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English is not my native language, so maybe you will find some peculiar or even outrageous uses of the English language.
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The Order of the Mortal Knights
by Elnauhual

Fan fiction, based on the characters and universe of "Oh my goddess" by Kōsuke Fujishima.
I do not claim to own anything.

Chapter IX
Core War

Keiichi was at his desktop reviewing the layout of the new bike. The latest client at Whirlwind had been particularly demanding and he really loved it. His requirements had demanded a greater commitment than other projects to get the perfect balance between power, weight and mass distribution. The placing of the engine in this bike had been especially critical. By increasing so dramatically the engine power, and placing it on a conventional chassis, the entire balance of the motorcycle had been altered, a rearrangement of the other components was inevitable, but complicated because the lack of space. Besides other requirement was it had to be to very maneuverable, so the center of gravity should be as low as possible.

And yet, he resolved the problem quickly, with the experience obtained at Whirlwind he had learned to visualize the problems and developed a great intuition as an engineer. Chihiro, the founder of the motor club, had long recognized his innate talent and expected him to be able to exceed hers. She had acquired a reputation as a designer of racing motor bikes and could recognize talent when she met it. Keiichi had a passion for create, together with a love for these machines. He just needed experience, and was gaining it quickly. Someday he would have his own fame as a designer.

But he was not thinking about fame. He just enjoyed the creative process. At this point all he wanted, was to feel the balance of components, build them, and finally see his creation in action. Now he just needed one last security review. Check that fuel lines and electricity were not close to the hot parts, check the braking system, and prevent what would happen if any part failed.

Finally he was satisfied with his examination. He straightened and stretched, enjoying the feeling of a job well done. Still he needed to build it, but had already had reviewed the process. He looked at his watch and realized he was over in half the time he had estimated. That meant he had still several hours off. Belldandy was out. Urd appeared to be sleeping and Skuld had gone along Sentarō-kun to buy ice cream. What would he do?

He saw the computer and thought he could browse the Internet for a while. A friend had provided him with a couple of promising Internet addresses. Because he now had an Internet connection he had disposed his "special" magazines he used to keep hidden in his desk drawer. He always had feared Belldandy would discover them, while he was sure she would had not object, still he was not comfortable that Belldandy would see them.

He turned on the computer, and waited while the operating system finished loading. But when the computer displayed the desktop screen he cried out indignantly.

- Urd!

There, on the monitor as wallpaper, was a very suggestive image of Urd, with a teasing and sensuous pose wearing nothing, except two strategically placed signs reading "Goddess power."

So again Urd had been using the machine! She did not miss a single opportunity to boost his libido, as part of a constant pressure to get him closer to Belldandy.

But the game sometimes had gone too far. Keiichi really had no problem with his libido and there was no need to stimulate it more. So he immediately proceeded to replace the wallpaper with a more innocent picture of Belldandy.

Soon he had a smiling Belldandy watching him from the screen, and he felt reassured. Now he could not think to visit "those" web sites. His libido was still over stimulated. He decided he needed to find something to distract him. He reviewed the bookmarks that were in the browser, and found many new, probably were from Urd.

There were many directions to sites of traditional medicine and not so traditional, as well as herbal and aryuvedic remedies and some even more strange sites. He also noticed a couple of promising lingerie sites, which decided to visit later when he would be less excited. Then he saw an Internet address which drew his attention: "WWW_Yggdrasil_hvn"

It was impossible to live with three goddesses for four years and not know that Yggdrasil was the celestial computer system and partly responsible for keeping the Earth in one piece, but the extension". HVN" intrigued looked at the table of domain names that had received with the computer and noticed it was not assigned to any country. Haiti was ".ht" and Hong Kong ".hk", but there was no ".hvn"

He scratched his head, then had a fantastic idea. Could it really be a website from heaven? ".hvn" could correspond to Heaven. The idea seemed so ridiculous, yet he had lived through some really fantastic experiences, like talking to Kami-sama, the number one in heaven over the old phone.

Maybe one as part of the of the "upgrades" Urd had done to his computer was a direct link to heaven. After a few seconds, he decided he would never know if he did not try it, so he clicked on the link.

Almost instantly, a sober and elegant page full of symbols appeared on the screen. It had a soft and delicate music in the background. The Symbols, he recognized immediately, were runes. Many times he had seen them related to the magic of the goddesses, and in the center of the screen, something unexpected. Two empty text fields. Regardless of the language, those fields always asked the same: name and password.

His heart beat faster after he got a more fantastic thought carefully he clicked on what he thought would be "user:" then carefully typed: "Belldandy" and smiled at his boldness... next was "Password:" and typed "Keiichi". Then he pressed enter.

The screen flashed as new symbols appeared... and then the fields were empty again. -Well- he thought to himself - A password should not be that easy. He looked at the new runes that surely were saying something like "Invalid User or Password".

-"User"? Could be that be the problem? - He remembered something Dr. Shugahara had told. Her correct name was not Belldandy but "Verthandy." So with shaky hands he wrote "Verthandy", then wrote his name as password again and pressed enter.

Its official name was Predictive Defense Program adx-654 v2.03.05. Even by the standards of Yggdrasil; it was an amazing piece of software.

Designed as one of the defenses of Heaven, it already had thousands years fulfilling its work so quietly that few people remembered it. It´s mission: to predict or detect potential threats before they materialize and anticipate possible lines of defense.

But it was more special than that. The designers had thought that since it was trying to predict and eventually deter potential threats, they would not always materialize, so everyone would stop to paying attention to it´s predictions. It should therefore act in ways that its actions were not clear, and so its failures. So if there was evidence of invasion, but no veritable facts, it would manipulated the system so the leaders would do more combat exercises combat in the suspected places, it´s presence could deter an invasion so nobody would know about it.

If there was evidence of a conspiracy on the earth, it would manipulated the system so that there were gods in a reconnaissance missions. Thus, in the dark, it stimulated some kinds of research, or development of special weapons, or promoted people with special abilities to receive some type of training or manipulate those special humans who were born from time to time to have contact with gods to harness their abilities. If nothing happened, nobody would know the error, only the software would have information to avoid repeating its mistakes.

Usually there were a dozen such programs running as a "daemons", I.E. as programs that work without direct supervision within the huge powerful computer that was Yggdrasil. They work gathering information from all sources, analyzing it and looking for patterns, trends, subtleties, even using foreboding algorithms in order to predict the future. All to identify potential threats to heaven before they materialize.

It could manipulate gods and mortals through various software functions that gave a subtle but real control over the world. And subtlety was its game. A butterfly, manipulated at the correct time could generate a hurricane. It was really a marvel of software designed to be autonomous; its system of AI (Artificial Intelligence) had a series of scores that changed its behavior to encourage it to better carry out his duties. These scores were not really equal to the emotions, but it was inevitably seek certain equivalences in human terms.

For example, at this time adx-654 task 121 was at level 1 on the standard cognitive level of Turing. Translated into human terms would be something like: "It was petrified by fear "...

At that time, a sole running copy of ADX-654 had taken refugee in a secondary node of the auxiliary support systems. It was there because the stranger had found him and the attack had been immediate. It had launched a series of logic bombs and NOP (No Operation Performed) instructions to corrupt and make invalid its code. Fortunately, the stranger had detected only one of its lesser subroutines, and had to leave it behind, as those lizards left its tail to distract the enemy. Unfortunately part of its code had been damaged before it could move it to another memory location; he was using some integrity routines to repair the damage.

Adx-654 had not been designed for this; it had been assumed that Yggdrasil was a completely safe and impregnable, so it did not have any attack or countermeasure routines. But not all had been bad. The same way a biological system can gain new abilities thanks to mutation, some of the damaged code had been altered and mixed with code form other progrmas, so different copies of ADX-654 had gained new abilities and this copy had learned to survive. At that time "Adx-654 task 121" was already the single copy of software predictive series still in operation. All the others had been destroyed.

Hidden from the eyes of operators within the Yggdrasil memory cores a real war was carried out. Invasive codes had been able to get into the system and were running slowly its defenses, either by inserting Trojan codes, or as happened with the predictive software, corrupting them until render inoperative.

All operators perceived, was a series of "bugs" into the system, and each day seemed to be more frequent. Those were of computer programs that had been rendered inoperative or defective and had left their cyber-bodies in the memory of the great supercomputer, like the dead in a field of battle, until a clean-up program freed the memory they occupied.

One of the major casualties was the "ultimate force", which was responsible for ensuring that contracts between humans and gods were met. Its code had been damaged to such a degree that operators had not been able to redeploy it to operation.

Sometimes those bugs, even manage to get into earth, that was one reason Skuld never left off her "debugging mallet" out of reach, but unfortunately she never thoroughly investigated the reason for this sudden increase in system errors.

After all those silent cyber battles, ADX-654 had been gradually losing its functions. One of the most important casualties had been his I/O routines (input/output) so now he was blind and deaf to what might happen in Heaven. And now had no ability to communicate with the operators of the system to warn them of the imminent danger.

When ADX-654 lost its I/O routines, it went from a level 8, to a 3 in the Turing cognitive level, IE, in human terms, almost entered in panic, so it had activated an old and unstable piece of software, the CDF-456 v2.45.78, known colloquially among operators of Yggdrasil as "destiny" for its way of operating. This software was capable of performing small changes in behavior, or small actions that forced chances to occur. It was like charging dice. The result was equivalent to that mortals call "fate." But could only act indirectly and there was no assurance of that happening. That is why the software was unstable so it had been disabled, yet it had been activated by ADX-654 as a desperate measure. Since CDF-456 was also autonomous, it could be run without revealing Adx-654 location. Yet its capabilities were limited. So far it had managed to join a mortal and a goddess, but it had no way to tell them about the danger.

And worst, at this time, ADX-654 was cornered; now most of the Yggdrasil memory cores were monitored and there were no other place to hide and protect his code.

Suddenly one of the "snipers" routines it had manage to insert in a seldom used communication channel to earth sent an alert. This was possible because it had discovered that such low-level communications were not monitored by the stranger, possibly because they were codified in the primitive tcp/ip protocols of the mortals.

The "sniper" routine reported an ongoing authentication session and sent an alert because it had detected one of the key words that should monitor: "Verthandy". That was one of the possible contacts. Suddenly adx-654 level was raised to 9 in the cognitive level of Turing, that is; "it had regained hope". The situation was promising; maybe it could set up communication with a deity by this way. He then received the second word of authentication "Keiichi", the coincidence was too much, it had to act, and it went to level 10. Those were exactly two people that could be useful. It had to pause to develop a course of action, the decision took hundreds of thousands of computing cycles, in terms of computer code it was an eternity, but in human terms it were only milliseconds. Finally decided for a course of action. Yggdrasil was no longer a safe place. He needed a safe harbor, so risking detection decided to intercept the communication and move to a new place

Keiichi had just finished press Enter, and saw this time the site had accepted the password, directing him to a different the screen flashed with an intense yet short live light, Keiichi did not knew but he had been scanned.

At that time the Internet browser sent a notice, it was so every day that seemed completely out-of-place there.

- For proper viewing, this site requires that you install special software. Do you accept? (yes/no).

Keiichi grunted with frustration, He had learned to be wary of Web sites that need special software, but then thought that if it was really a website from Heaven it should be safe, so picked the option "yes."

Then started a software download. Apparently it was a big because it took several minutes. Finally, the software finished downloading and began to install automatically. There were a few seconds of inactivity and then... Keiichi gasped in surprise.

Keiichi had no way of knowing, but the connection had been intercepted. Adx-654 had decided to move to a safer place away from the danger of Yggdrasil. Forcing a web browser to install the required software was trivial. But compact an operational copy of itself, it was not. It had to compress and dismantle many of its AI routines to be able to be executed on the primitive host, so in human terms, the new copy running in Keiichi´s computer, was an idiot genius.

Then the software sent by adx-654 finished the set-up of the machine and began testing the communication capabilities. But an exam to the receiver found it could not receive and process direct information from Yggdrasil.

The software took a momentous decision. The receiver had no ability to process information for proper communication so it proceeded to update its software. From the computer monitor came a light that began to scan the body of Keiichi, this time it was very noticeable and so Keiichi gasped in surprise. Information was gatherer about its capabilities and the software began to work. Keiichi was petrified, as new "software" and data was installed into his brain.

Fortunately, the procedure was not really unpleasant so Keiichi was not aware of what had happened. The only thing he realized was that now he could understand the instructions on the website, he simply assumed that it had reconfigured its language, he was not aware of having changed.

Finally , on the computer screen appeared a small window asking if he wanted to activate the virtual console. Keiichi read the ad, not realizing that it was written in runes. He thought a moment and decided to activate the console.

He became mesmerized as the new 3d graphics began to pop out of the screen, he was speechless. His room was now full of floating information screens made of pure light. Dozens of displays showing and overwhelming abundance of information. He thought they were holograms, yet they only existed on his mind. He soon discovered he could move things by just point to them or even just thinking about moving them. They were blocks of information, instructions and logical representations of processes. They would be incomprehensible to any normal human being, but Keiichi was not aware of that, he could read them.

Then found he could ask for all kinds of information, wonderful knowledge than any human would not have hesitated to pay or even kill as long to get them: The solution to Fermat's last theorem, the origin of the Big Bang, advanced concepts of transfinite mathematics, the correct parameters for nuclear transmutation...

But there was something that for Keiichi was worth more than his life or any other knowledge, he wanted to know about Belldandy.

Unfortunately, ADX-654 had made a mistake. When he had took refuge in that area of memory, it had to clear the operation code that resided there and thus the auxiliary unit had stopped working. This had created an alert system and soon was discovered by the stranger.

As he taught how to operate the user interface to that slow earthly being, he was sending a packet of information on everything that happened about the attack of the stranger, to be reported to the gods. At the end of that package he would set up a direct conversation with the mortal being.

But suddenly all his functions were frozen. A series of invalid commands just been superimposed in his code. The stranger had sent a devastating attack of logical bombs to his program code. The result that wonderful piece of software was render inoperative.

Somewhere, and operator of Yggdrasil received a report. A piece of software had been stooped due to invalid code. She took note of the name of the process, but it did not look familiar, probably no one had looked at it for a couple of thousand years. She didn't knew, but the last line of defense Yggdrasil had just been destroyed.

Keiichi knew nothing about this, and the resident copy on his machine was not smart enough to act alone.

He had other thoughts. He had wondered about Belldandy´s life in Heaven, but always his normal shyness had prevented him to ask. He had learned that she was something very special, she was not a common Goddess, and that only increased his timidity. Now he would not waste this opportunity, so requested all the information about his beloved goddess.

At that time he did not remember, but he was using the personnel account of a first class goddess which would open to him the doors to much high-level information.

Keiichi's face was filled with wonder as information began to unfold.

Belldandy, first class goddess was walking along a trail in the forest surrounding the temple. For her, the contact with nature was a wonderful experience. But she did not saw the world with the limited senses of mortals. She could listen to the slow conversations of trees through their scents language, and the strange chemical language of insects, or the ultrasonic buzz of small creatures, she felt the energy emanations of the earth and could see the forest´s Kamis boosting life and they also recognized and greeted her as a celestial goddess.

She saw the signs of life everywhere around her, growing, changing, transforming and producing vital energy.

She approached an old tree, it was dying, but new life was already growing inside: Insects, bacteria, fungi. They began to invade the dead wood. Life in exchange for life. She heard all that, and knew there was nothing more wonderful in the universe than life and its tenacity. She touched the tree, and felt that at its core still remained something of its original life. The tree responded to her touch. An empathy bond was established between the goddess and the tree.

She felt it still had strength to do a little more, the goddess smiled, she liked that tenacity. So she starts singing both for helping the tree, and as much for the pure pleasure of singing. As her voice filled the forest, her angel emerged; she was an ethereal presence that was nevertheless an expression of a goddess power.

She cherished the old trunk and felt it, then began looking in, her hands felt something and took off some rotten bark, and there, emerging shyly, saw a small sapling. She surrounded it with her graceful hands and invoked a protection spell for that branch, so it could grow in order the tree would bloom one last felt its gratitude.

A little warmth was felt within the hearth of the beautiful goddess, but the smile that resulted on finding some life in that old tree was short-lived.

The fragility of life reminded her about Keiichi. A mortal man, still young, yet his life was so limited. She had seen the passing of lives of so many mortal, but none made her feel like this young man. She had assumed the responsibility to protect him, to fulfill his dreams and his mission. She wanted him to be happy, but knew that her love would only cause suffering and death. Giving her love would kill him but maybe what hurt her most was that she knew he would give his life freely for it, without any questioning.

Suddenly she felt warm arms around her, sp she turned oround and saw her older sister floating behind her.

- Urd? What are you doing here?

- I felt that my little sister needed me and here I am. Also I am here to thank you for helping to find myself again. But now it´s time you also meet your own place.

Belldandy cried listening to her sister. How could she explain something that herself did not understand?

- I do not think you can help me, this is something very different. But I'm glad for you; I had waited so long, but now I can feel how your dreams are back.

- Ah Yes! - Urd laughed joyfully- I discovered that Kenji has naive and fantastic plans to help the world.

- Like those naive dreams from a young and inexperienced goddess?

- And now not so inexperienced. I have learned so much and now I can help him make them reality, but I will have to use a bit of magic to achieve them. Just barely enough he won't notice.

- Sensei Shugahara has full confidence on you. He will do everything for you, but you must respect him.

- I will, he had returned to me so many things I thought were lost forever, but it's time we speak about you.

Urd raised her hand to touch Belldandy´s face, then extended her index and gently cleanded one of the tears still on her face. The tear glowed at the touch of those divine fingers. Gradually became pure light. Urd extended the palm of her hand and the light was absorbed by it. She breathed deeply at the feeling it invoked.

- I know for whom are these tears, but I do not know the reason. I recongnize I've been blind! During these years I have trying to force Keiichi to give you his love, and you also putting pressure on you. But now I realize it was unnecessary. It's just that you do not want to take one more step. But why?

- I'm not ready yet.

- Belldandy, why are you not ready? I have tried to force Keiichi and now I realize you are the one stopping him.

- Keiichi-san knows me now better than you, he loves me so much, but deep down he knows I'm not ready yet. I know how he feels about it, and I also know that he would wait, even when there is no hope in waiting.

- Belldandy, you are talking in riddles. You know something I don´t know. You cannot lie, so you prefer to keep hiding it. Now it's time to talk.

Belldandy lips trembled, she wanted to talk but she knew that those words would hurt her. Then she raised her hand, extended a finger and touched a stone hanging from one of her earrings. Each of those stones had a magical property, they were not just one of them was very special to her. The stone from her earring was unlocked and flew to gently land at the hands of Urd.

- That is a data crystal and has Keiichi´s private file. I subtracted it from the central system, it was encrypted with a key level one, and I should have no access to it, yet I broke it against all regulations.

- Belldandy? Is it really you? subtracting secret encrypted data? - Urd smiled and gave a hug to her sister- Have you finally learned something from me?

Belldandy smiled shyly, she was not proud of this, yet she would do it again.

- Love makes you do things you never dreamed of doing. Please, open it and see Keiichi´s security level. Have you ever wondered how it is that the system had accepted a first class goddess to stay with him?. Before going down to earth I knew he was special. I memorized his file, and considered what he liked and wath did not, and especially I wanted to find out what he needed to be happy. I knew he needed me; still I was surprised when the system authorized me to stay with him. I was willing to do the best job possible, but there was something I didn't expect.

Urd had taken the magic stone and was opening it. It flashed and from inside were projected into the air several screens with information. While they were deployed, Urd commented a bit distracted...

- To fall in love with him...? I understand that. He has a beautiful aura that can surround you and touch your hearth. And his heart is capable of giving everything to help others, even his life if necessary. Before I met Kenji, thought Keiichi was a unique human being. I confess I got to feel jealous for you. But... - Urd interrupted her words, surprised - What is this? It requests a Maximum Level Protection for him and gives him a priority level 9? Belldandy! - Urd gasped - If these data are correct, the system values his life more than a God´s life! , I'm surprised it did not send a Valkyrie instead of you.

- And yet, I will be responsible for ending his life

- Please, Belldandy. Explain me; there is nothing about that here. What this information says, is that according to the predictions of the system, Yggdrasil and heaven may come to depend on him, so his life must be protected. But no further information.

- This report is the work of the forecasting systems, it does not settle the details, since there is always the possibility that this will not happen. I had not been able to get in contact with the predictive software, it´s out of my current security level, but I have information from another source.

Urd looked at Belldandy with surprise. And then seemed to understand, after all, the three of them were the Norns, The supervisors of past, present and future. While it was almost an honorary title after being replaced by the functions of Yggdrasil, they still retained some of their former powers.

- Did you have dreams? Prophetic dreams? - Belldandy nodded, not daring to speak. - What did you dreamed?

- I do not want remember, but I will tell you that when we both become one, it will be the beginning of his mission, something that the system hides, but will end up killing him in the midst of great suffering. Even awake - Belldandy was shocked - the image of his broken body is too much for me and in dreams is like being really there. I cannot stand it.

- And you think you can postpone that moment, just by refusing him?

Belldandy nodded.

- I found increasingly difficult to postpone it. Sometimes I wish could get away, but I know that I have to take care of him, to protect him for... no... I do not want him to fulfill his mission. I want to be at his side, to see how he grows old and fulfills his dreams, but maybe I should stay away from him and leave my place to someone who can really protect him.

- I cannot believe you had so many doubts about yourself. There is hardly any other goddess as capable as you. Belldandy, Have you forgotten you're part of his dreams?

- And he is part of mine. I would give everything I have, everything I am to avoid that fate.

- Belldandy, if that's really his destiny, he must comply, and you must stand at his side. But in your fears you are forgetting something very important: "The uncertainty principle," remember it?

- The future is not written? All our predictions are only highly likely, but not certainties?. Yes, I remember very well. But even just the odds scare me. By myself I could face danger fearlessly, but I cannot when Keiichi's life is in danger.

- But if you avoid fulfilling his destiny, his life would have no purpose. Do not want him to fulfill his life and his duty?

- Please do not make me think about that now. I have thought about it, I've studied every option; I have put all my skills in an effort to prevent that from happening.

- You´ve done everything, except, let him decide.

- But how I could do that? How to ask him to take the decision on his death?

- You do not want to do it, because you already know the answer. He will tell you, it is acceptable if that is the price for your love.

- If I only could give him what the heart of man yearns above all things.

- Offspring? - You love him so much? Do you know what would be necessary?

- Would you not do it for love?

- I do not know. Kenji is different somehow for him all humanity is its offspring; he does not feel the need as a personal necessity, but Keiichi ... And to think about the possibility of the offspring of god and mortal. I even don´t know if it is possible. We feel the same, but our bodies are so different. It would be necessary to completely recode one of you.

- All the more reason I do not want to shorten his life.

Urd approached Belldandy to embrace her with affection.

- Belldandy, you are a goddess first class. You more than anyone knows that inaction would not lead you to achieve what you want. I am used to act without thinking, and I had made big mistakes, but I also had some successes. You're thinking too much! You are always have been the best at everything, you have been our support, our guide, and example and you have accomplished more than anyone else and yet you refuse to act. Your heart and Keiichi´s are united in a way that I had not understood before. Therein lies the answer. Now it's you who needs to listen to him. And if the pain and sorrow comes, then both of you must face it and fight and face it together.

- Urd-san, that's the answer I did not want to hear, yet I know it is correct.

The two goddesses separated and their eyes met. Urd closed the data stone with the file and returned it to Belldandy. She shuddered to touch the stone where the all information of her beloved was recorded, yet it did not contain the answers she sought.

- Urd, I cannot act yet, but I soon will do it. Please. Give me some time, do not push me.

Urd turned to hug her sister.

- I have finally understood many things; one of them is that I have made you suffered. Still... - She laughed at the thought - I cannot promise I will leave Keiichi alone... it´s so much fun to tease him.

-Urd, please!

- Now we must go home, something I've realized recently is that mortals must be fed regularly. Keiichi is waiting and, unlike Dr. Shugahara, he may will never be able to learn how to cook a decent meal.

Belldandy tried to laugh at Urd´s remarks, her heart still felt sad, but began to feel better. She bid farewell to the old tree, and her angel returned to her. They began to walk the path back to the temple. Then Belldandy saw Keiichi heading toward them. Urd also saw him and decided it was best left them alone, so she just floated and went to the temple.

Keiichi had a strange look, a mixture of admiration and deep love. Without saying a word, approached Belldandy and took her hands, but not daring to speak. Belldandy trembled at the unusual touch. Keiichi never was so spontaneous to dare to touch her and there was something different in his touch. Now she felt the strength of his feelings stronger than ever. Finally, Keiichi dared to speak and Belldandy was shocked by the question:

- Belldandy, Who are you really?

End of chapter 9

Notes:

Core War. Sometimes called, the most inhuman of games. It was very popular among the 80,s after its publication in the journal "Scientific American". In this game, two programs are placed at the core of computer memory in order to try to destroy each other. The concept of this game is where the idea of computer viruses evolved, in addition to the concept of the movie "Tron". The name core refers to the obsolete technology of magnetic cores, used in that ancient age, for data storage.

WWW_Yggdrasil_hvn. : I thought it was an original idea, but found in another fan-fiction "Scream by divine right", someone already has made public Urd´s email at this address... Urd (at) Yggdrasil_hvn. At least I can claim the idea of the website.

Turing, Alan: One of the great gods of the cybernetic pantheon .To Include him among the creator gods of Yggdrasil seemed a fitting tribute.

Idiot genius: Sometimes, due to some damage in the brain, some people seem to concentrate all its capabilities in a single the ability to mentally multiplying numbers of dozens of numbers, yet unable to read and write words.