//***unfinished*** this is a story written to provide a background and biography for Name.sys and its crew. Any suggestions are welcome, if you have one, please PM me. Thank you for reading!
The Story of Neme.sys
The 8th century after the Settlement, which was nearing its end, presented a bitter surprise for The Lane Hackers.
As a result of living in hazardous environments and the side effect of excessive cardamine use, the reproduction rate was next to none, and The Lane Hacker community was facing a slow dead end, unable to refresh the ranks of continuously dwindling numbers among pilots and personnel.
So when a Professor Sisko McNeme, a frustrated former Ageira employee and a new recriut amongst Hackers, presented the AI prototype he had been working on to Senior Director Jasper Douglas in 796, Douglas regarded it as a possible solution to continue Lane Hackers' existence and the war against Ageira Technologies and Intespace Commerce. Douglas, afraid to alert the community of the population problem which could possibly cause Lane Hackers to disband, initiated the project as a secret operation: Code N3I-I3515...
Professor McNeme was assigned as the head of the project. He would report directly to Douglas, and after handpicking his team from the best programmers known to Sirius, he began his work in a completely isolated laboratuary in Fort Leniex...
... in Late 808, the AI was completed. In simulated battles, the AI, which has come to be referred as Neme.sys now, operated with almost 100% efficiency, be it commanding a small fighter or a gigantic fleet consisting of various ship classes.
...Yet there was another problem at hand now... In 804, S.D.Douglas had been assassinated by Bounty Hunters on his way to Omega-50 to attend a top secret meeting with the Heads of Liberty Rogues and Mollys. After his death, his position was filled by an acting director who regarded Project N3I-I3515 as a futile attempt. He wouldn't cancel the project, yet he wouldn't make the necessary preparations for the things to come...
So when Project N3I-I3515 was completed successfully, there was no "bodies" to put the "minds" in... Lacking the resources and components to build enough ships for an AI fleet, the project was as good as a failure...
Things seemed to be grim until a young face amongst Hackers came up with an idea...
Malcolm Tyrell, a sixteen year old boy, already proven himself as a brilliant mind and a promising young hacker programmer, stumbled upon the files of Neme.sys when toying with his terminal, hacking here and there into the vast database of Fort Leniox... Being a curious youngster, he has read about all the project before he could be spotted, backtracked and caught by security personnel...
Since Malcolm was the son of a couple who were working as high level positions in Fort Leniox, the acting Director was at a loss about what to do with the boy. He didn't want the issue go public, because then the community would want to know about the project and the problem. He couldn't just contain the boy without an explanation to his parents...
Admiring the boy's ability and seeing the promise in him, Professor McNeme came up with a solution. He told the boy that he could be his personal assistant on the project if he promised to keep it a secret. Malcolm was so fascinated by the thought of being around of that AI, promised him right there and then...
A few months later, when he came to know the project inside and out, he asked the professor why the fleet wasn't already assembled. When McNeme told him the reason, he simply asked: "Why don't you upload it using a virus?"
When McNeme didn't seem to understand the reason behind the question, he added: " I mean, we're Hackers, right? Who needs to build ships when we just can infect the entire fleets of our neighbours?"
The project was approved immediately and the next six years passed with the writing and tuning of a perfect virus code.
The first few years passed with getting hold of diferent classes of Liberty fighters. They found out that the computer mainframes and processing power of fighter class ships were not enough to host and run Neme.sys.
After that, they set their eyes to capital ships like cruisers and dreadnoughts, hoping that they could find a way to establish a network between one or more battleships. Linking those ships computers, they would accumulate processing power enough for the AI to navigate and remote control an immense number of bombers and fighters.
However, bigger fish proved impossible to get hold of, thanks to the Liberty Navy and Police: when they were certain that they would lose a capital ship, they took special care to activate the self-destruct mechanism before evacuation.
Most of the time, the interrogation of captive ship crew proved time consuming and without results. The little information they could gather wasn't enough to rewrite the virus and the code so it would infiltrate and run perfectly in Liberty-made computers.
The Hackers finally got around this problem through bribing a corrupt Liberty Navy officer and one greedy engineer working in ship construction. They got hold of a complete specimen and blueprints of an assault battlecruiser computer. Studying those carefully, they improved both the virus and the AI, which took a couple more years.
A certain Liberty Navy officer and a certain engineer didn't last to see those years though...
With passing of each year, Professor McNeme came to trust and love Malcolm, now a young man, who worked tirelessly with him for days and nights, without a single complaint. In fact, Malcolm's input in the project began to exceed the professor's, which the old man took as a blessing. Slowly, the project began to change hands...
As Project Neme.sys was nearing completion, the shipyards of Fort Leniex were bearing witness to another creation: A unique version of the Spyglass, the infamous battleship of the Lane Hackers, has been built and modified to be the avatar of the AI structure called Neme.sys...
