SKY CITY: PART 1) (The Pattern Universe Book 3) by Tobias Roote

Author:Tobias Roote [Roote, Tobias]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Humanity escapes from Earth's destruction at the hands of the Nubl.
Publisher: ROOTE PUBLISHING LTD
Published: 2015-03-10T04:00:00+00:00

The meeting was dragging. His teams discussions of semantics never ended well. It was the kind of thing he used to excel at sorting out, but now he left it to the Team Leaders to resolve. Too much interference from the Chief wasn’t good for morale. Osbourne’s messenger quietly bleeped. He flipped the screen over to his internal mail system and saw the news he had been waiting for.

“Sorry, people - I have an emergency. Carry on, let me have a brief synopsis of each team’s conclusions on my desk in the morning,” he said as he leaped out of his seat and just as quickly exited the conference room.

He double-timed through the lab corridors and ramps down to his office and called ahead with his remote control to prime it, ready for his entry protocols. He stood in front of the door, pressing his hand flat on the plate. It felt warm to the touch and it calculated his body temperature, pulse, blood pressure and a host of other measurements that uniquely identified him as Osbourne. His eyes looked into the black abyss of the narrow plate set into the door at head height, while it red-scanned his pupils and compared them to its records. Lastly he gave a verbal code that registered his voice print as well as provided the key sequence of the day.

When it was satisfied, he heard an almost silent hiss as the gas pressure was released around the door seals and the tumblers dropped into their recesses. The door opened and he entered his inner sanctum. This was where he worked and kept all of his teams research. The room could be isolated and winched out of the complex in a few minutes, placed aboard a shuttle and sent into space or wherever, without him missing a single line of code. It had its own independent power supply, air, water, accommodation at the rear and all of the necessary items that he would need if he had to remain inside for a prolonged period.

Alarms were going off in his command room. It held all his ‘state-of-the-art’ equipment as well as his own personal AI.

“Robbo, are you tracking the worm?” he asked it.

“Affirmative,” it responded. Osbourne had done away with extraneous mannerisms for speed and clarity. As a result it was one of the most abrupt, often rudest AI’s in the Solar System. Sometimes Osbourne wished he hadn’t been quite so frugal with his coding.

“Location?”

“I’m currently tracking it to a central area of Manhattan. Now waiting on the responses to enquiries to confirm exact location via satellite servers placed in the US government offices.”

“All right, let me know when you have it isolated,” Osbourne said..

Osbourne picked up his communicator and paged the code for John Pennington.

“Yes Ossie,” came the response.

“We have had an incident in the R&D archives. A serious data breach by someone, or something with a lot of computing power,” Osbourne informed him.

“Can you identify them? How much computing power are you talking about?”

“I’m not too sure.

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