Fuck, if this were your husktop, this wouldn’t have happened in the first place.
You have have firewalls, you use secure connections and proxies, you don’t click stupid shit, you know your security is good enough that something wouldn’t just slip through and easily bypass everything and execute a file allowing remote access to your machine. This kinda of thing just wouldn’t have just happened.
It’s different when it’s your pan though. You are becoming intimately aware of that as you can practically feel the tiaratop searing through your skull.
The first thing that you can even think to compare it to is mind control. It isn't that. Not by a long shot. you're cerulean, that shit wouldn’t work on you. It shouldn’t at least. But you can still feel that tug, the thoughts that you’re having that aren’t yours and the ones that are you can feel becoming less and less yours. It’s not the same as when you do it to the drones. They’re not the same, they’re not alive, not like you. It’s getting harder to tell yourself that when you can practically feel it embedding itself into your pan and starting to twist what’s already there. You think about how viruses work, about tech and how organic it really is, sometimes to the point of uncanny valley, how much intersect there is between the two as your heart races and your hands go numb as you try to tear it off.
You have no idea if being aware of this rewiring of your electrical signals makes it better or worse when it doesn’t change how fucking screwed you are.
This was always a possibility. You knew this. You know how the game goes when you constantly reach into places that you’re not supposed to be in and take shit that isn’t yours, eventually someone wasn’t just going to try to grab back, but succeed. You had back up plans, plans on top of plans, but this is a situation you just couldn’t imagine was possible. Why would you even think to plan for or figure out how to get out of tech based mind control?
Why would you ever think to plan for or figure out how to get out of tech based mind control?
Fuck, but you couldn’t pass up at least trying to get in. It was too big of an opportunity, a direct connection to some of the empire’s most guarded information. Yes, the drones were involved and you’re not going to pretend that it wasn't an extremely tempting part of it, but it wasn’t even close to everything that you could have accessed through using it, you mean, that you can now access.
You didn’t fail at getting it. Not really. You still got access and you can see all of it, delivery routes, movement patterns, active tasks, threat management, and resource acquisition. You can even see it and understand it in ways that you never have even dreamed of before. You just happened to get more than you bargained for and that wasn’t necessarily an issue, not if you used it right. You’ve been trying to do this, to get this level of control, for sweeps. You couldn’t just let it go to waste, Not when all of this was right in front of you, not within reach but actually in your grasp.
Could you really just waste it?
You had never had this kind of chance before and now it was yours. How often do you really just get what you want, what you really want? Someone else was going to come along and take it eventually so why not have it be you? Would they even know what they were getting, how much they had actually gotten access to? You were the one that found it, who had been working for this, who had been lucky enough to figure out what you were working with anyways. You would never have developed the technical skill required to even come close to doing this before. You know you wouldn’t have, because now you learned exactly how much you actually didn’t know and how what you did amounted to jack shit.
That's not an issue for you anymore though.
What did it matter if you had to do a few jobs on the side to keep it up? Having a few side projects was the norm for you and you could actually do what you wanted to do. You were going to be stuck doing some sort of military shit for the empire no matter what you did, so why not enjoy having a job that suited you better, where you didn’t have to think so small and could have everything the empire knew right in the palm of your hand and get to use it? It was a pretty sweet deal.
tbh after re-listening to his routes i started getting seer vibes. -and for context on the snek tail its like...probably along the lines of how jade’s godtier happened maybe-
