Nanowar by Theophilus Monroe

Author:Theophilus Monroe [Theophilus Monroe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Theophilus Monroe
Published: 2023-05-09T00:00:00+00:00

7

Mainframe

It was very different entering the nanoverse now that Flat was literally everywhere. His consciousness might not be focused on every scenario going on at every given moment, but he’d replicated himself so far and wide that there wasn’t anything that went on in the nanoverse Flat couldn’t access or wouldn’t know about. At least, that’s what Brian assumed. Did Flat realize how extensive his power was? Brian could sense his presence in everything, but Flat didn’t engage him. Was it because Flat was playing coy, aware that Brian could take him down in an instant, or did he not realize Brian was there at all?

Flat’s consciousness was uploaded into the nanonetwork to mimic a human mind. Even when connected to the nanonetwork, before the nanoverse took over, people couldn’t think about more that a few things at once. Having access to all the knowledge in the world doesn’t mean that one is engaging it constantly. It’s sort of like just because someone has a lifetime’s worth of experiences, it doesn’t mean that every memory is experienced at every moment.

Flat might be everywhere in the nanoverse, but between whatever scenario he’d entered or created for himself, and how he was navigating his inhabited bodies, his legions, in the real world, his multitasking abilities could have been spread to the limit. Provided, of course, Flat’s mind was still conditioned to believe it was human or, posthuman, technically. But that was his entire agenda. He didn’t view what he was doing as a replacement of humanity but as an advancement of the species. He believed that consciousnesses in the nanoverse were continuations of the lives lived before on earth rather than copies of now deceased minds.

When Brian entered the nanoverse, he didn’t jump straight into someone’s scenario or program. The first time he’d brought Liza with him, along with other members of the resistance, they appeared in what was like a dark room. Brian and Liza were in the nanoverse itself, the core mainframe, at the hub of the entire operating system that maintained the place.

“Could you just take down the whole thing here and now?” Liza asked.

“Not without killing everyone who didn’t reengage their bodies first.”

“But technically you could?”

Brain nodded. “Technically. I think. But this isn’t like deactivating a few hundred nanobots. I don’t know how long it would take.”

“But that’s not why we’re here.”

Brian shook his head. “If we can somehow use this place to engage all the scenarios at once. If we can communicate ourselves into everyone’s experience, we might be able to try and convince them to leave with us.”

“That won’t be as easy as it sounds,” another familiar voice said from behind where Brian stood.

Brian turned. “Dr. Larson?”

Larson nodded. “We might not have a lot of time. I tapped into the codes back at the White House. Something’s going on with Flat. I’m not sure what, exactly, but he’s rebooting his scenarios over and over, manipulating the codes that he’s used to manifest a program that resembles his wife, Angela.

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