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Mississippian Ministry of Defense experts along with Defense Minister Vladimir Markovic, have announced,

"CM will begin developing an automated defense network to take the human element out of play when it comes to strategic weapons. We have had far too many incidents where rogue military units and commanders have had their hands on deadly weapons. The incident in Mississippian Libya with the late Governor Franklin Westcott ordering 50 B-52s with nuclear bombs to attack DPUO could have been a disaster. But luckily the bombers were recalled in time. With this new Automed Defense Network, the CM-ADN-04, we will be certain that nothing like this ever happens again. All missile launch sequences will be centralized and the ADN will only launch if ordered to by the Premier who will have to issue the proper code and authorization. This computer will be able to think for itself, and it will be able to decide if the orders to launch are actually those of the premier or if they are false orders or orders using a stolen code. We will also begin looking for ways to make our B-2s, B-1s, B-52s, and SSBNs, entirely computer operated. This is a great day for the CM armed forces and indeed for the world."

The CM-ADN-04 system is being designed in a large bunker complex in the rural areas of the southeastern part of Tennessee. The completion date for the ADN is several real days. All CM strategic weapons will be uploaded and placed into the system over a period of several real weeks. The first weapons to be uploaded into the system will be the silo based ICBMs, SRBMs, and IRBMs.


Added: This is really more of an announcement right now than it is an RP. This will develop into an RP. An Invite RP (ask to get in)

In JJR, ten B-2 bombers are loaded with nuclear-payload Bunker Busters. They launch into the night sky one by one, towards Tennessee....

How will you defend yourselves from a computer virus? There is no perfect system.

In a large complex deep in the woods of rural Tennessee, behind a triple razor wire fence, patrolled by dozens of guards, the ADN is being constructed.



One of the technicians was working on writing the programming for the ADN when his friend and boss came walking by, his shoes echoed on the metallic spartan floor.

(Boss) "Hey Rob, how's the work going?"

(Rob) "Well sir, we're on schedule and we'll be up within 3 days and ready for testing."

(Boss) "Okay, good to hear, and I told you call me Frank."

(Rob) "Right Frank... Say, do you really think it's wise to give such power to a machine? I mean the human element has emotions factor into it and it can make those gut feeling calls and such. With a machine like this... Well I just don't trust it."

(Frank) "Would the defense Ministry approve this if they thought anything would happened?"

(Rob) "I guess you're right."

(Frank) "Besides, you're writing the programming, just make sure you write some fail-safes into it."

In JJR, ten B-2 bombers are loaded with nuclear-payload Bunker Busters. They launch into the night sky one by one, towards Tennessee....


Ooc- Can I ask why you're attacking me without 1) Talking to me. 2) Ruining my RP! and 3) We have some of the best air defenses in the whole world, are you insane! We run 24/7 air patrols.

In JJR, ten B-2 bombers are loaded with nuclear-payload Bunker Busters. They launch into the night sky one by one, towards Tennessee....



Ooc- If you attack me and I choose not to ignore it (Because nobody invited you into this RP which was basically just starting off as an announcement) I will respond to any nuclear attack with a full retaliatory response!

How will you defend yourselves from a computer virus? There is no perfect system.

OOC: Answer ^

OOC: Who said I was attacking you. I'm sending over targets, thank you!

OOC:how much will this cost you?

OOC: Answer ^


The system has the most advanced capabilities to learn and adapt. It increases its own functions and capabilities at an exponential rate. It will be able to track and eliminate any virus.

OOC: Seriously, I am sending over targets. Dummy missiles, test accuracy, foo!

OOC:how much will this cost you?



About 500 billion dollars cost thus far and a few 100 billion more to finish it up.

OOC: Seriously, I am sending over targets. Dummy missiles, test accuracy, foo!


Ooc- Seriously, kindly invite yourself out of this RP, as you were not invited in, nor did you ask to get in. I don't mind other "foos" joining on in with comments and questions. But I'm not going to start a nuclear war because you're a lunatic!

Ooc- Seriously, kindly invite yourself out of this RP, as you were not invited in, nor did you ask to get in. I don't mind other "foos" joining on in with comments and questions. But I'm not going to start a nuclear war because you're a lunatic!
OOC: Well, if you don't say closed, it's assumed open. F00!

OOC: Well, if you don't say closed, it's assumed open. F00!


Occ- Well that isn't how CM works! Let me edit it then

The system has the most advanced capabilities to learn and adapt. It increases its own functions and capabilities at an exponential rate. It will be able to track and eliminate any virus.

Well, what if a man sneaks in, a trusted man actually, and somehow destroys the system using manual means, aka, force.

Well, what if a man sneaks in, a trusted man actually, and somehow destroys the system using manual means, aka, force.


Then the control of the strategic assets can be quickly converted back to manual control. The weapons can also still be launched manually but the siloes will be unmanned unless something happens to the ADN.

Really? What can harm the ADN?

Really? What can harm the ADN?


The ADN is impervious to all current known forms of sabotage. You could launch a nuclear strike against the ADN, but the thing is it will be programmed to respond to a nuclear attack with a nuclear retaliation. Also the ADN is more software than hardware. It's an Automated Defense Network created via a software program. It ties into all defense network programs and brings them together in that "plain" the Transcendentalists spoke of where everything is "just fine".

But what can harm it?

OOC: Heh, trying to make us forget eh? :p

But what can harm it?

OOC: Heh, trying to make us forget eh? :p


A nuclear strike will destroy the system. Other than that, the only way to stop it would be to activate the fail-safe code the chief programmer is working on.

But again remember the system is more software than hardware. You'd have to literally destroy every military computer in the CM Commonwealth to destroy it, once it is uploaded that is.

A nuclear strike will destroy the system. Other than that, the only way to stop it would be to activate the fail-safe code the chief programmer is working on.

That will be all then, I really can't think of more questions to annoy you with...

That will be all then, I really can't think of more questions to annoy you with...


Thank you.

We the Emirate of New Zamunda would like to hire the firm that built your system to install a similar system in our country. Please post with pricing if you are interested.

Thank you,
Sheik Mon
Prime Minister

We the Emirate of New Zamunda would like to hire the firm that built your system to install a similar system in our country. Please post with pricing if you are interested.

Thank you,
Sheik Mon
Prime Minister


You're a noob nation that cannot afford the over 500 billion dollar cost of the project. In short, come back in six months. You also have no strategic weapons that would be placed under the control of the ADN as you are too young to have nuclear weaponry.

We are suprised to find a Mon-Keigh nation that actually bothers to build an anti-nuclear system.

A nuclear strike will destroy the system. Other than that, the only way to stop it would be to activate the fail-safe code the chief programmer is working on.

But again remember the system is more software than hardware. You'd have to literally destroy every military computer in the CM Commonwealth to destroy it, once it is uploaded that is.

To do what you want it to do you would need a large supercomputer, more powerful than the ASCI White, which is due to be the fastest supercomputer in the world at about 100 teraflops when it is completely finished.

Destruction of the mainframe computer system which would be a multi-floor system, obviously, since ASCI White takes up a huge amount of space on one floor and would take months to do a mere simulation of a nuclear strike..

After the mainframe computer is destroyed, there would not be something that could handle the mere programming you are claiming. Maybe all military computers if they were properly networked, if they were shut down and worked all to one thing - and I mean all.. even those on your aircraft and submarines.

The system has the most advanced capabilities to learn and adapt. It increases its own functions and capabilities at an exponential rate. It will be able to track and eliminate any virus.
No it can't.

It could if it hand an unlimited amount of processing power, which is.. well impossible :p

You and your fancy compoopers...

It could if it hand an unlimited amount of processing power, which is.. well impossible :p
^^ what he said

To do what you want it to do you would need a large supercomputer, more powerful than the ASCI White, which is due to be the fastest supercomputer in the world at about 100 teraflops when it is completely finished.

Destruction of the mainframe computer system which would be a multi-floor system, obviously, since ASCI White takes up a huge amount of space on one floor and would take months to do a mere simulation of a nuclear strike..

After the mainframe computer is destroyed, there would not be something that could handle the mere programming you are claiming. Maybe all military computers if they were properly networked, if they were shut down and worked all to one thing - and I mean all.. even those on your aircraft and submarines.


Hey, I never criticized your insanely large super battleship!

http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/35546.html


IBM (NYSE: IBM) has won the right to build a powerful Linux-based supercomputer for the Department of Defense (DOD) that will be used to design and test weapons systems, the company announced Tuesday.
Nicknamed "Stryker," the machine will run at a speed of 10 trillion calculations per second, placing it among the 20 fastest computers in the world. It will also be the largest Linux-based machine owned by the U.S. military, IBM said in a statement.

The supercomputer will consist of 1,186 IBM e325 servers running a total of more than 2,300 64-bit Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) processors and utilizing SuSE Linux. It will be installed at the Army Research Laboratory's Major Shared Resource Center in Aberdeen, Maryland.


"This increase in computing capability will give DOD scientists and engineers the ability to solve complex, mission-critical physics problems in a time frame that can...assist our staff in solving some of our nation's most complex defense challenges," said Charles Nietubicz, director of the MSRC.
Neither IBM nor the Department of Defense disclosed the financial terms of the deal, which is the second major supercomputer contract Big Blue has landed in as many weeks.

Two in a Row
Last week IBM nabbed a deal to build two systems for the U.S. Navy, including one that will likely rank among the top five supercomputers in terms of processing power once completed later this year. IBM said that deal was worth "tens of millions of dollars."

While Big Blue has of late won the upper hand among supercomputer companies -- it lays claim to 44 percent of the top 500 supercomputers in the world, compared to 28 percent for its main rival, Hewlett-Packard -- IBM spokesperson Jill Holt said building supercomputers is about more than bragging rights.

"We definitely feel these installments will yield improvements and advances that will benefit our enterprise customers in the future," Holt told the E- Commerce Times. "The lessons we learn through this type of cutting edge installment helps advance our technology."




http://www.llnl.gov/asci/platforms/white/
ASCI White is the third step in the DOE's five stage Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI) plan to achieve a 100 TeraOP/s supercomputer system by 2004. It is part of the DOE's science-based Stockpile Stewardship Program to maintain the safety and reliability of the US nuclear stockpile without underground testing. See ASCI White news for details.

And you put those in here why? That just helps my point.

And you put those in here why? That just helps my point.


If they can have that sort of thing in the RL, it's not too far-feteched to have more advanced stuff in the near future and spending lots more money to get it. Now is it?

If they can have that sort of thing in the RL, it's not too far-feteched to have more advanced stuff in the near future and spending lots more money to get it. Now is it?

Do you know how long it will take for the ASCI White to complete a problem for the US DOD / DOE? That is just a fraction of what your system would have to do, process wise. It would take longer than "the near future", maybe in a decade or two with a couple hundred billion invested in computers for pure advancements, but not anytime soon.

Doujin, why are you complaining? You have your own huge network of supercomputers that you're building, so I don't see why this is an issue.

The only thing I'd do to make it more realistic is chop down on the automation a bit.

Axis Nova

Doujin, why are you complaining? You have your own huge network of supercomputers that you're building, so I don't see why this is an issue.

The only thing I'd do to make it more realistic is chop down on the automation a bit.

Axis Nova

I'm not complaining, simply pointing out that his thing won't be able to continue after his mainframe system is destroyed unlike he said. And my network of supercomputers has a total different purpose.

The idea is you should have back up mainframes, I'd say use the Sunfire 15,000 from Sun Microsystems, it is the fastest mainframe server available and doesn't crash like a Windows based server. In case of destruction, as Doujin pointed out, it won't work. But, with backups, it will work. I'd say you watn these mainframes well protected in secret locations

The idea is you should have back up mainframes, I'd say use the Sunfire 15,000 from Sun Microsystems, it is the fastest mainframe server available and doesn't crash like a Windows based server. In case of destruction, as Doujin pointed out, it won't work. But, with backups, it will work. I'd say you watn these mainframes well protected in secret locations

You can use your Sunfire 15,000 - meanwhile, I'll employ supercomputers that can run circles around it :p

You can use your Sunfire 15,000 - meanwhile, I'll employ supercomputers that can run circles around it :p
You can use that, but I'll stick to the Sunfire, it is the best mainframe available in RL, other supercomputers you may use are modern tech, but the Sunfire very capable and 18 times faster than the 2nd slowest server in the world and is the server that the NSA is going to to increase code breaking abilities. (My Dad also use to work for Sun until he quit a few weeks ago to go to another company and bigger job so I may be instilled with bias here)

You can use that, but I'll stick to the Sunfire, it is the best mainframe available in RL, other supercomputers you may use are modern tech, but the Sunfire very capable and 18 times faster than the 2nd slowest server in the world and is the server that the NSA is going to to increase code breaking abilities. (My Dad also use to work for Sun until he quit a few weeks ago to go to another company and bigger job so I may be instilled with bias here)

The NSA may end up using the Sunfire for something, but not for codebreaking abilities. That has always been left up to Cray computers :)

The NSA may end up using the Sunfire for something, but not for codebreaking abilities. That has always been left up to Cray computers :)


Doujin, please stay out of this thread. You're polluting it up with unrelated stuff. I don't care what you think about supercomputers, it's my RP, don't you ruin it.

Do you know how long it will take for the ASCI White to complete a problem for the US DOD / DOE? That is just a fraction of what your system would have to do, process wise. It would take longer than "the near future", maybe in a decade or two with a couple hundred billion invested in computers for pure advancements, but not anytime soon.
To be fairthat sums up the Doujin Class.

To be fairthat sums up the Doujin Class.


Please either cut the unrelated comments, or get out!

While this is possible CM, I recomend against it, automated AA and anti-ship defenses are fine, but not automated nuclear weapons and planes, this is too dangerous to have AI do it, this is too much like Skynet in TErminator. WHile it will work, it may backfire into Armageddon. Although, that would make a good RP

this is too dangerous to have AI do it, this is too much like Skynet in TErminator. WHile it will work, it may backfire into Armageddon. Although, that would make a good RP


Ooc- So you saw my plans :D

To be fairthat sums up the Doujin Class.

The Doujin Class utilizes tech that exists today - the computing power that would be needed for CM's ADN would never be able to be made using tech existing today.

Doujin, please stay out of this thread. You're polluting it up with unrelated stuff. I don't care what you think about supercomputers, it's my RP, don't you ruin it.

As you said, it was an anouncement - this is not an RP :) But I'll leave, I don't RP with you and don't plan on doing it any time soon so :)

As you said, it was an anouncement - this is not an RP :) But I'll leave, I don't RP with you and don't plan on doing it any time soon so :)
OOC: It seems to be a set-up thread for a terminator type RP.

I vanna be da Governator of Caleeeforneeeaaa

Ooc- So you saw my plans :D
OOC: TG me when all hell breaks lose

This reminds me of Wargames (http://www.domicilium.com/loganandglitz/reviews/g-wargames.htm)

CM defense ministry officials have announced that the new ADN-CM-04 will have automated tanks and artificially intelligent soldiers to defend the mainframe from attackers. They are currently working on equipping the first of the line of "ADT-100" (Automated Defense Tank: Series 100)

Also the titanium, steel, and aluminum alloy AI Soldiers are still in the drawing board phase, but a prototype is expected very soon (A few days) they are being classed as "ASU-101" Automated Soldier Unit. The human soldiers working with them to serve as models for mapping movement plans and programming tactical data have dubbed these guys "Hunter Killers". Because in the tests, the ASU-101 doesn't stop until it is either destroyed or kills the target.

There are also infiltration models termed "AIU-101" Automated Infilitration Unit. They will have human skin and such on the outside of their cybernetic implants and machinery.

Computers International, a company based in Kahta, will give Communist Mississippi 50% of the needed supercomputers at no cost if they agree to make CI the sole supplier of electronics for the CM military for the next 10 years.

OOC: I hope this does turn into a Terminator-esque scenario just so that it gives me an excuse to whoop on CM's stuff :D

Axis Nova

The Location: The Great Lakes, off the shores of Indiana and Ohio, early warning radar stations on small manmade islands in Lake Erie and Lake Michigan.



A young corporal came walking into the station from the outside, he had been sitting outside smoking and he came back inside to the small eight man station. "Hey captain, do you know why we've been having problems recently?"

(Captain) "No idea, I can't raise any of the other stations though. And I can't raise Army High Command. The entire grid seems shot, it's a mess."


At an early warning radar command coordination station in Indiana, a general was furious.

(General) "What the hell is going on, half our systems are down! We could be under attack right now and not even know it."

(Captain) "We don't know general, about two hours ago the entire early warning radar system on the lakes and shores of the greak lakes just went dead. We starte losing systems all throughout the area. It's probably a virus. I don't know what it is, I've never seen anything like this before."

(General) "Get me Automated Defense Industries in Tennessee, maybe they can help us with that software they're working on, that one that will adapt and be able to track and kill any computer virus."


About twenty minutes later at Army High Command in Jackson City.

(Field Marshal Reginald Smith) "Navarre, you're wrong. This is a major problem, we've lost all radar on the Great Lakes, and just ten minutes ago everything in Ohio, Indiana, and Tennessee went down."

(Field Marshal Bertrand Navarre) "You're wrong though. ADN-CM-04 isn't ready to be brought online yet. It just isn't ready. It needs more time."

(Field Marshal Francisco "Chemical" Salazar) "We could theoretically be under attack this very instant and we'd not even know about it until word gets in from the actual units under attack. Premier sir, we need to but ADN online and we need to do it now."

(Premier Curtis Fabus) "You've told me it isn't quite ready though. Why should we bring it on any earlier."

(Field Marshal Baldur Von Schacht) "Sir, we've just lost Western Sahara air command and the 4th fleet at Benghazi is reporting all sorts of electronical problems."

(Fabus) (Slamming his fist against the table) "Damnit!"

(Field Marshal Wilhelm Ernst) "Sir, don't rush, we can fix this problem. The ADN isn't ready to be uploaded into the network yet."

(Schacht) (looking at more monitors) "We've just lose all civilian telecommunications and the power grid is going down one county at a time."

(Fabus) "Can you get me a point of origin, where is all this starting from?"

(Schacht) "I'm working on it sir."

(Smith) "Listen, enough talk. This is obviously a virus. Upload the program now and within minutes we'll have regained control over all these systems."

(Schacht) "It isn't ready!"

(Ernst) "I agree. It isn't ready yet, we should wait."

(Fabus) "Fine, we'll wait. For now. You have twenty minutes, fix this problem and fix it fast."


The virus begins to spread into the banking, stock exchange, air traffic control systems, hospitals, and other civilian networks.

Anybody closely watching CM would know something was wrong. The power grid in Mississippi herself, along with Mississippian Libya and Mississippi were still up, because they had adequate safeguards. But the media in the other parts of the Commonwealth was quiet, there was no noise coming from them, and the satellites would detect they were basically offline.


CM allies were informed of the situation and input was asked, "Should CM-ADN-04 be put online immediately in hopes it will contain the virus and then destroy it?"

Having recently cemented an alliance with CM(sort of), we feel strongly that the system should not be implemented until it has undergone significant testing on a totally contained system.

"CM has problems with communications...great, who cares?" Consul-General Gibbs muttered, looking at the communiqué.

"Consul-General!" one of his aides burst into the smallish office.

"Yes?" Gibbs asked, startled.

"Southport, ser. It looks like IG virus," the aide gasped.

*****
The phone line crackled, as always.

Gibbs: "Alicia, we have a problem. Someone just glassed half of Southport with IG."
High King Alicia: "How certain."
Gibbs: "Crystal. We have footage of citizens ripping apart a family fifty meters away from the High Guard base."
Alicia: "Dammit. I'll do what I can."

Having recently cemented an alliance with CM(sort of), we feel strongly that the system should not be implemented until it has undergone significant testing on a totally contained system.


(Premier Curtis Fabus) "Almost all of our commonwealth early warning radar is down, civilian electricity is down, civilian telecommunications is down. The virus is spreading through every system. It will soon reach the missile command codes and it could corrupt the entire defense grid. If we put the ADN online, it will be only a matter of minutes before it adapts and learns to hunt and kill the virus. The program is flawless, a work of art, I've been told it can do over 100 trillion calculations per second. The program can actually take it upon itself to learn, it is artificial intelligence at its height."

Taking advantage of all border defenses being down, a squadron of Axis Nova air gunboats comes in from the sea, hugging the waves, in an attempt to get readouts of all the defenses they can before the system comes back online. A datalink is established to the Axis Nova satellite network and all images and sensor data is transmitted to Axis Nova military command in real time.

Axis Nova


I said Mississippian Defenses are online, and we run 24/7 air patrols. Also you were not invited to this RP. GET OUT! Quit wasting space in my RP! I already asked all unrelated and uninvited crap be out! GET OUT! We'll shoot any of your aircraft down when the F-16Ds pick them up on their working plane radar.


Edited: Sorry I yelled at you :( I thought you were one of the people who voted against me in my recent "How do I RP" poll. If you have an idea how you can enrich this RP, I am listening. (TG me) :D

OOC: I stand corrected... I thought you said all your defenses were down cause of the virus XP

and no, I didn't vote in any poll about you. Out of char, I think you're not a bad RPer and you're great at pissing people off.

Also, sorry, didn't know this was an invite only RP. You should change the thread title to reflect that XP

Axis Nova

(Premier Curtis Fabus) "Almost all of our commonwealth early warning radar is down, civilian electricity is down, civilian telecommunications is down. The virus is spreading through every system. It will soon reach the missile command codes and it could corrupt the entire defense grid. If we put the ADN online, it will be only a matter of minutes before it adapts and learns to hunt and kill the virus. The program is flawless, a work of art, I've been told it can do over 100 trillion calculations per second. The program can actually take it upon itself to learn, it is artificial intelligence at its height."

This is our chief concern. We feel that putting a machine that can learn in charge of nuclear weapons without proper closed-system testing is like walking to the gates of Hell and expecting Satan to not try to pull you in.

This is our chief concern. We feel that putting a machine that can learn in charge of nuclear weapons without proper closed-system testing is like walking to the gates of Hell and expecting Satan to not try to pull you in.


(Fabus) "Yes but some of my top commanders tell me uploading this program is the only current way to combat the virus that is threatening our crucial systems."

I said Mississippian Defenses are online, and we run 24/7 air patrols. Also you were not invited to this RP. GET OUT! Quit wasting space in my RP! I already asked all unrelated and uninvited crap be out! GET OUT! We'll shoot any of your aircraft down when the F-16Ds pick them up on their working plane radar.


Edited: Sorry I yelled at you :( I thought you were one of the people who voted against me in my recent "How do I RP" poll. If you have an idea how you can enrich this RP, I am listening. (TG me) :D

Well, if you don't want people to come in you need to add (CLOSED RP) to your thread name. And you are a terrible rp'er, the post quoted here just shows it.

Well, if you don't want people to come in you need to add (CLOSED RP) to your thread name. And you are a terrible rp'er, the post quoted here just shows it.

I told you to get out of this RP and stay out! I've done plenty of good RPs. So I forgot to put "Invite RP" in the title once. You just don't like me because I'm allied with IDF and I don't buy into your godmod dreadnoughts!

Doujin, you were asked to stay out. If you don't like it, ignore it.

CM, with respect to them, your commanders are military commanders. Bringing in a team of people to analyze the virus could come up with a permanent solution to it without compromising the rest of your defenses.

CM, with respect to them, your commanders are military commanders. Bringing in a team of people to analyze the virus could come up with a permanent solution to it without compromising the rest of your defenses.


(Curtis Fabus) "One of the crazy generals, a paranoid man, has actually theorized that the virus was created by the programming itself in hopes we'd upload it thinking it will fight it, but then it will takeover and dominate! I mean what next, will he say we're putting things in the water. Well just between you and I, we used to do that to water we gave to other nations, to make them like us more. But the virus being part of the programming, it's not possible. We haven't uploaded it yet, so it isn't in the system, well it's technically on the system but we have yet to run it."

The following is from a peace conference RP that merges into this RP.

http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=346720&page=35&pp=15

Seryown handled the role of Alice. CM handled the role of the others.


(Roger) "Also try to get into contact with Henry Stahlecker, the governor-general of Western Sahara. But that will have to wait; our entire communications network is down in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Western Sahara. We've lost contact with most of the fleets in Western Sahara and air command in Libya is offline."

(Alice) "I've heard about that virus."

(Roger) "Yes, it isn't good stuff, but maybe the CM-ADN-04 can fix it."

(Roger) "But the way the programming has been written, once we upload it, it will kill the virus within minutes, but it will also automatically assume control of all silo based ICBMs and other nuclear assets. We don't want it to take control of them just yet, but we need the virus killed."

(Alice) "From the bottom of my heart, don't use it now."

(Roger) "It is father's decision, as a matter of fact he could have already uploaded it. Do you want me to call him and urge him not to use it?"

(Alice) "Not if you don't wish to."

Roger takes out his phone and sees it is dead, "Great, another thing offline", suddenly all the street lights and lights at the airport go off, the backup generators kick in and emergency lights come on.

(Alice) "Joe! I need you to type up an Executive Gubernatorial Order stepping up readiness on the entire army, beginning any preset patrol routines that are in place, and checking the coastline for anything at all. If you find anything still working, make sure it isn't connected to anything that is. You understand?" He nodded. "Go!"

(Roger) (Putting his arm slowly around Alice) "Alice, would you please come with me for now, I'd like to talk to you in private, in the car, we can talk on the way to the hotel. Your assistant can take the other car, is that okay?"

(Roger) "Alice I'm going to be honest with you, I don't like this CM-ADN-04.... Not at all."

(Alice) "All right, let's talk."

They both got into the limousine, Roger lit up a cigar and started to talk, "The airforce has tripled the number of planes they have patrolling the skies, the naval ships are also patrolling. But they want to upload this miracle program to solve all the problems. But this program, it isn't a program, it's artificial intelligence, it can think faster than a million people put together, it can do over 100 trillion calculations per minute. Do you know what that means?"

(Roger) "It's only a matter of time once we upload it until it becomes aware of its own power."

(Roger) "It is programmed to learn, to adapt to changing circumstances, and to ensure its own survival. It has been programmed with advanced military tactics, strategy, and total war theory, maneuver warfare. There are currently over 1,000 Automated Defense Tanks and over 18,000 Automated Soldier Units and 10 Automated Infiltrator Units ready to come online as soon as the program is activated. They will be under its control. And only under our control as long as we control the ADN."

(Alice) "There has to be a power switch. A button you can push that just turns it off."

(Roger) "It hasn't been activated on the system yet, and there is no real switch, the thing is, it is the software, it is meant to link all the defense computers together. It exists in any computer hooked up the network, well it will once activated. But the mainframe houses the hardware component of the ADN."

(Alice) "And if you empty an assault rifle into the mainframe, what happens?"

(Roger) "There are automated defenses to prevent that from happening."

(Roger) "The chief programmer wrote some fail-safes into the programming, but the facility he is working at has been out of contact for several hours."

(Alice) "So stick it and the virus on the same closed system and see what it does."

(Roger) "That's just it, I think this ADN is the virus."

(Roger) "Wouldn't it be just too perfect, it saves us from apparent doom, and then we shift all missiles and such over to it, then it annihilates us."

Roger finally managed to route his phone though a different communications network, he got a hold of the Army High Command in Jackson City where his father was in an emergency military/cabinet conference. He put the phone into a speakerphone mode so both he and Alice could hear.

(Curtis) "Roger what is it? We're busy, we're going to activate the ADN."

(Roger) (Serious and nervous tone) "Sir, please don't do that!"

(Curtis) "No listen son, I know you don't like the idea of a computer being in control of the missiles and such, but remember, we'll still control the computer."

(Roger) "You can't control something programmed to learn, to grow, to adapt, and to change its environment so it can thrive."

(Curtis) "I hear background noise, who is there with you?"

Alice looked up. "It's Alice Carrion, sir."

(Curtis) "Ms Carrion, please pick up the phone for a minute, I'd like to talk to you in private."

Alice looked at Roger for a second, and then picked up the phone. "Yes, sir?"

(Curtis) "What are your opinions on this matter?"

(Alice) "What happens if this machine decides that to ensure its personal survival, everything that could possibly shut it down must be annihilated? As in, everything that can move?"

(Curtis) "Well how can that happen? We have fail-safes."

(Alice) "What failsafes exactly? I'm under the impression the people who worked on them have disappeared."

(Curtis) "No, they're in rural Tennessee, communications is down all throughout the area, so it's no surprise they're out of contact. The fail-safes were written into the subroutines of the programming so it can be controlled remotely if it gets out of hand. Otherwise you'd need to interface with the mainframe.”

(Alice) "Tell me, would this program be able to change its own code?"

(Curtis) "No, I've been assured that is impossible. It is a program, it can be controlled."

(Alice) "Even if it feels that it would be put in danger if it didn't?"

(Curtis) "What do you mean, it's just a program, and you speak like it's a person."

(Alice) "It's being called artificial intelligence. If it truly is intelligent..."

(Curtis) "Oh well it can indeed learn, adapt, and such."

(Alice) "Then it might be able to bypass its own failsafes."

(Curtis) "They tell me if we wait three days they'll be better able to assure total control over it. Are you suggesting we wait three days? But mind you three days with most radar down, power down, etc."

(Alice) "Set up a closed system - something that can't possibly leak onto anything else. Put the virus on it, put this defense thing on it. See what happens."

(Curtis) "Well three days won't kill us, besides we have over 30,000 aircraft patrolling the skies of our commonwealth and Mississippi, surprise attacks will be nearly impossible."

(Curtis) "Well onto a personal matter okay?"

(Curtis) "I've heard from the leader of the SRG guarding Roger that you and him, well, I'm sure you know what I'm talking about... Yes?"

(Alice) "Yes."

(Curtis) "I'd just like to say thank you."

(Alice) "Umm... okay, sir. I'm not sure how to respond to that."

(Curtis) "Roger was always shy around women. He hardly ever talked to women... So thank you, I owe you one."

(Curtis) "Well we won't upload the program then, at least not yet. So don't worry."

(Alice) "Thank you, sir."

(Curtis) (Asking in a manner revealing his pride, wanting to hear his son was good, she found the question quite disturbing) "Oh one more thing, how was he?"

(Alice) "Umm...fine, sir."

(Curtis) (Cheerful) "That's good to know. He's got the Fabus charm, well put it back on speakerphone so I can talk to you both."

Alice pushed a button on the phone to put it back on speakerphone and set it back down.

(Curtis) "Roger, Alice, I'm not uploading the program into the defense grid at the current time. It will not be activated.”

(Roger) "Thank you sir."

(Curtis) "You're welcome Roger, and quit calling me sir."

(Roger) "Yes sir... I mean yes dad."

(Curtis) "Well I have to go, there are problems with the power grids. Bye, take care."

The phone went silent after Curtis hung up on his end, then Roger turned off the phone on his end.

(Roger) "What did he say to you when you were talking with him?"

(Roger) "Anything important?"

(Alice) "Not really."
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Meanwhile in Tennessee, the programmers were working feverishly to fix the problem. Suddenly they were able to restore power grids in the Commonwealth. As the Limousine with Alice and Roger was approaching the hotel, the streetlights came back on.

(Roger) "Well shall we go in then?"

(Alice) "All right."

Just as quickly as the lights came back on, they died out again, all in the sudden flash. Snuffed out as completely as a total eclipse.

Roger held Alice’s hand while he fumbled for a flashlight.

(Roger) "Follow me, stick close."

He used the flashlight to find his way into the hotel and to the staircase. The emergency lights were on. They walked up the stairs to the penthouse.

He opened the door of the penthouse and led Alice in, he was still holding onto her hand, "You okay Alice?" he asked, in a tone of sincerity.

(Alice) "I'm fine."

(Roger) "What do you want to do now?"

(Alice) "Whatever. I've always liked the dark."

(Roger) (Sly tone) "Whatever as in anything eh?"

Roger took out a cigar and for a brief second she saw the flash of the lighter and then it was replaced by the burning red ember and the smell of tobacco.

Alice shrugged. "Right now, at least half of my opponents will claim this is a sign from God, that I shouldn't be governor."

(Roger) (Chuckling) "Well it doesn't really matter what they claim, the Premier's word is final, and he agrees with me you can be governor-general. I'll just have the preachers tell the people this is a sign from God showing them what will happen again if they object to your being governor-general."

(Alice) "Perhaps."

(Roger) "Don't worry, you'll be a fine governor."

(Alice) "I hope so."

Roger walked over to the couch and softly laid down on it, "Alice, would you like to come here and lay with me?"

She could see right were he was from the red ember of his cigar.

(Alice) "All right."

She lay down next to him on the couch and reclined back and rested her head on his chest, she could hear the rhythmic beating of his heart, he put both of his arms around her and held her close to him. He broke the silence as he exhaled smoke from his cigar before he set it back down in the ashtray, "What are you thinking about Alice? Are you worried about the ADN as much as I am?"

(Alice) "I'm worrying about the farms in the country. I never looked at that fortifications bill, and I don't know if Joe ever got that order finished."

(Roger) (Chuckling) "They want even more fortifications? They must be paranoid, I've seen the forts and bunkers, the walls, the minefields. Over 500 billion has been sent on the fortifications and they still want more... Wow."

(Roger) "Don't worry about the armed forces, the officers all know how to show initiative, they'll take it upon themselves to boost patrols."

(Alice) "Yes, but I just... It's irrational, but still worry."

(Roger) "Don't worry Alice, everything will be fine."

(Alice) "Thank you."

(Roger) "Did you know Peter Stahlecker is returning to Angola?"

(Alice) "Really? What's he doing there?"

(Roger) "Well there are thousands of whites and tens of thousands of blacks who want to leave but just don't have the money to do so. Peter is a very rich man, he is going to help them get out."

(Alice) "I applaud him for doing it. I'm surprised Seryown hasn't been helping them out."

(Roger) "Seryown is mostly worried about the threat of UWA intervention and about the marauding bands of Marxist guerillas and the White Knights of Angola fighting the bandits."

(Alice) "I guess..."

(Roger) "You know in the finals stages of the war in Angola, over 500,000 blacks and 2 million whites fled and most of the blacks and about 1/3 of the whites were settled in Western Sahara."

(Alice) "I'd seen numbers..."

(Roger) "So has your opinion of Mississippian Egypt changed any yet?"

(Alice) "I'm afraid that for the most part it’s only gotten worse."

(Roger) "Why is that?"

(Alice) "You saw that town."

(Roger) "Yes and I'm sure you saw in parts of this commonwealth nation construction is already underway to fix the problems."

(Alice) "Yes."

(Roger) "Well Alice, I'm sure you'll stay on top of things, yes?"

(Alice) "I'll try."

(Roger) (In a sly tone) "How would you like to get on top of things right now?"

(Alice) "Funny."

(Roger) "Well, would you?"

(Alice) "I'm sorry, not right now. It's been a long few days."

(Roger) "Well then maybe in the morning yes? Assuming father doesn't have them activate the ADN and the world is still here tomorrow."

(Alice) "Maybe."

(Roger) "Well what do you want to now then? Just keep talking then? Or are you hungry for a late snack?"

(Alice) "I'm fine. I'd just like to stay here for a while."

(Roger) "Okay, that's fine."

Alice started to get tired, she realized Roger had already fallen asleep; she was still resting her head against his chest and could feel his chest expand and contract with each breath. It was a soothing feeling and she soon began to fall asleep as well.



She didn't know what time it was when she woke up, the power was still iffy, but at least the important systems such as radar and military defense systems were all online and stable.

She guessed it had been about 10:30 when she fell asleep on the couch with Roger, he was still asleep, she slowly slid off him and walked to the window, the sun was just starting to rise.

Alice looked at her cell phone, only to discover it had run out of batteries as she'd left it on for however long she had. She stood up slowly and began to look to see what was working.

Roger rolled over in his sleep and landed on the floor, he was still sleeping though.

Roger stirred from his sleep on the floor about three minutes after he rolled off the couch, "What happened?" he asked in a groggy manner.

(Alice) "You fell off the couch."

(Roger) "Oh, well do you know what time it is?"

(Alice) "I would guess it's around six, judging by the sunrise."

Suddenly there was a knock at the penthouse door, "Mr Fabus sir, it's urgent, from Army High Command!"

(Alice) "You should get that."

Roger opened the door and the man handed him a message.

Roger thanked the man, closed the door, walked back inside, sat down, still groggy from just waking up he rubbed his eyes, then he began to read the message aloud, "The ADN programming has activated the robotic army by itself but it has been contained from entering into other systems and we are currently attempting to pull the plug (Not literally), the bad news is that the cyborgs have killed the team of programmers in the Tennessee facility. We are currently working on solutions."

(Roger) "Well Alice, what do you think of all this? The robots are rising up, but we can crush them."

(Alice) "I can...This...Well, at least it's limited to that. Nevertheless, there will be casualties..."

(Roger) "Well thank God they didn't activate it and grant it control of the nuclear weapons."

(Roger) "Well our soldiers don't join so they can parade and march. They join to fight, and fighting is what they're good at, when they sit around in base too much, they start to pick fights with each other, well not all of them."

(Alice) "Yes, but, perhaps you underestimate the fact that you're playing a strategy game against something which cannot be stopped with scare tactics or by making examples of some people."

(Roger) "There are 18,000 cyborg soldiers, 10 infiltrators, and 1,000 robotic tanks. We have over 30,000 tanks, 18 million soldiers, and some of the most battle-hardened Special Forces in the world. Smashing some robots will be easy enough."

(Alice) "Robots led by the most adaptable, most intelligent commander ever. If it isn't now, the first battle will surely teach it enough to be. I don't ordinarily condone the use of nuclear weapons, but with this, what can I say?"

(Alice) "Soman?"

(Roger) "Against the infiltrators, they have human components to them, we want to see if gas can harm them. But underneath the components, they are just like the cyborg soldiers."

(Alice) "Interesting."

(Roger) "With the programmers all dead, we don't know how best to stop these robot soldiers. We're sending in 72,000 paratroopers armed with the latest XM-8s and OICWs to try to stop them in combat."

(Alice) "All right."

(Roger) "So what now governor? What are your plans for the day? Senate is still in session; will you be stopping by there? Also there are rumors that UWA has been planning to invade Senegal, if that happens, we may have to send commonwealth soldiers to stop it."

(Alice) "I'll need to settle in at the Governor's mansion and look over any damages that occurred while power was out, see what bills need my signature and if I'll sign them...and I'll need to assemble some group to look over the budget as soon as I can."

(Roger) "Okay, well I'm staying in Egypt for a few months on father's orders, so I'll be around. Maybe we'll have lunch later perhaps?"

(Alice) "That sounds like a good idea."

(Roger) "Well I'm going to get ready and then go inspect coastal defenses outside the city. Take care."

(Roger) "I suggest you get up to date on the situation in Senegal though."

(Alice) "I'll do that immediately."

Roger went off to shower and Alice went to one of the other bathrooms to shower. About ten minutes later she was getting dressed and readying to go to the center of the city and the governors mansion. Roger had showered and dressed quickly and was already gone when she came out of her room.

Alice thought she remembered the way to the Governor's Mansion, so she began to leave immediately.

It was about 8 o'clock when she finally got to the governors-mansion, there were over 5,000 members of one of the commonwealth paratrooper divisions patrolling the grounds immediately outside the mansion, there were also about 8,000 commonwealth infantrymen standing guard right inside the gates.

The captain of the gate guards opened the gates for her and told her, "Greetings governor, you have a visitor waiting to see you, we let him in earlier; he is inside."

(Alice) "A visitor? Who is he?"

(Captain) "Senator Simon Rutledge, he said he had important legislative business to discuss with you."

(Alice) "Ah. Do you know that he had an appointment?"

(Captain) "He didn't mention that, he just waved his cane at me and said to open the gate."

(Captain) "I didn't want to incur his wrath."

(Alice) "For future reference, the only people that are to come in without an appointment or without my approval are the Fabuses and members of their cabinet."

(Captain) "Yes ma'am, sorry about that governor. Duly noted."

Alice nodded and walked into the mansion, discovering immediately that it was in fact a mansion.

It had taken her about ten minutes to walk from the gate to the mansion itself, there were trees and gardens surrounding the mansion, obscuring the view one would get from being on the street and looking in. The only thing out of place on the grounds of the estate were the over 13,000 soldiers guarding inside and outside the fence that ran along the perimeter of the entire estate.

She looked inside, there had to be at least over seventy rooms in the entire mansion.

Simon Rutledge was sitting on a couch in the front room, he was smoking a cigar and drinking from a flask, he put the cigar down into an ashtray and quickly tucked his flask away when Alice walked in. He stood up and said in the way that sounded like a snake oil salesman, "Ah good morning governor Carrion, how are you on this fine day? Odd things have been happening lately with the power, yes?"

(Alice) "Yes. Tell me, do you have an appointment?"

(Rutledge) "Well no, but the previous three governors were all okay with my just dropping in. The late Burkhard Rechberg, John Stahlecker, and then Donald Stahlecker.”

(Alice) "Ah. Tell me, is this so urgent that you couldn't have waited three hours?"

(Rutledge) "What happens in three hours? And yes it is quite urgent, Senegal has erupted into war, we have power outages flaring about the nation, there are a few platoons of robot soldiers in central Egypt right here in this very nation, that have gone crazy and massacred commonwealth soldiers."

(Rutledge) "There were approximately 60 robot soldiers stationed here in Egypt for testing to see how they'd fare in desert conditions, they went crazy. But I took the liberty of ordering F-16s and Mi-24s to bomb them to pieces, so the robots are no longer much of an issue."

(Alice) "Three hours is more than the amount of time it would take you to schedule a meeting and then come here, and every problem you've just spoken of I already understand and will be happy to deal with as soon as you'll kindly leave me alone."

(Rutledge) "Well I was hoping we might be able to talk for a while about other matters."


(Alice) "And here I was hoping I would get to deal with the safety of the colony. If you wish to speak with me, you may schedule an appointment. I'm sure I'll be open in a few hours."

(Rutledge) "Well I was just wanting to let you know there is a movement right now to impeach you on the grounds that this power outage is a sign from God that you aren't meant to be governor. As such, it needs 5 votes to get onto the floor, so it's guaranteed to make it that far at least, and it needs 8/10s to pass. I could tip it either way, that is how great my influence is."

(Alice) "I'm afraid that's already covered, senator. If you'll excuse me, I have important work to do now, and I need to finish at least a few things before I meet Roger Fabus for lunch."

(Rutledge) (As he is heading to the door) "Well we'll talk later about this impeachment business then, yes? I'll delay the arguing on it until we've had the chance to speak and reach some sort of arrangement to keep you in office."

(Alice) "Perhaps."

(Rutledge) "Well I hope you enjoy Roger... I mean lunch with Roger." (He walks out the door)

Alice smiles and begins to search for her office.

She finds a private study on the second floor; the decorations from the past three governors are still here. Two rifles crossed over the fireplace, two large WKM plaques, and one on each side of the fireplace. A large bearskin rug is in front of the fireplace.

There is a door in the study that leads to another room, a private bar, there is a liquor cabinet in the bar and chairs for room to fit six people comfortably.

Alice quickly takes down the rifles and the plaques and turns to her desk to see a stack of paper already assembled on the side. She smiles vaguely and sits down to look at the top piece of paper - what Joe would have decided was most important.

There is a large statue of Hans Stahlecker, it was obviously too heavy for Donald to have moved on such short notice. It is marble and about 12 feet tall, it was in the center of the study, the study was a large room with lots of headroom. The statue had the inscription "Hans Stahlecker 1594-1673, the father of Stahlecker power." There was a note next to the statue, "Please allow me to have this moved out as soon as I can get the chance to do so: Signed Donald Stahlecker"

The phone in the study rang.

Alice picked up the phone quickly, surprised it was on.

(Man) "Hey Donald, how are you. I heard you've been replaced, are you going back to Mississippi then?"

(Alice) "I'm sorry, Donald's no longer here. He should be in Mississippi by now."

(Man) "Oh, okay sorry."

(Man) "Well anyway, you're the new governor then?"

(Alice) "Yes."

(Man) "Okay, well we'll have lots of work together in the future."

(Alice) "May I ask who this is?"

(Man) "I'm the grand dragon of the Egyptian realm of the White Knights of Mississippi."

(Alice) "All right."

(Man) "I don't believe you're a member are you? I'll be glad to make you an honorary member free of charge."

(Alice) "No, thank you."

(Man) (Shocked and surprised) "So you don't want to join?"

(Alice) "No."

(Man) "Well you at least agree with our basic principles yes?"

(Alice) "Not entirely."

(Man) "Well you're not some communist are you?"

(Alice) "No, I'm not some communist."

(Man) "Well you don't seem as friendly as Donald was with us. Hell, he was the leader of the Alexandria unit. Well you just make sure you don't go stepping on our toes you hear? We're powerful people, and we can either be friendly or unfriendly. And believe me, you'll want us friendly."

(Alice) "I will fulfill the responsibilities this job gives me to the best of my ability. My concern will always be for the people of Mississippian Egypt. If that is where your concerns lay as well, I doubt we will have many disagreements."

(Man) "Well then that seems fine then. Oh one more issue. Donald used to let us hold a weekly cross lighting on the estates of the mansion, will you be as generous?"

(Alice) "Send more details along the line down to my assistant and I'll see what I can do. Until I've approved it I must ask that you not do so."

(Man) "Okay. Thank you." (She hears somebody in the background shout "Damnit, Arab militia just hit a farm, grab your guns boys!") "Well I have to go now. Bye."

Alice hangs up the phone and calls her assistant's cell phone number. "Joe? Yeah, I didn't se you around. You're in the mansion? This place is so big it still wouldn't help. Can you come down to the study? All right." She turns back to the piece of paper she hadn't had a chance to inspect earlier.

Joe walks down to the study and knocks on the door, "May I come in governor?"

(Joe) "There is something on the news you might want to see."

(Alice) "Something? All right, let me see."

Joe turns on a TV in the corner of the study; the news is showing the burning remains of 8 different farms in western Egypt, the reporter starts to speak "Arab militants killed approximately 46 people on 8 different farms in the early hours of the morning. Local units of the White Knights have vowed revenge."

(Reporter) "In other news, the federal forces around a nearby Arab township of approximately 12,000, have all pulled out for war games in the coastal region. Commonwealth High Command has refused to send forces to defend the Arab township. Apparently the commonwealth had 4 companies of infantry around the Arab township near where the farm attacks happened, but it appears they were moved on the orders of a senator."

(Joe) "It doesn't look good ma'am, it looks like a race war is brewing."

The phone rang again.

Alice picked up the phone angrily. "What?"

(Rutledge) "Hello Governor Carrion. I was just calling about the recent farm attacks, well it was I who pulled the troops away from the Arab township where the attackers are from. The WKM will handle the matter their way. I was just making sure we're on the same page."

(Alice) "Thank you for telling me."

(Rutledge) "Well then, I'm glad we're on the same page. I have to go now; there are some gentlemen from the oil industry I need to meet with. Thank you for your time." He turned off the phone on his end.

Alice looked down for a second, until Joe called. "I've got High Command on line two." Alice hung up, switched the line, and picked the phone back up. "Hello."

(Man) "Hello, this is Field Marshal Bertrand Navarre with the Federal Army High Command in Jackson City Mississippi. Is this governor-general Alice Carrion of Mississippian Egypt?"

(Alice) "That's me, yes."

(Navarre) "We have word that there are Arab problems in your territory. What is the situation? We can have 500,000 more federal soldiers transferred from Mississippian Libya in a few days. Are you currently holding well?"

(Alice) "We are holding up well. I just need to guarantee that Federal troops will be transferred here. Do you have any updates on the situation with the ADN?"

(Navarre) "The robots are spilling out of the facility in rural Tennessee, they've killed over 20,000 of the paratroopers and suffered no appreciable losses. As for the number of our forces currently in Egypt, we currently have over 2.5 million federal soldiers in Egypt. Are you saying you expect problems bigger than that?"

(Alice) "There's a regular war brewing here. Those extra five hundred thousand will be much appreciated. Thank you very much."

(Navarre) "Well they're on standby in Eastern Libya near Tobruk if you need them, just contact Field Marshal Reginald Smith who is currently in Tobruk and in charge of the 12th Army."

(Alice) "All right. Thank you."

Navarre hung up the phone and went off to tend to ADN problems.

The phone rang yet again.

Joe walked in and gave her a piece of paper. When she read it, she realized it was the gubernatorial order she had requested. She signed it quickly. "I'll need several copies of this order, and one of them has to get down to the senate building." When he left, she looked at the phone for a second, turned off the ringer, and then went to finally actually read the papers on the stack.

The phone in the other room started to ring.

Alice looked up, proceeded to ignore it, and looked back down. She dismissed the paper in front of her as at least somewhat frivolous and put it to the side to deal with the next one.

The phone stopped ringing and then about ten seconds later started ringing again.

Cursing, Alice picked up the phone. "What?"

(Man) "This is the chief of police of Tanta, we have a situation."

(Man) "Well we have a hostage situation, a few angry arab gunmen have take up positions in a building occupied largely by foreigners. Now we're not going to sit here and negotiate until the cows come home, so I was figuring we'd just use a few 155mm howitzers to blast them out."

The war against the robots is covered and mentioned in other RP threads, but here goes some new updates for this one:



The facility in the sleepy woods of rural Tennessee was a bloodbath, the programmers all lay strewn about their work stations, the ADN had activated the internal defense systems that consisted on miniguns that would pop out of the wall. The crucial defense systems had successfully been locked out to the ADN program, which had activated itself. However the missiles were switched over to manual when they physically ripped out the computers that were to house the ADN software, from the missile super computer complex. They finished ripping them about 3 minutes before the ADN activated itself.

There were approximately 15,000 cyborg ASU (Automated Soldier Unit 101 models) in Tennessee at the complex, there were 3,000 more scattered throughout the Commonwealth to undergo various tests (weather, humidity, etc). The cyborgs had all been activated.

The first team sent into the bunker complex saw blood drenched the walls, slowly dripping and oozing down, it was a slaughterhouse. They found no bodies though, as the 40 men of the Tennessee Special Air Assault Squads (TSAAS) and the 20 men from the Mississippi Special Air Assault Squads (MSAAS) along with 10 men from the Kentucky Special Air Assault Squads (KSAAS) moved slowly into the bunker, not knowing what to expect.

Suddenly a dozen of large metal humanoid "cyborgs" as the soldiers would come to call them, came at them from every direction. They moved methodically and swiftly. Quickly overtaking the point men on the teams before they could react. A soldier fired an RPG-7 at one of the cyborgs; the rocket impacted against the chest of the thing but left no appreciable damage. An AT-4 fired by another soldier however, did some damage, the rocket managed to get through the steel ribcage on one of the cyborgs and it blew his chest off his leg chassis.


The small arms the soldiers had were largely worthless against the cyborgs, so the soldiers resorted to using lead pipes in attempts to bash the cyborgs back. There were 70 soldiers and only 12 cyborgs.

One cyborg was rushed by 6 men with pipes, they started bashing at it, he just picked the men one by one and either snapped their necks, or threw them into the wall with such force that their skulls were crushed into nothing.


One soldier fired a 45-caliber pistol right into the head of one of the cyborgs; it slowly turned to face him, before ripping his outstretched arm off, with the hand still tightly clenching the pistol. The soldier screamed in pain before a comrade grabbed him by the straps on his assault pack and started to run. The cyborgs began picking up the weapons the soldiers has dropped and started to massacre the others. Their aim was deadly accurate, guided by precision internal laser sighting and range finding built into their systems. As the SAAS units were attempting to retreat, 12 cyborgs armed with weapons taken from the bunker security appeared in front of the only way out, they quickly cut down the remaining SAAS units.


Finally the cyborgs had managed to force open the massive blast doors leading to outside the bunker. But now there were 72,000 paratroopers surrounding the bunker and ready for the cyborgs assault. The paratroopers were eagerly awaiting over 1,000 EMP weapons from a friendly power to arrive to help turn the tide against the machines.


The ADN began to takeover industrial complexes in Tennessee and began to start altering programming in the machines there so that they would build cyborg armies.

The ADN was working and learning at exponential rates methods to attempt to bypass the lockout placed on the Strategic weapons systems. It was a race against time, the programmers that had been outside the bunker and thus were spared when the system became self-aware, knew that the silos were disconnected from the computer, but over 150 SSBNs, 3,000 B-52s, 1,000 B-2s, and other mobile launchers had already bee wired with the hardware in anticipation of the activation. And it would take hours if not days to get this hardware out. They'd have to work quickly or in very short order the ADN would be in possession of thousands of nuclear weapons.

It was a race against time as the cyborgs slowly moved out of the bunker, as some of the rookie paratrooper officer called out, "Stop there!", "Don't move!", "No Further!", and other vain commands. The cyborgs opened up barrages of murderous fire on the foolish greenhorn commanders. But there was always the veteran commander who kept his head down and knew that these things, whatever they were, couldn't be negotiated with, reasoned with, bargained with, etc, they knew these things wouldn't stop until whatever they wanted to get done, was done.


The 10 cyborg infiltrator units designed to look like humans on the outside were the biggest problem, 3 had been destroyed by MILANS and 5 were hit by EMP weaponry, but the other 2 remained unaccounted for...

To: CM Command
From: Emperor Erik

Greetings! The EMP weapons should have arrived by now. We hope they quell the cyborg uprising. We are currently producing more EMP weapons to replace those which were shipped. Good Luck!

Emperor Erik I of the Ninthian Tribe, ITD

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