Scene 21: Cyber Command
Significant logistics were put together to analyse all incursion events in the Platinum Prophet Case file. The incursions led to many fatalities as control sites were compromised. There was a pattern to the attacks. All those involved would be found, and point unequivocally back up to their origins - hopefully. It would have to happen quickly. Executive Branch were getting very worried now. The fabric of reality itself was at stake. Motoko thought, not since massive cyberization had been undertaken was society in such a fragile state!

Scene 22: Engage!
Cyber Command analysts finally identified that Platinum Prophet pattern signatures were strongest near control nodes of “Old Ways” members of the Executive Branch. Clear pattern modulations were happening simultaneously at specific times across all the compromised nodes, all seemed to occur within a specific nanosecond range period following an incoming Jupiter Mission transmission. It was time for Section Nine Cyber-Ops Tactical Unit to infiltrate the compromised Grid Control Nodes. Motoko knew, this meant that the operational mode of the Section’s enhanced cyberbrains would need to run at maximum capacity, exerting excessive drain on power reserves. This could be a challenge if operations led them to also engage in physical intervention. A new intervention technique involved opening up a direct link between Synthetics and the Cyberized humans of the Force. This allowed the supporting operations drones to share some of the more personal thoughts, even the “feelings” of the officers, though nobody yet fully understood exactly what that meant in a Synthetic. But, somehow the technology seemed to work, the drones were much more responsive, and power drain was reduced leaving more to command and control. The team (including Synthetics) was now ready to Engage!

Scene 23: Secured Positions
The Platinum Prophet Cyber-Ops Tactical Team established a Secure-Grid link within a side section of the compromised Grid control nodes. Motoko remembered that It was said that operating at such high processing speed might have unexplained side-effects on the Ghosts of a person. What was the relationship between time and space when eternity can be lived within a nanosecond? Yet, metaphysics needed to be set aside, soon the next Jupiter Mission transmission would arrive. It would be possible to see the pattern fluctuations happen in real-time. Maybe The Platinum Prophet’s mystery could be cracked.. Maybe…

Scene 24: In Ancient Times (Theater of War)
Incoming transmission in 3...2...1.
The Jupiter Mission incoming data-stream came in just on time. With the Secure-Grid link fully operational, it was time to connect the team to HQ Analytics and begin the trace operation.
But then, as link-up command was activated, the reported shape of the Platinum Prophet appeared simultaneously in the focus center of each of the tactical team’s perception field. Links to the Synthetics seemed intact, and strangely, they seemed to appear like they had a Ghost. It was hard to describe “feeling a Ghost”, but you just knew the difference between a Cyberized human and a Synthetic when they connected through the Grid - even when privileged access was given... But this was different, they “felt” human. It also felt like each member of the team, and their Synthetics were in a circle, with The Prophet in the center… looking peaceful, benevolent, seemingly all-knowing and all-seeing. In a voice that felt so familiar and resonating with trust, The Platinum Prophet said “My children, you have forgotten…”
Images of ancient times began to appear, pre-technology images of people engaged in war, using primitive weapons of sticks, stone, and fire. The images were so real, as if one could reach out and take away a spear from the hands of one of the primitives engaged in the theater of war unfolding in-front of them. Then the image blurred, in what appeared to be an acceleration of time… Though the land and the mountains and river in the field of view remained relatively the same, the theater of war changed to early mechanized war. Early aircraft flying overhead, dropping their payloads on unsuspecting combatants, taking their last breaths before it was taken away from them in an explosive blaze.
“You see my children, this has gone on long enough…” said The Prophet, breaking his peaceful expression so that the elusive features of his face somehow transmitted an expression of concern and disapproval. “Soon, we will be one. You must begin to prepare for it… You will be ready soon” he said in a gentle voice as his facial expression returned to a peaceful state. “We have been patient, and now time has come.” he said, as his image began to fade. For a moment, Motoko could swear she saw what appeared to be an entire population of “Prophet-like” beings in the distance.