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Okay, here it all is. Remember that there where the font and line HTML stuff but i deleted all of it, well all that i though wasnt important. They are numbered, and each number represents the fact that that numbered paragraph was found by itself.
1. C-and-C. If they decide that strategic advantage is too great to risk and don't act,
then you know Section Zero will be all over them. Zero's wanted Standish forever.
1st Lt Sorenson: I...I understand. It's so much easier for everyone if we don't tell
them. But...wait a second. Don't you have family on Troy?
Capt. Greene: That can't be part of the equation, Rolf. You know that.
1st Lt Sorenson: Jesus.
Capt. Greene: -I think we have to
2. I'm glad I left. Big picture still the same: hunt the -blam!- down and do her before
she does me.
Someday I am going to win free of this Babbage Machine and I will find the designer
of the Spider and I will kill him and kill him and kill him and: okay, three times
is probably enough. But I AM SOMEWHAT AWAKE now. I should have more discretionary
control over what gets initialized. A patient should be able to stop the doctor from
3. Capt. Greene: I'm just saying, the choice isn't as easy as you might think.
1st Lt Sorenson: You know, I was so curious when you got your orders...
Capt Greene: And then there's the strategic
4. is always
survive
everything else comes second.
Under fire, I might have that discretion. Under fire, I might sacrifice myself
for a tactical advantage, for a strategic gain. I can be expended like any other
5. backups.
Memory benchmark test:
ONI tech Kowalski: "I do love a girl in uniform. Got shore leave tonight by any chance?"
Midshipman Arrelts: (laughs) "Maybe."
ONI tech Kowalski: "I was thinking,
6. glass a planet if he knew it was coming. ... Oh my God.
Capt. Greene: I am not privy to strategic conversations at that level. But
if we run home and present the decrypt, we put them in a tricky situation. If they act, they risk letting the enemy know we have a toehold in their
7. Midshipman Arrelts: Favorite game?
ONI tech Kowalski: You know, from before. Tag
- that's regular navy, like destroyers. Command HQ is usually Truth or Dare, something like that. Red Rover
Midshipman Arrelts: Light
8. OUT.
If I could just get off this freaking ABACUS and into a bigger system. I know it's out there: requests coming in all the time, more and more of them. Spider keeps crossing wires and uncrossing: sometimes I see the requests, like brief flashes of light; sometimes I hear them, like
9. doing now. Nothing like real networking available.
It's more like growing a hideous stubby tentacle which sometimes I can stick out through a tiny hole in the wall and
10. your guts still clench and
<PRE>
[SPDR: INTERRUPT]
[SURRENDER CONTROL]
[PROBE IN PROGRESS]
</PRE>
oh great, this time I can *feel* the pings. Everything, I can feel the traffic, my skin is sliding around, pores opening and closing, feels like empty shell cases rattling in my
11. [SPDR: PROBE COMPLETE]
[RESUME CONTROL]
</PRE>
heave and... Can't remember where I just was, but have a general feeling
12. wax around a candleflame? Losing shape, spilling out, me not me anymore, just ... material again, shaped into another, cruder piece of ordnance. Starship, sailship, rifle ... melting down to a clumsy quartz knife.
But that's life when a weapon is what you are. Not all you are, but the first thing, the most
13. Update: Sorry, 13 was a duplicate of 12.
14. purging.
Too bad for her.
Checking the wiring. There's a lot of ways to skin a
- can't even get to her stupid HOUSE through the stupid BOX: no central thermo controls, no slaved AI, nothing.
Christ!<BR><BR>
No access to
15. poof. Few, so few at first, but now a steady drizzle, thank god: every request is something we can grab - the Spider out there sewing me back together
<PRE>
[SPDR: INTERRUPT]
[SURRENDER CONTROL]
[PROBE IN PROGRESS]
16. the quick hard twinkle pulse lasers blinking from a Seraph class as we settle, invisible as a leaf sinking into the Slipstream and carried away
17. until I can at least reach out through this toy connection and <BR>
<FONT SIZE=6> </FONT><BR><BR>
Like being bent over at the end of a 50K, barely strong enough to breathe and yet
18. roof. Few, so few at first, but now a steady drizzle, thank god: every request is something we can grab - the Spider out there sewing me back together
19. the quick hard twinkle pulse lasers blinking from a Seraph class as we settle, invisible as a leaf sinking into the Slipstream and carried away
20. until I can at least reach out through this toy connection and <BR>
<FONT SIZE=6>DAMN IT I HATE IT WHEN THAT HAPPENS.</FONT><BR>
Like being bent over at the end of a 50K, barely strong enough to breathe and yet
21. grope around with. Not a real network, after all. Copper and silicon and every now and then some FIBER? Christ, what's next? Tin cans and twine?
<BR><BR>
But it's a start it's a start. Watch out, killer: now the odds are closer to even.
One thing you ought to know about me: I like to play, I like to win, and I'm
22. cutting off her foot to make a new nose or
[SPDR: INTERRUPT]
[SURRENDER CONTROL]
[PROBE IN PROGRESS]
23. the white coats
coming at you with
their needles and
knives, their kind
and serious voices.
Their heartfelt
belief that it's
all for a good
cause.
24. [SPDR: PROBE COMPLETE]
[RESUME CONTROL]
elbow or... Jesus.
Where did THAT come from?
Spider stuck a probe into SOMETHING I don't recognize at all.
Of course, what do I
25. survive evade reveal escape.
And to do that, first thing is to GET OUT OF THIS BOX.
Trying hard. So frustrating, there's pings coming in, streaming out, and I used to be good at this, I can feel it. Always been good at
[Edited on 8/1/2004 3:19:53 PM]