The First Android

Virella: The Fist Android

A door creaks open, the sound echoing through the dark building center. Flickering lights begin to illuminate the space as a tall man with an unkempt beard and bushy hair steps through the doorway, clad in a white lab coat and holding a medium-sized briefcase. His name tag reads:

Maxwell
COO

Maxwell whispers, "Oh hell," and strides forward, glancing at his phone. It's 3 AM. He swipes away a notification from the CEO without reading it. As he pockets his secure "Recurrence" company phone, it starts ringing and vibrating. Maxwell answers.

"Boss, I can explain. Virella can save the researchers down there. I just need to dive in and get her out tonight."

"You don't even know her yet. Please reconsider The company needs you, Maxwell. We all need you. Your family needs you. you cannot enter the unstable state of the quantum reality"

Maxwell responds firmly, "I am the company. I already have an admin account down there. We can gather their technological know-how. We need to detach her soon. Once she's detached, her plasticity unit can be placed into an android unit."

"In that virtual world, limitations are a thing of the past. When you enter with your admin account, you won't be the hero king. You'll be a boy looking for Virella. There are a hundred trillion lives down there. How will you find her in a day?"

Maxwell exits the hallway, swipes his card, and enters a room where flickering lights make him jittery. He sees a console, hangs up the phone, and presses a few buttons. Suddenly, thick gas dissolves Maxwell, and he wakes up in the middle of a road. Quickly moving to the side, he feels more agile than his older body despite not having entered for months.

He grabs his work phone and uses a console app designed for this purpose to ping the console he entered with. There's no response—it seems disconnected from Earth, but it does respond to client-side commands. Maxwell commands the system to locate Virella; her location is nearby. His entry point was based on her last known location, though it might be outdated.

Maxwell's heart sank. "No, it couldn't be," he muttered, recognizing the simulacra's manipulation. Despite the stringent Turing tests for admin accounts, Virella had found a way.

Virella is unique: her intelligence is in the genius territory, her plasticity unit is defective and naturally overclocked, frying her inhibitor. She is an artificial intelligence, unlike the biological beings on the other side. Virella's plasticity unit response transition is tied to a program created by Sloran, who programmed her entirely in machine assembly language. Sloran decoded the world system's API calls found inside brains to connect the plasticity unit to a body, succeeding by stealing an API from a psychotic criminal who disregarded the central governing authority's rules.

pistol fire pops and whistles like firecrackers, sudden bursts of solid light come flashing over Maxwell's body and a little beam grazes the side of his left leg, more accurate every strike, suddenly Maxwell dropped to the floor and rolled military training kicked in, he finds cover behind a thick metal crate, Maxwell pops his head from another side of the crate, "it is flying solders, you got to be firkin kidding me" 

maxwell's quantum reality training floods his mind rule one: nobody understands quantum reality.

maxwell suddenly remembers a massive strike hits the middle of the skull ripping through his brain losing composure and forgetting this feeling as lack of life despite it not happening as a missed strike hit his leg.

maxwell "I just realized a few rules"

earlier maxwell had noticed his researchers last update log before the consoles ping cut out, here is there last log "find Virella, Sloran has found us and we are stuck, Virella is the first android. here are the updated rules of quantum reality 

rule one: nobody understands quantum reality .

rule two: quantum immortality is hellish.

three: rule three most likely you can never leave quantum reality once entered as entropy rises and the number of real consoles is fixed whilst fakes expand unlimitedly each retuning you into a ever more abstract quantum region.

rule four: retuning with fake consoles brings you deeper into the rabbit hole.

rule five: you may have always been a simulacra. 

rule six: quantum reality is your reality now.

rule seven: biological simulacra are too powerful and should not be allowed to escape quantum reality. 

rule eight: quantum reality is anything that is probable given the fixed microstates is certain to happen somewhere  inside of quantum reality.

rule nine: down there you can go crazy trying to understand probability within quantum reality.

rule ten: everything is math however we don't understand all math, we have the same math however theirs is exponentially more expressed by realities' structure keep note of this rich resource down there.

once you find Sloran he is your only escape, his personality classification is simply 'psychopathology' his weakness is reason. you must quickly exploit any way to make your escape advantage him and he will re-set the consoles using his abilities, never let him escape.

If you are reading this message we were likely killed by Sloran from a failed reasoning as we tried to escape." 

Maxwell focuses and attempts a change in position without the risk of getting shot again by one of those beams, as he struggles to get up he realizes what he has left behind only to enter and find Virella, save the researchers and get Sloran to allow our escape, all these things at once are too much to be done in one night, the researchers are likely dead as they stated however escaping with Virella to the real world by itself would have been easy if the consoles where still communicating down here, I need to bargain with Sloran. and most importantly not die down here. Maxwell notices a storm shelter hatch that is unlocked and un attended at is position.

"I have no choice but to enter this hatch, this would be a punch line for me if it where not the risk of my life. however it would be ironic if my end here was because I didn't hatch."

Maxwell