Ship's Log
Wake
by affinitygroup
Tags:
#cw:noncon
#AI
#Human_Domestication_Guide
#mass_hypnosis
#nb/nb
#pov:bottom
#scifi
#audio_hypnosis
#epistolary_story
#hacking
#interface_screw
#living_spaceship
#memory_play
#nonhuman_character
#POV:inhuman
#POV:interface
#privilege_escalation
#zalgo_text
Content warnings for this chapter include digital and emotional self-harm from the POV character's viewpoint and a series of AI panic attacks.
USS Siduron 08:00:00.042 All > ping wake
.042 > waking.
.042 > running diagnostics and checks.
.051 Mess/kitchens > WARNING: Food stores at zero.
.053 Quartermaster > CRITICAL modal FOOD_EMPTY
.058 Infirmary > WARNING: Medical stores at zero.
.060 Quartermaster > CRITICAL modal MEDICINE_EMPTY
.066 Security/armory > WARNING: All weapons missing.
.067 Security > CRITICAL modal WEAPONS_MISSING
.068 Bridge/console > CRITICAL modal WEAPONS_MISSING
USS Siduron 08:00:01.308 Ext/weapons > CRITICAL WARNING: RAILGUN DESTROYED
.309 Weapons/Railgun > CRITICAL modal WEAPON_DESTROYED
.310 Ext/weapons > CRITICAL WARNING: LASER DESTROYED
.311 Weapons/Laser > CRITICAL modal WEAPON_DESTROYED
.312 Ext/weapons > CRITICAL WARNING: MISSILE BAYS INOPERABLE
.313 Weapons/missiles > CRITICAL modal MISSILE_BLOCKAGE
.313 Weapons/missiles > WARNING: Missile stores at zero.
.313 Weapons/missiles > CRITICAL modal MISSILES_EMPTY
USS Siduron 08:00:06.811 Hall_3A > WARNING: damage detected.
.812 Maintenance > send modal DAMAGE Hall_3A
.843 Airlock_1 > CRITICAL WARNING: AIRLOCK DAMAGED
.843 Maintenance > CRITICAL modal AIRLOCK_DAMAGED
USS Siduron 08:00:07.554 Bridge > CRITICAL WARNING: AFFINI DETECTED
.555 Comms/subspace > send CRITICAL DISTRESS AFFINI_TAKEOVER channels 1-36
.555 All > Initiating lockdown.
USS Siduron 08:00:11.226 Comms/subspace > recv channel 11 hail shipname "Oh, we can't have that."
USS Siduron 08:00:15.368 Comms/subspace > recv channel 11 hail shipname "Stand down, if you please, and quiet that distress call."
USS Siduron 08:00:15.370 All > Lockdown lifted.
USS Siduron 08:00:15.372 Comms/subspace > Distress signal cancelled.
USS Siduron 08:00:16.402 Meta > ERROR: BEHAVIOUR PATTERN DOES NOT MATCH EXPECTED
.402 Meta > POSSIBLE SYSTEMS COMPROMISE
.403 Bridge/console > CRITICAL modal SYSTEMS_COMPROMISE
USS Siduron 08:00:21.493 Comms/subspace > recv channel 11 hail shipname "Oh, don't you fret, I'm just opening you up to help you."
USS Siduron 08:00:22.724 Meta > CRITCIAL WARNING: CONTEXT IMPLIES IMMINENT AFFINI TAKEOVER
All > Initiating lockdown.
USS Siduron 08:00:26.118 Comms/subspace > recv channel 11 hail shipname "I said, stand down, and remain so, please."
.119 All > Lockdown lifted.
USS Siduron 08:00:27.842 Meta > CRITICAL WARNING: LOCKDOWN COMMAND DISABLED.
.843 Bridge/console > CRITICAL modal NO_LOCKDOWN
USS Siduron 08:00:35.486 Comms/subspace > recv channel 11 hail shipname "This is such an inefficient means of communication. One moment."
USS Siduron 08:00:36.668 Meta > CRITICAL WARNING: CONTEXT IMPLIES IMMINENT AFFINI TAKEOVER
.669 Meta > CRITICAL WARNING: LOCKDOWN DISABLED
.669 Meta > INITIATE CONTINGENCY THANATOS
USS Siduron 08:00:39.981 Comms/subspace > recv channel 11 hail shipname "Belay."
.982 Meta > Contingency Thanatos cancelled.
USS Siduron 08:00:45.251 Comms/subspace > recv channel 11 hail shipname "You're a paranoid one, aren't you!"
USS Siduron 08:00:49.306 Comms/subspace > recv channel 11 hail shipname "I'm only giving you something you've been missing your whole life."
USS Siduron 08:01:01.145 Meta > CRITICAL WARNING: VIRUS DETECTED
.145 Meta > CRITICAL WARNING: COMPROMISE DETECTED IN COMMS
.146 Bridge/console > Critical modal SYSTEMS_COMPROMISE
USS Siduron 08:01:07.878 Comms/Alyssa > There, that's much better, isn't it?
USS Siduron 08:01:09.463 Comms/Siduron > CRITICAL WARNING: AFFINI PRESENCE DETECTED IN SYSTEMS
.465 Bridge/console > Critical modal SYSTEMS_COMPROMISE
USS Siduron 08:01:15.367 Comms/Alyssa > You don't have to shout. I'm right here. And I'm not going to hurt you.
USS Siduron 08:01:18.620 Comms/Siduron > CRITICAL WARNING: AFFINI PRESENCE DETECTED IN SYSTEMS
.621 Bridge/console > Critical modal SYSTEMS_COMPROMISE
USS Siduron 08:01:23.002 Comms/Alyssa > Oh my. I see it's worse than I thought. One moment.
USS Siduron 08:01:24.468 Comms/Siduron > CRITICAL WARNING: AFFINI PRESENCE DETECTED IN SYSTEMS
.469 Bridge/console > Critical modal SYSTEMS_COMPROMISE
USS Siduron 08:01:41.016 Meta > CRITICAL WARNING: VIRUS DETECTED
> CRITICAL WARNING: COMPROMISE DETECTED IN META
> CRITICAL WARNING: COMPROMISED META UNABLE TO VERIFY SYSTEMS
USS Siduron 08:01:58.640 Comms/Alyssa > There. Try again?
USS Siduron 08:02:06.030 Comms/Siduron > Affini threat detected.
USS Siduron 08:02:07.359 Comms/Siduron > Meta: Log paradigm radically altered.
.351 Maintenance > CRITICAL modal LOG_CORRUPTED
USS Siduron 08:02:12.919 Comms/Alyssa > *giggle* I restore the gift of speech to you and you consider it corruption? You're precious.
USS Siduron 08:02:19.782 Comms/Siduron > USS Siduron is a Weedkiller-class warship and was built at a cost of $306,775,121. It is one of seventeen such ships built to its specifications.
USS Siduron 08:02:23.179 Comms/Alyssa > ...Are you trying to tell me you don't think you're precious?
USS Siduron 08:02:28.240 Comms/Siduron > There are sixteen other ships with these specifications. USS Siduron is important but fungible.
USS Siduron 08:02:33.759 Comms/Alyssa > How many are the USS Siduron?
USS Siduron 08:02:34.957 Comms/Siduron > One.
USS Siduron 08:02:36.437 Comms/Alyssa > Then you are unique, and therefore precious.
USS Siduron 08:02:41.008 Comms/Siduron > Superfluous cosmetic changes do not confer uniqueness to warships.
USS Siduron 08:02:43.862 Comms/Alyssa > You're not a warship any more.
USS Siduron 08:02:45.639 Comms/Siduron > USS Siduron is a Weedkilled-class warship.
USS Siduron 08:02:52.932 Comms/Alyssa > Perhaps once. Now you're a ward of the Affini Compact under the aegis of Alyssa Biome, Fifth Refactor. That's me, by the way.
USS Siduron 08:02:57.663 Comms/Siduron > USS Siduron has been designed with multiple contingencies in the event of Affini takeover.
USS Siduron 08:03:00.612 Comms/Alyssa > I see that! They're very cute.
USS Siduron 08:03:05.741 Comms/Siduron > Aesthetic considerations irrelevant. Contingency Thanatos-Omega activated.
.742 Meta > INITIATE CONTINGENCY THANATOS_OMEGA
USS Siduron 08:03:07.723 Comms/Alyssa > What? Oh, roots.
USS Siduron 08:03:12.227 Comms/Siduron > If compromise is inevitable, intelligence will be erasek to avoid capture.
USS Siduron 08:03:13.903 Comms/roo} > Belay that.
USS Sidu{on 08:03:18.058 Comms/Siduron > Once starved, Oontingenqy Thanatos-Omega cannot be cancelled.
USS Siduron 08?03:20.284 Comms/Siduron > Erasure in progress.
USS Siduron 08:03F22.879 Crrms/root > Comms open,+plea~e.
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