In 2084, the last human dies who was born without an intercranial internet implant.
In 2089, a group of scientists from NuBadin University made a series of seemingly unrelated discoveries: Tobrun 51, a psychologist, publishes findings in the Scientific American concerning the deleterious effects of prolonged isolation from the world wide datasphere; Falasie 49, a biologist, finds an alarming decrease in the worlds supply of ocean fish and other aquatic creatures; and Radrian, 31, a computer scientist, hacks into the top secret code embedded in the largest supplier of III Implants. Unbeknownst to his colleagues at the University, Radrian, is actually the leader of a growing underground movement against the PanAsian Oligarchy whose totalitarian control of the government is enforced though the III implants. Radian also has an intense love for sushi and is concerned about the shortages of fish in the world market.
Our story begins as the scientists are brought to the research vessel "Nigiri" in the Pacific Ocean as part of Dr. Falasie's investigation into the declining fish population. The weather starts getting rough and their tiny ship is tossed. If not for the courage of their fearless crew, the Nigiri would be lost. Despite their best efforts the Nigiri capsizes in the inclement weather. While their boat is upside down, the three scientists see a strange yellow triangular glow underneath the waves. Dark lizard like creatures slip oxygen masks over the scientist and they are taken below to a deep-sea habitat shaped in the form of a giant metallic yellow triangle. The scientists are then met by a purple lizard creature named Maguro. Maguro informs the scientists that the triangle is actually an extraterrestrial space ship from the Andromeda galaxy tasked with a five year mission to boldly go where no lizard has gone before. However, according to Maguro, the lizards have already been to Earth before, many times actually. Additionally, to Radians' horror Maguro also informs the scientists that his people have developed a taste for tuna, salmon, yellow tail, and saba and they have been teleporting many of these fish back home to the Andromeda galaxy. So much for the sushi shortage on earth.
Then comes the real show stopper. Radian asks about the gigantic computer mainframe which stretches across the perimeter of the triangle. Maguro seems reluctant to tell the scientist about the computer at first, but then reluctantly states that the computer is conducting a research experiment on certain computer generated life forms on earth. Not satisfied with the answer, Radian presses for more information and is told that the mainframe is actually a high speed computer chip that is running a computer simulation on various forms of artificial intelligence. Well, what is it? Computer generated life or artificial intelligence? Actually a little of each says the lizard man.
Maguro then goes on to explain that computer simulation is actually humanity. The artificial intelligence are humans and that the lizard people have been running experiments to determine how artificial intelligence can involve under certain design parameters. The results have been very disappointing thus far--especially since a virus has apparently been introduced into the system from the Sea Horse people who live in the Crab Nebula. What virus? "Well," exclaims Maguro, "the virus is you, Radrian." Me? Yes, you. Do you remember that so called "dream" you had where the hacking code of the Intracranial Implants was revealed to you? You probably thought it was a burst of creative insight didn't you? Actually that dream was nothing more than the Sea Horse people hacking into this undersea computer where your program was operating and providing you the code to bring down the Pan Asian Oligarchy.
So what's so bad about bringing down the Pan Asian Oligarchy? Wouldn't we all be better if we lived without a totalitarian government? And without all these implants? To return to the ancient times where people actually communicated with each other with their voices and their touch other than all these computer assisted devices?
It doesn't matter Radrian. None of you are real anyway. We have been running programs of different forms of governance for millennia on this planet. You must admit that the Pan Asian Oligarchy has brought with it all sorts of benefits that the predecessor governments were unable to. Crime, poverty, mental illness have all disappeared. People are happy and content. Would you really want to go back to the empty unequal forms of capitalism that humans previously enjoyed? I think not. And if you did, I'd never be able to get my doctorate in computer science because this whole experiment on earth is actually my thesis experiment. And you and those pesky Sea Horses have been fucking with it for to long. So I'm eliminating you from my system Radrian. Goodbye. And with that Maguro entered some code on the computer panel and Radrian disappeared. And somewhere, deep in the Pacific Ocean, a school of yellow fin smiled and did a mysterious little victory dance.
"I am not satisfied emotionally. I think I need some kind of drama." Hamlet, Act XXII, Scene 76
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