Omega Force: Revolution (OF9) by Joshua Dalzelle

Author:Joshua Dalzelle [Dalzelle, Joshua]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2017-05-15T06:00:00+00:00

17

"You don't have to watch this if you don't want," Jason said.

"I feel I must," Tauless said, though he looked like he'd rather be anywhere else at the moment. They were gathered in the lounge of the Phoenix as she loafed through slip-space on a lazy course back towards Khepri. Once he'd agreed to help unlock all the data cards they'd found in his father's crypt by providing the necessary contextual keywords it hadn't taken Kage long to develop a master algorithm that devoured them in a single pass, spitting out enough raw data to keep a team of analysts busy for a year.

Fortunately Vulban had also left a set of clearly labeled videos, the first of which was of him sitting at a cluttered desk explaining the organizational system he used before compressing the data. It would make sifting through it that much easier, but it was still a lot and other than reaching out to the Cridal Cooperative Jason didn't have the resources to tackle it all. He sure as hell didn't trust Saditava Mok enough to hand it over just yet.

Once they learned all of the videos were the same sort of lecture-style instructional given by Vulban himself, Jason had told Kage to pipe it down to the lounge and called in everyone so they could go through it together. Lucky was up and about and seemed no worse for wear other than being unusually quiet, even by his standards. His new chest armor lacked all the scratches and micro pitting and had a fresh coat of matte black smart-skin on it making him appear as if he’d just rolled off the assembly line. Tauless was obviously invited as his impressions were the most important, but Jason didn't want to seem callous and at least gave the appearance that he sympathized with someone about to watch their father from beyond the grave.

"It's probably important that I be here to give background," Tauless said.

"Agreed," Jason said. "Roll it Kage."

"Roll what?"

"The first video."

"How do you—"

"Just play the damn file!"

"Greetings," the voice of Noyut Vulban began. "If you are watching this I will assume that you've either earned the trust of those I've left the decryption key with or have devised a way to slice it yourself. Either way, I will be giving a blunt and unvarnished accounting of myself, my team, and what we did. I can only hope that if these files have been located that it isn't because our worst fears have come to pass and our creations have been unleashed for ill.

"My name is Noyut Vulban. I was a research scientist for the synth program working under the direction of Krunt Teludal, one of the most brilliant minds I've ever known. Our function was twofold: First we would usher specialized lots into consciousness and assess the success or failures of the changes made to the primary processing matrix. Second, we would study these units long-term and interact with them closely in order to make adjustments to the process on future lots.

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