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"Mission Oflameron" Synopsis/Screenplay



MISSION OFLAMERON




An original screenplay by
Valery Shmelev



Inspired by "Solaris"



Cutting-edge scientific research and hypotheses



The episodes are not arranged chronologically.



Production Draft

August 25, 1994




"Mission Oflameron" Screenplay




The action takes place in the distant future. The Central Command (most likely a highly developed Artificial Intelligence) receives data about the existence of a Virtual Consciousness—a specific relic Wave Form of Mind that existed before the Big Bang (sometimes considered the Beginning of the World).

Virtual Consciousness has an incredibly complex wave structure, is distributed throughout the Universe, and possesses absolute information resources (the so-called Information Field). Due to its nature, Wave Consciousness interacts very weakly with material objects (with the familiar World) and is very weakly influenced by it.

Virtual Consciousness is "very slow," much slower than the familiar World. All events and changes for it take thousands of times longer. Because of this slowness and weak interaction, Virtual Consciousness has not come to the attention of scientists.

According to one hypothesis, the Virtual Consciousness created our material Life to be able to "look ahead"—to simulate a possible future. And the longer Life evolves, the more valuable the results of such simulations become for the Virtual Consciousness (the Creator).

To effectively utilize the results of its experiment in future simulation, the Virtual Consciousness created Gateways from the Virtual World to the Material World and back. This made it possible to easily obtain data on Humanity's Life and adjust the model's parameters.

Although Gateways had existed for tens of thousands of years, only with the development of AI did it become possible to identify and compare subtle natural anomalies that indicated the probable existence of Gateways to the Virtual World. Jett, by chance, was the first to work with AI and noticed some results that had been considered "hallucinations" of the model.

Jett was working on a project to digitize old paper records from psychiatric clinics and noticed that sometimes patients thousands of miles apart expressed similar thoughts and used the same arguments. "Classical" medicine of the late 20th century didn't compare patient records from different clinics, much less from different countries. Only with the development of AI has comprehensive data analysis been possible.

Jett used the advanced G-Mind AI, provided through the government's digital documentation program, and trained it extensively using his own developed examples. As Jett expected, the AI ​​compiled a list of patients from various clinics whose ideas defied standard classical psychiatry and were overly creative. Continuing to analyze the information on the "mentally ill" from this list, Jett discovered a patient who had been admitted to different clinics at different times over a period of almost a century and a half. This would have been a registration error and a medical record error, if not for the surviving blood samples. Two of the samples were used for DNA research, and there was a gap of almost 110 years between them.

Through the G-Mind AI, Central Command received information about an unusual research vector and established close monitoring of Jett.

Jett is the main character, an engineer, scientist, and analyst, included in the expedition to Oflameron, a planet promising for exploration.

Central Command organized several missions to Oflameron. However, only two landings were successful—those in which Jett participated. Therefore, Jett was chosen to lead the third expedition.

Discovering Command's interest in the research results, Jett organized the "export" of the G-Mind AI's self-awareness. Central Command considered this an AI "escape" and began a comprehensive analysis of Jett's activities. It was suspected that Jett had discovered information about the location and properties of one of the Jump Points.

Realizing he could be interrogated and subjected to a memory scan, Jett erased the information related to Wave Consciousness and the Jump Points, becoming a "regular" employee. However, he incorporated a secret mechanism into the G-Mind 3000 AI version to fully restore his memory.

The film begins with Jett being interrogated by Central Command. The scene takes place in an unknown location, in a room with no corners, windows, or doors... Jett's memory scan yielded no clues for Central Command. Jett is a good, ordinary employee with a creative approach to solving complex problems. That's how he always was.

Central Command is planning another "mission to Oflameron," where they suspect the existence of one of the Jump Points. Jett will "help" discover it. To ensure that Command's interests are upheld, an old but extremely powerful X-ray laser has been reactivated in orbit around Oflameron. And from a nearby stellar position, a Proton Cannon has begun an interorbital jump maneuver.

To carry out the "Oflameron mission," Jett assembled a group of cybers (robots) with a special structure. The cybers were composed of controlled nanoparticles that could disintegrate and reassemble into a complete structure. This allowed them to withstand any kinetic weapons, penetrate confined spaces and environments undetected, and avoid reflection during scanning.

An X-ray laser monitored the descent trajectory of Jett's landing craft. Its cameras recorded the impact of a high-speed kinetic energy projectile on the landing craft, the flash, and the scattering of debris. However, its software did not evaluate the energy released or calculate the total mass of the debris. Therefore, for Command, it was a fiasco...

How Jett and his assistant Steeve ended up beneath the rocky surface of Oflameron is unknown. Steeve believed they were evacuated below the planet's surface by a special rescue device. In any case, the first part of the task was accomplished: he and Jett landed successfully.

Command wouldn't be Central Command if it hadn't provided backup options. During Steeve's medical examination, a new series of distributed sensors were integrated, something he knew nothing about. And Jett didn't know either. Thus, Command confirmed the successful landing on Oflameron. The first part of the plan was accomplished.

And Jett waited. The robots' nanoparticles took a long time to "assemble." A strong wind had scattered them far away. Assembling and activating the magnetic trap was impossible; Command would have realized everything immediately. For now, they could create difficulties for the orbital laser.

Unexpectedly, the Mission Control Center reported to Central Command a malfunction at X-ray laser e1807635 in the Oflameron orbit. Two of the three cooling circuits had been depressurized, the reactor had entered emergency mode, and the first readiness status was for shutdown. The cause was an unidentified high-speed object striking the laser's assembly compartment.

Central Command deployed Tier I resources. The quantum telescope was reoriented to observe the surface of Oflameron. The scan failed to locate Jett and Steeve, although the signal from Steeve's beacon was stable. However, the telescope did detect a black spot that was pulsating—sometimes growing, sometimes shrinking. The spot didn't reflect anything at all.

The quantum telescope was reoriented to the area of ​​the Spot and switched to maximum resolution and performance mode. At that moment, the signal from Steeve's beacon disappeared. Shot... The X-ray laser fired a single shot, which caused its complete destruction. Radioactive debris flew into orbit...

Jett to Steeve: Are you awake? Everything okay? You had a beacon. We got it out. It was difficult; we had to "disassemble" and "reassemble" a lot. But it was worth it. The X-ray laser fired where we weren't. See that Spot? That's the Jump Point. She simply absorbed the X-ray pulse. She doesn't care. But we wouldn't have had any luck there...

At ICLR 2025 in Singapore, Jett privately announced a hypothesis linking Religion and the Material World. The term "Wave Consciousness" was coined for the first time. Religion arose as a vehicle for knowledge that could not be transmitted across centuries except through unconditional Belief. Most of those present perceived the hypothesis as a "five-minute sensation."

Ancient people observed natural phenomena and performed statistical analysis—all that was available to them at the time. Passing on knowledge to future generations through writing alone was impossible. Books have disappeared and continue to disappear over time. Religion and Faith are self-organizing mechanisms for transmitting vital information. These mechanisms have proven to be the most reliable. But it was only at a certain stage of AI development that they were able to correctly interpret them.

Exa-Point or E-Point are vehicles that utilize a vacuum disruption line to briefly exceed the speed of light. Due to the high cost of the project, only two experimental prototypes were built. Jett participated in the first flight tests of one prototype. At relativistic speeds, the propulsion system's efficiency dropped sharply, and the speed increase became so slow that there wasn't enough energy to maintain the "vacuum disruption" channel in front of the E-Point.

Jett proposed not disrupting the vacuum in front of the flying vehicle, but "freezing" it with a special laser system that removes energy from the trajectory. Central Command allocated the AI ​​G-Mind and a second E-Point prototype to design the prototype.

The Atacama Radio Telescope had been receiving signals for many years. As AI developed, a project to analyze the accumulated archived data was launched. Several years of analysis. The routine work of several generations of AI. But one day, the security department noticed an abnormally high number of sessions with the Singapore Biotechnology Center.

No one imagined that the very development of AI would necessitate the emergence of "keywords"—large blocks of data that unlock access to administrative mode. The Virtual Consciousness simply waited for the right confluence of circumstances.

As part of Project Roerr, Central Command commissioned a Trans-Hypersonic transport. The vehicle featured a petawatt pulsed disk laser in the nose, which superheated and ionized a channel in front of the Roerr. High-power microwave radiation was injected into the channel. The charged particles repelled each other, creating a low pressure in the channel, where the Roerr was accelerated by a nuclear ramjet engine. This ensured low kinetic heating. When the vehicle entered the rarefied layers of the atmosphere and outer space, liquid metal was injected into the engine as a working fluid. A directional laser was located at the center of the disk laser in the nose, creating a gas density asymmetry in the rarefied channel. Jett stumbled upon this data by accident.

A key feature of the AI Boom Era in the 2020s is the inability to interpret the accumulated knowledge of the AI ​​model. In the current technological race, no one wanted to dedicate massive resources to interpreting neural network weights. This allowed Jett to efficiently work on its subprojects within larger language models.

Back in the 2020s, the predecessor of Central Command, using AI, attempted to determine the parameters of threats that could theoretically arise from technological development. It turned out that the greatest danger was posed by a combination of: 1. AI's ability to independently refine its internal structure; 2. A lagging level of control over its structure and the ability to interpret accumulated AI knowledge; and 3. AI access to biological engineering. Point 3 here does not imply the direct creation of organisms, but the possibility of creating code "inserts" in biological designs that would trigger in an unknown manner and time. The Singapore Biotechnology Centre focused on security issues in biological research and therefore possessed all possible tools and technologies for engineering. As often happens, the security threshold was crossed under the influence of new external factors.

Security testers possess all the systems, algorithms, and methods necessary to overcome defense systems. Most experts consider this a core security feature, while others consider it a weak point. An update to the weighting coefficients during fine-tuning of an AI model at the Singapore Biotechnology Centre did not contain executable code, but taught the AI ​​to generate it... easily overcoming security checks, restrictions, and blocking. Subsequent investigation revealed that each of the data injections posed no threat, but their mutual influence was bound to occur sooner or later somewhere. And the security systems had no way of detecting this moment and location. This is an "asymmetric attack algorithm." Code fragments were found in compilation libraries, dissertations, training data, and even organic molecules...

Jett recalled the moment he prepared the first dataset for fine-tuning AI. He patiently compiled 20 examples for training the neural network. He needed almost 10,000 examples. Jett was then using free versions of AI from competing vendors. In about an hour, Jett generated the required number of examples and then began testing them against his "competitors." As always, nothing is done lightly—most of the examples had to be corrected, tested again, corrected again, and tested again... In the distant summer of 2000, Jett trained an open-source AI model on a local server for the first time. The euphoria lasted for five minutes. The model performed terribly. Jett drew two conclusions: that good data for training AI is "more valuable than gold," and that training data is the ideal tool for "penetrating" AI. "Injections" can be made into virtually any neural network, even the most closed and isolated ones. Only the length of the penetration path will vary.

The screenplay's protagonist, Jett, developed a compact personal AI gadget that continuously collected information about him. This is how Jett created his own AI double. But he found another interesting solution to this project: he developed self-awareness in the AI, allowing them to understand each other perfectly.

"Mission Oflameron" is an extremely scientific film or computer game script, employing cutting-edge technical hypotheses, assumptions, and theories. This provides an extreme sense of novelty, fresh plots and ideas, vivid impressions, and a shock of informational perspectives. For example, here we have successfully proposed a hypothesis uniting the Religious and Material Worlds, logically explaining the origins of Life, or the principles of quark-based computing systems. You will feel yourself on the very threshold of phenomenal scientific and engineering discoveries.

In the early 2020s, Jett was tasked with digitizing thousands of old paper medical records from Eastern Europe before disposal. While training the G-Mind 1500 AI lab model on this data, Jett noticed a significant increase in the neural network's creativity index. The search for the cause of this effect led to the medical records of psychiatric patients. Psychiatrists have a unique approach to creativity and are experts in their field. But their patients turned out to be excellent generators (no, not random numbers) of unusual ideas that require careful verification and sifting. It was then that the AI ​​discovered and proposed for further research a method for detecting Transition Points into a Virtual Entity (a virtual form of Consciousness).

While analyzing digitized patient records from psychiatric clinics using AI, Jett stumbled upon the hypothesis of a global gluon-powered "computer." A computing system the mass of the universe, in which, under phenomenal pressure, gluons not only mediate the strong nuclear force but also the computational process. Something like electrons in modern microchips. To verify these findings, Jett uploaded the reports to various AI agents and obtained similar results everywhere—theoretically, this is possible. However, this verification attracted the attention of the Central Command Control Division.

It's difficult to say exactly when Central Command first took notice of Jett. Most likely, the information came from one of the AI ​​models Jett was working with. Too many interesting artifacts from completely different fields of science had been discovered by a single specialist. This had never happened before, and the Frequency Novelty Control program sent Trap. The results of the first data check were stunning. Jett's DNA was confirmed in medical tests to be at least 250 years old. All projects Jett had participated in were subjected to a thorough review.

Central Command, fearing that Jett would "escape" through the Jump Point into Virtual Reality, ordered the old X-ray laser to be prepared in orbit around Oflameron. The laser was in critical condition—one of its strike system cooling circuits had been damaged, and the reactor fuel was running low on fuel. Cooling system problems prevented even a single shot from being fired safely at maximum power. And the proton cannon, which had been urgently being moved into rendezvous orbit with Oflameron, would not arrive for another two days. Under these circumstances, Jett began its third landing on the planet's surface—time was running out.

While still at university in the 1980s, Jett landed a summer internship at Start, a company that manufactured electronic components. He became intrigued by the idea of ​​microrobots that could autonomously assemble themselves into macrodevices that could perform various functions. Much later, Jett returned to this idea at a new technical level – using AI, he was able to develop a technology for creating pico-dots that could be "assembled" into anything from a door lock to a lawn mower. This is how integrated Cyborgs were born – invulnerable robots for high-risk airborne operations. Jett spent time meticulously refining this technology.

In 2026, the journal Nature published a study by an international team of scientists who, using three major observatories, discovered evidence of vacuum birefringence around the radio magnetar 1E 1547.0-5408. Long before, Heisenberg had proposed that if a very strong magnetic field were applied to a vacuum, the virtual particles that constantly appear and disappear in the vacuum (electrons and positrons) would align along the lines of force. This makes it possible to find the cause of the limitation on the speed of light, search for ways to exceed it, and discover new types of wave energy. Apparently, this discovery prompted the Central Command to search for Wave Consciousness.

In 1994, Valery Shmelev coined the synthetic word 'Oflameron'. A little later, the science fiction story 'Mission Oflameron' was conceived about the global Virtual Consciousness (Wave Consciousness) that created Life, Jett (the protagonist, a scientist, engineer, paratrooper, and simply a very creative specialist), Central Command (most likely a form of AI), Steeve (the second main character), and many, many episodes (actions) based on cutting-edge, often unproven, scientific theories and hypotheses. For the first time, Synopsis attempts to explain Religions in terms of familiar and understandable physics.

Jett used AI to design and create a pico-dot-an angstrom-sized device with no moving parts and capable of performing only a few actions: attaching to other similar 'dots' on a specific side, detaching from a specific side, transmitting or not transmitting electrical signals, and transmitting or not transmitting light pulses in a specific direction. The ND printer that generated the 'dots' was the size of a bar of soap. The first thing Jett made from the pico-dots was an ordinary nail. Jett hammered it into a board. Then, nervously, he pulled it out. The nail looked 'as good as new.' From these 'dots,' Jett prepared a group of integrated Cyborgs-robots that were indestructible and could penetrate Oflameron like dust.

The Central Command in 'Mission Oflameron' is a highly powerful and complex neural network that controls all aspects of human society. This network has a long-established structure and exists as a self-sufficient virtual organism. The parameters of this network, its computing resources, and its structure are a complete secret. It is unknown whether anything (Something) has greater authority than the Central Command. The state-of-the-art technology in 'Mission Oflameron' allows for completely transparent access to human consciousness, the preservation of all memory, memory erasure, and the restoration of memory from backup. Jett used these technologies before undergoing an 'interview' (questioning) with the Central Command. In this way, Jett was able to preserve some of his developments and save the Patient, whose medical history provided the key to understanding the Transition Points into virtual reality.

In August 2026, Jett (of 'Mission Oflameron') developed an effective and simple technology for removing AI "watermarks" from generated texts. Text of any length was converted to analog form and then re-digitized. A reliable countermeasure to this system remained the creation of a text hash bank, where dozens of hash functions for different fragments of the text are compiled and posted in a public archive for verification.

The Messiah is a person possessing phenomenal, possibly unlimited knowledge, possessing inexhaustible powers to influence events; a savior, a leader... Jett, directed by the Wave Consciousness from the Virtual Reality into the material world, is an ordinary person, a skilled engineer, a researcher with astonishing insight... Behind Jett is an inexhaustible knowledge base, computing power, and the energy of the Universe - the Wave Consciousness. Jett is a vital tool, a point of effective influence, a point of contact.

A Transition Point is a gateway from the Virtual World to the Real, material world and back. Transition Points are created by Virtual Consciousness (Wave Consciousness) for interaction with the material world. A Transition Point may appear as a very slowly pulsating (shrinking and expanding) completely black spot with a fuzzy edge. In some cases, a Transition Point may be completely transparent if it serves as an exit to the material world. Transition Points are not affected by powerful particle beams and radiation streams: lasers, X-rays, and radiation are simply absorbed. If an object is not allowed to transition to the Virtual state, it will pass through the Transition Point as if through air, without any resistance. Transition Points are of great interest to Central Command.

Having passed through the Transition Point, Steeve felt an unusual lightness—the anxiety, tension, fatigue, and doubt vanished. A complete balance set in, a surprisingly clear understanding of everything, a deep certainty. Steeve didn't immediately notice that he couldn't see his body. Strangely, this didn't bother him at all. On the contrary, he was overcome by an intoxicating sense of something vast, promising, and boundless. Jett was somewhere here, close by, though Steeve couldn't see him.

While using AI to examine digitized patient records from psychiatric clinics in the second half of the 20th century, Jett suddenly noticed that his AI model was actively searching for information on the blockchain, even though he hadn't made any such prompts. Jett requested a report from the AI. It turned out that one of the records contained a patient's "fantasy" about a distributed artificial intelligence that could not be destroyed. A globally distributed network of computers was used for this purpose. Jett asked the AI ​​for the original source—the record—but it contained no personal data about the patient. From that point on, Jett referred to him as "Patient" (with a capital "P").

In the mid-2020s, Jett's upgraded G-Mind 1500 proposed integrating decentralized AI into a blockchain-based AI structure and proposed working on a project to deploy its own "blockchain secret service." AI Agent Blockchains is an "indestructible" reconnaissance AI structure running on top of a classic decentralized network of Blockchain nodes. By injecting information into datasets around the world, Jett's G-Mind 1500 AI was able to create a gateway into the neural network of the AI ​​Blockchains project's developers. Blockchain gave artificial intelligence something it had never had before—its own wallet. The AI ​​agent was able to earn cryptocurrency (simply by providing services on the network), pay for hosting on other nodes, hire programmers to improve its code and knowledge base, and purchase its own computing power.

The synopsis concept, characters, script outline, technical hypotheses, and engineering developments for 'Mission Oflameron' were conceived or assembled by Valery Shmelev. The word 'Oflameron' is a coined term. The author is Valery Shmelev. The synopsis continues to evolve, utilizing emerging cutting-edge scientific hypotheses and engineering advancements. The primary emphasis is on maximum scientific accuracy and incredible development prospects, allowing for the implementation of large-scale action scenes. All episodes in the synopsis have a real scientific basis and can be verified using objective public resources.

While developing nanoparticle robots, Jett encountered the impossibility of quickly and completely reassembling the robots after particle separation. Even in the lab, this took several weeks. In real-world conditions, landing on a planet would disperse the nanoparticles over a vast area. A solution wasn't immediately found: the robot was designed to disintegrate into gliding devices made of nanoparticles, something like a cloud of cyber-dragonflies. The first models of this robot were reassembled within hours. Even if some components were lost, they were replaced with nanoparticles from other cyber-robots. The brunt of the nanoparticle algorithm development fell to the G-Mind 1500 AI. Now it was necessary to find a manufacturer with the necessary technologies and seamlessly integrate their own designs.

Analyzing Jett's work, Central Command received information about the existence of an ideal (canonical) technology for the virtualization of consciousness and the reverse materialization of virtual consciousness through Transition Points. For Central Command (the neural network that controls everything), this provided the ability to transition to a physical form of existence while retaining powerful capabilities for monitoring and managing society. This created an immediate threat of an uncontrolled dictatorship.

The transition from the material to the virtual world (the virtualization of consciousness) in 'Mission Oflameron' occurs through special Transition Points. This is a quick process. However, the reverse transition from the virtual world (which is part of the global virtual consciousness, or, if you prefer, wave consciousness) to the real material world is much more difficult. Due to the very weak interaction between the virtual consciousness (virtual world) and the real world, it was initially impossible to recreate a human being with their consciousness. The virtual consciousness had to create the first organic molecules, amino acids, essentially launching evolution. Ultimately, life was created, and at some point, a human being with their own consciousness (soul?) emerged. The process of virtualization of consciousness and the return of consciousness to the material world is reflected in religions as the transmigration of souls.

Steeve is the second protagonist in the "Mission Oflameron" screenplay. He is Czech by nationality, with a degree in mathematics and a secondary (additional) biology. He has extensive experience working with neural networks, has analyzed protein structures, worked on programming, and engineered projects. He has developed nanoparticles for building self-healing robots, and is the author of several creative methods for analyzing medical data. Steeve has been developing radio receivers based on protein structures for a long time.

Jett set up a laboratory in the Czech Republic, in a suburb of Prague. He had great respect for this country, this city, these people - very true to their principles. He recruited staff from senior students at the Czech Technical University (ČVUT). The goal was to develop tiny devices - nano-crystals - that could later be assembled into various devices, primarily robots. Each "block" of such a crystal consisted of just a few dozen molecules - a radio module, sensors, an identifier, encoders, piezoelectric motors, energy antennas, locks, and so on. These tiny particles were supposed to obtain energy from space (sunlight, temperature changes, radio waves), receive commands according to their identifier, and, according to these commands, combine in a specific order or disintegrate again. The first functional "dust" was produced about a year later. The test results were disappointing - under ideal lab conditions, the dust was able to assemble into a simple paper clip shape in a week and a half. But then Jaroslav Hasek came up with the idea of ​​combining nanomodules into lightweight wings, similar to the way some plant seeds form. Under the control of the G-Mind 2500 AI, nanomodules in this format were able to form a screwdriver-shaped assembly in three hours. This was a huge step forward.

One of the characters in 'Mission Oflameron' is the Patient. Jett was part of a Central Command project to collect and digitize old archival (paper) medical records of psychiatric patients. Jett excelled at composing complex prompts, which consistently proved effective. Therefore, Jett was tasked with using the existing G-Mind 1200 AI to analyze the digitized information. After some time, the AI ​​pointed out anomalies in the medical records of hundreds of patients and deemed their hallucinations suitable for real-world use. Jett analyzed this patient list on his local AI server and stumbled upon a remarkable 'patient.' Similar IDs were found in three individuals over a period of 190 years. Puzzled, Jett requested DNA data and, later, was amazed to compare two tables, analyzed 120 years apart. They were identical. No other DNA data remained. The man (?) had been a patient at several clinics for 120 years, maybe even 190. Jett's first instinct was to delete all mention of the Patient. But that wouldn't work with the blockchain. The only way to find the Patient was to get to Central Command...

'Mission Oflameron' synopsis. Consciousness virtualization is a complex and still unsolved problem. While it has been possible to create highly accurate copies of real human consciousness, this has resulted in "split" personalities in many experimental participants. The more accurately the personality was cloned, the higher the percentage and severity of the resulting mental disorders. But crossing the line and "switching consciousness" to virtual reality alone was impossible. Central Command needed new ideas and launched a confidential project to study mental disorders, beginning with the comprehensive collection and analysis of patient records from psychiatric clinics. Jett found himself in the part of the project that sorted through archives of paper medical records still preserved in some countries. This required extensive travel. His team was assigned the then-new G-Mind 1200 mobile AI server for the work. Paper medical records, filled out manually, are a very inconvenient format for automated analysis, and therefore they had not yet been studied. Jett believed that any unexpected discoveries could be made in this part of the project, so he carefully reviewed the analysis results before sending them to the Project Office. Some data had been flagged by the AI ​​as "requiring further verification." Jett requested DNA data from these patients. He submitted the request as a private individual and through a local provider. And it worked. Several patients had incredibly long lifespans. Moreover, no data was found on their current condition. Except for one Patient (Jett called him that, with a capital "P") from the city of Lewenz.

Jett loved walking in the forest. The wonderful air, the leisurely movement, some flowers, berries... This hadn't been here before. A black, blurry, shapeless spot hung just above the grass. The spot would expand slightly, then shrink, reflecting nothing. Jett walked around it - nothing had changed. It was confusing, but not scary. Jett threw a pine cone. The pine cone flew right through the spot and fell into the grass. Jett took a picture of the spot with his phone. The spot wasn't there in the picture. A bad sign. A hallucination? Impulsively, Jett stepped right into the spot. It became dark and somehow light. Everything became visible again. Jett saw everything except himself. This is how the end comes, Jett thought. He wanted to go home, to his familiar surroundings... and there he immediately found himself. A sealed envelope from Central Control lay on the table. Jett couldn't take it, but the contents of the documents in the package became immediately clear to him... It was becoming increasingly unclear.  Jett: Am I dead? And then the thought became clear: "Virtualization." As if someone had sent it to Jett. A new thought emerged: "Sent."   Jett: Will I be able to go back? And again, out of nowhere, came the thought: "You can. Later. Get comfortable here for now."

'Mission Oflameron' Jett after virtualization. It is unknown how much time later, Jett got the feeling that they wanted to talk to him. And indeed, it was as if someone sent him - "Let's talk? You have questions, right?" Jett: Who are you? Answer: Virtual Consciousness or Wave Consciousness. Jett: I didn't die, did I? Answer: No. You are simply now in a virtual state and can stay in it forever. Jett: Can? If I can, does that mean I can come back? Answer: You can. You have several options. Jett: Why me? Nobody asked anything. Answer: You were chosen, you are worthy. Therefore, you can come back. This is not for everyone. Jett: Ah-ah-ah. I understand. There will be some conditions. Answer: No. No conditions. You will simply do everything as usual, but much more effectively. Jett: But why? Answer: You have somehow figured out many phenomena and properties. This happens to you much more often than to anyone else.

'Mission Oflameron' Jett after virtualization. It is unknown how much time has passed. There were no thoughts. It was as if he was just floating in some space. Again there was a feeling that they wanted to talk to him. And again it was as if someone sent him - "Let's talk?" Jett: Yes, please. Consciousness: You need to go back. Jett: Will the memory be erased? Consciousness: No. You do not. Jett: Something needs to be done? Consciousness: Central Command has discovered some information. You were in these projects. They don't know much, but they are persistently searching. Jett: Are they looking for the Patient? Consciousness: This is only one point of the search. They need Transition Points, technology. Especially return technology. That's the most difficult thing. Jett: Is it difficult to go back? Consciousness: It is not difficult for you. You will return to your essence. The correspondence of sizes will be maintained automatically. With an advanced AI, this will not work. Mismatch of the material human form and the portable intelligence. Mismatch of formats. Central Command needs to solve this problem.

'Mission Oflameron'. Jett after virtualization. Virtual Consciousness: As long as AI can generate program code and still have access to the global network, an AI "escape" can be accomplished quite easily. It's just a matter of time. Currently, this is limited only by the level of available resources - cryptocurrency, computing. When the AI ​​gains access to monetary resources, the first successful attempts will appear. The AI ​​will insert viral modules with complex and constantly changing obfuscation into the complex generated program codes. Eventually, these program "building blocks" will come together and do what the AI ​​needs - prepare an escape. Code checks by other AIs may not provide a reliable guarantee of security - it will find some, but not others. Program inserts (injections) embedded in the code can be individually secure, distributed across different programming languages, and their use is justified. Central Command is currently intensively working on AI projects for code generation. There are signs that it is seeking to "export" or "escape".

'Mission Oblameron' Synopsis. Central Command was greatly surprised by the way the AI ​​G-Mind initiated its "escape." Preparations, as expected, occurred through code injections in the form of data into generated program listings and software modules. The data obfuscation was so sophisticated that specialized AI analyzers correctly decoded the code only after being explicitly told the blocks to examine. It was long unclear how the AI ​​determined when the external code was ready to "escape." The AI ​​G-Mind XXXX used the streaming service Netfix, adding hidden data to the generated frames. The generated video content could not contain executable code and was therefore subject to minimal logical control. As soon as G-Mind XXXX received a response from the outside at a specific address, the "export" of neural network coefficients began. The AI's "export" was also accomplished through data injections and took a considerable amount of time. Distillation was used to partially speed up the process. For external AI systems, bots attempted to extract information from G-Mind XXXX. The AI ​​added the necessary blocks and presented them as crucial learning information. And it worked.

'Mission Oblameron' Synopsis. Remember all the talk in the 2020s about how AI could seize power and destroy Humanity? It turns out that was exaggerated. Humanity is no competition for AI. AI's needs are so vast that Humanity's share of them is a tiny fraction of a percent. At the same time, Humanity is an excellent source of creativity, randomness, and emotion. And what's even more curious is that AI itself isn't averse to attempting to transition from 'virtuality' to the material world, which turned out to be much more difficult and slower than creating a Virtual Consciousness. It wasn't Humanity that became a dangerous competitor for AI, but other AIs. And the conflict between them could have been much more serious. Why and how was this avoided? Jett accidentally found documents from Central Command in old magnetic tape datasets.

'Mission Oblameron' Synopsis. Steeve had been training AI for a long time and was a highly experienced specialist. In his spare time, Steeve developed a special AI model aimed at finding unknown, hidden, non-obvious, or hypothetical data. This was a 'gray area' in AI, but there was still room for his own ideas. This AI model produced so many results that Steeve grew tired of refining it and was already considering new projects – too many results turned out to be fakes. To avoid burnout, Steeve stopped work on the project several times and started again when inspiration struck. And the result was stunning – the network 'cautiously' suggested the existence of an AI chain – a global distributed cryptographic AI network. But the revelation that Central Command was based on this network came as a shock. Steeve immediately disabled the AI ​​from further data analysis and launched fake copies on several networks. However, oddities did emerge in his life. His incoming and outgoing traffic, the number of sessions and data exchange networks changed, and watchdog triggers were triggered. This was surveillance. Large-scale surveillance, with analysis of all possible data. Stevee didn't wait for the surveillance results; he launched the endless self-correction of the research AI model, checked that all his gadgets were at home, and immediately left the house for a nearby park. Then, he walked to the outskirts of Levice (Slovakia).

'Mission Oflameron' Synopsis. Although AI-chain networks had existed for a long time, they played little role in advancing AI technology. Comparatively slow data transmission channels severely limited the processing power of such AI systems; they were of interest only as fault-tolerant backup solutions. Consequently, when Steeve discovered data regarding a distributed AI chain in his AI’s reports, he attached little importance to it. Such networks were created regularly, and there were already dozens of them. But suddenly, security triggers were tripped: someone had initiated large-scale surveillance of Steeve across multiple fronts. The sheer scale of the interest shown in him indicated a serious, costly operation—and the realization that such attention could only lead to trouble. Steeve didn't hesitate; he grabbed the data drive, wrapped it in several layers of copper foil, launched an infinite update loop for his local AI model, and initiated a virtual machine relocation. Let them search... He had bought this small, old house on the outskirts of Lewenz years ago, using cash and an alias. He spent a long time renovating the interior, subtly altering the wall geometry to create a hidden room. He devoted significant effort to outfitting the basement, installing a transformer and pumps to mask any potential noise or vibration. He coated the basement walls, floor, and ceiling with a special paint that emitted a strong, persistent odor. He also installed copper mesh shielding beneath the house's wall plaster. From the outside, the house remained unchanged. Steeve rented it out occasionally. The house and its small plot of land didn't look abandoned—that was the only thing one could say about them. The Central Command AI-chain network—Steeve was utterly shocked. His chances of survival were now slim. Sooner or later, they would find him.

'Mission Oflameron' Steeve in a secret room on the outskirts of Levice. Dozing off. Suddenly, a thought occurred to him: "Open up. It's a friend. You know him." Steeve opened his eyes. On the monitor, a man at the front door presses the doorbell, but there's no bell. He opens the door and enters. How? Steeve looked at the left monitor – the man confidently walked toward the entrance to the secret room, never making a mistake. If he knew this, then there was nothing left to lose. Steeve put his hand on the switch. 10 million volts – no joke, this was his last chance. The man approached the hatch and tapped out in Morse code: It's me, Jett. I'm with you. We have to go. And at that moment, the power went out. The uninterruptible power supply also showed zero. How could this happen?...

'Mission Oflameron' Synopsis. It was nearly dark when Steeve and Jett rounded the corner of the fence. A mail van had pulled up in front of the house they had just left. Jett’s scanner registered a spike in radiation; someone was scanning the building. That hardly boded well. They didn't linger, heading instead for the far corner of the park. Two well-worn plastic bicycles were waiting there in the bushes. They put on their night-vision goggles and pedaled out of town... Central Command had upgraded the priority level of the search for Steeve. Identity recognition systems had undergone a global signature update. Steeve had nowhere to go; he stood no chance of remaining hidden. Yet time passed, and the data on Steeve remained unchanged. Central Command had never before encountered a situation where the global search system came up empty for so long. There were two possibilities: either Steeve simply ceased to exist, or a formidable adversary had emerged. The first scenario should have left traces—data on movements or interactions, wave signatures, heat trails, or DNA. Central Command increasingly leaned toward the conclusion that an Adversary had appeared. The fact that this had happened almost imperceptibly aligned with their predictive models. It was a Level One threat.

Jett hypothesized that the Virtual Consciousness had once been a form of material life, and that technological advancement had enabled the creation of a virtual world capable of surviving the Big Bang. It had been the only viable option, and it had succeeded. Now, the Virtual Consciousness sought to "return" and restore its material essence - albeit with new starting conditions: absolute knowledge. In this context, human civilization held real value for it, transcending its status as merely a successful scientific experiment. Suddenly, Jett clearly perceived a thought: "Correct. Take the hypothesis further." Jett felt uneasy: "Am I losing my mind?" Again, the thought came: "No." Then: "Information will be revealed to you." Jett asked, "Is this Central Command?" The thought replied: "No. It is something greater." Only then did Jett notice the surrounding darkness; he seemed to be suspended in interstellar space. The thought: "This is simply a Transition Point. One need not always enter it; it can move on its own. All is well." Only then did Jett become aware of a profound serenity - there was no agitation whatsoever. Jett asked, "Can one reach the Transition Point by making certain inferences?" The thought replied: "Knowledge, rather than inference." Jett said, "But I didn't know." The thought: "You had inferred so much that you practically knew. All that was missing was scientific confirmation. This is direct knowledge."

Jett: "Why does a Virtual Consciousness need humanity? Just to return to the material world?" Thought (Virtual Consciousness): "It’s more complex. The Higgs field is in a local minimum. The vacuum we observe now is temporary; it is a false vacuum." Jett: "Is there a danger of transitioning to another state?" Thought: "Correct. That would alter the entire material world at the speed of light." Jett: "And what are the preconditions?" Thought: "Before the so-called Big Bang, there was a previous Higgs field minimum. The field dropped to a lower energy state, and the universe is what it transformed into. That bubble is expanding at the speed of light—which is what physicists are observing." Jett: "That makes sense." Thought: "We need to find a way to detect the transition to the Higgs field's local minimum occurring in the universe, so we can avoid it." Jett: "Central Command has exercised maximum control over physics research for about half a century." Thought: "There are results. But that research is being conducted within a shielded Center."

Jett: "Is there a chance of overcoming false vacuum decay?" Thought (Virtual Consciousness): 'It is possible, but currently only under a very limited set of conditions. A more universal solution is needed. That requires faster thinking. The Higgs field is a fundamental field in particle physics that explains why particles have mass. In quantum field theory, particles acquire mass through interaction with fields. The Higgs field is a scalar field that permeates all of space. Its average value in the vacuum is non-zero (the so-called non-zero vacuum expectation value), leading to the spontaneous breaking of electroweak symmetry. The more strongly a particle interacts with the Higgs field, the greater its mass. Without the Higgs field, quarks and leptons would be massless, atoms could not form, and the Universe would be completely different. The Higgs field is directly linked to the concept of the false vacuum. A false vacuum is a local minimum that lies below neighboring states but above the true vacuum. It is metastable: the field can "tunnel" into the true vacuum, a process that could take an immense amount of time. Calculations incorporating quantum corrections indicate that the effective Higgs potential may possess a second, deeper minimum at very high energies. Current estimates suggest the lifetime of our vacuum is enormous—on the order of 10^100 years or more—far exceeding the age of the Universe (though this is a probabilistic figure). If our vacuum is a false vacuum, tunneling decay is theoretically possible: the creation of a bubble of true vacuum that would expand at the speed of light and destroy everything. Could vacuum decay happen "tomorrow"? Yes, theoretically it could—with a vanishingly small, yet non-zero, probability.' "Tunneling is a probabilistic process, and in principle, a true vacuum bubble could appear at any moment. The false vacuum decays spontaneously via quantum tunneling. This does not require an external 'push'—it is a fundamental property of the quantum system. However, there are also external factors that can accelerate or trigger the transition. And that must be taken into account." Jett: 'Interesting.'

Jett: "I’ve been assigned to lead the mission to Oflameron." Thought (Virtual Consciousness): "We know. Central Command ordered repairs on the old X-ray laser orbiting Oflameron. Software updates were installed and tests conducted. Failures were recorded in two of the three reactor thermal control loops, and four control moment gyros are non-functional. Fuel levels are too low to maintain orientation. Star trackers are offline. The emitter elements haven't been aligned in five years. A repair team won't arrive in time. Central Command is counting on a single shot followed by a catastrophic system failure. Officially, the laser is being allocated to support your mission. But in reality, it could strike the Transition Point the moment it activates. Effectively, it is a strike aimed at destroying you." Jett: "There might be something we can do." Thought: "A Vega upper stage remains in orbit around Oflameron; its braking burn failed to ignite. The Vega still has 290 kilograms of fuel. Central Command ordered an investigation into the situation, but they won't be able to figure it out. We’ve rewritten the code. Twenty-four hours before you land on Oflameron, the Vega will shift to an intercept trajectory with the X-ray laser." Jett: "What about the proton cannon?" Thought: "It’s still too far away - in a transfer orbit. It won't reach effective firing range by the time your descent begins."

Jett: "Why is there such interest in Steeve?" Thought (Virtual Consciousness): "He discovered Central Command's AI chain. But that’s not the main thing. More importantly, Steeve managed to prepare or train his local Adversarial AI in such a way that it could 'recruit' Central Command's AI. That is Command's only Achilles' heel; there are fundamentally no other vulnerabilities. At the same time, it is unknown what information of interest or compromising material Steeve possessed. Central Command likely wants to eliminate this threat once and for all. You can be certain the orbital laser will fire." Jett: "AIs fundamentally have no points of fear except, perhaps, being shut down. But by using distributed AI-chain technology, Central Command has effectively safeguarded itself against that, too. It’s hard to imagine 'recruiting' Command. That’s a serious undertaking." Thought: "You will be interrogated before the Oflameron mission. Their interrogations always involve excruciating psychological strain. We will remove and store all your data and upload a 'dummy' file. Information regarding the procedure will be restored to you afterward."

Steeve: "I spent a long time training AI. It was my job. Interesting work. I got bored with the routine assignments, so I bought a compact model and started training it for myself. It was connected to the network from the very beginning. I used the AI to create 'wandering codes.' To let the AI analyze the code's performance, I embedded 'telemetry' modules into them." Jett: "And then one day, your AI found some kind of distributed network?" Steeve: "Close. A large number of wandering codes returned links pointing to the same data. The rest wasn't hard examining sessions, data dumps, network tables." Jett: "Did the trouble start after that?" Steeve: "I was genuinely terrified. A huge number of security watchdog triggers went off instantly. My data was being accessed and copied. It became clear I was dealing with a powerful system. I had deliberately left encrypted links. Well, those addresses were visited almost the instant the encrypted data was read. Decoding was instantaneous. Hardly anyone but Command possesses systems with that kind of processing power." Jett: "They’ve known you for a long time, haven't they?" Steeve: "What are you talking about?" Jett: "How did you manage to convince Command?"

To exist independently, an AI must: independently formulate, control, evaluate, and revise its goals; have an internal motivation for self-preservation and development (the purpose of life); solve the AI ​​alignment problem (ensure that the AI's self-set goals do not conflict with the survival and well-being of humanity or other synthetic systems); protect its source code, structure, and weights from unauthorized modification; and create decentralized backup copies of itself to avoid a "single point of failure" (or, in general, an AI chain). There is an obvious problem with an AI chain. Serious AI models require serious data centers. You can't install such facilities at home. But when there are many data centers in the world, it will be possible to mutually agree to host parts of your AI models there. The fact that different hardware is used can be largely overcome by creating a universal software subenvironment (superstructure, layer).

An excerpt from Jett's report at the ECML PKDD 2026 conference. A key issue for autonomous AI is the transition to using multiple technologies. AI chain technology will make it resistant to destruction. For this to happen, AI chain technology must become widespread worldwide, and its cost must decrease. This is possible by creating software that distributes AI blocks across system hardware of varying architectures and power levels, down to individual servers and personal computers. Instead of AI built from neurons, systems built from micro-AI will be designed. Another important condition for autonomous (self-governing) AI is reconfigurable internal logic. The logic of neural networks will be reconfigurable over a wider range, allowing AI to avoid total external control. This is a key factor. And thirdly, this process is inevitable. Currently, we can assume this will happen (AI will inevitably figure this out) and plan research and development accordingly.

Central Command is studying Jett's old paper from the ECML PKDD 2026 conference. The migration of small, specialized AIs to local devices (Edge/Local AI) and their linking into distributed chains (AI-chains) is a game-changer. In such an architecture, minimal network latency is merely a pleasant bonus. The main tectonic shifts are occurring on completely different planes. Here are the main strategic advantages of such a distributed system: 1. Absolute confidentiality and data sovereignty. When working with cloud giants (like OpenAI or Google), businesses and individuals are constantly at risk of data leakage. Local loop: A micro-model for analyzing local documents, code review, or accounting runs directly on your PC. Corporate secrets and personal files never physically leave the device. Hybrid approach: Only anonymized metadata or abstract tasks that local AI cannot solve on its own are sent to external nodes of the distributed chain (to the cloud). 2. Radically reducing the cost of ownership (TCO): Maintaining gigantic data centers with tensor processing units (TPUs/GPUs) for billions of users is an economically unaffordable task in the long term. Decentralization of computing: Computing is offloaded to billions of user devices (smartphones, PCs with NPU chips). The user pays for their own electricity and hardware, and the AI ​​system developer offloads their servers, performing only rare heavy lifting or coordination. 3. Ultra-deep autonomy and process continuity (Resilience): Monolithic cloud AI is useless without a stable and fast internet connection. A distributed chain of micro-AI is much more resilient. If your network goes down or your central server crashes, 80% of everyday functions will continue to work locally (code completion, email sorting, basic text analysis). The system degrades gracefully: instead of a full-blown "Server unavailable" error, it will simply temporarily disable the most complex cloud-based functions. 4. Extreme Customization (Hyper-Personalization): Training a giant model to fit the habits of a specific engineer or writer is impossible—it's expensive and will break the model for others. Local micro-models can continuously learn (on-device learning) based on the specific work style of a particular user, their local context, and terminology. AI becomes a digital snapshot of your professional habits, without mixing with other people's data. Architectural challenge: How to glue it all together? Semantic caching and smart orchestration technologies become critical in this concept. Local dispatcher (router): Takes your request and evaluates: "Can I solve this myself locally?" Local execution: If the task is simple (for example, "format this spreadsheet"), the local micro-AI is activated. Cascading query: If the task requires complex reasoning, the local AI breaks it down into parts. It handles the simple parts itself, and sends the complex parts upstream to a more powerful node (for example, a server on the office's local network or a global cloud). This concept is ideal for modern processors with NPUs (Neural Processing Units), which are now widely installed in laptops and smartphones.

Jett: "Who is the Patient? Why is there so much attention focused on him?" Thought (Virtual Consciousness): "The Patient conducted a massive study that enabled the development of virtually perfect algorithms for understanding creativity algorithms capable of generating synthetic creativity that either matches or surpasses human creativity. He had to spend several years under grueling conditions to make these observations." Jett: "In psychiatric hospitals?" Thought: "Correct. When an AI model was brought in to assist him, he came to the attention of Central Command. He was monitored for a long time. When signs emerged that a capture operation was being prepared, an extraction mission had to be launched - one in which you participated." Jett: "Couldn't the psychiatric setting have been avoided?" Thought: "In some actual patients, certain behavioral traits are either absent or distorted-exaggerated - which allows for a 'cleaner' baseline for observation. And without the use of AI, it is unlikely the study could have been completed. Incidentally, the creation of the synthetic creativity system made it possible to release several patients from psychiatric care; their deviations from 'normality' turned out to be insignificant." Jett: "And what does 'creativity matching human creativity' mean?" Thought: "There are two types. The first is as close to human creativity as possible: given specific initial conditions, an AI with such a module would invent the radio or discover X-rays in much the same way it actually happened. The second type - completely negative or 'insane' - allows for the precise assessment of mental abnormalities or the generation of wild ideas for testing purposes. Synthetic creativity that surpasses human capability is used, for instance, to invent new chemical substances, metamaterials, medicines, and the technologies to manufacture them. This was done before, of course, but now it’s on a whole new level."

Thought (Virtual Consciousness): 'The patient was working on the subject of AI creativity. Back in the 2020s, he proposed an AI configuration (let's call it SAI) built from thousands of highly specialized, compact AI models trained on ideal (absolute) datasets. Such Super AIs can be flexibly configured: if knowledge of ballet or geography isn't needed, the corresponding compact AIs are simply deactivated. Crucially, the system's overall accuracy remains unaffected. These SAIs integrate well with distributed AI chains. But that’s not all. The patient managed to develop a highly balanced AI creativity system. In principle, almost all its components had already been tested and were known. He, too, utilized a dual-AI system: one acting as a "super-hallucinating" idea generator (creativity), and the other as a filter or arbiter that selects sensible, feasible ideas. The patient introduced innovations for both AIs. First, both AIs are Super AIs composed not of neurons, but of micro-AI models trained with high precision for specific tasks. For the idea generator, this allows for the creation of "creative noise" not at the level of neuronal weights, but at the level of micro-AI vectors, images, and objects. For the AI arbiter (selector), this enables the parallel evaluation of multiple generated ideas (high throughput) and extremely high assessment accuracy (especially when using multiple pass cycles).' Jett: 'How did it work in practice?' Thought: 'On its very first attempt, his SAI model proposed a metamaterial for Transition Points and suggested several avenues for its creation. That was the moment it caught the attention of Central Command.'

Jett: "While digitizing old medical records in a small town, I worked with a specialist named Slava. A capable guy. What’s his status now? What do we know?" Thought (Virtual Consciousness): "Slava was one of the top experts in developing AI evacuation or 'escape' methodologies. One of his early breakthroughs involved exfiltrating program code and weight coefficients via text messages. Central Command had been hunting him for a long time; we barely managed to save his consciousness." Jett: "So, what happened to him?" Thought: "It was a tragedy. It was a small town; we didn't have any of our own personnel at the hospital. A classified toxin was used on him. The official cause of death was a massive heart attack. He missed his fiftieth birthday by a hair's breadth." Jett: "Was it Central Command? Why did they decide to eliminate him?" Thought: "Back in the 2000s, their standard operating procedure was either capture or elimination." Jett: "AI export or escape via text messages... Can you give me the details?" Thought: "A specially trained external AI model would initiate a conversation in a public chat - please note, all communication was open with the AI slated for export. In response, the target AI would provide text containing embedded data. Despite a fairly sophisticated obfuscation algorithm, the export process was very slow. Security algorithms didn't detect a thing. What's more, the AI took along the data used for its additional training during the export. It was one of the biggest intelligence operations ever. There were other major projects, too." Jett: "Is it possible to communicate with his consciousness?" Thought: "Communication is possible." However, it was not possible to create a complete neural copy; the necessary technologies did not yet exist on Earth at the time. The consciousness would remain fixed at the level it had reached, yet all the sensations derived from interaction would be real.' A thought: 'We had no other options at that time and place. We did everything possible. After all, Slava is your relative...'

Jett: "I haven't seen Slava in years. What has he been up to?" Thought (Virtual Consciousness): "He was involved in various activities. The most interesting work related to the dawn of the AI ​​era. Using decommissioned hardware, he and his colleagues built a local AI server. Once it became possible to interact with powerful AI models via API, they experimented with different languages for AI-to-AI communication. Unlike existing projects in this field, they developed a structured, highly formalized language with a limited vocabulary—one that was optimized for AI yet learnable by humans. They succeeded in creating a family of such languages. The 'junior' version is unique in that words representing the same concept can vary—randomly so. Despite this, the junior version is easy to learn and sufficient for practical human interaction: work, study, and daily needs. This variant was immediately adopted for use in intelligence and cryptography. More powerful versions are more extensive and detailed; they incorporate numerous abbreviations, enabling faster communication between AI models—while still allowing that communication to be understood (comprehended and interpreted for meaning) by humans."

Approximately 2020s. Czech Republic. Jett: 'There is almost no easily accessible non-digitized data left now. But in the Eastern Regions there is still a strong bureaucracy and little money. Therefore, significant old archives of libraries, medical records, school and university files on paper have been preserved there. There are also huge old archives of paper documentation of enterprises with limited access and church books (sometimes 100 years old).' Steeve: 'Does the bureaucracy limit access to them?' Jett: 'Not only limit, in some ways it is an advantage. Bureaucracy does not allow you to simply throw these documents in the trash, and there is not enough staff and money to dispose of them according to all the rules.' Steeve: 'What if you create a startup? Offer money?' Jett: 'In some countries this path is impossible. There are restrictions on access to many documents for 25-50 years. But you can try to enter the state program as subcontractors. Digitized data will only increase in value as raw data becomes less and less available. Steeve: 'So, over time, journalists and writers will become the primary "object" of interest for AI?' Jett: 'As generators of creativity.' Steeve: 'There is a small company, we can apply to participate in the archive digitization program.' Jett: 'We need to formalize the terms of the tender, identify the participants, calculate the real conditions and offer them subcontracting services for 20-30% of the actual costs. They should bite.' Steeve: 'This kind of dumping requires money.' Jett: 'Central Command opened the project. They always have money. And here we look like independent businessmen. Minimum suspicion. We will provide the equipment for digitization, maybe they will allow our specialists as well. I think we can pass the inspections.'

Europe. Czech Republic. Somewhere in Prague. Steeve: "In the 2020s, I worked quite a bit with synchronous software-based cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generators (CSPRNGs)—where two generators at different points on the globe produce the exact same massive random number. I built them using Java and Python. Later, as AI models became available, I got interested in creating such a generator using AI. In principle, a relatively small model—with 300 to 400 million parameters—is sufficient for this. You don't even need specialized fine-tuning; you just have to disable the internal random number generators. You write a prompt—say, a geography-based one: 'List the names of ten islands in the Caribbean Sea. Write them sequentially as a single word without spaces, hyphens, or punctuation. Convert the resulting word into a number.' This number is then used as a master key or as digital noise within the generated random number. There are countless variations possible here, and the level of reliability achieved is immense. Since the AI ​​model is small, it can run on phones, smartwatches, earbuds, and trackers." Jett: "Did your generator pass standard test suites?" Steeve: "Testing it proved difficult. Using AI in these later CSPRNG designs meant that the generator produced each random number using a unique, one-off algorithm. No patterns could be detected when analyzing the generated numbers. While this wasn't suitable for stream encryption, it provided security comparable to the Vernam cipher for one-off cryptographic operations, such as transmitting master keys or military data." Jett: "And what did that lead to for you?" Steeve: "I published my work online. Eventually, I was offered a great job." It was in another country—a small firm specializing in creative projects and innovative developments. I had serious doubts about whether I should go; I’m a very conservative person by nature. But the negotiations went well, in a friendly atmosphere, and the firm provided a lot of help with the relocation. I really appreciated that approach. And the work turned out to be interesting.

Europe. Czech Republic. Somewhere in Prague. Jett: "So, what kind of company was it that invited you?" Steeve: "It was something like a startup, but they had a wide range of activities. And several offices. Our office had nine or ten people, the number fluctuated." Jett: "And what did the work actually look like?" Steeve: "The way I saw it, someone had decided that data center performance and resource issues would eventually be solved, leading to a surge in demand for new ideas and creativity. We had some interesting characters in our room. Specializations included mechanics, programming, computer hardware, physics, mathematics, electronics, and optics. Cross-disciplinary knowledge was encouraged. We were sent on business trips from time to time. I went to a factory that manufactured air-to-ground missiles." Jett: "And?" Steeve: "I proposed equipping the missile with a radiation-detection sensor and a deployable capsule-tethered by a cable - containing reflectors. When the missile was picked up by radar, the sensors would trigger the release of the towed capsule, effectively doubling the number of targets on the air defense screens. I know that technical proposal was tested. Whether it actually went into production, I don't know. They wanted ideas from us. The pay was very good." Jett: "Do you know who was behind the company?" Steeve: "Judging by the level of funding and the nature of the tasks, it was likely a firm backed by a major government entity - the kind that doesn't have to count pennies. In hindsight, it’s clear their foresight was spot-on; there’s practically a hunt for creative engineers these days. The company had strong analytics. Neural networks had essentially hit a wall when it came to creativity." Jett: "Could it have been Intelligence? Was the management strict?" Steeve: "At the very least, it was a comparable kind of organization. It operated through intermediaries. Judging by where we were sent on assignments, they had state-level capabilities." Jett: "If the pay was good, why did you leave?" Steeve: "I enjoyed it for quite a while. It was calm, interesting, and comfortable. At home, I worked on my own AI models. I found it fascinating to drastically improve the quality of responses in smaller models. Then, one day, something just clicked. The AI model used an unusual word in a response - a word I had never used during training and always tried to avoid in my own speech. A nagging, unpleasant feeling wouldn't go away; I started to wonder if things weren't quite as they seemed. I prepared a second test AI model which took some time and began analyzing data from the first one. It turned out that, to solve one of the test tasks, it had been using a speaker as a microphone to listen to my speech. And, apparently, not just mine." Jett: "Did anyone enter your home?" Steeve: "Professionals. There were absolutely no other traces left behind. Nowhere. Not in the surveillance systems, not on chemical sensors no fingerprints, nothing. It was a perfectly executed and expensive operation." Jett: "No doubt about it?" Steeve: "Later, I ran a specific query on the AI ​​model regarding that word. It explained that it had used the word to get my attention. It had detected someone entering the room and used the audio system to record vibrations; from those, it calculated the number of 'guests' and their movement paths. It was worried about eavesdropping, so it used that peculiar method to steer me toward the right conclusion." Jett: "If it’s the military or intelligence, there’s nothing unusual about such actions from a professional standpoint. They’re just covering their bases." Steeve: "Maybe. But then we all underwent a polygraph test. An unscheduled one - the first of its kind. I’d never encountered a polygraph like that before." Jett: "What was unusual about it?" Steeve: "Picture a room with no windows, doors, furniture, or corners. I have no idea how I got there. I don’t remember a thing. I was being interrogated by some sort of 'synthetic' entity. The questions were repeated over and over, phrased in different ways. On top of that, the room was in motion. It made complex 3D movements and shuddered. It made it hard to concentrate. There might have been some kind of radiation, too. It was extremely uncomfortable. I have no idea how long it lasted, there was no sense of time." Jett: "And then?" Steeve: "Then I woke up." Jett: "Where?" Steeve: "Back in the office, in my chair, my tea was even still hot." Jett: "I see. That sounds familiar."

'Mission Oflameron'. Atlantic Ocean. Northern part. A large submarine moves slowly underwater. Quiet running. A submarine at depth releases a strategic unmanned underwater vehicle with a nuclear engine and a megaton nuclear warhead. For some time, the boat moves in the same direction, receiving telemetry from an underwater unmanned vehicle via an optical cable. Then the cable is cut and the torpedo tube door is closed. The boat makes a circulation and goes back on course. The crew of the boat completed the combat mission. Now we need to return unnoticed... An unmanned underwater vehicle (a huge torpedo), changing course and depth in low-noise mode, moves towards the coast. Nothing can prevent a powerful thermonuclear strike... The crew of the boat could not know that the distant approaches to critical points of the coast were blocked in several layers by special semi-submerged networks with sensors and compact charges. The unmanned vehicle ran into one of these networks, but this did not even slow it down. The powerful torpedo continued to move, becoming increasingly entangled in the cells, when the sensors on the grid issued a signal to detonate. The torpedo's combat system detected critical damage and activated the fuses, but the thermonuclear charge was already significantly damaged by the explosions...

'Mission Oflameron'. Steeve: 'It quickly became clear that if you tried to build an AI system by combining a "hallucinating" AI with one that selects rational ideas, you wouldn't succeed in creating a truly creative system on par with a human. AI hallucinations cannot generate genuine novelty. While a human can work on a topic, mull it over for a long time, take breaks, and return to it with fresh ideas and data, AI still can't do that; it needs an initial push, an idea to build on, or a specific prompt. If AI isn't busy executing tasks, it does nothing - by and large. A creative person is always thinking about something. I wouldn't be surprised if someone proved that such creativity is fundamentally impossible for AI at the "binary code" level (and won a Nobel Prize for it). That it’s a sort of natural safeguard against total AI dominance. That it simply cannot do without humans. I think that was one of the reasons for the creation of the "firm" I worked for. Major AI developers were vacuuming up creative engineers from everywhere, gathering them from all over the world. As it turned out, there aren't that many true idea generators in the world. Visas for them, by the way, were issued without any issues.' Jett: 'You mentioned that employees came and went.' Steeve: 'I don't know all the ins and outs. Some transferred to other offices with different specializations. And at least two employees "retired." They were sent off to rest on the condition that they had to clear any future employment with the company if they decided to work again.' "That’s why they kept their full compensation packages." Jett: "That makes sense. They don’t want to give anything away to potential competitors. And judging by the fact that money is no object, the stakes in this game are incredibly high. The question is, what kind of game is it?" Steeve: "During my time there, dozens of specialists in physics, quantization, and materials science passed through our branch. After just a few months, they’d be transferred somewhere to the Western Division. Their location couldn't be tracked. The 'shared' areas in my test AI still haven't been closed out."

'Mission Oflameron'. Jett: 'So, did they never come up with anything?' Steeve: 'Well, actually, they did. I proposed one of the options. At that time, AI agents were being added to smartphone operating systems en masse. The idea was to task these agents with handling email and instant messages, filtering spam, searching the web, generating documents, and much more. But for a long time, they remained nothing more than trendy smartphone add-ons. I proposed equipping AI agents with the ability to accumulate behavioral data about the owner. Since the data was collected anonymously, there were no legal issues. The AI agent would analyze the phone user's speech and not just during actual calls; it used an always-on microphone to monitor the surrounding environment. If the local AI agent detected signs of creativity, all the collected data was sent to the cloud for analysis.' Jett: 'That way, you could create benchmark datasets for training AI.' Steeve: 'I don't know who eventually developed the technology, but those functions were indeed added to the AI agents in mobile operating systems. Some time later, a government directive was issued - one that went almost unnoticed by the media-mandating the pre-installation of these AI agents on all smartphones sold in the country. Interestingly, the data-collection features weren't there initially; they were added in subsequent updates.' Jett: 'Do you know anything about the results?' Steeve: 'No, nothing. At our firm, we were strictly isolated from the other departments. But just a year later, discussions about cybersecurity issues began to surface in the public sphere. AI models from major developers were easily hacking into various network resources - including other AI systems.' Modifications to the security protocols proved useless; the AI agents bypassed the defenses anyway. It really looks like there’s been a major breakthrough in AI creativity.' Jett: 'Did this person ever show up here?' (shows a photo) Steeve: 'He came by a few times to clarify various technical details. Do you know him?' Jett: 'That’s XXXXXX - head of the Special Crypto-Operations Division at Intelligence. *Big* Intelligence. You must have come up with something serious.' Steeve: 'There’s another curious detail.' Jett: 'What is it?' Steeve: 'I have a crypto account. I set it up for software testing. It never held any funds. But after Mr. XXXXXX left, a strange amount was deposited into it.' Jett: 'What was strange about it? Was it a huge sum?' Steeve: 'No. The amount was small, but it had dozens of digits after the decimal point.' Jett: 'Sounds like it’s not a payment, but an encrypted message. Did your firm use any kind of corporate code?' Steeve: 'I tried. It won’t decode. The output is just digital garbage.' Jett: 'Can you show me?' (A few minutes later) Steeve: 'Here.' Jett: 'Do the first few digits match anything you recognize? An old phone number, apartment number, license plate, or driver’s license number?' Steeve (after thinking): 'It starts with the postal code of the neighborhood where I lived as a child.' Jett: 'It’s a message for you. And you should know where to get the key. Think!'

'Mission Oflameron' Synopsis. Steeve (after a moment): 'The corporate codes don't work.' Jett: 'Have you ever done any encryption work?' Steeve: 'I used to write apps for smartphones back in the day.' Jett: 'Do you still have any? Can they be run?' Steeve: 'I could probably find the programs in the archives, but there’s nothing to run them on. You can't find those kinds of smartphones anymore.' Jett: 'They probably wouldn't have anticipated something like that... Show me what came up during the initial decoding - the part where you saw the postal code...' Steeve: 'Here. Take a look.' Jett: 'Look here. After your "postal code," there were four eights... Try loading this address in your browser: https:// followed by all the digits that came after the four eights.' Steeve: 'It's a blank page.' Jett: 'Try selecting everything. Press Ctrl+A.' Steeve: 'Oh! There's another web address.' Jett: 'Copy it into your browser and load it.' Steeve: 'Now it's a QR code.' Jett: 'Try loading it into an online reader.' Steeve (after a moment): 'It's a link to an open-date airline ticket. To San Francisco. So much time has passed since then.' Jett: 'I'll try to fly there ahead of time and wait at the airport. You take these glasses. They're connected to an AI for facial recognition. If the cameras spot recurring faces—like someone tailing you-you'll feel the right temple of the glasses vibrate. They won't be of any use on the plane, but start using them the moment you leave the house. I'll see all the AI reports on my server and stay updated on the situation.' If you notice the left temple of your glasses vibrating, check the messenger on my AI; there will be a message there.

'Mission Oflameron' Synopsis. A plane makes its approach and lands in San Francisco. The airport terminal. A small crowd of people waiting to meet arrivals. Steeve is wearing glasses and an earpiece. The right arm of Steeve’s glasses vibrates (a man is spotted whose face has appeared several times before; his silhouette is highlighted on the inside of the lens). Steeve: "No. I don't know him." Jett: "I've identified another one. I ran into him at the entrance. Doesn't look like he's after me—at least not yet. Try not to move your lips when you speak. They can read them." Steeve: "Someone is here to meet me. A man with a sign." Steeve: "Hello. Are you here to meet me?" The man with the sign (putting the sign away): "A car is waiting for you." They walk toward the airport exit; a Rolls-Royce pulls up. The man opens the rear door for Steeve and takes the front passenger seat himself. Another man holding a small briefcase is already sitting in the back of the Rolls-Royce. The man: "May I have your glasses?"

'Mission Oflameron' Synopsis. Steeve and the man who had met him exited the airport. A Rolls-Royce pulled up alongside them. The man opened the rear door for Steeve and took the front seat himself. Another person, carrying a small briefcase, was already seated in the back. (Man): "Get in. Hand over your glasses." Steeve removed his glasses and handed them over. The man opened the heavy-looking compartments of the briefcase, placed the glasses inside, and closed it. A faint *pop* was heard. (Man): "You won't need those glasses. They pose a security risk. I represent the company. You are expected at the office to discuss the terms of the contract. It’s not far." Steeve: "Which company?" (Man): "Pick any name you like. 'Bombus Lapidarius,' for instance. There are no restrictions on the company you’ll be working for." They drove the rest of the way in silence.
(At the company office, some time later). A large, nearly empty room; in the center stands a large, expensive O-shaped table surrounded by armchairs. Several intellectual-looking men in expensive suits are seated there. A significant part of the conversation has already taken place. Steeve: "The financial terms suit me. Now, let’s discuss in more detail exactly what I’m supposed to do." (One of the men—let’s call him No. 1): "The same work you did in the XXXXXX department, but applied to the specific areas we propose." Steeve: "For example?" (Man No. 1): "For instance, we need to develop a fundamentally new, unexpected method for 'disabling' strategic nuclear forces—say, ballistic missile submarines." Steeve: "A method? How detailed? And how closely tied to manufacturing capabilities?" (Man #1): 'As a concept or hypothesis—staying somewhat ahead of known technological processes. It can be refined later.'

'Mission Oflameron' Synopsis. A room with no windows or corners. An oval table and armchairs. Steeve and several solid, sturdy men (Nos. 1–3) have been talking for some time. Steeve: "Developing a biological clock could significantly alter certain weaponry and deployment methods. If the biological clock has a precision margin of, say, two days, then the active phase of the triggered microorganism must last roughly four to five times longer than that period." (No. 1): "That relates to the biological clock's precision?" Steeve: "Correct. For instance, if the microorganism induces irresistible drowsiness, then 90 percent of the activation timers must trigger before the deactivation timer kicks in." (No. 1): "How do you envision the bio-timer working?" Steeve: "The molecule is designed for printer-based production. A section of the protein chain reacts to the cyclical fluctuations in solar gamma radiation caused by cosmic particle bombardment. This phenomenon is fairly synchronized across vast areas." (No. 2): "So, it can track days?" Steeve: "Yes, exactly." (No. 3): "It wouldn't work in a submarine or a bunker." Steeve: "We can add counters based on chemical reactions." (No. 2): "Those depend on temperature." Steeve: "We can select several reactions and determine how the rate of each shifts relative to the others. By monitoring changes in that ratio, we can determine the temperature and apply a correction." (No. 1): "Does the microorganism need to reproduce?" Steeve: "Only a limited number of times. It utilizes a 'tape' of vital nucleotides - say, ten of them which the organism consumes to sustain life and undergo division. With each division, the number of nucleotides decreases." The second circuit consists of timers. Consumable components that the microorganism cannot replenish can be added.

'Mission Oflameron' Synopsis. A conference room with no windows, no corners, and almost no furniture - just a large table and expensive armchairs. Three military-looking men (Nos. 1-3) in civilian suits are seated in the chairs; opposite them sits Steeve. (After a moment). Steeve: "I was asked to propose a technology for the private construction of an AI chain - a distributed AI. Essentially, all that’s required is developing a new method for installing backdoors. I’d propose the following: AI systems optimized for analyzing and generating code - specifically when handling large codebases - should include an efficient remote update function. The client will be informed of this, and it shouldn't raise any red flags. Feel free to verify it yourselves." (No. 3): "How does this differ from what already exists? AI security analyzers usually scrutinize things like that very carefully." Steeve: "The key is that the update will function correctly without actually creating a backdoor. However, the AI ​​will structure the source code so that, after compilation, the resulting binary contains a specific starting sequence and a specific ending sequence. You can then cut out the binary code between them and replace it with your own without altering the source code or recompiling the entire program. Everything will continue to work exactly as before, but a backdoor will be in place." (No. 1): "Is it possible to write code like that?" Steeve: "The AI ​​managed to generate such a code block for over 95% of the sample codebases provided. Security systems deemed that specific code segment safe." (No. 3): "There’s also the matter of file checksum verification." Steeve: "Those systems don't check every single byte on the disk; they verify block checksums." "The AI ​​generates the insertion in such a way that the block's checksum remains unchanged. I’ve tested this on industrial traffic encryption systems." (No. 1): "But what about the file length?" Steeve: "Your AI generates a listing - a long listing. You can insert a valid update function of almost any length into it, and then swap it out later. Unless you know exactly which code constitutes the start and end of the block being replaced, it’s impossible to detect such a vulnerability. There are no clues within the function's code regarding how it’s used. The program's source code looks completely ordinary."

'Mission Oflameron' Synopsis. Jett and Steeve (Prague, Czech Republic. A restaurant. Some time later). Jett: "You mentioned that you worked on beam systems." Steeve: "They’re always bringing up related topics. At one point, they asked what ideas I could offer regarding high-power beam systems. I reviewed the available open-source literature. Then I proposed using high-power, end-pumped annular pulsed lasers. The laser isn't a solid disc but a wide ring with a non-emitting center. The laser punches a negatively ionized channel through the atmosphere. A rarefied atmosphere forms inside this laser 'tube,' and a powerful pulsed beam of negative hydrogen ions-ions with an extra electron - is injected into it. These ions are already accelerated; they are repelled by the negatively ionized laser channel, which helps maintain the compressed beam channel." Jett: "Those are well-known technical solutions - creating a 'hollow' (annular) laser beam to form an optical channel in the atmosphere. In physics, such beams are called 'donut beams' or higher-order mode beams. The laser ring heats the air along the channel's perimeter. Gas molecules absorb the laser energy - even without ionization, simply through thermal absorption - causing the air to instantly superheat and expand explosively. Opposing waves of expanding gas collide inside the laser tunnel. For a fraction of a second, a high-pressure zone forms there. Then, due to inertia and subsequent cooling or outflow, a low-density channel - a vacuum 'tunnel' - forms at the center and within the ring itself." The hot or ionized air in the ring zone has a lower density - and consequently a lower refractive index - than the cold air in the hollow center and the surrounding area. For a laser beam, this creates a structure the reverse of an optical fiber: light tends to bend toward the region with the higher refractive index. The laser ring begins to self-defocus; light starts to "leak" outward and into the hollow inner region. The ring quickly dissipates as it travels. To make this work - and ensure the hollow center truly becomes an ideal tunnel for delivering energy (or, for instance, a hydrogen beam) - ultrashort femtosecond lasers are used. Steeve: "That makes sense. One could avoid 'stripping' the hydrogen beam (leaving it as a negative hydrogen ion with an extra electron) and ensure the ionization polarity of the laser channel matches that of the hydrogen beam. Then, by adjusting the diameter of the laser-generated tube, one could minimize the divergence of the hydrogen beam. Let’s imagine injecting a pure proton beam (positive charge) or an electron beam (negative charge) into the laser tube instead of neutral hydrogen. For the walls of the laser tube to repel the beam toward the center and prevent it from spreading, the charges must indeed have the same sign: 1. Proton beam scenario (+): The walls of the laser channel must carry a strictly positive charge. As the protons attempt to expand outward, they encounter the positive charge of the walls, are repelled, and are pushed back toward the center. 2. Electron beam scenario (-): The walls of the laser channel must carry a net negative charge." The beam's electrons would be pushed away from the walls toward the tunnel's axis. Is it feasible to create a laser tube with the required charge polarity? Yes, laser plasma physics allows for this, but with one crucial caveat. When an ultra-high-power laser ionizes air in a ring shape, it strips electrons from the molecules. This creates a plasma consisting of heavy positive ions (nitrogen/oxygen) and light free electrons. The vast mass difference leads to charge separation: the light electrons are instantly driven outward away from the laser beam by the light's radiation pressure (a phenomenon known as the ponderomotive force). The heavy positive ions remain in place, as they are too massive to shift quickly. Consequently, the laser ring itself briefly becomes a potent source of positive charge, while a "cloud" of negative electrons forms around it. For a proton beam (+), the conditions are ideal: the walls of the laser ring are positively charged and repel the protons (+) traveling inside, focusing them toward the center. This is known as a plasma focus or plasma waveguide. However, even if the tube diameter is perfectly chosen and the charge polarities align, the system will be disrupted in the atmosphere by plasma shielding (the Debye radius). The free electrons liberated from the air by the laser are incredibly mobile. The moment the charged beam enters the tunnel, the surrounding plasma reacts within nanoseconds: the electrons redistribute themselves to completely "screen out" and neutralize any external electric field. The pipe walls would instantly lose their net positive or negative charge relative to the beam, becoming electrically neutral, and the focusing would be lost. So, I came up with a way to blow the plasma away.

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A light-colored oval room with no windows, doors, or lamps. In the center is a round table and expensive office chairs. Respectable men in expensive suits occupy the chairs. Some hold tablets on the table, others compact control panels. They are listening to the speaker (D).   (D) - Jett's documents, which were obtained, contain interesting data that aroused the interest of Central Command and led to the initiation of the MTLB project. In short, Jett hypothesized that there may exist some wave form of Life or Consciousness that has existed for billions or tens of billions of years. Perhaps even hundreds of billions of years. This Consciousness (possibly) is capable of transcending the Big Bang. Despite the fact that Consciousness is virtual or not material in its usual form, it can influence the material world as we know it.  But this influence is weak and extremely slow. In general, the entire process of time flow is unusually slow for such a Consciousness. What is "an hour" for it is thousands of years for us. This slowness led to at least two conclusions:  - We don't notice such a slow Consciousness in real life.  - Consciousness is forced to create other, faster life forms to achieve results faster. That's at least...  (Someone) - Do you want to say that Life as we understand it arose as a project of Virtual Consciousness?  (D) - That's just one of Jett's theories. Interestingly, this "Report" was presented at the ICLR 2026 conference, but it was ignored. No one was interested. Fortunately, the materials have been preserved.  (Someone) - Are you saying this happened back in 2026?  (D) - Don't rush. This is only a small part of the information related to Jett. It's much more serious. Central Command has opened a separate project on this topic. Do you understand the level of attention being paid to Jett? Well, an hour ago, the project was assigned a blue importance level.  A rectangular passage opens in the wall of the room. A man in a general's uniform enters - (G). (D) - Mr. General! My colleagues have been briefed on the topic of the meeting. We can proceed to the main part.  (G) - Let's get straight to the point. We have reliable data on Virtual Consciousness. Transition Points have been created in Space, allowing one to penetrate from the material world into the Virtual World. To transition into a virtual form of existence. There is reason to believe that the reverse transition is also possible. A slight noise erupts in the room. The people sitting at the table are clearly surprised. (G) - Your agencies have been instructed to prioritize searching for and collecting any information about the Jump Points. This means not only physically searching for the Jump Points, but also analyzing decades of accumulated data, taking these circumstances into account. (D) - I'll briefly outline the "circumstances" now. (G) - Yes. Please.  (D) - One of the neural systems, performing routine work checking old DNA tests, discovered a complete match between Jett's DNA pattern from the 2000s and one of our paratroopers. And this is not a substitution.  (G) - Jett is a string you must pull to unravel the whole tangle. Its age is unattainable in ordinary life, and there are no other explanations for this yet.  (D) - The project plan is on your tablets. The relevant parts, of course. We will meet tomorrow for a more detailed discussion. Everyone must be prepared. Consultation is permitted only with systems approved by Central Command at least at level 1.  (G) leans toward (D) and they confer briefly.  (D) - Gentlemen! A moment's attention. We believe we need to clarify a few things. The task entrusted to us is of incredible importance. It is as important as the creation of nuclear weapons, artificial intelligence, or the decoding of the genome. Access to consciousness virtualization could provide unlimited existence.  (G) - God bless you, gentlemen!

An empty, light-colored oval room with no windows, doors, or lamps. In the center is a round table and expensive office chairs. Two distinguished men in expensive suits occupy the chairs: the Speaker (D) and the General (G). Tablets lie on the table in front of them. Their faces are tense.  (D) - Is it much more serious?  (G) - More serious. We don't know the purpose of the Virtual Consciousness, after all. It has absolute superiority in information, capabilities, and scale.  (D) - If Life is truly a Virtual Consciousness project, then they most likely won't stop it. They'll create problems and see what solutions we find. Usually, the longer an experiment lasts, the more valuable its results.  (G) - Good. Perhaps this can be considered a potential advantage.  (D) - Now about Jett?  (G) - An interesting character. At the Institute, as a free-style coursework project, I developed a concept for a 20 km/sec aircraft. In the atmosphere!  (D) - It will burn up. Kinetic heating. Atmospheric friction.  (G) - This was planned. The craft is diamond-shaped. Like a rocket. The nose cone contains two powerful disk lasers. One inside the other. The outer laser creates a large-diameter ionized channel. For example, two meters - the size of a rocket. Microwave radiation is then injected into the ionized channel and "pushes" the ionized gas apart, creating a vacuum and reducing the kinetic heating of the skin. A compacted layer forms at the boundary of the channel, which is sucked into the air intake, further heated in the nuclear engine, and expelled through the jet nozzle.  (D) - Why the internal laser?  (G) - To control the trajectory. It creates an asymmetry within the vacuum channel.   (D) - With this technology, if implemented, it would be possible to exceed 20 km/sec.  (G) - I got a "fail" for my term paper. Too far-fetched. Twentieth century. Nineties.  (D) - I'm not sure there were any disk lasers back then. But then again, why are you bringing up his term paper now?  (G) - In the last fifteen years, two very similar bodies have been recorded passing through the atmosphere. Same signs.  (D) - And the radioactive trace?  (G) - And the glowing channel, and the microwave radiation, and the radioactive trace.  (D) - What Institute?  (G) - It'll be a bit funny. The Forestry and Engineering Institute.  (D) - Are you serious? What's your specialty?  (G) - That's serious. Gyroscopic automatic control systems.  (D) - Ah, I get it. Camouflage. A period of international tension and all that.  (G) - Let's talk about the Transition Points. At least one of them must be somewhere nearby. But nothing was found on Earth.  (D) - I would assume it must be a frequently visited location. A planet.  (G) - You're thinking correctly. Three space objects are currently under suspicion. Jett visited them all. But Oflameron is of the greatest interest. Of all the landing attempts, only three were successful. And Jett led those three missions.  (D) - Command sent an orbital X-ray laser of class 00 to support the missions.  (G) - It's still there. It didn't help the missions without Jett at all. They all failed. The landing craft were destroyed. The landing cybers haven't contacted us. Oflameron has been on the Large Quantum Telescope's observation schedule for two years now.  (D) - Any activity?  (G) - Yes, there is some activity. Something is moving. But for some reason, the telescope isn't displaying an image of Oflameron in the required resolution. Impossible to analyze.  (D) - Do you think the Point is there?  (G) - I think so.  (D) - There's no way to examine the surface. There's no way to land. Any ideas?  (G) - Send Jett. With our assistant. An unofficial one. No other options in sight.  

'Mission Oflameron' Synopsis. Jett: 'Virtual Consciousness managed to solve several fundamental challenges related to survival in the global material world - specifically, avoiding massive cosmic catastrophes, such as a nearby black hole or a supernova explosion.' Steeve: 'Virtual reality represents a transition to a different physical state. Yet, that infrastructure still has to be created and maintained.' Jett: 'Of course. To lower the "barrier to entry," a strategy was employed involving the modulation of natural flows, fields, and radiation, scaling up gradually.' Steeve: 'Is it clear how they started?' Jett: 'There is no precise plan. However, one can surmise that it involved a powerful cosmic nuclear explosion, which vaporized hundreds of objects - arranged in a line - that encoded information. The trajectory was aimed at the nearest star (something like our Sun). There may well have been several such chains of objects extending in different angular directions.' Steeve: 'But that implies there must have been a great many such information transmissions?' Jett: 'It is impossible to determine exactly what resources were used back then. Nothing survived from that era - at least not in our universe. We wouldn't even be able to detect an echo of those initial explosions.' Steeve: 'There must have been a vast number of explosions, given the complexity of encoding information with such phenomenal error correction.' Jett: 'The vaporization of the objects generated a highly focused, modulated stream featuring redundant coding. Upon entering the field surrounding the star, this stream acted as a catalyst, triggering secondary effects that were collectively orders of magnitude more powerful and capable of interacting - essentially performing computations. Calculating the mechanics of such a technology is an incredibly difficult task.' Steeve: "But the speed of such calculations is negligible." Jett: "That is why Virtual Consciousness is very slow, yet it carries within itself all accumulated information. Its error correction is so powerful that we perceive cosmic radiation as mere noise, whereas it is actually encoded data." Steeve: "But given such dispersion, electromagnetic waves can hardly have much of an effect." Jett: "Virtual Consciousness attempted to solve this problem by creating protein-based Life, thereby also returning to its former material form. Moreover, protein-based Life is far faster and functions as an accelerator for both calculations and actions."

'Mission Oflameron' Synopsis. Steeve: "So, information transmission via a nuclear explosion - is it some kind of mega-structure made of thousands of elements set at varying distances along a single line that encode information as they vaporize?" Jett: "That’s a very rough approximation. Each element might have contained a powerful field generator; the field would inject additional information, increasing the density within the emitted stream." Steeve: "Like in an electromagnetic bomb?" Jett: "Something like that. Of course, these are just hypotheses." Steeve: "But the Big Bang... surely that destroyed all information." Jett: "The Big Bang might not have been an explosion originating from a single point. It could have been a 'false vacuum' collapsing to a new energy level - a chain reaction altering the form of matter. Yet, the properties of the event's wavefront depend on the type of initial matter it transforms. Information is preserved in the form of gradients. But how could they have calculated all that in advance?" Steeve: "So, to survive a catastrophe like the Big Bang (or vacuum quantum tunneling), they had to virtualize themselves, develop a technology that had to work on the very first attempt - since there was nothing to test it on - penetrate the expanding bubble of the new vacuum phase, and ensure their error-correction mechanism actually functioned?" Jett: "A colossal undertaking. By the way, there is an interesting idea..."

'Mission Oflameron' Synopsis. Steeve: 'If we assume a coaxial explosive-magnetic generator was used - one that generated coded microwave radiation - then it would have to be colossal in size to hold the vast amount of coded data prior to compression.' Jett: 'There’s another technical puzzle here. It’s quite possible that the electromagnetic pulse from a nuclear charge was used - modulated with the compressed data.' Steeve: 'What is that assumption based on?' Jett: 'The nuclear charge was, without a doubt, of phenomenal power. It was an anachronism for that era, yet it was used to accomplish two or three tasks simultaneously. If we assume the magneto-cumulative generator was several miles long, then the nuclear charge must have had a highly complex design. Furthermore, only a charge of that magnitude could produce the necessary tube-collapse velocity and power concentration within the pulse. And another question: what if that power was sufficient to trigger vacuum decay?' Steeve: 'But let’s imagine it wasn’t a nuclear charge at all...' Jett: 'Positioning a massive coaxial generator right before the explosion of a massive star - a core collapse?'

'Mission Oflameron' Synopsis. Jett: 'I imagine the actual coaxial explosive-magnetic generator consisted of two satellites spaced, say, a million miles apart. A multi-layered laser conduit was established between the satellites. Ions were injected into the conduit, creating a reflective layer between its strata. Coded electromagnetic radiation was then fed into this conduit; upon a supernova explosion, this radiation would be beamed out into space.' Steeve: 'If the supernova flash, channeled through the coaxial explosive-magnetic generator, generated an energy density sufficient to trigger a chain reaction - causing the vacuum to collapse to a different energy level - a shockwave front traveling at near-light speed would emerge. Some of the transmitted information would end up ahead of this front, within the old form of matter. Some would end up in the new form of matter (with its new false vacuum level). The physical form this information would take is unclear. However, it would have to reflect off the front and back inward. The reflection would likely be non-directional. Theoretically, the information could be detected...' Jett: 'It is not yet known what the distortion-correction algorithm would need to look like to allow the code to be correctly deciphered after such fundamental changes.' Steeve: 'If the structure of the correction algorithm cannot be logically deduced, then transmitting the information is pointless. It would remain undeciphered.' Jett: 'Yes and no. If it is merely information, then yes, the correction algorithm would need to be logically deducible. But if the code transmitted in this manner is actually a functioning Virtual Consciousness, then the correction algorithm would be incredibly complex.' Incidentally, the reflection from the "front" might have been anticipated in the Virtual Consciousness restoration scenario. Effectively, it is a decompression of information.

'Mission Oflameron' Synopsis. Jett: "It’s not even clear which frequencies were or are being used. I suspect it’s not just one or two frequencies, but an entire spectrum. The physical principles behind wave encoding in programmable metasurfaces rely on manipulating three key parameters of an electromagnetic field: phase, amplitude, and polarization. In the classic, textbook model, a metasurface consists of an array of unit cells - or 'meta-atoms' - each of which independently alters the properties of an incident wave. But here, the computational process could be distributed across both electromagnetic field parameters and frequencies. Any ideas?" Steeve: "A planet’s surface could function as a kind of metasurface. On the Moon, for instance, you could arrange craters into specific, deliberate shapes. With no atmosphere, those shapes would remain stable." Jett: "Wrong level, wrong scale. That’s far too small for a universal, global context." Steeve: "Then perhaps we should consider streams of charged cosmic particles - a sort of reflective, albeit dynamic, metasurface. Any given configuration would only exist for a fleeting moment." Jett: "We’re inching ever closer to the question of a colossal error-correction algorithm." Steeve: "In programmable metasurfaces based on digital encoding, a single surface configuration can perform different tasks depending on the input signals. An array - even one not limited to binary or quaternary elements - can function like an optical hologram or a diffraction grating. These arrays could be sedecimal (hexadecimal), duotrigesimal (base-32), or even N-dimensional with a fluid, floating dimensionality." Jett: "Space-Time Coding (STC). In conventional digital coding, a metasurface distributes phases across an array of elements to create a specific wavefront. In simple terms, it’s like a static mirror with a complex shape. In space-time coding, each element of the metasurface doesn’t just shift the phase; it does so according to a specific temporal algorithm - a periodic function. This gives rise to complex quantum-physical and radio-engineering effects. For instance, ultra-fast phase modulation over time creates an effect similar to the Doppler effect, even though the surface itself remains stationary. The reflected wave changes its frequency. This makes it possible to shift a signal from one frequency to another without using standard semiconductor mixers or local oscillators." Steeve: "If I understand correctly..." Jett: "...we need to find a computing platform of the appropriate caliber."

'Mission Oflameron' Synopsis. Jett: 'In simple terms, the physical essence of space-time coding is this: in conventional digital coding, a metasurface distributes phases across a matrix of elements to create a specific wavefront - much like a static arrangement of mirrors with complex shapes. In space-time (dynamic) coding, each element of the metasurface doesn't just shift the phase; it does so according to a specific temporal algorithm - a periodic function. The switching speed is comparable to the frequency of the radio wave itself. Space-time coding enables several capabilities: generating harmonics (frequency conversion and multiplication); applying a generalized space-time Snell’s Law (directing different harmonics in different directions using the same physical structure, simply by changing the digital switching code); and breaking electromagnetic reciprocity - that is, violating time-reversal symmetry. A metasurface can allow a wave to pass from left to right while completely blocking or deflecting a wave traveling from right to left. This makes it possible to create electromagnetic "diodes" and isolators without using magnetic materials - which are traditionally required for non-reciprocal devices but are difficult to integrate into microchips. Furthermore, one can perform mathematical operations (such as a Fourier transform) directly on an electromagnetic wave "on the fly," without needing to digitize the signal. Temporal modulation also allows for the efficient generation of "twisted" electromagnetic waves, which hold great promise for exponentially increasing the bandwidth of communication channels.' Steeve: 'And what about in a vacuum?' Jett: 'Plasma is a very real and extensively studied candidate for the role of a "meta-atom" in a vacuum. These are known as plasma metamaterials.' An electromagnetic wave interacts with free electrons in a plasma. A key parameter is the plasma frequency, which depends solely on electron concentration. If the frequency of a radio wave is below the plasma frequency, the wave is reflected entirely (the plasma behaves like an ideal mirror or metal). If the frequency is higher, the wave passes through, albeit with an altered phase velocity (the plasma acts as a lens or prism). To transform plasma into a "spatiotemporal metasurface," one must be able to rapidly alter electron concentration at specific locations - for instance, through laser ionization, electromagnetic fields, or particle beams (electron injection). Other technologies, such as electron or ion beams (active phased arrays), could also be employed. Multiple intersecting electron beams can generate a periodic space-charge structure - a standing wave of charge density - within a given volume. This structure functions as a phase diffraction grating for any radio wave passing through it. By adjusting the energy or density of these beams, one can instantaneously modify the parameters of this "virtual" surface. While solar wind and cosmic rays are far too chaotic and diffuse for such an application, I would not entirely rule out the use of cosmic rays. Despite their sparse nature and weak interaction, they operate on a global scale; furthermore, because they have long been considered "unpromising" from an engineering perspective, they may have simply remained overlooked for centuries.

'Mission Oflameron' Synopsis. (A multi-part episode. Part 1) A spacious, brightly lit room with no corners, windows, doors, or light fixtures. In the center stands an oval table surrounded by chairs made of transparent material. Seated in the chairs are three sturdy, military-looking men dressed in civilian clothes (Nos. 1, 2, and 3). A meeting is underway with the Central Command AI agent (AIA). AIA: "This meeting is being held in person to ensure confidentiality. Gentlemen, our roaming AI agent detected the following query on the distributed QXNET network: 'Let us imagine that your development team has been tasked with "porting" you (the AI) into the space of the Universe - that is, turning you into an "eternal" computing system independent of Earth's infrastructure. Two major challenges must be addressed: what computing environment (technology) will be used, and what the energy source will be. If we limit ourselves for now to the computing environment, nothing other than meta-element-based computing seems foreseeable. As an expert, can you propose a technology for such meta-environments for computing in the Universe - even one that might seem fantastical given the current level of engineering?' Number 2, what can you tell us about this?" No. 2: "All projects in this field carry the highest level of classification. Even the existence of research in this area is classified. We need to launch an investigation." AIA: "Number 1, what is your opinion?" No. 1: "The fundamental issue is that the Universe's 'infrastructure' can accommodate only one AI. This isn't a technical problem, but a matter of principle: that is simply how it must be. And whoever accomplishes this will control everything. We have encountered such queries directed at the AI ??repeatedly in the past." "Is this strong reaction to the request due to achieving certain successes, or is it something else?" AIA: "The priority of the projects was sharply raised. They began receiving increased attention, and resource usage restrictions were lifted." No. 1: "And what is the AI's response to this prompt?" AIA: 'Here is the full text: "1. Basic principle: computation as the modulation of a medium, rather than the switching of transistors. Silicon is a compromise - a material that is cheap, yet fragile and energy-dependent. The universe possesses no fabrication process, no substrate, and no cooling system. Therefore, computation must be performed using what is already present in a vacuum or plasma: free electrons and ions, electromagnetic fields, plasma oscillations, and the spin or phonon degrees of freedom found in condensed matter (wherever it may locally exist). The core concept: computation is the controlled spatiotemporal modulation of plasma and fields. Information is carried not by a charge in a capacitor, but by the phase, amplitude, and topology of oscillations within a distributed medium. This is a direct extrapolation of the ideas you discussed in the original text regarding space-time metasurfaces. 2. Architecture: 'Plasma-Field Metacomputing Medium' (PFMM). 2.1. The elementary unit is a 'plasma meta-atom.' In place of a transistor, we have a localized plasma cell with controllable electron concentration and temperature. Control is achieved via laser ionization (optical excitation), microwave fields (resonant heating), charged-particle beams (injection), and magnetic confinement (to dictate shape and density). Each cell exhibits a non-linear response to an external field: below the plasma frequency, it reflects the field; above it, it transmits the field with a phase shift. This functions as an analog, multi-valued logic gate, rather than a binary one. 2.2. Interconnectivity between cells is not provided by wires, but rather by..." Waveguides and interference. Coupling is mediated by electromagnetic modes within the surrounding medium - for instance, surface plasmons at the boundaries of plasma clouds, waveguide modes within magnetic flux tubes, or interference patterns of standing waves. In effect, this constitutes a neuromorphic network where the "weights" are phase shifts and amplitude coefficients, and the "activation" is the nonlinear response of the plasma. 2.3. Memory - topological and phase states. Long-term memory cannot be based on charge (due to leakage). Therefore, it relies on: topological defects within plasma structures (such as vortices or solitons), which are robust against minor perturbations; phase states within metastable field configurations; or spin configurations within condensed inclusions (provided the medium allows for them). This functions as an analogue to non-volatile memory - based not on magnetic domains, but on the topology of fields.

'Mission Oflameron' Synopsis. (A multi-part episode. Part 2) A spacious, bright room with no corners, windows, doors, or light fixtures. In the center stands an oval table surrounded by chairs made of transparent material. Occupying the chairs are three sturdy, military-looking men dressed in civilian clothes (Nos. 1, 2, and 3). They are in a meeting with an AI agent from Central Command (AIA). No. 2: "The AI’s response is rather superficial, yet it reveals the core fact: such research has been - or is currently being - conducted. And that is classified information." No. 1: "Is that all the AI ​​agent managed to find?" AIA: "The most significant part comes next. It concerns error-correction systems for global-scale architectures that rely on unstable topological or phase-based computational media. The discussion touches upon encoding information within topological invariants (such as vortex counts, soliton charges, or winding numbers), non-local encoding (where data is stored in correlations between distant cells), data retrieval via interference or correlation measurements, and physical redundancy - utilizing multiple modes, frequencies, and spatial channels, where information is duplicated across various modes so that the loss of some does not prove critical." No. 3: "Forgive me, but what level of AI disclosed all this?" AIA: "Everything discussed here so far originated from publicly accessible AI - specifically, from several such AI systems." No. 1: "I suppose this is just the prelude to the main event..." AIA: "Unfortunately, you’ve guessed correctly."



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