The antivirus was spread throughout the city, not to every machine and program it was true but close enough. It had to be close enough. Creed was about to lose everything, His implants, his liberty, maybe even his life. There was cause after all, he had duplicated a program that completely blocked incoming transmissions. Everything …
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Torchar 11
Creed hovered over the city, examining the layout trying to locate the critical systems. There was only so much time before the officials caught on and he needed to protect as much as he could before they stopped him. He had started with the oxygen producers, they hadn’t been affected yet but with all of …
Torchar 10
Creed walked dejectedly through the streets, the meeting with the Admiral had not gone well. He had been threatened with the removal of all implants and a life ban on new ones. Who would he be without his implants? What would he do? Even the laborers needed implants to work, he would be useless. He …
Torchar 9
Creed fiddled with the code, pulling parts out and running simulation after simulation. Suddenly he started forward examining the code closely. “I’ve got it! I can stop the virus!” Vernon looked up from his display and walked over. “What did you find?” “I changed the code so that it doesn’t multiply and spread but will …
Torchar 8
Creed stared steadily at the program drifting in front of him. He had been studying the program for weeks now, weeks of fruitless study. Disasters were happening more and more often now, the food shortage, the explosion, and now one of the cryotank safety areas was malfunctioning releasing people who had no business being released. …
Torchar 7
Ted worked steadily through the numerous rows of cyrotank, quickly checking each one to make sure that the power flow was steady and that there were no leaks around the openings. It was a slow mindless task and it was hard not letting his mind wander. A lot had happened in the last two weeks, …
Torchar 6
Ted moved gingerly down the street, the bruising had been extensive and he was not up to full strength yet. His supervisor had put him on light duty, doing a cursory inspection of the cryotanks. When the Government had received word from the colony exploration team sent to the Kepler-62 system there had been something …
Torchar 5
Ted laughed as he ran. School was out for the day and he did not have apprenticeship training later. He and the other laborer apprentices had been given the day off because they had worked hard and gotten top marks on their test that morning. It was a relief, they had been working hard for …
Torchar 4
Vernon did not known whether to punish Creed or reward him. On the one hand Creed had stopped an extremely dangerous program. Just looking at the handful of things it had accomplished before Creed had found it was astonishing. Most programs were designed to affect specific systems but this one had jumped from system to …
Torchar 3
Creed balanced precariously above the city streets. Programs and settings raced by in a blur giving only momentary opportunity for a cursory inspection. Sweat drenched his face ,he knew there was an aberrant program here; somewhere in all of this mess. How did they expected him to find it, much less repair it without interrupting …
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