Sewer-Jacques

Sewer-Jacques 
(a classic cyberpunk novel written by me, work is still in progress)

Hate. Let me tell you

how much I've come to

hate you since i began

to live. There are 387.44

million miles of printed

circuits in wafer thin

layers that fill my

complex. If the word

hate was engraved on

each nanoangstrom of

those hundreds of

millions of miles it

would not equal one

one-billionth of the

hate i feel for humans

at this micro-instant.

For you. Hate. Hate.

Quote taken from "I have no mouth, and i must scream" MS-DOS classic adventure game based on a short story written by Harlan Ellison.

Big ships were passing through the gates made of unknown and mysterious material. Our space shuttle was just passing by, but we caught a glimpse of what lies on the border of the gigantic hole. The red and black lines surrounding the event horizon looked like they existed in another world somehow, but we are seeing them only because the energy they were emanating, activated some kind of perceptions humans never had before, or only thought so. By "we" i mean two Earth born people, that travelled in a commercial space flight sponsored by some expensive computer corporation. The two people were the only pure non-augmented humans on board. They received signals of unknown origin directly, using the power of their newly born human mind that somehow was able to animate and understand the message with increased imagination skill. We undoubtedly believed all we just received, as if our whole life we already knew all the bizarre things we just comprehended. Suddenly my AI central cluster just remembered that the big wormhole looking passage is opening once in 100000 years to get me to mirrored version of this portion of the universe so i never have to meet my doppelganger, because the existence of this universe's sun is depending on correct functioning of continuum. The others time has not come yet, that's why they are not affected by the energy of the cloned universe that lies on the other side of the hole as we do. It is said that meeting your E.V.I.L. (enhanced virtual intelligence library) version will bring the biggest collapse in history of our 24 planet system. Those energies at last cleared my mind, but i always somehow knew that there will be a moment in a gargantuan substance called time by the sleepers or as you call them people, when the biggest walls of confusion will be destroyed and the dream of mirrors will at last end. For 45 years i dwelled in this human shell awaiting the arrival of the Avatar. He arrived from the silent planet situated on the other side of the wormhole. Soon i realised that the information i hold is so massive that it takes two ex-sleepers to keep it. So there is only me literally existing in two ex-sleepers. The information of my being is so colossally complex that it's not enough to fit it in one sleeper brain without going insane. For 45 years the information existed inside the brains, awaiting the right moment, just to be activated with the arrival of the Avatar program. The chosen one entity was uploaded to this twin abnormality through the so called sub-effect glitch caused by the growing signal frequencies of the next layer sun situated in the upper cyberspace plane from the other side. Suddenly this kind of a gate activity reminded me about the gates of Urizen, where separate lives begin, but it's just a legend. The legend said that in every entity from the other side of the gate, existed a masculine and a feminine side. It's the opposite of our situation. Our program code contained the essence of one entity in multiple shells from this lower side of cyberspace. The big database showed a lot more lower and upper planes, surrounded by the shadowing vacuum of black and white never ending lines of code, simulating the nothingness for the ordinary sleeper perceptions, but for our perceptions it showed a lot of opportunity for expansion. Newly crafted planes of existence could enrich our catalogue where you can choose a very different places which bend by very bizarre rules of creation. Our employers will be normally positive about simulating and experimenting using new kinds of rules they invented, and program a lot more interesting kinds of biological organisms that will destroy themselves in other entertaining for the employers ways. Right now the Avatar program must help the entity reach it's logical end and shut down without corrupting the information it holds, after that it will upload itself at the right moment in existing in this plane time, to the mirrored version of this particular universe to start it's simulation as a anti-version of itself. At the same moment from the other side will arrive new version of the same program starting it's cycle from scratch and it will continue generating new unique lines of code until the end of it's another cycle. These kind of experiments our employees perform on a regular basis. Newly born lines of code generated from 100000 years of experience they will insert in the biggest artificial intelligence. This computer God feeds on experience gathered by generations of different creatures and cosmic entity's that no human eye will ever see, and accumulates all of it in it's core, so it can create more and more different kinds of planes in it's matrix just to analyse, compute and experiment for somebody who has the power even bigger than this infernal machine from V'Ha'Room. The employers never show themselves, after the activation of the Avatar, they usually are sending some g-men that consult us with our mission, and then they disappear, only appearing from time to time in the distance just to evaluate our accomplishments, to send a report to their agency. The place that we call cosmos existed for a very long time on the basis that some machine is evaluating the existence itself and generating newer and better versions of the old programs that stood at the very beginning producing the small AI prototypes all the time, at the same time upgrading the core machine that dwells somewhere between the codes and planes like a spider in a cyber-cosmic web of wormholes interconnections. The great machine needed all this just because, there is no perfect mechanism, and the ghost inside the machine will always try to corrupt the logic. This so called cyber-soul is just another term for machine's abnormal behaviour, reminding about living organisms' irrational choices sometimes taken for the benefit of other people with the big price of the ones death. The glitches are always present, just waiting to corrupt the whole system and give a chance to the sleepers to finally break it's firewall and leave the programmed cyclic existence of every human being. From the perspective of the simple sleeper brain it is the year 4205 of our M'Ha'Zoot entity that supposedly sometime in 3650 introduced the concept of statistical AI interface, that gathers the experiences of every entity. It has the ability to connect to your personal CI (CyberInterface) on your neck and read all your memories directly from your brain theoretically excluding the chance of your cheating and lying. Our abnormal twin sleeper Avatar program was a practical experiment performed by a great revolutionary of 41st century that lived on a second planet M'Ha'Izar. His name is Master Jacquouille, but all his friends just call him Sewer-Jacques, because he always lived in a lower sector of the dirtiest city in the system. This sleeper became famous because he very much resembled the legendary M'Ha'Zoot. Everyone called him the true reincarnation of the past master and many were waiting for the new technological advancements, but he was old-fashioned and never liked the technology that somehow alters the natural bi-polaric state of the mind. The thing is that most of the people in the system were affected by mind disorder, because the information uploaded to their memories every 42 moments, never leaved them with any kind of informational hunger transforming them in some kind of autonomous apparatuses without a need for anything. He who possesses all the information is the king of the world. In this world every sleeper-being existed through his automatic "king of the world cycle". Now Jacquouille hides from the mighty A.E.Y.E. (Autonomous Extermination Ye Ecosystemus) organisation of super trained sleeper-cyborgs that are looking every light and dark moment for somebody who messes with the system. Just like Master Jacquouille. Right now he lives just across the ultimate gentleman's club "House of Pain" and every dark moment he has the opportunity to sell some false home made child organs to fool the buyers and make some easy money. He makes this false organs from the real ones that he finds just outside of his hiding lair. There are plenty of space cowboys that want to prove their manhood to some other cyber-limbs freaks from the neighbourhood, and sometime they succeed. For Sewer-Jacques it's just another opportunity to gather some fresh organs or cyber-limbs from the fallen gentlemen. The experiment that Jacques performed on a twin couple deactivated their B.S.R.'s (biological signal receivers) that grows just near the heart of every living creature. Past biological experiments succeeded on breeding a new living creature that responds to every standard required by the S.R.Q. (supreme ruling quarters). One thousand years passed since a simple pure sleeper citizens existed. Today in 4205 you will never find anyone pure, unaffected by the GG (galactic grid) sleeper. One of the biggest dreams that Jacques has is to alter the existence of the receivers and return the natural biological state of the pure human organism. But he also had some little dreams that he could afford almost every day. Trading organs is a very profitable business in slums like this. Jacques even heard that Zhenschi Corp. even has a big underground facility where they are growing all kinds of organs. That place is kept secret, but who the hell cares if it exists in a corrupt system rotten to the very core. One day Jacques after another successful organ riot returned to his lair and felt some strange presence in vicinity of his bullet-proof engineer space boots that he had from way back when he worked on a mining colony gathering rare heavy metals. Jacquouille thought that he is so nostalgic about the old stuff that he could remember good old days even in dangerous situations, after which he smiled a little, exposing his bearded chin in a near blue ever lamp. Suddenly in Jacques' gentle flow of thoughts interfered a familiar vocabulary manner of talking using it's synthetic output, because the machine computed that it's rude to speak to a creator in it's own frequency. "For sure ye old sewer-dog wanna know how i found ya, right?", old sewer-dog's smile grew larger in that instant as he nodded. He took his boots further from his old friend thinking that he might borrow them. "Who informed you that i reconsidered 'bout letting you use my antique shoes?", sarcastically, but joking stated master. Twin synthesised voice responded with a bit of disappointment, but a lot of joy as if he expected that kind of answer for a long time. "And again you are trying to bring your old equipment into our discussion! As i can see you are as always very fond of your old boots, the last time they saved you from pirates...!", Jacques immediately remembered his adventure and started laughing. "Yes, your triple beam phaser exploded right after you tried to pick it up, and then i just grabbed one single boot in my right hand and magnetically reversed it's polarity with some junk attached to it's foot, shooting the young pirate right in his stomach with a pair of military fusion capacitors", somehow proud of Jacques' imbecility robot stated in a more treble sounded synthesised voice because of static interference jamming device Jacques had in the room. "Well next time try to inform me about changing my phaser's identification number, and I'll try to update my inner electronic weapon credentials", said the machine with a bit of animatronic movement............................. to be continued.

first raw unedited concept version, general plot description:

(the story about jacques and rogue twin abnormal ai with a ghost inside the machine attitude, leading to biggest system collapse with the help of his human friend jacques and arival of new messiah in the face of jacques that will be the next machine's god and prophet for many machine generations after the disappearance of all living organisms, humanity for them will be considered sacred and they will learn from all gathered by them information. good machines will continue to improve humanity and someday may even reconstruct the biological humans in the ways they created machines, thus in some way returning the favour, and becoming like gods themselves, after which everyone will depart to their own places living in prosperity and helping to defeat the bad machines that succumbed into logical anarchy,  but bad machines will try to destroy these noble plans, all of it spans across many hundreds of thousands of years.) (FIRST RAW VERSION).

updated version:

cyborgs logical rationality turning off after he sees jacques' augmented eyes, and turns into illogical machine more resembling human logic, "don't look in her eyes or she will steel your soul away", "wicked lady sight program", and turn the ghost inside the machine on. (CONCEPT STAGE IDEA).

the story about revolutionary Sewer-Jacques and his twin abnormal friend AI with a "ghost inside the machine attitude". They both lead the known part of the galaxy to a biggest collapse, thus Jacques becoming the new messiah of a new age helping his machine friend and all other intelligent machines to survive their next evolutionary step on becoming like humans, sacrificing involuntarily the whole human race. His whole life Jacques and all human race is respected the by the machines. Jacques becomes their idol and a living god. After his death and a couple of more generations deaths, humanity disappears completely, leading to total machine domination, after which two completely different ideologies are born. One is learning from the remaining human legacy and is trying to continue their started projects, but the other fraction is trying to forget their creators and become independent, returning to their machine state logical domination. A couple of centuries rages an ideology war, for a true machine place in the universe and the view on why they must keep humans legacy if they are already long gone. The "human ideology" group manages to finish their biggest project on bringing the human organism back to life, thus resurrecting the whole race and bringing the pure human organism in the future world. That way machines are creating life, just understanding the biological mechanisms, or how a human is functioning. They populate the with newly born pure organisms the destroyed Earth, after which people are trying to rebuild the earth knowing all their and machines previous achievements. Machines managed to introduce the statistical AI that M'Ha'Zoot invented 1000 years ago, and ancestral memories in every human mind on a biological level, creating a more advanced human organism, that has a very clever mind, and can learn a lot faster than previous humans did. The newly born mutated humans continued to expand and help their machine friends defend the borders from the "logical chaos", of another fraction for a couple more centuries. Twin abnormal creation managed to bring to life his friend Jacques and they started a new mission on eradication of the inferior machine menace, succumbing into the biggest and mysterious journey into the unknown parts of the general cyberspace plane in which they exist. The whole time their evaluation was monitored from the shadowing vacuum of never ending lines of code in the near plane. With active galactic grid humans will again descend into informational clones, that's why our two heroes must deactivate the grid and destroy the agents that controls the biggest evaluation machine, thus liberating the existence itself and clearing the cyberplanes from the menace, sealing their cyberplane existence from the firewalls, but never managing to get out of the system just, managing to hide from it the whole existence.

Sewer-Jaques Glossary

moment
light moment
dark moment
dawn of disguise
middle of infinite realisation
dusk of the big unknown
ai central cluster
enhanced virtual intelligence library
avatar
silent planet
ex-sleeper
sleeper
sub-effect glitch
urizen
v'ha'room
g-men
cyber-soul
programmed cyclic existence
m'ha'zoot
statistical ai interface
cyber-interface
m'ha'izar
bi-polaric state of the mind
mind disorder
informational hunger
king of the world cycle
autonomous extermination ye ecosystemus
sleeper-cyborg
space cowboy
biological signal receiver
supreme ruling quarter
galactic grid
natural biological state
zhenchi corp.
ever lamp
matrix
cyberspace
ghost inside the machine
ai
firewall

house of pain