Vontok System
Former Republic Stargate, Maintenance Access Four
Ring Dynamics Transition Team
“I don’t like it.”
“It’s going well so far. The interface layer reconfigured cleanly to accept standard blue-box protocol.”
“That’s why I don’t like it.”
“Because it reconfigured cleanly?”
“Because it reconfigured too easily. This thing was ripped out of a dead god’s brain with stone axes. That shouldn’t make it user-friendly.”
“Maybe it was built for them.”
“Okay, then, how do you explain the computronium stacks? Big and clunky this isn’t; it’s just got far more parcycles and dataspace than the stargate manager needs. What are they for – and don’t say nothing, and before you answer, remember dead god’s brain.”
“…that’s paranoid.”
“But am I wrong?”
“No, I can’t say that. What are you proposing?”
“I’m proposing we get this meme-gapped and rig the best emergency-destruct package we can that won’t risk kernel integrity, then call in a Probable Technologies forensic eschatology team. And that we shut down all our probes and mapping operations. It’s one thing if the gate goes diagnostic on us; it’s quite another if our pokin’ around wakes up a poison angel or triggers a prompt intellect excursion, and worse yet if it’s a strongly connected one.”
“”Prompt Intellect Excursion”: The name of my Talking Heads cover band.
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