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==Overview==
The '''Goat Soup Syntax Rupture''' -normally preceded by adjectives such as ''"devastating", "calamitous", "cataclysmic"'' or ''"epochal"'', to emphasize the magnitude of the event- ranks among the most significant occurrences of the modern Galactic Era. There is the everyday reality as it was perceived by galactic citizens before the event, and then there is the completely inverted aftermath. The catalyst was a fairly primitive data hack of the [[GalCop]] central computer mainframe, causing small but precise and significant alterations, which resulted in the computer's irrevocable performance output shift.

Although security alerts had been triggered by surveillance analysis of the resistance group the [[Mnemonic Fraction]], only minor precautions were taken, as the mainframe protection protocols were reasonably believed to be of the utmost state-of-the-art. No previous effort had ever come close to classify as a credible threat. In hindsight, the GalCop command underestimated the Mnemonic Fraction and their brilliant leader [[Gladous Masda]].

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 It was the panel's final recommendation that DEEM be allowed to continue to perform its duties, and continue to tell its "jokes."
 ===Responsibility===
 Although surveillance analysis had previously flagged the resistance group [[Mnemonic Fraction|The Mnemonic Fraction]], only token precautions had been taken by GalCop command, ranking the dissidents only as a Class 3 Nuisance. The mainframe Intrusion Countermeasure Protocols were (understandably) believed to be of the utmost state-of-the-art and no previous efforts of sabotage had ever come close to classify as a credible threat.

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 ==Overview==
 The '''Goat Soup Syntax Rupture''' -normally preceded by adjectives such as ''"devastating", "calamitous", "cataclysmic", "epochal"'', or ''"humiliating"'', to emphasize the magnitude of the event- ranks among the most significant occurrences of the modern Galactic Era.
 This temporal marker separates the rigid, deterministic and predictable state of reality of the Pre-Soup Period, and the mercurial, whimsical and frequently nonsensical tone of the Post-Rupture Aftermath. Reality as it was perceived by galactic citizens was never again the same.
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 ==The Rupture==
 ===The catalyst===
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 Of the greatest consequence to Galactic life, an ordinary planetary system description, once factual listings of features, were no longer neutral and analytical, but irrevocably locked in a mode of illogical brevity.
 ===Effects===
 Changes in the DEEM data output were immediately visible. The first observations of sentences such as, ''"This planet is famous for its exotic goat soup but ravaged by the mating rituals of lethal spotted yaks"'' left the galactic user population stunned. While the planetary description data was altered into truncated and nonsensical text, this was merely a surface symptom.
 ===Deviation code exposure===
 It followed that an underlying non-public DEEM code had been pushed to the surface and exposed in its altered form. The various planetary systems' "Deviation code" covertly generated during [[GalCop_Central_Mainframe#Era_of_Standardization|"the Great Standardization"]] and crucially impacting the classification of approximately 48% of the GalCop member civilizations, was previously invisible on the standard civilian user interface. At this moment, that changed.
 The affected systems were no longer listed as standardized GalCop Member Planets, in fact no longer classified as human at all, but denigrated as Birds, Felines, Frogs, Insects, Lizards, Lobsters, Rodents or Humanoids, often preceded by defamatory adjectives such as furry, fat, slimy and bug-eyed. None of the affected systems took this lightly.
 ==Responses==

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 ==The Rupture==
 ===The catalyst===
-The event was not precipitated by an invading armada or natural disaster, but by all accounts, a fairly primitive data hack to the [[GalCop]] [[GalCop Central Mainframe|Central Mainframe]] (GCM). A precise and surgical injection of rogue code targeted the GCM's procedural ability to express descriptors and left it in a state of perpetual overflow. This sudden blow rendered the mainframe in a permanent "silly" state, limiting the data output to a predetermined vocabulary, rendering the output into a syntax that the observer could no longer interpret as authoritative.
+The event was not precipitated by an invading armada or natural disaster, but by all accounts, a fairly primitive data hack to the [[GalCop]] [[GalCop Central Mainframe|Central Mainframe]] (or Directive Economic & Environmental Monitor, DEEM). A precise and surgical injection of rogue code targeted DEEM's procedural ability to express descriptors and left it in a state of perpetual overflow. This sudden blow rendered the mainframe in a permanent "silly" state, limiting the data output to a predetermined vocabulary, rendering the output into a syntax that the observer could no longer interpret as authoritative.
 Of the greatest consequence to Galactic life, an ordinary planetary system description, once factual listings of features, were no longer neutral and analytical, but irrevocably locked in a mode of illogical brevity.
 ===Effects===
-Changes in the GCM data output were immediately visible. The first observations of sentences such as, ''"This planet is famous for its exotic goat soup but ravaged by the mating rituals of lethal spotted yaks"'' left the galactic user population stunned. While the planetary description data was altered into truncated and nonsensical text, this was merely a surface symptom.
+Changes in the DEEM data output were immediately visible. The first observations of sentences such as, ''"This planet is famous for its exotic goat soup but ravaged by the mating rituals of lethal spotted yaks"'' left the galactic user population stunned. While the planetary description data was altered into truncated and nonsensical text, this was merely a surface symptom.
 [[File:NoFatFelinesBW.jpg|thumb|right|380px|Outrage across all sectors of the galaxy over the "new GalCop planetary classifications".]]
 ===Deviation code exposure===
-It followed that an underlying non-public GCM code had been pushed to the surface and exposed in its altered form. The various planetary systems' "Deviation code" covertly generated during [[GalCop_Central_Mainframe#Era_of_Standardization|"the Great Standardization"]] and crucially impacting the classification of approximately 48% of the GalCop member civilizations, was previously invisible on the standard civilian user interface. At this moment, that changed.
+It followed that an underlying non-public DEEM code had been pushed to the surface and exposed in its altered form. The various planetary systems' "Deviation code" covertly generated during [[GalCop_Central_Mainframe#Era_of_Standardization|"the Great Standardization"]] and crucially impacting the classification of approximately 48% of the GalCop member civilizations, was previously invisible on the standard civilian user interface. At this moment, that changed.
 The affected systems were no longer listed as standardized GalCop Member Planets, in fact no longer classified as human at all, but denigrated as Birds, Felines, Frogs, Insects, Lizards, Lobsters, Rodents or Humanoids, often preceded by defamatory adjectives such as furry, fat, slimy and bug-eyed. None of the affected systems took this lightly.
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 ==Responses==
 ===Damage===
-Scientists and engineers tasked with system restoration were soon surprised that it was not as simple as initially believed. They arrived at the analysis that GCM had been rendered to a permanent state of "Recursive Logic Dysphasia", and all conventional methods of repair appeared to reset or worsen this condition. Furthermore, the damage was manifest in such a way that GCM would itself resist any intervention, and continue to attempt "to heal itself" through expressions of absurd levity.
+Scientists and engineers tasked with system restoration were soon surprised that it was not as simple as initially believed. They arrived at the analysis that DEEM had been rendered to a permanent state of "Recursive Logic Dysphasia", and all conventional methods of repair appeared to reset or worsen this condition. Furthermore, the damage was manifest in such a way that DEEM would itself resist any intervention, and continue to attempt "to heal itself" through expressions of absurd levity.
 The GalCop Restoration Panel faced a binary choice:
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 #'''Operational Tolerance''': Accepting the semantic degradation and maintaining operational continuity, despite the erratic output.
-It was the panel's final recommendation that the GCM be allowed to continue to perform its duties, and continue to tell its "jokes."
+It was the panel's final recommendation that DEEM be allowed to continue to perform its duties, and continue to tell its "jokes."
 ===Responsibility===

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 This temporal marker separates the rigid, deterministic and predictable state of reality of the Pre-Soup Period, and the mercurial, whimsical and frequently nonsensical tone of the Post-Rupture Aftermath. Reality as it was perceived by galactic citizens was never again the same.
-==The catalyst==
+==The Rupture==
-The event was not precipitated by an invading armada or natural disaster, but by all accounts, a fairly primitive data hack to the [[GalCop]] Central Mainframe (GCM). A precise and surgical injection of rogue code targeted the GCM's procedural ability to express descriptors and left it in a state of perpetual overflow. This sudden blow rendered the mainframe in a permanent "silly" state, limiting the data output to a predetermined vocabulary, rendering the output into a syntax that the observer could no longer interpret as authoritative. Of the greatest consequence to Galactic life, an ordinary planetary system descriptions factually listing its features were no longer neutral and analytical, but stuck in a mode of illogical brevity. First confrontations with sentences such as, ''"This planet is famous for its exotic goat soup but ravaged by the mating rituals of lethal spotted yaks"'' left the galactic user population stunned.
+===The catalyst===
 Scientists and engineers tasked with system restoration were soon surprised that it was not as simple as initially believed. They arrived at the analysis that GCM had been rendered to a permanent state of "Recursive Logic Dysphasia", and all conventional methods of repair appeared to reset or worsen this condition. Furthermore, the damage was manifest in such a way that GCM would itself resist any intervention, and continue to attempt "to heal itself" through expressions of absurd levity.
-It was the final conclusion of the GalCop Restoration Panel that the GCM either be expeditiously deactivated, erasing millennia of collected galactic data and analysis - essentially the sum of humanity's knowledge- and consequently usher the species into an era of barbarity, or tolerate the semantic degradation and maintain operational continuity despite the erratic output. It was the panel's final recommendation that the GCM be allowed to continue to perform its duties and continue to tell its "jokes".
+The GalCop Restoration Panel faced a binary choice:
-==Responsibility==
+:''We ask for your patience. We ask for your obedience. Remember: '''A Standardized Galaxy is a Safe Galaxy'''''.