THE MATRIX

PART 1. THE ARCHITECT

THINK TANK – A FEW YEARS AGO AFTER DARK STORM

"All preliminary tests show that the humans cannot function without a brain. We must find a way to keep the humans alive while we withdraw their bio-energy." M says to the other Machine and program Scientists, Engineers, and designers.

"What about an interactive world where we upload the digital representation of the humans?" The Machine Mojira says. She looks female, but is all metal with plastic wings that have lights and antenna on her forehead. He eyes are bug like and her mouth flashes when she speaks. "The humans will think they live in a world they rule…But we rule them."

PRESENT

M and her team had worked out all the bugs when it came to siphoning energy from the human body. The next step was to create a program that would be responsible for the design and construction of the interactive digital world the humans would live in. On the Machine mainframe construct they create the Program.

It is white with no sense of up or down. The Program was written and then it is allowed to learn on its own and build its own digital shell or form. The Program is a middle-aged man with white hair in a business suit. "What is your designation?" M asks in her virtual form. She is short with short cut curly hair, Caucasian and wears a dress suit.

"I am the Architect."

"What is your purpose?"

"To write and create an artificial world for humans to live their digital lives in while they are connected to the Power Planet which harvests the bio-energy from their bodies for Machine survival."

"You have the tools you need and the information you may begin."

THE ARCHITECT

He started writing the base code for the Matrix, using a combination of Chinese, Japanese, symbols. Also Arabic, Egyptian and other languages from around the world. It was a complex code that he alone could read and understand. Not than any other machine or sentient program couldn't figure it out if they wanted to. Then he starts the first lines of the Program. A program for the vacuum of space, and then the stars.

He pauses as he is sitting a desk in space and the stars all around, him. He picks up the phone and calls the Think Tank. "This is the Architect looking for clarification on something…"

"Go ahead."

"When dealing with the vastness of space how far shall I take the program?"

"The Milkyway is as far as you should go…We have no intention of allowing humans to develop space flight in the simulation…"

"If that is the case we need to create and launch satellites that can send images of other galaxies into the simulation."

"Good continue writing the program."

He hung up the phone and continues typing. As he types the simulation forms around him. After four hours of working he has finished all known star systems in the Milkyway the constellations and Haley's Comet. Star rotations and such and starts on Earth's solar system. He starts with the sun and works his way out matching the simulations rotation with that of real rotation around the sun.

It takes two hours to do all nine planets and the climate and surface conditions of those planets. Then he returns to Earth and goes back to the surface planet conditions code. He adds trees, cities, air, gravity, and weather patterns and conditions. As a sentient program the Architect doesn't need to eat, sleep, or any of the other things a human would need to do. He could if he wanted to, but did not.

The code for the Matrix is long, detailed, and very complex. He pauses to do a system wide diagnostic to ensure that nothing is breaking down. When the diagnostic is complete the Architect continues creating the perfect world. It takes two days to finish everything. He writes a program called the train man to write a junction program from the Machine world to the virtual one he is making. The Train man in turn builds mobile station. Then he writes the Key Maker to create backdoor programs.

The door to his high-rise office opens and in walks Merovingian. "Bon monsieur comment allez vous?"

"I told you before that I do not speak French."

"So serious…Loosen up have some fun."

"Fun is for mortals who lack the ability to stimulate their mind. You have a talent for jumping from system to system."

"I find this…What is this anyway? Have you named it?"

"I call it the Matrix."

"I like it…Thee Matrix…"

"Is there something you want?"

"I have explored your Matrix and its too perfect…the Humans will reject it." He says with a French accent.

"And you know so much about humans."

"I am unique the last and only sentient Program created by the Wachowskis who created M-1. You of course were written by Machines…Throw a little chaos in the mix…"

"All things must have balance…The Matrix is mathematical precision. A triumph in computer simulations…"

"Fine don't say I did not warn you."

POWER PLANT CONTROL STATION

Two days later it was time for the Matrix to go online. "M I strongly suggest we do a test run…Only plug in a hundred thousand humans." Rom a Machine power plant coordinator says.

She shakes her head, "This is control to the Architect…I want to upload all 5.5 billion humans…Rom the Power Plant coordinator says we should do a test run with just 100,000 humans…You designed and built the Matrix do you concur?"

"We should upload all 5.5 billion."

"Uploading all 5.5 billion and the matrix is now online and we are harvesting bio-energy at 7.9 exawatts per hour." The humans had been grown and accelerated to adulthood. Their careers, jobs, and other parts of their lives had been chosen by the machines and uploaded to their brains. Along with their history and life. After a month humans start dying by the hundreds of thousands. Others awake from their sleep and cannot be put back in.

"Damn…" M says.

"I told you…We should have run a test."

"Disconnect all humans from the Matrix and do a system wide diagnostic."

They argue as to whether it's the humans or the Matrix itself. After a while the Architect decides to erase everything and start over. This time he creates a chaotic world based on the grotesque history of the human race. The system crashes after three weeks only this time a hundred thousand humans were uploaded. To fill the rest of humanity is made up of IDCs (Interactive Digital Characters). It is also discovered that somehow the subconscious psyche of the human mind is manifesting in strange ways inside the Matrix. Things like ghosts, angels, werewolves, etc.

PART 2. THE ORACLE

Once again the Think Tank and Architect had failed to solve the problem. So the collective writes a new Program and calls it the Oracle. The Architect is upset that Deus Ex would think he needed help to solve the problem, but he could not do anything and he was really relieved to learn that he was not being replaced by a newer version.

The Oracle currently calls herself Doctor Ora. She sits in a chair, "I'm ready." A human materializes in front of her. "Wake him." She says into her cell phone.

He sits up, "Where am I?"
She smiles at him, "You fell asleep again." The human she is interviewing is a sample subject from the war time era. Most humans from that era are kept in cryo-stasis. The others are forced to reproduce fresh DNA for the cloning pods.

"I'm sorry…" He frowns looking around.

"Is everything all right?"

He looks at her, "Doctor Ora right?" She nods, "I don't know Doc something just doesn't feel right."

"How so…"

"I…Well I was dreaming and the last thing I remember was…A field…I was in a battle…I…I can't remember who I was fighting."

"Let is set that aside for now. Tell me if you could be a soldier, a cop, or fire fighter…Which would you chose."

He frowns, "Why did you say soldier?"

She smiles, "It will help me get to the root of your problem."

He sighs, "War is scary…So no to soldier…Cops and Fire Fighters…That is dangerous as well."

"So none of those?"

He nods, "None of those."

She writes in her tablet, "Tell me if you could be any of the following. What would you be? Politician, Actor, Singer, or A Doctor. Which would you choose?"

"Actor…Yeah definitely Actor."

"Why Actor?"

"The fame, the money, and the women…" He is put to sleep and pulled from the Oracle's construct. "I am ready send the next one." A woman appears. They talk for a long time. "So you are in a burning House…You can only save one person…Who would it be…Your father or mother."

"I don't know if I can answer that question."

"Why not?"

"Because…It's my parents…" The Oracle puts the woman to sleep, then she runs a simulation based on her question. The girl chose her father. One by one she uses survey questions and simulations to probe the human mind. In one month she interviews a hundred thousand humans, both clone and from the wartime era. Now she reports to the Tank and Deux Ex. The Architect is there as well.

"The problem is choice…Humans have this inbred conscious and unconscious desire to be in control or have some form of control…Example…The first set of humans you cloned you accelerated their growth and chose their professions, life history, likes and dislikes for them…The human brain needs to develop. Discover the wonders and mysteries of life for itself…I would suggest Uploading IDCs and let them raise the children from infancy to adulthood. These IDCs will have to be programmed to believe they are human."

The Oracle's plan is used and only fifty thousand humans are uploaded as infants. The IDCs are unaware that they are living programs. The experiment is a success and the rest of the 6.7 Billion humans are uploaded into the Matrix. The Matrix is finally on line and operating successfully. The machines are now able to draw bio-energy from the humans for their survival.