An Aphotic Zion

The 'Zeus' Condition

Zeus is a highly skilled hacker who used to be in the tech unit of the consensus but later he left due to some reasons. Some say that he found the dark truth about the consensus. Zeus used to play with the security systems earlier too but he has never gone this far before. Truth be told, Grissom Academy is one of the most secure place on the Earth. It was made during the 4th Great War. At that time it was a place where refugees used to stay and learn the arts of war to help in the building of consensus. He is also the inventor of hard-light projections. He wears a funky outfit and frequently visits clubs and takes drinks very often to ease stress.

Liara: “No, as you have heard, this is the school whose students serve directly under the consensus after graduating from this place. And most of them are later sent on to deep space missions. And about Zeus.” Liara sighs as she begins to speak “He is a highly skilled and very dangerous man, all you need to know about him is that you have to stay away from him. Even talking about him is forbidden here”

Shibi: “I see, thank you again for helping us doctor, we must get going now. “

Liara: “It was my pleasure. Your Hesh classes will begin from tomorrow, meet our instructor Prof. Alenko” Looks at Nuong “Dr. Archer was looking for you, Nuong I presume? You should meet him right away. He has something that you might be interested in”

Nuong: Nods “Doctor, may I ask something? “Blushes as she speaks.

Liara: “Sure, what is it?”

Nuong: “You mentioned that you have been working here for past 50 years, how old are you exactly?” >//////////////< She blushes a little as she asks the question.

Liara: “Oh that, I am only 109 years old. I am still too young for being a researcher here at Grissom.”

Nuong: “Ow, well it was nice to meet you doctor.”

Shibi and Nuong start walking to meet Dr. Archer. They were walking through the damaged section of the academy, where they see hard-light projected drones and engineers were working hard to fix the damage caused by the mechs. They soon reach Dr. Archer’s room where they see all sorts of gadgets hanging around, most of them are military grade.

Nuong: “Hey doctor, how have you been? “She says excitedly.

Dr. Archer: “Yes, yes. It’s nice to meet you too. Come over here and try this on. Found a new way to keep up the shields and keep in touch with sentries at the same time. Built the new device, still in beta testing. Need to give a final test to begin large scale production soon.” Speaks at a very high speed.

Dr. Gavin Archer is the head of the research and department of tech section. He has been building Hesh implants and tech implants since 100 years. He is 305 years old. He is one of the most respected and glorified scientists in the whole consensus.

Nuong: Starts laughing “Slow down doctor, I know what it is. “ Puts it on her head. A small visor gets projected in front on her eyes. “Don’t worry, I will take good care of it. “ She taps on the right side of her head which turns off the visor. The screen of the visor is made of eye friendly light so it doesn’t damage the user. Though it’s not a hard-light projection.

Dr. Archer: “Let me know if you have any problems, I will be in the department of research and development. “ Nuong nods.

Meanwhile in the Hades Nexus……..

In the star system hades nexus, a system which is several light years away from our solar system lies a planet ‘Zhu’s hope’ it’s the only inhabited planet in the Hades Nexus, most of the rebels avoid this star system, even the consensus’ fleets don’t dare and enter this star system due to a lot of bad sectors and a rogue faction of AI guarding this place. Zhu’s hope’s colonists have created massive ingress fields and kinetic barriers which keeps them safe from the dangers of the any or all against the rogue AI units known as the Neo-link. They go by the name the ‘Crimson Republic’ they once fought against the consensus a long time ago. They didn’t agree with the ideology of the consensus, they called the leaders of consensus ‘barbarians’ due to all the atrocities they committed to gain absolute control over the Earth.