Steemit Challenge s26wk1: The Office Project

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The Omega Files.

Monday morning was the same way it was in the open-plan office of ZephyraTech Industries. Keyboards clattered and there was the odor of burnt coffee floating out of the break room. Everything changed at 9.17 a.m., however.

Nina, the data analyst of the team was searching the archives in order to prepare a client report when she hit a weird folder on the server called OMEGA -Confidential. There were encrypted files that were fifteen years old- possibly before any of the current employees were hired. The last file was labeled: “Project Final Phase -Do Not Open.”

Naturally they opened it.

The paper was damaged but it led to a revelation of a plan on an advanced source of energy- something that could supply clean, unlimited energy. Additionally there was a message written out in bold red letters which said: Terminated on safety violation.

This, this might alter everything, hushed Raj, the project manager, in whose glasses it already was sliding down his nose.

The executive group of us met in a conference room, and shut the blinds. Everyone played a role, with Nina being the data recoverer, Raj plotting timelines, Sofia the communications resource head jumping into past newsletters looking like an answered prayer and Amir the IT guy cracking up the encrypted schematics. It was their midnight project, since they would start to work on it only after end of official hours, long after most of the building had fallen into darkness.

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They employed whatever they had: The antique blueprint scanner of Raj, the homemade decryption code of Amir, old tape recorder of Sofia to record whispered brainstorming sessions in case of someone being under the phones. The further they delved the stranger the coincidences became: the loss of a research director, delivery of rare minerals to unknown destinations and the abrupt cancellation of projects without cause.

Nor did all go well. Amir at one point had his system crash and there was loss of three weeks however decrypted data. On another occasion, the phone call issued by the legal department of the company occurred when Sofia had made an anonymous inquiry to the city archives.

The breakthrough followed. Nina was able to make a complete set of schematics based off overlapping corrupted files. The architecture was perfect; self sustaining, expandable and several years ahead of anything available in the market today. The realization came: It was not the original project that was buried because it had failed, it was simply too too valuable- and someone had really wanted it buried.

Making a dash of amateur melodrama and some conviction, Raj pounded his palm on the conference table. This is no way to make history, so by informing this back to life we are not only making history, we are rewriting history.

Schemes were made with speed. The company had forgotten about the unused basement lab so they chose to set up a prototype there and build something small scale. Week after week they spent their time working under the buzz of flickering fluorescents, hush-hush-ing over coffee and blueprints. Discussions began ferocity:

Amir was frustrated: this component is misaligned by two millimeters.
And when it is off, it goes beyond the gate,” said Nina drawling.
Then it won,t be off, Raj said.

In two months they looked at it, the machine-a gleaming, metallic cylinder, buzzing with possibilities. Immediately after they switched it, the figures jumped just as it was calculated; endless, constant energy production. As it grew into a monotonous beat the hum made a heart beat.

However, what was really unexpected was that the CEO discovered it not by the incidental leakage, but rather the team decided to present it in an open way. Drama in the Boardroom They presented a demonstration of what the prototype output was able to achieve and cleared up the history of the burial as well as the determination of the safety of the technology.

All fell to silence in the room. Then the CEO rose slowly to applaud. You have just handed the future to ZephyraTech.

In a matter of weeks, information had reached the whole world. Lost Energy Project office Team Saved, was the headline. The world waited with baited breath as governments wanted, investors fell in, and a goodwilled-ZephyraTech unveiled the first commercial clean-energy grid.

Since then their basement lab became a glass-enclosed innovation headquarters and they became the heroes of the teams. The stock of the company increased three times but more significant is the fact that the globe has been provided with a source of energy that was going to alter the future of the planet.

It all began, as I went clicking on a folder once forgotten.

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