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Faces turned to look at Corky. Wondering what he was going to do next? He moved over to the control panel. So this thing whatever it was, had a knowledge of old generation games? Maybe therein lay the answer to defeating them.
Sephra?
He had tried to make communication with her again but to no avail. IT, had targeted Sephra. The first burst of energy sending her back against the wall screaming. The second one hit the bulkhead. Sephra had phazed, not once but twice. She wanted out of there knowing she had achieved what she had set out to do. As for the Bxfa? What IT had been sent to protect had been compromised. Not that IT had any idea of what to do next. Sephra had the component it had used. Or did she? It was confused. As Hoki had said, it had limited reasoning capabilities.
The Gaisek knew what had happened but was none too concerned. A noise behind IT? Hoki?. Concerned about Sephra? She sensed confusion in the thing. Now arming it’s main device. To self destruct? That would mean a massive explosion that would have effects amplified thanks to the tunnel acting as a container dispersing the full on force outwards, to kill, to maim the Kets she had sent, on their way OUT. Hoki knew she had no choice. She was not happy to do this but there were no other choices she could make.
IT was a copy, a clone. Yet she still struggled accepting that IT was still a living entity. She did NOT want to kill it. Hoki started to move as the Bxfa spun around to face her. She moved her hands and Sephra could see streams of energy wash across it. It turned to dust. She stepped back as the sound of voices penetrated the tunnel. There were the two Monicons. Serenia with seven of her security force. Relieved to see them? Sephra hugged her, carried Hoki on her shoulder as they made their way back to the control center.
It would be Koji that moved to talk to Corky. “We’re too brainwashed, by modern technologies to understand the principles of 1st and 2nd generation real-time units but.“ She leaned in closer. “Some years ago my brother, developed a bypass Trojan, which usurped the main controls on the 2nd generation systems, giving him total control of the core Stratorium structures, he was caught. Thrown out of the Akademy for.“
She smiled, looking around hoping no one could hear her as she continued. “Cheating big time. BUT it had made him a lot of high game scores, on the tacticals, until they realized! Which also means.“ Corky turned to face her “If it worked once, it’ll work again and whoever is behind the Crystal, won’t know about this. A ‘subversive trojan." "Great idea but we don't have the module to do it." She grinned. My brother left it behind. I’ll go get it.“
Koji excused herself, rushing off to return some minutes later. Placing the module into Corky’s hand, whispering to him. “He put them into CroROM chips they can only be read, not amended, or erased.“ Corky looked at the terminals then shook his head, we don’t have the connectors for these to link them into the system.“ He expected a look of disappointment on her face, but was surprised by her smile. She carefully pulled out of her pocket, making sure none of the other Kets could see what it was, to slip it into the palm of his other hand.
He stared at it then back at her. “You realize if you’re caught with this, you can be thrown out of the Akademy?“ She looked at him scrunched her lips as he smiled “Not that I will be telling anyone, because this, might just work.“ He moved over to the control units pulled out some modern Tetronic assemblies, then tagged the module onto one of them.
On top of the board he placed the object she had had in her hand. It now changed from being solid in form, to almost liquid? Flooding the board and the module? ‘Namogenisis’ is the use of a rare, almost crystalline substance called ‘U74E‘ to react with other substances. That reaction triggers a bonding between sensory nodes whatever form they take and adapt to allow a complete link between it and the other components or substances.
In simple terms what is known to us Humana as very FINE almost impossibly ‘INTRICATE’ substrate almagamation. Often used in covert spying equipment and not detected by security devices. Feeding on the energy, as seconds later, it formed a bonded connection between the substrates. Now the circuits flared then glowed as he replaced the Tetronic units. “I’ve piggybacked them, seems to be working.“ The screen went blank then lit up.
“This is a two player game. Please enter your name?“ Other Kets were now staring at the screen totally speechless. Flashing across the screen the distinct VERY distinct RENAIS logo.A warning on piracy? Corky grinned as his fingers entered his name. Then he had to enter a unique Renais code? That might be a problem. Koji was furious. Her brother had said NOTHING about having to enter a Renais code. The game would NOT play without it. Anti piracy at it’s best? Were they about to be beaten before they could even play the game?!
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