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Sundae and Alekson, using Osiris and other terminals as a spare power surge, manage to establish a brief connection and try to rip some useful data from the dying electronic landscape in this section.
Several things are immediately apparent:
The subjects are deep inside a Sanitation Cordon, alarms are blaring across the whole grid, and power and connectivity is intermittent. This area is a sequestered sub processing interlink node for the enormous PHARAOHS system, processing clusters humming away in power cradles, and it is only sheer luck and surprise that has brought the Subjects here at all. Normally, this hardened environment is encased in a massive, meter thick faraday cage to ensure no outside access to the machinations of the enormous digital minds that meditate the facility systems. Through sheer cosmic coincidence, the elevator shaft, hammering down at enormous speed, tore through floors above this section and deposited the Subjects, barely alive, amidst the humming and thrumming nerve-cluster of enormous informational capacity that makes up this area.
But - studying the graphs - Sundae notes an oddity. Very few systems rely on organic material. So why is this whole place some sort of alien ecology, half sprawling in its grasping attempt at expanding and mutating and evolving?
There -- look! Alekson taps the terminal and the broken thing emits a shower of sparks -- it seems half accident, half plan. The BIOLOGICAL PROCESSING CORES, paired with the MESH PROCESSING CLUSTERS, usually make up some sort of dynamic web of information. Due to the influence of the Subjects in their escape above, the biological processing systems have mutated wildly beyond expectation and started consuming the whole area! Fleshroots, woodflesh, stranger things, thrumming apiaries full of wasps for dynamic system disorder modelling, they're all running amok, nudged on by the influence of the subjects and the grasping attempt at avoiding death by collision!
