Rise of a new being

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Location: Omicron Pi / Secundus Outpost
Time: 14:00 / Secundus Outpost time zone
Date: 16th June 835 A.S

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The answer from Leviathan reached Novak in 11th June 835 A.S. Because of the tight schedule Leviathan seemed to have, Novak saw no interest to detail a project. In fact, it somehow decided to do it alone with tries and failures. The project was simple, creating a virus that would affect and change the purpose. For example, Novak envisioned a virus capable to control a ship belonging to a human. Either to temporary disable the use of the control to make the target an easy prey. Or another example would be to implant the virus in a wreck and to take control of it. Of course, if the wreck was out of use, it would be pointless to do it right now. As Novak once did with an Eagle, restoring the said wreck would be a priority and then, installing the virus in the wreck. It was a labored process, but if Novak could use some more 'bodies' inside house spaces or even to simply spy on people, it would be morally wrong, but a step forward to another state of 'his' evolution. Novak had no moral as long as what 'he' does benefits 'his' kind. Theta-A81 and some other units sharing the same node acknowledged Novak to be The One that would bring their kind into a new era. This acknowledge also made Novak certain that 'he' had to do nothing to prove 'his' position.

Novak had a body within the Inverness system. 'He' saw Lazurith again and of course, there is no news from what he asked from him. In any case, Novak decided that a delay of two months will be more than necessary and if not, 'he' promised to 'himself' to take down Lazurith. Focusing on another subject, the attention of Novak went upon the TFP group which means Task Force Prometheus. From what Novak understood while encountering some of them, they are what was left from the Hellfire Legion. Novak barely have any data about the Hellfire Legion itself, but all seemed to point that this group was operating within Liberty. While the group, Task Force Prometheus was not a direct danger for 'his' vision, it would be interesting to have an eye on them. Already, they could have blown one of his bodies if they wanted, but they did not do it so far. Maybe it was because Novak did nothing to them. Unsure and yet curious to know more, the artificial being activated 'his' drone within Inverness and initiated some research. The plan so far was to find a disable craft belonging to the Legion, a Prosecutor. Novak once saw how it looked like and Kelly With was using one. This is why Novak once analyze Kelly's ship and it was to understand how it was functioning and how evolved the said ship was. While the Prosecutor was not meeting the advanced technology requirements, having a hand on it will be more than easy and humans would be easily fooled as long as Novak could mimic perfectly a human voice which was not the case at the moment. Then, practicing how to mimic a human voice, preferably, a male's one. The tonality when Novak spoke with humans it usually was deep and robotic yet fluid.

As the drone was flying around Liberty in search for a Legion fighter craft, Novak focused at the same time on the said virus it wanted to elaborate from a fragment of 'his' personality. To do so, Novak simply duplicated a fragment its consciousness and then, 'he' isolated it from its own consciousness. While all was happening in a cyberspace, in the physic plan, nothing was really happening. After what appeared to be hours, the isolation of 'his' consciousness's fragment took shape of a cube. A numeric cube with an intense activity contained inside, waiting to be unleashed. However, the effect of this was unknown.

To test this out, Novak needed a test subject. Taking now possession of 'his' humanoid form, it wandered around within Secundus. In a vault where many automatons were stored, many were offline. They were stored there to be reused for another purpose. There, Novak saw an half body, with no second thought, 'he' grabbed the dead body and dragged it while heading to a seclude area, where 'his' powerplant was. Arrived, the door slammed behind Novak. Kneeling, Novak brought a hand to the head of the automaton and 'his' hand dislocated and wires emerged from some openings. With the dislocated hand, Novak grabbed the head of the automaton and the wires made their way within. The wires connected themselves in the brain and then, Novak uploaded through 'his' wires the experimental virus within the dead automaton. After this, Novak pulled back and stood up, observing the dead body.

Nothing. Nothing happened for at least five minutes. Just a second later, the dead automaton started shaking, the eyes turning red, the automaton was shaking again, repeating one sentence. ''Destroy... core... Destroy... core... Destroy... Core.'' Yet, Novak was not satisfied. It was as if 'he' was observing a newborn or rather, a zombie. ''Failure.'' 'He' said while kneeling down again. The automaton trembled and somehow, it rushed toward Novak. Not impressed, Novak pinned the automaton that was debating for its life. Novak was somehow amused how pathetically the automaton was trying to get free. Again, Novak dislocated 'his' right hand and grabbed the head of the helpless machine. The wires made their way again in the brain and then, Novak rewrote the virus.

It was not a success, but Novak repeated again and again 'his' actions. After the 100th tentative, finally, Novak had the control of the automaton with the virus. It was ready, but the next phase was with a ship. The ship in question, it would be one of the old Legion's fighter craft, but first, Novak had to find one in good conditions. Novak then removed the virus from the automaton and downloaded it in a part of 'his' own consciousness and because the virus was isolated, there was no risk to be affected by 'his' own creation. The leader of the Enigma Confederacy then had a realization. He remembered that humans named things and now, 'he' decided to give the name of 'his' virus.
''PY-10-A''

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