Digital Warfare
Chapter 1
Future of Befallen Aion
Age of the world is digitally advanced. Men's civilization is technologically developed. It is the age of 21st century. Humans no longer rotate door knobs to enter their houses, they can access tools with just the swift of their hands and information is made available anytime, anywhere. Everything is made easy, everything is convenient and almost everything can be done in an instant. Men is seeing the fruit of their innovation it is something that benefits them. Artificial intelligence technology is very useful to men's way of life. This was the year when they first discovered that AI was able to create it's own program or is it the first time they were able to discover it?
Technology has helped the society, also it bridges Men with evil thoughts to do evil things. We did not learn from the past. We knew the downside of technology but we still seek to improve it, no contentment, always exploring ways of discovery and innovation.
It’s April of 2021 when the US government found out about the old abandoned building. It is a research laboratory facility located in Arlington, Virginia. The discovery of the laboratory lead to an investigation. The details about what the facility is about, who built it, when it was built and what is it for is still unknown.
Ray Alfred Robinson an NSA investigator in charge of gathering information about the military laboratory facility. He know has a lead about the person who discovered the secret location. He is now on his way to Connecticut to find the boy named Allen Peterson.
Allen Peterson is your not an ordinary 14 year old boy. He loves computer games and a certified computer geek. His skills are all self taught, he knows how to program, troubleshoot, and do advanced networking in the field of Information Systems. He learned everything from YouTube and his Dad. Allen is also an outdoors person, not an ordinary computer geek eh! He loves trekking and boxing, his friends call him Al.
One day Al was playing online game called Heroes Underground when his computer automatically booted. He try powering the computer back on. And when he was back on the normal screen he was surprised he can't go back online.
With his troubleshooting knowledge he was doing tried fixing his computer and the network but still can't go back online. Al reached to his phone, holding his phone and placed it on his ear hearing a music on the other line playing. Then suddenly someone answered.
Customer Support : Hi this is Heroes Underground Technical Support my name is John, how can I help you?
Al: What is wrong with your network? Is there some sort of outage? I'm in the middle of my game that level is so important. This is ridiculous! Argh!
Customer Support : I apologize for the inconvenience you're experiencing. May I have your name so that I can check on your account history?
Al: Allen Peterson.
Customer Support : Thanks. Give me a minute while I'm pulling up your account.
Al: I've tried doing the troubleshooting and changing the network settings but I'm still unable to connect.
Customer Support : I see. Are you getting any error message?
Al: It says you are not connected to the game.
Customer Support :We don't have any outage today. We will perform the troubleshooting again let's see if that will fix it.
Al: Ok. But like I said I already did that.
Al was on the phone with the Tech Support Specialist for 2 hours and still the issue with his online game still unresolved. Al is really frustrated because he can't go online on his game. He can access other websites but not the Heroes Underground game.
Al: so what now? We've tried the same steps I did and I even did advance troubleshooting like changing the network settings, IP, DNS and etc. but still have the same issue.
Customer Support : I can sense that you are very knowledgeable with computer and was able to perform the advanced troubleshooting procedure on your machine. I will need to check this with our advance support group and I will give you a call or email as soon as we have an update on this.
Al: Thanks.
Al was very upset that he can't continue playing his favorite computer game. Al just laid down on his bed. His eyes was shutting off when suddenly he remembered about changing the server configuration. To fix it Al needs the DNS address that could possibly route him back to the game. And since he can still access the internet he Google it.
He searched for a couple of addresses and attempted to route the network back to game but it didn't work. He tried older IPs on the list of an archived page and was able to connect. Now he is back on the game. When Al was about an hour in the game he suddenly saw a pop up. A message appeared that gives him an option to click on continue or quit. Of course Al won't quit the game he just started playing. After he clicked on continue another message appeared this time the message was "downloading".
Al didn't mind the message he continued with his game. The download finished while on the game. When he got tired and decided to stopped he exit the game application. He went to his desktop screen and he noticed a folder a folder that wasn't there before. The name of the folder is Project Pyxida.
Curious about the folder, Al opened it but he wasn't able to open it for it was encrypted.
Al: Hey Tom. Have you encountered this kind of folder in the game?
Tom: Which one?
Al showed the folder to his friend and a fellow gamer.
Al: This one it has a logo of a compass in it.
Tom: It's my first time to see that. How did you get that?
Al: I forgot. I was trying to fix the network and changed some IP's on my machine when I something was downloading and thay foldee showed up on my screen.
Tom: What's inside? Can you open it?
Al: I don't know what's inside. I'm trying to open it but it's encrypted. Hold on! Let me try this one. O M G! BINGO! I'm in.
Tom: What are those?
Al and Tom seeing a bunch of letters, numbers and codes they are not familiar of. He tried using his programming tool to check on the codes but he can't read it.
Al: This is something I'm not familiar of. I'll study on this codes tomorrow.
Tom: Is that some kind of an item or a gift from the server?
Al: Or maybe it's a bug or I don't know. But I can fix that.
The following day Al was working on the folder called Pyxida. He discovered that the folder contains information about a secret location, a research laboratory facility. He saw the details about the experimental project the scientists and military was working on and it's location. He kept the details to himself. Al was so curious about the location on the folder he did some research on it and found nothing he even went to the public Library but did not find any.
