Ayesha Hall was a brilliant woman, inhumanly brilliant. But the problem she was facing was on a cosmic scale, while Eric Gibson’s experience in this area was invaluable, but he was limited by his lack of vision and his mercenary nature obscuring his imagination. Frankie had been invaluable in more ways than one, which allowed her to isolate that reality and hopefully fix this truly existential crisis.
“Are you listening to me, or am I boring you? It seems a little late in the game to be tuning out,” Nuani said as she looked over the final stages of the experiment.
ELSI appeared and said, “Everything is at optimal values, we are ready to begin. The Door is ready for activation, we have accounted for the interference, thanks to the new data from your sister we are all systems, go.”
“There is an assault underway at the Kagumbo,” ELSI added.
"Both," she responded. On a monitor bringing up images from the attack. "Security is alerted, but if they are determined I doubt I can keep them out of vital systems."
“Contact search and rescue, we can’t let those people be out there if they mean harm to the ship,” Ayesha said coming out of her internal thoughts. “They need our help, maybe we postpone…”
“Once the Door is operational, I am going to run the Kintsugi protocol and see if that helps with you know the larger issue of the dissolution of our entwined universes. There will be a brief acceleration so monitor for that ELSI,” Ayesha said as they approached the lab.
Ayesha watched as Nuani approached the Door, it was a large circular device that was buzzing with power. The final cycles of the process were coming online. The specialists were bringing online the Kintsugi protocol which caused a slight vibration across the chamber.
Nuani waited as the door came to full power, the systems went green and the door made a secure connection to the other side. Ayesha watched as the Kintsugi protocol approached 100% creating more violent vibrations. ELSI reported in that there were distortions across the globe, but it was within expected results.
Ayesha frowned, she knew this could happen, this would increase the bleed over to expose the cracks and then they would inject the so-called fix into those exposed regions. But it would mean that both sides would bleed into each other. The after effects being… unknown. But her guess was that it meant people might get stranded on the wrong side.
But the greater good was all that mattered.
The door blazed open and she watched Nuani step through. Everything was going as planned and then the alarm klaxons started as ELSI went offline. Nuani was through but now she had to handle the millions of tasks manually, the engineers scrambled to pick up the slack but this was going to be a rocky ride.
She quickly brought the backup AI system online and monitored the numerous distortions globally. The system powering the Kintsugi protocol maintained optimal output before the system burned itself out and everything went dark.
Nuani had gotten through, but it would take days, maybe weeks, without ELSI’s support.
