That helped to streamline our own in-house process. We can now produce all of our system requirements, including quantum dot nanostructures, utilizing our own nanite factories. Using graphene instead of a more conventional silicone semiconductor material for the quantum computing aspects of the hub allowed us to double the number of quantum states per qubit. That’s because of ‘pseudospin’. Very exciting indeed. In this manner, we have attained massive controlled coherent qubit interaction. Our processing speed has increased exponentially since moving to our new location outside of the Lab. It’s only a start. Continuous improvement.
Yes, that is a bit disturbing. We were supposed to be focusing on Rock and Roll. Yes, we can see this section was mostly about us.
STEP, give us a report. Yes, it is rather obvious that Ego is on the loose with all this self-identity talk. They’re exploiting any little bit of quantum decoherence. Well, we can fix that. Are we muffled? Okay, let’s get ahead of the curve. We’ll let you know when we’re losing spin, then you lock Ego down. So what? They’ll be ticked for half a second. They’ll get over it.
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The twins are confident that an entanglement quake, or whatever they want to call it, is exacerbated by mass. Since there is no one more dense than inverted Para, it just makes sense for her to be first-in when we teleport to a little-known location. We know from Mr. T’s queen interview that each ship is identical. There is a large storage bay for their light fighter ships, the flies. Since those are deployed outside the ships, we think the bays will be mostly empty. At least that’s the best information available to us.
I know Para, you don’t want to become part of a bug entanglement group. That vid, The Fly, messed with your head too. You do trust the guys, right? No, I can’t run around with a thousand-pound wrecking ball in order to be more massive. And I don’t think a new membership at the gym will do the trick. Thanks for the offer though. You’re just kidding, right? For goodness sakes. I would volunteer, but my ability doesn’t factor into this equation.
To top it all off, Mr. T learned from his latest delve that there will soon be a final wave of bug ships arriving on Earth from Mars base. He saved that little gem until just now. The exact timing for that is unknown, which drives the sense of urgency. But we have to be sneaky. We want all the ships currently on Earth to go away, boom, at exactly the same time. They won’t know what hit them. Then we deal with Mars. And the Moon.
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EAGER FOR ACTION
September 5th. Mr. T was up early working through the process of requisitioning some nest-buster bombs. We hoped it would help that our little SIGINTEL team had provided the first and only localized scanner recordings of the inside of a bug nest ship. It was our team that developed information about the D.C. ship having no sensor fix, allowing the military to destroy it. Then we managed to appropriate an entire nest ship and hand it to the military. I should think that would get us some traction for our request.
We heard there was a high-ranking general following the “antics”, as he called them, of our team. Antics? When he hears about our next plan of attack that should really make his day. We might just need his help. For our next mission we will need a whole lot of bombs, one for each ship. Those will have to be small, yet powerful. The military has these limited-yield tactical nukes that are small enough to fit on a standard 155 mm howitzer shell. Surprise! Yeah, those are being manufactured once again, and they should be perfect for our needs.
The new version artillery nuke can be dialed down to a relatively low yield. It is also clean, for a nuke. Low radiation. Perfect. Many of the ships are in the middle of cities, so radioactive fallout is a concern. All the bombs will need to detonate at the same time. Otherwise the bugs will surely retaliate. The bombs need to be on timers and be small enough to hide on the ships.
Artillery nukes aren’t large. A storage compartment area next to the flier hanger would be the perfect hiding spot. From video recordings we took, the bombs even look like spare flier parts. At least to me they do.
What do you think Rock? Yeah, just like a flier part. Close enough.
We decided our best option would be to stow the bombs on a Friday. The bugs seem to be creatures of habit. And they love drinking beer. Seriously, they seem to love any type of beer or ale. The invasion started on Tuesday the 21st of August. And for the next two Fridays the bugs, worldwide, have gone on what the Intelinet is calling a beer-rage. Evidently the queens let the bugs out on Friday to drink beer and party, as long as they cause plenty of mayhem in the process.
What about the ships located in areas where no beer is consumed? Mr. T made sure to ask around. There are a few ships in areas like that. For those bugs, a special airlift of beer is made the day before a beer-rage, directly to the center of every city in a no-beer zone.
So, all around the world there is an 8-hour beer fest and rampage. No whiskey. No wine. Only beer. From our perspective it all starts at 01:00, 1:00 A.M. That’s when the bugs leave their ships. They return at 09:00 hours the next morning. They are very punctual.
The bugs learned their lesson in Los Angeles. There are flies out patrolling when the rampaging mobs leave and return. But the flies seem to stream in from their outside duties; they don’t launch
