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NewSecret
07-01-2015, 09:00 AM
2401, the young city of “Rakisphere” was built within a half-subterranean

globe that was only visible as a dome on the surface.



Everyone who lived in Rakisphere was an employee of Cyber Tree Inc. and

entrance into the city was only permitted to employees. The majority of

the employees were members of the Cybernaut Worker’s Union (CWU) and over

three quarters of the people who lived in Rakisphere were employed in

some sort of cybernautics job.



Cybernautics was long used in many industries at the time, especially ones

where heavy machinery was required. The days of manually controlling heavy

machinery on site were long gone.



Cybernautics is the use of virtual reality in any task to reach a goal.



Two networks independent of each other were created; one network housed the

software for corporations and their intellectual and electronic properties

created and used for economical solutions and industry while the second

network housed the software and intellectual and electronic properties used

for personal entertainment such as virtual gaming, film and music, video

phones and a plethora of other uses not fit for co-existence within the

industrial network.



With two independent networks the risks of rogue hackers interrupting the

corporate systems was greatly reduced. In fact, this was a main reason for

the creation of Rakisphere. The growing concerns in the CWU for privacy

protection and guaranteeing their intellectual and electronic rights

in the shadow of increasingly crafty cyber-pirates eventually led to the need

to separate the bulk of Cybernautics employees into a detached system for the

duration of their time working.



Rakisphere was highly secured. Workers would often live there for several

months at a time without days off then take a month or two of leave at a

time. Cybernautics was an industry of choice as the pay was extraordinary and

the room for career advancement was very wide and very flexible. Cybernautics

rivaled health care in growth and innovation.



A young man named Tresdin had graduated Cybernautics University with honors.

He applied for work at Cyber Tree Inc. then soon was employed in a

construction division of a subsidiary of the corporation. He learned how to

control several heavy machines used for building condos or building

apartment buildings. He joined the CWU and rented a house in the city of

Rakisphere.



One day at work he logged into his virtual reality machine then uploaded the

software required for the day’s job. When all systems were a go the mainframe

paused, disallowing him to proceed with his work. The virtual scene melted

away and he appeared inside of a massive virtual ark with a great many others

who experienced the same error.



Everyone else on the ark were wearing the same CTI uniforms, much to

Tresdin’s relief as he could ascertain that the error was an internal systems

issue and that meant that the problem should be solved fairly soon. He asked

around at the other CTI employees whether they knew much about this sort of

thing. Some couldn’t reply as they were unaware of him within their own

virtual realities.



Finally one girl with the name of Oletta replied to him when he asked

her what was going on. She informed him that this was only the second time

she experienced this error in the whole 33 years she was employed at CTI.



In the center area of the mainly empty virtual ark an elaborate mess of

free-floating blocky shapes materialized. The shapes reformed themselves

while the virtual object continuously rotated. The shapes appeared to

follow a mathematical pattern but the overall look of the visual glitch

had a counter-intuitive randomness to it that only a calculated error

could realize.



Tresdin asked Oletta what the blocky image was. She said that she didn’t

know and she cautioned him to avoid going near it as with the previous

error that she told him about the same glitch appeared on that ark as well

and an employee got too close to it and he vanished inside the ark. When the

error was repaired the CTI management found him in his work area hours

following the issue with his work software running and he was suited up and

attached to the virtual reality machine. He was brought to the medical

division where it was declared that he was brain dead. To this day he

continues to live in the CTI med quarters while scientists research his

issues in the belief they can bring him back.



Tresdin and Oletta remained where they stood silently for another several

minutes before they were booted out of the ark glitch. Tresdin logged out

of his virtual reality machine and took a break before calling the tech

support division to inform them of the systems error. They sent him on leave

until the issue was repaired and a full systems double-check was performed

to rid the software of any other errors.



Tresdin was nervous about the issue but with the assurance of Oletta’s

experience with this certain sort of virtual glitch he wouldn’t need to

worry so much about it happening often. He hadn’t worked with CTI for very

long and he wasn’t informed of this system’s error. CTI had seemed to really

be thorough in their rigorous training process so he wondered how they could

leave a serious thing like system errors out of the new recruits program.



He went to his house and went to bed early, confident that the tech support

specialists would take care of the systems glitches. It was a total mystery

though why it was an ark that appeared with the error and the riddle of the

mathematical shape wad that free-floated in the center area kept his

imagination active well into the blurred nebulous of dreamland as it engulfed

him.



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Manninu88
07-03-2015, 04:50 AM
Interesting. A futuristic world built upon the potential use of virtual reality through computers. Total Recall? Whats happening on earth outside the dome?

I like that there is a glitch, and how Tresdin fell into 'the blurred nebulous of dreamland'. The unconcious/concious parallel between virtual reality and real life itself.