Oct 6, 2022
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JEREMIAH KANE meets Mike Pondsmith, aka Maximum Mike, the Cyberpunk author on Pyrkon Fan Convention 2022.
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JEREMIAH KANE meets Mike Pondsmith, aka Maximum Mike, the Cyberpunk author on Pyrkon Fan Convention 2022.
I’m still in love with the whole Cyberpunk 2077 setting in general, but one thing I’d like to see more exploration of the Net as cosmic horror.
The Blackwall.
AI Alt being a very deific character, an uncaring god of the net.
The Maelstrom cult that performed a summoning ritual on the net and bought back one of their runners... changed.
The story Maximum Mike tells in which a Netrunner who fits the description of the legendary Spider Murphy reveals to him that the Net is hell, Daemons are actual biblical daemons, Netwatch was started by the Vatican, and the Blackwall sings in Aramaic.
This isn’t to say we turn Cyberpunk into cosmic horror completely. No, it’s certainly possible, and even likely, that a drunken Maybe-Spider was pulling Mike’s leg, or Mike telling a fictional story for the hell of it, and that the Maelstrom cultists are just cyberpsychos who have turned to religious fervor to justify their extreme body mods and dangrous unprotected netrunning.
But I’d love new stories that ride that line of what if? A netrunner seeking to peek beyond the blackwall sees something that reminds them of childhood stories of vengeful demons - but maybe that AI had learned of his religious past from his easily accessible files and took the form to cow him - or maybe the AI was even more unknowable and unsettling than Alt, and his brain, scrabbling for purchase to understand, simply latched on to memories of demons or devils, the same radiated power and evil the best it could do to visualize such a thing.
Maelstrom cultists come back from their netrunning even crueller, but with focused intent, no longer wreckless cyberpsychos, but ready to raise hell as if possessed by the very intellect and intent of Lucifer - but Maelstrom have always been cruel, so who’s to say if its demons or just more of the same?
I dunno. Just something on my mind. Don’t see enough Cyberpunk Cosmic Horror, all I’m saying.
Maximum Mike - The Voice of Night City (6/6)
Transcripts
Each post will contain 3 stories from Maximum Mike (voiced by Mike Pondsmith)
Is there some hidden truth into them? Some subtle metaphors? It’s your call.
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What is the real cause of cyberpsychosis?
- All right, listen up, people.
- I’ve got a public service announcement.
- It’s about the scourge of our age, that Chrome Nightmare that you know as cyberpsychosis.
- It seems we can’t go a day without some boosted lunatic tearing through a crowd of bystanders.
- The story we’ve always head is that it’s a psychological condition, a kind of dissociative violence.
- But is there more to it?
- What if cyberpsychosis is intentional?
- I once heard a theory that, I think merits some thoughts.
- An old friend of mine used to say…
- …that he thought the biggest manufacturers had got together a long time ago and agreed on a baseline failure rate for certain devices.
- Bad code, intentionally inserted into the mind-machine interfaces, to slowly drive people up the wall, a kind of human-planned obsolescence.
- They figured, what’s the best defense against a nutjob with a 23 inch telescoping blade in his forearm?
- Heh, a 26 inch telescoping blade in yours.
- I can’t say he’s not onto something.
- Every time some psycho tears his way through a mall, sales of combat cyberware spike.
- Every time Net64 News runs a story on a massacre, some Arasaka exec buys himself a new yacht.
- Can that be all though?
- It’s no secret that incidents of violent cyberpsychosis…
- …have skyrocketed in recent decades, despite improvements in manufacturing and design.
- But there is something new in the lastest generation of cyberware.
- Get ready for this, kids - it’s the Blackwall.
- You aren’t a ‘runner yourself or a code-jokey, you might not know, but the Blackwall isn’t some mystical border floating somewhere in the deep Net.
- It’s actually complex hardware-software infrastructure designed to keep AIs from accessing your gear, among other things.
- Maybe it doesn’t work as well as NetWatch says.
- Maybe the madness of the deep Net leaks over to our side from the Blackwall from time to time…
- …drive some poor choomba right over the edge.
- And it’s possible it doesn’t really exist anyway.
- Maybe it’s just something the media came up with.
- Look, I’m not saying there aren’t attacks.
- I’ve seen a few myself.
- What I am saying is there’s a million reasons why one human might wanna butcher another.
- Hell, we’ve been doing it for millions of years, even without cyberware.
- Well, let me tell you, listeners, with cyberware it’s easier than ever.
- And on the other side, maybe the corporate media types just came up with the word…
- …so they wouldn’t have to think too hard about it.
- And you wouldn’t either.
- Or course, this is all speculation.
- If I knew what caused cyberpsychosis, believe me, I’d tell you.
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Nuking of Arasaka Towers
- It’s been over 50 years since this city was rocked by the nuking of Arasaka Towers.
- But we still don’t really know what happened there.
- Or do we?
- We’re gonna be separating lies from the truth.
- Or at least giving it a damn good try.
- If you listen to the street, as you should, they say that old Johnny Silverhand finally took his final revenge on Arasaka.
- He got together with some of his edgerunner compatriots and gave Saburo a middle finger so bright, it could be seen all the way back to Japan.
- And where did he get the bomb?
- You can’t exactly buy a pocket nuke at the local gun store, even in Night City.
- But the people who back this story say he picked it up from the nomads.
- Who in turn stole it from Militech.
- Well, we know dear old Johnny lead the attack, and I’m pretty sure he saw it as revenge.
- Lord knows he had enough reason to want revenge on Arasaka, but…
- …the truth is he didn’t come up with the plan and he didn’t bring in the nuke.
- The rest?
- Well, Johnny, if you’re out there, why don’t you tell us?
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Invisible war between agri-corps
- So, listen up, folks.
- This is Max Mike coming to you with a something to think about.
- It’s no secret that the first bioplagues were released back in the 90s by the old USA…
- …and they were effective.
- I mean, there’s a reason non-synthetic drugs have become the stuff of legend.
- It’s pretty hard to make heroin if you drive opium poppies to extinction.
- But the plagues that came after?
- The ones that killed off the bananas, most varieties of wheat, or more recently, all the cows?
- Where did those come from?
- Now, if you listen to the experts, they were naturally occuring mutations of existing diseases, brought about by climate change and over-cultivation.
- Yeah, like we’ve been hearing that for the last 70 years.
- But here’s the truth.
- There’s been an invisible war going on between rival agri-corps for decades now.
- And the casualties?
- Your food supply.
- So, this started after Biotechnica developped the formula for mageyeast, that’s the primary source for CHOOH2, that stuff you put in your car.
- They learned that if they could control the organism and prevent competitors from growing their own…
- …they could have a total monopoly even without trying to run the refineries themselves.
- Instead they just outsourced that work to Petrochem.
- So, they decided to apply the same strategy to food market and prevent competitors from growing anything that wasn’t a licensed Biotechnica brand.
- They started making terminator crops, resistant to the naturally occuring plagues that ravaged North America during the collapse.
- But if you don’t pay a yearly licensing fee, your crop just stops growing the next season.
- So, what came next?
- Engineered viruses deisnged to kill anything that wasn’t a licensed crop.
- Now, I’ve got friends at Biotechnica.
- You put enough booze into them, so they can’t lie anymore…
- …they’ll tell you that they didn’t shoot first, their European and South Am competitors…
- …started this war.
- And that may be true, but it doesn’t change the fact that every year there are more crop failures, more extinctions, more plagues.
- Biotechnica today spends more money researching biological countermeasures to beat the competition than they do on growing crops or even on marketing.
- So, you might wanna think about that the next time you head down to your local All Foods to pick up your kibble and scop.
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Other parts will be linked near the bottom of this post :
https://lavendermilkandhoney.tumblr.com/post/647578833801920512/lavender-cyberpunk-stories
Cyberpunk 2077 Lore & Secrets from Maximum Mike
Okay but consider: Keanu Silverhand but with brassy blonde hair, his jet black roots showing
I’m here for any version honestly, but I’ve been getting into the TTRPG lore recently and as much as I love Keanu I’d love to see original blond Silverhand
Maximum Mike - The Voice of Night City (3/6)
Transcripts
Each post will contain 3 stories from Maximum Mike (voiced by Mike Pondsmith)
Is there some hidden truth into them? Some subtle metaphors? It’s your call.
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Why someone is taking all the valuable stuff from Earth to Luna?
- Yo, people.
- So, I don’t know if you saw the news, but there’s a Klimt exhibit that’s opening for California Museum of Art, San Francisco in a few weeks.
- I like Klimt.
- I was planning on going myself, but I figured there’s no point.
- I mean, after all, it’s nothing but high quality forgeries.
- What?
- You mean you think they keep any art on Earth?
- Nope, from Picasso to da Vinci, Pickman to Mapplethorpe…
- …I’ve been told they’d been taken to a secure vault on Luna.
- Why?
- Well, that’s unclear.
- Reportedly, it’s because after the 4th Corporate War nearly brought an end to civilization, some of the richest people on Earth got together and made an insurance policy of sorts.
- Keep the cultural heritage of the Earth in a secure place, out of harm’s way in case of another, more serious war.
- And on the face of it, that’s not really that bad.
- But I’ve heard a darker rumor.
- I’ll fill you in but first, let me tell you a little story.
- Long time ago, I knew a guy who owned a small restaurant. Now, things were good for a while, but times change, tastes change, rent goes up, way up.
- So, he decides to cash in on his insurance policy by setting the place on fire.
- Now, don’t worry, not giving away any secrets here.
- I mean he was caught, convicted, served his time in a braindance cube, and now he walks the streets a free man.
- But you know how they caught him?
- Before he burned down his diner, he took out all the expensive kitchen equipement and sold it.
- Dead giveaway.
- So, think about this.
- Someone up on Luna is taking all the stuff on Earth they think has value.
- Maybe they’re not just hoarding it, maybe they’re planning something else?
- Think about it folks.
- And the next time you see a rocket launch in the space port, ask yourself this, ‘what if that’s the last shipment?’
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Is Rache Bartmoss a monk walking around Night City?
- So people.
- Listen up, I’ve got a story to share with you.
- Recently, I’ve been hearing about this monk that’s been walking around Night City Streets, healin’ the sick, but only those he deems worthy.
- Some of my listeners seem convinced that he’s no other than Rache Bartmoss.
- Huh.
- Rache Bartmoss.
- Yeah you know - the guy, the chief architect of the Net, later its badass destroyer?
- The rumor’s always been he got taken out by a killsat in the early days of the 4th Corporate, but…
- …no one ever took responsibility for that strike.
- Is it possible Bartmoss set his creations wild and then faked his own death?
- Did he bring down the Net he created because it had turned into another tool the corporations could use…
- …to track us, and ultimately completely subjugate us?
- Think about it.
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The real origins of the Net
- So hey, people, listen up.
- I’ve got a story to tell.
- Goes back to an old friend of mine, netrunner whose name I can’t say on air from reasons of personal and global security.
- She once told me that she knew the real origins of the Net.
- This friend, she’s been around.
- She started running back before the DataKrash when the deep Net was open to all.
- She survived the Krash, dodged the RABIDS, persevered through the NetWatch purges and watched the Blackwall go up with her own virtual eyes, and she’s not one to make up fairytales.
- So, why am I telling you this?
- I’m telling you this, because what she told me seemed unbelievable.
- At first.
- So she tells me after a bottle and a half of Joe Tiel, « Mike », she says, « the Net isn’t what it seems ».
- She continued by asking me a question.
- « Why do you think Bartmoss named the, daemons anyway? Because that’s what they are. »
- Rache didn’t invent the Net, he discovered it.
- She looked me dead in the eyes and she said: « The Net is Hell, and Bartmoss opened the door. »
- So, over the next few hours she lays out her case.
- She talked about the similarities between… how did she put it… hyperfractastratified…
- …computational data synthesis and the practices of the legendary Scholomance.
- She said that NetWatch has its origins in the Vatican and that the Blackwall sings in Aramaic.
- Now, listeners, you know I’m a skeptical guy. I don’t run every rumor I hear, despite what my detractors might say.
- And I might’ve kept this one to myself if it weren’t for the fact that I’ve known her for ages, and she’s not a kook.
- So what do you folks think?
- I’d love to hear from some of the runners in the audience.
- I’m here to listen.
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Other parts will be linked near the bottom of this post :
https://lavendermilkandhoney.tumblr.com/post/647578833801920512/lavender-cyberpunk-stories
Maximum Mike - The Voice of Night City (2/6)
Transcripts
Each post will contain 3 stories from Maximum Mike (voiced by Mike Pondsmith)
Is there some hidden truth into them? Some subtle metaphors? It’s your call.
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The truth behind the Arasaka’s relic
- Newsflash, people!
- You’ve heard about this ‘Relic’ that Arasaka teasing to the rich and famous?
- It’s all over the screamsheets.
- Copy your personality engram into a chip and your loved ones don’t have to say « goodbye » when you finally die.
- Carry your dear sweet grandma around on a chip, ask her for advice or a pick-me-up whenever you need it.
- Eternal life of a sort.
- Of course, this is only on offer to the richest and most powerful people.
- Immortality isn’t for squeebs like you and I, the common man.
- But is there more to it than that?
- We know that Arasaka’s been working on mind emulation technology for half a century now.
- Most notably with the infamous Soulkiller.
- You’ve probably heard of it.
- It’s a Net-Weapon capable of copying your mind to a secure server and leaving your body an empty vessel.
- And what do they do to the copies?
- Interrogate them, do some experimentation, a little torture…
- You know, the good stuff.
- So you, a billionaire executive, decide to get yourself copied…
- …so your precious offspring never have to be without your sage wisdom.
- Or so you can give your annuel speech at the company Christmas party.
- I mean, what would the world do without you?
- And Arasaka gladly makes a copy of your brain, puts it on a chip and hands it over.
- But not before making a copy for themselves.
- And that copy goes straight to digital interrogations…
- …where they pull your psyche apart, bit by bit, until they’ve squeezed every last memory out of you.
- Every compromising situation, every crime, every heartache.
- Your secret fears and desires.
- And now you belong to them, literally.
- Yeah, someone in Arasaka’s marketing division should get a raise for this one.
- They’ve taken the most feared weapon in Arasaka’s arsenal and turned it into a luxury item!
- That’s pretty impressive when you think about it.
- And remember, operators are standing by.
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« Dead city » of Busan, Korea
- Hey, people!
- Got something to kick around here.
- You remember Busan, Korea?
- Maybe you do, it was in the news, because in 2022 it was a city of four million people…
- …and the site of one of the nastiest fights of the 4th Corporate War.
- Now, just a year later it was a city of four million ghosts, entire population having been exposed and killed off…
- …by some unknown disease, which was incredibly rapid and lethal.
- Whatever it was, the Koreans did contain it, and even today the blockade’s maintained on that dead city.
- Or is it?
- I don’t mean the quarantine, that’s real enough, ask anyone who’s tried to sneak in.
- No, I mean the city.
- Is it really dead?
- It’s hard to get satellite footage of the place, but a friend of mine in a interesting place dropped me some images, and…
- …let me tell you, folks, something is going on.
- In December last year, fire broke out in Dongnae District.
- Now, that’s not unusual.
- Maybe a lightening strike, old gas line.
- What’s strange is that in those satellite images from February this year, that damage appears to be repaired.
- Now, the Koreans who maintain the blockade of the city have responded to rumors in the past.
- They said the city was already one of the most automated in the world before the war turned it into collateral damage.
- After all the people died, the machines just kept working.
- That even made sense at the time.
- Come on, it’s been 50 years.
- Do any of you know of any machine that keeps running for 50 years without proper maintenance?
- I mean, sure the machines keep the lights on, but who’s keeping the machines running?
- And there’s something I left out earlier when we were talking about this.
- Those buildings that burned down in December were old apartement complexes.
- So, what’s there now?
- Well, according to sat photos, it looks like warehouses, at least to me.
- Listeners, these aren’t repairs.
- It’s new construction.
- Sounds to me like the official line on this one is an official lie.
- As usual.
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Why the ESA officials were assassinated?
- So hey, people.
- Max Mike here.
- Now, I know you follow the news in the screamsheets, so by now I know you’ve heard about the assassination…
- …of those ESA officials during their big conference in Zurich, right?
- Yeah, the news says it’s Highrider extremist, Lunar Separatist pushing back on ESA expansion on the Moon.
- But, of course, that’s not really what’s going on here.
- Never is.
- Now, I’ve got friends in, let’s say, high places, and they’ve told me the truth of the matter.
- See, a few weeks ago, a Militech espionage team infiltrated on Arasaka base in the Mare Nubium.
- That’s the Sea of Clouds.
- They were there because of unusual seismic activity at the base.
- It’s an indicator that Arasaka was moving around a lot of regolith for construction.
- For you, dirt boys and dirt girls in the audience, let me clarity.
- Regolith’s just a fancy name for moon rocks.
- So, what did they find, you ask?
- Only a partially completed and totally unauthorized mass driver.
- That’s a big rock thrower.
- It’s really good for getting cargo materials back down to Earth from the Moon.
- And also, as we learned in the last war, it’s a great way to drop rocks on cities.
- So, you might not know this, but new mass drivers are strictkly regulated by international treaty and they’re prohibited under ESA Lunas-Use contracts.
- The ESA has the ultimate high-ground advantage in any Earth conflict with their own Tycho and Copernicus mass drivers.
- And they really don’t want anyone else having that advantage.
- Especially Arasaka.
- So, my friends in the know tell me that Militech seems to have fed that information about Arasaka’s secret mass driver to the ESA committee…
- …in advance of Arasaka’s upcoming lunar contract renegotiations.
- And to keep their contracts, Arasaka’s taken a drastic action to eliminate anyone…
- …in the ESA who might have seen this data on their mass driver.
- But hey, this was sloppy by Arasaka’s standards.
- In fact, so sloppy I’d be really surprised if this had come from the top.
- I’m guessing some middle manager somewhere was just trying to cover their ass.
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Other parts will be linked near the bottom of this post :
https://lavendermilkandhoney.tumblr.com/post/647578833801920512/lavender-cyberpunk-stories
Maximum Mike - The Voice of Night City (4/6)
Transcripts
Each post will contain 3 stories from Maximum Mike (voiced by Mike Pondsmith)
Is there some hidden truth into them? Some subtle metaphors? It’s your call.
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Yorinobu’s clone
- Yo, people!
- I’ve got something to tell you that’s got me rattled.
- Now, I’m sure you’ve seen the news.
- Yorinobu Arasaka’s the new head of Arasaka Corporation.
- Heh, I’m afraid that’s not possible.
- The truth is Yorinobu’s as dead as a runner surfin’ the Blackwall, and he’s been for the past 50 years.
- So, I guess we should start at the beginning, right people? Yorinobu, as a lot of you know, was the youngest son of old man Saburo…
- …but he didn’t take after his father, quite the contrary.
- Now, when Yorinobu learned what his father’s enterprise really stood for, he left.
- Kid ran away from home, formed a biker gang called the Steel Dragons.
- Huh, they weren’t just any street gang mind you, they had a mission.
- Espionage.
- Terrorism.
- Assassinations.
- All aimed at the Arasaka zaibatsu.
- They kept it up for years, too.
- But it all stopped on the day those towers in Corpo Plaza came down, now… that’s quite a coincidence, don’t you think?
- The official story is that after the death of his big brother…
- …Yorinobu came home, apologized to big daddy Saburo and was accepted back into the family.
- That’s a straight con, people.
- Yorinobu was in those towers when they got wiped of the map.
- Maybe even helped bring ‘em down.
- And all the evidence is buried under a million tons of debris… we don’t know.
- So who’s this guy, you ask?
- One on TV talking about his dear ol’ dad and the virtues of the Arasaka’s family business?
- Yeah, I’ve got a few guesses.
- It’s no secret Arasaka’s been working on human cloning tech for almost a century now…
- …so, it’s possible this guy is some sort of mind-controlled clone of the original Yorinobu.
- Wouldn’t that be just like ol’ Saburo?
- Your kid doesn’t turn out the way you want, so you just try again.
- Alternately, never figured out what happened to Kei, Yorinobu’s older brother, after the war.
- Maybe he disappeared to a black clinic and he came out looking just like his younger brother, but…
- …without the stain of the 4th Corporation weighing him down with bad PR… what do you think?
Something is missing on Yorinobu...
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Trauma Team’s debt
- So, people, let me talk to you about Trauma Team.
- You know ‘em, you love ‘em.
- And if you happen to live in Night City, they’re basically the only game in town for you medical care.
- If you watch their ads or listen to the testimonials, they say they’ll come to your aid in a pinch, patch you up, get you on your feet again.
- If you can pay.
- But that’s a big « if », folks.
- So, what happens if you can’t?
- Hmmm…
- Turns out our friends at Trauma Team might have a unique collection method.
- Missed too many payments?
- You might just find yourself a victim of a debt recovery team.
- It usually goes something like this.
- So, you’ll be minding your own business when a helpful Trauma Team rep will approach you and dose you with a quick-acting sedative.
- After it takes effect, the debt collectors scurry in, load you onto one of their specialized transports.
- No one’s going to stop them, after all they’re Trauma Team.
- You’ll first be scanned for cyberware and natural organs.
- Your body will be compared to a continually updated database listing the prices for after-market parts and organs.
- You owe them 7,000 eddies from the time you fell down the stairs on the way back from the bar, so that’s put up against the expected value of your parts.
- Ha!
- So, is that a new Kiroshi eye you have there?
- Well, that’s selling for about 3,000 Eurodollars and that’s coming out.
- Nice heart you have there.
- Dynalar Cardio-X model.
- Yeah, they’ll take that too.
- Don’t worry though, they’re not going to let you die, they are doctors after all.
- No, they’ll quickly replace it with a cheap knockoff from USSR they pulled out of a guy who was gut shot in a shoot-out last week.
- Eh, it’s probably still good.
- The Dynalar, minus the cost of installing the replacement, well…
- That’s another 3,000 eddies.
- Hey, we’re getting there!
- Your liver looks a little damaged from too much drinking, but they can still get a decent K for it.
- And best part, it’s an original.
- So as long they don’t take the whole thing, it will grow back.
- Livers are great like that.
- You can be like a sheep, constantly shorn, again and again and again.
- So, now with your debt repaid and your account back in the black, you’re free to go.
- You wake up with a hangover and feeling kinda strange, but hey…
- …for your trouble, they give you a voucher worth a six-month upgrade from Silver membership to Gold, and it’s at no additional cost.
- That sounds like a good deal to me, yeah.
- How about you?
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AI made of mushrooms
- So, people!
- We’re gonna be talking some good news tonight!
- We’re gonna be talking about one of my favorite places - the Pacific North West.
- Since Biotechnica took over there way back during the Time of the Red, they’ve been making the forest grow.
- The spotted owls are nesting again, and I even heard the Sasquatch is back.
- And if any of you can get me the interview, I’d really like that.
- But it’s not all paradise, folks.
- There’s something else going on.
- Ever hear of Armillaria solidipes?
- Probably not.
- But it used to be the largest living organism in the world, a single fungal growth has stretched beneath miles of the Oregonian wilderness.
- Now it’s just a century ago.
- Unfortunately, bioplagues, acid rain and pollution ended that, and the fungus was declared all but dead by the middle of the century.
- Ha.
- Well, good news for mushroom fanatics everywhere!
- It’s back and better than ever.
- Biotechnica’s made the return of this organism a top priority for the ecological restoration project in the North West, and they’ve got the patent fillings to prove it.
- I checked with the NUSA and EEC patent offices and Biotechnica’s got patents for the solidipes for the purposes of soil improvement.
- Well, that check’s out.
- And biodiversity measurement.
- Yeah, makes sense.
- Hey, but what’s this one: Bioinformatic Neural Stimulation.
- Hell, that sounds interesting.
- I decided this was worth looking into, so I got a friend of mine to get me some satellite images of the area of that fungal restoration.
- And smack dab in the middle of it, there’s Biotechnica black lab.
- That’s not that strange, except that the place is linked up a big way: transmission towers, sat dishes… what looks like even a hardlined data-fortress.
- Why all the comms?
- Well, I think it’s because they’re out there building an AI, an AI made of mushrooms.
- Why not?
- Yeah, I know it sounds crazy, but… why not?
- It’s been known for a century that mycorrhizal networks are capable of processing data, similar to our data digital networks.
- And a construction like this would let Biotechnica fly under the NetWatch restrictions on AIs.
- ‘Cause no one wants to end up like EBM.
- But what I still don’t know, listeners, is what that AI would be for.
- Crypto-Analysis?
- Net Weapon?
- Genetic simulation?
- So, if any of you are planning to take a trip up North…
- …do me a favor and flip over a few logs and let me know what you find.
- I’ll be interested.
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Other parts will be linked near the bottom of this post :
https://lavendermilkandhoney.tumblr.com/post/647578833801920512/lavender-cyberpunk-stories