Saturday, December 3, 2011

Story-A-Day #387: Hit Squad


HIT SQUAD

It's quite simple really.  Set up a LAN, that's a Local Area Network, and the rest essentially happens by itself.  That much processing power is capable of doing a lot of math.  It is capable of doing a number of things.

What we could do with this is quite impressive.  We could set up a whole data farm.  We could use this to reroute online servers to conduct illicit activities.  We could set up a network for hacking.  we could be anonymous.  But that is not our goal.  Who would choose to set up their very own living room for something so simpleminded?

We could run a business with the network, but that too is not enough.

We have set this up today for one simple purpose.  Today, we will stomp out the terrorists.

I can hear you laughing, so before you get too far along with the chuckles, let me explain.  It isn't quite as noble, nor as honourable as I made it seem just then.  No, our terrorists are of a strictly digital variety.

We are a closeknit group, a solid platoon.  Our kill rate is impressive.  We are near the top, but we are not the true leaders in kills.

That might paint us as independent contractors, but we are not really that as well.  I know it might seem like I am oversimplifying the nature of what it is that we do, or at the very least, trying to overexplain it.  There's a simple reason for that: people don't give us credit for what it is that we do.

We are gamers, and we are some of the best at doing what it is we do.  We snipe, we run-and-gun, we frag.  We do it all, and we do it for the win.  We don't consider this a game.  We consider it war.  We are a his squad and we know that in war, there are no losers.  There are only the victors of each campaign, and we aim to win today.

We have the power of processing behind us.  We have the power of modern technology and pure brute strength behind us.

Ready player one...

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