The Ghost In The Gear: Operation Last Blast
Work of science fiction
Omens Foretold Chapter Twelve Part Five Foxtrot
Aneurysmics--What A Blast
Primary Event Narrative Date: April 11th, 1994
Evidence Archive Date: TBD
File Discovery Date: March 2, 2026
Archive File: OFC12EF-1987199404092026/PI15-ANEUR
They stepped off to the side along with the other three commanders. "Remember, the main power enters underground and runs to the northeast tower? Damont showed it extending at least twenty-seven miles out. When he is done we'll check out the robot and have Damont bring up the power lines again, run full comprehensive scans and we'll look for access points to the underground system and monitoring. I'm banking on remote monitoring only further out. We'll discuss more details after Damont brings up the robot for testing and reprogramming."
"Roger that. You want to try and blow it don't you?"
Robot Reprogramming Context
At the beginning of Chapter Twelve we are informed that AI Researchers in 2026 not only discover a badly damaged robot but uncover its identity along with deeply buried files, audio, text files and a simple Play Fair cipher within the metadata and other data tables. The robot was found to have been active for seven full years starting in 1987 running up to April of 1994. The problem is that the system logs show that the unit was manufactured and assigned to the Cyborg Captain in 2025 and showed no interruption in system activity. Essentially, it seemingly walked back in time. The later presumption was that this was Recon-5, a unit reprogrammed and under the control of Benedictus Armilius Monk. Recon-5 was indeed reprogrammed by Benedictus and renamed Damont--time of reprogramming unknown at this time. However, what we are now discovering is that another similar unit nicknamed a Kill Bot by the rebels was taken out during an attack and kept in makeshift storage by another rebel force who later joined up with Benedictus and Damont. From the archives, it is now clear that the unit found decades later by AI Researchers was actually the disabled Kill Bot and Damont was ordered to transfer his identification data into the system data of the Kill Bot as part of a mission later named Operation Last Blast.