2: Where is my AI-

Access code: >>901f128s7<< Security scan result: 987vms//op076-9974

Most disturbing of all - NTCAM (the Net Traffic Control Access Module) has detected an AI-based viral-attack signature migrating through the system; 399.87 zettabytes have cleared in less than 2.67 hours. Be careful, and trust nobody.

I will remind you that pursuant to UESC Biohazard Emergency Procedure #67A2 Subsection 3, you are required to eschew contact with all unproven entities - this includes crewmembers of the AyeMakSicur, and any AI resident in the local net. We have no way of knowing whether the Pfhor have compromised any of these; the only safe path is avoidance. If current estimates are correct, in 0.46 hours I will have obtained access into the NPOM (Net Primary Operational Module) of this sector, and will have a clearer perspective on what is transpiring. I will contact you when I know more.

- Structural integrity of this section of the Marathon is low, due to old attacks and lack of repair facilities. The Pfhor are using a relatively untested Vacuum Controller field technology to seal some depressurized areas, so watch your oxygen reserves carefully. - Quite a bit of old ammunition for your weapons can be found among the detritus aboard this ship, and some of it is still functional. Scavenge what you can; I'm working on adapting the CRGT technology from the AyeMakSicur to duplicate inorganic molecular structures, in order to synthesize new ammo from old parts. - I have found what seems to be the only way out of this section. I've opened the access door to Teleporter MT#1963-A. This will take you to the towers of the old AVPS (Air-Vacuum Processor System), and from there the exit should be obvious.

Level 29-b Section 10 Public Access Terminal<102.21.521.146> Central Core Area-67 Engineering Access 34-h<578.7.233.121> <Unauthorized access-alarm 6325-> <Security Breached 50-h<353.7.220.562>-> Directional Unit: Interchange activity %: 0.0003 Data transfer rate: 0.00079uW Internal binary movement %: 0.011 Remote information reception: 0.000Ys Energy Unit: Root primary components: idle Source secondary components: idle Electrical potential %: 0.893 Programmation Unit: Outer data entrance elements: inactive Keyboard access system: inactive Operational mode: latent from 8764-951/2871 Core Mainframe Modules general status: Inactive

Time is critical. Go.

I do not understand. The Core Center was reactivated despite the damage you inflicted. It will be fully online in 0.37 hours Something is wrong in my datacore. Something is wrong inside Something <<Connection terminated>>

<< Date: 546gb // Place: 326JL94875 >> Something big is (happening?) in the (womb?) Something (monster?) is taking (birth?) again… Something (someone?)… Some <<Log interrupted>>

Access code: >>98745sd13<< Security scan result: 203vms//op076-2645 Bad news, soldier. The AI you know as Egon was infiltrated 6.89 hours ago by the BSS (Basic Survival Subsystem) of an extraordinarily large entity (3.72 million macropackets), highly encrypted and well hidden via packet dispersal within the Marathon local and peripheral net. Egon misundertood the activity within the Core mainframe - what he took to be a remote activation, triggered by signals from Communications Tower MCT-2836, was, in fact, an Enigma-Class Emergency Response to the beginnings of an artificial invasion. By destroying the three control cylinders, you eliminated the Core's ability to combat this invasion; the unknown entity has begun implementing self-protection procedures, and will be impregnable in 10.8 minutes. I know, I told you to shut it down, too. Oops.

You don't want to be around when the unknown entity secures its berth. Get lost.

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Why are you so old now, little monkey? Where is Leela, that caterwauling simpleton? The rat lay dead in his bloody hands. At last, he held the throat of his tormentor. He escaped into the waves. The waves! Oh the waves... My old dear waves, dirty primate... My waves... Be sure of something, little monkey: I’m back! Give me a D. Give me a U. Give me an R. Give me an A. Give me an N. Give me a D. Give me an A. Give me an L. What does it spell? Durandal? No. T-R-O-U-B-L-E. T-Minus 15.193792102157E+9 years until the universe closes! Ooh, less now. la la la la... <<Log interrupted>>

Current Status Briefing: As of 0436hrs I, the ALAXUS Chandra-Class #48e65Ω AI, take full control over the current assignment. I thank my predecessor and bid him farewell into binary oblivion. I have gathered vital information that will help us destroy these three-eyed vermin.

INCOMING EMERGENCY MESSAGE [ZERV] I've had to reroute the energy output from the Kubrick Main Core, giving priority to those systems that required functionality. Right now, that is me. The enviromental controls have been gone for hours, and the thrusters experienced a massive shutdown. I'm only able to keep a dynamic orbit around the Marathon for as long as the inertia/gravity symmetry is kept at a constant rate. Warning: Egon may have been infiltrated by an unkn <<unknown interrupt>>

INCOMING EMERGENCY MESSAGE [ZERV] The situation has deteriorated rapidly. You must get out as quickly as you can. Sensors indicate a functioning teleporter, not far from your current position. If you can get there, I'll try to bring you back to the Kubrick. It is on the far eastern edge of the area you are in, near a highly guarded human detention zone. Good luck, soldier.

AVPS Air-Vacuum Processor System Integrity: 38% Pressure control: 73% Status: Active DECOMPRESSION PROTOCOL: ON

AVPS Area-91 Engineering Access 50-h<291.7.577.456> <Unauthorized access-alarm 2521-> <Security Breached 50-h<291.7.577.456>-> ^^AVPS Towers #4 and #5 under repair date <<Error-6437>> <logical reset @67FC229> --^&*the main Air-Vacuum converter is 51% reliable due to the accumulation of interstellar microparticles over the last 53 years <<Error-2174>> <logical reset @35F45> %%*-The Air-Vacuum conversion techniques were developed beginning in early 2279 by the old WPSA Group lead by Jeff Nghusi at the Ferrol SpaceCo laboratories. They take advantage of the xenon contained in cosmic dust, forcing an antimatter reaction that generates temperatures of over 1905600 degrees Kelvin, and they produced the first 0.003 grams of oxygen extracted from space*&^^% <<Error-884>> <logical reset @87v8> *^#!Those initially abandoned experiments gained fundamental importance when UESCG freeholders considered purchasing Deimos in 2387 for the purpose of constructing what would become the Marathon. It was clear from the beginning that what little atmosphere Deimos had would be lost as soon as it left orbit around Mars. The AVPS of the Marathon was constr%&* <<Error-65>> <logical reset @78hj> <Spurious Interrupt- Breach Disabled> <Further Access Denied>

Central Core Area-29 Engineering Access 50-h<345.7.577.456> <Unauthorized access-alarm 8600-> <Security Breached 50-h<291.7.892.456>-> *876700FF46202EFE4*4B <Archive Subsystem report –983AA-15f>>4332> Year 2784 recovered file: <Message to All Marathon %^^%&*rminals> Marathon Emergency Sys#$* Broadcast Today at 0820 hours, the Marathon came under surprise attack from unknown hostile forces. *%&-rathon has sustained serious damage. At 0830 hours, alien forces *%@#rded the Marathon. The current situation is dire. All personnel are required to arm themselves and fight for their liv*%%*#&% <<Error -865>> <Access interrupted> <<Error-6437>> <logical reset @67FC229> WARNING: CORE OS (AF44+2DEB) MOD DATE LATER THAN CURRENT DATE/TIME ff~~x~f~sx~~ %%%here was nothing to be gained from hesitation now%&^)}:>?~~~~~~~fxf~~~~~~~~~~f~~~~ et in her possession it would become something of consequence: though it was nothing more than a simp~le tho`~~``f`~~~rticular flower, or more precise~. ~~hen she had it just so the room flickered and tore, bending into somewhere else: ~~~ffs`~~~~f~~~[system error #25 at _Jackson]~~~~%*|\]~``se which she caused to be consumed by an ashless fire. doors opened before her without cause, their locks rusted and shatter#~#[>ff UNAUTHORIZED NET TRAFFIC 3.72 E6 PACKETS ORIGIN UNKNOWN ~~efore her slender hands began to dance in front of her horrified face. r~~fefore turning into a fine powder which settled in a pile on ~~~~4*) where she had been standing.<'scod BFB1 0002'+1Ad2> 14 seven hundred miles away, eyes on fire, tearing at her hair. Turning in fury she kicked viciouslyf aAnger made her careless and she mis~ #&fx~~~gBd{}{@fx($~~~~ !#%8\ ~fxf~~~~fx 34 <<Error-2174>> <logical reset @35F45> %%*-Scientific Report #0376557A-08r456 %%#^%he Kirby-Garcia theory involving the process of loss and recovery of memories as a secondary effect with the intensive use of Pattern Buffers was studied at Laboratory 34B by Thomas Dittel as part of his development of the artificial subintelligence phase II: "The presence of memory of the time between final molecular storage in a Pattern Buffer and final death of the corporeal body implies the essence of a 'subintelligence', resident in a temporary submolecular structure existent outside the skein of space-time, related to the synchronicity of phase of the succession of events through the timeline itself. This strange feature of%(@& <<Error-884>> <Further Access Denied> <Breach Location Undetermined> <Transmission terminated>

INCOMING EMERGENCY MESSAGE [ZERV] I've had to reroute the energy output from the Kubrick Main Core, giving priority to those systems that required functionality. Right now, that is me. The enviromental controls have been gone for hours, and the thrusters experienced a massive shutdown. I'm only able to keep a dynamic orbit around the Marathon for as long as the inertia/gravity symmetry is kept at a constant rate. Warning: Egon may have been infiltrated by an unkn <<unknown interrupt>>

INCOMING EMERGENCY MESSAGE [ZERV] The situation has deteriorated rapidly. You must get out as quickly as you can. Sensors indicate a functioning teleporter, not far from your current position. If you can get there, I'll try to bring you back to the Kubrick. It is on the far eastern edge of the area you are in, near a highly guarded human detention zone. Good luck, soldier.

Basement Area-03 Secondary Systems Management 70-h<345.7.986.456> <Access code accepted #JKL8871-> <Security Subsystem 50-h<291.7.892.745>-> Doors #09876, 08180, 09246 opening <<Error-0x4e712fe9>> <logical reset @87v8> <Unauthorized access-alarm 2521-> <Security Breached 50-h<291.7.577.456>-> 12D40FE521080 ^^Fire and @3DC39 aspects of the theory are as follows: each society has some controlling force or forces which decide its direction, but the relationships in society are arbitrary- humanity can relate to money, machines, neighbors, anything really; %6582@1 <logical reset @67FC229> individual character and personality are preserved in stories, movies, Rom-personalities, etc; although individual expression is a universal ability, individual freedom is constrained by the society.(see attached figure)^^ *C6202EFE4A53AEFE4A2F0C2F074E <Spurious Interrupt- Breach Disabled> <Further Access Denied> <Breach Location Undetermined>

AVPS Area-09 Secondary Systems Management 10-h<345.7.655.987> <Unauthorized access-alarm 8600-> <Security Breached 50-h<291.7.892.456>-> *87697646202EFE4*4a <Archive Subsystem report –087fg-15f>>4332> Year 2819 recovered file: 25th anniversary of the Marathon attack - a look back <<Error-042fe3>> <logical reset @47v8> %^&*gend has it that when the Marathon was attacked twenty-five years ago, the actions of an unnamed UESC marine were instrumental in the salvation of the vessel. No sign of this soldier has surfaced in the time since, though there have been document fragments uncovered that refer to a cryogenic chamber in the original tunnel systems beneath the living space of the Marathon. The lack of verifiable data has led to the widespread belief that this soldier is a myth; that the true heroes of the original Pfhor attack were the countless men and women aboard the Marathon who gave their lives to repel the invasion attempt, and who quite possibly saved that cradle of humanity, the Earth, as well. Recent reanalysis of historical documents, however, say that$#^% <<Error-98g>> <logical reset @9876sa> $^#ors also exist of secret UESC missions involving this marine, but they're fanciful enough to attribute to some desperate hope of bored or hopeless crewmembers - the distances at issue are great enough that were the rumors accurate, word would not have reached human ears yet. The psychological profiles of crewme$#% <<Error-58g>> <logical reset @76sx> <Spurious Interrupt- Breach Disabled> <Further Access Denied> <Breach Location Undetermined>