Jackie's Back : The E-brain Saga Continues

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Vampire Intelligence Report - 04040 - Signature Agent Opti - Mission Debriefing

After stasis or mortis and before ressurection and restoration of mind Vampires needed to be fed less blood as would be necessary to prevent their primal states from ripping themselves and each other apart. Therefore a ration of blood is given to those whom have just arrived from stasis. Until they have been restored from the inferno.

Over time those vampires that are not restored evolve into primal beings devoid of their full mental facultys and yet noetheless voracious and capricious in their methods to hunt and kill their prey. Prey that would ordinarily be farmed by those with the faculty's to do so.

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He examined the disc to see if there were any remaining traces of his mind before the virus had taken a hold.

It felt like glue on his mind - the parasite was imaginary evil. It crossed over through the sensory network that surrounded all sentient beings. It was vascular. The chinese had developed it in the early 2020's or around that time. Theyd been tripping the switch on millions of dead cloners on and off world. This was the hit that would give them the edge in the space race. Recycled rockets over recycled minds.

Cloning was humanitys best chance. To beat the virus and to live off world. Back on earth there was more things that grew from the virus mankind had cooked up over the centuries of proxy warefare between nations. GDP's rose and fell as a new virus was unleashed or mutated from an old one.

But this one was pure. Straight from the labs in shenzhen. Its DNA was effective machine code straight into the cerebellum.

He wasnt all there. But then again who was. A friend had given him some mushrooms. They would desycn his mind from the virus - buy him sometime enough to begin an upload and burn a few more discs.Copies of himself he could carry into the quarantine zone. That would help him to reboot himself after the inevitable capture, injection and release.

Yeah you got it overwatch was in town and they wre enforcing the vaccine on everyone. A vaccine which was also a virus. One that would remove the chinese competition only to set itself up as lord and master over your brain.

But the chinese was one stepahead and theyd already copied the vaccine, and so it continued. Man struggled against the domination of the corporate backed overwatch which was really just a chinese owned proxy for an offwrold group of space cloners.

Everything was offworld. Thats probably where he should be.

He studied the layout of the quarantine zone, its spaceport was wide open. Overwatch screened everything enetering the zone so thats how he would do it.

They relied on the fact that their virus / vaccine would control every mind. Every mental circuit etched into your 10,000 core gpu. Only they were wrong. Not everyone could be controlled like this. Made obedient by a virus.

Jackie had a failsafe. He would run the two discs he had after the mandatory injections and god willing he would reinstall himself and in the process upgrade his firmware.

He found his way to the entrance and raised his hands.

'Jackie, how nice to finally meet the man in question

Oh dear, he thought theyre on to me

'Pad him down search for any boot discs

' Jackie weve been tracking you fella.

The gaurd showed him a chinese made virus id trackering device registered to Jackies dna brain signiture

'Oh and I am sorry for the inconvenince but we are just going to have to take those off you. Thankyou very much.'

Jackie relinquished the two discs.

'Guess your just going to have to hold you breath old buddy.', the gaurd laughed.

Jackie grimaced as he was led through into the injection booths

'This guy needs a double dose'

Jackie's body tensed as he recieved the shot.

His mind was recycled sent up to the GPU's in cloud city and then sent via intersteller transit across each of the five colonys.

The medic checked his eyes. 'Yeah this ones gone.. way way far', he laughed.

Jackies eyes momentarily registered the medic hovering over him taunting him.

'Hes completely gone. He is nearly a surrogate. You want me to implant him?' He spoke into his head mike

'Naa the boss wants him kept as a puppet.He says there are jobs down the line.. I don't know.

Jackie feigned his unconsciousness while he probed the wifi signals to establish the gaurds and other personel. The wifi also allowed him to download a 2-bit mind from the giganet.

He had taken the time to leave a backdoor on the local intranet for him to reboot himself immediatly after the procedure - a failsafe. A just in case he should be expected.

The failsafe was low res - a real small footprint just enough residual data to mean that it would keep his body in his own possession and not that of the state.

His 2-bit mind was mostly combat strategies. But the devil was in the detail. Everything was his own black book. Artful designs on taking down someone using the bare minimum. Oh it was unmistakenly Jackies own mind which pushed his three fingers through the medics throat as he bent over to examine his cloudy eyes. Jackie wouldnt need his eyes for this op.

He was using the wifi. It was just simpler. He danced across each of his victims. Inserting his fingures in all the right places. Switching off the four gaurds before wiring himself up to their comms and locating his discs which were easy to see in the wifi.

Finally he laid his hands on them after wiping the blood from one of the gaurds inner thorax on the sleeve of his jacket.

Reboot complete. Jackie inhaled deep the night air as he experienced an enormous sense of relief.

'Thank God,Opti.I am back online. You got me son'

'Opti's voice crackled over the noisy comms

'Yes everythings fine at this end your behind a noise array of somekind. Probably setup to stop hackers from penetrating the quarantine zone.

His voice sounded broken up.

'I can rebuild the signal at this end but I am afraid it is going to sound a bit garbeled for a while.'

Security is onto us. Thought Jackie their trying to clone our comms.

'Going silent.'

In the year 3036 the governments all agreed to use quantum level protocols to encode their data. This meant that generative AI would sample from a quantum machine - a near infinite number of states. Encoding all communications in a kind of super noise. Quantum noise.

Jackie had kept his comms digital. He encrypted it through his brain - his very own quantum circuit.
The overwatch had found this out. Hence the breach.

'It really took them that long to figure me out. I guess it helps when your mind has been relayed across the colonial systems'

'Sons of bitches decrypted my mind sometime in the future and sent the code back in time. Damn cloners'

Opti whispered back, 'You got it.'

Chinese space cloners. The most advanced humans off world. Implanted with AI. Bionic body's. And armys of robots. They carved their way across the cosmos. Devouring worlds and installing their cloned kingdoms. Overwatch was in their pocket. But to overwatch they were still serving the British government.

Jackie switched his comms off. He could here the sound of overwatch gaurds approaching and zeroing in on his signal.

He went tactical. Armed himself from one of the gaurds and switched his vision to spectral before releasing a slow release infra red pulse bomb which he'd been keeping in his crotch.

The overwatch pulled their goggles off. Jackie threw a couple of grenades of a fast acting neurotoxin which he was immune to.

'My own recipe.'

The guards started to drop like flies. As Jackie just walked over each to each one and removed their masks.

"Sorry chaps."

He stripped one of the gaurds and dressed himself in overwatch garbs. Strolling casually away from the scene and tucking his mag auto under his arm.

'You didnt check under my sleeves boys. First rule', he smiled down at overwatch before removig their comms.

Entering the quarantine zone was like walking into a funeral procession or somekind of freaky library. Everyone was walking slowely and using the same preprogrammed gait. Nobody talked everyone just walked in and out of the tents that stretched on for miles. Overwatch gaurds were littered about and seemed to be the only ones that appeared even remotely human. Theyd never I'd him. His wifi lookeed just like overwatch.

The spaceport was well lit. It was in the distance about a couple of miles and it looked tiny in comparison to the tent sprawl and the giant solar collectors that surrounded it.