I assumed at first that HLN-A was causing the system failures spreading through the rings.
We'd been raised to believe that people had barely escaped an Earth overrun by transhumanism and Element pollution.
It seemed logical to assume the AI I'd found embedded in our simulation engine by a transhuman entity would try to sabotage our mission.
Now that I'm looking over eyewitness reports from the affected areas, I'm less sure.
Why would HLN-A contaminate biomes with weird new lifeforms?
How would an artificial intelligence, even one created by a Homo deus, be able to rearrange the framework of the ship at the molecular level?
However or whyever these things are being done, we're in serious trouble.
I thought I'd done a good job of firewalling any access points out of Genesis, but clearly I wasn't able to shut out whatever is running wild through our systems.
I can't believe this is really happening.