CJACOBS: 002

[cjacobs]

Maryle and I were able to pull data from the CPU delivered by Cal and Eva.

The Sterilization Event was triggered by a significant group of people in Xitang being partially severed from the veil. 20 self-reports were evaluated by HDroids, which identified a specific defect in the neural implants. HDroids fixed the imperfections and relinked to the Veil. However, anti-Architect graffiti began to pop up around the city, indicating more people had defective implants other than the 20 self-reports.

Mass scans revealed that the entire city had spontaneously partially severed. This triggered three protocols:

1. The sterlization protocol in Xitang. We disrupted this.
   
2. Mandatory inspection check by HDroids for anyone with chips that were implanted in 2005 is currently ongoing.
   
3. A relocation effort of all defective implants to Sighisoara, Romania by Feb 28. This is for another sterilization protocol.

Issues

1. Do any Dislinked agents have a chip that was implanted in 2005? If so, they are going to end up being noticed as not on the radar.
   
2. How to deal with Sighisoara, Romania?

Do we fully sever the evacuees, or relink them? Being in a prolonged partial state can trigger catastrophic neural regression. Relinking them and re-integrating them into other pres cities would keep them protected.

How do we deal with our agents who had chips in 2005?

[Engineering]

Do any of you have a 2005 implant?

Comments

[finotti]

You?

[iyla]

my parents were very pro. we all got them that year.

boy

[finotti]

How are you feeling about this news then?

boy

[iyla]

i’m trying not to worry before i need to. […] there’s cause for alarm, but not panic. if our deaths can be faked, we won’t have a problem. if my parents are able to be ‘fixed,’ they won’t be sent off for ‘sterilization.’ and if they are, we’ll have a plan to stop it by then.

boy

[finotti]

That's very reasonable

boy

[iyla]

ask me again in a few hours.

boy

[finotti]

When we have more of a plan or when you've had more time to process it?

boy

[iyla]

why not both?

boy

[finotti]

Greedy, but you can have both

boy

[iyla]

good. i’m not really in a settling mood.

boy

[finotti]

I think you can be in whatever mood you want about this

boy

[iyla]

are you worrying about someone in particular with the questions you asked?

boy

[finotti]

I don't know that worry is the right word. But that's when my mom volunteered

boy

[iyla]

what is the right word?

boy

[finotti]

I don't know

boy

[iyla]

you might need to elaborate if you want me to get it.

boy

[finotti]

Do you want to get it? You have enough of your own stuff going on

boy

[iyla]

i’m not interested in thinking about my stuff right now.

boy

[finotti]

Alright [...] My mom was barely around even before she chose to get implanted, so it's never really made a difference to me that she was. Not like it did with other people I care about. I think even if she was temporarily unlinked, she'd want to be linked again and I don't think I'd care enough to stop that but I feel [...] guilty about thinking that when I'm against all veiling otherwise

boy

[iyla]

[…] it’s okay to have complicated feelings.

boy

[finotti]

I don't want her to die, I know that much

boy

[iyla]

of course you don’t. […] we have even more time to prepare this time, though.

boy

[finotti]

You said your parents also got it then?

boy

[iyla]

they did. […] but a lot of people did and we need to focus on the big picture here.

boy

[finotti]

So you're avoiding your own complicated feelings on that?