Dreaming part 4
The coffee was very good--a little consolation.
"How did you manage to develop a drug in a Navy research facility? Aren't all the reports available for mining? Surely someone would have caught on. Everything I'v seen looks perfectly normal." CE inquired.
"Actually you have it backwards. The energy yields are a byproduct of the drug development...are you sure you want to know all this? The less you know the better off you will be in the long run." Greg looked to his right, over CEs shoulder, seemingly acknoledging a presence that CE could not see. Directing his next words in hat direction. "ok, we can be there in 30minutes. Make sure the reports are ready for us." Focusing back on CE. "It's time to get going. We have some work to do before you leave this afternoon."
"I'm not scheduled to leave until tomorrow morning"
"Appearantly you have done such a good job on your reports you decided to get home a little early. Good for you."
The two pushed back from the table and CE, Greg and DL made their way to Greg's van for the drive back to the genetics lab.
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Back at the Lab CE was given back his computer systems and he was back on line again. His new assistant was standing by with the collection of reports describing the "exceptional" status of all operations on SL with approvals for all operational staff appointments ready for signature.
"Sir I am ready to process your authorizations for access to your previous assistant. We can begin to salvage what we can as soon as your are ready."
CE looked at the little man, going over his options one last time. There was really nothing else he could do. "Go ahead and begin a salvage, authorization love712." CE knew that this ment the end of Carey as he knew her. Once they ripped into her network and starter purging memories and data the holes would be too big to refill. Even if they could do it with the required surgical precission, they wouldn't.
It only took a few minutes before CE got the bad news "Sir I'm sorry but there has been extensive damage to Carey's programs. We won't be able to recover much of anything. The VA office recommends that you initiate a new program. They have all the initial input data and can deliver a new program at your request. Would you like to create a new Carey entity"
"No I'll work with..what's your name?"
"Ken"
"I'll work with Ken for now"
"Thank you"
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Carey was well hidden and well protected. Duplicate copies of all her data was stashed in places all over the net. The scrubbing programs were systematically tracking her network links that formed her virtual grey matter. Each node was deleted and the associated paths tracked to the next level of nodes. Any data was scrambled so even if it was found it would have no meaning. The perging would have been completely effective except that CE had so loved the ideosycracies that he was sure to include a little paranoia in Carey's profile.
"How did you manage to develop a drug in a Navy research facility? Aren't all the reports available for mining? Surely someone would have caught on. Everything I'v seen looks perfectly normal." CE inquired.
"Actually you have it backwards. The energy yields are a byproduct of the drug development...are you sure you want to know all this? The less you know the better off you will be in the long run." Greg looked to his right, over CEs shoulder, seemingly acknoledging a presence that CE could not see. Directing his next words in hat direction. "ok, we can be there in 30minutes. Make sure the reports are ready for us." Focusing back on CE. "It's time to get going. We have some work to do before you leave this afternoon."
"I'm not scheduled to leave until tomorrow morning"
"Appearantly you have done such a good job on your reports you decided to get home a little early. Good for you."
The two pushed back from the table and CE, Greg and DL made their way to Greg's van for the drive back to the genetics lab.
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Back at the Lab CE was given back his computer systems and he was back on line again. His new assistant was standing by with the collection of reports describing the "exceptional" status of all operations on SL with approvals for all operational staff appointments ready for signature.
"Sir I am ready to process your authorizations for access to your previous assistant. We can begin to salvage what we can as soon as your are ready."
CE looked at the little man, going over his options one last time. There was really nothing else he could do. "Go ahead and begin a salvage, authorization love712." CE knew that this ment the end of Carey as he knew her. Once they ripped into her network and starter purging memories and data the holes would be too big to refill. Even if they could do it with the required surgical precission, they wouldn't.
It only took a few minutes before CE got the bad news "Sir I'm sorry but there has been extensive damage to Carey's programs. We won't be able to recover much of anything. The VA office recommends that you initiate a new program. They have all the initial input data and can deliver a new program at your request. Would you like to create a new Carey entity"
"No I'll work with..what's your name?"
"Ken"
"I'll work with Ken for now"
"Thank you"
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Carey was well hidden and well protected. Duplicate copies of all her data was stashed in places all over the net. The scrubbing programs were systematically tracking her network links that formed her virtual grey matter. Each node was deleted and the associated paths tracked to the next level of nodes. Any data was scrambled so even if it was found it would have no meaning. The perging would have been completely effective except that CE had so loved the ideosycracies that he was sure to include a little paranoia in Carey's profile.
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