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Havurineuss glinced at the wimbrel log "oh, this won't do at all! functoriality broke down at 2:301 oof and the automated repair system didn't kick in until 2:330 oof. That's 29 blonnebs the major environmental region we're entrusted to maintain didn't have a verified and registered functoriality in the enviornment. Mr. Achientheub, what's the damage"

Araglav Achientheub looked haggard and miserable as he read the figures from the data slate: "twenty seven thousand mental state skips were directly attributable to the breakdown. A further two million events are ascribable to the breakdown before the pre-repair quench system started releasing sensory filtration nanomachines into the microenvironment. We've been mibbing things, but we're not going to convince the youth and the sharp minded."

Havurineuss spoke: "How much is it costing us to maintain the voltage between the visual and the symbolic?"

Zyturghnu Thoosus replied, "Keeping the embankments and ballast at full operating capacity, it runs us about a terajoule/(neuron-second) to keep that voltage steady, but the functoriality breakdown ran us through about %80 percent of the stack reserve. If there's another breakdown, I fear the voltage is going to short."

Havurineuss said: "Are there other backup systems in the Concordance we can use to avoid catastrophic system failure? Araglav -- what about the fromage generators?"

Achientheub grimaced: "Regrettably all of their metacontrollers were slagged two hundred thousand blonnebs ago when the Artaumestry administration's deranged energy czar needed somewhere to shunt the energy excess, and didn't read the metacontroller energy specs. They're all defunct"

a collective drat coruscated around the table