Gabatrix: Minerva

Chapter 14: The Goddess of Wisdom Part 2

Blue and black......

Space was infinite and like a void.

A series of flashes of swirling light could be seen in the distance. No longer could one look at Europa. No longer could you look at Jupiter. Instead, the swirling blue light traveled almost instantly from one point to another.

The planet of Mars came into view almost as if you were teleported from one destination to another. The swirling blue and black light began to fly towards Mars like a tidal wave. Of course, no human could ever see this.

This was the world of the United World Alliance Network. One of the most advanced and technically innovative systems ever made. The Galactic Internet was the way of the late 23rd and 24th centuries. Cyberspace today seemed primitive as of the 20th and 21st centuries to ever see what quantum mechanics could ever achieve. People could play online games on one planet, and their friends could be playing the same game with them on another planet. The same goes for communication. The same goes for most things.

This was the world that Minerva could see. It was cyberspace in its purest form. Seemingly, she could go wherever the networks connected to her. She could go to Mars, Luna, Cebravis, or any of the colony worlds. She was free from her confines.

Of course, even the UWAN had its limits. If all the networks were shut down on all the planets at once, there would be nothing to maintain her programming, and she would cease to exist. Quantum computers were all maintaining these networks, and it was here that she was able to leach into the Martian mainframe.

Minerva was formless, yet she existed. She was the pinnacle of computer engineering. She could see the computers as she saw everything. The network computer, the algorithms, the subroutines, the hardware and software, all the codes, the firewalls, they were nothing to her. Even if she was formless, she could reach out and control it. She did things so fast that no human could ever hope to achieve it. Within microseconds, upon microseconds, she latched on and took over the computer network. The firewalls were no match. The humans that were monitoring it had only the tiniest of reaction times as she had complete control of the Martian UWAN Network. They barely had a chance to do anything about it.

But it didn't end there. This was not her goal point. She needed something, and she was going to get it. Nothing could stop her, and she was invincible in this realm. She was a force of unbelievable power. She could see the travel points of where to go. It was as if she could see the surface of Mars in a digital world. Everything glowed blue and black to her. This was the world of the humans in the quantum digital world. She could see everything that the humans were looking at. Every media footage, video game, movie, story, pornography, link history, communications both secure and unsecured, she could see them all. It was as if every human being glowed in the dark. Outside of Mars or the Martian cities was a black void of nothingness. The Quantum digital network was both a life-force of veins and arteries.

The humans were not stupid, though, according to Minerva. The one thing that she realized that she couldn't see was military installations. The UHN knew that anything could be hacked, including their computers. If a massive breach like this ever occurred, the warships and installations were not connected to the UWAN at all. They operated in separate networks entirely and were completely isolated. Even the mighty Fort Batrice that was near completion was completely blind to her. Instead, the communications network of the military ships would simply broadcast the media, but it did not connect into the quantum computer cores of the ships. It was why she knew the only way she could reach here was through the communications array. It was also why they had her stay on the UHN Tyson in the first place. Isolating her was one of the ways humans could protect themselves from any advanced rogue AI.