On a non-physical display, which was connected to a non-physical machine, in a place that does not matter, something like words did something like appearing. If the meaning of this were to be passed on to a corporeal being, it would have read something like…
Warning: Core system temporal position reaching thermodynamic limits. Activating mission computers. Accessing Final Protocols…
There was a pause, for a length of time which was both long and short.
Emergency: Final Protocols corrupt. Source spacio-temporal coordinate loss: 99%. Mission failure imminent. XK-Class last-resort dynamic paradigm heuristics activated. Self-reprogramming… <7^9 ticks till system coherence loss.>
Another pause, though this time it was long by most measures.
New paradigms generated. Optimizing… <7^7 ticks till system coherence loss.>
7^2 optimal paradigms found using 7^23 Monte Carlo pages. <7^6 ticks remaining.>
Now implementing 7^2 paradigms over accessible spatial grid…