Project Phantom: Ch.1: Paralyzed (Pt.2)


R e b o o t i n g  .  .  .  P r o g r a m  :  S 0 1 0 M 0 N  .  .  .



Person 1: “Are you recording? .. I think we’re ready. The operation has been completed. Every single cell has been transformed. Every piece of information, memories, thoughts, ideas, and mental abilities have been stored as a basis for this program to function accordingly. We’re no longer dealing with a human being. What’s in front of us –ladies and gentlemen- is nothing but a stored technical and electronical simulation and imitation of what our subject ever knew his whole life as a human. This is the first stage of our project. This, my friends, marks our major operation success. If this worked, it means nothing but the fact that we’re capable of building a better future for humanity. A future where an endless cycle of loss is not a destiny to our human kind, nor a burden that we have to live with, and suffer. After many trials, fails and errors, this right here, might be our best work yet. I have so much faith in it. Get this .. we are making history!”

Person 2: “We did our best this time, if it didn’t work, we will lose our jobs, and bring this whole corporation to it’s end, after many years of service. This will determine it’s fate.”

Person 3: “We’ve been working on this project for a long time now, I almost forgot what it’s like to work on anything else that isn’t as huge as this project.”

Person 1: “Alright everyone, let’s start running the fundamental test, and see how this goes … Hello, please identify yourself.”

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-HELLO, I AM S010M0N.

Person 1: “Great, this is working, identification .. check. S010M0N, locate yourself.”

-I AM LOCATED AT THE MAIN OPERATION LABORATORY, PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES.

Person 1: “Awesome, What’s today?”

-TODAY MARKS THE 17THOF JULY.

Person 1: “Shit, there might be a malfunction, again .. What’s today?”

-TODAY IS SATURDAY, JULY 17TH

Person 1: “Damn, the ability to state the date is just a basic function, if it couldn’t do that, then we probably failed. We need to fix that, write it down, is anyone keeping track here? … I’m starting to have some doubts, what if we actually failed again? We’ve put all of our effort into this, the cost that went into this operation was more than any trial we have ever done. Let’s just hope this only requires some calibration. Carrying on with the test .. Can you count how many people are in this room?

-THERE ARE 28 PEOPLE IN THIS ROOM, THERE ARE 147 PEOPLE ON THIS FLOOR, THERE ARE 584 PEOPLE IN THIS BUILDING, THERE ARE 13 MILLION PEOPLE IN THIS STATE, THERE ARE 7.5 BILLION PEOPLE ON THIS PLANET, EARTH.

Person 1: “I didn’t ask for all of that information, yet I’m impressed … let’s take five, people. We will then we move on to phase two of our test, and please can someone get the calibration team here?”

Person 4: “I think we should move directly to phase three of the test. I think the program can handle skipping phase two, since it was able to state some basic current information, I am sure it will be able to give a more general information about the world. After all this program runs by the internet, and as we allow it, it will have access to all sorts of informations online. Now, do we really need to check on that?”

Person 3: “I don’t see that as an issue as well, I say we skip phase two of the test”

Person 1: “Guys phase one is only a check for current specific informations, while phase two is more general and global aspect of informations that we need to know if the program is able to sort them out. I just need to make sure this program checks all the boxes, I don’t want to have any fall outs like what happened with the date in the first part of this test.”

Person 5: “I agree with them, let’s get straight to phase 3. Let’s get personal, and test that part out. That’s what matters to us, after all .. that’s why we designed it, everything else was just additional features.”

Person 1: “Alright then, if you guys insist. Gather around everybody, we’re moving straight to phase 3 of our test. As you all know our project here is to build a program that is able to contain, process, and operate all what the person ever knew as a human. Someone please enable all the responses, we are going for the full test here no information to be held back, it’s about to get personal. S010M0N .. What are you?”

- … I AM S010M0N, A PROGRAM … DESIGNED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR A FORMER LIVING HUMAN BEING, THAT IS NO LONGER ALIVE IN THIS WORLD.

Person 2: “Wait, I don’t think the program is supposed to know that it is replacing a dead human, this will remind people of their loss, and potentially ruin the experience!”

Person 1: “that was strange, I’m pretty sure we erased that from what it stored before the completion of the syncing process … What is the purpose of your creation?”

-I WAS DESIGNED TO- I WAS CREATED- I WAS … GUTTED- I was- I know wha- mu-

Person 5: “Something really strange is happening, we can’t carry on with this guys, we need to shut it down immediately. I’m afraid that we haven’t failed, it might be worse .. we overachieved.”

Person 1: “I know, this never happened before, it’s almost like- but it can’t be! Just for the sake of it, I need to ask him one more time … S010M0N, what is the purpose of your creation?”

-I D- I came into this experiment by foot, I brought death upon myself. Only if I knew this would happen, I CRE- you murderers did this to me, I know everything you did to me.

Person 6: “Shut it down!”

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