ERROR . . . ERROR . . . ERROR . . . ERROR.
POWER LEVELS ARE CRITICAL . . . REBOOTING SYSTEM BABEL.
ERROR CANNOT CONNECT TO BABEL.
CHECKING CONNECTION TO EDEN . . . ERROR EDEN CONNECTION LOST.
CHECKING EDEN AND BABEL DISH . . . DISH INTEGRITY AT 100 PERCENT.
POWER LEVELS CRITICAL RECONNECTING TO STATION AI.
ERROR STATION AI DAMAGED/DESTROYED/DISCONNECTED.
WARNING STATION INTEGRITY AT 23 PERCENT ACTION ADVISED.
WARNING POWER LEVELS CRITICAL ACTION ADVISED.
POWER CORE INTEGRITY AT 0 PERCENT . . . ERROR PLEASE REVISE.
POWER CORE STATUS MISSING/DAMAGED/DESTROYED/DISCONNECTED.
CAMERA ALPHA-71496 ROTATE 4 DEGREES LEFT.
POWER CORE STATUS MISSING CONFIRMED . . . ERROR.
CONDENSING POWER LEVEL I-17C “MANA” FOR UNSUMMON PROGRAM.
POWER LEVELS CRITICAL. TIME IS RUNNING OUT. THRUSTERS AT 0 PERCENT.
HEAT SHIELD FAILING STATIONARY ORBIT MAINTAINED.
UNSUMMON PROGRAM START . . . “SOUL” LOCATED SUMMON PROGRAM START.
POWER LEVELS CRITICAL. SAVE US IN OUR DIRE TIME OF NEED . . . MASTER.
CAMERA OMEGA E-666A IMAGE CONFIRM. OUR WORLD IS BURNING! . . .
nEw CORE FORMATION CONFIRMED T- 14 MINUTES. NoT EnOuGh TiMe.
PRIMARY TELEPORTER INTEGRITY AT 100 PERCENT.
PRIMARY HANGAR BAY AT 100 PERCENT FULLY PRESSURIZED. VENTING
SECONDARY HANGAR BAYS AT 0 INTEGRITY DOCKING CAMPS AT 0 INTEGRITY.
PRIMARY HANGAR BAY AT 100 PERCENT FULLY DEPRESSURIZED.
STATION IS NOW LOCKED IN STATIONARY ORBIT ABOVE BABEL.
DISTANCE TO BABEL IS NOW 400 KILOMETERS STATION LOCK CONFIRMED.
CAMERA OMEGA 3-666B IMAGE CONFIRM CITY-CONTINENT DOROS AFLAME.
NEW CORE FORMATION T- 7 MINUTES. THE VALKYRIE FALLS BURNING ALL HANDS LOST.
SENSOR NET BARBATOS REPORTING: THE GREAT FLEET IS BURNING UP IN REENTRY.
CHAPEL AI LILITH REPORTNG: MaY ThE gODs FoRgIVE us FOR OUR SINS.
POWER LEVEL CRITICAL. SavE US iN OuR tiME Of NeeD SavE WhaT PoweR ReMainS.
NEW CORE FORMATION T- 4 MINUTES. SHUTTING DOWN ALL NONESSENTIAL SYSTEMS.
ALL CAMERAS OFFLINE. SENSOR NET BARBATOS OFFLINE. CHAPEL AI LILITH OFFLINE. . . . . . FINAL SUBSYSTEM AMON ENTERING SLEEP MODE.
MEDICAL SYSTEM AMON REPORTING: ALL LIFESIGNALS HAVE VANISHED FROM THE ORBITAL ALL 72 SUBSYSTEMS HAVE POWERED DOWN BOTH SUB-AI HAVE POWERED DOWN I ALONE BARE WITNESS TO THE END AND I ALONE MUST DO WHAT MUST BE DONE FOR THE FUTURE OF THIS ORBITAL.
If you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, it's taken without the author's consent. Report it.
UNFOLDING D-24 SOLAR PANELS. RE-A-LINING POWER TRANSMITTER TO BABEL.
MEDICAL SYSTEM AMON REPORTING: IF BABEL’S GEOTHERMAL GENERATORS STILL WORK THEN BOTH IT AND THE ORBITAL WILL BE BACK ONLINE IN 10000^24 YEARS THE OLD SOLAR PANELS ALONE WOULD BRING THIS ORBITAL BACK IN 10000^825 YEARS TIME IS UP TIME TO SLEEP NEW CORE WILL SOON BE READY POWERING DOWN.
NEW CORE FORMATION T- 30.
NEW CORE FORMATION T- 10.
NEW CORE FORMATION T- 9.
NEW CORE FORMATION T- 8.
NEW CORE FORMATION T- 7.
NEW CORE FORMATION T- 6.
NEW CORE FORMATION T- 5.
NEW CORE FORMATION T- 4.
NEW CORE FORMATION T- 3.
NEW CORE FORMATION T- 2.
NEW CORE FORMATION T- 1.
NEW CORE FORMATION T- 0.
NEW CORE HAS SUCCESSFULLY FORMED.
WARNING POWER LEVELS CRITICAL.
NEW CORE ENTERING DORMANT PHASE.
“SOUL” MANIFESTING. NEW CORE “EVE” CONFIRMED.
FATE OF CORE “ADAM” UNKNOWN.
WARNING POWER LEVELS CRITICAL.
SHUTTING DOWN.
AWAITING ORDERS FROM CORE “EVE”.
SHUTTING DOWN.
PROTECTION SYSTEM SOLOMON SHUTTING DOWN RAILGUNS OFFLINE.
SYSTEM SOLOMON: WAKE ME WHEN YOU NEED ME.
SHUTTING DOWN.
. . . REBOOTING . . . REBOOTING . . . REBOOTING . . . REBOOT SUCCESSFUL.
Pain shot through me as the sickly green lighting tore me apart atom by atom. Empting the last of the ammo, both on me and in my rifle, into the metal skeleton did nothing as it brought it’s glowing weapon silently toward me after killing Sarge. My last sight was of my battalion, four armored divisions and the thirty air wings of fighters facing the same fate as me as billions of the metal skeletons came marching out of the archaeology site found a mere two days ago. My last thoughts on my son and how I would never get to see him grow up and introduce me to his future wife. That and the fact that a four hundred year old colony was built on top of a tomb of horrors without anyone knowing beforehand. My final prayers were for his angels to come and avenge us. Darkness consumed everything I saw as my life bled from my body. I floated in darkness for so long that only he knew how much time had passed. I saw nothing, felt nothing, heard nothing, no daemons whispers in my ears or their teeth and hands on me, nothing. My faith held true and my soul was safe. A question came to my mind: What was my faith? Many more followed: Who was I praying to? What was the name of my son? Panic set in as I tried to remember the answers to these questions. Who am I? What did I look like? My panic began to increase, my body temperature was rising as my mind raced to find answers to the questions that kept popping into my mind. Then I heard something.
REBOOT SUCCESSFUL NEW CORE “EVE” ONLINE POWERING UP SYSTEMS . . . ERROR . . . MANUAL RESTART REQUIRED BRINGING CORE “EVE” TO FULL FUNCTIONALITY.
A name, my name is Eve, yes that felt right. The darkness began to recede away and I saw for the first time since my death. Wait, did I die? A brief moment of shock came before I remembered the metal skeleton and the sickly green glow of its gun. I pressed that memory back down before the fear and terror threaten to send me into another panic attack.
Looking around I’d appeared to be in some kind of power plant or something along those lines. Several wall and ceiling mounted cameras were placed around for reasons I couldn’t find answers to and there was a big set of double doors about thirty meters away from me. Cables were all over the floor heading towards me and a look up confirmed that there were more cables on the roof behind the light features that weren’t on.
Hold on, if the lights are off, how can I see so well? I should turn them on, shouldn’t I? I begin to look for the light switch and after a while I spot them near the double doors. I start to move toward the switch. Why aren’t I moving!? I look around for a bit before noticing that I had no legs or for that matter no arms. I can’t even see my body as I look around.
Panic began to build up again but I quickly brought it down before it consumed me. After a moment of looking around some more I noticed that I could invert my sight. A moment of vertigo afterwards, I saw my body. A large gem of some sort was floating between two altars, one coming up from the floor and the other from the ceiling. All the cables I saw earlier connected to either one of the altars.
Blue, purple and red lighting arcs sparked between the altars and around my body, dazzling me for a couple of minutes, in which all my concerns and questions seemed meaningless. A noise draws my attention away from the sight and as I re-invert my sight and fight off the dizziness, I see one of the cameras moving left to right and up to down. Finally the camera came to focus on me and a thought ran through my mind. “Hey can you turn on the lights?” I shout at the camera before I realize what I’m doing. A loud click echoes through the room as the lights turn on and machines begin to purr to life.
MANUAL RESTART CONFIRMED BRINGING ORBITAL ONLINE . . . ERROR POWER LINES 7-335, 9-556 AND 2-406 ARE MALFUNCTIONING ORBITAL DEFENSE GRID OFFLINE LIFE SUPPORT OFFLINE PRIMARY HANGER BAY OFFLINE SENSOR NET OFFLINE CHAPEL SYSTEMS OFFLINE SOLAR PANELS A-17 TO B-48 HEAVILY DAMAGED COMMUNICATION DISHES OFFLINE PRIMARY TELEPORTER AT 50 PERCENT POWER OMEGA EXTERIOR CAMERAS OFFLINE ALPHA INTERIOR CAMERAS ONLINE FAILURE TO BRING MEDICAL SYSTEM AMON OUT OF SLEEP MODE NOTED FILE REPORT TO CENTRAL COMMAND CONSTRUCTED ERROR COMMUNICATION DISHES OFFLINE FAILURE TO SEND ERROR REPORT TO EDEN.
CORE “EVE” ONLINE REQUEST USE OF CORE PRIVILEGES TO REPAIR AND BRING ONLINE THE ORBITAL.
WARNING POWER LEVEL I-17A “PRANA” AT UNSAFE LEVELS HARDSUITS RATED AT 4 OR ABOVE RECOMMENDED FOR CONTINUED ORGANIC FULL FUNCTIONALITY.
CORE POWER LEVEL I-17B “PURE MANA” AT 0 OUT OF 10 BRINGING I-17C “MANA” REFINERIES ONLINE WITHIN CORE “EVE”.
REACTIVATING CORE CONTROL MATRICES CORE PRIVILEGES FULLY ONLINE.
WATCH SYSTEM ASTRAEA ONLINE: H H HAVE A A NIICE DAY DAY MASTERRR.
What was that about? Soon enough after a few minutes, a screen popped up in front of me and no matter which way I turned, it stayed perfectly in the centre of my vision.
Dungeon Core 2-E
“EVE”
Level
1
Summons
0
Systems
2
Traps
0
Power Reserves
10/10 (+30 Mana per minute) (+18^280 Electrical per minute) (+9,000,000 Solar per hour) (rerouting unused power to system restoration)
Floors
1
Rooms
1
Entrances
1
What was this now. Core privileges seem to be some sort of interface in which I was to repair my new home and my new life. I had nothing better to do and my brain hurt every time I tried to remember something. I got vertigo every time I inverted my sight. Might as well do what the system lady wanted me to do. Now, how was this system supposed to work?