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Well, I’m back. Or so think the chattering ULTRAVIOLETs. It’s never occurred to them that I might have been here all along; watching, manipulating. Letting them think I’d gone. Just the way I planned it.

Mind you, they’re right about some things. Farg has returned. I’m not sure where he’s been or what’s he’s been up and that’s worrying. But now he’s back and it shouldn’t be too hard track his movements from herein; just follow the trail of destruction.

Since I’ve been ‘elsewhere’ both Takyn and Saul have moved most of their activities to other sectors. Good. Takyn’s talents did great things for PLN Sector and The Computer; and himself. But he was just a little too good when it came to hacking the network. And I never did get over the feeling that Saulres was just plain crazy. I’ll miss them both but I’ll sleep easier too.

Hang on. Just got a priority relay from The Computer. Something about ‘Operation Ironside’. Well, well. I bet this is Takyn’s work. A little welcome home gift. No, no… This looks like it has its origins in one of those experimental mechanical Compnodes out in the far west of the city. I thought we’d closed them down years ago, along with the R&D tool that came up with the idea. I better read the rest of this.

Justice… Fair trial… Jury… OK, this all sounds as whacked out as Farg on Fizzwizz but I haven’t got time to re-route this Idea Packet to the Recycling node in BIN Sector. Let me just read the rest of this…

…. Sleeping arrangements. WHAT? This is outrageous!

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So they thought I was stupid? So they thought I had no style? While they pointlessly plotted against each other thinking I was just a boot licking peon I was hard at work. That’s right hard work. Years stacking shelves in warehouse #20/F. Shelves that proved to be the ladder to getting my hands on the ~Master~ stock list. I still haven’t begun to explore all of the possibilities inherent in items such as: Item 54-t-2223-A-Farg-001

The description field is blank but apparently it takes up over 2000m2 of warehouse space in subsector QNG. ~Airconditioned~ warehouse space on a triple redundancy service feed.

Item A002-d3a-ex-uv-mach-01-mk1 proved to be the most important of my early explorations. Time travel IS possible. Truth is we all do it all the time. Going forward is not a problem. Going backwards is the hard nut to crack. That probably best explains what this device was doing carefully packed away in space nominally sub-let to R&D. A thick manual full of obvious errors and fifty test subjects later and I know that this is a variable diameter time supression field. Talk about ’set and forget’. That egregious bufoon Jazzer seemed to have some related technology that made his supression problematic but operation ‘UV Winkle’ was working like a charm until the power went out. Maybe setting up the one to get CPUer to maximum range was a mistake. Maybe it was something else.

Speaking of something else. Who would have thought that the original installation matrices were kept in stock? That’s where I got this software backdoor from. So easy to use and now, as far as I can tell, I have full root access to the big C. Fun days ahead.

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Stupid machine

Reboot of the past?

***Unauthorized uplink detected… %#%#%#%ERROR… internal date/time does not synch with the central compnode… 121219236 second discrepancy… Secondary Authorization Requested for time synch override… Authorizatio%#%#%#%ERROR… backlog of account updates detected… backlog size 33672 hourly updates… please select: 1 apply quickfix, 2 autoapply individual updates, 3 manually authorize all updates… you have selected Peronal Quarters… applying quickfix… deleting priority B and lower updates… creating new account… Welcome Citizen CPUreaucrat.

And so the final wall has been breached. At last, I’ve found my way into the UV private journals section of the compnode. I knew it was a matter of persistence, even if it did require four yearcycles and a system crash. Those must have been the toughest security measures Jazzer put up anywhere in the sector.

OK, crashing the central compnode was a bit of a risk, but HEL, what in life that’s worth anything isn’t? The return of Jazzer and Fargmania was totally unexpected though. I’m still not sure what caused them to reappear at this moment. I don’t believe in coincidence. Certainly not when those two are involved.

The sudden increase in activity rates and efficiency cancels the massive drag we’ve been experiencing ever since their disappearance, but can hardly be explained by a mere system reboot. Odd events happened in those days. Singlestone-I’s theory seductively allows for an explanation through its time paradox if, yes, IF those events would have induced a time disruption. The creation of a separate time dimension implies the creation of a parallel reality. Given the law of conservation of energy, the energy available for each reality is then reduced by a factor equal to the number of parallel realities to the power of two. Ultimately, ever more realities would eventually cause the life, the universe and everything to come to a complete stop.

No use in following a madclone’s ramblings. This is all rubbish. Time travel is impossible. There are simply too many holes in any scientific theory R&D and their predecessors have come up with over time. The only thing that happened back then was a sizable explosion, nothing Alpha Complex hasn’t experienced before. Certain subsectors remain inaccessible to this day. Plenty of opportunities for resourceful UVs to go into hiding. But what has been worth it for egos that size to vanish utterly for so long? And what makes this very moment so vital for their return? These trials are obviously no more than a smokescreen. Let them, it buys me time to find out what’s really going.

UV Mem Node Reactivation Sequence — Execute!

***Authorized Uplink Detected… 1 days since last login… %#%#%#%ERROR… internal date/time does not sync with the central compnode… 121219236 second discrepancy… Secondary Authorization Requested for time sync Override… Authorization confirmed… Citizen Fargmania, please select which timeclock to reset: for Personal Quarters press 1, for Central Compnode press 2… you have selected Personal Quarters…. Synchronizing…. 1403 days since last login…

Something is terribly wrong.

The last thing I remember clearly is the explosion - it should have vaporized half the sector. But instead of decanting, I woke up here… in the dark. No hum of conditioned air, no flashing lights, no buzzing bots… no Computer!

Nothing at all.

At first I thought I had somehow survived the explosion and was experiencing the difficult aftermath. But then the power came back on (one agonizing subsector at a time), and the voice of Jazzer (not the Computer!?) crackled over the loudspeaker and assured the masses in comforting tones that all was well and that extra rations of cold fun were authorized for all. It was like nothing had happened.

Or perhaps… it was like too much had happened. What the HEL happened?

And I’ve had a terrible time getting my terminals to synch-n-link with the rest of the complex. My anti-virus software alone has 66 thousand terabytes worth of updates still downloading. And this ridiculous time lag on everything in this room. And *only* this room. And my cMail inbox - filled with over 50 thousand messages… It’s like my entire quarters was ripped out of the ground with me in it, and… um… ripped out and…

…and… flung into…

no.

I refuse to believe that. Explosions don’t do that. Time travel is impossible - I’ve read the science at every possible clearance level. Farg old buddy, you are not buying into Jazzer’s story after everything you went through. There is clearly another answer. I’ll just play along with his little game for now, sit through his trials, and bide my time.

Surveillance Entries Upload #2

Entry 00002140402.1.065509: I can’t believe I let myself get distracted by saulres’s secsoc witch hunt. At least it’s over. Back to this conspiracy business with Jazzer. I must get an unfiltered feed from his office to see exactly what is or is not going on in there. My supply of nano-spybots arrived today. Each one of the 15,000 bots has full video, audio, spectral and radiological displays. I’ll launch them tonight to penetrate Jazzer’s flimsy security, and hopefully a few will get through.

Entry 00002140402.1.231705: The spybots are off - fly my pretties!! I’ve done some sample feedback, and the transmission is 100%. Awaiting results…

Entry 00002140403.2.113615: Pinhead-sized spybots sure take their sweet time to cross a courtyard! The first wave arrived about an hour ago - the defense shield fried all of them, but the second and third waves got several bots through the screen. Other defense systems kicked in, but no alarms were sounded, which is good. All in all, I got 3 bots on the inside. More than enough. They are taking up positions in the corners of the office now - I should be able to grab some quality feed anytime now.

Entry 00002140403.2.150029: These readings make no sense. I’ve got full video and audio, and as far as I can tell it’s really Jazzer in there. He paces, he sits, he mumbles irritatedly about tardy subordinates. I’ve known that clone for too many years - you can’t fake that twitchy eyeball. I’d hazard that it could be a recording (albeit a really long one) except I’ve pretty much ruled out that possibility thanks to the spectral analysis. The results positively confirm that he’s really in there, except… the spectral report is incomplete. It’s like parts of Jazzer are missing, but if that was really the case, he’d be dead. He’d have cloned by now. He wouldn’t be in there cooking up ways to fry Pseudo’s brain in hot oil. This just raises more questions than it answers. And the radiological report is off the charts. It’s not just gamma contamination - it’s like the sensors are maxed out. There is so much radiological activity in that room, that they can barely take any readings at all. I’ve never seen anything like it. Much more of this, and *my* eyeball will start twitching.

Entry 00002140405.4.195644: A few covert conversations with R&D have given me a great idea for gathering more data. Apparently if I flood the CCC with heavy isotopes, they’ll react in very specific ways to the radiological activity. The patterns will be very unique, and will give a clear indication as to what the radiation is coming from. After my R&D crew did such a bang up job with my Obviator Supra, I’m confident that this idea will yield some very good results. The isotope flooding begins tomorrow. Not quite enough time to evacuate the surrounding buildings, but… oh well. I’ll make sure the sector docbots are stocked up on anti-rad meds. *snicker*

Entry 00002140406.5.093622: Only five minutes after I released the isotopes, and I’m already seeing an interaction. The pattern is incredible. It also looks very familiar. Something from my quantum hyperphysics training, perhaps? Hmmm…. but that can’t possibly be right. It would mean th….4ygy7e3 ***UPLINK SEVERED ERROR***

Done

All the reports are in now. The societies are finished. Psion, PURGE, the FE splinter. All of them. Project SSE if finished. That first round, done so long ago (it seems), when we cut them in half. That small second one, when I redirected Quend-R-LON’s decanting to my own private chamber and took Control of Anti-Mutant. (Heh. I love my own puns.)

And now this final push, which also shut down the re-established FE. PLN Sector is free from the taint of secret societies. Ah, it feels good. Our projections show treason in our sector should be down 31.87%. And we only needed 25% to win our bet with the UVs of OMD Sector!

That’s two years in a row we’ve won. When we bet on no winner in last year’s funball match, they never expected Takyn to shut it down. Brilliant!

Now those ORD UVs will have to pay up. I can’t wait to hear what their sector says when they’re wearing PLN hats for the next two weeks!

Hmm… I wonder what the challenge will be next year?

Acquired

Got him.

He followed the trail perfectly. The helmet’s on, the link’s in place. All is good. He’ll do himself in.

Ran all the tests I could think of on this diary, and I know it’s secure. He hasn’t compromised this, at least. The PDC was something else. Sneaky of them, stealing a legit one and cloning it. I should’ve figured it out. No big deal, though. Nothing was compromised.

Not for lack of trying, though. Good thing I had that one dummied up for him. He’ll never know the difference.

Girdag’s more valuable than even he imagines. I let him keep the hack for future needs.

All is good. Plan SSE is almost complete.

Surveillance Entries Upload #1

Finally I can get to the bottom of this Jazzer madness. Where did he go? What is he up to? There’s always an angle, so let’s find out what it is.

Entry 00002140317.2.150706: Powered up the standard spycams today. Thermal, radiation, sonic pulse, x-ray, ionic, doric, and corinthian. Jazzer’s office is shielded, but surprisingly it’s only the bare minimum. That place would barely survive a tacnuke. It’s as if he slapped it together in a hurry, and forgot to finish the damn thing. Come to think of it, that’s not surprising. The question comes back to “why”? My scans confirm two lifeforms inside, but the standard scans don’t penetrate more than that. Exterior cam records show that the last two clones to enter the office were Pseudonym and Jazzer. But, all this can be easily faked. I’m flooding the courtyard with neutrinos for 12 hours or so. Then some of the more sensitive equipment should be able to get in there.

Entry 00002140318.3.071222: The Neutrinometer successfully peeled back a few layers. I was able to confirm that Jazzer is, in fact inside his office. There is an odd deviation from the normal reading, but I’d recognize those nervous facial tics anywhere. It’s Jazzer all right. Pseudonym left some time yesterday during the neutrino bursts. Exterior cams and the locato-clothing both confirm that he’s currently in R&D. But Jazzer hasn’t left. What is he doing in there? Is this an act? Have I been duped?? I need to peel back more layers.

Entry 00002140318.3.183359: Damn and blast! These neutrinos inhibit half of my sensors! Pseudo returned earlier with a scientist from R&D. Lovethe-B-OMB-23 is a well known R&Der, demoted from VIOLET for accidentally poking a hole in space. According to the records, we’re still plugging that rip with a 600 ton titanium alloy block every 2.6 months just to keep Alpha Complex from being sucked through a dimensional rift smaller than my finger. His transfer to our sector was a condition of his demotion. My damned brilliant neutrinos inhibited me from keying in on the conversation! Jazzer was angry - I could tell that much. He sent the two of them out. I lost them as soon as they left the courtyard. Is that another neutrino malfunction? The locato-clothing should have been readable from my PDC, but I’ve got nothing but static. Maybe I’m being jammed… or maybe I give Sir Neatfreak too much credit. I guess I’ll know more when the neutrinos dissipate.

Entry 00002140320.5.060244: I’ve located Pseudo - he’s in R&D. Lovethe-B’s whereabouts remain unknown. The Computer’s records don’t even show him in the sector. Of course they could be tampered with… damn. I’ve finally got a lock on Jazzer at least. Right down to his vitals, thanks to a few leaks in his shielding system. Still reading that deviation from normal, though… I’m compiling a record of data now to determine if there is any pattern to the anomaly.

Entry 00002140322.7.221316: Compilation of data denies the existence of deviation??? That’s impossible! The data readings are clearly wrong!! Also something is clearly wrong in that office. It’s been nearly a week and Jazzer hasn’t left even once. I’m gonna fire up the Obviator Supra - I don’t *care* what the power consumption is! R&D assured me that the Obviator has been tested thoroughly, and that the user is shielded from the deadly levels of radiation it generates. Of course, I’m sure no one else is…. heh. So according to the instruction manual, this thing will monitor all active surveillance equipment simultaneously, while at the same time running its own concurrent barrage of intelligence gathering. As it compiles the data, it will catch everything that is so painfully blaringly obvious that no one notices it, and present its findings. Smugly present them, I’d wager. If the R&D design team weren’t so certain that I’d erase all their templates, I’d also wager that this pile of junk couldn’t analyze a cube of cold fun. Well, in either case I’ve reached that level of desperation where I’d stand on my head and sing patriotic songs if I thought it would help. I might as well see if this Obviator is worth a damn.

Entry 00002140326.4.082241: Let me just start this entry by tipping my hat to the folks at R&D. All their shortcomings are overcome with achievements like the Obviator Supra. It’s a pity that the thing uses almost 18% of the sector’s power resources. That’ll be hard to cover up, hehe. The vent system suffered some outages, but reports of asphyxiation were fairly minimal. Anyways, the Obviator report blew my mind. The reason my data compilation showed no anomalous readings, is due to the fact that over time, the readings are designed to average out to the norm. Yes…. DESIGNED. How does one design breathing rate? Heart beats? Body temperature? Brain waves? I’ll tell you how. By faking it. Brief periods of implausible readings followed by careful measured readings that create a plausible report. I doubt Jazzer is in that room at all! HE NEVER WAS! It’s all part of some damned conspiracy, and Jazzer is part of it, and he’s gotten the Computer to be complicit. This is going too far. What the hell is Jazzer brewing up?

Entry 00002140326.4.160628: Saulres has just contacted me about the conspiracy *he* uncovered!! Could we be independently discovering the same thing? He wants to meet and discuss… can I trust him with what I’ve learned about Jazzer?? Hmmmm, not yet. Tread softly, Farg ol’ buddy. Keep this under your hat for now, this could be the endgame.

Title? What are you talking about?

Transcribe? No, I don’t want to transcribe. I want to make a call. Let’s see. Could it be this one?

Argh

So. PLN Sector’s almost been taken over, I’ve been injured, Jazzer’s returned in a semi-delusional state, Farg is blowing things up left and right, the VIOLETs are as uppity as ever, my workers can’t solve even the most basic of problems, and to top it all off, Rex is missing.

It’s not been a good… day? Week? Month? Just how long have I been up?