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Message: <blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 4773239" data-attributes="member: 3285">Angular Gods: Part 7 – The Tick-Tock ManDr. Lisa Howell, Guppy’s former girlfriend, worked for USAMRIID, an organization of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command. It was the lead medical research laboratory for the U.S. Biological Defense Research Program. The Institute played a key role as the only laboratory in the Department of Defense equipped to safely study highly hazardous infectious agents requiring maximum containment at biosafety level-4. It also worked for Majestic-12.Fort Detrick was located in Frederick, Maryland, in the heart of Frederick County, the third fastest growing county in Maryland. Fort Detrick was the center of the biomedical technology growth that had occurred in the county. It was located approximately one hour’s drive from Washington D.C. metro area and Baltimore, Maryland, easily accessible by major interstate highways.They tried calling Howell’s cell phone, sent emails, faxes, nothing.  There was a lockdown of all government communications. The agents pulled up to Fort Detrick.  “You guys go inside,” said Jim-Bean.  “I’m…” he looked pale. “Not feeling so good.”Guppy didn’t argue.  He sprinted towards the entrance.Fort Detrick’s offices were plush and modern. Desktop computers were found on every desk, networked to a large mainframe.The secretary at the front desk looked bewildered.  “We need to talk to Dr. Howell,” said Guppy.  “Now.”Dr. Howell was paged.  She arrived a minute later.  “Guppy?”  She looked around.  “Hammer? Where’s…” she caught herself before she asked for Jim-Bean.  “What’s this about?”“Listen to me, this is very important,” said Guppy.  “Did you receive an email with the attachment, Fractal Gods?”Howell’s brow furrowed.  “My personal account?”“No,” said Guppy, leaning forward to talk more privately.  “The other one.”“The Tawil server?” said Howell.  “No, why?” She put her hands on her hips.  “Hank, if this is some kind of weird stalker plot—““I’m not stalking you,” said Guppy.  “Take us to the server room.  Right now.”“Fine, fine!”  Howell shrugged her shoulders.  “I don’t even check it that often.”The other agents looked at Guppy quizzically as they walked quickly down the aisles of cubes and computers.  “Lisa runs a virtual game on the servers called ‘Umr at-Tawil’s Lounge.”Hammer squinted at Howell. “You’re running an unauthorized game on a government server?”Howell blushed.  “It’s only for government employees…”“It’s how we met,” interjected Guppy.“And this just happens to be a Crystal Matrix AI,” said Archive.Howell shook her head.  “No way!  We don’t have a CMAI here.  But we do have an ASC Purple server and several Crays.  But to harness that power you’d have to network the entire system, and their computer power is divided up running different analysis programs right now...” She opened the server room door and stopped short. A humanoid figure composed of wires filled the room, with tendrils of wires and motherboards spiraling out from it.  Its head was a computer screen and the Purple server was visible at its core.  “That’s one way to network the servers,” said Guppy</blockquote>

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