The Truth Behind the Shutdown!
"How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!" - 2 Samuel 1:27
Here's the truth behind the Shutdown, if you want to see how it got here, go Here.
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Listen up, folks. We've finally found out what happened to Renraku's Seattle Arcology, and I don't think you're going to like it. I sure don't.
We all thought the arc was shut down by a rival corp, or maybe a terrorist group. Somebody with motives we could understand if we just thought about it long enough. But I'm here to tell you that the arc has been taken over by something that none of us understand yet, that most of us probably aren't ready to understand - an artificial intelligence.
Now, I know what you're thinking: "Cap, you've finally flipped." Sometimes I wish that was true. But I've seen too much evidence to ignore, brought to my attention by people I respect as much as anyone on Earth. We're going to lay that evidence out for you in the files attached to this document, and I think you'll come to the same conclusion we have. I hope you do, because we're going to need all the help we can get on this one.
I was recently contactedby a young woman named Peregrine, who first identified herself as a member of "the Arcology Resistance." I thought it was some kind of joke at first, some "gang" made up of bored children of Renraku suits, or another bunch of tech-hating nuts determined to blow up the arc. I agreed to talk to her in real-time because what she had to say might give us a clue as to what was really going on inside the arc. And it did... but not what I expected.
When Peregrine started telling me her story, my first reaction was to dismiss it out of hand. Then she laid out the evidence. The more I listened, and the more I saw, the more I started to believe her.
Renraku denied everything, or course - what else is new? - but even their denials fit with her story.
So I started asking around, on Shadowland and elsewhere, to see what data I could come up with about the arc shutdown. People came forward with their own accounts of what happened on the night of December 19, and what they had observed since then. And everything I found fit Peregrine's tale.
Here, in brief, is what we found: Renraku is no longer in control of it's own arcology.
Instead, the arc is under the thumb of an artificial intelligence that has complete control of the arcology's physical and electronic systems.
The AI and it's minions, a group of fanatical otaku, have transformed the arcology into a giant prison - and in many cases, a giant tomb - for it's hundred thousand inhabitants.
We don't know what they want, but we do know that they're killing people, torturing them, experimenting on them in ways that haven't been seen for a hundred years.
And if they can seize a building like the arcology, one of the most secure structures in the modern world, will any of us be safe in our homes? On Shadowland? Anywhere?
You all know me; you know I don't go in for scare tactics. But this is important - as important as the Bug City files were four years ago. Maybe more so, because this time the enemy lives where we live - here, in the Matrix. It's not even safe here anymore.
Read these files. Believe them. Help us spread the word, and fight back.
> Captain Chaos
Transmitted: 27 December 2060 at 22:49:07 (EST)
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