In this game, you play as a system administrator.

Your objective is to keep your datacenter alive at all cost. Keeping humans alive is optional.

This can be as simple as a temporary power outage. But later on in the game, you will be promoted or hired to various positions, where you will encounter progressively harder situations.

E.g.

A fire spreading through servers.

Corporate Spies trying to tap into corporate computers.

Multiple natural disasters knocking out multiple server facilities around the world.

A combination of a STUXNET style virus trying to shut down computers in a top secret Iranian facility, while being assaulted by teams of special operatives.

all cumulating to...

Keeping Google, Wikipedia, and the as much of the major backbones of the internet on-line for survivors of the Zombie Apocalypse. (Even if its via slow communication channels over Packet Radio via Amateur operators, or by pigeons via IPoAC )
-- mofosyne, Dec 01 2013

IP over Avian Carriers http://en.wikipedia...over_Avian_Carriers
In computer networking, IP over Avian Carriers (IPoAC) is a humorously-intended proposal to carry Internet Protocol (IP) traffic by birds such as homing pigeons. [mofosyne, Dec 01 2013]

// Keeping humans alive is optional. //

Would you mind at all if we worshipped you as a God ?

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-- 8th of 7, Dec 01 2013


Too much like work.
-- RayfordSteele, Dec 01 2013


Bun, but only if your character in the game occasionally has to personally grab an MP5 and defend the server room.
-- DIYMatt, Dec 01 2013


// grab an MP5 and defend the server room //

Against what - snails ? What are you going to do, club them with it ? Puh-lease ..

Either an SP-10, or a MAC-10 in .45ACP - as a backup to a G3A4 in 7.62x51mm*.

*In our server room, that's just the standard equipment for the cleaning lady; we of course are considerably better equipped ...
-- 8th of 7, Dec 02 2013


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//In our server room, that's just the standard equipment for the cleaning lady//

[See 'Terminator 2']
-- DrBob, Dec 02 2013


" Hey, just what you see, pal."
-- 8th of 7, Dec 03 2013



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