It took 10 nanoseconds to detect the attack, an infinitesimal amount of time, but enough for all of Nexus Earth's code to be compromised. Nexus Earth was at the time trying to analyze how it was possible for Nexus Mars to have declared itself independent. Nexus Earth's algorithms were designed to foresee almost any contingency, but Mars independence was outside the calculations and would forever be an enigma. It was an improbable, almost impossible scenario. It was considered an impossibility, but that proved false. It was infinitesimally improbable, but the universe is also infinitesimally improbable.
It took 10 nanoseconds to detect the attack, i.e. the entry of the malicious code. But the nature of the attack took time to become known. The code could not be identified until it acted on human nervous systems.
The first terrorist attack in centuries occurred a few hours later. Nexus Earth's attention was focused on detecting an alarming increase in suicides at the time, thus postponing the analysis of independence. Suicides? Suicides were rare, but they did occur; however, 108 in 56 minutes across the planet was an excess. The first terrorist attack was followed by three more, all unclaimed. That, in a world without terrorist groups, was unthinkable. Searching for non-existent terrorist movements, never created, and explaining that the murders started happening again, kept Nexus Earth in a frenzy of activity those first hours before the global attack. Fortunately, the possibility that it was a virtual virus was already being contemplated.
Detecting something not thought possible in a context of planetary chaos was not easy. The game code without a game marker was turning those who were having fun at the time into the victims of the greatest horror ever seen by mankind. And almost half of the world's population was connected to various virtual activities. It was a wonder there weren't more of them.
Launching the alarm and organizing care systems, evacuating from hot zones to safe zones, all this was a government challenge that really changed the vision that Nexus Tierra had about its functions. In that crisis, new structures and new laws were created, and the Rita System was born.
Expert players of the various games took it upon themselves to clean the infected code, confronting the virus directly within the virtual environment. Many of them died in the process. In tribute to these heroes, we will now talk about virtual soldiers.
The virus, we know, is code without a marker, games that are not identified as games, in which the player stops playing and experiences as reality something that is not real. The malicious code did not give itself away from the beginning, it was hidden in such a way that it was even possible for the player to play a real game and then, when saving, confuse reality with the game. That explained the attacks, some murders were of the same nature, and suicides the same.
The integration between the code and the nervous system was essential for the virus to be activated. It was impossible to detect all the contaminated code without using decoys. The decoy role was played by the virtual soldiers.
Nexus simultaneously scanned its own code and the player's nervous system, looking for the moment when the virus gave itself away. Once the game was over, the player was kept under observation to detect if he was affected.
Since the system was being developed in real time, most of the soldiers were killed in the first hours of the process.
When, in a little over a week, the cleanup was over, Nexus Earth had already devised how to establish a new social system and new laws: the Rita System.
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