ZionOS ccc9 Friday, September 05, 2008
##Establishing Secure Communications Link Please Wait....## .. ... .... ##Secure Link Established## //Incoming Transmission// //Transmission: Story Summary// //ID: MXO chapter 11.1.4 Story Summary // ##Connection Established## Zion, investigating the ongoing rash of thefts at Wright Research, found a Wright employee who was somehow in two spots at once: a security lab analyzing the attacks, and the most recent break-in site. When caught and questioned by Wright security, however, the employee appeared to be a completely normal bluepill.
The Machines, starting to take the Ouroboros network offline in an attempt to isolate the cause of the problems within that corporation, tracked a suspicious data stream to an Ouroboros employee, apparently hacking into her own company's network. She provided information leading to the discovery of a series of commands sent to the power plant at the company's Creston Heights headquarters--commands that had already triggered a condition that would lead to a catastrophic overload capable of leveling northwest Downtown.
Silver's experiments using the interface program continued, with Merovingian operatives playing unwitting hosts to the program. It was found to be capable of transferring from RSI to RSI at will, or, as Silver put it, to "interface perfectly with human broadcast signals."
A small group of Machine operatives reached the control terminal for the Ouroboros Corporation's Creston Heights power plant, finding themselves faced there with a mind-boggling security program while other Machine operatives fought off Ouroboros security forces in the plaza outside. Minutes away from meltdown, the Ouroboros hacker whose information had led to the discovery of the impending catastrophe reached the plaza's perimeter. Operatives escorted her inside, where she input a command that deactivated the overload process. She fled as Ouroboros security launched another attack. See the Live Event Thread here.
Zion found a lab technician in an office at Wright Research, after the building had been evacuated due to a security alert. To their surprise, the technician changed from male to female, then changed form several more times as it attempted to escape from the pursuing operatives. It eluded them for a time until being spotted, in the form of a combat simulacrum, several blocks away. Niobe ordered it left alone while a scan was run, but a number of overzealous operatives fired upon the simulacrum, terminating it. Although the scan was incomplete, Niobe said that they might be able to spot it if it reappeared and varied its signal again. See the Live Event Thread here.
Carlyne interrupted a social event being held by the Merovingian, demanding that the Frenchman give him the biological interface program. The Merovingian said that it would take some time to prepare the program for a safe transfer. Carlyne gave him one day to have it ready. See the Live Event Thread here.
Operatives located Carlyne at a forlorn Westview location, impatiently awaiting the preparation of the interface program by the Merovingian. Curiously, none of the Merovingian's operatives were among the group who came to question the intruder, and Carlyne, growing frustrated with the delay, advanced to Hampton Green, where he placed override programs around the Merovingian's Hel Club in what he termed a means of "encouragement." See the Live Event Thread here.
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