Ancestor [3]
What Liam saw inside shocked him greatly. The entire mechanism of the turret was a 120 barreled auto cannon which fired organic particle beams in a pulse.
Each beam would cause the cells of a living organism to immediately undergo apoptosis before degrading into the fundamental atoms of the periodic table of elements. It was a painless, but unstoppable death.
'a configuration like this could have been used to hold a beach front against one hundred thousand soldiers during the War, they put 22 of these to protect me?' Liam felt conflicted. They shackled him here, but it seems they definitely didn't want him to suffer considering the mental distortion of the perception of time and the security.
He found the console for the machine and used his finger to turn into a port plug for Noona to check.
Liam did as Noona instructed and saw a neat circuit board with tens of thousands of tiny almost microscopic lines running everywhere. In the center of the circuit board was a glowing silver crystal the size of a golf ball.
"Uhh, I know I have expanded vision Noona, but I shouldn't be able to see dark matter right?"
Noona was an incredibly advanced AI with processing power and speeds to make the greatest chess AI Stockfish seem like an Abacus when it came to calculation speeds. 10 seconds meant she was going through more permutations of data queries than there were grains of sand on the beach. When Liam considered this, he found himself thinking 'so why does she seem like an idiot?'
Before Liam could get into his own thoughts deeply, Noona spoke again
< Otherwise you would be a corpse right now. What I can't figure out, no matter how I factor in every detail we have at hand, no matter what hypothesis I come up with, is how the Fera came to be.>
Liam scrunched his brows, deep in thought. The super soldiers had been wiped out during the war. The front lines and all major cities were glassed. At first, Liam suspected that the reason the Fera existed is they were the progeny of the 'failure' super soldiers that hadn't been sent to the front line.
"Noona, do you know what the sterilization rate for the failed super-soldiers was?"
<…It was 100%. Their gametes were completely incompatible with even gametes of other subjects in the same trials. They were too unstable.>
"So where the hell did these guys come from Noona? It's not like they were originally animals and became humanoids right?"
'Change to the fundamental laws of the universe.' Liam froze when he heard those words. A sharp glint appeared in his eye and hatred could be felt rolling off him.
Noona noticed the drop in Liam's Neural stability and quickly asked
Liam shuddered as he exhaled a deep breath and said with a hint of hope in his voice, "Noona, activate Starlink archive search. Search the following term 'Blackwater H4T sub red code name Icarus."
Before Noona could continue to read the report Liam interrupted her. "Stop, now this is important. Do you have a manifest of the personnel that worked on the Daedalus?"
Noona paused for a moment and said
Liam frowned. That phrase was way too familiar to him. It was one of the maniacal lines that Icarus had shouted when he detonated his lab to try and kill Sage with him.
'How can you possibly be prepared to stop me? ME? I AM THE ONE WHO HAS FOUND A WAY TO CHANGE THE FUNDAMENTAL LAWS OF THE UNIVERSE! I WILL BE THE NEW GOD AND YOU WILL BE FORGOTTEN, FOR THE WORLD WILL BE INCAPABLE OF KNOWING YOU EVER EXISTED!'
That monologue still sent a chill down his spine. He should have died that day. But instead…she…
"Calm down Navi. Now tell me. If you were able to change your appearance and forge a completely new persona so that you could work on the Daedalus project; and are having delusions of being a God, you could only be one person on the team right? Do a full investigation into the head of the project."
"Show me his picture."
Noona projected an image into Liam's occipital lobe for him to view. It was a handsome, rugged man with a strong jaw and the proud Grecian nose with the arch in it that the Greek were known for. However, his eyes were unmistakable. Deep soulless black eyes that seemed to radiate ambition and ruthless arrogance.
Liam knew those eyes. He knew them well.
'What the fuck did you do to the world?'
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Liam controlled his breathing. He had to focus, now wasn't the time to go down this rabbit hole any deeper. He needed to get his bearing and see what was going on in this world. He glanced back at the silver crystal and asked Noona,
"Noona, are you able to use this?" Noona responded by stretching a tendril of nano bots from the end of Liam's hand and gently plucking the crystal before it started to glow brightly. She withdrew it back to her and inside Liam's body.
< My processing power will be stable during that time, but I won't be able to activate or deactivate protocols much less create any new protocols for you. I can still maintain your current form though.>
"Can I still absorb the organic crystals myself? And can I use my weapons?"
"Yes mom, anything else?"
"Yeah, I'm definitely going to take away your comic books."