Matrix Online: Chapter 11.2: Wright
Matrix Online: Chapter 12: Trinity
The General shows the android body to the Merovingian, says they've completed retrieval, and that it isn't a Machine mechanism.
Shimada is told that the Kid will be back from the no-fly zone soon; he was injured but will recover. Veil sneaks up on Shimada while she's jacked in, muttering something to herself about looking for the program the Oracle gave Shimada. When surprised by an EPN crew member, Veil pulls Shimada's jack, killing her, and escapes.
Gray monitors Wright as she continues her disruptive search through the city for the interface program. Gray tells another Agent to avoid Wright, and to find the program.
Niobe gets a "Wake up" message like the one from the 11.2 crits. This turns "Wake up, Neo," and then a constant stream of "Wake up Wake up Wake up..." Niobe is alarmed, and Ghost speeds away.
The Machines can't detect the program themselves, but Wright seems to have some means of doing so, so they follow her, running into a disrupted computer, dead bluepill, Accelerated Suits (Hampton gang), and finally Wright in Maribeau, where she says she'll have it soon, and the Machines had better stay out of her way until then. She adds, "The Machines left a gaping security hole in their core programming a long time ago. They were only as perfect as the people who made them."
The player scouts Wright activity in Hampton, where she's been disrupting things. With help from Nicky G., they find Accelerated Suits, and track down Manager, the Suits boss, in the Historic District, who mentions hearing about a Cypherite in Morrell who's got override countermeasures.
In Chelsea, a scarred Kid has news of suddenly losing contact with a transmitter they'd left monitoring the Oligarch network line in the no-fly zone. He says the Oligarchs could be on their way to the Machine city and the Matrix. He's also determined not to let Shimada down. The Council thinks the interface program has some central role in all this, and wants it kept out of Wright's hands, to the player catches her trail in Hampton. The operator mentions that the program has used Trinity quotes. They run into Accelerated Suits and then Wright, who says that Zion should be helping her, since she's doing this to put the Matrix in mankind's hands.
Machine operatives talk to Veil about newfangled Wright Accelerated Programs (tough Exiles/Machines with wireframe overlays). Veil points the player to a Cypherite in Morrell, Neglect, who is distributing anti-override routines the Cypherites, led by Cryptos' research, have been cooking up. Gray says that being able to resist overrides will be necessary if Wright's going to be dealt with. The anti-override routines are consumables protect against override abilities like Deceleration, Runtime spawns, and Signal Jamming for a limited time.
Merovingian researchers find that the androids have "data structures similar to what we've found on the Oligarch network," so Flood sends the player to hunt for a data match at an Ouroboros office in Vauxton. The Machines took over Ouroboros a while back, and the player runs into Ouroboros Security and Machines there. Flood says the Machines must have confiscated the data, and sends the player to raid a Machine facility in Maribeau to track it down. The player is ambushed by a Wright Accelerated Program on their way. They capture the data from the Machines, and it does have similarities to the android's hardware. Flood figures the Oligarchs built it. He also mentions that Cypherites think the Wright Accelerated Programs carry valuable data.
Still trying for the program in Hampton, Zion operatives get some static from a Decelerator and Machinists. They're also ambushed by one of Wright's new Accelerated Programs, and run into more of them around a dead Cypherite. Tyndall mentions rumors of a Cypherite in Morrell, wondering if it's related.
With Wright closing in on the program in Hampton, Machine operatives battle a tough Wright Accelerated Program, then talk to Cryptos, who speculates on how Wright could be disabled: "As for what may happen if critical damage can be inflicted on her RSI, that I cannot predict. We know that she has co-opted the jack-in protocol utilized by the Oligarchs, and we know, from Halborn's example, that they were to some extent vulnerable both within and without the simulation. Wright, on the other hand, has claimed to be able to enter the Matrix without maintaining an exterior connection. How that could affect the outcome remains unclear." Gray comes through with the coordinates of Wright's position on a rooftop in Hampton (98 131 -216), saying that she's been staying around there, which probably means the interface program is in the vicinity.
Merovingian operatives go hunting a Machine mainframe in the Park East Gov Building to get real data on the android. There's a tough battle, and they get some help on the mainframe from the Effectuator. In Center Park, the Merv says the data was interesting, as it shows the android was designed to be controlled by a human consciousness--for the Oligarchs to control themselves as a surrogate body? He also wonders what destroyed the ship carrying the android, and speculates that foul play was involved. Persephone is there, still in black and very pale.
Overrides are keeping the Machines busy, which gives Zion a shot at checking out a burst of override activity in Park East, normally heavily guarded. They find a message ("Soon") which the operator thinks is from the interface program, but while tracing it, they're interrupted by a tough Agent, and the trace is lost. The operative is sent to Ghost in Hampton, who says that he thinks Wright's around there, probably high up, and probably with the program. He's determined to look for her. Tyndall says taking on Wright may be the only option left.
Wright is found on the Hampton rooftop where Gray said she was, with some tough Accelerated Programs around her. She is eventually defeated, and when she dies a floating gold code ghost figure appears. Its details say "'It's beautiful...'"
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