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that just had slight differences. It would include versions where the apes were running the Earth and humans are just slaves. Cue her obligatory “You maniacs! You blew it all to hell.” Quote out loud.
    The other concept was based around Quantum Physics. Weird stuff, but it seemed to be a serious theory. An atom or electron can exist in multiple states at the same time, concurrently. The only thing that determines the actual state is probability. Or something like that! The quantum multiverse says that at each point a state is decided, a decision is made and each state will diverge. Everything, all the time, is splitting and creating new multiverses then going about their normal existence, in their own parallel planes.
    It was a vertigo inducing idea either way, but she found it intriguing. It is, of course, made more intriguing by the fact Roisin could Tweet a DM to RC, and get a full jar of Marmite from somewhere 750 m away. It was quite a mental leap to suggest that being able to reconfigure the local area, break a few things into shards on a floor, and then clear them away, is proof of a multiverse in any context. She was sure the professors in the field would be really interested.
    A ripple of selfishness hit Roisin. This was her find, her discovery, and she had a right to figure it out a bit more, before handing it over to some boffin types. They only wanted to see papers published with their names and keep their funding. She had always found academia a little bit odd, not as free thinking and free flowing as it should be. In many ways it was worse that the straight obvious greed of the corporations.
    OK! I am going with the possibility that this is some sort of multiverse interface, she told herself. It is always good to have an idea what a system is for, and how it works, before you go tinkering with it. Tinkering was what she did best and Roisin was in full tinker mode. She did not want to cause any more breakages. Shards were on her 'no thanks’ list.
    First, she wanted to make the connection to RC a little more robust. Web based RESTful interactions are not what she had in mind. She was going to put a decent user interface on this baby. It was an API (application programming interface), it responded to simple formatted text. Bye Bye CLI!

Chapter 5 - Tah-Dah
     
    Before putting her new UI plan into operation Roisin thought it best to explore the command set a little more. It was fun to move stuff around by remote round tripping to some super machine that had picked her for a ‘Command’ role. She started to realise that she was developing super powers. It was not as straight forward and simple as it could be. Her mind filled with images of comic book pages and lush CGI effects laden films. She recalled classic moments from the genre that had stuck with her, and every other geek, nerd and science freak. Most super heroes have to work to figure out the extent of their powers. Peter Parker didn’t know that the radioactive spider bite had transformed him. Tony Stark had to invent and create his Arc Reactor power source. Then he had to augment himself with all that cool robotic body armour along with JARVIS his AI assistant. It was a lot of work, trial and error. Her spider bite, gamma radiation blast or astral anomaly was in fact a dodgy Tweet. Not the most auspicious of beginnings but you can’t have everything can you? Besides, no one was going to be hearing about this any time soon. She could always tell a little white lie about the order things happened to save face. Whatever it was on the other end RC was a bit JARVIS like but she only had a CLI to it. She doubted Tony Stark would have bothered, he had all those cool blended reality interfaces to throw stuff around. Something to aim for with her upgrades, she smirked to herself.
    Roisin started to make a list, on a piece of paper, with an actual pen. She usually reserved the paper for printouts and wrote directly on her light coloured desk. She would use a