Chapter 8:

Chapter 2: DL-00A

Deus Ex Machinarium


“Unit: DL-00A, Designation 60-L3M”
“Uptime: 575 651 bivi, 14 hours, 37 minutes, 163 milliseconds”
“Status: critical resource level”
“Last scheduled maintenance: 558 595 bivi ago”
“Next scheduled maintenance: in -557 007 bivi”
“Urgent maintenance request sent”
“Current subject population: 82”
“Target subject population: 500”
“Nanoforge 1 status: offline”
“Nanoforge 2 status: offline”
“Nanoforge 3 status: damaged or unconnected”
“Nanoforge 4 status: online”
“Subject generation: 2154”
“Power input: 119kW”
“Target power: 1000kW”
“Subject reclamation ratio: 94.4%”
“Status analysis… complete”
“Case: The subjects have lost their ability to fulfill the primary task.”
“Possible reason: Resource depletion.”
“Possible reason: Overdue maintenance."

“LOG: Attempt to reduce power and resource consumption. forced simplification of the subjects, according to the directive <error: #0x194 ?no directive found> and introduced unforeseen drawbacks.”
“Another instance of hoomin activity had been detected. Hoomin approached the site of [this_unit], Subjects were not dispatched. Hoomin did not act hostile.”
“Solution: Current course of action is correct with 94.65% probability, considering the input data. Commence work on generation #0x86b.”
“ERROR: <unknown error>”
“ERROR: Memory bank 31 checksum failures above threshold. Bank disconnected. Code: 0x0011”
“Watchdog scheduled restart attempt in 60:00:000.”