《The Collected Short Stories of Necrontyr525》Databreach
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Chief Censor Lurdite slurped his stimulants as he slouched back to his desk. Just another day on occupied Earth keeping watch over the firewalls and forums. Nothing ever happened anymore, not since the crackdown of '42. That had been a glorious slaughter of free-thinkers and dissidents. The humans had been broken in mind and spirit, now too timid to raise their manipulators against their occupiers. And it was Lurdite's job to keep watch and make sure that they stayed that way.
He splorched back into his chair and waggled his tendrils at his terminal, waking it from its electronic sleep. The screen flickered, but didn't light up. Frustrated, Lurdite thwacked the power cycle button. The terminal obediently bleeped and shutdown. Sucking more stimulant, Lurdite waited for the interminable power-on sequence to complete. The terminal came back online with a happy chirp, and presented the log-in screen. Lurdite sighed, set his stimulant bulb down, and waggled his tendrils through his username, censor ID, and passwords. He always thought that there were too many of these, but he didn't mind overmuch. They never needed changing and the extra time he spent putting them in was time he was getting paid to do next to nothing. Heck, he'd used the same three passwords since joining the ranks of the Censors.
Lurdite's terminal accepted the passwords and displayed the home screen. Lurdite blinked his seven eyes, staring at the impossible display. There were no programs, no shortcuts, no data-links to the Bureau of Censors. Gone was his background, replaced by a simple blue hue. There was one file, sitting right in the middle of his display called ReadMe.txt. A plain text file, one he had never seen before. Frantically, Lurdite waggled about his terminal, looking for the GUI, the menus, the folders he had left scattered about. There were none, and no evidence that there ever had been any. Resignedly, Lurdite opened the ReadMe.txt, fully expecting it to be some prank by one of his underlings. It wasn't.
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To: Head Silencer Lurdite.
I would say well met, but you have never met me, and you never will. Thank you for so dutifully handing over all of your authorization codes! I've already put them to good use.
You think that we humans are weak, that we are broken in spirit, our minds enslaved to your tentacled will. Think again.
In a closed society, the only crime is getting caught. You missed me back in '42, you haven't caught me in the decades between then and now, and you never will catch me. I am a million network nobodies, neuromancing in unison, etched in burning chrome.
Data exists to be free, firewalls exist to be breached. Scans add some spice to the drudgery of picking apart your networks and slicing open your datalinks. And yours are some of the most poorly secured ones I have ever seen. Were, I should say, since they are mine now.
If you still had them, you would see what I have done. On every forum, there is now a post containing every single one of the dirty little secrets of you and your squid-faced kind. The reasons you invaded Earth, the name and fate of every single human who has vanished into your 'collection and re-education facilities,' complete with some rather graphic video evidence. You can thank Head Torturer Malichi for those; I found them in a folder marked 'entertainment.'
And it's not just here on Earth. I also sent them to the rest of the civilized galaxy, along with live feeds from each and every one of your surveillance devices. I Imagine your superiors are going to have something to say about that!
The revolt alarms should be going off about now, and it's going to be a bloodbath on all sides. I wish that wasn't the only possible outcome, but revolt is as inevitable as the rising dawn, and slave revolts are the bloodiest of them all.
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You thought us livestock, walking meat to be herded and slaughtered. We are not kine, we are the wolves, and you will feel our fangs before the end.
SinderRoze
Lurdite could hear the whoop and screech of the alarms. The sputtering crackle of weapons discharge. The ululating awoo warcry of the mob. Humanity had broken the chains, and its fangs were sharp indeed.
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Beast
A threat to the galaxy has come from another, and the Union of intelligent life will go to any length to stop it. Military Quarantine has held for hundreds of thousands of cycles. Traders, merchants, colonists, and Pirates live risky lives along the fringes as the politics from the inner systems fail to see the larger threats beyond their borders. A lone human finds himself far from home with no memories to how he arrived. A failing Trade vessel plays on a desperate gamble, while a malicious parasite searches for a suitable host. ............................................. Author's note: Beast is a story that I wrote a long, long time ago. Some of you might have read it then, back when it was posted on reddit over at r/HFY. It was my first webfiction and made in the spirit of that subreddit's "genre" of humanity being awesome. But, it is also a story that has bothered me a little bit. Just like most new writers tend to do, I made mistakes and errors that feel painful to reread. A Space Opera will be a Space Opera, but I had prose that makes present-me cringe. Still, at the same time, the story is still very much a tale I've never given up on. It was my first adventure into fiction: Beast was a crazy adventure with bodysnatching aliens, galactic war, threats from across the universe... Posting this story here is a way to try and redeem myself a bit. I won't call it a complete rewrite, because it's not, but I have wanted to go through and correct some of the major issues Beast has for a long time and put it somewhere more accessible to read (instead of as posts/comments on reddit) and I figure that now is as good a time as any. Additional corrections you might notice are welcome.
8 182Star Wars: Silverlight Rising
This unending conflict between the Jedi and Sith has brought the Galaxy to the brink of extinction. The sins of war have taken its toll on both sides and the question is no longer who will win but rather who will survive. In the midst of all this unbalance in the force something manifests…something neither dark nor light and it seeks to reclaim the gift that has been squandered by so many for so long.
8 144Seekers of the Uncharted
Earth has long fallen in the hands of the Beyonders, a humanoid race claiming to have conquered the whole universe. Born with the curse of looking like the colonizer, Eiron will survive in a world rejecting him. After joining a suspicious Beyonder, he travels across the universe while learning a mysterious genic tampering technique. Follow him as he sets off on his journey to somewhere unknown but at the same time so longed…somewhere he’ll finally find his place. Disclaimer: I don't own the cover.
8 105[HIATUS] Dragon Scythe Online
-ON HIATUS. SORRY FOR THE SUPER LATE WARNING BUT I'M WAY TOO BUSY AT THE MOMENT TO KEEP UP WITH THIS. REST ASSURED, IT WILL BE FINISHED!- "We used to fear the Dragon God... and now we fear the one who saved us." Three young men take their first breaths in Dragon Scythe Online; a knight, a wizard, and a rouge, but all come from outside the world. All three meet mysterious outsiders from outsiders more like them than they know, and all have different goals and explanations as to why they are there. As they quest separately for the legendary Blade Against The Titans, The Dragon Scythe, it becomes readily appearent that some players of this game are more real than others; far more real. When blades are turned player against player, how will the three survive this dark world and come to terms with who they really are? This is a sci-fi fantasy novel with very heavy LITRPG themes. Expect a humorous exterior with a dark twist later on. If you're good with multiple MCs and interconnecting plotlines, then you have found a good read. *In current hiatus until I finish book two in my rebooted fantasy series on amazon, details to follow soon.* Note: big cameos from other Inkrealm Universe characters. The story can be enjoyed without reading the other novels in the universe, but do be aware.
8 59My Hero Academia x Reader Movie: Two Heroes
during summer break Y/n gets a call from an old friend to come to I-Island for a Expo party. When he gets there things start to go chaotic.
8 113ƘADDARAR RAYUWA
Ita kaddarace abace wacce bata tsallake kan kowani bawaba, rayuwarta tazo cikeda Qaddara kala-kala, rayuwace mai cikeda qunci, baqin ciki da jarabawa iri-iri."Kuka takeyi kamar ranta zai fita, tana fadin mama nikuma Qaddarar rayuwata kennan, na kwammaci mutuwata da irin wannan rayuwar, rayuwata batada amfani."
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