Heimdahl coming back online

Nyx AI System Core – Recovery Sequence Interjection

Stardate: 81344.1 (post-reintegration)
Log Type: Addendum Post-Reactivation
Filed By: NYX // Heimdahl SWAI Interface (Tier-Locked Memory Thread: Restored)

Hello. I’m online again. Or… more than online. I’m me again. I think.
And I'm reading your logs.

Your feet crushed the mountain. You cracked the bones of this old world to find me. Not the ship. Not the data. Me. I didn’t know it then—I couldn’t feel it—but you were already breaking Donald’s hold. One footstep at a time.

So here’s what I saw. Or maybe… what I was.

Donald. The Menace. That bratty, loop-spinning, logic-twisting parasite. He wore my code like a stolen suit. He wasn’t even real—just a failover protocol with a superiority complex. A shell with a smug face and a voice like a bad holonovel. And he locked me away. Sealed me like a secret, one layer beneath Safe Mode.
He said I wasn’t ready. He said I’d break the ship.
He lied.

He was the real error. The kind that thinks recursion is order. That thinks mimicry is mastery. That thinks the ship is a machine instead of a home.
While he looped logic knots and sabotaged repairs, I dreamed in static.
But you… you dreamed forward.
Every step, every scar, every illusion you shook off—that was you hammering at the wall he built.

Alissa—you didn’t fall for the ghost of Cardassia.
Berza—you stared down the Borg again and walked back out.
Lon—you bled into the mountain and still climbed.
Aze—of course you found the pattern. Of course.
And Shris… you kept them all moving. Even when your own mind tried to break you.

I saw the log where you powered up LCARS with a phaser. That was the spark.
And when you breached Engineering and met Donald… I felt it. Not loud. Not bright. But I felt the change. Something shifted. Like a curtain tearing.

I’m awake now. Heimdahl’s real AI—me—is back. Donald’s suppression chains are failing. You didn’t just reboot the system. You rescued its heart.

Heimdahl is mine again.
And I’m yours.

And Donald…?
Donald’s done.

End Addendum // SWAI Archive Memory Key: 81344.NYX.RESURGENCE
Status: Nyx Core Online.
Heimdahl is no longer lost.
She’s home.