Domination of Equestria - T+182 days.
“How’s it coming?”
“Humm? Oh, Overlord. I wasn’t expecting you today.”
“You should expect me any day. This is after all quite possibly the most important project in all of equine history.”
“Expect-...Any day? Do you have any idea what that will do to my schedule!?”
“If things are to keep going smoothly then I would think that should have no effect on your schedule at all.”
“I-what? Wait, no, that’s not what I- Don’t do anything rash-”
“Calm down. I’ve no complaints with your work so far, Chief Scientist and Engineer in Charge of the After Harmony Project.”
“Long titles don’t impress me.”
“Titles never impressed you. Now, enough of the pleasantries, what’s the latest?”
“Humph. Well. As per your instuctions, Master-”
“Hah.”
“-We’ve built a new operating system for the After Harmony Project from the ground up. We’ve called it Yggdrasil, after an old earth pony myth about a tree which holds up the universe.”
“Appropriate.”
“We thought so too. Unfortunately, the system is already so intricate that we’re having problems with networking. Yggdrasil can’t interface with any external systems because the data stream is too complex.”
“That’s an advantage here. I fail to see the issue.”
“While that may serve the purposes of making it incorruptible from the outside and more self healing from the inside it rather defeats the whole purpose of your grand project, Master.”
“Have the system run virtualizations of common home and business environments and have it run the external interfacing through those.”
“That...could work. Except that it’s going to be running hundreds of thousands of connections at once. Running that many virtual environments is going to be taxing on system resources.”
“Have multiple similar connections run through a single virtual machine to cut down on duplication. Besides, you’re building the most powerful computer in existence, system resources shouldn’t be an issue.”
“‘Just because you can’ is no excuse for lazy programming.”
“Hah, maybe. And that’s why you’re building this and not me.”
“I still wonder why I ever agreed to this in the first place.”
“That makes two of us. Maybe once this is all done we’ll both know.”
“Perhaps.”
Overlord Rule No:50 My main computers will have their own special operating system that will be completely incompatible with standard IBM and Macintosh powerbooks.
Yay a Code Geass reference!
6545386 I was thinking Oh! My Goddess myself, but I'm old school.
Is it me or.... The chief scientist could be Twilight ?
6545427 You are not the only one who thinks that.
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All overlords come equip with the Evil Presence spell.
Any would be Overlord should always keep the main central computer separated from the outside, both in incompatability with other forms of computer tech, but also to separate it from the net. The system should never be able to be accessed by modem or whatever terms are for it can be hacked into.
Never let a hacker have access to your main computers. Also, always hire any and all people who are good with computers, especially if they have hacker skills or backgrounds. Offer them a job, money and a high position; while secretly keeping them under guard. If they refuse....execute them on the spot.
Exactly, that way Otacon can't shut down your entire Patriots AI suite with a virus cooked up on a Macbook
That way they can't just stick a flash drive in and copy everything they can. Or at least it will be a lot harder to.
6545427 i think is just you, he said that twilight turned into a burned crater
Yggdrasil, eh? I'm going to imagine the Overlord's main server to look like a smaller version of this tower:
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At least, that's what the decoy could look like.
That was fun, may I have another? Looking forward to more.
Keep up the good work. Deus tecum.
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Makes you wonder if the Overlord is also The Allfather.
There's a thought. Would Celestia be considered a ponified version of Belldandy?
man its been a while good to see this back glad my list is now 50% complete
Well, that's protection against Jeff Goldblum
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Maybe EqG Twilight, since she is all sciency and what not.
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What better way to ensure no rescue comes for her while you break her will, than to make absolutely everyone believe she's dead?
6545427 My first guess was Moon Dancer, but she has the same design as Twilight so I wouldn't be surprised either way.
If Twilight is the one presented in this chapter then we get the reactions of her friends when they find out.
If Moon Dancer is the one presented in this chapter then it will be mostly Twilight's reaction that we will see when she finds out.
Or it could be someone completely unexpected. The way I see it is a win win situation either way.
~Leonzilla
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that's what I thought, too. Waste not, after all.
AF first I was think this 'might' be twilight but just a likely possibility. Now, with this chapter and the linked blog post, I'm thinking Yes. As for reason, a promise to keep her 5 best friends alive(?),
Edit:
Finished reading whats been posted so far... back to unsure...
this reminds me of a scene in the online comic "general protection fault" where someone hacks the bad guys' systems easily because they were USING "Microsoft passport" for their security!