The day had finally come to activate what was perhaps the pinnacle of Cyberiad engineering. The entire Cyberiad Council had assembled in the Panopticon's control center, save the Chancellor of finance who had chosen not to attend as "A show of protest towards the absurd cost of the project". The program itself was beyond top secret, only the Council and elite members of the Science, Intelligence, Construction, and War departments knew the full details of. The building's seemingly monolithic above-ground tower was passed off to the public as 'a communication hub', which was not far from the truth, the building did function as a communications relay, but its true purpose was to broadcast the Panopticon's data to wherever it was needed. The tower also housed a fully-realized quantum supercomputer; one of the few in existence, the head scientist and engineers came to the conclusion that it was the only thing that could possibly process the astounding mass of data that the Panopticon was theorized to generate.
"Are we ready Magnusson?"
"Yes sir, Argus is nearly ready to be uploaded to the Quantum Core. Isn't that right Argus?"
Yes, I am prepared to begin uploading my cognitive matrix into the Panopticon's Quantum Computer.
"Would you like to do the honors, Sir?" Charles Magnusson, the Cyberiad's Chancellor of Science asked as he handed a very unique looking key to The Commander Prime.
"I Would be Honored" Sebastian Bartimaeus replied as he inserted the key into its designated switch.
"I still think it should be called the Heimdall" Interjected the Commander In chief Orwell.
"It is too late to change it now."
"Aal hi dein ko ahrk spaan mu enook." The Prime prayed quietly as he turned the key.
Initializing upload...
Red lights and alarms blared moments later.
"What's happening?" Bartimaeus shouted.
"I'm not sure, something is interfering with the upload."
The control room was a flurry of activity as technicians desperately worked to track the cause of the breach.
"Shut down the connection to the core and disconnect all external communication lines! Bartimaeus, I'll root out this breech and bring it before the council as soon as possible."
"See to it that you do as quickly as possible."
Several hours later Science Chancellor Magnusson, looking a little disheveled, hurried to join the already assembled council.
"The error we encountered was a highly sophisticated virus, designed specifically for the quantum core. Technicians are working around the clock to dismantle and debug all the processor modules to ensure all instances have been destroyed. This will delay the completion for several days. We have no choice but to assume this is an act of internal terrorism..."
"... What makes you think it was terrorism?" Interrupted Cheif Ambassador Samantha Bennett.
" The virus was introduced and uploaded to the core via a private government server in the intelligence department. The virus was developed with Cyberiad software, but it was all a diversion. A second attack acquired information about the Panopticon. Fortunately, the encryption on the schematics for the sensor array held."
"Who has access to the information?"
"Everyone..."
