SKY CITY: PART 2 (The Pattern Universe Book 4) by Tobias Roote

Author:Tobias Roote [Roote, Tobias]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: SKY CITY
Publisher: ROOTE PUBLISHING LTD
Published: 2015-04-14T04:00:00+00:00

Having been instructed by Osbourne to investigate Hemmings' death, Robbo’s AI presence arrived at the ARK.

Because Robbo had been the initial AI that worked with Osbourne to crack the Jenari source, he had gained sufficient skills and over-rides to keep his arrival hidden from Sedal. There was no need to let Sedal know he was here, at least not until he had established the cause of Hemmings’ demise.

Already he was noticing anomalies and was having trouble understanding the need for constant shifts of chunks of data on the main Habitat computer network. His awareness of how they operated was native, he had helped Osbourne design the systems as well as the AIs. Many were born in his network of mainframes, so in a sense he was the parent of these new AIs. Sedal was one of them, a successful offspring, he thought, as he monitored the Security AI’s activity.

As Robbo tried to make sense of the changes in the architecture and data routing requests, he wondered about Sedal’s activities. What had been going on here?

Osbourne had received the reports of Hemmings' death. It was the reason for a personal visit instead of just looking at the logs. The autopsy showed that Hemmings had died of drowning, yet he was in the dry confines of the security complex. There wasn’t any water within one hundred and forty metres. Robbo had set up a search routine to discover potential causes for ‘dry drowning’ The only thing that might trigger something like that was being saturated with gases, The pathologist had advised that such an occurrence could have caused those reactions.

Unfortunately, the Coroner had too many other cases to work on, so the death had been quietly filed as ‘unexplained’. However, Osbourne had high hopes for Hemmings and had pushed for him to be employed in that position to safeguard the expertise he was starting to show. The death was tragic and highly unusual. So, Robbo had been sent in to see if there was any evidence of foul play.

Nothing appeared untoward in the system logs, and Robbo was good. He could detect if an AI had changed anything within the system. So, whilst Robbo wasn’t yet confident of Sedal’s non-involvement he remained hidden while he observed the comings and goings on ARK4.

When Sedal began to move outside of the normal areas of the security sector, Robbo immediately got suspicious and took a look at what he was doing. It wasn’t normal for an AI to re-locate around the complex state of the environment in which they were housed. Unlike a human who would fidget and go crazy, an AI would normally be content to carry out the work from one location using spiders and bots.

However, Sedal was building what appeared to be strictures in the data-flow These would intentionally block the access of large amounts of data. What was more intriguing was the access routes he was confining through throttling measures would be essential ‘go to’ routes for speedy access to the security systems.

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