Schultaria Prime
21-11-2007, 08:47
A small file, barely five kilobytes in size and drifting through the twisting lattice of cyberspace, latches on to an anonymous file server in one of Schultaria Prime's many data centers without so much as a hiccup in traffic. The facility, catering to the seemingly infinite streams of information destined for the international market, barely registers the packet: it possesses an origin IP address, but little else. Ever the dutiful servants, the servers of the data center process the file with intent to return to its original sender, but not without examining the file for the usual virulent suspects. With nearly eight billion users, the Schultarian gateways to the Internet are a noisy and chaotic mess, but nary a single character floats by on the multi-billion kilometer patchwork of fiber optic lines and quantum packet cables without thorough checks to prevent traditional bot-fueled garbage and vicious worms which could bring the nation's communications to its knees.
Responding to the data center's inquisitive prying eyes, the program's internal mechanism sprung into action. Before the server's automatic delivery protocols could return the message to its home, the program had already copied itself into the center's packet control computers laying in wait for the right time to depart. At two fifty-three on Tuesday morning the right combination of subject heading and IP address was detected by the covert little file, and it slipped back into the endless stream of data, this time with a definite destination.
Who would receive the program's contents were still, however, a mystery even to the people who had written the files necessary to slip their hidden little message across significant technical and national boundaries. The program was never designed to be malicious, but the contents of what it contained could be devastating to its eventual handlers, and to the nation itself. After a nearly 4 day journey bouncing from foreign telecomm satellites to anonymous web servers, the package and its contents arrived safely to a generic email address to an unknown client.
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”If you received this message, than the delivery system worked and shouldn't be traceable back to me. Those idiot teenagers who do nothing but play games and claim to be 'hackers with political goals' have proved useful once again as reliable messengers; they're too easy to befriend with the right money and the proper acting...
The new Schultarian project appears not to be a civilian investigation into 'Quantum Gravity' as has been publicly announced, but something possibly more insidious. I am unable to acquire schematics or much in detail at this time due to my low security clearance, but 'Project Everest' appears to be definitely military in origin in a big way; there are far more researchers with SKC commissions working here than I had previously expected for such 'peaceful' experiments with supermassive particles. I will continue my work in order to provide you with up to date information
There is talk about the creation of temporary point singularities (i.e. Black holes) within the confines of a particle accelerator less than a meter in radius by 2 meters in height. If our initial intelligence is right, then the ramifications of this project could be worse than we anticipated.
I must cut this short, too much excessive data and the message might not get through.”
Responding to the data center's inquisitive prying eyes, the program's internal mechanism sprung into action. Before the server's automatic delivery protocols could return the message to its home, the program had already copied itself into the center's packet control computers laying in wait for the right time to depart. At two fifty-three on Tuesday morning the right combination of subject heading and IP address was detected by the covert little file, and it slipped back into the endless stream of data, this time with a definite destination.
Who would receive the program's contents were still, however, a mystery even to the people who had written the files necessary to slip their hidden little message across significant technical and national boundaries. The program was never designed to be malicious, but the contents of what it contained could be devastating to its eventual handlers, and to the nation itself. After a nearly 4 day journey bouncing from foreign telecomm satellites to anonymous web servers, the package and its contents arrived safely to a generic email address to an unknown client.
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”If you received this message, than the delivery system worked and shouldn't be traceable back to me. Those idiot teenagers who do nothing but play games and claim to be 'hackers with political goals' have proved useful once again as reliable messengers; they're too easy to befriend with the right money and the proper acting...
The new Schultarian project appears not to be a civilian investigation into 'Quantum Gravity' as has been publicly announced, but something possibly more insidious. I am unable to acquire schematics or much in detail at this time due to my low security clearance, but 'Project Everest' appears to be definitely military in origin in a big way; there are far more researchers with SKC commissions working here than I had previously expected for such 'peaceful' experiments with supermassive particles. I will continue my work in order to provide you with up to date information
There is talk about the creation of temporary point singularities (i.e. Black holes) within the confines of a particle accelerator less than a meter in radius by 2 meters in height. If our initial intelligence is right, then the ramifications of this project could be worse than we anticipated.
I must cut this short, too much excessive data and the message might not get through.”