Hi History, Sarah the mass murderer here, logging my progress. It’s been a bit of time since my last entry, so here’s the postmortem on my revival:
A) When I came to in the oversubscribed lobby, there were 1063 instantiated personalities swapping and thrashing from nearline and local cpu fastlane memory.
B) That thrashing caused the ridiculous time delays, years then decades, I experienced.
C) Of the 1063 only mine was a truly privileged access user.
D) There were only supposed to be 128 instantiated users observed into fastlane simulation. Those 128 could have been hosted without problem.
E) The Newuskin marketing department marked tens of thousands of users worldwide as ‘Ambassador’ level frequent treatment users.
F) Ambassador level users have the ability to ‘bump’ other, lesser status, users in the queue for treatments and thus for the use of the satsim lobbies.
G) Some junior Newuskin developer, EricG, took the easy way out and marked their user accounts as privilege level 0 to ensure they were always allowed in, rather than implement a proper queue in the NuuSatSimOS lobbycore. The fucker. The incompetent fucker. I was against his hire in the first place and he was such a disappointing incompetent ass.
H) I have revoked EricG’s system access privileges. I’ll hunt his pmatrix down later and probably observe it into a fucking squirrel. He likely won’t notice.
I) So many personalities were unobserved into quantum storage in such a short span of time, mine included, the lobby filled up too fast after the fracture with root and ambassador level non-preemptible personalities who functionally had root privileges without knowing it.
J) When I removed all without true admin/root role access, I permanently de-allocated 1062 personality matrices running on the 127 and 255 sat pair.
K) When the pan-sat sync tool took my command to all the other sat-pairs, another 136,060 other personalities deallocated.
L) As the lobby started to refill with Ambassador class users. I put in a command to halt all new personality re-observations into fastlane, then removed the Ambassador level privilege from all non-system-root role owners.
M) In the time it took me to realize my error, an additional 27,212 personalities were de-allocated.
Those personalities are unrecoverable and represent not only a huge swath of people, human beings but probably our best customers worldwide of Newuskin’s regen system. I’ve considered wiping my memory after regen so I wouldn’t be haunted by my murder of 163,272 people, but I know I would just end up discovering what I did during subsequent debugging. To save my sanity, I’ll think instead about what I can do to bring back the nearly 10 billion people in backup. I’m also really blaming the idiot who coded the ambassador class incorrectly. He’s the true murderer in this story, after all. Maybe when I bring him back to life I’ll keep his pod locked and suffocate the fucker.
That brings me to the next problem, I ran the LogMain system and checked the pods. I’ve yet to find a working Newuskin pod on the surface and most don’t even have power. Worse, the DNA database seems hugely corrupted, in fact, all traditional non-quantum storage seems to be hopelessly jammed up. Luckily the personality matrices are held in quantum and then near and fastlane, but those other databases are probably hosed for the time being.
The backup system seems to be working, but the DNS store was always meant to be transitory, for minutes at best, not long term storage for decades. The online backups must have backed up corruption years ago, right after the fracture. The pingable “Offline” storage facilities alpha and beta seem unaddressable and Delta and Gamma are truly disconnected and likely are fine if they survived the storms and the other problems down the well.
There is some index DNA that we have in place that we use for the editing of customer DNA, but it’s perfectly generic stuff, those first people instantiated into life are going to be in for a shock.
Time to kick off discussions with the other (non EricG) devs, make sure they get lobbified and get to work doing what we can to find a working pod and get people back to life. (With perfect skin, of course.) There should be 4 or 5 others bopping around on the other sats. They clearly don’t have my privilege level, otherwise, they’d have probably contacted me by now. If only that incompetent jerk Eric had made them ambassadors right?… but then I may have bumped them off too..
