[punxtr]

That was an educated guess. Sorry for misleading everyone.

Some correspondence with Dan:

punxtr wrote:

I'm still here. It's funny, you said "re-manufacturing our prototype." First, because manufacture means made by hand, literally; and yet referring to the large-scale operation of building and assembling, in modern usage. Second, because, in modern usage, a prototype is usually not built in the thousands, but usually in the ones. A lot of contradictions to think about! Sorry, Genus' time contradictions had me geeking out as well. So, I don't know much more to tell you. I can't contact the Jhuku Kid. I think Emily is the mystery person texting me. I hope she responds soon. She seems to be much better at playing cat and mouse at this point.

Daniel wrote:

Haha, yes, I did use manufacture in the sense that we've updated the prototype so we'll need to create a couple of copies in an automated way. Not in the sense of having hundreds or thousands manufactured, but I think you get the point. You see, the intergalactic-capable ships we're building is funded by major governments, which I won't disclose who exactly but I think you already have an idea who we usually deal with. Our copy of the prototype was the one "lost" because Genus used it. While there are also some other copies of it stored somewhere we don't know where by our clients. Of course, it is also possible they they might have also put it to test and sent it away in space. However, without a Deep Space Network, communication is impossible, so I don't think they'll use the prototypes for long term objectives. Plus, there's no spare parts if anything goes wrong. Our manufacturing systems are fast, so we can build probably 1 ship in 2 weeks. But, we can't build more than one at a time, due to the fact that we also manufacture other things for the company & clients, and our products. Of course, we have our "backdoor" over the prototypes. We can "deactivate" a prototype if we deem they're not being used properly or if they get into the wrong hands. Keeping company secrets especially about prototypes is a very big deal. I know I shouldn't be disclosing this information, but hey, you guys have the "right-to-know" due to the situation we're facing. The first, of the third version, prototype should be done in a few days. The parts will be sent over to space command and then assembled. From there, we'll be testing the updated drives. I just hope Jean get's her work up and send over their next-gen power generation systems so that they can be fitted on the new ship.

[zeighy]

New stuff on /lainsy

Code:

=== Logical Artificial Intelligence Network Systems === # # # Future Advancements and Innovations Laboratories # # Technologies -- FAILTECH # # # # LAINSY v3.02.073.30561 # # Build Name: Scarlet # # # # LAINSY Development Team # # # ======================================================= ======= LAINSY SYSTEM LOG ONLINE REMOTE ACCESS ======== POWERING UP PRIMARY SYSTEMS . . . COMPLETE Processing new boot system . . . DONE * New boot system installed Preparing for OS update . . . DONE Loading Update Loader Files . . . DONE Inspecting system . . . DONE Loading hardware configuration information . . . DONE Initializing update . . . READY Configuring hardware . . . DONE Updating System . . . * This step can take hours to complete . . .

Looks like she's going back up, and an uodated version... Hopefully something that is still helpful without the the use of dealy weapons... However, I still wish ahe avrually killed pedro... Lol

[duke9509]

Also, on the OOG blog:

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I know we haven't used this site, OR the wiki site. Neither did we announce the beginning of Episode 4! OMG, where has time went? We don't know either, let's ask Genus about that. Heh! Anyways, we're now at Episode 5! Roughly 2 months that this ARG is up and running! What do we plan to do after all of this over? Wait, will this ever end? I don't know. One way or another, this season will end. We have plans, and hopefully there's still people who would take part in making history. Also, we have our official ARG "merchandise" shop where you can get some stuff from us and support this ARG. Maybe to show some appreciation. We don't know. If you do plan to buy something there, we thank you in advance and we hope you enjoy your purchase! Right now, nothing much is of any interest. We'll be getting a couple of design artist to do some artwork for us. Probably do some custom designs as well. If you want some custom design FAILTECH merch, please don't hesitate to contact us! Oh, yes, the link for the merch si here: http://www.cafepress.ca/failtech They are very reputable, and if you are not satisfied with your purchase they will be very happy to take it back no questions asked. Which sound great for us, and for you. * if you have some design ideas, please send them in. And if we do use your design, we'll send over one for free. Yes, we'll be adding some more shirt designs with some FAILTECH themes in them, such as how great it is to work with FAILTECH, or Arnold the cleaning robot refuses to clean.... Something of those extent. Anyways, enjoy episode 5! We look forward to the introduction of the detective work puzzle for you guys! P.S. We don't get much profit from this, the price you'll see is roughly the base cost of the actual product if we buy it from them. We do this so that they remain affordable. We don't aim to get profit form this, but the small income will help us keep everything up and running.

[godder]

Ok, got some emails to share. I'll post them in the order I got them. First, from Daniel...

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Ok, we setup the long range sensors and we've got a signal. It's weaker than i thought so we can't pin-point his location. Also, I got the email from Genus. Is he really serious that we need to get the Deep Space Network up soon? It takes time! We do have the Equipment built, however, Jean is behind her power cores for it. You know we can't use regular solar panel as they won't work in deep space. Plus, getting the Galactic Relay Stations (GRS) in place needs a lift to get there. We can't just have them reach where it needs to be in an instant. In fact, we're working on the Galactic and Light Drives for the ships we're building. Now that I mentioned, yes, we're building ships... To go to space. And yes, Genus did take one of our prototypes with him when he left. We were just about to start the test, soon, when the Space Command Facility is fully ready.. However, this year's summer incidents made Space Command operate ahead of schedule. Well, at least Genus did prove that the Galactic Drives work for long distance travel, and the Light Drives for sub-light travel. I know I sound all geeky right now, but that's how the scientists explain things to me. We're still in the process of re-manufacturing our prototype and hopefully get one up running soon. We still need Jean's power cores, however. Anyways, do you guys have any other information that may help me in locating this 45459? You guys haven't contacted me, or any of the Directors lately, so I'm worried if something happened to you guys. Are you guys ok? Or has the baddies got up with you? I hope you are all ok. -- Daniel Miller Board of Director, FAILTECH

And the NetSpec...(I asked about Genus and Emily and the story of him giving her the love note cipher. So this isn't Emily, but her protege...

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Well, I can understand that of course. It means determination. If you persist, no matter how hard the task is you can do it. I learned that from my mentor. Although, she's been away for a while. I suppose you know her if you have a direct and exactly accurate quotation of her "famous" line. And yes, that line indeed relates to Genus Orein very well, or so she says.

And an OOG email from the PM's...

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Hello! (Yep, in case you haven't noticed that's the FAILTECH standard greeting) We know Episode 4 dragged longer compared to the other episode we've done so far, however, it is due to the decline of people participating and intervals between responses. We do understand why, and that's why we've adjusted the story along so that we keep things interesting at a good pace without going too fast or too slow. Yep, we're at Episode 5! Horay! A lot is going on and there are things needing to get answered. We know we probably confused people when 45459 was introduced, but we think it was key to the mystery about him if he was introduced externally. We almost thought no one would notice the ads, then BAM! If 45459 didn't came up soon enough, we probably introduced him some other way. Also, no episode breaks this time. Yep, it all goes through. You ask, "When will this all end?" Honestly, we don't know either! We hope you are all still having fun! FAILTECH ARG Team P.S. More puzzles* coming up! *advanced detective work needed

Woohoo!

[Kaelas]

I shared some of my information with Daniel Miller. Mainly that we need Lainsy to keep track of 45459, but also that Pedro needs to be given false information from Lainsy so we can keep him away, He replied with this:

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Wow! That's a lot of information! Thanks! That helps a lot! And don't worry, we're setting up a bypass so that LAINSY has no access to any weapons at all. She won't be doing anything of that kind anymore. Also, your idea about sending false information is a good idea! I'll send it over to the dev team to get that worked on. We'll be booting up LAINSY later today. We're finally getting thing back! And yes, we're finally re-considering how much we should rely on LAINSY. Recently, most problems show up and happens because of our dependence with LAINSY. She's great alright, but we probably shouldn't have depended on her that much.

[godder]

zeighy wrote:

punxtr wrote: Emily has been the one texting us, guys. Oh oh! That's also possible! sorry for double posts guys, editing on my phone is hard... Jut to exciting for me... niw if she's the one texting us, then she's in danger!

Really? How do you know punxtr? I totally believe you, I was just wondering how you found out.

[zeighy]

punxtr wrote:

Emily has been the one texting us, guys.

Oh oh! That's also possible! sorry for double posts guys, editing on my phone is hard... Jut to exciting for me... niw if she's the one texting us, then she's in danger!

[zeighy]

godder wrote:

zeighy wrote: wait, he said he'll be sending us a message to our past? Is that why he sent us the warning message earlier on? Ok, that means we warned him so he warned us now we're warning him. MIND = BLOWN Anywas, yes, I did wish LAINSY did fire her weapon already! And where's Emily?! Don't tell me she did in the facility! So maybe.... she went missing when Genus told her to take of 45459... as a result, LAINSY marked her missing... I suppose... to protect her and 45459... Yeah, when was that warning message again? I just wonder who this NetSpec person is and how they know so much about Failtech and how to get things in and out. Maybe we've known Emily all along.

There is a high probability that netspec is Emily... Like seriously... Network Specialist? LAINSY is a network, she built it, basically... so netspec could be emily! Yay she's alive!

[punxtr]

Emily has been the one texting us, guys.

[godder]

zeighy wrote:

wait, he said he'll be sending us a message to our past? Is that why he sent us the warning message earlier on? Ok, that means we warned him so he warned us now we're warning him. MIND = BLOWN Anywas, yes, I did wish LAINSY did fire her weapon already! And where's Emily?! Don't tell me she did in the facility! So maybe.... she went missing when Genus told her to take of 45459... as a result, LAINSY marked her missing... I suppose... to protect her and 45459...

Yeah, when was that warning message again? I just wonder who this NetSpec person is and how they know so much about Failtech and how to get things in and out. Maybe we've known Emily all along.

[zeighy]

wait, he said he'll be sending us a message to our past? Is that why he sent us the warning message earlier on? Ok, that means we warned him so he warned us now we're warning him. MIND = BLOWN

Anywas, yes, I did wish LAINSY did fire her weapon already! And where's Emily?! Don't tell me she did in the facility!

So maybe.... she went missing when Genus told her to take of 45459... as a result, LAINSY marked her missing... I suppose... to protect her and 45459...

[godder]

Email from genus!

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The Deep Space Network on the Afyg side has now been tuned properly. It should be able to establish a two-way link from Afyg to Terra, that is once the Terran side of the DSN is complete. I urge you to get it up soon. We'll be transferring something important over. Make sure the DSN is made to with particular specifics needed.   Also, kindly remind me what point in the timeline this is. Maybe give me a brief overview of what's happening. I can't wait till the DSN is complete.   P.S. I'm sending this email while sustaining a paradox of me being in two different points in regular space atthe same time. I don't know where the other me exactly is, but I'll be up here for a while for your reply and get back on my regular timeline. It's a bit complicated to explain this, but yes, do reply if you could. I don't know if how long I'll be able to sustain this paradox.

I can send him an update later this morning if no one else has time to do it before then.

Edit: Ok, finally had some time and sent Genus a reply. It kinda rambled, but I was in a hurry.

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So glad to hear from you! So we've been having hell keeping the Jhuku out of harm's way. He is trying to keep on the down low as he travels around trying to stay away from anything Failtech. He ran into some spies who have been watching Failtech and the Byruniuku for some time. They had even been successful infiltrating Failtech, but the individual we have contact with was terminated for asking too many questions. This group took care of Jhuku for a while until he left their company so he couldn't be traced back to them. We are still in contact with them and they seem to genuinely want to help. We trust them as much as we can I suppose. Do you know anything about these people? Recently the Jhuku found himself being tracked by Pedro Jose. Yes we know about him now. Apparently you already knew since you set up a proximity alarm on the two. We were tracking both of them until Lainsy took drastic measures to try to use the EGS to protect the Jhuku, then she was ejected and we haven't been able to track them since. We contacted Daniel and apprised him of the situation. Since Pedro was AWOL and Fred Don wasn't available, the other BOD's met and agreed that they would do whatever they needed to keep the Jhuku safe and help us. We have also received info that tells us that Fred Don may be Byruniuku also. Daniel's team went to the last known location of Jhuku to try to help him, but he had disappeared. Meanwhile, Failtech has been experiencing continued problems and catastrophes. The Atlantic Research Platform was flooded and many people died. We are trying to reestablish contact with the Jhuku right now. How can we release the Jhuku's powers so that he can defend himself? I have some information for you to look at as well. Jean Klein found some pieces of files scattered in a couple of places where they suspect someone has been stealing files. I think you should take a look at it. Here is what she sent us. Orkudusu shall rise again. The Leag& -- * }ll fall and the end shall come. Do not stop the inevitab^ g % #$teration shall save the nieroku of hovago. The Jhuku is tasked to learn and he did well. But the counci ;5$ + e roblem. The calamity shall come and everything will\\ 1 = k"l must resign for there is no other way. Where did this come from? What is the nieroku of hovago? Who must resign?

And I got his reply...

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Ah, looks like hell indeed. I see things aren't going so well as planned. But you guys seem to be handling things quite well. Also, seems like you have found out about the Byruniukus! If I were you, don't worry much about them. They, are not Afyg. However, they are still humans. From the future as well, but they a couple of them got pulled back in time along with the Afyg when their nearby artifical planet was in close proximity with the collapsing Afyg planet. They're good guys, if you think about it. They're just a bit pissed with the Afyg, but the Afyg has already settled things with them. Well, they did because the Byruniukus are much more highly technological then the Afygs, and that until that day they both got sent back in time, the Byruniuku's still has economic, scientific, and cultural ties with the mainstream humans that are our decendants from Earth. I am, however, bothered with the Orkudusu. They're a group of Afygs who has been performing mischievous acts and were actually the cause of why the Afygs were sent into lockdown and isolation in the future. Of course, the future will be completely different now that FAILTECH exists. It's a bit complicated how things work, but both the Afygs and Byruniukus agree that the technological boost human kind has now will be a good thing. It might be wrong in a sense, but they say if I saw the future myself, I would have wished it was quite different. It can be called cheating, but time is a complcated thing. Also, you seem to have found the Jhuku! That's great! Keep an eye on him. I think you already know how important he is, so I don't think I need to explain anything. Also, Pedro is a Orkudusu, not a Byruniuku. Keep him away at all costs! I know I should have done something about this when I was still at FAILTECH, but I did not want to make it obvious I was up to something. Did Emily contact you yet? She's supposed to be taking care of the Jhuku. Nonetheless, Scarlet should be keeping an eye on him as well. OK, the piece of broken text you have seems to be talking about the Legend of the Jhuku. You probablykow it already, but I'll explain it further. I don't know what the great calamity is, but they say it's the future that's inevitable. Unavoidable. But the League of Councils, a group of scientific leaders amongst the most dominant races in the universe (yes, there "aliens" but we shouldn't worry, they're good, most of them), that have united for a common interest of unlocking the secrets of the universe. However, in the future, they will discover about the calamity. They know it's something hard to change, but they still want to prove otherwise that it can be stopped. The piece of text you have is probably talking about how the Orkudusu believes otherwise that the league is foolish to prevent the inevitable. They're like a religious group, no matter how hard you try to convince them otherwise, they will insist on their belief. I have no probalem about that, but they are extremists. They act unwise and perform things that are foolish, such as causing the Afygs to be sent into isolation. The nieroku of hovago is "the timekeeper of hovago". Hovago is another race, and right now, they are already highly technological enough that they can observe multiple places at the same time withouthaving the need to leave their planet. Of course, the Jhuku should check in with the nieruku when the galactic reset needs to be done. They will have to transffer the needed information into him and reset time back. Hovago, however, is very far away. They are one of the oldest race in the universe and they are mostly located near the far ends of the ever expanding universe. Reaching them by regular means is impossible. Which is why Earth needs the technological boost to speed up our technology process and send the Jhuku to Hovago soon. He needs to stay in Hovago until the time comes. Anyways, I'm running out of time. It's only mere minutes since my email was sent and I received this. Maybe my time phase is running slower than in your regular time phase. I'll just probably send you guys a warning about this in your past, which is already done in your point and is a future thing from my point of time. I just hope I send you a proper email. Keeping a paradox is VERY energy consuming and uses up so much energy. Ok, till next time!

Ok, he said Emily was supposed to be taking care of the Jhuku. Do you suppose she was at the facility when it was attacked or whatever? I so wish Lainsy had fried Pedro.

[zeighy]

Wow, no updates over the weekend? Seems like everyone's as busy as I was...

Anyways, new words! hoho! But what do they mean?

[Kaelas]

Well, i'm thinking the devs should be able to add in the commands on bootup or my idea. I'd rather keep remote commands disabled myself so he doesn't mess with Lainsy.

[godder]

Sorry to double post, but I have a couple of emails to share

From Dan...with my email attached at the bottom

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The credentials part, I think I've heard of that from you guys or from Alex. Not sure. Anyhow, Fred being a Byruniuku is quite far fetched. We need some evidence for that. I haven't seen anything he has done that looks suspicious. Well, suspicious things that he never tells us that is. Almost everything he does, he keep us in the loop. Or at least some of us. We'll be observing him as well, since you suggest he may be an evil doer as well. Don't worry, he's not a part of the up coming meeting or and decision making. Thanks for the tip! Daniel Miller Board of Director, FAILTECH On 10/1/2011 1:32 AM, Godder Bier wrote: I have some closer coordinates for you for Number 45459. This is the latest position we have for him.  Be advised though, we have sources that tell us that even Fred Don could be Byruniuku like one of my team members told you about.  That means you need to keep on the down low about this. You never know who might be an evil doer.  Hopefully you can get to him before Pedro or Donstand. We have to protect him at all costs. Oh, by the way, did we mention that he also has the credentials that can be used to turn everything over to lainsy? Here are the coordinates 49.9990 -113.0836

And from Jean...
Edit: sorry, didn't see that for some reason posse