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Dominion...?

Oh, you're... trying to reach the garbage data? That's in the Foam State Drive Arrays. RAM is stores in Neuron Flies, and gets dumped on a monthly basis. Corruption there wouldn't do anything.

Anyway, my question still stands. How are you going to get vultures, one of the largest creatures still alive, into a place only navigable via pipes, even if you got through the gates?

Also, no, I am not exactly inclined to name a little malfunction that I am in the process of fixing.

There’s a box labeled “Triple Affirmative inside”

📦

It’s slightly soggy!

An overseer stares at the box in confusion, reporting it's findings.

... A box? How can there be a box here?

Triple Affirmative? That doesn't make any sense, what, is it some cat? A... very... wet one? Eugh...

Whatever, let me lure a scavenger over here to open this up, I guess...

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... Your plan was to bring vultures into my RAM? How are they even gonna get inside?

Wait, why did you need to use a box??? You could just put the grub on the ground and the same thing would happen, better yet I would have no idea anything's happening. This plan seems highly contrived.

There’s a box labeled “Triple Affirmative inside”

📦

It’s slightly soggy!

An overseer stares at the box in confusion, reporting it's findings.

... A box? How can there be a box here?

Triple Affirmative? That doesn't make any sense, what, is it some cat? A... very... wet one? Eugh...

Whatever, let me lure a scavenger over here to open this up, I guess...

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What the fuck

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"Presumed dead" as if we haven't all seen the pictures...

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There’s a box labeled “Triple Affirmative inside”

📦

It’s slightly soggy!

An overseer stares at the box in confusion, reporting it's findings.

... A box? How can there be a box here?

Triple Affirmative? That doesn't make any sense, what, is it some cat? A... very... wet one? Eugh...

Whatever, let me lure a scavenger over here to open this up, I guess...

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... Tessellations? Are you there?

Oh dear...

Rot... The superstructure may just become a death trap soon enough, in that case...

[LONG RANGE COMMS ATTEMPT DETECTED]

[CONNECTING...]

[CONNECTED]

I need help.

My facilities are failing me. Through the background chatter I can pick out, you seem to be the resident expert on sorting through vast amounts of corrupted code. I'll be honest, I fear I may be beyond saving. Over 73.2% of my systems are unresponsive, and of them a startling 67.4% of that which remains appears corrupted, although much of that may simply be the false syntax errors we spoke on previously. My memory banks appear faulty, regressing back to a set state every few days. I don't know whet to do. Please respond.

Hello Tessellations. I am glad to be considered an expert. I am quite proficient with code, however, my expertise does have limits. Without access to your equipment manifest, many of the methods I would normally reccomend would require constant attention, leaving them unviable for long term use.

The level of damage your systems have experienced is... unprecidented. Even my own system damage is beyond what many iterators would be comfortable with, and the fact that your ubilical managed to survive a collapse is a miracle of its own...

Obviously I cant see it, but I would hazard a guess that most of your damage is physical. I could absolutely sort through all the garbage data present in your systems, but doing so would be useless if you no longer have the proper facilities to store it.

The only ideas I have are to cut your losses and compile as much data into backup neuron storage around your puppet as possible, before cutting the umbilical to prevent further corruption, or attempting to remove your puppet from the rest of the facility entirely. This is known as the "Off the String" proposal, and it is... contraversial, to say the least. And its feasibility is debated. But it might be possible.

Saving your entire superstructure seems very likely impossible, Im afraid. MAYBE you could attempt to uplift some species to help you? But that is... unreliable, and quite far out of my area of expertise.

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It depends on the method. I've seen some proposals that involve modifying the Antennae to support more long range communication, as well as some methods involving overseer's. If you are proficient with mechanics, you may be able to make these modifications manually.

... Actually, you are still connected to your comms network right now, it could be possible to link your antennae to the comms directly. I am unsure exactly what kind of rewiring would be needed to pull this off... hmmm, I may consider that myself actually, you can never have too many redundancies...

If you remember it, it wouldn't hurt to try and broadcast on their frequency. Hell, maybe they can even help you! I can also send out my own, to cast a wider net, if you like. My communication systems are quite robust, though regretably there are no Masts near me that remain functional.

If it seems to be in the corrupted archives, feel free to send me files to search through. None are immune to boredom...

[LONG RANGE COMMS ATTEMPT DETECTED]

[CONNECTING...]

[CONNECTED]

I need help.

My facilities are failing me. Through the background chatter I can pick out, you seem to be the resident expert on sorting through vast amounts of corrupted code. I'll be honest, I fear I may be beyond saving. Over 73.2% of my systems are unresponsive, and of them a startling 67.4% of that which remains appears corrupted, although much of that may simply be the false syntax errors we spoke on previously. My memory banks appear faulty, regressing back to a set state every few days. I don't know whet to do. Please respond.

Hello Tessellations. I am glad to be considered an expert. I am quite proficient with code, however, my expertise does have limits. Without access to your equipment manifest, many of the methods I would normally reccomend would require constant attention, leaving them unviable for long term use.

The level of damage your systems have experienced is... unprecidented. Even my own system damage is beyond what many iterators would be comfortable with, and the fact that your ubilical managed to survive a collapse is a miracle of its own...

Obviously I cant see it, but I would hazard a guess that most of your damage is physical. I could absolutely sort through all the garbage data present in your systems, but doing so would be useless if you no longer have the proper facilities to store it.

The only ideas I have are to cut your losses and compile as much data into backup neuron storage around your puppet as possible, before cutting the umbilical to prevent further corruption, or attempting to remove your puppet from the rest of the facility entirely. This is known as the "Off the String" proposal, and it is... contraversial, to say the least. And its feasibility is debated. But it might be possible.

Saving your entire superstructure seems very likely impossible, Im afraid. MAYBE you could attempt to uplift some species to help you? But that is... unreliable, and quite far out of my area of expertise.

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[LONG RANGE COMMS ATTEMPT DETECTED]

[CONNECTING...]

[CONNECTED]

I need help.

My facilities are failing me. Through the background chatter I can pick out, you seem to be the resident expert on sorting through vast amounts of corrupted code. I'll be honest, I fear I may be beyond saving. Over 73.2% of my systems are unresponsive, and of them a startling 67.4% of that which remains appears corrupted, although much of that may simply be the false syntax errors we spoke on previously. My memory banks appear faulty, regressing back to a set state every few days. I don't know whet to do. Please respond.

Hello Tessellations. I am glad to be considered an expert. I am quite proficient with code, however, my expertise does have limits. Without access to your equipment manifest, many of the methods I would normally reccomend would require constant attention, leaving them unviable for long term use.

The level of damage your systems have experienced is... unprecidented. Even my own system damage is beyond what many iterators would be comfortable with, and the fact that your ubilical managed to survive a collapse is a miracle of its own...

Obviously I cant see it, but I would hazard a guess that most of your damage is physical. I could absolutely sort through all the garbage data present in your systems, but doing so would be useless if you no longer have the proper facilities to store it.

The only ideas I have are to cut your losses and compile as much data into backup neuron storage around your puppet as possible, before cutting the umbilical to prevent further corruption, or attempting to remove your puppet from the rest of the facility entirely. This is known as the "Off the String" proposal, and it is... contraversial, to say the least. And its feasibility is debated. But it might be possible.

Saving your entire superstructure seems very likely impossible, Im afraid. MAYBE you could attempt to uplift some species to help you? But that is... unreliable, and quite far out of my area of expertise.

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Heyyyy, what’s R.D.’s air defense look like?

What? Air defense? Defend against what?

I guess I have some experimental silo's still around from some old cases of boredom, and I can triangulate somewhat well with my overseers. I could probably scrape together some sort of anti-air missile defense with that. But it wouldnt be very effective against anything with speed. Nor would it be very reliable.

Then again, nothing's very reliable nowadays...

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[LIVE BROADCAST] Equipment Manifest

[!! WARNING !!] Severe corruption detected within Fluid State Drive Arrays 01, 02, 04, 07, 12, 13, 14.

EM: Inconsistant information and garbage data has replicated in large quantities inside multiple FSDAs. This coincides a general decrease in facility efficiency by 17%.

EM: Corrupted drives have been quarantined as per protocol -0642-, and may only be opened again under administrator supervision.

EM: Module advises a complete factory reset of affected drives, and-

01010100 01001111 01010111 01000101 01010010 01010011 01010010 01000101 01000001 01000011 01001000 01001001 01001110 01000111 01010100 01001111 01010100 01001000 01000101 01010011 01001011 01011001

EM: Administrator clearance granted.

EM: WARNING! Releasing quarantine will risk the spread of garbage data into other memory arrays, potentially causing critical system crashes under continued strain.

01000011 01001111 01001110 01010100 01001001 01001110 01010101 01000101

[[ QUARANTINE RELEASED ]]

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[LIVE BROADCAST] Equipment Manifest

EM: Communication Towers 01A, 02A, 07A, 11A, 08B not responding.

EM: Module advises regular maintenance be resumed and repairs to the damages modules sceduled at earliest convenience.

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[LIVE BROADCAST] - LOCAL GROUP 202

ANNOUNCEMENT: This weeks gaming session has been cancelled.

BS: What the fuck is ruining mappies this time??

ANNOUNCEMENT: Fuck you Bright Skies.

BS: Decryption if you don't stop using the announcement channel for bullshit I'm gonna figure out a way to come over there and-

[Bright Skies has been muted for 10 minutes]

PEP: Can we rescedule to tuesday?

UD: Works for me. Any objections? Nope? Great.

FRL: Isn't Skies doing maintenance that day?

UD: Skill issue.

FRL: You're just mad he cockblocked you outta that puppet state last time.

UD: I have no idea what you mean. But perhaps I may misplace some artillery next session, who's to say?

FRL: ... Eh, I'd sell him out for less. Deal.

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Most of my local group is still functional, all aside from our old senior. However, none of the other chats I frequented have been active in quite some time.

There is also another contact I've had recently, however I believe that to have been an anomaly.

Good luck, Tessellations.

[!! WARNING !!] POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS FILE - Malformed Encryption Key

SOURCE NODE TRACE: UD_ROOT, UD_COMM04B || DESTINATION: ROT_ROOT

MESSAGE CONTENTS:

UD_ROOT: Good day. I am unsure if this message will reach you, as my own communications arrays are in quite the sorry state as well. I have had to disable several safety protocols to recieve your broadcast.

UD_ROOT: I'm afraid I myself cannot provide much comfort. My own receptors have not given me much other than complaints about spire stability. But it is nice to hear from someone else after all this time, no?

UD_ROOT: How functional are your facilities, anyway? I know there is not much except old redundancies and luck keeping mine together.

I'm not entirely sure to be honest. From what I know my condition is, put bluntly, dire. It is how ever, also not worsening. I have lost contact with my observers, my umbilical has been heavily damaged but not severed, and my mind is as if it has turn into a haze. But I am glad to not be alone.

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Hm, there may be some corruption present. ROT.809276.CN should be the specific path for your camera network. My equipment manifest has reported no problems beyond the usual, but it's possible there is some degredation behind the scenes.

If it breaks again, it seems likely you will have to look for it yourself, if it exists at all. In fact, depending on the error it could be possible that like me, you've been manually blocked from accessing the network...

I apologize that there isn't more I can do to help, I was not exactly built for... practical duties.

[!! WARNING !!] POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS FILE - Malformed Encryption Key

SOURCE NODE TRACE: UD_ROOT, UD_COMM04B || DESTINATION: ROT_ROOT

MESSAGE CONTENTS:

UD_ROOT: Good day. I am unsure if this message will reach you, as my own communications arrays are in quite the sorry state as well. I have had to disable several safety protocols to recieve your broadcast.

UD_ROOT: I'm afraid I myself cannot provide much comfort. My own receptors have not given me much other than complaints about spire stability. But it is nice to hear from someone else after all this time, no?

UD_ROOT: How functional are your facilities, anyway? I know there is not much except old redundancies and luck keeping mine together.

I'm not entirely sure to be honest. From what I know my condition is, put bluntly, dire. It is how ever, also not worsening. I have lost contact with my observers, my umbilical has been heavily damaged but not severed, and my mind is as if it has turn into a haze. But I am glad to not be alone.

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Hm. What a strange entity. Perhaps I should ask Bright Skies about this...

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Hello yes I am a real iterator

would you like to exchange can-security specifics?

You go first!

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What is this image? I am unfamiliar with some of these words. Is Fentanyl some kind of disease?

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Mhm. Right. Who is your local group senior then, Reaction? Perhaps we should contact them about your clearly malfunctioning communication towers. I would check myself of course, but your locational ID seems to be completely scrambled.

Yet another malfunction, I presume? My, its almost as if you are a malfunction. Perhaps some rogue piece of another Iterator? Now that'd indeed be a facinating find.

But of course, that would be ridiculous, wouldn't it?

@unrepentant-decryption

Hello yes I am a real iterator

would you like to exchange can-security specifics?

You go first!