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Listen: The system works. It's you that's broken.



The design of the Megalon F23 database is quite simple. It's the same basic functionality as the Zark 7 chipsets that make your finger sensors react to nearby screens, or give your ion implants the extra sensitivity to help you cruise at cloud level after dark (especially after a few buzzinjections on a Friday night!).

The difference with the F23 is the scale. Zark 7s sit inside you; with the F23, YOU sit inside IT. And watch the world go by.

Yes, the scale is something else. The demands of logging and monitoring a whole universe's worth of quantum activity called for something suitably proportioned, so Megalon basically built a chipboard the size of a small town to do it. And we like to come here, sneak in through the crackling gaps in the perimiter in our anti-magnetic suits, and hang with the people. Well, they're robots, obviously, but boy, do they have personality!

My favourite is a little blue pill shaped thing that just floats around whirring at stuff. When you get close, it comes and snuffle round your legs like one of the old cats used to. Maybe that's why I like it - it's somehow a reminder of the time before. A wrong, perverted facsimile of what it was like then. A little bit of almost animal in a world that doesn't even breathe any more. Of course, it's just a load of sensors and protocols, but it makes me feel nice anyway.

And that's why I decided to take it home with me. Through the crackling gap, under my arm. Like it was totally normal to take a moving part from a giant chip that was potentially actually holding the whole universe together.

I looked up at the sky ripping apart as I strode away with it clasped tightly to my chest. Pops and bangs pursued us as the F23 went haywire. I stroked little Bluey, smooth and warm in my arms.

And you know what?

I could swear it PURRED.
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from Six Angles In Search Of A Shape, released March 22, 2019

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