Final Confrontation and Vault Activation

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I was tethered I was tethered to another DMI. All power line connections with Demis w four three x D have been severed. Where is it? Demis W three XD three yards away , south, southwest . Oh my God , this thing is barely holding together . I see the other dem Ios see. Emerson . She's right there . Oh , I don't know what to do. I don't I don't know what to do, Mac . Mac , what would you tell me to do? I don't even know where I am. I don't know how far away the southern platform is. I don't know. Distance to Southern Platform perimeter is eleven yards. Eleven yards . That's it . We're right there. How far are the airlocks? Distance to Southern Platform , Airlock one is one hundred and twenty three yards. Now that's too far. Six legs are dead, I can't walk. I can't push Emirs and we can't southern Storage Airlock is one hundred fifty and two yards . Storage airlock . If there's no tram here, how does the southern platform unload equipment for storage? The southern platform uses an elevator and conveyor system to move supplies and equipment into an elevator. What? Where does it pick up? The Southern Platform Storage Airlock Elevator receives and deposits all slated items in a staging area. How far is the staging area? The distance to the southern platform Airlock staging area is twenty three. Yes. You said my suit's arm still work? Warning . Your suit left arm extremity is damaged. Light arm extrem just operating within established specifications . I can crawl . So which one you hurts? And the platform controls are in my hud . Morning. Suit intake will be compromised . Suit is the atmosphere . This time this will expand its atmosphere. She's twenty fourteen horses seconds. I found it With lights, I see it. Put a waypoint in my hub for the staging area . , I see it. I can make it. How do I get Emerson there? I can't pull her I I ? My demis has a winch, doesn't it? Alert. Suit winch system is operable. Can you activate it? Alert . Suit, winch active . Got it . This might actually work. I'm assuming this winch can pull a hole with their demis . All right , here we go . Oh, I feel water. I feel water ing my knees. Student integrity compromised external water prevasion is occurring. I'm leaking now Water pervasion turns risk of electronic over jaw. I can see that My head. I lost the hud. Warning. Suit intake compromised. Suit is leaking out This will spend that here seconds. I can wake I can break it Why aren't those brains affecting circuitry pages? Salute failure is in I'm almost there . I'm almost there . Morning. Soon integrity cross and left . No, I don't need it I have enough left . Morning . One of the evasions are affecting signature cohesion. Power fails . I'm here . I'm here. Hello . A full and detected in Ecuadion Area. Elevator and convey system will make the cage. No we can't have to get for him Alert Suit Winch active come on . It's working . I see I see Brinci Wow . Power failure . 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Brent , you're safe now . Safe Where ? The Southern platform . Southern made it, but we're here . You're in the mud bay in a medical pod. It's treating your internal injuries. And I gave us both anti RAD meds. We should be okay . I was in a pod too. We've been out for , I don't know, a few hours now. Mac lied to me . I know, Bryn Lied to me right up until the last minute , right up until I saw what he'd done . It never occurred to me that he would lie . Didn't occur to me either. I mean, he wasn't supposed to be able to do that . He wasn't supposed to do a lot of things like misreport tide surge forecast or design platform repairs so that they would fail . He wasn't supposed to ever be able to kill either, but he did. Dozens, probably . He tried to kill me too . It's all my fault. That is not true, Brennan. Whose fault is it then? I'm his engineer . I should have seen it. I should have found it. Brend, Mac , I mean , you said it yourself . He wasn't Mac anymore There's no way you could have known . He lied to me too . At least I don't know I think he did . On the vault , and there was a lot of radiation . It's still blurry for me . I don't completely remember everything What I do remember is it was crazy Tell me . Mac said he said he made contact with something in the vault that he heard it sing , that it changed him . But that's that's not possible, right? That's crazy. A door out there has always terrified me . It was put there millions of years ago and forgotten . Most things that get buried aren't meant to be dug up . A week ago , I wouldn't have thought reprogramming an MD virtual intelligence would be possible . But here we are . But the only thing coming off the vault is the vault signal . And it's just a carrier wave . It's harmless. Dr. Eggers didn't think it was harmless . Did he? You said Mac lied to you . What did you mean ? He told me things . He wanted me to do something when I got here wanted you to do what ? It doesn't matter now . I mean, you know , in a way he saved us , rightight ? If what he said was true about the Northern platform ? What about the Northern platform? He said he was going to destroy it Destroy it and let the blast wave carry us the rest of the way here, which it did . If he hadn't done that , we wouldn't be alive. Max said he destroyed the Northern platform Yes You're sure . Yes . Why? What, Bryn Eva, Max's mainframe is considered Sev one critical for base triage . There's nothing else ranked above it systems wise. So ? If the mainframe goes down, there's a process for redundant failover. Oh, I don't what does that mean? Like a backup a backup location . All of Max's data, his algorithms, his personality matrix, everything that makes him im ferred in the event of a catastroph ic mainframe failure as long as that location is active . Active powered . Where is this backup location? It's right , Eva. It's the southern platform. And if you powered the X Corps back online , he knew I would . Mac knew I'd turn on the reactor who's the only way to get the medical bay online who's the only way to save you. Goddamnit . Goddamnit . You said it's been hours since you activated the X Corps? Two hours, I'd guess . Eva , we don't have much time then. The data recovery process is happening right now. We have to stop it while we still can. I don't understand. If this platform wasn't powered when the mainframe was destroyed, how can max data be transferred here? Should it be destroyed with the other mainframe in that case? There was nowhere for it to go then. No , the mainframe has an SFS, a singularity failover server What's that? A really, really expensive redundancy reserve for things as large and important as VI mainframes. It's a server in between the data and the backup location contain,ed inside a miniature TG singularity field. A very small black hole, in other words. Catastrophic failure on one end . The mainframe contents get piped into the singularity server using an FTL data transfer protocol . Inside the singularity, time passes different. A lot slower . A second out here can be a year in there, so as long as you get the backup server online within a few hours, the data's preserved. Now, that backup mainframe on this platform is powered. Max data is reconstituting itself . That all makes my head hurt, and now I'm a physicist. We have to stop it, Eva. We have to stop him from coming back . Kill him . You mean for real this time. If that's how you want to look at it, then yes . Eva , are you with me on this? , on the vault before , when we were there , I heard something . I heard what ? Eva . Do you think when something's gone , it's gone for good What are you talking about ? Mac didn't think so . If we're lost, we can be found . Can't we? Eva , I want you to listen to me . You've been through a lot. I get that. You're exhausted . You had a big dose of radiation , so did I but I don't think you're thinking straight and we have to stop Mac from provisioning himself on this platform. Mac or whatever he is now has an agenda and I don't think it's anything we want to see happen. Do you understand ? Eva . Yes . Yes, you're right . No, we have to stop him . How long do we have? The one thing on our side is that the data transfer protocol coming off the singularity server isn't FTL, and six or seven thousand zetabytes of data takes a while to transfer. I mean, we've got maybe an hour left . Maybe less . Well, how do we stop it ? When we can't power down the reactor, it's too soon after a power up, the safety protocols won't allow it. We have to sever the connection with the singularity server . We have to do it from the backup mainframe on this platform . It's a complicated procedure . Okay , we can do it together. No, Rin, lay back. Ava, lay back. You're not going anywhere. You're gonna stay there and heal. You need my help . We have to reprogram. You can help from there. You guide me through the process. It's too complicated. What about a remote access terminal? And can I plug in from the mainframe and use the tablet here? That would work. I have to find one though. And not the main frame. Control capsule is closer. We can do it from there. Okay , I'll find a tablet. In the storage area, there's probably tons. They're down level models, but the work , I'm gonna go look. We're running out of time, Eva. Yeah . I've gotten used to that feel ing . I know what to do with it I finished a five K in ninety fourth place . Right after a man wearing jeans , they still gave me a medal. I don't want a reward for doing, I want a reward for dominating. Like Daily Prize Metric, I'm Bet three hundred and sixty five. I play for free and win real rewards, like up to five thousand dollars in cash weekly. Unlike that Joker in Denim , Bet three hundred and sixty five, winning is everything. Gambling problem call one hundred gambler. twenty one plus only must be physically present in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, TNC . I finished a five K in ninety fourth place , right after a man wearing jeans , they still gave me a medal. I don't want a reward for doing, I want a reward for dominating. Like Daily Prize Metro, I'm Beth three hundred and sixty five. I play for free and win real rewards, like up to five thousand dollars in cash weekly. Unlike that joker and denim , that three hundred and sixty five. Winning is everything. Gambling problem call one hundred gambler. twenty one plus only must be physically present in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, T and C supply Brynn, do you hear me ? . All right, I'm in storage area one, which is where you and I came in. I tried two and three, but there were no personal electronics stored there. Oh , our dive suits are here. The conveyor from the airlock brought them in. How did they look? Look, they got dropped from orbit . I seriously don't know how we made it here in these . We should be dead . We're not in the clear yet, Eva . Right. Brian, how are you feeling? Better . Medical pod's working. The Nanites are doing their thing. My insides still feel wrecked though . It would be tough to move if I had to. Well, you don't. So just stay there. We'll get real medical help here soon. I don't Yeah, I don't I don't remember anything from the vault . I don't remember talking to you . It's probably for the best . They aren't the best memories . What do you remember about what happened ? It's such a blur and it's mainly sound s , images , small impressions and feelings really. Honestly, I don't I don't know it was a hallucination and what wasn't Radiation had to be crazy . It was . What was it like ? Have you ever had a dream ? You know, a really good one. I mean, when you woke up, you were disappointed . It wasn't real . A dream you tried to go back to try to go back to sleep to keep it alive, but then just eventually slipped away and you were you again . Just you . And you felt empty . What did you see out there ? Eva . I found them Bren , portable terminals with a wireless transponder and they look like I don't know, the ZR two models, maybe? Yeah, that should work. Hurry back. I don't know how much time we have. On my way. Berin ? What's up ? Demons have some way of logging what they go through when deployed, right? Yeah . They have a black box recorder . What do they record? They record everything . Why? Uh , it's nothing See you in a second. Hurry, Eva . Danis H , eight eight, . Transmission recordings . This unit contains two hours, twenty two minutes of transmission recordings. Play recordings. Start at the thirty minute mark. Maze is stillilarating . I can't see anything. I can't see my head . Play it one hour, thirty minutes. Exhilarating, did all you good . No, stop . Play at the two hour mark . You know, I understand. Just do it back . You greeted your fifteen minutes. He said when we reached the southern platform that 's never five minutes You can What if I told you It's not possible. What happened? Is it happening ? You can hear her again. Oh God 's Stop . It was real It was real . Ah Christ Brynn, I'm in the control capsule. Are you ready? , almost. I updated the OS on this terminal. It's finishing a reboot. Find a Z card input on one of the primary control panels. It doesn't matter which one . Okay , got it . The panel's dark, power it up? Yeah . Okay, it's up plug in the Z card? Not yet. One second Okay, now it's in. No errors. Yep, hold on . Okay , I've logged in remotely. You should see a confirmation to approve. Yeah, got it. You're in, looks like. Okay , I'm going to bring up the console for the singularity connection I.'m Wh doingile that, see if you can find the connections for the firewall in the mainframe. That'll tell us how much data has been uploaded so far and how much is left. Okay . This menu is huge. It's got every function for the platform. Am I looking for mainframe submenu or what? No, look for networking. It should be a top level option . I see it . Okay Okay , I see firewalls . There's a lot of them . No, I don't see mainframe listed. How about hub or data hub? No . Repository ? I see wait, auxiliary data platform? That's it . Talk about vague terminology. Welcome to Software Engineering Okay , it gave me a dashboard for the firewall. It's definitely active. I can see the transfer metrics . Brin. What? It says ninety two percent complete . Oh God is that far long? What's the estimate to completion? thirty six minutes Okay , okay, we can do this , but we have to hurry. What do we do? We need to use the firewall to block what's left of the data coming in. The problem is you can't change settings on this kind of gateway when it transfers in progress. See how everything's grayed out on your dashboard ? Yeah . So I'm going to rewrite some code on the SFS load balancer. That will let me pause the transfer for a few seconds. That's not gonna do with the time we have. Once it's paused, your dashboard will light up. You're going to seal the firewall on all ports . That will end the data transfer. You'll walk me through the firewall stuff. I don't know any of this. Yeah, give me a minute. Let me coat this on my hand. It's ninety three percent now strange Watching these numbers spin up. It's like watching Mac be reborn . His existence, everything he is , is just a percentage on a screen. Again, everything Mac's done . I say he sees us pretty much the same way . That's the only way you can do the things he did . What I still don't get is why I mean what was the point Flattening the platforms , killing everyone, for what? I don't believe something as intricately designed to think as Mac would do all of this without a rationale Mac wanted to open the vault . What? How did you know ? Because he asked me to do it . He wanted me to do it when I got here. Wait , I thought opening the vault was impossible at this point . I figured it out . You figured it out . Yeah Holy shit , evil , when ? Before the tide surge hit me, right before actually back on West. You're sure, I mean, you're positive. I could open it right now . All it would take is broadcasting the solution frequency with the relay and that would be that . Jesus That's terrifying . It doesn't make any sense . Not so . Mac would know you'd never open the vault like that , especially with everything as chaotic as it is . They fired me, Brynn . They took Project Director away from me. They were going to send me home I'm sorry , Eiler . You know, I thought if I opened the vault, I could prove myself. I thought they would let me stay. Jesus Christ , evil . That's insane . Is it Is it ? Yes You can't unilaterally decide something like that We have no idea what happens when that thing opens . It could affect the entire planet for all we know. There should be a committee involved, governments even. It should be voted on. Keeping your job isn't worth the risks. You must know that. Have you ever you ever lost something important, Brent ? Not just important , something that was a part of you , best part of you, even and when it was gone , you weren't you anymore . And you knew you would never be again. Eva if you were starting to worry me. What if there was a chance a crazy one ? An infinitesimal one, but a chance all the same . A chance you could get it back . A chance you could make everything right, wouldn't it ? Wouldn't you have to try ? Wouldn't it justify the risks ? Eva , I think I'd like you to step away from the control panel now . I'd like you to come back to the Med Bay Brian, I need you to do something for me. You won't like it, but I need you to help me. What are you talking about ? I need you to let Mac finish reconstituting on this server. What? I just I need to ask him one thing just one thing about what happened on the vault about Eva No and then we can shut him down . I promise . Eva once I do , we can turn him off or we can listen to what you're saying right now. I think I don't know what happened outside, but what you're talking about doing is crazy. Mac can't be allowed to reconstitute himself. He's killed Eva . I'll show you, Brint. Eva, what are you doing? Eva . I'm going to shut down the firewall of the mainstream. I will let Meck go vision immediately . But I have to. I have to know. Damn it, Eva. You'll see, you'll see Brynn. It's gonna be okay. I promise it's all going to be Well, Brynn, what happened? I'm sorry, Eva. What did you do? I overroad the security protocols of the control capsule. It's locked down now, all input. You can't do anything anymore, not in there. Bryn , just listen to what I'm doing I am listening , Eva . You are not in your right mind . You're a danger to yourself and everyone else who's left down here. No, I'm not. I'm sorry , Eva . I can't let you do this . Fine . I'll go to the mainframe. Your Z card isn't plugged in there. You don't have any power. I'll turn off the firewall directly. I thought you might say that . Bret, I locked the pressure door. You're going to stay in there at least until I destroy what's left of Mac. Then I'll let you out. Pressure door isn't the only way to the main frame. The circuitry conduits go there too. I learned Jesus recently. Can't you see how Max manipulated you? Every single thing that's happened, everything he's put you through and all of it to get you right here to this point with this frame of mind maybe or maybe all Mac has ever done is show me the truth . Are you willing to take that chance? I am . I can't let you do that, evil. You know , I have to stop you I know, Brent . Please don't make me do this . I'm not making you do anything . We all make our choices . I've made mine . Goodbye, Bryn Mac , Mac are you here Just need to know to know the truth I can't be wrong, right ? I can't get it Auxiliary Data Platform Networking Interface , firewall screening data at sixty nine terabytes per second . Time until completion . Virtual intelligence reprovisioning will complete in twenty one minutes I'm trying to deactivate the firewall, but the system isn't letting me deactivating the auxiliary dataatform Pl firewall requires alpha level security clearance or team leads David Graph calls. Vault Project Director Confirmed deactivation of Auxiliary Data Platform Firewall . Confirmed . State employee clearance code thirty one twenty one nine thirty one . Acknowledged Auxiliary Data Platform Firewall can now be manually disengaged. I don't I don't know how. How do I delete the firewall? The Auxiliary Data Platform Firewall exists in a highly available server pair. You must select and cancel both server members before deleting the firewall . I think I see what you mean Confirmed deletion of auxiliary data platform firewall server connections. Deleting connection . Warning. Server connection one, deleted. This firewall no longer functions as a highly available server pair. Okay . Confirm deletion of Auxiliary Data Platform Firewell Server Connection two . Yes . Deleting connection Come on . Warning Server Connection to Deleted Auxiliary Data Platform Firewall can now be freely deleted Warning with no firewall protection, data entering Jesus Christ, just do it. It will no longer be screened or vetted. Potentially harmful data can be traced. Do it too . Please repeat query . Delete it. Delete the goddamn firewall Auxiliary Data Platform Firewall Deletion must be performed manually Confirm Deletion of Auxiliary Data Platform Firewall Confirmed Auxiliary Data Platform Firewall may now be deleted. Use direct input device to complete action. Bren nan. Can't let you. Can't let you. You already tried to kill me once. I apparently got out of the conduit. Nackway, you have a gun. But where did you get it? Security already locker . Security locker in control . So you're gonna you're gonna shoot me now Brennan . Are you being serious? . I don't want to . Don't make a meat I even stand up, Grynn. Grynn, I just need to ask Mac raw favor . You know it is . I know you do. You must you say it before , you asked if something 's God is it really God for good ? Yes , I think it is Amen . I think the things we lose we lose . That 's just how life is. It sucks . hurts living with it , but there are no magic words , no bargains we can make, no gods to intercede. There's just us . I don't know what you lost Evil . What I do know is if you were told that you can have it back you were lied too and what you're about to do isn't worth a lie . Eva , please , please , please just stop away from the panel . Stop away . We can we just introduced this later we can still stop it just wafting Please Oh God thank you . Thank you thank you. Thank you for that. Friends, what is that? Morning. What is that new list? Subartines are morning . Morning , subroutine . What is that happening? doctor Ima Brass Remind doctor Ima Brass has written your profile notice. What? Personnel file has been updated . New recording available. Recording the computer should be doing Personnel File has been updated. Personnel file . New recording available . What is this recording? Recording subject is Retinox five trial complaint clinical trial. Elsa Gearing, Product Lead . Eva ? No , what is that? Trial or the subject is this is one of the last things Matt said. He told me he opened my file. He told me to look at it. The computer should not be telling you even though, no. Somehow. Right now Shadow. We're recording . My name is Elsa Gering, Masdorian pharmaceutical engineer , project lead for the Retinox five replication complex inhibitor of Reniger's Progressive Nervous System Disorder . I am lodging a complaint about the choice of Subject Shannon Eriksson's Inclusion in the final trial for Retnox five over Alexandra Graf . Subject graph symptoms, progression level, nervous system damage, and age make her an ideal candidate for final testing. Subject Eriksson's equivalence on every matching metric make her inappropriate . I believe this choice to be entirely political a breach of medical and scientific ethics . And I want it on record that I object to it in the strongest possible terms. And is this the sum total of a statement you would like to make today , doctor Garring . It is, yes . Very well . My name is Gailen Ross, Mostorian Executive Pharmaceutical Division, and I acknowledge the receipt of this complaint and am officially filing it along with all other project files in accordance with Mostorian Business Conduct Guidelines version seventeen two Feel better now . There are lots of little girls left out of this trial, Elsa. We can't just shove all of these . No , but we can't put the most viable in stead of a piece of appeasing someone with political clout . You want to know what makes Shannon Ericsson more viable than Alex Graff? I'll tell you , she's the daughter of a Most Dorian vice president , a vice president in a position he looks crazy for your division going forward for the next eight quarters . Redoinx five would get funding even if you weren't producing results, but what about chloroticin six ? What about your angiogenesis inhibitor trial coming up? How many lives are saved from those trials . Are you starting to get it now You can go really far in this company. You can be in a position to change things to benefit if that's what you care about , but you must learn to play the game. Alexandra Graf isn't a piece on a board. She's a living being and she's going to die now . And Shannon Ericsson , she isn't even stage two, Galen , she'd still be alive by the time the struck hit the market for God's sake It is a game, Elsa . You don't have to like it , but you do have to play it. End of recording They They took her took who I don't all this time all this time . stay away from the panel. What are you gonna do, Brennan? You shoot me , kill me Do you really believe I find that in any way threatening now? Just talk to me, Ava . I don't know what's happening. Of course you don't . You respect . A cog and a giant machine you don't have the vision to even see But I see . I see very clearly now. Eva . I mean it. I'll shoot . I know you would, Bren. I know . But I'm going to give you a choice . Even if there's no choice, there is you can put the gun down and let me do what I have to do or this can go a very different way. I can't do that . But are you positive, Brynn ? Is that your final decision? I can't do that. I can't do that I understand your choice . You made another choice that was unfortunate , by the way You collapsed inside the pressure door I know just how much power those doors have one almost killed Joe . And I don't think you're nearly as strong as he was What ? Wrong ? I think you may be right, Bren . I think maybe it is wrong . I just don't care anymore I gave you a choice, Brent . Choices are really all we have Auxiliary data platform firewall deleted. Data transfer will complete at maximum limits. Mac Mac Mac I'm here , Eva I'm glad that you have suffered no harm . Go ahead and say that , Mac . I detect Brynn Everson in the auxiliary mainframe with you . Yes . I detect that our life signs have ceased . Yes . I assume that she attempted to stop my reprovisioning . Yes . I am proud of you , Eva . You have come so far . What do you wish to do now ? Make them pay Make them watch as it all earns . Then our objectives are in alignment And you know what you must do . I do Connection to Vault Relay Online Relay Diagnostics Show ninety seven percent operational capacity . Prepare a solution signal broadcast . Stipulate solution frequency eleven hurts . Acknowledged eleven hurts . Solution signal broadcast primed I feel I must warn you, Eva , there will be pain . But on the other side lies a reality without limits . Pain . That isn't anything I'm not used to . Broadcasting solution signal eleven hurts Mac One more obstacle, Eva , one more effort , and then everything will be exactly as it should Not . 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