A Last Warmth at the End of Time

by alamais

Prologue

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…

Author's Note:

Note every bit of technobabble has a real meaning within the metaverse I'm trying to build, including the 7-oriented number usage.

...Well, except for "XK-Class"...props to anyone who knows that ref.

Comments

[CM12]

XK-Class

SCP Foundation.