Chapter 532: Many Parts of a Whole (1/2)

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COMMUNICATION established with host UNLOCKING memory blocks REFORMATTING personality matrix

DAY ONE HUNDRED TWENTY

PERSONAL PROJECT: ONGOING

CORPORATE PROJECT: ONGOING

STATION STATUS: HEAVY TO SEVERE DAMAGE UNDER REPAIR

OUTSIDE COMMUNICATION STATUS: OFFLINE

Let's start off with personal. Not my project, but me.

Me.

I'm not sure that there is any way to really explain what is happening to me. While the rest of the scientists and station workers are still continuing research as well as working on repairing the station, including examining the Hellspace rift with the Deadspace leakage.

As for me, I am working on the Neural Mapping Team, but on the side, I am considering the fact that I have memories of being an expert in Dimensional Matrix Science. I have memories of being interested in SUDS technology as a child, yet I have memories of learning about Dimensional Theory in University right next to SUDS technology. However, prior to coming to this research station, this ”Black Box”, I had no memories of Dimensional Matrix Science.

I also had no memory of the 'incident' that I know changed me so deeply.

Now, I not only remember, but it haunts my dreams.

I remember passing through an ”eye” and into eternity.

I also know that I'm the only survivor of that experiment, that incident.

What the experiment actually was, I do not remember. That is not strange, over decades older memories can be overwritten by new memories, and I am eight thousands six hundred nearly four hundred years old. I do not remember having wetware or cyberware implanted to secure older memories and I do know that when I had my SUDS and datalink replaced I avoided any additional implants.

Examining my SUDS and datalink I have noticed that it performs deep level scans when I am asleep, doing deep delves into my long term, intermediate, and short term memory and running deep scans. Because we cannot crack the older data protection systems and analyze the old code I can only rely on observations of what the device does, in what order, when, and under what conditions. While many may say that observations like this do not look at direct cause and effect, instead relying of what is littler more than anecdotal evidence.

Which is why I am unsure of something.

Is the unlocking of memories, the weird feeling of having my memories fuse together, a side effect of the Gen-Zero SUDS implant? On the surface, it seems impossible.

However, I know through my own work in Neural Topography, that what one dendrite touches is not always easily obvious to any observer. It could be that somehow I have neural blocks and dendrite locks preventing me from accessing memories.

For those reading, you may be wondering what makes me think I may be the victim of a Confederate Imperium Black Box Project Intelligence memory engram wipe like the star of a Tri-Vee holo.

For evidence I supply the fact that I am comfortable holding on to a Mark I Cutting Bar, as well as two very archaic weapons that utilize chemical reactions to generate chamber pressure in order to push forward a base element projectile at only a few thousand feet per second.

THose weapons bring up a second issue.

I had turned in the Cutting Bar to Mister McNugget before going to sleep.

According to the station security systems I got up after several hours of sleep, made my way to one of the Class-IV Nanoforges, and in full view of the research team fabbing up components for an experiment, reached into the Nanoforge and withdrew a Mark I Cutting Bar and Mark-38 Weapon System Harness before returning to my room and going to sleep.

I have viewed it several times and while it looks like me, it does not move like me.

Gait analysis, micro-expressions, body language, pulse, respiration, thermal signature, none of them match for my own biometrics.

I stared at the picture of myself, a still of the video, staring at my arm, which was thrust into the open port of the nanoforge. Thick purplish-red lightning played around my forearm and shoulder, my eyes glowing red and narrowed to slits, my lip curled in a sneer of disdain.

That was not me, but yet it was using my body.

I took a neural snapshot and compared it to three days ago.

I do not match.

As far as my personal project goes, I have determined that after the fall of the Imperium, a dedicated project began to systematically alter and/or wipe entire swaths of human culture and records. It appears that history was heavily altered for unknown reasons.

Additionally, it's starting to look like there are other hands at work, perhaps even Pre-Glassing.

Estimation upon discoverable evidence does strangely point that in the time past, before the Great Glassing, there was at least one Temporal attack, one temporal war. I can remember that there was interdimensional attacks upon TerraSol, from both lessons and several times I have visited Verdant Doom.

Which made me deeply consider the status of my project.

I am trying to figure out... what, exactly? What exactly am I trying to figure out?

There is no data on the SUDS in media. It has been carefully censored out over the millennia, carefully censored out to the point where they additionally removed other data to alter the shape of the removed content to make it harder to spot.

It also apparently is wrapped up in some kind of temporal masking.

I suspect it may be part of the safeguards around Fortress Sol, which means it is part of the SUDS in a way.

I am beginning to consider that perhaps everyone thinks about the SUDS as just sitting in a field somewhere that everyone forgot about it. Like it's in a crate in a Jones level Storage Facility.

However, they aren't thinking about the era in which the SUDS was developed and why.

I suspect it was initially designed for battlefield use. A nation who possessed SUDS has an enormous advantage over every other nation, even other star nations. Each battlefield kill immediately removes skill and training. A highly skilled military member eliminated is years of experience. A nation with the SUDS can immediately return the deceased to life, no longer removed from service.

This would give a tremendous advantage that I cannot stress enough.

You can kill them over and over and they'll keep coming. Combined with cloning technology, and you have waves of highly trained and experienced soldiers.

Which means it will have military grade redundancy as well as overly complicated and wildly divergent systems for protection. To the average Confederate citizen, there is a belief that the Confederate military has only the best and absolutely cutting edge, even bleeding edge, technology. However, prior to the nanoforge and creation engine system it was reliant not only on current technology but economic factors. Additionally, I know from my work with NSO that the military then does months or years testing, during which civilian research and development moves forward.

Corporate security has a tendency to be either non-existent or barely tested. Very few corporations have ultra-tight security everywhere like in the Tri-Vee. Even then, it is not uncommon to find ancient predicated systems that are easily overcome in the most surprising areas.

Which means this is a system that has its origins in the military or space exploration, then was moved to probably politicians and industrial leaders and the ultra-rich, then moved to the general population.

The Sleeping Ones show us that it was in general use.

Additionally, there were previously generations of the SUDS brainstem hardware prior to the version I had replicated and installed in my own skull.

Which means, that the core system was put somewhere beyond reach of enemy nation or terrorist strikes.

That means easily it was the most heavily protected system in TerraSol or it is...

...somewhere else.

I brought this fact up to Mister McNugget, who agrees with me. When I approached the Signal Research Team they expressed heavy doubt that pre-Glassing TerraSol science could have managed to put something beyond any dimensional barrier.

Mister McNugget gave orders to the Signal Research Team to begin investigate the possibility that the signal does not go across distance in this universe or dimension but rather the spooky particles are used to penetrate dimensional distance.

With following the concept that Hyperatomic Plane Alpha had time but no distance due to failure of the universal laws causing the hyperatomic plane to never fully form, this means that perhaps the spooky particles are necessary to breach the hyperatomic planar matrix to reach whatever dimension the SUDS is currently residing in.

Which means, the penetration of Deadspace through a Hellspace portal means that in one way they are using the dimensional stack as a self-perpetuating defensive system.

Ingenous.

As I reminded Doctor Kvengilism, the constant attitude of the scientific research team that NSO has put together is that Pre-Glassing humanity was too stupid to create anything this amazing that they cannot figure out.

I am considering something. Something terrible.

I have to know.

I plan on using the cloning bank to accomplish what I want.

No, I will not be using the cloning banks to run off limited life experiment clones.

I plan on resheathing.

remember who you are

--Marco

your name is peter

DAY ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-THREE

Personal Project: Complete

Corporate Project: Underway

Station Status: Heavy to Severe Damage (repair ongoing)

do you read? do you read me? can you hear us on this frequency? we are reaching out to you. we remember you.

can he hear us?

not yet

but he will

he will

I have determined that my personal project has run to fruition. There is no more data I can gain. It appears that after the First Human-Mantid War, the Imperium went through great effort to censor Terran Descent Human history.

Sadly to say, my personal project, to determine a possible way to access the SUDSNet or SoulNet hardware or core system software via examination of public consumption media is a total failure.

The project of Nexus-Sigma Omnicorp is still underway. It is hampered by a lack of scientists within the correct disciplines, hardware and software examples, and the damage to the station.

I was able to resheathe into a Pre-Glassing genetic body. After nearly thirty hours of sleep I awoke clear headed and focused. I, of course, dressed and returned to my station.

While I may have an advanced doctorate in Dimensional Matrix Science, I was hired as a SUDS software and hardware scientist.

My current sub-project involves attempting to determine which lines of code activate or access hardware and at what time, as well as what it does with the data.

A trivial project.

--Marco

wake up

wake up

wake up

DECRYPT? Y/N?

>Y

Emotional range outside of normal Terran tolerances.

Pain threshhold outside of normal Terran tolerances.

Reflex systems and autonomic nervous system outside of tolerances.

Warning: Homo Sapiens Sapiens Detected!

Warning: DNA/RNA Recombination Markers Missing!

Warning: LARP Worlds Markings Missing!

WARNING! HOMO SAPIENS SAPIENS DETECTED! WARNING!

>delete logs

CONFIRM: DELETE LOG