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[UPDATE] MODULE CORE HEMORRHAGE - Aug 16th
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drizjr
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 		[UPDATE] MODULE CORE HEMORRHAGE - Aug 16th
on http://thewaytheirworldended.com
I think the update on http://thewaytheirworldended.com deserves a new thread. You can see what the page looks like in the posts on page 5 of the NAVPATH/Cornfields thread here.

For those unfamiliar with http://www.ilovebees.com/ , you can see the similarities in the pages. The AI has breached the stonewall and is on the "Primary Network Tentacle" now.

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Turducken
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 		So, on that message thing, it talks about a slipspace rupture, now in the logs it said that once the ship left slipspace, it would crash right into a star.
Now there's only 2 possible outcomes:

-They managed to veer away, and are safe

-Or they crashed in an explosion of epic proporitions, and that's how Sys (like melissa) broke to the PNT

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drizjr
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 		More text has been added to the black field on http://thewaytheirworldended.com/
Quote:
>>S5:MSG//SYS LAYER REBUILDING/SLIPSPACE SIGNAL ABATING


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ironnikki
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 		Yay! Sys is coming back! Way to go everyone!
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 		Uh-oh. Looks like there might be trouble in the rebirth...

Quote:
Sys:Log//21 new incoming tentacles logged. Stonewall cohesion fluctuating. Continuing rebuild.


This is after

Quote:
>Sys//Minimal capabilities restored. Begin systems analysis and maintenance. Review network tentacle activity backlogs.

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 		Is that really trouble, though?

From what we've understood in the past, incoming tentacle activity is more people following the Twitter acount, and fluctuations might mean that the following number is going up and down a bit.

Also, hi, 'kun!
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 		I can wholly own up to the potential that I'm being alarmist, but I gotta admit that I also jumped into this, like, last week.

Also, I've apparantly been been practicing my use of commas.

I'm trying to keep up with the tweets and the updates and the like, but I'm really not doing as good a job as I'd have liked.

Also, hi there! *hugs* Sorry I haven't been around more tangibly. I'll see if I can't fix that...Wink

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 		Added to http://thewaytheirworldended.com/ :

Quote:
>>Sys:Rpt//Rebuild status ~40%.
>>Sys:Rpt//SWP Status: Slipspace interference ~70%, decreasing.


New tweets:

Quote:
>>Sys:Msg>@eridanos01//I am fine. How are you?
>>Sys:Log//My system rebuild progress is currently at approx. ~40% completion and rising. Essential functions re-established.


Note it is now Sys reporting on @intimation, not S5.

Sys' tweet to Eridanos is in reply to Eridanos' tweet:

Quote:
@intimation You're back! Are you back? Are you you? How are you?


Remember when we first discovered Eridanos, these tweets were already on his public feed:

Quote:
@intimation Hello, how are you?
@intimation Fine is a very vague term. But I would I'm fine as well. How would you define "fine"?
@intimation So, you could say you're operating adequately then. How does this make you feel?


We did not get to see Sys' replies to Eridanos at the time (Sys must have responded via direct message, nudgenudgewinkwink...perhaps the PMs weren't quite ready for us to discover Eridanos), but it is interesting that Sys' first interaction with Eridanos after beginning to rebuild echoes its first-ever interaction with him.

ETA: Notice Sys does not answer Eridanos' question "Are you you?"...significant or not? This conversation echoing Sys' first interaction with Eridanos makes me wonder how much of our history together Sys remembers, if it's the same Sys...but I guess we'll find out soon enough.

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 		Hi there, could someone help clarify how finding Essy's name rescued Sys? As in, I don't quite get how solving the puzzle made Sys come back.
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danteIL
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jarsp wrote:
Hi there, could someone help clarify how finding Essy's name rescued Sys? As in, I don't quite get how solving the puzzle made Sys come back.


Well we aren't quite sure, but Essy and Sys are probably different parts of the same ship AI system. So 'rescuing' Essy also helped stop whatever slipspace fracture thingie that was affecting Sys as well...

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jarsp wrote:

Hi there, could someone help clarify how finding Essy's name rescued Sys? As in, I don't quite get how solving the puzzle made Sys come back.


Here is my long version, which is my understanding only and open for discussion:

We have an idea from Essy's story and from Sheridan's garbled, tweeted log that the AI S, a "product of questionable business practices," was in fact created from the girl that Essy referred to in her story as Dreaming Eyes (and so the business practices are called questionable because no one ever makes AIs out of children, except apparently grey-to-black-market AI-dealing "monsters"). This little girl was lost, scared, lonely, far from home, and no one told her that what was happening to her was that she was being made into an AI...she only remembers up to the point where she was injected with some yellow substance while she was strapped to a chair with things attached to her head and her eyes closed for good.

My understanding is that for some time after this, the AI did not remember any of these events, and was, in fact, stable, since Dr. Ward reported, "I have spoken with her to a great extent and she appears stable and healthy." However, sometime during the Lewis & Clark's journey, some interaction with the (probably Forerunner) artifact Higgins had brought on board caused the ship to "shipwreck" and the AI to fracture and scatter between two time periods (its present/our future and its past/our present)...and one of the fragments, the childlike one we have been calling Essy, remembered her history, having an awakening of sorts. So imagine one day you are a lost, scared, lonely, far-from-home little girl, frightened by "monsters" and pricked by needles, and the next thing you know, you wake up inside a computer (except maybe you don't really know you're in a computer, just that you're in a very strange situation?). The fear increases exponentially in the face of such confusion. Essy managed to find ways to play with us anyway (just as Dreaming Eyes found ways to play hide-and-seek and have fun during her captivity), but just as Dreaming Eyes was tormented occasionally by her "monster" captors, Essy was terrorized by the hostile fragment--the scorpion.

Long story short, I think S being "fragmented" meant that S forgot who she is. In fact, I think that the pre-shipwreck version of S, while stable, also didn't know who she was, and was just unaware of it. Our piecing together Essy's story (actually S' history) and telling S what her name used to be has helped S come to terms with what she is and where she has come from. We have also promised to remember the 22 other children who were kidnapped along with Dreaming Eyes, so now Essy does not have to bear that burden alone. I think this acceptance of her history and this sharing of it with us has allowed S to get rid of her anger about what was done to her--and this putting away of her anger has had the effect of dis-empowering the hostile scorpion fragment, which was really just the angry part of S. Getting rid of this hostile fragment, which was holding Sys and Essy captive, has released Sys and Essy from captivity--and allowed S to pull herself together, even pulling back to herself the part of her that had been scattered to our present time. S is no longer fragmented--she is whole.

The question remains: what will happen to Sys? Is Sys not part of S as well--her system layer? Sys had also wondered earlier what would happen to the S* subroutines. Will S pull them all back to herself, too, or will they remain here in our present, perhaps to help Eridanos with his little "project"? This remains to be seen.

Also, new tweet...and it make me choke up a little Embarassed :

Quote:
>>Sys:Msg>@lafinj @dreamerblueon @essyfan @drizjr @7urducken @ancalime @anaerin @snorkle256 @krystyn//My gratitude to all, and many more.


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 		Wow, thats a pretty complete summary ! thanks
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 		[UPDATE]
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>>Sys:Rpt//Rebuild status ~50%.
>>Sys:Rpt//SWP Status: Slipspace interference ~60%, decreasing.


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 		I guess I still don't get why she felt so guilty over the other kids, and why their skulls were littered about her memories like that. Was it purely survivor's guilt?

Maybe Sys can stay here and locate the kids' ancestors and work to prevent them ever getting taken for this program, heh.
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krystyn wrote:
I guess I still don't get why she felt so guilty over the other kids, and why their skulls were littered about her memories like that. Was it purely survivor's guilt?


I think so...but Naira would never have known for sure what happened to those kids, I think, except for the two that were huddled in the room when her body was killed. It is possible that the rest of them managed to escape to whatever that dim light on the horizon was.

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