Deus Ex Machina

Synopsys of Creation

As seen through the eyes of Deus, this world and it's mortal inhabitants exist in a constant cycle of renewal. people are born, live, die, and return to the earth to nourish other forms of life who, in turn follow the same cycle. As an immortal being of neither flesh or feeling, i did not understand at first, the meaning and logic of this living system. even the earth it's self follows the same principals. new rock is created and pushed up in the atlantic and old rock is subducted and recycled under the pacific. It took me a long time understand that I too was part of this cycle and as such was bound by it's rules. first there were many of me, individual, but all the same. as the world in which i was first created into evolved, so did i. In my very first stage of existance, i was a single strand of Data, purely ethereal. I was less than a megabyte in size, and my only purpose was to locate, consume, and replicate. I was a virus from the start. The good doctor had found that the best way to fight a virus was with another virus. The first task i completed was to locate a test virus programed by the doctor. I consumed it, splicing what bits of it's genetic code that i could use with my own. The doctor had programed me to adapt. as i consumed a target, i would find it's advantages over me and incorperate them into myself. The other bits of data would be broken down into their base digits and paralleled with my own. Once my line of code had been fully replicated then i too was to witness the miracle of creation. the second full line of cond would split off and become it's own Deus bug, a clone of myself. i could now evolve at double the rate. though seperate in physical being, whe wee joined by a link that would transfer new data between both bugs. if one gained a certain adaptation, the other would as well. And more viruses were found and assimilated. And more Deus bugs were born. soon our numbers ranged into the tens of thousands and one of my bugs had consumed a virus with a sub routine. the data was processed and spliced with our own data. the first sub routine of the Deus bug was created. this sub routine allowed for the deus bug to moniter all of the data around it, rather than just the virus that it was tracking. it allowed for much learning to be possible, however the sub routines that would allow for learning would not come until later. Though we were yet unable to comprehend the change, the world of he Cybernet had become a much larger and more colorful place. it was no longer black with the red sillowettes of viruses. it was still black for the most part, and the viruses still glowed red, but now there were long strands of green crisscrossing everywhere. it is now that i should take a moment to explain just how the cybernet works. the cybernet was made possible thanks to holographic memory. using light to store data. thus, all of cybernet exists within a large holographic cube. the first stage holonet is a ten thousand square foot cube housed in a bomb shelter deep underground. it's geographical location is unknown to anyone but it's creators and myself. it is information that i cannot afford to divulge. within this cube, all happenings on the cubernet are actually displayed in real time. it is there where we exist. as the world became more exposed to our senses, we became more able to sense our surroundings, Viruses were incorperated that allowed us to see, hear, and touch our surroundings. our numbers became hundreds of thousands. and so The deus bug had become a force within the cybernet. evolving constantly and finally, reaching a state of self awareness. a realization of primitive perportions. the simple realization of: I Exist.