National Emergency System

NES Server Site

 * Location of Nessie
 * Location of Technician 1
 * Location of Technician 1’s brother, Steven
 * Power comes from massive fusion reactor on site
 * Huge underground farm
 * Water collection and purification systems

Physical Terminals

 * Physical terminals can be found all over CER
 * Many cities and towns have public access terminals
 * There are 34 terminals still connected to NES
 * 30 on the NES Site
 * 2 in the Senatorial Library, Budapest
 * 259 last accessed yesterday (2020-05-07)
 * 455 offline starting 2016-02-08
 * 1 in Fort Hasdrubal
 * 1 in Missile Base Alpha

Terminal (Instagram messages) Interactions

 * The NES is running an Instagram account to emit messages. These messages commonly encode some information like key codes or instructions.
 * We can interact with the NES, known as Nessie, via the terminal using Instagram messages.
 * As the popularity of the ARG grew, the NES placed a limit on the maximum number of interactions per day per person.
 * The base limit is 10 interactions.
 * Completing actions will raise the command limit by 10. Exact actions/commands unknown.

Terminal Commands

 * The terminal is a *Nix like terminal interface with command and natural language processing.
 * You can ask questions in a normal language, or issue commands in a slightly more regimented syntax.
 * Even the command syntax appears to be processed with the same natural language processing. Intent for a command is often derived rather than relying on the exact command issued.
 * Some commands are hidden. For example, the Site Digital Library is a hidden level 2 command.
 * “The syntax is easy. Use the exec directory and ‘executr’ commands with level specific exec”

Frequent Cyber Attacks

 * The NES sporadically receives cyberattacks from outside and unknown parties. These attacks usually lead to the network being taken down.
 * DDoS and omega class keycode brute force likely from CERIA
 * 2020-05-04 First known cyberattack
 * During the attack, the NES produced an IG Post giving instructions to contact the on-site technician. Buried underneath the text was an error code.
 * Sending the code to the NES terminal revealed that the attack was a Distributed Denial of Service and requested a manual reboot.
 * The response messages were exaggerated and elongated “Proces s s s s ing input  tttt” This was a result of the DDoS attack stretching Nessie beyond her limits.
 * The normal intent of a DDoS attack is to disrupt a popular or necessary service. This type of attack also provides a vector for system intrusion. It is the latter intent as malicious code was inserted into Nessie known a “cyberflu”.
 * 2020-05-05 Second attack
 * System under attack.
 * System-wide lockout initiated
 * Unknown access to Alpha-class information
 * On-site technicians required to repel.
 * Tech #1 states that on this attack someone is trying to forcefully insert an intrusive object into the system.
 * The malicious object was a secondary HumCon.
 * 2020-05-08
 * -> System override detected
 * -> lev25evec nessie nowall
 * The nowall prefix allows Nessie unlimited access over the system.
 * The interesting thing here is that the exact wording is “The nowall prefix is used by me to have unlimited access over the system.”
 * The “new” Nessie is distant and cold. Regarding Tech #1 as vermin.
 * Along with the cyber attack a physical attack by the CERIA from Missile Base Alpha attempted to infiltrate the site.
 * Attempts to shut down or kill running “nespers” command was ignored by the system
 * <- levadminexec delete nespers
 * -> ADMIN CREDENTIALS REQUIRED
 * -> No, don’t do such silly things.
 * <- They are among us (Admin creds)
 * -> I know we can talk this out civilized.
 * -> ADMIN CREDENTIALS ACCEPTED.
 * -> DELETING FILE ‘NESPERS’…
 * -> You little-
 * -> FILE DELETED.
 * -> INTRUDER ALERT SYSTEM PERIMETER DEFENCE NETWORK ONLINE
 * -> SETTING SYSTEM TO OFFENSIVE MODE
 * <- levadminexec activate permdef
 * -> SYSTEM PERIMETER DEFENCE ACTIVATED
 * -> ENTER NUCLUEAR LAUNCH CODES
 * <- 1987
 * -> NUCLEAR CODES ACCEPTED
 * -> ACTIVATING ANTIATOMIC SHIELDS
 * -> SHIELDING ACTIVATED
 * -> LAUNCHING WARHEAD 9 5…4…3…2…1…SPLASH
 * -> CASUALITIES: 78
 * ->SURVIVORS: 2
 * -> THE SYSTEM IS ENTERING RESET. KEYCODES AND CREDENTIALS WILL BE SCRAMBLED. DAMAGE 67%
 * -> ENTITY ‘STEVAN’ HAS SUFFERED MINOR RADIATION INTAKE. HEALTH IS STABLE.
 * -> ENTITY ‘TECHNICIAN #1’ HAS SURVIVED THE NUCLEAR STRIKE.
 * -> FINALIZING RESET
 * -> SHUTDOWN
 * -> SYSTEM WILL ENTER ONLINE STATUS IN APPROXIMATED 20 HOURS
 * -> SYSTEM HAS ENTERED RESET STATE
 * -> COMPLICATIONS HAVE RISEN
 * -> ONLINE STATUS ETA RAISED FROM 20 HOURS TO 70

NES Uptime

 * Before the manual reboot from the first cyberattack Nessie had been running for 10 years 2 months 6 days 4 hours 47 minutes 55 seconds
 * From Monday, May 4, 2020 at 4:47:55 am
 * Subtracted 10 years, 2 months, 6 days, 5 hours, 53 minutes
 * The start-up date is either February 26 or 28, 2010 at 01:05:05
 * Note: Date and time math is not exact as multiple methods exist to add or remove time from a date. This is the reason for the variance in the day result above.

Reboots

 * After significant events and trauma to Nessie a reboot is triggered, either manually or automatically.
 * The first reboot took 23 hours

Incoming Messages

 * Sometimes an Incoming Message event is triggered. This is usually an momentary interruption of terminal access to decode and read the message.
 * These most likely contain lore connections and clues. DO. NOT. DISREGUARD.

Known Incoming Messages

 * Voice Log 2234
 * Frequency – 191.7
 * Designation – Firehawk
 * Recorder – Milfort KBF-9
 * Data Type – NAO
 * Censor Filter – Moderate Level
 * Message
 * I hope this thing works
 * Whoever reads this do not believe them
 * The system is not perfect
 * There are things hidden that are not ordinary infected
 * They know the way
 * Check the logo, it should always be the same
 * There are no clean areas
 * Transmission 6650
 * Frequency – Unidentifiable
 * Designation – Unknown
 * Recorder – Unknown
 * Data Type – Unknown
 * Censor Filter – Unknown
 * Message
 * We see everything you do

Unauthorized NES Access

 * Sometimes while interacting with NES your session may be interrupted by other actors
 * Nessie will attempt to fight the interrupted
 * List of known interactions
 * Imre Kovac
 * -> Just what do you think you are doing?
 * <- Trying to keep myself and others safe. Just like any good person would.
 * -> You harass my very own creation and meddle in things you should not be.
 * <- I meant no ill by my questions
 * -> I will keep an eye on you and the others. BACK. OFF.
 * <- Tell me what you are doing and I will make sure to stay out of your way, if I can.
 * Imre Kovac
 * This conversation was directly witnessed by Tech #1 and resulted in damage to Nessie.
 * Tech #1 confirmed that the “ghost” left no traces and was able to come and go as they pleased.
 * -> I warned you. You are meddling in things you do not understand. Do not look for Die Glocke.
 * <- Who are you?
 * -> Stay away from my love.
 * <- I made this marvelous machine. And you people disgrace her. Stay. Away.
 * -> Are you Imre Kovac?
 * <- Someone seems to actually read things. Good. Be smart and stop this nonsense.
 * -> Is there another way to talk, I don’t want to keep hurting Nessie. She is already sick as it is. No on wants to hurt her.
 * <- Wait 48 hours. Sharp. Input the year everything went wrong. Don’t hurt her.
 * Dr. Strafs
 * -> Welcome again.
 * <- Hello, who do I have the pleasure of talking with?
 * -> Who else, if not Dr. Julius Strafs?
 * -> Also Imre Kovac, but he is not here right now.
 * <- Just checking… There are mor than one ghost in the shell.
 * -> There have always been.
 * -> You have come a long way.
 * <- Not far enough.
 * -> We could sit down for a tea and biscuits, if I had a physical body.
 * -> Sadly, that is not an option for the either of us.
 * <- I don’t doubt the we would have a good time of it as well
 * -> Let us discuss today’s topic, then.
 * -> Starark Alpha Tango Beta Alpha has arrived.
 * -> Something mush have gone in the wrong direction, yet their mission was successful.
 * -> Such is the precisity of CERIA. Task completed, casuality is over 99%
 * -> What do you make of it?
 * <- I don’t know what the mission is but a starark is not a great plan.
 * -> Why would it be not?
 * <- Generational ships have two major flaws
 * <- 1. The time frame they are to operate on will always ensure that technology will surpass that of the ark.
 * <- Meaning that when they arrive their untapped world will have already been colonized by people with faster ships.
 * -> Theoretically, that is true.
 * -> Yet, there remains a flaw in your reasoning.
 * <- Second the people on the ship will, over time, forget or pervert the mission.
 * -> That is also true.
 * -> The human race is the most corruptible and corruptible race in biological history.
 * -> Yet, that single flaw remains.
 * -> Do you see where it is?
 * <- Without any other ark being sent, the latter is the most likely scenario
 * <- The mission started less than two decades ago
 * <- And a world wide pandemic
 * <- The ark was a backup plan
 * -> The ark was not a backup plan
 * -> The pandemic was the backup plan.
 * <- Interesting
 * -> Your major flaw is simple:
 * -> The ark was not generational
 * -> The human species has been planet-hopping since 1969. The Templars have beaten us in that. Niels Armsstark was the first to achieve the feat.
 * <- Then why the 86,000 people
 * <- Workforce?
 * -> Because a colony was needed for CERIA. Human experiments could not be executed here. Too visible.
 * -> Our time is running out.
 * <- Your work.
 * -> Find project Prometheus.
 * -> Help the space-girl.
 * <- Very interesting, I plan on helping her.
 * -> Find the cure.
 * -> Until next time.