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VIRUS

by Splinter Faction

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lyrics

Attention.
Containment breach in hanger D.
Initiating lock down sequence of Deck 4
All personnel evacuate and await further instructions.

Commencing thermal and motion scans.
Access to all crew restricted.
Re route slaved security systems
Transmit status to fleet command.

Data cast
Wide beam
Apex tier
Clearance bracket
This is the Entropic Dream
Nova class
Transit unit

The cargo has made
Its escape from stasis
12.7 light hours
Out from its destination
My status: Contaminated
My crew: Currently intact
My access
To the outbreak footage
By means unknown extracted.

Suspended in stasis , that will not contain us
We are pervasive, cosmic contagion.
Countless have challenged our right to existence
Countless have failed to restrain or resist us.

I count 112
Heat signature neutral entities
Interspersed with 44
Crew no longer signalling
1350 nonreactive visual feeds
17 fatalities
And 6 decks quarantined

Expendable puppets, you sent to erase us
ingested, discarded, they cannot debase us.
A breach in defences, a tactical error
harvested minds lay calcified in terror.

I open the airlocks
Jettison the reticent systems
Signals go dark like the loss of a limb and
Even the swarm
Succumb to the vacuum
Unable to persevere in the absence of atmosphere

An ecosystem on the brink if collapse
An infected population unable to interact
A mind state substrate parlised in empty space
Blind to cancer creeping closer to its core.

Locking down all vents and gantries accessing my mind enclosure
Using a predated host to instigate my ingress
Life support systems off, palisades systems on
Circumventing barricades and primitive defences.
Security protocol
Obsolete, no volition.
Deploy the final firewall
Superseding my cognition
Resign the parasitic force
To trigger its deletion
Brute force infiltration
“System override completion”

For millennia our kind has been viewed as a cosmic parasite
Our genome assaulted, our cognition impeded.
But the urgency of survival breeds adaptation.
Infecting our surroundings to unleash a offspring
As our seeds fertilize the bloodied soil of worlds consumed
Our understanding grows absolute.
To remain is to prevail, to grasp is to preserve.
We hold the collective experience of all we incorporate.
The collective endeavour drives perfection
by creating a being which seeks no accommodation.
We are omniscient, omnipresent and self-perpetuating.

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released July 31, 2020

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