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Omega Key |
An Omega Key is a thin, triangular device massing approximately 100 grams and measuring 5 centimetres on a side and 5 millimetres thick. The key is normally a shade of lemon yellow.
Omega Keys are clarketech devices able to decode nearly all forms of encrypted communications and penetrate nearly all forms of data security. Only transmissions employing subquantum / hypofemtotech encryption based technologies are able to successfully resist the penetration algorithms of an Omega Key.
Only five Omega Keys are known to have been created and placed under the control of lower toposophic (SI<3) minds. During the Paradigm Containment effort two Omega Keys were made available to the defending forces, while the war with the Amalgamation saw the creation of three such keys. In all five instances the keys self-destructed at the conclusion of hostilities.
There are numerous legends and myths surrounding the Omega Keys, including the idea that under the control of an archailect they can penetrate even subquantum data defenses and that additional keys have been created and are 'Out There Somewhere' just waiting to be found. Certainly a functioning Omega Key would be a thing of virtually incalculable value and its owner guaranteed to become either immensely wealthy or immensely dead.
A particularly efficient autowar in the outer NoCoZo volumes known as 'Federov'
apparently has access to an omega key, due to its highly efficient
target selection of non-Quantum-encryption-using vessels. It appears to
have an approximately 88% success rate against such vessels within a
parsec of itself, regardless of relative velocity vectors.
(Data cryptoright Federated Assurance Dealers, BuyBuyBuy, NoCoZo)
