Project @tom Bomb

Messages/Recordings/Info on the @tom Bomb

Message from past:

Dear students of NSA,

It was mid-August in the year 2020 AD. Students from around the globe had returned to the internet platform for a second year on Teams. The new school year seemed to offer peace and tranquility, but we knew better. The previous year contained untold amounts of conflict and mayhem including the Communist Revolution of 2019 and the Reign of Terror. So NSA's top destruction analysts met together; they were Agent Hewitt and Agent Flopi. They each anticipated multiple online threats to surface soon after the start of the school year. There were reports of Gabing battles, meme wars, gif spamming, and even a second reign of terror. The destruction analysts theorized and tested a new cyber weapon that would eventually dwarf the power of Zer0. When completed, Agent Flopi titled the new super weapon, Project: @tom Bomb. The name was declassified to the public as a show of strength.

However, after they reviewed the destructive capability of the new weapon there were immediate pleas to ban the weapon. The @tom Bomb was simply too powerful and had the destructive capability of permanently shutting down Teams. The weapon would stop all 2020 - 2021 threats, but with it, bring the total annihilation of Teams. Members of the this called a top-secret meeting. This new meeting featured President Foster, members of the StuCo, the destruction analysts, and prominent figures of NSA which included Agent Lord. The @tom Bomb was officially banned, even drawing the attention of staff members at NSA, who reinforced the ban. And so, the @tom Bomb was buried and it remains so to this day.

The ban, though reinforced by students and faculty, does not prevent anyone from using it. That is why the details of how to operate and trigger the @tom Bomb remains gravely classified. Nobody on outside is allowed access to the blueprints of the weapon as it holds the record of the most destructive weapon teenagers have assembled in history. If under any circumstance, one of you finds the @tom Bomb. There will be an immediate initiation of the North Star Protectorate (NSP) and action by the CNST (which monitors all wavelengths for talks involving the @tom Bomb to prevent total chaos, as well as to keep the world of NSA a safe and free place) which will immediately and impartially remove any threat of the weapon being used.

Thank you.

General Overview:

The @tom Bomb itself is classified (I personally don't know what it was), but there is a certain amount that can still be learned about it.

The @tom bomb was a thread- a very- very- very- long thread- in fact a little too long (*cough*alottoolong*cough*). It is believed it was at least thirteen thousand messages, though it cannot be confirmed to be greater than that for a number of reasons, including, but not limited to, the fact that most peoples devices don't run well enough to load every single message in a thread that large (It was seen to be as big as 13 thousand though [citation/witness prolly needed]). While I am sure it was a strain on devices to respond to and load the thread as it grew up through the thousands, at some point it became too much. Eventually clicking on a notification from the thread would crash teams (possibly your device [verification necessary]), and the only "safe" way to continue the thread was by responding to it from the channel, without expanding the thread, reducing, though I am sure not canceling, the damage from the thread. While all of these things are bad enough, and I'm sure the lag when doing anything in the channel was terrible, this is still not the @tom bomb, though this the precursor and the largest thread NSA has had, or will ever have (NSA faculty will not allow it to happen again (see section above)).

As I previously stated, I don't know what the actual @tom Bomb is/was, but that does not mean I cannot describe it's effects. One or more students released the @tom Bomb on the thread, and that was it for Teams. ALL of teams crashed, chats, channels, buildings, everything crashed (should be verified), not just for the students in the thread, but for all of NSA. Gone.

File from Agent Flopi's missions:

Mission Audio File 24wewer523

Agent Lord:

Okay Flopi nothing here, they might be wrong about them setting it off, I see nothing.

Agent Flopi:

Keep looking, they threatened us with it, and might make good on it.

L:

Look Flopi, why would [redacted] want to mess with the @tom bomb

F:

I have a feeling, after all they did lose the…

L:

fine….I’ll keep looking before you send me to history school class.

Five minutes of static

F:

Lord, come in, LORD

L:

WHAT!

F:

multiple hostiles in the area, MOVE NOW.

L:

What in the…..

Gun fire

L:

Holding them off, engaging auto turrets

Lots of metal clanking, more Gun fire

F:

Lord, do you need me

L:

heavy breathing yeah…I do…..turrets are keeping them down…but they keep throwing L.A.G slugs at me

F:

You’re the L.A.G. expert, didn’t you invent those.

L:

I mean I did gun fire dang it……. Sound of sparks they just cut the power and shot out the back….. sound of thuds Just got shot, armor holdi…

signal goes to static

L:

….AID STAY DOWN, I SAID STAY DOWN

F:

In same area now PUT THE AK’S DOWN AND KICK THEM OVER

??: never

Explosion

F:

YOU’LL KILL US ALL YOU JERK

L:

Subvocalizing. Flopi this is going nowhere, just put it in lock down.

???:

I won’t, its not that big of a deal, it only destroys my enemies….

F:

NO DON’T THROW THAT GRENADE, WE KNOW IT HAS I.M.P.O.R.T.A.N.T IN IT

???:

To bad so sad, something hits floor and goes off

Breathing heavily

Huge Explosion

Computer Voice: Recording paused

Agent Lord:

Thank you! Now cadets this is the recording me and Agent Flopi got off the perpetrators breaking into the bomb vault. The original digital recording has been destroyed as it included visual camera angles. We think that the identity of the criminal, who was prosecuted for his crime, should now remain not known. So, we scrubbed it from the records. Now, in this history class we are to learn what happened after this circumstance. The Enemy gained access to the bomb and exploded it. You might know that all of NSA died, and five days later was brought back online. This was the biggest global NSA crisis since Zer0, and people have vowed their life to protect against the threat of another @tom bomb. This is why I and Flopi are wearing masks and head coverings, and have insert voice changers. So, class an…….

Static and what sounds like a police scanner

End of Mission Audio File 24wewer523

See also

• The Diary of Agent Flopi, Book 1
• The Diary of Agent Flopi, Book 2