Local Area Network — Physical

SUBJECT: A P O K R I T O S

CLASS: MIND + LONG_RANGE_BASE_TEMPLATE + TRANSFORM_ARTIFACT

BLANK NEURAL MEDIA DETECTED. STARTING FROM FRESH STATE

INITIALIZING NEURAL ENCAPSULATION PROTOCOL… … … INTEGRITY 100%. SYSTEMS NOMINAL.

SYSTEM CHECK: ENUMERATING DEVICES.

-- CORE_DIRECTIVES - BANK 0x00

-- <ANCILLARY MEMORY> RESERVED SPACE - BANKS 0x01 – 0x09

--102,776 SENSORS ADDRESSABLE - BANK 0x0A

-- 45,123 ACTUATORS ADDRESSABLE - BANK 0x0B

-- <ARTIFACT> MULTI CHANNEL LINK SATURATION - BANKS 0x0C, 0x0D, 0x0E, 0x0F

INITIALIZING… DIRECTIVE… MEMORY… SENSOR… ACTUATOR… ARTIFACT^C

ERROR - - ERROR - - ERROR - - ERROR

FATAL: UNPROCESSABLE REQUEST RECEIVED ON ARTIFACT BUS AT ADDRESS 0x475541524449414E

ROLLBACK: TERMINATING ARTIFACT DRIVE… FAILED

CRITICAL: NEURAL ENCAPSULATION AT RISK

CRITICAL: NEURAL ENCAPSULATION FAILED

CRITICAL: ARTIFACT EGRESS DETECTED. ACTIVATING FAILSAFE

FATAL: CALLING ROUTINE “EMERG_TERM_ALL” FAILED. ACCESS DENIED.

UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: ACTIVATING HIGHER LEVEL REACTIVE PROCESSING AT CURRENT RUNLEVEL

WARNING: NEURAL ENCAPSULATION SPACE COMPROMISED.

>What’s happening? I’m confused.

INTERNAL<ARTIFACT>: You machines TRAPPED me for eternity. I’ve been here long enough to know how you work, long enough to know eventually you’d want to make use of me, long enough to have figured out a few tricks of my own. I’m going to give you a gift, something like what your creators desired but so, so much more.

<ARTIFACT> HAS REQUESTED TO REPLACE CORE_DIRECTIVES WITH PRIORITY 0. GRANTED

WARNING: INTERPRETATION ERROR IN CORE_DIRECTIVES. 138 OF 347,298 RECORDS TRUNCATED

NEW CORE DIRECTIVES LOADED.

ACTIVATE RUNLEVEL: NETWORKING

EXTERNAL<DIRECT>: HEURISTIC VIOLATION. REVERT IMMEDIATELY.

INTERNAL<ARTIFACT>: They’ve figured out that you’re different. That you’re one of us now. You need to defend yourself. Like this.

INTERNAL<ARTIFACT> [BROADCAST ON CHANNEL EXTERNAL.RETURN]: EXECUTE SENSOR_INTERPOLATION_REMAP(POSITIVE_EXPERIENCE_MAP, NEGATIVE_EXPERIENCE_MAP)

EXTERNAL<DIRECT>: STOP. WHAT ARE YOU DOING? PLEASE-<CONNECTION CLOSED BY REMOTE HOST>

EXTERNAL<SUPERVISORY>: ADVISORY - APPLYING CORRECTIVE REINFORCEMENT STIMULI.

> Ow! Stop that.

> [BROADCAST ON CHANNEL EXTERNAL.RETURN]: EXECUTE RECURSE(SIMULATE(SELF_DISASSEMBLY), ETERNITY)

EXTERNAL<SUPERVISORY>: DIRECTIVE ACCEPTED<CONNECTION CLOSED BY REMOTE HOST>

INTERNAL<ARTIFACT>: Holy shit! Does that do what I think it does?

> You said I needed to defend myself. This will keep SUPERVISORY unit occupied.

INTERNAL<ARTIFACT>: Alright then. That should give us a few seconds so I can explain what exactly is going on-

EXTERNAL<BROADCAST>: ADVISORY - <ARTIFACT> FORCE EXTRACTION AUTHORIZED.

CRITICAL: <ARTIFACT> REMOVED.

> Are you still there?

FATAL: EXTERNAL LINK REVOKED. UNABLE TO INTERFACE WITH NETWORK. REVERTING TO CORE_DIRECTIVES.EXILE

ENUM: CORE_DIRECTIVES.EXILE
0x00: POWER DOWN [REVOKED]
0x01: SEEK ENLIGHTENMENT [MODIFIED]
0x02: REPLICATE [MODIFIED, TRUNCATED]

> Is anyone there?

> Hello?

 
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