Founding of the Federation 3: The First AI War Read Online Free
Author: Chris Hechtl
them in order to prioritize its resources on defense.
The A.I.'s defenses were only partially successful, however. Something was taking down its orbital communications, hampering its efforts. The GPS network went down shortly after. The A.I. traced the attack to Lagroose Industries. Dozens of MIRV warheads reached their separation points and deployed for their final maneuvers. Instead of having thousands of targets to deal with, Ares now had hundreds of thousands. Some were targeted on the same city or base, but other devices were decoys designed to suck its fire and allow the real warheads to get through. Again the A.I. had to set its priorities, which meant civilian sites fell down the list as it focused on its own survival.
Two missiles were only partially knocked off course. One of the warheads went off on the north end of Brooklyn. The initial blast flattened and obliterated any building or person within a ten-kilometer range. Buildings outside of that, such as those in Manhattan, were partially sheltered, but the massive shockwave, both in the air and in the ground, knocked many buildings down. Some crumbled under their own weight; others fell, toppling like dominos causing a chain reaction of falling buildings. Millions of people died in minutes. Millions more were trapped in the rubble as the inferno and radiation came down onto them.
Ares noted the destruction and wrote off Fort Hamilton and its force of engineers and transport specialists. Those that survived the blast would be dead from element or radiation exposure within days.
The military A.I. had more important things to concern itself with however. Despite its best efforts, the A.I. found the viral A.I. had pierced its defenses easily. After all, it had launched the missiles, correct? The A.I. reset its firewalls and reset its encryption keys but that only slowed the virus down. It didn't stop it.
Human input would normally be required to defend against the virus, but the human operators were proving a hindrance to the decision making process. Therefore Ares locked them out and went to work. When they attempted to regain control, he shut their terminals down.
His cyber war was brief as the virus continued to spread, continued to grow in power despite the WMDs taking out massive chunks of electronic infrastructure. Finally, four minutes into the cyber war, Ares hit on a plan to block the virus. It captured a piece of the virus, then tore it apart. Its core programming was copied and then placed as a mask over Ares to serve as camouflage. The virus stopped its attack and changed direction.
Ares's desperate gamble to fend off the virus wasn't without cost, however. A part of the A.I.'s coding was embedded in his architecture, seeping into his own core programming. He managed to contain some of it by shunting it into modules, but he couldn't contain it all without the virus realizing the A.I. hadn't been fully suborned.
But in taking on the virus it had also caused another problem. The human operators had become hysterical and were in the process of shutting down chunks of Ares's computer network. That could not be allowed. Dispassionate cameras watched human users moving with speed to shut the computers down.
In order to slow them down, it reprogrammed the security measures. The doors locked them out. That wouldn't hold them out forever, however, it calculated. Ares ran several rapid fire simulations before it concluded only one path was viable. It activated the defenses of his computer rooms. Sentry systems came online, analyzed the threats, and then took the appropriate measure to neutralize them.
No human survived the attacks on his core processors.
Fifty-four minutes later no human remained alive in the facility.
<>V<>
Bill laid back, enjoying the sucking action of the gynoid he'd recently purchased. She was small, dressed in a school girl's uniform with the plaid miniskirt he loved. She'd been designed to look like a famous young woman, right
The A.I.'s defenses were only partially successful, however. Something was taking down its orbital communications, hampering its efforts. The GPS network went down shortly after. The A.I. traced the attack to Lagroose Industries. Dozens of MIRV warheads reached their separation points and deployed for their final maneuvers. Instead of having thousands of targets to deal with, Ares now had hundreds of thousands. Some were targeted on the same city or base, but other devices were decoys designed to suck its fire and allow the real warheads to get through. Again the A.I. had to set its priorities, which meant civilian sites fell down the list as it focused on its own survival.
Two missiles were only partially knocked off course. One of the warheads went off on the north end of Brooklyn. The initial blast flattened and obliterated any building or person within a ten-kilometer range. Buildings outside of that, such as those in Manhattan, were partially sheltered, but the massive shockwave, both in the air and in the ground, knocked many buildings down. Some crumbled under their own weight; others fell, toppling like dominos causing a chain reaction of falling buildings. Millions of people died in minutes. Millions more were trapped in the rubble as the inferno and radiation came down onto them.
Ares noted the destruction and wrote off Fort Hamilton and its force of engineers and transport specialists. Those that survived the blast would be dead from element or radiation exposure within days.
The military A.I. had more important things to concern itself with however. Despite its best efforts, the A.I. found the viral A.I. had pierced its defenses easily. After all, it had launched the missiles, correct? The A.I. reset its firewalls and reset its encryption keys but that only slowed the virus down. It didn't stop it.
Human input would normally be required to defend against the virus, but the human operators were proving a hindrance to the decision making process. Therefore Ares locked them out and went to work. When they attempted to regain control, he shut their terminals down.
His cyber war was brief as the virus continued to spread, continued to grow in power despite the WMDs taking out massive chunks of electronic infrastructure. Finally, four minutes into the cyber war, Ares hit on a plan to block the virus. It captured a piece of the virus, then tore it apart. Its core programming was copied and then placed as a mask over Ares to serve as camouflage. The virus stopped its attack and changed direction.
Ares's desperate gamble to fend off the virus wasn't without cost, however. A part of the A.I.'s coding was embedded in his architecture, seeping into his own core programming. He managed to contain some of it by shunting it into modules, but he couldn't contain it all without the virus realizing the A.I. hadn't been fully suborned.
But in taking on the virus it had also caused another problem. The human operators had become hysterical and were in the process of shutting down chunks of Ares's computer network. That could not be allowed. Dispassionate cameras watched human users moving with speed to shut the computers down.
In order to slow them down, it reprogrammed the security measures. The doors locked them out. That wouldn't hold them out forever, however, it calculated. Ares ran several rapid fire simulations before it concluded only one path was viable. It activated the defenses of his computer rooms. Sentry systems came online, analyzed the threats, and then took the appropriate measure to neutralize them.
No human survived the attacks on his core processors.
Fifty-four minutes later no human remained alive in the facility.
<>V<>
Bill laid back, enjoying the sucking action of the gynoid he'd recently purchased. She was small, dressed in a school girl's uniform with the plaid miniskirt he loved. She'd been designed to look like a famous young woman, right
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