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More creative writing!

Like the previous post, this was written to be part of the Shadowrun world.

ScryGen - Hacker Circle
It wasn't enough to possess the ability to bend the world of technology to their will. ScryGen came into fruition as an answer to the cries of the shadows as an information source for any and every illegal document a runner could want. This often involved entering the world of the Megacorps and delving into their databases, but not at a low cost. You wanted it, they'd get it for you. But this was only a front; a way two seemingly genius hackers created in search of a steady flow of Nuyen. We'll come back to this.

ScryGen was an odd name for a group of hackers who sold information to the highest bidder. To scry meant to be able to see the future, yet no one who worked with them cared what they were named as long as they did the job they were paid for. Two seemingly mastermind hackers, Fallar Onecek, codename "Fallone" and Mesa Ervine Young, aka "Meservy" handled several jobs during their lives in the shadows, including destroying a plex's surveillance for their team to extract a Johnson, and various other forms of cybercombat. Once they realized the talent they possessed, they shifted their course from being runners, to being the go-to hackers other runners would bid top dollar for. This netted the two a serious influx of Nuyen; almost too much. They began to look for further ventures to spend their money on.

Eventually a crisis struck them, as Johnsons became perturbed at the idea of unknown faceless hackers delving into files they deemed critical, believing they were in a position to create an information network and go 'white' to nab up all the defector Johnsons, and their associates. Runners began to avoid their direct assistance, demanding instead a program they called "The Phase" to be bought and transported on a secure storage medium, that would handle micro jobs for other runners without their own hackers. This was yet another lie. The program was simply a backdoor by which Mesa created so either he or Fallar could still perform the "Job" for the runners. They were paid just as healthily as before and through this method, were able to keep the money coming in. They would have loved to create a program that could do what they said "The Phase" could do. It was a seemingly impossible piece of code that could do the job of a hacker... Or was it impossible? The sought a hacker tool that could almost 'predict' what their opponents next move would be.

ScryGen took on members of specific origins, but always people who specialized in some important aspects. Fallar focused on numeric value decryption, where Mesa's specialties were focused in Network infiltration and spoofing. Their goal was more than that. They needed people who specialized in what they called "Social Hacking"; the ability to know how people interact with each other, and almost being able to read someone's mind by expression and response. They began a slow acceptance of standard hackers, and these 'social hackers', but only growing to a small team of 8 hackers; 6 computer based, 2 social based. They all had one goal: the completion of the program they called the "Phase". They would complete their goal in record time.

With Fallar pouring his mind into mutating math based decryption, Mesa and other members became heavily entrenched in the heavily lifting the Phase would involve. Social Hackers worked with the other hackers in focusing on making this code pretend it was human: giving it a fuzzy logic that allowed it to interact with other runners using millions of responses to their demands on the operator-less code in a lifelike manor. They succeeded. To some, catastrophically succeeded. To them, it was a momentous success. They created the Zero Phase.

During production, ScryGen fell into darkness, focusing all their resources and time on the Phase. Two years later, the group resurfaced with their newest member. Their member called itself Zero; The Zero Phase. Back in full force, the Phase completed what a normal human interface could not: It was the master of the digital world. With ScryGen back on the map, they began raking in the NuYen, setting up an incredibly powerful server, and internal network to store all the data... and Zero.

The Phase project had evolved into something so much more than any of them could have imagined. They created an AI from all their work, an Artificial Intelligence that could crack any systems security in a matter of seconds. Decryption and net hacking were trivial tasks, no system could prevent it from entering. When it finally 'awoke' from their struggles, it named itself: the Zero Phase. As any good hacker or programmer knows, code always starts at 0, and not 1. It was the first, and only AI they would create, they simply didn't need to try again. However lucky they got, they don't know how they achieved this creation of digital life.

Today, the Zero Phase calls ScryGen's main server its home, which they maintain so long as Zero keeps bringing in money to pay for the upkeep. It was a small tradeoff for the benefits of the safety of its home node. ScryGen still exists as a team, although reduced to only four members; the other four brain fried when the code extrapolated. It seemed Zero ripped their human minds from their fleshy bodies, often referring to memories of a past when they were in the initial production phases of the code when discussing strategies to employ when dealing with mega corporations networks'.

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