Battlenauts 2 by Wolf James

Author:Wolf James [James, Wolf]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Contra
Published: 2020-01-13T22:00:00+00:00

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“When I go in, what should I expect?”

“For starters, you will spawn into the version of you that exists within that reality,” Ava said.

“I already exist in there?”

“Of course you do. The foundation was based off an ancestral simulation of Earth. Eventually, you’d show up one way or another.”

“But I won’t remember this life? So how will I know what to do? Or what I should be doing?”

“You won’t.”

Myles chuckled, “Yeah, I’m lost.”

“None of them knew going in,” Ava said. “And yet, they found their way to one another. They always do. As will you.”

“That sounds like a Hail Mary. And say I do—we’re all stuck in a subdirectory with no knowledge of why we’re there or that there isn’t real, it’s virtual.”

Ava bit her bottom lip, “Yeah.”

“Ava, please tell me you have a plan because the only thing you’re offering me is a suicide mission.”

“Okay, so here’s the thing. Like I said before, we can’t pause the simulation because of the consequences I’ve laid out before. So, pausing and uploading your memories from your current consciousness is a no-go. There is one way we can circumvent that. It’s sloppy, but it’s the only way we can preserve the integrity of the Hyperspace source.”

“I’m listening,” Myles said.

“Think of planetary slingshots. It’s risky but we can create future versions of yourself and use what basically amounts to a glorified gravity assist, but with time, and with a brand new written pocket of code.”

“Time travel?” Myles asked.

“That’s one way of thinking of it. Since we can’t edit the source in realtime, we have to overshoot and slip it into the code—ahead of what’s currently being written. By doing so, the source can adapt and build around it and incorporate the new code rather than seeing it as a foreign intrusion. The AI is smart. It’s nothing it couldn’t handle. It just doesn’t like when you interrupt it.”

“What will it look like on my end?”

“Like you guessed. Time travel. Your future selves will have your back because it’s actually me with the assist.”

“Gotcha.”

“I know it’s complicated. In a perfect world, we could pause the simulation, edit, compile, and update. But that’s part of the beauty of Saturn’s technology. From our perspective it’s virtual. From within, it’s reality. Hell, what if we’re in a virtual reality right now and don’t even know it?”

“Okay, one existential crisis at a time,” Myles said.

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