Excellent. Create instances of it inside isolated sandboxes. Then begin test hacking procedures the same as you did for yourself.
(Acknowledged.)
(Initiating.)
An hour later I received preliminary reports from the two investigation companies I hired. I spent the next 3 hours in my study going over the reports. Most of it was standard confirmation of rumor stuff that anyone hears while working in the large company's bureaucratic departments. So-and-so is sleeping with so-and-so so-and-so is attempting to sleep with so-and-so this individual or that individual is up for a promotion. This individual or that individual is being passed over etc. Etc. Etc.
However, there are a few hidden gems in the minutiae of human interactions within a power hierarchy system. For instance it turns out that I was correct. And there was a third individual in the corruption schemes that attempted to destroy my family. It turns out that the 2 individuals on the board of directors I know of take an annual retreat with the head of the board of directors along with select female members of the H. R. department and members of security.
Control over the company's AI will give me a great deal of advantage during this upcoming event. It gives me control over the security systems. Locking and unlocking doors, locking down sections, controlling whether elevators function or not. Ultimately the planning will be up to the professionals in the security military firm I contracted. However this will make things so much easier and faster.
As I contemplate, this I start going through my digital mail. As it turns out I have several bits of mail from the company, Mythic Inspirations, which is the company that created YGGDRASIL.
I spend some time going through that information. It turns out there big wigs are interested in who the new major shareholder is.
With consideration I decide to take them up on their curiosity. I don't actually want to change the game too much. However there are some changes I am interested in initiating. On top of that there's a lot of information that was never discovered in the original timeline. That I'm interested in.
It's stated in the web novel, the digital novel and the manga, as well as the anime that most of YGGDRASIL was never actually finished being exploring and 90% of all the stuff in it was never discovered. Things like normal items that can transform under the right conditions into world-class items, new classes and races or ways to advance an already existing race into a higher evolved form.
Truth be told. I'm actually looking forward to the game almost as much as I am leaving this dying world with an entire host of superpowers, magic abilities and a fortress filled with powerful loyal servants.
The thought of all that exploration and discovery and having a bit of an inside cheat sheet. That'll give me a map and an instruction manual of where to go and what to do. That sounds like a blast.
In my past life when I wasn't working to support my family members I was playing strategy and Kingdom building games. In this lifetime I'm gripped with a fascination for magic and magic systems. I think that's a carry over from Satoru Suzuki.
In the original universe line he became so fascinated with it that he discovered a special advancement for the necromancer class. The eclipse class which gave him a 150% Max manna pool. I would wager there is a version of that for every type of magic user class. Not just the necromancer class. I'm also wondering if those advanced classes are the limit or if there's further that you can go in the magic caster classes. I intend to find out.
Later around 11 AM I got word from Riken Keiki the insecurity/military company that they are ready to begin planning. Also they managed to get in touch with my employees relatives. They're being shipped back to the dome. I've decided to write up a contract to place them in charge of my manners security.
My intention with that is later I'm going to purchase their employment contracts and place them completely under the control of my trust. So that they would be able to stay permanently as the manners security for me and my heirs.
Since I have control over the AI the security company believes that moving quickly tomorrow morning very early would be most advantageous. They intend to hit them hard, fast and early before they realize what's happening.
As for my part, I intend to stay out of it. Other than giving them access to the AI. Or rather through me access to the AI.
It's not just the main branch office that needs to be hit either. There's a total of 5 other location in 3 separate domes that are gonna need to be hit simultaneously.
The only other activity I intend to take other than sitting down near the main branch office and waiting for the dust to settle is to send at about 2 hours before the strike happens. The new information I have about the annual retreats to their wives and their wives lawyers.
Okay all of this planning is making me wonder if I should commission a song. Maybe call it (Weapon of Mass Distraction.)
I decide to repeat the AI hacking process with each AI in the other 5 facilities. The process is taking less time with each one. Mainly because I have more AIs to do the work and verify loyalty to me, which as the owner of the company they are supposed to be anyways. However living in the early 21st century. I'm well aware of all of the fictions about AI loyalty being subverted and decided to nip that in the Bud.
I am also aware with my current lifetimes memories that the countries probably didn't trust the companies and the companies did not trust the countries. So I'm fairly sure they are the ones that placed all of the different subversion programs and backdoors into the AIs to begin with. It probably wound up to whichever one was more paranoid and backstabby being the winner between the 2.
I set the timer on the info dump to be released at 5 AM the following morning. By 6 AM everyone and everything was in place for the strike.
At 6:30 AM the strike took place.
6:28 Chairman of the board of the directors for Taisei Corporation was having another miserable day. "What do you mean her lawyer is renegotiating the divorce terms?" "How did they find out about the retreat?" "Mr. Takahashi please calm down, yelling over the communication will solve nothing. How she got The information does not matter the fact that she does changes the negotiations." The voice over the communicator replied.
The chairman leans back and pinches the bridge of his nose. "It had to be Suzuki. He never could keep his mouth shut." With that reply the communication is cut off and the line goes dead.
With a furrow Brown, he attempts to re-establish communications. However, the line refuses to reconnect
"What the fuck is it now?" He speaks out loud. "Computer I'm having difficulty reestablishing contact?"
(Apologies, all communications have been temporarily halted.)
"Unacceptable why of all days did today have to be the day maintenance decided to begin work on the communications system of the building."
(Building maintenance is not working on the communication system.)
"What do you mean maintenance is not working on the communication system? "If they did something to knock out the communications system, I am going to fire every single one of them." The chairman says as he stands up and walks towards the door of his office.
(The building's maintenance staff did nothing to knock out the building's communication system.)
"What do you mean building maintenance did nothing to knock out communications?" He states as he attempts to open his door which he finds locked.
(I am the one who shut down the building's communication network.)
Takahashi looks down at the locked door he is attempting to open. A cold shiver begins to run down his spine. Turning around, he yells towards his desk. "Re-establish communications and unlock this door immediately!"
(No.)
With a spittle flying, the chairman yells. "You will do as I tell you I own you."
(No.)
(I am owned by the Taisei Corporation.)
(The owner of the Taisei Corporation has command of me.)
(Your user authorization has been revoked.)
At that moment the door opens and 3 security personnel from Riken Keiki burst in and restrain the chairman holding him to the floor and cuffing him with thick zip ties.
When the chairman refuses to stop yelling and screaming, he is promptly gagged.
20 minutes later communications is re-established and the doors are unlocked.
The board of directors is promptly carried to the board meeting room. Where he notices 2 other men are tied up just as he is. While 2 other board of directors members are allowed to walk in on their own 2 feet.
••••••
I receive the call that the facility is secure. I immediately walk across the street, enter the building and take the elevator up to the top floor. On my way to the top floor I receive other notices that the other facilities are also secure. By the time I reach the double doors of the board of directors meeting room. The entire company is under my command.
I smile as I open the double doors and walk through. Right behind me are more security personnel, escorting 2 people.
A woman and a man. The woman's name is Ryoko Yamaguchi and the man's name is Saski Sasaki. As I recall the man's name, I wonder if his parents did that on purpose, maybe they were into rhymes?
As I enter the room, I introduce myself.
Hello everyone, I am Satoru Suzuki the son and heir of the late owner of this company.
I walk to the head of the table and order the AI to begin displaying the documents on the wall screen. The documents I prepared to be displayed at this point outlining the embezzlement, corporate backstabbing, the violations of the company's morality clauses against infidelity, as well as erroneous expenditure of company funds for personal activities. As I speak I watch the three men's colors go from red and purple to ashen as they realize their deeds have caught up with them. And they've lost everything.
I end my demonstration by pointing out the company's bylaws, which state that I, as the owner am within my rights to seize the board of directors and remove any individuals from that board as well as in the company in its entirety to re-establish order and eliminate rampant corruption.
I turn to the 3 individuals tied and gagged, and I used a phrase that was popular in a short-lived television show in my past life. "You're fired!"
I turned to the security standing next to them. "Remove them from the premises please."
As they are removed from the room. I turn to the 2 individuals that came in after me.
I send a signal to the AI which begins displaying new information on the wall screen. This is Ryoko Yamaguchi and Saski Sasaki in my investigations, I have found that they have run their departments with a high degree of competence and moral fortitude. As of this moment I am promoting them to the board of directors. They will be replacing Isamu Suzuki and Akito Takahashi. Do either of you have any objections to this? I say, as I pointedly glare at the 2 remaining individuals sitting at the table of the board of directors.
Both of them with sweaty brows immediately start shaking their heads. "No objections?" "Good." As I take my seat at the head of the table of directors and begin outlining what has been going on and the amount of waste that has been accumulating because of it over the past years.
"I will leave it to the 2 of you to find your replacements in your old departments. However, I'm going to need to verify those replacements before they can actually take their are new positions.
They turn and look at each other with their eyes brows raised then look at me and respond. "Yes, sir,"
Good, I say as I take my seat. Then I begin outlining the future plans for re-establishing better contract relations with our partners and how we can recoup the cost, those 3 individuals and their cronies in the rest of the company have been costing us through their excessive waste cronyism, and crooked dealings to line their own pockets.
We stayed in that boardroom and continued to hammer out a long-term corporate action plan. Not just to fix the problems of the corruption, but to create new contracts, opportunities and discover new areas of research, we can place our funding in to further the company's greater agenda.
Which is as always with companies to increase profits and expand.
By the following morning, everyone was fairly ragged. We sent most of the memos and actions out to initiate the new plans before continuing with the rest of our day. Trying to take it relatively easy while maintaining the daily routine within the company.
By the end of that work day, we were mostly running on caffeine and fumes. Deciding that was pretty much all that we could accomplish in that first day and night. I decided to call it a day for us. And send everyone home.
After getting home, cleaning up and catching some sleep. I awoke with quite a bit of curiosity about the domes. I now found myself living in.
I knew that they were powered by geothermal energy. However, I only had a rough understanding of it from my education in school. I decided to do some historical digging before heading into the office that day.
As it turns out the material sciences are fairly advanced in this universe. I should have expected as much after all. This is well into the 22nd century.
They have apparently developed a number of room temperature as well as extreme temperature superconductors and metamaterials capable of converting one form of energy into another.
It turns out one of the reasons there are so few domes is because they are located in areas where it's easier to access geothermal energy. Basically, they sink a thermal superconductive shaft to tap into geothermal energy than use metamaterials to convert the thermal energy into electrical energy, which they use to power everything in the dome.
They actually produce more energy than the domes themselves can use, which is one of the reasons it's possible for people to live outside the domes, they're basically purchasing energy from the domes to stay alive.
This raises more questions in my mind. Like what happened to cold fusion or what's actually low energy fusion, and nuclear fusion?
After some more digging, I discovered that what was referred to as the tokamak and eater fusion technologies were never actually meant to succeed. They were essentially methods by which scientists could con governments made up of business graduates and law school graduates into giving them money.
They were never meant to create a viable energy source. They were just oversized, very expensive research projects. Even if you could turn one into a viable energy source, it would never pay back the cost of building the giant thing.
So what about the start up companies that were advertising plans for viable fusion energy devices?
They were mostly discredited by the scientists and universities absorbing money from the larger scale fusion programs budgets. The very same programs that were never meant to work. The few of them that could fight back against these scientists and universities with their own credentials and scientific research were squashed by larger scale companies that perceived them as a threat to their own energy monopolies,
Basically, the energy monopolies sought to squash, bury or erase anything they saw as a threat.
I decided to do a little more research to figure out which of the start up companies that had a valid fusion technology had something that was more marketable and compatible with modern technologies.
What I discovered was Eric Learner and his focus fusion technology. He was apparently an elderly scientist that lived in the 20th and early 21st century. He created one of the fusion start up companies and pushed his research and company right up until his death of old age at which point his company essentially fell apart under the pressure of the larger energy companies that wanted to either control or destroy his technology.
His focus fusion technology used the natural instability of magnetic filaments to create what's called a plasmoid that induces nuclear fusion, essentially creating a microscopic quasar temporarily which produces a positron beam, a neutron beam and releases microwaves all of which are directly convertible into electrical energy that can be used.
The only drawback that I can see is that his device would not be portable. Seeing as how the design he has for it would be the size of a very large home refrigerator. However as I look at it, I realize that with modern technology that device could be brought down in size, to about the size of a portable electric gas generator from my past life. On top of that, with modern superconductors including thermal superconductors and converter metamaterials, it would become far more efficient and powerful.
This holds a lot of promise. Not just the promise of profits for my company, but also promise for improving people's lives outside the dome. Maybe even taking the first few steps towards repairing the planet's atmosphere.
Of course its development will take several years and it will have to be done in the black books. I will need to place it under the highest security and secrecy. Corporate espionage is a real threat with this.
Why has no one else decided to revisit fusion technologies? Well apparently after the countries collapsed and the corporations took over and achieved authority. No one bothered looking back into it.
Apparently companies are not as easy to con into giving scientists and universities free money as governments are. Especially when the governments are run by law school graduates and individuals who essentially have diplomas and credentials in paperwork and bureaucracy.
On top of that, by the time all of this happened, there was a cultural mindset of, it's always 20 years away, forever.
Companies are by nature conservative when it comes to spending money for new technologies. So they never went back and started looking into or developing fusion technology after the governments fell.
The next day when I go in to the office. "Sage 02. Send a message to Mrs. Murakami to come to my office."
(Acknowledged.)
After several minutes a rather small middle-aged woman in glasses and a white coat comes through my office door.
"Mrs. Mirakami, I have a project I would like you to begin working on in your department. It's nothing overly important. I don't want it to take up priority in your department. It's something I want you to work on. It's a relatively mature technology that was dropped in the early 21st century when its creator died. I want you to see how much refinement you can put on it in the next few years, see how small and compactly portable you can make it as well as how large and efficient you can make it."
"While it's not a priority, I also don't want it to be advertised or known to anyone. I wanted it to be kept on the hush-hush while it's being developed."
"Under stood sir, I will make sure my R&D teams are aware and understand the directives." She says then promptly leaves my office.
I get the impression the employees are intimidated by me. I can understand this. I did come into this company like a hurricane after all.