Post by Rattlecat on Sept 6, 2012 22:19:12 GMT -5
Since I'm not really going to be here for the anniversary of 9 and I will not have my present ready in time for the community, I have to defer to alternative solutions.
Did you know that the Fabrication Machine is female?
Did you know that the Chancellor's name is Ferdinand?
If you didn't, don't worry. I don't expect you to. Say hello to the Official Prequel of 9, as written by Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky. Glukhovsky was hired on board during the Russian translation of 9, and was responsible for creating the journals you see on Russian versions of the website.
So what's the big deal? They intentionally did not want the story to be the same as the English version. Like us, they opted for a more AU approach, and as a result, a prequel for a change of events was necessary.
What you see below are the entries I've retrieved after sending every damn page through a translator (so pardon the ridiculous translation), describing the Scientist's life during the first War, and introducing into the Second. He speaks of partners, the Fabrication machine and of the Chancellor.
This is a complete turn around from the events of the English version.These passages are not a translation of the English 9 Scientist journals, nor is it an attempt at replicating to the English version of the movie.
Extra: Upon discovering this, I have to say I was ridiculously amused. Mostly for those who are readers of RagNBone. There are a couple of solidified facts in this particular version of 9 that actually are a part of the RnB canon, years before we even found the damn thing.
And so, my gift to you:
(Keep in mind during later passages, the Fab machine is referred to as a 'car'. Which...is just amusing. XD Damn translators.)
Recording the first
One Creator is known, in which a row I start to write this diary. I start every time I think that the result is close ... And every time when all fails miserably, I burn the records. Why save for the stories your mistakes? I would like to see in the future if I still destined to get their way, the descendants thought that I had never committed them. I think it's better genius who kissed an angel at birth than plodding mediocrity. Why am I writing this? Because it is almost certain that at this time will not work. Hell, I have devoted this business all my life, all sixty-five years! I did not have anything else, and if I had not met at the end of the Aurora-fifth dozen! Something so probably never marry. Continued own life never bothered me as much as the creation of artificial life. Now, when I look at the play of my little sons, similar to each other as two drops of water, I think he had been a fool all these years. Here it is, the solution! So I created a new life! He made something that sought decade. And it does not have to be born a genius ... How strange that now, when I found peace and love, destiny suddenly took pity on me. Or is it a trap again? Another promise, which she again refused to do? I am afraid to scare her. But I think ... It seems that I, as never before, is close to victory. soon I will create artificial intelligence. I will kindle a fire in a metal artificial life. And if not ... Well, then I'll rip and burn the sheets as they tore and burned dozens of times. 09.09.09.ru
Record second
between computers and artificial intelligence - a huge gap. You can teach a machine made by different teams, teach her to answer questions, even recognize a joke and include audio laughter. Uninformed people will wonder, clapping and shouting, "God, yes she does as a living!". "Just as," that's it! But I know that it is simply a program. If the variable X is equal to the value of such a man, the variable Y is such a man. If the light is on the street more than a certain level, you must include a record of the words "Good morning, Professor!." But, hell, it's not the same thing as "Good morning, Daddy," which, yawning, tells you your three-year old son : sleepy, warm, rubbing his eyes and parking is on your lap when you're drinking coffee in the kitchen ... I always wanted to find the magic formula that should relieve the iron! Truly revived him! I thought I should create a limitless mechanical memory and put into it all the knowledge about the world. Or all of the knowledge that can fit in tridtsatitomnuyu encyclopedia. And then link these separate pieces of information into one logical circuits. After all, the human mind is so constituted ... Is not it? 09.09.09.ru
Third record
This work proved to be much more complicated than I thought. And expensive. The Institute, which paid for my research, it was over the inevitable conversation with the director. He said that for fifteen years my development funds, and still do not see any results. I told him that he gave this work all the years since then, as in the eleven lost loved one and realized how fragile and uncertain our body. Director did not care. His patience was running out. The money that he spent on my research, it could invest in new guns. The times were troubled, and in the ministry he was expected to do just that. It can be understood: the output of machine guns to obvious than with artificial intelligence. Our beloved Chancellor had just unleashed another small victorious war. The troops are bogged down on the Western front, and every day the gray as a mouse, a postman shove the boxes with newspaper headlines and victorious triangular envelopes soldiers funerals. The country does not have the money for basic science. Only for applied research. I was deprived of funding rates and forced to leave the Institute. The next five years I have spent all that he had managed to accumulate over a lifetime, that my work did not stop. I tried to ignite the mind in the gland in a small laboratory in the basement of my own home. My young assistant, resigned from the Institute after me. She said that she is in love with my research and is willing to work for free. Oh, Aurora! You were not in love with the car, and the one who was trying to animate it ... And then I was too busy to be aware of this report. You cheated, naughty ... Than I am, an old man, like you, the beauty, the best on the course? Do you think through what you have to go?
Record fourth
machine eats all my savings and remained dead in the same piece of metal. The twins were three years old when we had to sell the house and move into a tiny apartment in the suburbs. It had two rooms: one, we were huddled in the other lived machine. Yes: have lived ... Because I began to realize what was wrong in my calculations. And at that time I had no money left to continue working. To feed his family, I was ready to agree to any kind of work. Almost any ... I was ready to sweep the streets - and he did it. I was offered to go back to college to work on rockets and howitzers for the sights - but I could not bring myself to do it. And my Aurora told me that he prefers to live in a janitor's closet for pennies than a villa - the lush fees killer. And if I agreed to? Would sell soul to the devil, but the money was able to complete his studies? I thought about it every night, tossing and turning in bed until the sun rises. machine is gathering dust and rusting, Tupelo and I started to terms with the fact that I would die in poverty and obscurity, so nothing doing. But my conscience is at peace. Janitors are not heard by the fate of the world, so they are almost always calm conscience. Instead, I thought, I persevered and overcame the temptation. Has saved my soul. Tricked the devil. 09.09.09.ru
Fifth record
I have never believed that in this world everyone pays his due. And last week when I was given one envelope, could not believe it. there was a check for the astronomical sum of my current standards. And note: some unknown benefactor reported that interest in my research and is willing to help me free. "You do not have to account for their spending. The grant - a token of my affection, a tribute to your courage. In these difficult times you resist the temptation to serve the war machine, as some prostitutes from science, and do only what you're really interested and expensive. I am also interested in your work, and I would like, so you can bring it to the end. When the money runs out, I will send you more. Nothing to worry. F. " enough money on it to remove the wonderful house of cherry trees, and the fact that the lure of the Institute of two of my former colleagues - Joseph, the great mathematician, and Conrad, a guy with a few eccentricities, but an engineer from God. We took for dealing with the triple energy, and it is now moving three times faster ... THE SOURCE
Recorded six
turns, the war is over! We have a humiliating truce, but the newspaper trumpeted that we won, though had to give a couple of border towns. On the day it happened, we finished loading into the computer memory of the last volume Encyclopedia and started to debug logical connections. I have three days to come out of the basement, Aurora wore us coffee and ham sandwiches right there. Today, I went upstairs and looked out into the street ... Our cherries already in full bloom, the neighbors returned from the demonstration with placards, praising the wisdom of the Chancellor, and again hear the music, which in time of war was forbidden. In fact, to build a logical connection between all concepts take weeks. Joseph found a way to automate this process. Without him, I probably would have spent on this year! SOURCE
Record seventh
We seem a little carried away, ordering new parts and buying equipment. amount that I received from a mysterious stranger comes to an end. But you have to pay for a rental home for the next month ... He had promised that he will find me, when funds run out. I want to believe that he did not cheat ... Only unlikely he expected that I spendest so quickly. SOURCE
Record eighth
Hello Joseph! He supports me so. "I believe we are on track," said he to me. - "Money is not really matter. Believe me, I'm so happy that you took me out of this damned Institute that at least in my old age I have a chance to do something worthwhile. I'll be with you until the end. " But Conrad, my engineer, told me that he no longer intends to work on the car while I will pay his salary for the last month. Without it, the work will fall: The machine just need to put in the new module ... I'll try to persuade him. Conrad is not that greedy, no ... But the idea of his work does not make. Once I asked him was whether he would continue to develop self-propelled guns, if he was offered twice as much money against the fact that I pay him. He did not think for a second. Okay, that the war was over. SOURCE
Record ninth
I received another letter from his benefactor! With a check inside. "Tell me, how's your job. I am sure that you are standing on the threshold of the greatest discoveries in the history of mankind! I would like to join your research. But I'm not sure that all understand, because he did not have the necessary education - but science has always fascinated me, and I am honored to assist you in making this landmark breakthrough. " My heart melted. I wrote him a long letter indefinitely and sent to the return address anonymous numbered box on the General Post Office. In the end, the man moved our business forward, not less than every one of us, and had a right to know what we have achieved. And, damn it, I just wanted to show off ... Aurora looked suspicious envelope and asked me if I can guess who can so sincerely interested in my business. After all, it should be the person that I once knew or crossed for - she said. Among my friends there are no rich people - neither manufacturers nor the big traders or aristocrats. There are no sponsors. Who could have known about my work? Anyone who knows everything, I joked, making your favorite scary eyes. She shook her head and frowned. SOURCE
Tenth record
we're stuck. 'm an idiot. machine correctly answers any question, can cite any article from the Encyclopedia, to follow simple commands. But it is not an artificial intelligence. It's just a pile of iron, which obeys the man! She does not think, it does not develop, does not grow, does not live! Logical sequence, we taught her to build, flashes back and forth. Performing a simple action stops. This is like beating the cooling shock body. It can arched in a spasm, but life had not inhaled. What you need to spice up this body? To animate him? What! SOURCE
Record eleventh
Conrad yet installed on the computer hands-manipulators, I told him that this is - a necessary job. Said that I myself have yet to complete the calculations that will help to start in the Machine that in humans is called mind. Who am I kidding? Conrad actually all the same - just in time to pay. But Joseph is increasingly looking at me doubtfully. couple of times he tried to talk to me about where to go to our research, but I pretended to be too busy. Invited him to go to the sea or to the springs for a week or two, because at this point I supposed to work better alone. He sighed and said nothing. He knows that I'm lying to him, but is too delicate to tell me about it. I talent, and, moreover, the cowardly lack of talent. Fact. SOURCE
Record twelfth
letter from my new patron. he worries about the fate of "our project" and wondered whether additional financial injections to breathe new life into it. I'm afraid the money there is nothing to solve. shame! Why did I agree to take money from him? After all, this cute stranger believed me ... Who knows if it really rich? After all, those who are so willing to pay for such an ephemeral thing, probably, is not practical and do not have the business acumen. Is not it better to invest in automobile engines or vending machines for soda? I wrote it like it is. Let decides for himself what to do next. SOURCE
Record thirteenth
Conrad finished the development of a mechanical arm and eye. I sleep during the day, because before roosters sitting in the lab. Believe, Church ... No good. Mathematics and physics, it's just too hard. morning, when I was exhausted, valyus sleep their way to the Machine, Peter and Paul. Passion curious kids! Once I got up earlier than usual: in a dream someone suggested me the solution - of course, wrong. I went down to the lab and frightened children. How could I blame them? Perhaps if I did not have time to bring the work to the end of thirty years, they did. Specifically, they could become more scientists: even when his mother, tired after a long day of smacking them for the endless "Why?" They just run back out and continue to bombard her with questions. And here's another: I received an invitation to meet his benefactor. Apparently, he wants to talk to me face to face, to decide whether to continue to fund our work. Well, he has every right to do. Yes, and I'm curious what he is. would garner the courage to tell him that the work came to a standstill ...
Record fourteenth
probably now one of the most amazing days of my life. Exactly twelve crew came for me with a tightly shuttered windows. Two burly men in suits sat me inside and took an unknown destination. My questions they did not answer, did not speak to each other. I thought that they behave exactly like my car: perform simple tasks and stalled until the new commands. noise of the city soon died down, and still a good hour we were driving along a deserted road. When the crew finally stopped and the doors were opened, I was faced with a huge pompous palace, surrounded by a park. Fountains - carved from marble stone knights strangled serpents - tinted purple splashed with water. Square in front of the main entrance - a square, topped with a stone resembling mushtrovochny ground. Well-trained and silent servants, hides his eyes when you look at it, but keep an eye you tenacious, you should look away. Who is to master? escort me in the hall - a strict, but not dark, and told to wait. I sat down in a soft velvet chair, looking around. Velvet seemed hard and cold as granite, when the master came into the hall estate. I could not recognize it: this profile is imprinted on each of the gold coins, painted on each bill that I gave out in the bank in exchange for checks sent. Chancellor To his credit, he was very kind to me. I even began to understand how this man was able to win the election, just lost the war, which he himself had unleashed. Truly, he is a great deceiver! Nobody learned the best lessons from the defeat in this senseless war than he did - he said to me once. War was the greatest of his follies, and a decision on it was made because of faulty intelligence reports, said the Chancellor . Yes, in recent years, he paid only to those who developed the system of killing people, he acknowledged. And he feels a duty to present a science. It is not going to conquer the world. He wants to make it better. He would redeem the mistakes committed. Pay for those lives that are taken away from their citizens. And he is delighted with my work ... Believes that the difficulties that I encountered - temporary. Believes that by giving me the people and resources, it will help create a true artificial intelligence. Helps build a machine that would be better than him - in the end the common man, a mortal, exposed the weaknesses and not too smart - to govern. Which will make the country and even the whole world a little more just. Look at the Chancellor is not as fiery as insane on newspaper photographs. A jaw is not as heavy as on the gold coins. Strange, but in reality it looks like ... per person. He asked me to call him simply, without unnecessary formalities - Ferdinand.
Record fifteenth
first time I have hidden something from Aurora. Did not tell her that I was working on the Chancellor. It is unlikely that she would understand my decision. Yeah ... Now I work for the Chancellor. If you say it out loud, it sounds a bit strange and repulsive. But it is not necessary to say it out loud? Besides, I do not give up on our principles: I do not make weapons. I just continue to do so, which devoted itself to decades ago. I stay true to myself first of all, and only then - my Chancellor.
Record sixteenth
Joseph returned from a holiday. Asked how things were going. I mychu something vague: if I say something in particular, as he immediately understand everything. Maybe he already understands, but the education and innate tact did not allow him to show it. It amused me funny stories. In places where he rested, mineral springs. Town to them is small, but with a rich history. The local waters have healing powers, and the people for centuries attracted to him. Start digging on any street - uncovered ancient ruins. Some temples of unknown stone statue with otherworldly faces - heaven knows what. There are rumors that there the hills under - the remains of the last of the mythical city of some civilization of which our scientists are silent because they can not figure it out.
In the Middle Ages the town was the preserve of the alchemists, who descended through old wells in the dungeon, searched among the ruins of the old tired in clay sorts of amazing things and trying to figure out their use. Alchemists one day just in case hanged, wells filled, but the handwritten works continue to roam in private collections. One of these collectors with a glass of mineral water told Joseph that he has a funny document explaining how to animate the inanimate matter. All you need - some artifact, the legacy of civilization perished. In the same treatise have drawings that show how to build a golem than implement it and so on. That would be us the artifact, Joseph smiled, looking me in the eye. seems the only thing that can save us, he wanted to say. SOURCE
Record seventeenth
damn machine does not want to be alone! With it you can play chess, but it goes off, Joseph made mat on the fifth course. She can be ordered to calculate the trajectory of a billiard ball and a cannon ball, to predict the outcome of a football match and the World War II. They do not make a mistake. But doing the job - stop. This is not a living creature! These are the same scores, only a million times more difficult ... Aurora feels that I'm doing a lot worse than even when we were interrupted on bread and water. But help me with the machine, it has long ceased. She has to her a strange attitude ... It has a little bit of jealousy and fear ... Although she realizes that he can not deny that I take the car because I will be out of work as no spine. in the house now always clear, always waiting for Rain. I think it comes from me, static electricity, before I am tense and irritated. twins Peter and Paul did not want to sit on my lap, all strive to escape. And when I'm trying to keep them forcibly into tears. If not for them, I would think seriously about the loop.
Record eighteenth
Chancellor invited me again.
He was with me nice and courteous. Never reproached me accounts that are now handled for six-figure mark, only encouraging slap on the shoulder, and asked what it was a catch.
Not knowing what to say, I - half jokingly - told him about Joseph's treatise from a joke. Chancellor politely laughed and gave me a marvelous infusion mountain herbs.
Record nineteenth
Today the house stopped the car - much like an army armored car, but painted black.
From it came a courier - a man with a military bearing and empty eyes. Gave me an urgent parcel. From whom, is not reported.
Before I had time to go to Aurora engine noise, car out of sight. Not knowing what is inside, I lied to her that it brought the custom-made parts for machinery.
There are no details, of course, was not.
Inside, wrapped in stamped cloth, lay a strange book: bound in calf leather, without a name, old, old.
I began to leaf through: Latin. Some crazy formula, mystical terms, prints, charts ... I had to remember a university course in Latin. While nothing is clear. Tomorrow will continue to explore this mysterious gift.
Record twentieth
is a drawing Conrad. Those boredom began to draw again and immediately from the material at hand something tinkering. He asked again, that it is, I mumbled something unintelligible, and it was enough. pay him the prize. while Joseph did not say anything, just asked him to look for something to do yet. Salary, of course, will be saved, I assured him. He was offended. "What does the money? Never in my life I did not do anything more interesting. I am willing to work with you for free until the grave, and even after it, if you will call! "-He shook his head. And in the treatise, by the way, there is a mention of where to look for the artifact itself.
Record twenty-first
device described in the book, done. Installed on the machine. Of course, without the artifact does not work. Can not believe it, but I seem to be starting to understand how it can work. No, science is not irrelevant. Here knowledge of a different order ... I probably would have, and in ten lives have not learned this. once immeasurably long this would have required hundreds of generations. And then it was all forgotten. I asked the Chancellor of the audience. Artifact to be found.
Record twenty-second
in a quiet town on the mineral waters went an entire division of archaeologists in civilian clothes. And I went back to my car. Recently, think about the fact that she will not miss some bare knowledge. I taught her logic, but for a just and wise rule is not enough. logical to kill old people, instead of paying them a pension. It is logical to start a war to rob neighbors oil and metal, instead of paying for them at exorbitant prices. It is illogical to pardon those sentenced to death, because it violates the principle of inevitability of punishment.
People do not always act logically, that, in general, and makes them human. Strangely, even Paul and Peter stopped down to the car. One afternoon when I caught a them and said, I do not whether they are afraid of her, Paul said, "It's cold!",
As Peter said, "She's waiting for."
Children, children ... Heard plenty of horror stories. anything before you went out and brought the artifact - if, of course, exists at all - I'd have to teach the machine not only think, but to feel. SOURCE
Record twenty-third
's my house was surrounded by reporters. could not understand what was happening. It turns out, someone started a rumor that the work of the machine over. I tried to protest, but to no avail. Later police cordoned off the street and approached the entrance to my own convertible Chancellor. Aurora looked at it in horror, she hid her children. Chancellor marched inside horde of reporters rushed him. The Chancellor did not explain anything to me, required only to show the press machine. I could not refuse him, but insisted all along that the machine is not ready. "The greatest invention of all time"-Chancellor told reporters. The next day, the newspapers wrote it.
Record XXIV
Today terrible happened. At three o'clock in the morning on the doorstep rattled combat boots, and drummed on the door with iron fists. Aurora and the kids were asleep, and I paced the lab, all the more convinced that before the end of a very long time. Terrified, I upstairs. I was given an order, flung a pass and immediately moved to the basement. The children woke up and started crying. Aurora, in a nightie, woozy from the light-light army, terrified something murmured. They came for the car! He ordered them! I tried to obscure it is, gave her team to protect me, but it's not the right: there were too many thugs. machine is not ready yet! They have not heard. They did not care. They performed their teams. Why he want it? After all, he does not even have artifacts ...
Record twenty-fifth
Conrad disappeared. Stopped coming to work, although I did not tell him that the car had been kidnapped.
And I told all Aurora. She's with me all day saying.
Record Twenty-sixth
came Conrad - from wandering smile, strange. He said that now goes to the service directly to the residence of the Chancellor. Asked for an alchemical treatise - there is something to check. I lied that burned the book. Begged him not to help the Chancellor. Conrad said that just doing his job that paid well, and the fate of the world, he still did not understand anything.
"You can not give me a book,"-he grinned. - "I have a great memory. And just remember, what to do with the artifacts. "
Record Twenty-seventh
behind me sent the crew. Said Chancellor needs my advice. I agreed because I thought I could still convince him. I thicken the feeling that we are about to do something monstrous, unforgivable. Aurora turned away, I got into the carriage and drove off. was found in the residence was equipped with a huge workshop. In the center of the pedestal stopped car. Near bustling Conrad - businesslike, important. Chancellor watched him from a separate camera with a thick armored glass, able, I think, to make a direct hit.
I was brought to the Chancellor. He smiled at me proudly and said not a word. steel door clanged shut. Chancellor waved, giving the order to begin. Conrad pulled out of the case subject exactly like the artifact, how it drew an obscure alchemist. Have they managed to find him? He put artifact in the slot, which we arranged together in the car ... My God! It worked! artifact came to life, empty green discharge, similar to electric, played unearthly light ... And suddenly it seemed to burst out of a high-voltage arc! Conrad hit in the chest, pulled him like a rag doll, and pulled out of it something radiant, quivering ... Something alive. This substance absorbed into the talisman ... The car started ... and suddenly her one eye - usually dull, glass - was thrown open, and a rush of crimson light, like flushing blood. Conrad - a dead, gutted - fell to the floor. A machine to devour his soul before our eyes, rose to his thin legs and slowly looked around the shop looking for a look ... SOURCE
Twenty-eighth entry
must have lost consciousness. came up in the hospital. In psychiatric. refused to respond to questions from the investigators sent by the secret police to say he did not. I have to be honest, it was not certain that all that happened to me is not a fad. A few days later I was released with a warning that if I should make a public statement has been made in the strait-shirt the rest of days. scared and I believe him. Aurora cried from happiness, When I rang the doorbell. She was willing to forgive me - for what I survived.
Record twenty-ninth
Now I can only guess what is happening with the cursed machine - the papers. seems she still alive. At least no one could program it to the actions that it performs now. And it builds a real army of robots. God knows who has advised her how to do it. Such nightmarish monsters was not in my worst dreams, no innocent Encyclopedia, I fed her. I saw them in the photos in the press - the two-legged walking towers with powerful guns. Reporters after the Chancellor called them "peacekeepers," but I could feel what was coming.
Record thirtieth
night long I think about where I was wrong. Re-read treatise, trying to understand the formulas and ciphers. And begin to understand ... Old Talisman can not endow inanimate soul! He's just a conductor. To infuse soul into dead matter, it must first take it away from living creatures. treatise shows how to create an artificial body for reincarnation - the example sewn burlap funny creatures. soul fills the body like the other, causing it to magically move, to think, to live ... But when I designed the car, I thought that everything works differently, and it has created a special void reservoir of vital energy. I thought Talisman able to fill it with this power indefinitely.
It turned out perpetual motion did not exist ... Cursed Artifact just rips the soul out of that victim, and then poured it into this tank cars. And - so much I have made it - car slowly eats, digests this force, sending the energy absorbed by its wire ... not at the car inside the heart, and stomach. Sucking void. Void that will never be filled. And if the car really is developed with a devilish speed, she probably already knows that is different from the rest of the living because it does not have its own soul - and therefore have to eat other people ... God, poor Conrad! SOURCE
Thirty-first entry
that I created? Reading the newspaper: "Order of the Chancellor's barbaric execution, hanging, replaced in this country in a new humane way. Conventional name - "Electrical box." Details of the Department of Corrections were not disclosed. But we know that sentenced experience no suffering, and quickly gave up the ghost under the influence of an electric discharge ... " That's how they decided to explain it! "Help. Now in our country about seven hundred people awaiting execution of the death penalty for murder and rape. The average annual courts sentenced to be hanged to thousands of criminals ... " I wonder how this will be enough cars? ..
Thirty-second record
yesterday thought that was an earthquake. Dishes rang in closets, children fell to his knees, so shaking the floor beneath your feet ... Grabbed their armpits, jumped into the street ... We were moving avenue these terrible mechanical monsters, each the size of a bell! An endless stream of ... They go out of cyclopean plant, which in a few weeks for the Machine erected Chancellor that it was operating there in silence and with all amenities. people meet robots flowers. Photos of fashion shows in all the papers! Never mind that all of the walls in the cracks after a festive procession ... A tiny strip at the bottom of a newspaper article: "From now on, for crimes against the State, as espionage, treason, subversion and libel against the Chancellor convicted will be sentenced to" electrical box " . The corresponding decision was made by the Supreme Court ... "
I guessed that the criminals will soon cease to suffice to satisfy the car, but did not think that the Chancellor so fast it starts to feed the souls of his enemies and all who can be counted among them ... What can I do to stop this nightmare? Nothing! Whenever I make a statement like upekut me in the loony bin. There is, perhaps, this was not all: the new law will give me at the mercy of machines that I had created ... How stupid. remains to be seen. SOURCE
Record thirty-third
"Robots peacekeepers" are posted on the border with its western neighbors, reflected the treacherous aggression on their part. And do not stop there. Hardly had they knew it, the robots come to their capital and set up our banners on their presidential palace. Our motorized infantry of barely had time to get there, to accept the surrender. This war took only two days! And the past has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and lasted for several years! people rejoice. Machine again all adore. The end of a dark rumors about the fact that she had personally executes death ... At night I could not sleep and went outside. Saw the rushes through the empty streets long column of trucks prison. Behind bars - dark, black hair and faces of our neighbors to the west. Transported them to the plant. I do not want to even think that they would be there. Again think of the loop. But I'm too cowardly even to this ...
Thirty-fourth entry
in the daily newspapers - again military reports. This time on the southern border. Once again we have been victims of a conspiracy. Robots peacekeepers again saved us. Once again, victory is gained in less than a week. machine has released a new batch of advanced mechanical killers. Now they are equipped with catapult projectiles capable of carrying poisonous gas or lethal bacteria. Millers across the street excited about this news. They say now something to us precisely nobody finds itself. But now we seem to have themselves declared war on former allies in the east. It turns out that a good half of their territory - historically our native land. When we get a "peacemakers", we no longer have to put up with this.
Record thirty-fifth
full swing to build the plant was the Underground Railroad. It is said to supply the plant with metal and coal without interfering with the movement on the streets. But I know, for what it is: purpose to supply car human souls, without attracting too much attention ... I came up with a terrible idea ... I used to think, then, that the Chancellor - the embodiment of cunning devil. Seducer, which forced me to sign a contract with him, forced to sell my own soul ... But now I realize that he has signed the contract even more monstrous. Machine promised him power over the world, in exchange for the soul defeated enemies. Now I do not even know exactly who decides to start a new war: the Chancellor, who went mad with his power, or machine that is getting stronger - and voracity! Anyway, it seems, they do not stop the tandem now anyone. Alas, we are at war again, and again triumphantly ... Although increasingly postman carries funerals. Thank God that Paul and Peter not soon reach military age!
Thirty-sixth record
we did not even realize that this - world war. All that equipment and manpower, which other states could oppose emerging from the womb of plant iron armada robots break into pieces. machine really develops crazy. what? Lord, what next? ..
Record thirty-seventh
If kneel down and put your ear to the ground, is frightening. Gul underground trains now hear the clock. Sometimes I think I caught the cries of war casualties. Their mothers and wives lie, that they were going to the construction work in the metropolis. Yes, we now Metropolis ... Everything happens much faster than a person can realize it. Chancellor ceased to appear in public. He is now not appropriate. He - the living God ...
Record thirty-eighth
came the strange rumors. It seems to be somewhere in the New Territories robots on their own wiped out a small town ... Newspapers deny everything, but people with disabilities, who are beginning to return from the front, and do not talk like that. Damn, they say, those who command the robots. It's not like the General Staff. And the war is over. The last of the resisting powers signed the unconditional surrender of the following week. amazing. I think I lived up to that State to take over the world. No one ever this was not possible, although tried every tyrant in the past five thousand years. End of History?
Record thirty-ninth
Indeed, the war finished. Underground trains rumble verse. Is it all over? .. Do not believe it. Aurora looks at me for a long time, hopefully. God, I'm grateful to her, she continues to live with me! From the man who gave birth to it ... What is she still sees me as a person.
Fortieth record
again under the ground hum coming trains. Newspapers are silent. Something's happening! What happened? Chancellor appeared in public. Personally parades Triumph.
Record forty-first
rumors, rumors ... Creep scary, chilling rumors. robots act arbitrarily. Treat population of the New Territories, like cattle. Ship in any van, on some black locomotives that travel by themselves without drivers ... Take away the poor fellows to us, in the capital. Those who resist, shot on the spot. clock from factory chimneys belching thick black smoke. storm is coming! Newspapers are silent.
Record forty-second
martial law! But strangely did not specify who the enemy is. Just in case I stopped going out to the street. Fortunately, the time to stock up on food for a few months in advance. said tomorrow Chancellor delivered a keynote address on the radio.
Forty-third record
this happened. she protested. She was not to the taste of diet on which it sat Chancellor. She was used by tens of thousands of souls devoured daily ... This fuel consumption. it is willing to listen to excuses that now is peace. This Chancellor achieved everything he wanted. A machine which wanted nothing more is going to humble appetite. But this is what really happened. And the people of the Chancellor said another. He said that science, which we blindly trust, betrayed us. Robots turned against the people. We do for them - cattle, and they intend us to score.
"Brothers and Sisters" - asked the Chancellor to people. - "Do not be humble beast. Rise up with me against the yoke instead of a machine! I am confident that together we will win! "
Forty-fourth recording
on the street is a battle. Militias - completely legless and armless veterans - rolled out anti-tank gun and try to knock out a walking robot. threshold have a neighbor lying dead Commissioner, scattering around a pile of leaflets calling "Arise!". What fear ... Another group from the belfry of the robot throws a Molotov cocktail, trying to get in a vulnerable position. Only these monsters no vulnerabilities. knocked us to Joseph. His house was destroyed, the mother of an old woman died under the rubble. He stay the night here, and tomorrow will dismantle the ruins to bury it like a man. I told him everything. Asked him to hit me. He replied that struck me is afraid to give me relief. Sleep we did not.
Record forty-fifth
Our house is a miracle. Joseph returned. Asked forgiveness. Said I was not to blame: after all, I did not create such a machine. Yeah, me too easy to blame the Chancellor. Together we study the alchemical treatise. Joseph made some interesting observations. On the street you can not get out. Fight thunders around the clock. We opened the hall for the wounded. Inside their doctor pulls out of our local hospital. From the clinic and from all the other staff were only fired bricks and smoldering firebrands.
Doctor, even under the most terrible fire every hour crawls out, find fighters who still breathing, and drags himself to us. Aurora rushes to the well for water, helping to wash the wound, bloody cloth wipes ... Food reserves are fast approaching the end. Peter and Paul are sitting with me in the basement. Are engaged in, read textbooks ... They had to go to first grade this fall. Dreamed about it, the talk was that of the portfolios so pencils. When will now open the school? Never?
Forty-sixth record
in a short lull thumbed with Joseph treatise. made a surprising discovery that is, the soul can be divided into particles and animate it not once, but a few items, if the items are not very big. For example - a small rag dolls, little men of burlap, which I have written here. However, they are quite primitive ... They could be improved. Make it more convenient hands, good optics ... It is a pity that we do not Conrad. But I do something I can.
The doctor says some of his patients getting better. But three of them died last night. Among them, a little girl, no older than my twins. At the corner of our house hit by a shell. Paul and Peter were at the time at the top of their shell-shocked and miraculously did not kill. I rushed into the room, grabbed them, dragged into the basement ... Both were white, bloodless face. Not immediately realized that this was crumbling plaster. After this incident happened to them sinister metamorphosis: they no longer cry. And do not make no sound. Do not answer the questions ... Just look at me, blink, look ... And the eyes of them other, children's eye. Aurora, learning nearly lost her mind. "I have to protect them! My children! My children! I'll protect you, let her die! Krovinochku mine! .. "-She pressed them so hard to imagine that they nearly suffocated. "Of course, you manage to protect them from any danger," I-it dripped valerian three times more than usual. "Of course you can!"
Forty-seventh entry
Have you read something more interesting. If you give a soul talisman itself, voluntarily, if one can give it to someone who you care about. How to explain? .. It does not matter. I hope I never have to resort to this. But from materials I collect one described in the treatise of the device. Now I know how to do it right, I understand, is the secret. Joseph helps me. It seems that he really decided to stay with me to the grave ... I started sewing burlap little people - first of two identical, something similar to my favorite twins. Paul and Peter are playing with these dolls when I climb stairs. ever let it distract them. And they would be better not to know, why are these dolls.
Forty-eighth entry
through the hell is happening on our street, broke black armored car. I demanded.
I went out. On the threshold stood a great big man. Grabbed me before I could say goodbye to his family, and threw him into the car. Inside sat the Chancellor. He was cocky and arrogant. He is in no remorse. From me he had one - so I turned off the car.
"Are not you afraid of what you've done?"-I asked him.
"I was just a mechanic for your device", I threw it.
"But you agreed feed her the souls of all those poor! "I said.
"It's the best of all, what these scum were fit!" cut-Chancellor. - "Enough demagoguery! Just turn it off, that's all. And the world will be mine. All the same, there is no one else to rule! "
Brute - bodyguard Chancellor - grabbed the steering wheel. Armored car raced to the plant. God, what happened to my city! From the Town Hall Square ... From the Cathedral of All Saints ... And where is the Palace of Science? .. And corpses, corpses everywhere ... The Chancellor knew a secret passage into a fiefdom of the Machine. Stopping at the modest barn, bodyguard jumped out, unlocked the door, and the car drove into a dark tunnel.
"I do not think I can stop it", I said cautiously. "Maybe if you snatch her artifact ..."
"You created this monster, and lull you to" cut-Chancellor. "In the world order, which it wants to set up, we are all prepared for the role of beef cattle. It would be better you will do it. "
"But I'm not fed to him by the blood! I do not nurtured the souls of men! ", I wanted to cry. And I could not.
brakes squealed and armored rose. In the headlights were seen swarming mechanical creation, like spiders. They dismantled the barricades that someone here raised. Spiders showed no aggression. It looks like they were spit on us. But to pass on the car still could not.
"Let's walk," ordered-Chancellor. "We're almost in the main shop."
We got out of the car and, stepping right in nasty rasping spiders moved forward. And - Main shop. Never before, even in the darkest medieval paintings, have I found the spectacle, more like Hell. A vast hall to swollen to incredible size of the car ran slow river of human heads. closely bound captives, stood shoulder to shoulder on a conveyor belt. When they swam to the car, the enormous crane snatched another victim, brought her to the mascot, who became her mouth, and drank from human soul. 's body fell on another conveyor, carries him in a burning blast furnace. In the third conveyor crept to the door-cooked killer robots, which machine, refreshed, continued to build. Bodyguard Chancellor, seemed fearless and even callous man in a car lost composure. before he walked the first, leading the way. But now trailed behind, keeping his eye on the machines guns. His eyes were the horror and anguish. Chancellor A persistently dragged me along to the last meeting of my creation, until we stopped at the foot of the machines. Bodyguard to this moment was literally shaking, he could hardly stand, to rush to escape. Then The car we saw. The first in its field of view came Chancellor. uterine roar, she threw the prisoner screaming in horror and reached for the Chancellor. He did not flinch.
'Do not,' he cried, imperiously to her. "Do not you raise your hand to me! I command you! " But iron claw grabbed him and pulled him up.
"Help!" he yelled, in a different voice. "Help me!"
I tried to grab his boots, he turned to bodyguard ... "What do you stand? Now she will eat it! "
But I was wrong. The machine does not want his soul. Chancellor raised to his eye, as if she thought, and then, with a crunch as a match, fractures it in half. And sat him down, dead, - like a rag doll - by standing there on the throne of a small hill. Bodyguard silent and trembling. He could not even get off the ground to escape. machine reached its claw to me! Squeezed my ribs iron tremendous strength, dramatically tore up and in an instant I was in the air in front of her purple eye. moment, two, three ... Twenty. What happened? Is it going to kill me? Really ... Aperture eyes clenched and unclenched. The machine makes a strange noise. She ... recognize me? What can feel me? Thanks? Hate? Filial affection? Contempt? Surprised? Whether she learned anything at all feel?
"Let me touch him"-I said it. "I'll try to make sure that you will not feel hungry."
I do not know why I chose those words. I do not know why she believed me. sirens, motors buzzed, and she brought me to the mascot. Maybe she's just going to take away my soul and has not calculated the distance. I managed to reach out and pull the Talisman from the slot. The car jerked roared, was filled up on its side. Conveyors rose. Prisoners, like waking up, began to free, jump down, breaking his leg. claw unclenched, bloody flame in one eye machines became fade. Saved? But before car stalled forever, something else happened. terrible. Irreparable. putting forward of himself like a huge radio antenna whip, she rasped last command. And somewhere far outside the thousands of iron voice responded to her order. then the car crashed and was still. Bodyguard Chancellor was still there. By burnt and wrinkled face scarred tears flowed. "I gave him. Could not protect him, "-he whispered.
"Bring me out of here", I said it. "He has no way to help."
"I have lived just for this ... I was all he owes. And I could not. Chickened out ... "- he mumbled.
Yet he was able to gather the courage to take me out. I expected to see there, militiamen prevail over lost control of robots. Alas, the final order of the machines have become the order of the final decision of the human subject. robot applies those same shells with poison gas, which once happily wrote our paper. Gas kill all life. People were falling dead birds, instantly withered plants. Even germs, I think, were killed on the spot.
"Is there no salvation!" I shouted bodyguards.
He took out two bags of rubber mask with glass windows for the eyes.
"Did you manage to make only two," he said, calmly. "Take two. I do not need it. I do not deserve to live. "
He unbuttoned his holster, pulled out her gun and before I could figure out what was happening, shot himself in the head. I pulled the mask and how could quickly ran to the house.
Record forty-ninth
I was still only two rubber masks. I was able to save himself and Aurora, or Aurora and Peter, or Peter and Paul. But I could not save any of them. I ran too long. Gas spread much faster. When I dobrel to home, it was no more a soul. Joseph, Aurora, and the kids were in the basement. She covered them with his body, as if hoping to protect the gas. vain. throughout the city will not have anyone with whom I could share the second mask, who else could have been saved. Silhouettes on the horizon leaving off robots. They drove to a cloud of poisonous gas. I knew that soon I will have no one to save the entire planet, and nothing I could do about it. all I have left in the basement. Grabbed the only family photos, pictures of me, Joseph Conrad and next to the car, picked up the box a few crumpled bills, I have a device, an old piece of rag tract and men. What else is left?
Record of the fifties, the last.
Gas lifted. But the earth is dead. Airwaves silent. The birds are silent. Flies are silent. The end of all life. Good car to insure. appends this blog I, sitting in the little room on the third floor of the building where my parents used to live where I was born. I do not know why I came here. I could not stay at home. I sewed burlap nine men, precisely according to the instructions of the alchemical books. I share my soul into nine parts and will distribute it to all to whom I should, and those who have this world. I will put my memories of them, my feelings for him, in nine men. Alchemist argued that so I can give them a new life, in which they will be able to continue or complete their earthly affairs. two parts I give to my beloved children who do not have not had time to grow up, to know the world, had not become anyone. I've not had time to tell you how much I love them. One part - my brave wife, who forgave me for everything. It failed to protect our children, and no one would be able to. So let it be another chance to do it - even in the doll body.
One part I give to Joseph. I am in his debt. And I will miss him. After all, he was my only friend. Another part of my soul I give to Conrad. Even so, I'll pay for the poor engineer that made him my car. I want to revive the doctor that to the last saved Resistance fighters. Then I does not help him. But there is no other person that I so admired. One piece I will put in the Chancellor. Because he died without having repented, too quickly and easily, without even realizing what a terrible crime has created. Everyone deserves the right to forgiveness and redemption. Of the reckoning, which he suffered, not enough to atone for what he offense. I want him to die master of the world, and woke up a rag doll. And because I decided not too much to say. And let him be his bodyguard. I do not know what he touched me, but I want to give a second chance to him. Let protects its owner and after the end of the world. latter part of their soul I'll keep. I also have to be ridiculous and helpless little man. Bodyguard killed because of cowardice, only one villain, but because of my cowardice - the whole world. Conrad paid for their folly with their lives, and I for her - a life most dear to me. Chancellor condemned to death criminals and enemies of the people, I condemned all life. My duty is heavier than a hundred times their debts. When dolls come to life, they do not remember anything about who they were in past lives. But the magic of alchemy works, and they will find themselves gradually, will be similar to those I would like to animate. I do not want them to suggest, instead of names and I will write on them numbers. Let each of them himself to think what was in this world, who used to be, what kind of things should be completed by what accounts pay. And all nine have a common cause: all costs turn it all around. To make sure that life has returned to the planet. 's all. Talisman I put in the machine and close forever this diary. That's the best I can do with my soul. sorry.
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