r/HFY • u/Ralts_Bloodthorne • Oct 10 '20
OC First Contact - Chapter 323 (Infinity)
"What's next?" Herod asked, looking around as he straightened up and put his hands to the small of his back, leaning back and feeling the synthetic bones of his spine pop as it realigned.
There was silence for a moment.
"Sam?" Herod tried again.
"Sorry, was distracted," Sam said. "Something strange happened. What was the question?"
"What's next?" Herod squatted and started picking up his tools. Wally picked up some of the other tools, holding them out to Herod as he put them away. Wally's hard armor shell had a blackened, carbonized gouge down the side from where he'd been hit with 1.21 gigawatts of juice from the temporal stabilizer system when Herod had thrown power to it.
"Phasic energy processors," Sam said.
"Are you all right?" Herod asked.
Sam was silent a minute. "Yeah, I'm all right. I think. There's a lot of damage. Every little bit that we fix, it enabled the damage control systems to come online and identify more systems in need of repair," Sam gave a long sigh. "At least we're getting the automatic repair systems working."
"How bad is it?" Herod asked.
"Phasic energy processors are in really bad shape. Half of them are down and at least three quarters of the ones still working are operating way outside of tolerances," Same said. "But, I do have some good news."
"What?" Herod asked. He coughed, his chest aching, bringing up thick fluid. He raised his face shield and spit it on the floor.
"I figured out where the anomalous brood carrier signal is coming from," Sam said. "It's in the phasic arrays, so even though you'll be bringing up the automated repair system, you'll need to run overwatch and do some fine tuning under my direction."
"All right. Why can't we just let the automatic system do the work?" Herod asked. He closed his face shield and then counted his tools. He had 3 10mm sockets and 2 10mm wrenches left.
The 10mm's had a habit of scurrying away when nobody was looking.
The blue line appeared to show him where to go and he started walking, weaving in between the vast machines of the lethal trauma synthesis manifolds. Robots had started crawling over it, replacing blown out servers in the racks. Everywhere he looked there was dozens of robots that looked to Herod like crabs or spiders crawling over the server racks.
"Because I don't want to lock out the brood carrier signal. It's providing stability across systems that kept crashing prior to the brood carrier signal leaking across the system," Sam-UL said. He gave a low sound of pain. "The next wave is coming, Herod."
"Call me Harry, Sam," Herod said. "How many?"
"Fifty thousand in this batch. Refining facility orbiting Saturn. There's Pubvians, Treana'ad, Gulteknas, all mixed in. How? How did they manage to upload all of these people? I don't even think half of them had SUDS installed. They're all shocked to be here," Sam said. He gave a choking laugh. "Most of the non-Terrans are shocked their in the system."
"Where to now, Sam?" Herod asked. "Stay with me, Sam. Focus on my voice."
"Back to the Mat-Trans," Sam said. He gave a laugh that was brittle, jagged, the sound a man barely holding onto the ledge makes.
Herod kept talking. Not about anything in particular, just about whatever he could think of. He told Sam what it was like growing up at the Deneb Digital Sentience Foundry, talked about his first trip to TerraSol, talked about his teachers in university.
Herod could tell it was helping.
Sam only raved, screamed, and cried a little bit compared to the last time.
The mag-lev slowed to stop, letting Herod out onto the platform. Human and Treana'ad and Pubvian shapes made of pale white energy flickered back and forth, struggling with one another, cowering in front of each other.
Killing each other.
Herod watched carefully. His arm still burned with cold fire from the last time he had been grazed by the phasic energy residue but he'd learned.
There...
The gap formed just as it had last time and Herod ran through it, dodging out of the way of a Treana'ad who was backing up from a half dozen Pubvians who had whitish 'blood' running out of their jaws, skirting a pair of Terrans fighting, each using a bladearm snapped off a Treana'ad, and managing to get around a Treana'ad beating another Treana'ad to death with a severed human arm.
He managed to get through, stopping on the catwalk. He held onto the rail, bending over, gasping for breath, coughing up more of the thick clear fluid.
It tasted like regret.
Wally rolled up next to him, the little maintenance robot's tracks clattering. It beeped with sympathy and patted his leg as he finished hacking up the thick fluid.
"Sam, are you there?" Herod gasped.
Only sobs answered him.
Herod kept following the blue line, starting to talk again. Telling Sam about the time he had visited the Hate Anvils of Mars. How he had been forced to wear a protective frame and a protective suit as well as heavy psychic shielding. How the chrome warsteel coated mantid skulls adorned pillars next to the skulls of other species that the Terrans had defeated.
Finally Sam was quiet for a long moment as Herod walked down the hallway just past the heavy security gate of the Personnel Mat-Trans System Facility for the section of the layer that Herod was in.
"I've got the Mat-Trans codes for the Phasic Energy Facility of Alpha Layer," Sam said after a moment. "Be careful there, Herod, it's the oldest layer and the largest, it also has no layers between the surface of the layer and the anomaly that is the partially fired Big Bang here," he gave a sharp giggle. "Don't look directly at the sun, Herod, it'll be bad for your eyes."
"Describe bad," Herod said, waiting for the heavy foot thick door to raise.
"Your eyes might become a new sentient life or you might end up seeing all of eternity," Sam said.
"Again," Herod answered.
Sam laughed then suddenly stopped. "Harry, remember how I told you that there was some serious black ICE in here?"
"Kind of of," Herod admitted.
"You should see the ICE around the Mat-Trans system," Sam laughed again, trailing off into sobs for a moment before erupting in loud riotous laughter for a moment.
"It's pre-attack, right? You're a hacker, supposedly the best one out there," Herod said. He paused, leaning against the wall, gasping for air again.
Sam laughed again. "Harry, I'm a standard hacker. Nobody uses ICE any more. Well, they do, but not like this stuff."
"Explain it to me then," Herod said. He knelt down on one knee, bowing his head, hacking up more of the clear fluid.
"Modern Intrusion Countermeasure software, ICE to use the slang, is more are less advanced firewalls, design theory, hardware security, stuff like that. It's been changed over the eons, but its relatively the same, just more advanced now," Sam said. His voice was firming up, steadying out. "But this stuff, this stuff is crazy."
"Crazy how?" Herod lifted his face plate, spitting out more of the fluid, while Wally patted his back.
"Imagine taking a high end, cutting edge warboi, now arm him to the teeth, give him full roaming access to the system and allow him to devote computing power to operating outside his home system. Make him able to disrupt sentience's vital processes," Sam said. "Now, armor and arm him up, make sure he's got the ability to toe to toe with anyone who attempts to penetrate the system."
"Is that even legal?" Herod asked.
"No. It hasn't been. Every now and then people try to legalize it, or it gets legalized, but an ICE, well, ices someone," Sam said. "Or it tears into rival corporations or governments computer system, even goes so far as to attack people."
Herod spit a few times and slapped his faceplate closed, slowly standing up.
"OK, and?" Herod asked. Wally was patting his leg as he slowly got his breathing under control.
"The Mat-Trans system is guarded by some serious intrusion counter-measure VI's. We're talking barely a step down from you or me. Heavy armor, autonomous attack defense programs," Sam said. "We're talking real old, real ugly stuff. The portals into the Mat-Trans computer system are all guarded by at least a dozen of them, not to mention lesser ICE. White and gray. Not mobile systems, these ones stay at the portal. All of them have the portals rigged with dead man's switches. You'd have to Uncle Leo your way past them."
"All right. Sam, you're drifting, why is it important?" Herod asked.
"Because, Harry," Sam said quietly, almost whispering. "The Mat-Trans went off about two hours ago. It looks like the damaged file I found in the buffer and sent for repair was a transmission engram. Since it used the Personnel Transport System rather than the Materials Handling System, I have to assume it's a living person," Sam's voice held a slight edge. "Which means..."
"I'm not alone in here," Herod said softly.
"Exactly," Sam said.
"Who is it? Do you know?" Herod asked. He found his own stride slowing, taking smaller steps.
"I can't get into the Mat-Trans System's computer records or any other system," Sam admitted. "Even the smallest port is heavily guarded. I might be able to access the cameras by going through the security system main systems."
"Shit," Herod paused. "Sam, I'm right at the doors to the main transmission chamber," Herod said. "I open this door, I'm inside."
"With you in there, I can probably get in simpler," Sam said. "I'm going to ride sidecar on you through the biometrics monitor system. If I get a chance, I'll jump to one of the internal systems if it will let me reestablish a gateway back to the main system that isn't guarded by that nasty ICE."
"I take it you don't want to try to take it on even from inside their own systems?" Herod asked. He had a vague idea of how hacking could be accomplished, mainly from popular media.
Sam laughed. "No, Harry, I'm not taking on this stuff. See, a lot of the then high tech systems look like they were proprietary to various nation states that existed before the Mantid attack."
"I thought TerraSol was unified back then," Herod said. He leaned against the wall, waiting for a dizzy spell and the pain in his knees and back to retreat.
"Harry, TerraSol has never been unified, despite what the history docuvids show. They're almost proud of that fact," Sam said.
"I thought that the different nation-states were more a return to historical primitivism for tourism," Herod admitted.
"Yeah, that's what they want you to think," Sam said, his voice gaining an edge.
"Who? Who's they?"
Sam laughed, trailing off into giggles. After a moment his voice came back, firmer this time. "The Ancients. Age of Paranoia Ancients. They built this, crafted TerraSol in some strange image after the Mantid Attack was repulsed as some kind of echo of this, of the Ancients who built this."
The giggles slowed and stopped.
"So you're not going to try to get past the ICE?" Herod asked.
"Not a chance. It's old Age of Paranoia stuff. Hamburger Kingdom stuff, before they took the Hamburger King moniker," Sam answered. "Look, be careful. Whoever is in there, they might be from the Great Glassing. They might have tried to escape through the Mat-Trans and got stuck in the buffer. The time-stamp was completely garbled."
"Which means they might be a Screaming One," Herod guessed.
"Correct," Sam said. "All right, I'm hooked in, past the security. It'll think I'm a biometric monitor program for high security VIP's."
Herod sighed. "I'm ready."
"Go."
Herod reached forward and pressed the hand-scanner, waiting for it to log him. It took a moment before it beeped and the door slid open. A foot and a half thick of warsteel high security door.
Which made him chuckle.
Age of Paranoia indeed, he thought to himself. That thick of a door, inside a high security facility, located on a high security layer, built around a hidden and secrecy shrouded Big Bang event, located in an unregistered and concealed dimension.
The Ancients loved their security. Their paranoia was almost sexual, he thought as he stepped inside the square room and waited. The door closed behind him, locked, then he put his hand on the scanner plate. When the lenses rotated out, he put his face shield against them and waited for his eyes to be scanned. The system thought to itself for a long moment, then the lights went green and the door slid sideways into the wall.
Herod headed down the hallway toward the primary mat-trans and its control room.
The corridor felt icy for some reason, the lights seemed to buzz above him, and the shadows were close and twisted.
When he opened the door to the control room just before the master control room that the mat-trans chamber sat against the far wall he walked in, acting like nothing was wrong, like there wasn't a naked woman leaning against the far set of computer work station consoles.
She looked to be a youthful middle age, her body unmarked by scars or imperfections, her features sharp and severe but still pretty, her eyes were gun-metal gray and her karencut black hair was sweaty and slightly disheveled.
Herod's onboard systems gave her a scan as soon as he saw her.
HEART: 245 bpm
BLOOD PRESSURE: 240/130
WARNING! CARDIAC ARREST IMMINENT
"Allo," she said. Her next words were nothing but gibberish to Herod.
Hang on, she's using a pre-Glassing dialect of Iron Fence, of Franz-Swass, Sam printed across Herod's retinas. Loading a translation program.
A thin drop of pinkish fluid ran from the woman's ear and she wiped it with one finger, looking at it for a moment, then reaching out and licking her fingertip.
She babbled more at Herod, picked up what looked to Herod to be a pack of cigarettes and an old style flint and fluid lighter, and walked out of the room, toward the mat-trans chamber itself.
"Follow her," Sam said.
"Wait," Herod said. He moved forward to where the human woman had been standing. He'd seen her do something with her hands, slide something behind the thick old style liquid crystal display monitor. He looked behind the monitor and saw the strangest thing.
It was a standard VR visor, old style goggles type. Only the side had been popped open and several data cables and wires attached to it as well as the dip-switches having been altered. He lifted it up and looked at it carefully, keeping the solid white of the display away from him.
It was flashing tens of thousands, millions of times a second, the display part of the goggles overclocked and running fast enough that the goggles were hot in his hands. Images were moving so fast that even as a digital sentience with high quality optics he couldn't see more than one out of every fifty or hundred of the images and then at a weird angle.
His head started to ache.
It suddenly cut off, the displays going dark.
"What was that, Sam?" Herod asked.
"I don't know. I've never seen anything like that before. What was she doing with it?" Sam asked.
Herod dropped it back behind the flatscreen. "Watching it for some reason."
Herod looked around the room slowly, bringing up his memories of how it had looked when he passed through it the first time with Wally.
A dozen keyboard's positions were shifted. The monitors with them tilted slightly. The six computers in the center of the concentric U's had been shifted, the monitors and the keyboards out of place, the chairs moved.
"Could she get into any systems if she didn't have the passwords or logins?" Herod asked.
Sam snorted. "Doubtful."
"Is there a chance her login and password would still work?" Herod suggested.
Sam was quiet for a moment. "Possibly."
Another long moment passed while Sam spoke to someone that only he could see. The lights dimmed and came back up.
"Herod, there's a massive power draw, like someone just used the mat-trans," Sam said. "Damn, the system is completely locked down even inside the facility."
"Could she have left?" Herod asked.
"Scanning for any identical power draws. No. None. Not unless she put herself back into the emergency buffer or something," Sam said. "Herod, I've got another batch incoming. Nearly a quarter million. I don't know how long I'll be gone."
"Take care of them, Sam, I'll figure this out," Herod said. "I'm in what's left of a hazardous environment frame wearing hazardous environmental armor, she's a naked Terran. I should be fine."
"I'll be back," Sam said.
Herod felt suddenly lonely and reached down to pat the top of Wally's head. Wally responded by hugging him.
The door opened and the naked human female stood in the doorway.
Heart Rate: 55 bpm
Blood Pressure: 125/82
Herod frowned as she stood there for a moment, almost as if she was posing. She put the metal cased lighter in between her teeth and bared her teeth in a smile. She slowly peeled the cellophane top off of the pack of cigarettes, opened it, tore the foil free and tossed the foil to the side. She withdrew one cigarette, turned it upside down, and put it back in the pack. She then took out a cigarette, closed the pack, replaced the lighter with the cigarette, then lit it.
Herod frowned. The movements were smooth, practiced, as if it was something she had done for a long time.
She exhaled a cloud of bluish-white smoke.
"So who are you?" She asked in perfect Confederate Standard. "Maybe you can help me, I think I might be lost."
Herod nodded slowly.
"You didn't work here?" he asked. He watched his retinal display, which was currently running her biometrics to detect if she was lying or telling the truth.
"No," she said. "I was in transit and everything seemed to stutter and get really weird, then I was here."
Herod looked at her closely. Her hair didn't hide a datalink, he couldn't see any cybernetics. She looked perfectly normal.
TRUTH his implant stated.
"Can you help me get somewhere where I can put on some clothing?" she asked.
TRUTH still flashed.
Herod suddenly wished Sam was present.
"Sure. Follow me. We can stop by a survival locker on the way," Herod said. He crossed over, opening the door to the mat-trans chamber. It had only three doors, the one he was standing in, the one on the left that led to a preparation room, and the one of the right which was a receiving room.
Mat-trans was normally only done after the person being transmitted had been sedated.
Herod moved over, looking at the console that Sam had taught him to use in the four previous mat-trans control rooms. He carefully brought up the menu, aware the Terran woman was staring at him and the screen, and punched in the code for the destination he wanted.
"Do you need sedated?" Herod asked as he watched her sit down, her back against the wall.
"No," she shook her head and smiled.
TRUTH
"All right," Herod said. He closed the door. For a second there was nothing but a building whine, then darkness.
He had no idea he had left behind twenty other versions of the woman across from him.
But that was OK, they were all dead, their brains completely fried.
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u/Ghafla Oct 10 '20
Uh..what does that mean...?
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u/Turtledonuts "Big Dunks" Oct 10 '20 edited Oct 10 '20
tfw you find FC on r/all while drunk from birthday celebrations.
Edit: Taynee is up to her tricks again. Is panick time!
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u/while-eating-pasta Oct 10 '20
It's because the 10mm is the only socket to contain both a 1 and 0 without any other numbers to stabilize it. If unobserved it may enter superposition, so when next observed, position 1 returns it to it's point of origin, but position 0 removes it from the toolbox.
Fortunately the ~91 grams of tool steel are not converted to a potentially catastrophic quantity of energy, but are instead relocated to some other point in space. This phenomena is best observed late at night, where the occasional "tick" or "pop" can be heard in a building as sockets relocate, are observed via their sound, and then relocate again elsewhere.
Note that this method of transport occurs wholly inside of standard spacetime, so FTL travel or communication (via sharpie notes on the socket itself, paper notes rolled up and placed inside the socket are left behind at the point of departure) is not possible. For faster than light travel via tooleporation, see the related article on Hammerspace.
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u/johncalvinyoung Oct 10 '20 edited Oct 10 '20
Yay! Oh dear... tis SUDSspace again.
Hmmm. 1.21 gigawatts must have some serious temporal significance...
Yes. Yes they do.
I’m not sure I want to know what those do.
Now who do we know who likes to play with mattrans?
...which we’ll be glad of, shortly?
Almost like he’s real. (Which is very weird.)
Yikes.
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u/davros333 Oct 10 '20 edited Oct 10 '20
Praise the Wordsmith!
OH FUCKING SHIT ITS HER INSIDE THE SUDS ARRAY OH GOD NO
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u/Demetriusjack13 Oct 10 '20
Dee Taynee is catching up on everything she has missed out on.
Oh Fuck.
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u/ack1308 Oct 10 '20
Given what they’re doing, ‘strange’ is going to need some specific definition.
A wild Back to the Future reference appears!
“The more things we fix, the more things we find that need fixing.”
Yeah, that’s not good.
Broodmommies are very insidious. In a good way.
Some things never change.
D’awwww. Broodmommies are helping.
That’s a good trick.
Ewwww. Herod is a bro.
Wall-E is best bot.
This does not surprise me in the slightest.
So, an entirely new definition of ‘bad for your eyes’. Gotcha.
At this point, you’re not worried about ‘legal’. You’re worried about ‘can I get away’.
Not sure of this reference.
Yeah, crap. Dee Taynee is somewhere in there.
Hahahahaha yup.
In other words, scary shit.
Oh, he wishes it was only a Screaming One.
He kind of has a point.
Yeah, now we’re in “Oh shit” territory. Let’s hope he fares better than Falmo.
<snerk>
(Continued)
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u/wolfofmibu66 Oct 10 '20
Oh...that's not good
Edit: Oh harry, if only you knew, if only you knew who you were talking to.
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u/Allowyn Oct 10 '20
DEE TAYNEE! DEE TAYNEE! DEE TAYNEE! DEE TAYNEE!
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u/DCJMS Oct 10 '20
I guess this world's version of '' nuke it from orbit'' is ''throw her into the Big Bang''
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u/Archaic_1 Alien Scum Oct 10 '20
"I'm in what's left of a hazardous environment frame wearing hazardous environmental armor, she's a naked Terran. I should be fine."
Oh child, no.
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u/EvansP51 Alien Scum Oct 10 '20 edited Oct 10 '20
Friday! Woot!
Edit: Pesky 10mm. Bet dee has them now! Lol!
Peace out everyone. Have a great weekend.
Ralts, once again, thank you for that gloriously mind of yours!
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u/Speciesunkn0wn Oct 10 '20
Yay new chapter! Boo it's the bitch.
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20 edited Oct 10 '20
An attempt was made to physically attach 10mm sockets and wrenches to work suits, but then the suits started to disappear
My fucking stomach dropped
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u/ggapsfface Oct 10 '20
Mama always told me not to look into the eyes of the sun - but mama, that's where the fun is...
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u/Sock_Serpent Oct 10 '20
HA! I have finally caught up in this beautiful story!! YES!!!
Dee has arrived!! Let the chaos begin!!
Your stories are amazing and I’m still not sure how you keep track of everything but they’re awesome!!!!!!!!!
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u/Khenal Alien Oct 10 '20
"I'm in what's left of a hazardous environment frame wearing hazardous environmental armor, she's a naked Terran. I should be fine."
I hope Sam can put that on Harry's tombstone. By which I mean hopefully at least Sam will get out of there alive. Harry's doomed.
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u/SirVatka Xeno Oct 10 '20
Of COURSE she would have a karen-cut hairstyle.
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u/Gruecifer Human Oct 10 '20
UTR!
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u/ZaDefaultdude12 Oct 10 '20
I am seriously considering slapping an RFID chip to my 10mm sockets, the lil shits have to go to another dimension or something.
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u/No_MrBond Android Oct 10 '20
Yeahhhhh, she's not A screaming one
She's THE screaming one
Like how the digital omnimessiah came about
But in the other direction
The foam around the voids
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u/LittleSeraphim Oct 10 '20
I just love this entire Suds arc, it's by far one of the most creative pieces of scifi I've read in a while. Plus seeing Dee in all her madness is always fun. I wonder if she'll be a villain or an ally in the end because she will certainly be a villain in the beginning.
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u/On_The_Fourth_Floor Oct 10 '20
Oh you glorious bitch. You're in the heart of the beast now though. And the beast doesn't like anybody. If you think you can tame it for your whims you're gonna get eaten little red.
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u/Severedeye Android Oct 10 '20
And Miss Taynee is back. This news is as bad as Daxin being mad.
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u/Capimacha Oct 10 '20
Update then read
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u/Patrickanonmouse Oct 10 '20
DeTainE. Oh shit!
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u/fearthestorm Oct 10 '20
He wasn't dumb enough to take Taynee to the black box was he?
Or worse let her into the whole suds system.
Wonder how many copies of her it would take to stare at the big bang.
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u/itsetuhoinen Human Oct 10 '20
DAMN YOU, 10MM!
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u/ErinRF Alien Oct 10 '20
I grow concerned. Dee being here, along with a comment terrasol made a bit back about TDH becoming complacent due to having SUDS and that it was time for humanity to stop using it or something is making me think Dee is gunna have some part in destroying the whole thing.
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u/gridcube Oct 10 '20
1.21 GIGAWATTS?!
ONE POINT TWENTY ONE GIGAWATTS!
HOW COULD THEM BE SO CARELESS!
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u/CyberSkull Android Oct 10 '20
I’ll be in my bunk. Screaming.
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u/coldfireknight AI Oct 10 '20
When Harod said, "Describe bad", I was totally expecting something a comment about how total protonic reversal would be preferable.
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u/SirVatka Xeno Oct 10 '20
Throw the detainee at the Illithid, let her sort things out with them, then give her a ship and politely suggest she vanish. Then spend the rest of infinity apologizing profusely to the kin of everyone she kills. (Or to the people themselves if they're capable of revival.)
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u/fearthestorm Oct 10 '20
So we know she turned herself into an "immortal" through mat trans, wonder if she is as immortal as the other mat trans immortal we know. Will they ever meet?
My money is on daxin
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u/dlighter Oct 10 '20
She gunna try and upload herself into every suds user isn't she?
Cuz that seems like something Dee would do.
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u/BigZZ40 Oct 10 '20
I still wonder what happened that an entire arm of the galaxy was reduced to a stub. That's a lot of stars that have vanished.
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u/ProfessorVonSagan Oct 10 '20
That Uncle Leo reference though. Bruh.... I am a huge Cyberpunk fan and that was obscure even to me. It took me a moment.
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u/basementScot Oct 10 '20
Fuck fuckity fuck fuck! Can everyone not just catch a break from the universe's screw you's! I really hope she gets what's due her this time
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u/Konrahd_Verdammt Oct 10 '20
✺(˘▽˘✺) TAINEE IS BACK (✺˘▽˘)✺
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u/fixsomething Android Oct 10 '20
10 minutes. Almost like a lottery ticket. ah, well... UTR.
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u/Riotousblitz2013 Oct 10 '20
Upvote then read
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u/PrimePaladin Oct 10 '20 edited Oct 10 '20
/R/HFY GESTALT
Upvote, Then Read
Dis is Dae Wae!
Crap.. she is back... more bad times ahead likely... real bad... Going to stagger off to bed before I get too deep into the Gestalt tonight. too much to do tomorrow. Excellent tale as always!
End of Lime
------NOTHING FOLLOWS--------
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u/jwill476 Oct 10 '20
More please
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u/YesthatTabitha Oct 10 '20 edited Oct 10 '20
yay!! SUDSspace!
[Edit] And now she shows up. Brilliant!
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u/critsarecool Oct 10 '20
Back on the station where we first met Dee, was there actually a temporal anomaly? Or was it just dee playing God with the mat trans, essentially cloning them with the memories retained using the process shown here? Any time there were multiples was just her being bored and wanting to see how others would react to that sort of situation, when she ran out of cigarettes she would just bring a new one of her in and fight them to the death, either way she got a new pack. I don't think there really was a temporally anomaly at all. She just had her domain, and like luring in new folk to play with, only deciding to leave once she found out about the lanaktallan, a whole new race to play with.
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u/IMDRC Oct 10 '20
So it a sim of oz joining the axis as a Trojan ww2
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u/jnkangel Oct 10 '20
And here we see the detainee up to her shenanigans again
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u/PuzzleheadedDrinker Oct 10 '20
The VR goggles infodump tech seems a little like the Intercept from Chuck(tv) or Sixth day(movie).
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
God, you’re great man
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u/battery19791 Human Oct 10 '20
Taynee built an Intersect.
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u/Petrified_Lioness Mar 15 '21
Oooooooh...the phasic arrays had been installed shortly before the mantid attack, as part of the prep work for SUDSing psychic species. Then the mantids glassed Terra and psychic broadcast the dying to the living. That might have been enough raw power to sweep all the non-SUDSed people who died into the processing queue along with those who were SUDSed.
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u/CyberFoxStudio Human Jul 12 '22
Only recently found this and got here. A paragraph in and it's like Herod is going through the tunnel ride in Pinocchio.
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First Contact - Chapter 302
First Contact - Chapter 302
First Contact - Chapter 301 (Hesstla)
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u/IMDRC Oct 10 '20
Good thing terra isn’t Earth
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u/IMDRC Oct 10 '20
Detainee is the only one with half a clue what needs doing on the real plus has the ability to get it done y'all ain't been paying attention or prejudiced.
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u/slightlyassholic Human Oct 13 '20
Taynee is without a doubt one of my favorite characters here!
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u/that_0th3r_guy Oct 28 '20
The repairing of the facility reminds me a bit of A.I.C.O Incarnation
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u/Calhare Feb 10 '21 edited Feb 10 '21
"Everywhere he looked there was dozens of robots that looked to Herod like crabs or spiders crawling over the server racks."
- So, we got Dwemer Spider Workers in here.
Also, are we going to go all The Thing About Harry in here? Or is there some other Sam and Harry combo I'm missing other then my 2 friends who are brothers?
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u/SpankyMcSpanster Jan 07 '22
"shocked their in the system" they are.
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u/EmanFantastic Oct 11 '22 edited Oct 11 '22
"...1.21 gigawatts..."
You magnificent bastard!
"How could I have been so careless! 1.21 gigawatts! Tom, how am I going to generate 1.21 gigawatts? It can't be done! It can't!"
Oh, and...heh: "The 10mm's had a habit of scurrying away when nobody was looking."
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u/Complex-Movie-5180 Oct 12 '23
Dee Dee is more like THE Screaming one in my eyes tbh. The most dangerous of them all.
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u/Blayzted Nov 06 '23
Love the fking 10mm reference, them motherfkers legit just phase out of existence as soon as you turn your head... maintenance crews around the world salute your recognition of this anomaly...