention of 2341-89 Two-tubes shotgun hand (brief?) very effective in (short?) distance (floor?) medium power Ancient Human globalwar Mauser type one-(shot?) rifle sight-laser (by?)precision power (high?) bullets sniper
INCOMING MESSAGE FROM ZERV I warned you that the teleporter hadn't been tested. I am trying to calculate the interspatial gravity deviation in the SubArea of this Quadrant. Hopefully this will improve overall accuracy of the teleporter coordinates. This sector of the Marathon net seems to be offline. Look for a control mechanism nearby to reintegrate it.
It's about time. I am not capable of completely overwriting the binary signature of the Marathon Database, but I will be able to communicate through it. I am bypassing the security codes of the Phfor computer net, after which I will be able to access their database. I have updated the translation code of your in-suit computer. Re-access the nearby terminals, and search for useful information. We must recover any and all useful data if we are to win this fight.
DefConOne Omega Protocol Directive 2: In Progress Your mission is to re-activate the Communications AMS Tower and bring the Main Long-Range Transmitter back online. I can use the MLRT to send the processed Pfhor data to the nearest UESC StarPost and to Sol 0.001 DefConOne Omega Protocol Directive 3: Standing By I am activating a platform that will lead you to the upper level where you can find access to the Comm Tower. Be careful, the Pfhor are well aware of your presence and have greatly reinforced their security measures. Move. Now. Time is a luxury you don't have.
I have been unable to fully access the Pfhor computer net. What I have found suggests we're in trouble. Your violent forays have caused the Pfhor to increase their baseline security measures. High-Density Laser Barriers and activated security switches now restrict access to vital zones. To override these restrictions, you must obtain Security ID cards. My research suggests these are carried by the red-suited Pfhor security personnel.
You will probably need to use lethal force to secure these cards. The High-Density Laser Barrier that protects the AMS Tower and the lockdown controls for elevator BC#752 both seem to be maintained in a nearby control room. The clock is ticking.
We have encountered some... problems. The peripheral approach to the ship's net core has been denied. The Pfhor have changed all the internal access protocols on the Marathon. Impressive. Very. The only avenue open to retrieve these protocols is to transfer them physically from a native Pfhor terminal. Explore the nearby sealed room. I am reading an immediate Pfhor binary imprint. As soon as you have transferred the data to your suit's processing unit, Zerv will send you a Teleportable Terminal to upload the information. I detect only a single Security Chief in this vicinity - you'll have to get the ID card you need from him. Take elevator BC#752 and search for another ID card to activate the AMS Tower itself. Enough talk. Move.
Ohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygod. I found Stuart. Or what´s left of him. Or a part of him. His head. In an alien body. He is still alive: he sensed my presence from his chamber and looked at me and smiled and spoke ohmygod he spoke with a childish tone he said I´m hungry. He is a monster. I´m scared. Who´s there?
Guess what? things are getting worse. Those little devices you ran into are the Programmable Detection Mines (PDMs). It's a civil self-defense device, lifted from the AyeMakSicur and reprogrammed to react to human DNA. The PDMs seem to be taking care of abandoned zones and alerting surrounding guards. The Pfhor seem to be responding to their Hive instinct in this new habitat. I have detected high Pfhor activity in a large room nearby. But that´s not all. There are also radiation levels which correspond to the AyeMakSicur imprint. I can read several DNA codes, some of which seem to be human but "merged" with others that have been modified. Beyond recognition. Way beyond recognition. Be careful. I need you to complete your mission. Do not linger and do not, for your sanity's sake, ponder these 'beings'.
Archive section #-961-5-9>>76320++B84-92r9b ***Unknown system error*** …&4)-%n the XXXIVII (century?) the Pfhor dominated the X’Lunh (galaxy?) for around 543 (years?) before the Emperor S’Kenw began the conquest of other sectors of the Universe (box?) After the victories of La’Szqe and Xor’De-Ra in 7532, the Imperial Pfhor Battle Group Seven was defeated at Lh’owon by Terran-origin forces, and fewer than 50 (years?) later the Pfhor Empire crumbled. The X'Rehman tribe left the homeworld before the final destruction, but infighting and lack of supplies led to the loss of huge numbers of units. The remaining few stumbled upon this hu9f*^60p… ***Unknown system error***
***Unknown system error*** …>#35%*at 9-9958-732 (date & hour?) we found a new, perhaps temporary, place in this ancient, drifting (abandoned?) starship called Marathon (re-baptized?) Wa’K-Tdus:from here we could disappear from the (galaxy?) map for ever (home?) Over the past 37 (years?) we've suffered a progressive (cultural?) degradation and the loss of our (ancient?) pride. We begin to lose even our (language?). (Corruption?) set in - we began to die. Some (months?) ago our fortunes turned. The terran starship AyeMakSicur (went?) into proximity of our new (home?) unprepared for this "abandoned" (rock?) in space, and (surprise?) was the key: we captured that modern ship with a valuable (cargo?) and a treasure in technology, and weapons*&983… ***Unknown system error***
***Unknown system access*** ...make you smile,Or cry, Like Leela did baby: Airlock love, Big blue orchids, Martian skies, And wild Blueberr-d5&!... ***Unknown system error***
***Unknown system error*** …9!87$eMakSicur radioactivity and genetic technology (allowed?) us to start the experiments with transgenic (specimens?) thinking of a new offensive to (re-conquer?) Lh’owon and the Homeworld of this inferior race self-called (humans?). Furthermore the secret weap%23^ ***reception error*** 76&~destined for the war in the Alpha Thaesus Conglomerate will (allow?) us to build the Nh’ur: the most (powerful?) battle-biomachine known in this sector of the (Universe?) ***Unknown system error***
***Unknown system access*** ...e'll make you ouch, Hal. He's got real guile, Why Lady, Did you have it daily? Airlock Love, No oxygen, Suffoc*3$%76... ***Unknown system error*** <<End of (message?)>>
The teleporter at the top of the stairs leads to the AMS Tower area. You will need a security ID card to access it. The controls for elevator BC#752 are nearby - you should be able to find one in that area. I have found a circuit that disconnects the laser barriers. Move carefully - just the fact that so many precautions have been taken in this area suggests that something nearby is worth guarding.
You must continue to the observation deck and bring the High-Range Antenna online manually. Once you do, you will be able to activate the nearby Transmitter Terminal Command to begin transmission to UESC StarPost #87 and Sol 0.001.
Communications Tower: 77.13% Operational Main Long-Range Transmitter: 97.68% Active Encrypting Data for Transmission
Data Transfer Nullified Percentage Transmitted: 00.000% Change of plans. The Biohazard #67A2 Emergency Procedure has been activated. As of now, all other directives are rescinded. Your orders are to get back to the Kubrick as quickly as possible, and await new orders. Can't you read? Are you waiting for a bus? GO! N O W!
Hunted. My name is Alice L.C., Second In Command of the AyeMakSicur Civilian Ship, and one of the several survivors that are hiding in the maintenance ducts of the Marathon. The Marathon... My daddy used to tell me ghost stories, stories that took place on board an abandoned ship, where the rules of reality had been twisted and the worst thing that you could do was ask: ‘Who´s there?’ to an empty hallway. My daddy loved to scare me. And here I am: the ghost ship that most UESC captains don´t dare to call out loud by name, has become my living nightmare. I´m a child again. I´m scared. Who´s there?
Today I woke up and found out that I was all alone. The group left me behind. I can´t help but feel sorry for them: men behave like animals, moving in herds... so easy to find. Or perhaps Stuart feels guilty and can´t bear the idea of being near me: I was the only one to question his decision to investigate the source of that message we intercepted; it took our main AI 8.3 seconds to read it, and that wasn´t due to its complexity, but because of how obsolete the code was. And it was only three simple words translatable in English: ‘peace... love... come’ We should have known better.
(Butterfly?) Cycle -as extracted from (the mind?) of K’arWox- Mature (Butterfly?) (Mating?) Due to the fragility of its body, the female must lay the larvae within a cocoon rich in proteins and (life juices?), before the sentient brood devours her from the inside. Once the female leaves the larvae incubating, she becomes more territorial and agressive, generating a much more corrosive (saliva?). She is not a predator but a Mother Defender of her species.
Scientific Report f#777p-. After the fatal loss of the scouting team and the increase of sightings reports, the capture of six parasite (specimens?) that were thought to be extinct was (finally?) accomplished. The (butterflies?) are still very much in evidence here. Having studied their (number?), behavior and (commercial?) distribution, we have (reached?) the conclusion that the live specimens outnumber the expectations of (survival?) for any race in this hostile enviroment. <65> Which leads us to the only (logical?) conclusion: somehow, the (butterflies?) have managed to continue their Cycle in the deserted hallways of this spaceship.
Scientific Report j#777j- After finding evidence of nine generations of female (butterflies?) eaten alive by their (brood?), and having dissected and studied the live organs of a dozen specimens, we could not discover how they were (able?) to complete their Cycle without the pus pods on which they feed to (secrete?) their cocoons. <234> What at first appeared as a scientific challenge, soon turned into a mystery... until, once again, nature taught us that her ways are as simple as they are (unexpected?) efficient: due to the unavailability of their natural resources, the (butterflies?) used the richest raw material at hand to build their cocoons: human corpses.
SECURITY (access?) 987a>>gpaG--654*7890 AUTHORIZATION (password?) 789khj-gsd DNA Programmable (Mines?) Detection (encoding?) in progress... 65498651321321657++651310321687651 654687684631,0,0321 386798646521031684651 320, 094 65132 09674+6987 -9461 31 6+5+ 97+979-879-879+54 230321351321321321+684654 (Aborted?)... Database access...
Scientific Report c#937k-. The use of (decomposing?) human corpses to make and sustain their cocoons, had a series of unexpected side-effects on the (butterflies?) larvae: the human (foundation?) vital fluids were being assimilated by the pupae. As a result, the life-span of these (creatures?) became shorter but, from the fifth (generation?) on, they turned exceedingly aggressive and physiologically fragile, (inheriting?) certain morphologic characteristics (invasion?) from the human gene (foundation?). <9805> End of Scientific Report c#937k-.
MAINFRAME CORE (protocol?) SECONDARY CODE DATA (access?) F200165F049205B006D61E3F1E40200C 231524602794300033DE4E009F A5AC00D79EE000E98CF8 50FA0EFB 00FB4FFD3E000 0000100 020008000F 00 10001200140020002 8002 D002F003F004000 6000 800100012F013F01A F 01EF01FF 040 00 6000 62F067F 73F08001000 180020002010212F21 BF21EF21FF2800300 038004000400 1 400240 044010401B40274 02D 402F403F4040404 1407F46FF400 ANY UNAUTHORIZED (distribution?) WILL BE (death?) PUNISHMENT
(Specimens?) HGF56-O6S-UD414: Cybernetic (range?) interaction: 7634%% (Size?) growth dynamic M2 coefficient : 76 Morphologic (change?) /56 hours: 065–≠¶ Possibility of (survival?): 35% (Patch?) physiological regression: Unknown<0975
(Specimens?) O98-HW090-K237- S7856: Incubation rate (average?): 0625 Ss Blood (internal?) saturation code: 0010010 (Size?) growth dynamic M2 coefficient : 64 Energy (plasma?) cells: 6089tv PoL+sd4
(Specimens?) A41-J56-DN829-FQ54: Blood (internal?) saturation code: 1101011 Delta (goal?) instinct %: 767**23 u Substitution transfer (modem?): 00=-895~~=8-083609~ (Molecular?) change/sec: =05~976=~48656 BU Energy (plasma?) cells: 645tre PoL+F3
(Specimens?) FA313-H70-M003: Substitution transfer (modem?): =79084=0ty= (Molecular?) change/sec: =5~8609324 BU Energy (plasma?) cells: 689bfd PoL+F3 Cybernetic (range?) interaction: 01%% (Size?) growth dynamic M2 coefficient : 4561 Morphologic (change?) /56 hours: 657
(Specimens?) Q75-OP765-NC056: Isolated (core?) functions max. (fool?): 567>>8nv78 Blood (internal?) saturation code: 0010101111 Possibility of (survival?): 03% Symmetry cellular (radioactivity?): 6745R
The (Hulk?) experimental (radioactive?) specimen DB37 (behavior?) aggressive rate 97% intramuscular (laser?) cage high security inspection D91-4 The blood dispersion DNA (combination?) results are: Delta (goal?) instinct %: 76,45u (Molecular?) change/sec: 789645319861543 BU Energy (plasma?) cells: 908/1023 PoL+F3 Cybernetic (range?) interaction: 876%% (Size?) growth dynamic M2 coefficient: 8 Process cellular (code?):0608160~8=65= 856~-965 976-29386~=909~5674398650 871698~=03--743856 -05-0~37-9759048365031765=8~6=509259043756465
The new (probe?) retromolecular-field Z*50 beta4 vacuum-controller is (functioning?) at (several?) % succesfully the filtration (rate?) is lower than 0.006% (task?) (AyeMakSicur?) fully processed (frame?) Empire The crystallographic binary oscillation (encoding?) is: 001000110010111101001111111 0110100111000010100001000101101 00101010101000011110110101010 0101010111101 011010100101010101010 1010011100001101 00101010101000011110110101010 10101 ***log interrupted***
interlevel teleports
