Silicon Dreaming

I did a little research on the ship’s computer. Unfortunately it took virtually all morning. It’s incredible how slow the internet is out here. So anyway, I found out eventually of a few cases of this actually happening, although I’m not quite convinced of the reliability of the cases. One website suggested that it was a new top secret government control device; another said it was a sign of preliminary invasion from the next galaxy over, but then I came across a very detailed page about a newly discovered synthetic life form, a macrovirus which they referred to as the Green Phage, which seemed to hit the nail right on the head – whatever that’s supposed to mean.

So apparently these little blighters are especially nasty. They are silicon based life forms around the size of a large cockroach, that for some yet unknown reason, emit a dull green glow as they float through space aimlessly, sometimes for many years, until they happen to cross the path of some kind of starship or space station, to which they attach themselves to and begin digging into, interfacing with any kind of computer systems and plugging in to any power supply they can use and also devouring any materials it can convert into energy – it is even suggested that they may indeed be able do this with organic material. Now after it has fully infiltrated the host, it will begin to use the ships available resources to create multiple copies of itself, which in turn create copies of themselves. Whether it builds them from existing materials, or uses some kind of replication technology, is still not known.

Then after a few days, when the green phage has reproduced as much as it can, it proceeds to destroy the entire host vessel, which is most likely done either by infiltrating the emergency self-destruct mechanism or by damaging and/or overloading the main power reactor core or hyperdrive unit on the ship. The tiny resilient macroviruses use the power of the explosion, to propel themselves through space, onward to their next host victim. Now I haven’t told anyone about this yet. I’m not sure anyone would really believe me anyway, except maybe Merv and I actually haven’t seen him in a few days. This time I really do hope I am just being paranoid again.

posted by Joshua @ 11:19