The Guardians' Tales : .hack/A New World – Rise of ShadowNova
Disclaimer:
I do not claim any ownership of the .hack universe, this tale is in no way intended to infringe on any copyright.
Chapter 1 : Preparation
Max's POV
I surveyed the out come of my days of work and months of planing. Slowly and carefully I checked my equipment, its connections and status. Finally satisfied that all was in order, I walked away from the ten rows of ten 48U cabinets, I had named the 'processing towers', back toward the virtual environment interface, safety system and net-connection units. These were housed in two 20U cabinets ten meters from the VEI.
The safety/net-con units were the most important part of the setup. The two cabinets contained duplicate setups, truth be told the whole system had be setup with resiliency and stability in mind.
I walked up to the first of the cabinets and turned on its power, the UPS modules hummed into life closely followed by the fibre network switches, then the VEI interface processors, then the internet connection units flicking from offline to on as all ten of them made a connection. Lastly the safety link system units powered up, their status displays sliding out and tilting up showing their connections to the processing towers, the net connections and the VEL.
Soon the four SLS units were ready in standby mode, their link cores glowing amber, I lent forward and pushed them in causing them to switch from amber to white, denoting that they were now fully active and connected.
I went though the same process with the second cabinet then walked over to the VEL, I climbed into the support frame and checked its connections to my VR suit, finally I lowered the VR visor over my eyes and 'entered' a white room with glowing holographic console in the centre of it.
This was the central control interface for the system, I had made; with the exception of the SLS units, control to those was, by design, off grid.
I walked forward to the console and toggled the activation switches, bringing the processing towers from standby to active, suddenly the environment shimmed then cleared pin sharp. This was expected, those systems were designed to create a photo-real interface whilst still having lots of processing power leftover for other things. I then went through a series of system tests and calibration routines. Now ready I said, "System. Link to global network via 'ALTIMIT Mine' emulation interface", a pleasant synthesised female voice responded "please supply passcode to establish link", "code word 'osiris'", "code word accepted", "Load tracker blocker, load mirror barricade, load 'The World', load .hack patch", "loading software please stand by."
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