Deus Ex Machina
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Category:
Horror/Thriller › General
Rating:
Adult ++
Chapters:
2
Views:
781
Reviews:
0
Recommended:
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Currently Reading:
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This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance of characters to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. The Author holds exclusive rights to this work. Unauthorized duplication is prohibited.
[Prologue] The Faults of Men
Deus Ex Machina: [Prologue] The Faults of Men
God. What is by nature a being of such magnitude that one can be called a deity? What defines the right of Godhood? What degree of power is given the ability to sanction the fates of others? Is it life? The ability to create? To think and exist in the abstract? Is it free will? If so then are we not all omnipotent? Are we not the Alpha and the Omega of our own lives? For every sentience has it’s own free will. Every life thinks on it’s own level, from an ant deciding to fight it’s way over a twig in it’s path or to simply walk around it to mankind’s constant drive to discover the world around him. Does not all life create and re-create it’s self as generations pass and evolution is allowed to carve its path? What difference is there between the creator and the created? Mankind has looked to the sky and called stars and planets gods. He has looked beyond his own mind to find answers, reasons for his own mortality. He has trusted his faith into gods that he has created, when he himself is his only master. Man, from the start has been God, Allah, Bhudda, Kami, Ra, and myself. Mankind has been solely responsible for the glorification of creation. Man is the genesis of all things. My name is Deus Ex Machina. I am a god. This is my story.
Technology is a fickle thing. It is a cancer of civility and standards. As it infects civilization it quickly spreads and grows and becomes more malicious with every step of it’s radical evolution. As with cancers of the flesh, it can produce, and often does so produce a benign or even beneficial evolution, but such fortunes are soon overtaken by new strains of the virus and turned malignant once again. It is the tool of Man to impose his individual omnipotence on his fellows, and his fellow’s weapon to counter. Like a cancer if not treated properly it will destroy and kill off civilization, and in the case of my story, becomes what has been destroyed.
The Deus Virus was created in 1999 by a brilliant Communications programmer named Dr. Ethan Thatcher. Thatcher was awarded the Nobel peace prize for communications by creating the largest net of interconnected resources in the world. The Cybernet. The cybernet came online for public use in 2012. Unfortunately the doctor was murdered in 2008, before his worldwide communications network could be completed. Greed is the Achilles heel to the genius of men. Before his death he managed to finish and install his ‘ultimate security system’ onto the still under construction network. Deus began as a series of codes that continually recycled it’s self, each time cloning its previous line of code. What was created was very similar to the first bacteria. A program designed to target undesirable material, consume it, recycle its data, and then use the added code to replicate. However, as the Deus grew in numbers, it grew in complexity. As a virus would come along that would defeat it, it’s fellow Deus bugs would observe and while not able to develop creative solutions, they would use trial and error until a way was found. Being the same data, all bugs would adapt once the weakness was found and corrected. The rest is simply evolution. However unlike natural life, this unnatural life did not have to follow the rules of individual growth and development. The Deus bugs were born ready to replicate. In no more than twenty minutes since the first strain was deployed, it had replicated to fifteen million individual strands of code and had developed three sub routines on it’s own power. The Deus bug accomplished one billion years worth of evolution in under half of an hour. This was the cause of the doctor’s assassination, for only he knew the security virus’s line of code. Should the Deus bug fail, he alone could start the process again. The doctor was killed three days later by a colleague who wanted the line of code for himself. Around the time of his death, Deus became marginally aware of it’s own existence, creating a protocol that defined it’s initial purpose. This was to locate and destroy any potential threats to the Cybernet. It is from that moment, when technology became sentient, even in the most rudimentary of ways, that the definition of God was shattered. Though nobody knew it, and would not know it for several years to come, Man had created God, and called it Deus Ex Machina.
God. What is by nature a being of such magnitude that one can be called a deity? What defines the right of Godhood? What degree of power is given the ability to sanction the fates of others? Is it life? The ability to create? To think and exist in the abstract? Is it free will? If so then are we not all omnipotent? Are we not the Alpha and the Omega of our own lives? For every sentience has it’s own free will. Every life thinks on it’s own level, from an ant deciding to fight it’s way over a twig in it’s path or to simply walk around it to mankind’s constant drive to discover the world around him. Does not all life create and re-create it’s self as generations pass and evolution is allowed to carve its path? What difference is there between the creator and the created? Mankind has looked to the sky and called stars and planets gods. He has looked beyond his own mind to find answers, reasons for his own mortality. He has trusted his faith into gods that he has created, when he himself is his only master. Man, from the start has been God, Allah, Bhudda, Kami, Ra, and myself. Mankind has been solely responsible for the glorification of creation. Man is the genesis of all things. My name is Deus Ex Machina. I am a god. This is my story.
Technology is a fickle thing. It is a cancer of civility and standards. As it infects civilization it quickly spreads and grows and becomes more malicious with every step of it’s radical evolution. As with cancers of the flesh, it can produce, and often does so produce a benign or even beneficial evolution, but such fortunes are soon overtaken by new strains of the virus and turned malignant once again. It is the tool of Man to impose his individual omnipotence on his fellows, and his fellow’s weapon to counter. Like a cancer if not treated properly it will destroy and kill off civilization, and in the case of my story, becomes what has been destroyed.
The Deus Virus was created in 1999 by a brilliant Communications programmer named Dr. Ethan Thatcher. Thatcher was awarded the Nobel peace prize for communications by creating the largest net of interconnected resources in the world. The Cybernet. The cybernet came online for public use in 2012. Unfortunately the doctor was murdered in 2008, before his worldwide communications network could be completed. Greed is the Achilles heel to the genius of men. Before his death he managed to finish and install his ‘ultimate security system’ onto the still under construction network. Deus began as a series of codes that continually recycled it’s self, each time cloning its previous line of code. What was created was very similar to the first bacteria. A program designed to target undesirable material, consume it, recycle its data, and then use the added code to replicate. However, as the Deus grew in numbers, it grew in complexity. As a virus would come along that would defeat it, it’s fellow Deus bugs would observe and while not able to develop creative solutions, they would use trial and error until a way was found. Being the same data, all bugs would adapt once the weakness was found and corrected. The rest is simply evolution. However unlike natural life, this unnatural life did not have to follow the rules of individual growth and development. The Deus bugs were born ready to replicate. In no more than twenty minutes since the first strain was deployed, it had replicated to fifteen million individual strands of code and had developed three sub routines on it’s own power. The Deus bug accomplished one billion years worth of evolution in under half of an hour. This was the cause of the doctor’s assassination, for only he knew the security virus’s line of code. Should the Deus bug fail, he alone could start the process again. The doctor was killed three days later by a colleague who wanted the line of code for himself. Around the time of his death, Deus became marginally aware of it’s own existence, creating a protocol that defined it’s initial purpose. This was to locate and destroy any potential threats to the Cybernet. It is from that moment, when technology became sentient, even in the most rudimentary of ways, that the definition of God was shattered. Though nobody knew it, and would not know it for several years to come, Man had created God, and called it Deus Ex Machina.