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CODE FRAGMENTS: CERBERUS

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FILE TYPE: Reconstructed Code Fragments

PERIOD: Present Day

TOPIC: Hostile UESC operations

SUMMARY: Code fragments from a damaged UESC unit's command module, containing orders for hostile ground operations on Tau Ceti IV. Orders appear to originate from a previously unidentified AI, "Cerberus." Annotated by ONI.


[AUTHORIZATION] Cerberus

[IF]
    timestamp > 2787

    [AND]
    query: contagion = true

[THEN]
    [EXECUTE] data: harvest

    [EXECUTE] data: purge

    [IMPLANT] CHORDODES [1]

[ELSE IF]
    timestamp > 2787

    [AND]
    cID: NuCal = true

[THEN]
    [EXECUTE] data: aggregate

    [EXECUTE] data: purge

    [IMPLANT] TRIOXYS [2]

[ELSE]
    [EXECUTE] patrol

[END IF]
[1] UESC cyberwarfare program targeting end user who attempts to access the purged data. Updating cyberwarfare procedures.

[2] UESC parasite program compromising WEAVEworm integrity. Updating shell firmware to resist hostile implantation.


TYPE: TEXT [X]; AUDIO [  ]