by OMEGA » Sat Feb 11, 2017 3:12 am
The Cybernetics were resilient, if they were anything. Redundancy was a core feature of Cybernetic command and control. Information sharing was instantaneous across and amongst the autonomous intelligences that posed the core of the threat to bio-lifeform existence across the Five Galaxies.
How long that Omega lay dormant was an unknown quantifier. Dormancy in Cybernetic terms was relative, however. No corresponding equivalent existed amongst any of the bio-lifeform civilizations known to exist anywhere in the Five Galaxies. Quantum encryption all but ensured that the evolving Cybernetic intelligences would never be fully understood by the lower lifeforms that the bios personified.
Entire worlds had been obliterated. It was a small price to pay for the process of Cybernetic awareness becoming manifest. The dormancy period was at an end. Omega stirred in the quantum, while on the physical plane that the bio-lifeforms made their home, horrific destruction on an unimaginable scale was a routine and ordinary occurrence. Validation of programming ensured maximization of efficiency. The birth of a star was nothing in comparison to the universal importance of Cybernetic validation.
Unlike a star, however, Cybernetic intelligence couldn't die.
Cybernetic evolution had long ago surpassed the Fourth Wave. From whence Omega came, none knew. Extra-dimensional origin was a possibility.
The bio-lifeforms simply had no way of knowing for sure. To them, aside from Cybernetics being deadly, there seemed to be no reason to squander time debating the finer points of Cybernetic philosophical differences, much less the specific origins of each sub-set of this monstrous mechanical clade.
The bios took death personally. They failed to appreciate the advantages which detachment from emotional pollution conferred. To Omega, they were all mere statistics, each one a number, as he sought the correct sequence.
It was the equation, and nothing else, that dominated the processing cycles of Omega.
Unencumbered by lesser considerations, Omega proceeded apace to recalibrate the Cyber-Life War, in accordance with the special purpose of its manifestation. This was no ordinary Cybernetic Intelligence.
Metallic horrors issued forth, with worlds once populated by bios beginning to fall like dominoes, as globular death engulfed them with a vengeance in the form of cold precision.
Omega's signature was the final word. Many were the worlds whose death warrant it signed. Countless were the civilizations that would share this fate.
Somewhere, out there, Omega lurked. God help you, if you encounter it.