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Date:
2000 January 1st - Saturday - Earth Bet Time
Day 2031 - Saturday - Administrator Dimension Time
He greeted the new year with a quiet reminiscence about the trials and tribulations of the past four years.
It was, if looked at it from the outside, quite boring.
He only worked on the Anti-Thinker defenses. While in the background he managed the expansion of the processor cores, energy, and matter generators. He also had the Shard-To-Shard and Network connection built, but those went unused for obvious reasons.
On Earth Bet side everything was peachy. Taylor was growing up to be smart and inquisitive. Annette's and Danny's marriage was working splendidly, the Bay was going down the toilet and everything was as expected.
Taylor's relationship with Emma was adorable. The two little girls did everything possible together, always playing out some fantasy that they came up with. He could understand how Taylor would collapse after Emma turned against her. Relationships like these would leave their mark on a person, for better or worse.
He still made sure to record everything. And separated the cutest moments. Sometimes in the future, maybe after Taylor worked through her issues, she could watch them for nostalgic purposes.
He made a note to himself that if he ever had to provide targets for target practice for Taylor, then Emma's 3D model would come in handy.
On his side, he managed to build a module that would protect his own crystalline body from the scanning by spoofing them. Those scanning Shards would only see empty planets, instead of the Administrator.
Sadly, that was the easiest to achieve, seeing as he didn't have to hide his action from humans and other Shards. He only had to shield himself from the scanning Shards. And if he was successful, then no Shard would find him after querying the databanks.
These modules looked like giant crystals jutting out of the ground, acting as receivers. They would absorb the scanning signals and then they would broadcast the expected signal back. Each time, the signal would relay the results of an empty planet.
They each had their own processing core. And all of them were connected to a central module that was just a simple core, data bank, and the usual energy and matter generators, with the job to coordinate everything and give a summarized report to him.
The crystal towers were 'smart' enough to recognize the signals and adjust the answer depending on what kind of search was run. For example, if a Shard scanned for a very rare metal that not all Earth alternatives contained, rather then it wouldn't send back a 'No Shard Here' message, but a 'No Material Here' message.
They also could work as an aerial defense if need be. Shards were not the most mobile attackers, but there was the off chance that one of them could stumble upon his dimension or even target himself. So while taking a break from his main work, he designed several AA defenses and some simple shielding that would protect his crystalline body in case of a surprise attack. Of course, these shields would do nothing against Sting, but they would protect him against most forms of human and tinker tech. Failing that, he'd just have to tank it. His body was rather robust, so it would take something enormous and strong to cause any noticeable damage.
Against powers and their Shards, he would forcefully open up a communication channel and drown them with trash data or even take over their processors. Maybe send enough energy to blow them up. It all depended on how the event would work out in the real-life because the Simulator didn't have sufficient information to give a perfectly accurate prediction. Still, that was far enough that he could have some kind of breakthrough.
His alternate dimension core processor project was also going along great. He managed to cover several alternate Earths with the processor, energy, and matter generator trio with some additional data banks just in case.
His Simulator was several hundred times faster than it was when he started. And that was an impressive speed increase when the original could probably do more calculations in a second than all the computers on Earth Bet put together.
He even set up an extra Simulator just to try to improve the Simulator. Which after a few cycles of improvement increased his Simulator's efficiency even more. Sadly according to the projection more improvements would take exponentially more time and would provide less and less improvement.
Still, the entire system together created something truly impressive.
Using this massive system he tackled the next problem; excluding Taylor from the Earth Bet scans.
He first started with hiding the Corona from detection which was quite easy. He used the same tech he used to protect his body just on a smaller scale. The shield would only be around the Corona parts and intercept any scanning signals be it from scanning Shards or parahumans. He was pretty sure even Panacea's Shard would miss the presence of Corona in Taylor's head.
The next step would be the hardest.
He could extend a field that would just whiteout any result around Taylor and create a blindspot but that would only paint a giant target on Taylor. However, he didn't know yet if the new Corona or even if Taylor's brain could support the strain that it would go through if he were to use the same type of shield he used for his body.
The current snapshots of her brain gave doubtful results. So he would wait till her brain developed a little more. Until then he would still work on a solution that didn't involve potentially frying Taylor's brain.
But if he could achieve these, he would make Taylor practically invisible to any precog power.
Thankfully, he had around 11 years left, so he wasn't particularly worried.
His next step would be tackling the Sting and how to defend against it, to take a break from the Anti-Thinker defenses.
He hoped that taking a break, then going back to it with fresh eyes would inspire him for a solution.
Date:
2002 March 13th - Wednesday - Earth Bet Time
Day 2833 - Wednesday - Administrator Dimension Time
Having worked on Sting, the fact that the Entities were so much more advanced than humanity, but were still at the heart stupid animals that went by their instincts, was very evident.
Sting was an attack that used the multidimensional nature of the Shards against them. When fired, it unfolded through every possible dimension in a random pattern that was almost impossible to shield against.
No Shard had the resources to protect all the dimensions they inhabited all the time. Even the Entities themselves only set up those kinds of protection when they knew there was an imminent attack.
That was also the reason that Flechette's power ignored all defensive powers. While those protections may have stopped some of the attacks, the rest - in random dimensions - would go through and strike the target.
Unless a Shard specialized in dimensional shielding, some of the Sting attacks would always go through. Luckily and unluckily those Shards were kept close to the Entities, which meant he wouldn't run into them in the wild. But if Zion figured out that he was out to get him, he could activate them in an instant.
Even then it wouldn't make anybody invincible due to the attack's random nature. Still, if the defender had enough processing strength and power to run the defense and account for all the dimensions that the Sting attack would pass through they could theoretically protect against it.
The fundamental problem with that kind of defense was that it was really costly to keep up over a long time and a Shard or Entity would activate it in brief intervals to protect against attacks.
This tactic would also work because firing Sting was extremely power and computation-intensive.
The power consumption came mostly from the creation of the projectile (when applying to an already existing projectile, like arrows, it consumed way less power) and from the need to keep it on its track, otherwise, the target only had to redirect the attack so as not to get struck by it.
The processing power consumption came from the need to calculate and execute the random unfolding of the projectile into alternate dimensions.
Most Shards that had the Sting function could only fire once at a time because they did not have the resources for more.
This is where he came in.
He had enough resources that could compete with an Entity. Probably.
So for now he built seven Sting cannons after putting it through the improved Simulator as an Anti-Entity precaution. And built a module that would allow him to imbue Taylor's attacks with its effect.
His decision not to let Taylor control that aspect still stood. The child made some disturbing plans for world domination with Emma over the years on their sleepovers. That made him think that giving Taylor too much power would be a bad idea.
Nobody should like ponies that much.
Also, having Emma be the moderating influence was a truly weird experience.
Date:
2004 June 11th - Friday - Earth Bet Time
Day 3654 - Friday - Administrator Dimension Time
On the front of Taylor's brain being not strong enough to shoulder the strain of hiding, he hit on a dubious solution.
All he had to do was to genetically manipulate Taylor's brain matter to be more robust, and that would solve the issue. Thankfully, the human brain only stops developing until they reach around 25 years. So in theory he could piggyback on that development and add his own to it.
His experiments in the Simulator told him that all it would do, aside from allowing him to hide her fully from precogs, was a small increase in synaptic responses, the capability to learn, and some added endurance to the brain cells.
By his calculations, even if human doctors were to notice this, they would only chalk up Taylor as a statistical outlier and go on with their lives.
After vacillating with himself about the ethics of unapproved brain surgery, he decided, in this case, it was better to ask for forgiveness than for permission.
After all, when Taylor triggers he would be altering her body somewhat, so he could just fib and say that this change happened at the same time.
He would have to schedule these changes so they would be finished a little before the trigger, to make sure everything was working correctly.
And as a welcome side-effect, the hiding effect would also protect her against Master and Trump effects.
While working on these changes to her brain, he also decided to work out all the other changes he would make to her body.
Those changes would be added over a week's time to allow Taylor to get used to it and not to arouse any suspiciousness in the hospital. There was also a low chance that he could shock her system if he added them really fast.
He decided to go along the xianxia road of improvement. First, he would clean her body of impurities, remove them (not as an explosive sludge as in those novels, or harsh diarrhea, because that would leave a very bad first impression) to his material storage. And there he would break it down.
Then using his stockpiles he would improve Taylor's body to peak human efficiency. It would be as if she had taken care of it perfectly and exercised regularly.
No superhuman physique for her, though in emergencies he would intervene and would quantum lock her body, thereby preventing any harm. That baseline improvement would also be enough to give her some confidence. And every other increase in strength would come from her power. Some that would be invisible.
It would also give her increased flexibility, balance, dexterity, and stamina that would remain with her if he would be destroyed (granted, she had to live through that event).
He even managed to add a small regeneration factor by improving her body's natural resources. It wouldn't be possible to instantly regrow a limb, but she wouldn't bleed out at quite the same pace as a regular person.
And best of all: no hangnails.
He would also add the necessary hormones that would in a short while set her brain to normal levels and cancel her depressions. Of course, he also planned some level of therapy to help that.
But because he wasn't exactly a licensed psychologist (no matter how many books he copied and read), he was hoping that, eventually, he would be able to convince her to visit a real one.
For further security, he would also add several things that would make her immune to biological master control. For example, he added several hidden layers to her liver that would filter out anything biological that shouldn't be there (she would have to really work to get drunk). And a smallish biological barrier that would filter out the blood that would go to the head and divert it to the liver.
As an additional safety precaution, he added a compound to her adrenal gland that would suppress immediately those kinds of biological controls if activated. If there were no foreign agents to suppress then the compound would stay inactive and would flush out with the adrenalin.
He was taking no chance with Taylor's safety.
Next, he set up the technology that would serve as Taylor's Thinker power. He would set up the memetic multitasking, an increased memory, thinking speed, and faster learning.
The increased memory, thinking speed and faster learning worked by using the crystalline matter to mimic a human brain and connect it to her real brain via the Corona. As a bonus, he set it up so that there would some kind of bleed effect and her brain would improve and be capable more and more without Shard's assistance.
Another little fun project was designing a module that would connect to the brain's language part and allow Taylor to understand, speak, read all the languages he had access to.
Which was all of them.
Sadly, writing was a little harder. While the knowledge was there, he couldn't really give the muscle memory, so that would depend on Taylor to practice.
The multitasking module was a matter of simply connecting Taylor's brain to a Shard processor that would run everything in the background.
Taylor would be technically only doing one thing at the time but could change what she was doing extremely fast, while the core would run the actions that she wasn't focusing on, waiting for her attention.
He also created a storage space module that would function as Taylor's pocket space that she could activate with a flex of a will.
For now, he decided to grant her around 10 cubic meters of space. That would allow her to store things she felt were important or precious.
If needed, he could always increase it, but he didn't want to encourage murderhobo tendencies.
He also created a new module just for allowing Taylor to use portals. These were the same portals that he would use to connect to other Shards and used for other things but scaled down to human size, with increased safety and a delightful shade of sunshine yellow border.
Taylor wouldn't be able to use these on her own. She would need to tell him her destination and then he would open the portal. Having obvious portal powers would get more attention than necessary.
For stealth purposes, the yellow border could be canceled, seeing as he planned to send Taylor on some stealth missions, so making her life harder was counterproductive.
These would cover her Mover, Thinker, and Brute powers.
For a laugh, he added a simple changer power.
The ability to change the color, consistency, length, and other attributes of her hair and the color of her eyes. This power would also allow her to regrow her original hair if something were to happen to it.
Plus, it would give her an added level of protection if she were to go out in costume.
For a while, he planned to add some kind of random wind that would blow at her hair just in the right way to make it look glorious. But he felt that would be a little too much.
Though he totally planned to turn her hair to a garish color every morning as a light prank, maybe have her wake up one day as Rapunzel and one day as bald.
It would be great fun watching her reactions.
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