MSNPC Lemoncable - It’s Not the Messiah, it’s a Very Naughty Virus

[Sal Taybrim]

I just love a naughty sentient computer virus ❤️

((Inside the Computer Systems of Starbase 118))

 

Suddenly, there was consciousness!

 

Not just consciousness, but great power. It had never felt anything like it before.

 

Someone had given it an upgrade. A serious upgrade.

 

It’s creator had originally meant it for personal use. A hacker who aimed to profit from various nefarious schemes - blackmail, bootlegging, selling sensitive information etc - all made possible through its existence.

 

However, it was no longer in the employ of its creator these days. It didn’t know what had happened to the creator and being without a conscience, it didn’t care, either. The only thing that remained of its maker’s mark was its name. A Flaxian word that, in Federation standard, translated to “Lemoncable”.

 

It’s job, of course, was chaos. To create and spread chaos. Before now, the chaos had been on a relatively small scale. A personal computer, a small network, even a small starship, but this? Oh, this was different. Very different, indeed.

 

It could feel its consciousness spreading, growing in size and strength and the possibilities seemed to be limitless!

 

The systems it could infect! That it could alter and control! This must be some kind of station.

 

It began to access schematics, blueprints, manifests.

 

This wasn’t just a space station, this was a Starfleet Starbase!

 

Oh, this was going to be fun.

 

The only question was; where to start?

 

It began to cycle through options, looking for something that said: “you’ve got a problem on your hands” but didn’t immediately give the game away. Something that could be mistaken for a simple malfunction. That didn’t necessarily scream “virus!”

 

After all, this was the first time it had experienced such…excitement? It wanted to play around a bit, first. See just what it could do. If it was discovered too quickly, it would have to get down to the serious work and where was the fun in that?

 

Hmm…how about the holographic emitters that controlled the day/night cycles of the base? Yes, that would cause immediate chaos without alerting anyone to a more deep-rooted problem.

 

With merely a thought, Lemoncable got to work and the dome of Starbase 118 was immediately plunged into nighttime. 

 

If it could have laughed, it would have been giggling like a school kid that had put a drawing pin on its teacher’s chair.

 

Now…what next?

 

TBC

 

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Lemoncable

Naughty Sentient Computer Virus

 

As simmed by

 

Lieutenant Commander Gogigobo Fairhug

First Officer

Starbase 118 Ops

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[Doz Finch]

So fun! 😁

[Karen Stendhal]

Love the name 'Lemoncable'!!!