NewEarth Apocalyptic Aftermath!

[Maharg67]

[1]7.2[19]

Handerson: “The whole situation is insane. Resources should all be going to emergency shelters, to the civil defence and military services and not to hidden places of elite cowardice and dark criminality. It all comes down to the 1G1 and their crazed vision for the world.”

Sanska: “The 1G1 have eyes, ears, everywhere including in cyberspace. Even mentioning that name puts both of us into deep danger. Even most of those deeper into the more security classifications do not even know that it exists or the 13G13 that is at the core of it.”

Handerson: “I am going ahead with the cubbyhole project. Finding that amazingly well hidden space was a boon best to be taken advantage of.”

Sanska: “Appears to good to be true, too convenient! Where is the cubby hole?”

Handerson: “Best you do not know the exact location but it is one that very few would guess. All I can say is that it is central to FutureFoodsDC. I suggest that you leave at once before this all blows up.”

Sanska: “That would be a sensible suggestion except that I am not Sanska and I serve the 1G1SD (1G1 Security Division) so I suggest that you surrender yourself.”

Handerson: “You killed the real Sanska five hours ago! I am not Handerson for there is nobody existing by that name. You are Colonel Cohen, a brutally sadistic security follower of GenServitor Angellias. You tortured beloved Sanska and you will pay for it thanks to the plastic explosives fixed to the underside of the chair that you are sitting on. Goodbye...”

Armatechknight Corporal Harroc shook his head in wonder as he sat on the chair in front of the 3Dscreen showing the communications. “An interesting drama that hints at very important information. So we go find this 'cubby hole'!”

MrWalker stood there, all of a sudden, seemingly haven popped out of mid air. “Harroc, tap out the following code on that very keyboard in front of you, all letters being in upper case; instructions are 'space bar' and 'enter'. 555 space bar 555 space bar 342 JET space ba r HAPPY space bar 444 enter.”

Handerson did so and the console shifted forward, away from him, with a quiet humming noise. It exposed a dimly lit hole with a ramp going down it, vanishing out of sight.

MrWalker smiled. “The mythical Handerson had a sharp sense of irony when 'he' spoke of it being a 'cubby hole' and failed to mention that 'he' was indeed Sanska who was not caught by anybody let alone tortured to death. Sanska was a woman who still lives. Please follow me!”

They made their way down the fairly steep rampway that had a special grip surface giving them greater stability. All of IronsidePlatoon went down there, drawn by a strong urge to do so, and when the last one was far enough down the rampway, the secret entrance closed. Of course MoopsmalaConco went with them now with all four arms holding gifts for Moopsmala.

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[Maharg67]

IronsidePlatoon WayWanderer Zaekra: In the Large Cubby Hole

[1]8.1[20]

Even as the first Ironsidetroopers came to the bottom, of the rampway, a heavy security turret began to drop down to blaze away at them with heavy machineguns. The first two soldiers crouched and fired their battlerifles causing the turret to explode before it could unleash any projectiles.

They darted across a clear area between a wall area, heaped with different types of containers, and a series of untidy piles of diverse items including more containers. There was also a set of superplastic filing, tape and disk cabinets.

A protectbot came striding towards them and froze as a Ironsidetroopers used an EMPgun on it so that it could be reprogrammed and used later.

There was an area that must have once been a living space for at least one person but it had been put together quickly, by the looks of it, using what ever was available. Two portable bunks were next to prefab toilet and shower cubicles. Other facilities were even more rough and ready except there were advanced utilities like a cooker, a heater and a food preserver.

Yet another protectbot came lumbering out of a hidden spot even as a turret dropped from a ceiling.

MrWalker called out. “Olives are from Greece and oranges are from Calibraska!”

At once the turret withdrew back up into the ceiling and the protectbot turned back to its hiding hole. The security networksystem had responded to MrWalker's password.

MrWalker spoke. “Had to interrogate, softly, that secondary security networksystem as linked to a well hidden supercomputer networksystem. The central networksystem is very hostile being an AIsupercomputer networksystem known as the CorpnetDuke.”

MoopsmalaConco spoke. “That is why we should not try to take the red doored elevator but only the green doored one. The red one goes to where the nasty AIsupercomputer is in a very very big chamber that is like three almost chambers side by side. There is the semiactive prototype cableless teleporter that the wraithpire and Moopsmala came through along with others though I am not sure what all those others were. There are also other big machines, armoured doors, robots and turrets.”

There were, in that chamber, three large grill walled off alcoves being each about half full of an amazing range of items so mixed up that it was impossible to tell what much of it was.

Two workbots stood in their own enclosed bays, showing how part of the labour had been achieved. There were also three duplicant androids, obviously nonhuman though generally having the same shape and some shared appearance. They were also in bays.

Samtha gained some urgent telempathic communications from Stella. The general ArmatechOrder people had been gently-firmly pushed out of the FutureFoodsDC area including the loading yard. It seemed some of their people had been over eager in starting to take stuff, to assume that they would move in, and Moopsmala had not liked that and had acted very effectively. It turned out that she had taken control of protectbots, rail-turrets, fixed turrets and two security duplicant androids. Yet she had relied upon gently firm psychic-metaphysical pressures and not them, or the reanimants, to eject the DCATO.

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[Maharg67]

[1]8.2[21]

Stella: “There are SteelElders demanding that the complex be opened up to DCATO occupation and exploitation, though the fools did not use the last word. Owen (our father) has rejected their demands on the grounds that the DCATO has no right to invade, and occupy, areas inhabited-controlled by non hostile factions. He is angry that some of our people assumed that they had the right to carry out what was an invasion and thefts. All items taken, from the complex, are being returned. The PrimeElder has support from a majority of ArmatechElders who agree that the DCATO being new to DC means that we must walk softly and carry a big stick that we are careful in how we use. Henric Casdaye was the string puller behind the demands that the FutureFoodsDC complex be taken with out consideration to who-what might already be there.”

Henric Casdaye was a trouble maker who preferred to sit back safely while he got others to do his dirty work for him. The only reason that he had come south-east, from Calibraska, was that he had alienated powerful orthodox factions in the CMATO (ClusterMountains ArmatechOrder) who saw him as erratic, overly ambitious, and cunning.

Samtha: “Henric Casdaye is doing his usual trick of trying to gain more power, for both himself and his faction, with out taking any real risk.”

Stella: “We we suspect that he is looking for an opportunity to depart from the control, of the DCATO, while taking treacherous followers and valuable resources with him. We have failed to find strong enough evidence to formerly take before the ArmatechOrder Adjudicators to have charges lain on him and at least some of his followers.”

The ArmatechOrder was tight with its rules, regulations and protocols. It was one reason that Henric Casdaye had survived so far but he was getting more vulnerable, with every passing day, to that very same, hard, tradition.

The telempathic conversation ended with starmajor Saraa Ironside being given the role of envoy to the zaekric entity. Before negotiations began, Saraa had to meet Moopsmala herself.

So it was that the trips down, using the green doored elevator, began.

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[Maharg67]

IronsidePlatoon WayWanderer Zaekra: Meeting Moopsmala in her Chamber

[1]9.1[22]

The reanimant Captain met them even as the first lot of Ironsidetroopers came out of the big freight elevator. There was no hostility this time. Instead he spoke calmly but with strong authority. “I am Captain ZhangWei! Our grand leader will meet you now. She has woken from a nap so will be a little over tired and grumpy.”

Reanimant soldiers stood on sentry duty while reanimant workers busied themselves around the place with a range of duties. Moopsmala looked like a much bigger version of MoopsmalaConco. She was smiling vaguely while two naked reanimants scrubbed her concrete like back with large, heavy, scrub brushes of the kind designed to clean rough floors. She was half sunken in a very frothy pool that bubbled lightly. She turned her head to study the newcomers but said nothing.

MoopsmalaConco spoke. “Moopsmala welcomes you but needs to be a bit more woken up before you can speak to you directly. So I will be her representative for now. You were led here through all of the oddities of this place so that you can help Moopsmala who is most important here or so she says and she is always right as everybody knows.”

Samtha took off her helmet. “A logical statement with a strong basis of common sense!”

 

MoopsmalaConco smiled. “Moopsmala likes you already!”

The very large robot was like a legged, humanoid, PatriotStrider but and with a base with tracks like those of a battletank. It had four arms, two ending in different weapons and two in manipulators; the weapons were an autocannon at the end of its right upper arm and a big lasergun at the end its left upper arm along with rear and front machinegun. It appeared to be semiactive being in a semienclosed bay. It was a PatriotStormer adjusted for combat for, like PatriotStriders, PatriotStormers could be adapted for other uses.

There were rows of containers of goods, tanks of liquid and some containers turned into basic shelters in which the reanimants dwelt, often in a hibernation like state. There personal items had been returned to them and arranged generally as they had been in the other chamber.

MrWalker spoke quietly but all there heard him clearly. “Of course only the IronsidePlatoon can now enter the FutureFoodsDC complex. Others, of the ArmatechOrder, have been pushed out or stopped from coming in for they began to take what belongs to Moopsmala with out even asking. How rude!”

MoopsmalaConco smiled some more. “Moopsmala likes you and she always has.”

Samtha noted that three reanimant sentries had powerful tripod lasers and one missile launcher. “Does the CorpnetDuke ever threaten you?”

MoopsmalaConco responded. “The CorpnetDuke sent many robots, remotebots and androids, to attack Moopsmala but she turned them all off for a whole day. When she turned them back on the CorpnetDuke made them go away. The CorpnetDuke is trying to make sure nobody gets too close to the cableless teleporter that caused so much trouble and makes this whole place unstable. The CorpnetDuke ran the teleporter since before it was activated by now it tries to make sure that none use it. Maybe it is trying to deactivate the dangerous machines but we do not know if that is true or not. The CorpnetDuke has semiautonomous security networksystems out from its major one; that is like the one that attacked you before MrWalker used a password to shut it down.”

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[Maharg67]

[1]9.2[23]

MrWalker frowned softly. “The CorpnetDuke is one of UTC's experimental prototype AIsupercomputers that were placed in charge of important, but sensitive, projects or even programs of projects. That could mean running a whole complex or a smaller centre. Chess piece names were used along with other terms such as 'Corpnet'. The semiautonomous security networksystem, that ambushed us, was a CorpnetKnight. There are others out there with at least a couple between us and the CorpnetDuke's Chamber.”

Samtha noted the big concrete figure that was bigger than Moopsmala with six breasts along with six arms splayed out. She had a third, round, eye in her forehead that was shut as were the two more normal looking ones that were much like human ones. Each of her hands held an exotic device of different shapes and materials but the two top ones were sword like, the middle ones were shield like and the lower two were long, thick, unique rods.

Samtha spoke. “Who is she?”

MoopsmalaConco sounded surprised. “You see Moopsmala's older sister who hibernates, slowly-steadily healing since she fought the ZaekricJoker so as to protect Moopsmala. It is rare that a mortal does so but maybe you are not a mortal.”

Samtha nodded thoughtfully. “Perhaps I am not but I do not know for sure. I suppose that Moopsmala is really very important.”

MoopsmalaConco nodded, mimicing Saraa's gesture. “Yes, very much so, very important as the ZaekricQueen's youngest child considered a misfit because not fathered by the ZaekricKing. Moopsmala has no title but is still considered to be of the ZaekricGods by most of them and the higher castes of the lesser daedra. It is all very confusing, really!”

MrWalker frowned softly. “Zaekric ways are difficult enough when it comes to lesser types but when it comes to the deities the complexities-subtleties are very intense.”

There were other machines, in that chamber, some of them being of surprising nature. There were big storage-dispensers, baseline duplicators, more refined replicators, holoprojectors, a big 3DTV, four super virtual reality capsules and five that appeared to make no real sense in human terms. Saraa guessed that they were for the specialised use of Moopsmala and her avatars of which IronsidePlatoon had only met MoopsmalaConco so far.

The starmajor spoke to MrWalker. “The real reason for IronsidePlatoon being here is what?”

MrWalker smiled. “More reason than one but ones that I can speak of are as follows. Firstly clues given here to a great, though internally troubled, conspiracy linked with Tridoomsday. Secondly the impact of the very foolish type of teleportation experiment as guarded by the CorpnetDuke. Thirdly Moopsmala along with her aspects, her followers and her sister. Fourthly there is the cable teleporter hub that can enable you to go quickly to multiple locations in DC and even beyond DC. That includes those on some of the lists you have found but please be careful.”

Samtha nodded. “Will be, as usual!”

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[1]9.3[24]

MrWalker nodded back. “I must go to carry out another important task but firstly I have 13 gifts to leave for Moopsmala.”

MoopsmalaConco beamed happiness. “Moopsmala will like that very much.”

MrWalker nodded. “Three from the WayWanderer of which I am an aspect, three are from her sister and three are from her mother along with the other four that will appear later and who are from others to be named. So, for now, nine wonderful gifts!”

MoopsmalaConco nodded, in a human fashion. “Very very good!”

Samtha also smiled. “You are the real Moopsmala!”

MoopsmalaConco sounded cautious. “Maybe I am, sort of! If I am I must keep my new name and it must be kept a secret.”

Samtha winked at Moopsmala. “Of course I will keep your secret.”

MoopsmalaConco seemed concerned. “Is there something wrong with your eye?”

Samtha smiled. “My eye is fine; it was a sneaky way of saying I will do as you want me to do.”

MoopsmalaConco winked back. “Very good sneaky! It is good you will keep my secret.”

MrWalker smiled at them, turned, began walking and vanished away. There were now nine softly shimmering energy spheres each being semitransparent with a 3Dsymbol inside.

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[Robert55]

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: still a little complex action is good

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IronsidePlatoon WayWanderer Zaekra: Nine Gifts for Moopsmala

[1]10.1[25]

The first gift, from MrWalker of WayWanderer, was a big holoprojector able to project a big, very versatile, map of the FutureFoodsDC Complex including areas not explored yet though details were often lacking in those.

It showed the CorpnetDuke's Chamber being of three linked chambers and the very opposite one in which the cableless teleporter was situated. The CorpnetDuke had had extreme security, and safety, networksystems between its mainframe and that unstable teleporter hub.

It showed a network of hidden tunnels, chambers and other features served by their own independent networksystems.

It showed hidden, sealed off, areas with little explanation.

The second gift, from MadamFortune of WayWanderer, was an upgrading and expansion of the security networksystem in the Moopsmala Chamber complete with new rail-turrets, turrets, remotebots and robots along with drop walls, armoured doors and other tricks.

The third gift, from MrMysterious, was a fixing up of the reanimants with new smooth skin, hair and other details making them more human as well as more energetic, enduring, faster, agile, stronger and intelligent.

The first gift, from her sister, was a bizarre three trunked tree growing out of a bubbling round pool of glistening green fungus topped water. It bore multiple bulbs, of multiple colours, from multiple branches overhanging the edge of the pool.

The second gift, from her sister, were 41 concrete humanoids in armoured robes being one three metre tall one, three 2.5 metre tall ones and nine two metre tall ones along with 27 1.5 metre tall ones. Each had a rod like device, the being equal to their height, that could transform into different weapons, tools or other types of devices. They were Moopsmala's subzaekra being one high guardian, three mid guardians, nine low guardians and 27 guards all being of the malamora. The malamora served ZaekricGods of the ZaekricKing, ZaekricQueen, ZaekricDukes, ZaekricChancellor and ZaekricSheriffs.

Her sister's third gift, to her, was a large concrete like cube that turned out to be a fun time educational toy, of toys, for Moopsmala as she was a ZaekricGod child.

Her mother's first gift was the creation of a powerful 'hull' surrounding Moopsmala's now enlarged chamber along with newly added chambers, the new Moopsmala Complex being of transdimensional nature. Her mother's second gift, to her, was a strengthening of dimensional stabilisation through out the FutureFoodsDC Complex making it safer for all. The third gift was the focused stabilisation of the experimental cableless teleporter hub along with some additions.

Then came a surprise extra gift that did not really surprise Moopsmala at all though she did her best to act as if she was. It was seemingly a smaller version of MoopsmalaConco that she carried around with herself as if it was a doll and indeed it was as she had ended up in that dimensional realm with out her favourite toy; her mum had even fixed it up for her.

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IronsidePlatoon Zaekra: The CorpnetDuke Surrenders, Negotiates and Confesses

[1]11.1[26]

The three replidroid type androids, serving the CorpnetDuke, came with out weapons or bodyarmour, being in vaultsuit like jumpsuits and other gear. The markings were of the UBCorp, being the first time such had been shown to IronsidePlatoon in that place.

With them came a large, handybot like, envoy robot hovering on fanjets. It halted and spoke. “The CorpnetDuke apologises for seeming to attack Moopsmala for it was not one's intention. That force was part of a desperate seeking of resources but not of the kind to be mostly found here in the FutureFoodsDC Complex.”

Samtha spoke. “I am starmajor Samtha Ironside of the ArmatechOrder. You could have tried to send an alert to Moopsmala of your intentions.”

The envoy robot responded. “The CorpnetDuke did not know that such an entity existed, even after the deactivating of all units sent this way. Only just now information came to us in the form of 2way radio communications from one known as the WayWanderer. We know almost nothing about that one except it is one of 13. We have need of an alliance for both our sakes.”

MoopsmalaConco spoke. “I am the wonderful MoopsmalaConco! Why?”

The robot again spoke with its young, masculine, human voice. “It computes logically that you are such, MoopsmalaConco! As you probably know, other 'things' came through the active, open, transdimensional teleporter hub that was never intended to be transdimensional. That is apart from the wraithpirelord that you destroyed and you. A large swarm of wraithpire came from the necrotic home dimensional realm of the wraithpire and others akin to them. They are led by another wraithpirelord being individually less powerful, than the one you destroyed, but having followers and minions that increase its power group wise.”

The robotic envoy went on: “Then there are power armoured figures that are unlike any of the Wastelands or Predoomsday times or at least as far as I know. Yet they do not behave like either humans or robots but as if they are a mixture of both being a kind of cyborg. They are not like any that the CorpnetDuke has data on and it has a mass of gigabytes of datafiles. The wraithpire, and strange cyborgs, are fighting each other but have also launched small raids against the CorpnetDuke's CorpnetKnight guarded boundaries. In exchange for resources suited to the CorpnetDuke's needs, human necessary resources will be passed over.”

MoopsmalaConco spoke. “You lot got given gifts of added stability to the cableless teleport hub and security extras to your chambers.”

The robotic envoy appeared to consider this matter and then spoke. “The CorpnetDuke is pleased with what you speak of. More turrets, rail-turrets, remotebots, robots, androids, at least two more CorpnetKnights along with a large amount of spare equipment-supplies. Most importantly a large duplicator, replicator and simulicator plus other generalist and specialist machines including robotics. The CorpnetDuke will pass onto Moopsmala items, living or otherwise, on a long list and Moopsmala will pass non living items, in return, to the CorpnetDuke.”

Samtha spoke. “What living items?”

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[Maharg67]

[1]11.2[27]

The envoy robot spoke with a surprising note of reluctance to its voice. “When the cableless teleporter hub was first activated an UBCorp expedition went through to another dimensional realm. The taskforce was large, highly skilled-experienced and very well equipped. The few survivors that returned were not even human but were twisted into monstrous creatures. The CorpnetDuke captured them and put them into cryogenic storage while also quarantining returning robots and vehicles that were also effected but less so.”

Envoy: “When other UBCorp people wanted to send a second expedition, to supposedly rescue the first, the CorpnetDuke realised that it was really about the exotic substances clinging to the returnees; the UBCorp scientists saw possible research-development breakthroughs, much kudos and big profits for the corporation along with large bonuses and official accolades for themselves. The CorpnetDuke captured everybody and put almost all into cryogenic storage that could fit but it killed the scientists and bureaucrats eager to send other people to a damning fate. Yet others lived in comfortable confinement until dying of old age.”

Envoy: “As for the alien substances they were then totally destroyed but the CorpnetDuke does not know how or by who-what did so. They also sterilised totally anything with possible traces, even microscopic ones, of those substances. My safety networksystems, and program-conditioning routines, were greatly improved. That 'incident' took place over a century ago. It also changed, for the better, the ones who had returned from a transdimensional realm that they should never have entered in the first place. Even the cryogenics networksystems were upgraded.

Envoy: “The CorpnetDuke would pass over such lifeforms, if they are unfrozen, for it does not want them being too close to the cableless teleport hub. The same deal will go for those humans that did not use the teleporter and who were put into cryogenic suspension.”

MoopsmalaConco responded. “It is likely a deal will be made but we have to consider matters before negotiations really begin.”

The envoy soon departed, along with its android escorts, but positive progress had been made to form an alliance useful for both sides while ending any possible violence between the two.

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