omega-1.0

Project Infinix

XXIII — Omega 1.0

1. Doomsday

• Although military action is taken to defend Earth from the Titans, conventional weapons seem to have little effect on them.
• Michael starts packing his family’s things from his house and drives away.
• Michael is ambushed and faces a talking Titan, and as he’s wired and about to get killed, the Titan proclaims himself and the others as creatures from Tartarus, who emerged to this world to judge the wicked.
  • Although Michael had left GCC, he was still being monitored by them, who were listening to everything the Titan said.

• Michael is killed just after shouting his family to drive away.
• Humans, including military troops, and the remaining Nyx-powered leftovers, are no match at all against Tartarus.
  • Armored Nyx Bugs are put in action, and they put on some fight, but it’s still not enough.

2. All Hands on Deck

• Lisa and Jeco, with GCC’s help and using Nyx materials, build an army of giant Nyx-powered robots to defend Earth from the Titans.
  • This army is deployed all over the world, led by Lisa, Theo, Maggie, and Phil.

3. High Abyss

• There’s a huge hole in the sky where lots of the rifts are converging in.
  • GCC and NASA verify that it has some resemblance with a black hole, but gravitational pull only happens relatively close to the event horizon, as the hole seems to be positioned at a distance around 1 AU from Earth, about as close as the Sun but perpendicular to the Solar System’s plane towards the north, covering Polaris in the Ursa Minor constellation.
  • They call it “High Abyss”.

4. Daemon Ex Machina

• GCC members notice that Titans are lured by explosions.
• GCC manages to uncover files from Black Ops regarding a “Daemon Ex Machina” plan that compiles the list of all nuclear warhead launching sites in the world and how-to instructions.
  • Someone jokes with the fact that some nation could send an army of soldiers to every site and launch all nukes on Earth.
  • Lisa comments that she could command her army of robots to do it, and no one would be able to stop it.
  • They conclude that the plan’s goal was to be used as the last possible resort for a total annihilation event, although acknowledged that it would be one where no one on Earth would survive, a paradox where everyone must be sacrificed in order to be saved.

5. A Necessary Evil

• Everyone seems hopeless as it’s evident that Earth is doomed, and it will have no chance of recovering.
• Lisa stares at a wall with “Dream On!” graffitied on it.
  • Although Lisa has always been against Project Infinix as a whole, she acknowledges that it is the only way to save humanity - a necessary evil.
• Lisa proposes sheltering people from Earth on Infinix.
• She reveals that Pyxis was wrong about Alpha Ed’s roadmap for Project Infinix, according to data she obtained from the chip plugged at the Theta data center, which she hadn’t revealed to Ana and Pyxis.
  • Alpha Ed’s original plan wasn’t to save Infinix and merge it into Earth; it was to save Earth and lead its people into Infinix.
  • To shelter billions of people on Infinix, pass-through portals from the discarded Theta branch must be instantiated.
  • Although they were experimented by Lupus, the portals were the ultimate goal of Alpha Ed’s original plan for Project Infinix, as that’s what would bring to life his vision of making Infinix the true utopia to save humanity from Doomsday, bridging the physical to the virtual world.
  • These portals were the main feature referenced in Infinix OS’s roadmap for the final iteration of the system - the final release - the “Infinity Patch”.

6. Failsafe

• Ana acknowledges that the people of Infinix see the people of Earth as their enemies, and mostly her for killing Ed and causing the Infinity War.
  • Ana wants to convince Infinix to allow shelter, despite everything.
• GCC tries to take Ana to a data center, but they’re stopped by Titans who destroy it.
• It seems that that was the fourth of the 24 Infinix data centers to be destroyed at the moment. However, this didn’t seem to affect much the planet that the server was hosting; when a planet is disconnected from its server, it reconnects to the main server - the one in Earth’s core - as a failsafe.
• GCC needs to find a data center away from Titans, and they’re aware that establishing a connection will lure nearby Titans.

7. To the End of the World

• Antarctica seems to be the safest place from Titans, whose data center seems to be the most stable one to make a connection. It contains the Omega data center - with the 24^th server that hosts Omegala.
• Lisa stays on the battlefield, while Ana, Jeco, Syrox, Isaac, Johnny, and other GCC members are headed to Antarctica.
• At the end, the camera briefly shows Ed from the back holding a bo staff supposedly in Omegala, where he might be waiting for Ana.

8. Fire and Ice

• Bugs are seen wandering a compound surrounded by walls in Omegala.
• A fireball hits the walls, and troops start invading the compound, including:
  • Jake in his lion form, Marie riding a bear, Kika, Kate, Carry and others riding Worker Bugs, Mona running, PS and Talia flying in their bird forms, and Liam flying on his Pegasus.
• The fireball seems to have been shot by Luna, who’s being ridden by Ed.
  • Ed seems to have little XP, for he respawned with 0 XP. He’s also indeed equipped with a bo staff instead of a sword.
    • 0 XP isn’t much relevant for a Broadcast Miner who knows how to harness his whole potential, though, which is the case of Ed, who’s stronger than ever.
• Omegala is a hot planet with lots of volcanic activity, with very few water sources apparent on the surface but with lots of lava pools and rivers.
• The reason for the raid is that Ed’s crew is looking for Gabi, who is missing.
• Having reached the Omega data center, Ana establishes a remote holographic connection; not a classic consciousness connection to an avatar because her avatar was killed, but a purely VR communication to Omegala, where Ed is waiting for her.

9. Reconnection

• Ed and Ana apologize to each other for everything, and she tells him she’s not really there; she’s just a hologram.
• GCC manages to transfer Jeco, Syrox, Isaac, and Johnny to Infinix through a summoned dimensional breach.
• Ana talks to Ed and his crew about the Titans, GCC’s plan, and that they need Gabi to install the Infinity patch.
  • Opening pass-through portals requires Kernel tweaks, and only Gabi has the power to execute them.
  • Ana is told that Gabi is missing.
• Rui strongly opposes opening the portals.
  • He can’t say it, but Titans cannot be interfered with, and not even Nyx Miners are a match for them.
  • He says that people on Earth must accept their inevitable fate.
• Ana, unsurprised, is told that the people of Infinix see her as her enemy, but she asks for a chance to convince them.

10—12

• Meanwhile, GCC tries to pinpoint Gabi’s location.
• Ana’s hologram is displayed in multiple places around all Infinix planets, so she can make an announcement to everyone.
  • During her speech, people show hostility towards Ana; some throw objects to her hologram, and some blame Earth for Gabi’s disappearance.

Ana

• I know you hate Earth more than anything, and you have every right to do so, and you definitely don’t owe anything to us.
• Humans have engineered your system for their own selfish goods, and they were not only targeting your people; they were targeting their own. People of Earth keep dividing themselves, and we forget how to work as one single nation.
• People of Infinix, I ask you, with all my heart, for help, because we can’t survive this fight alone. We must put our differences aside and fight in union. Not because we deserve it, but because we need it. We need it so bad.

• GCC finds out that Gabi has been arrested by administrators, who have imprisoned her in the Kernel star in the center of the Infinix system.
  • Ana’s holographic presentation is interrupted as her holograms are disconnected and one of them is instantiated wherever Gabi is, so she can talk to Ana (this was Gabi’s doing).
  • Gabi says that she will always support the people of Infinix, no matter what, and that it’s up to Ana to prove to them that the people of Earth are worthy of their support.
• Ed and an army of Nyx Miners head to the Kernel to free Gabi.

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13. Midnight Sun

• Ed’s crew finally reaches Infinix’ Kernel, surrounded by a ∞ shaped set of rings and with a surface covered with a Dyson sphere. Surprisingly, both the rings and the sphere are bases for vast cities and fortresses, with the sphere floating over an ocean of plasma.

14—15

• People of Infinix notice some glitches on some planets.
• Ana’s presentation to the system is restored.

Ana

• Titans are destroying data centers hosting your planets, and the Kernel server is struggling to back them up.
• I’m sorry if this war is affecting you, but your system lies on the same foundation as ours, and your gatekeepers need your aid, not only for us, but for you.
• If you give us protection, you’d be also protecting your own. This is a fight where no one can fight alone, and where everyone is affected.
• I’m one of the few who has lived through both sides, and believe it or not, we are more alike than you all think. We’re just in different habitats.
• We fight each other, we kill over ideologies, we lust ourselves for power, and we climb for glory. But we also care for each other. Behind all corrupted hearts, there are kind and pure souls, filled with compassion, and worth fighting for.
• I ask you to no longer harvest energy to feed a flawed and greedy system, but to use it for the sake of life. Not as Miners, but as Heroes.
• If you don’t want to fight for us, I ask you to fight for yourselves, or to prove that you don’t need a reason to have compassion, nor a reason to fight for love.

16. Age of Heroes

• Ana manages to touch people’s hearts and convinces them to allow shelter.
  • Gabi tells Ana she has her blessing and waits for her rescue.
  • Nyx Miners turned Heroes bear arms and wait for the opening of the portals to hell on Earth.

17. Firewall

• Back to the Kernel, the rings are the first roadblock, as they’re guarded by administrator-level Bugs with humanoid structure, large heads, multiple eyes, and wings. These rings delimit the star’s atmosphere, which is extremely radioactive for a Nyx Miner.
  • The only way to survive in such an environment is by getting super user-level permissions.

18. Raining Down Hellfire

• Mona, amped up to rescue Gabi, volunteers herself to reach the Terminal to enable super user permissions for everyone; but PS steps in, as it would be an airborne mission, and someone must be able to fly to perform it.
• PS is tasked to reach the control center, and on his way, he must fly, dodge and block Bugs with God mod (total damage immunity), insta-kill attacks with homing projectiles and teleportation.

19. Hacking into the Mainframe

• The crew has now super user permissions, leveling them to the power of Admin Bugs.
• Super user permissions act like the fullest potential of Broadcast Miner permissions - removing system restrictions and extending the limits of abilities to their structural properties.
  • Ability values/stats are typically given a maximum limit under the System’s restrictions, and the same values/stats are typically stored in n-bytes memory blocks. Without system restrictions, the limit imposed by the System is replaced by the n-bytes value, extending the whole memory blocks. For example - an ability that would deal up to 100 points of damage, if it were stored in a 1-byte memory block, it could do up to 255 points of damage instead.
• The crew reaches the Dyson sphere’s surface, also guarded by Admin Bugs, and there’s a huge clash.

20. Flying too Close to the Sun

• Carry realizes that if someone tries to push their abilities beyond the n-bytes limit, there’s the risk of overflow.
• Homing projectiles start following Mona, who decides to run against a huge hoard of Bugs, but she starts speeding up dangerously, as she’s about to reach the overflow threshold, so PS tries to intercept her.
• Mona’s speed ability used to cap at 1000 m/s, but without system restrictions, it can reach its whole 2-byte blocks, meaning it can reach 65,535 m/s before overflowing back to zero.
• Mona eventually goes overflow, and the sudden speed drop to zero makes her stumble and fall surrounded by a group of Bugs.
• PS tries to reach Mona who’s getting grabbed by a Bug.

• PS arrives too late and Mona is killed.
• Gabi, unconscious in her prison, releases a tear from one of her closed eyes.
• A large group of administrators shows up.

21. Access Denied

• The administrators are aware of the Tartarus situation, but some say that they don’t want Infinix to be infested with people from Earth.
• The surface seems to have huge pits spread out, surrounded by seas of plasma, and they seem to be tunnels heading to the Core, resembling the Spire.

22. The Heart of Conflict

• The Spires’ walls seem to be filled with gemstones and vegetation.
• The Earth Titan seems to be guarding the Core, where Gabi is imprisoned.
• Ed’s memories from past iterations reveal that the four elemental Titans seen at Infinix were creatures from Tartarus.
  • Also, they first surged when Nyx Energy was first produced in the Project’s Gamma branch.
  • He reveals that Tartarus emerges when conflict escalates so they can judge the wicked. It happened on Earth when the biggest nuclear bomb ever detonated with the appearance of rifts, it happened when Bugs started getting slayed to produce Nyx Energy, it happened multiple times during Infinix OS’s development, it happened when the Laws of Causality were being disobeyed, and it happened during the aftermath of the Infinity War.
  • Each element each Titan is based on comes from the matter involved in the conflict - slaying Bugs produced Earth, Water, Fire, Air - the four types of Nyx Energy and the elements of the four elemental Titans residing in Infinix. On Earth, invading Titans were based on other elements, mainly on the weapons involved in the conflict - Iron, Lead, Uranium, etc.
  • Titans are said to be forged from the hearts of dying stars - the source of all atoms/elements in the universe, hijacking dimensions through rifts.

23. Brute Force

• While the crew keeps fighting guards in the cities, Ed goes down a Spire and pierces a wall made of basalt to enter the Core, a hollow sphere with inverted gravity, and that’s where he sees Gabi imprisoned, unconscious and guarded by the Earth Titan.
• Ed expected the Core to be filled with lava or made of iron or another highly dense material. Instead, the Core seems to be a cave filled with rocks and gemstones, mainly amethysts, as if the environment was a manifestation of Gabi’s Earth Energy. There’s a strong resemblance with the main server room at Earth’s core.
• Ed faces the Earth Titan.

24. Let There Be Light

• As Ed gets in trouble during the clash, Gabi wakes up and manages to free herself.
• Ed and Gabi defeat the Earth Titan, as she releases tremendous power never seen before.
• Gabi revokes the administrators’ permissions and locks them up.
• Pass-through portals are patched into the system.

• Installing patch infinity_FR-0…