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The Awakening-1. Episode A Journey Between Realities Begins

orioninsist
3 min readJan 8, 2025

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Introduction:

Murat Kurkoğlu was an ordinary computer engineer, spending long hours in front of his Lenovo ThinkPad, navigating the infinite complexities of Linux. By night, he was OrionInsist, a cybersecurity enthusiast solving real-world problems with his extraordinary coding skills. But this night was different. It was the night that everything changed.

Scene 1: The Message

The laptop screen flickered. At first, Murat thought it was a routine kernel panic. He ran a quick dmesg | tail to diagnose the issue, but the screen blacked out completely. Suddenly, green letters appeared on the screen, forming a single sentence:
“Do you want to see the truth, Orion?”

His fingers hovered over the keyboard. “Who are you?” he typed back.

“Not important. What matters is the answer. Yes or no?”

Murat hesitated. His logical mind argued against engaging with such nonsense, but his curiosity got the better of him. He typed: “Yes.”

Murat’s ThinkPad screen flickering with the mysterious green message.

Scene 2: The Gateway

The screen flashed bright, and suddenly, lines of binary code started cascading down the screen. 0s and 1s, forming patterns, algorithms, and systems Murat recognized as deeply embedded in Linux’s core architecture. A voice echoed in his room, deep and mechanical:

“Welcome to the Code Matrix, OrionInsist. You are chosen to rewrite the world’s reality. But first, you must survive.”

The laptop emitted a blinding green light, and Murat felt himself pulled into the screen, as if reality itself was unraveling. He landed in a space that looked like a terminal interface but expanded infinitely. Commands floated in the air, waiting to be executed.

The cascading binary codes forming the Linux-based Code Matrix.

Scene 3: Meeting the Mentor

“You’re here,” a voice interrupted his thoughts. A tall figure in a black cloak stepped forward, his face partially hidden by a hood. “I am Elias,” he said, extending a hand.

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