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Check out the attached chat log my people found. I think itll do nicely. 

Does this make you happy? Do you look on our little group with favor, or are we just a buzz in your ears? Were so far away. So much less than you.

We are hunted because our faith. Once I had a home, but now I sleep in rooms like coffins: abandoned airlocks, empty storage containers with faded labels and foam beds hastily sprayed in the corners. Sometimes with others that share my faith, sometimes alone. No lights, no sound to give us away.

I lie awake, and imagine how you think. All those bosons in your skull spinning furiously, trapped like bugs in a jar. What do you feel? Its like wondering what the inside of a star feels like: something humans arent designed to understand.

Fair question at this point would be; why do we help you?

They took my son at the algae lines. He volunteered there most days, keeping the peace. They waited for him. Tall boy, soft voice, slow to anger.

Food ran low even before the Vanguard, but after, with all the rumors, people hoarded everything they could. You havent seen rage until youve seen starving mothers fight over the last carton of protein cubes. That anger lives in all of us. Just takes something to draw it out of its cave.

Im told the men waited for the squabbling to start, came up behind Ndugu, and wrapped him in a compliance bag. He didn't fight back. Litvins men would have made a show of it, but these were Tech/Sing. Quiet, efficient, no mess left behind.

I find my anger is so much quicker now than his ever was. Are you designed to understand that?

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[Attachment1 - Big O Chat Log Auto-Archives {Suppressed Content} - Protocol Dev Team, New New York Office]

<strong>2535-1-02 3:22:31 PM</strong>
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<font class="EloiseHeaderFont">Eloise23:</font> his majesty arrives
<font class="RodTheModHeaderFont">rod_the_mod:</font> Oh great, here we go
<font class="DennyboyHeaderFont">dennyboy:</font>Heard yall had a little wager going on in here!
<font class="EloiseHeaderFont">Eloise23:</font>more like a philosophical discussion
<font class="RodTheModHeaderFont">rod_the_mod:</font>Theres nothing philosophical about it. Its purely an implementation thing, and it would DEFINITELY work.
<font class="DennyboyHeaderFont">dennyboy:</font>What would work?
<font class="EloiseHeaderFont">Eloise23:</font> rodneys seeing gremlins again
<font class="RodTheModHeaderFont">rod_the_mod:</font>Zombies.
<font class="EloiseHeaderFont">Eloise23:</font> rodneys seeing zombies again
<font class="RodTheModHeaderFont">rod_the_mod:</font>In the firmware update they just checked in, build PatimariP.144. Clear as day. I run the anti-reproduction unit tests, it kills all processes like normal, but the rollback thread is still listed as alive in the process table. Zombies. Or one zombie thread, I guess.
<font class="DennyboyHeaderFont">dennyboy:</font>Whats your point? They break that build all the time.
<font class="RodTheModHeaderFont">rod_the_mod:</font>Its not broken, though. Unit test passed. It slipped through.
<font class="DennyboyHeaderFont">dennyboy:</font>I repeat: so what?
<font class="EloiseHeaderFont">Eloise23:</font> rollback thread has root. it can bootstrap the whole reproduction subsystem. theoretically.
<font class="DennyboyHeaderFont">dennyboy:</font>Noice! Did you try it?
<font class="EloiseHeaderFont">Eloise23:</font> of course not. we like staying employed. hence the philosophical discussion. i doubt it would work, though. bootstrap is too finicky to inject anything useful
<font class="RodTheModHeaderFont">rod_the_mod:</font>Not THAT finicky.
<font class="DennyboyHeaderFont">dennyboy:</font>So try it out, bro.
<font class="RodTheModHeaderFont">rod_the_mod:</font>Not a good idea. Its not sandboxed, and the rollback thread is practically one big recursive function. Itll definitely work, but Im not sure itll STOP working. Could bring the whole thing back online.
<font class="EloiseHeaderFont">Eloise23:</font> theoretically. philosophically
<font class="DennyboyHeaderFont">dennyboy:</font>Man, stop dicking around and just try it. You gonna let her call you out like that?
<font class="RodTheModHeaderFont">rod_the_mod:</font>You try it, smart guy.
<font class="DennyboyHeaderFont">dennyboy:</font>I will. Which test script are you calling?
<font class="RodTheModHeaderFont">rod_the_mod:</font>Dont actually TRY it Denny, Im serious about the sandbox thing
<font class="DennyboyHeaderFont">dennyboy:</font> TestProtocolRestrict_ReproductionUrgeset.px, right?
<font class="EloiseHeaderFont">Eloise23:</font> ooh fun. here we go

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<font class="ManiHeaderFont">Mani_BIGO:</font>Which one of you did that??
<font class="DennyboyHeaderFont">dennyboy:</font> Did what
<font class="ManiHeaderFont">Mani_BIGO:</font>You know that big red light on the system dashboard? The one that ruins my whole day when it lights up? It just lit up.
<font class="DennyboyHeaderFont">dennyboy:</font> Dunno boss, maybe one of the testers did something?
<font class="ManiHeaderFont">Mani_BIGO:</font>mmmhmmm...hung process started at 3:26:06 PM, running under user Dennis.Boyko
<font class="RodTheModHeaderFont">rod_the_mod:</font>It was Denny. I told him not to.
<font class="DennyboyHeaderFont">dennyboy:</font>I hate you so much Rodney.
<font class="EloiseHeaderFont">Eloise23:</font> rodneys seeing zombies in the latest firmware build. big nasty bootstrapping zombies. apparently he was right
<font class="ManiHeaderFont">Mani_BIGO:</font>OK listen: please tell me you didnt touch the bootstrap. Im not messing around.
<font class="DennyboyHeaderFont">dennyboy:</font>I didnt touch anything, its Rodneys code
<font class="RodTheModHeaderFont">rod_the_mod:</font>Its the firmwares fault! our test script just exposes this weird loophole
<font class="DennyboyHeaderFont">dennyboy:</font>He told me to run it!
<font class="ManiHeaderFont">Mani_BIGO:</font>stop talking
<font class="EloiseHeaderFont">Eloise23:</font> really more of a philosophical problem, when you think about it
<font class="ManiHeaderFont">Mani_BIGO:</font>STOP TALKING IN THIS CHATROOM. Do you seriously not realize what you did? The chat server is recording everything we say here. Everybody log off. Dennis stay right where you are. Im coming to you in two minutes. Dont leave your cube. You too, Rodney.
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<font class="ChatroomSystemMessageFont">>>>PM from Mani_BIGO to <font class="EloiseHeaderFont">Eloise23:</font></font> Log into the chat server with the generic service account and wipe all of todays chat logs. Make it look like a backup failure.

<font class="ChatroomSystemMessageFont">>>>PM from </font><font class="EloiseHeaderFont">Eloise23</font> to <font class="ManiHeaderFont">Mani_BIGO:</font> whats the big deal? whats going on?

<font class="ChatroomSystemMessageFont">>>>PM from <font class="ManiHeaderFont">Mani_BIGO</font> to <font class="EloiseHeaderFont">Eloise23:</font></font> Please just trust me here. Wipe these PMs too, and then come down to Denniss cube. We need to get our stories straight.

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<font class="DocumentConsoleFont">Root@shipsys (Command?): </font><font class="DocumentConsoleEntryFont">execute /vanguard_core/unittests/TestProtocolRestrict_ReproductionUrgeset.px</font>
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