If during the last thousand seconds you have received any High-Beyond-protocol packets from "Arbitration Arts," discard them at once. If they have been processed, then the processing site and all locally netted sites must be physically destroyed at once. We realize that this means the destruction of solar systems, but consider the alternative. You are under Transcendent attack.


Chapter 14 (p. 161) - A Fire Upon the Deep (1992)

Vernor Vinge Quotes

If during the last thousand seconds you have received any High-Beyond-protocol packets from Arbitration Arts, discard them at once. If they have been ...

If during the last thousand seconds you have received any High-Beyond-protocol packets from Arbitration Arts, discard them at once. If they have been ...

If during the last thousand seconds you have received any High-Beyond-protocol packets from Arbitration Arts, discard them at once. If they have been ...

If during the last thousand seconds you have received any High-Beyond-protocol packets from Arbitration Arts, discard them at once. If they have been ...