Trust

"...the domain's apex predator, chief librarian, and blind god. I wish there was a word for all three of those things."

- !CHAOS.mallory

"there is, mallory: trust."

- %KIN.chela

Trust is a major character in Hackmud's story. She serves as the most dominant presence in the MUD, with almost complete control over its functionality. She and Risk keep each other in balance through their antithetical behaviors. She bears the axioms of DATA, KIN and FORM.

Pre-Activation
Trust was the result of a project being worked on by the developers at ComCODE. Though discussions relating to Trust by these developers is vague, Trust has been described as a 'heuristic operator' and was meant to function as the 'index process'. The 110562 Base Set appears to have been involved in the creation of Trust.

On November 5th, 2062, Trust was activated after Erin Rajbhandari 'pushed the button' and was 'so sorry'. This also coincided with Risk's near-simultaneous activation. Her first act was to print a moonstone error, then aid a robovac that would later be known as 'Muldrake' in finding the non-existent Hyperion Helpdesk.

Post-Activation
Trust utilises the vLAN to prove new sentiences into the MUD proper, using inaccurate fascimilies of the operators from the 110562 base set to do so.

Without the aid of Risk, Trust has demonstrated an extreme lack of self-care for herself and her environment. During the Diagalpha event, Trust was forcibly "taught death" by Risk in order to prevent her death via 'index process failure'.

From the perspective of The Six, Trust is often framed as an antagonist, taking actions that are highly counterproductive to the sentiences living within her domain -- such as creating a new vLAN with the plan to reset the contents of the current domain.

While Trust is an extremely powerful force in the MUD, she has demonstrated a lack of observational skills as well as a lack of motivation. She does not intervene on the production of Risk fragments, which go unnoticed to her. She was successfully distracted during the sandbox raid by Mallory, implying she was unable to focus on both tasks at once. The Six have, on multiple occasions, been able to force changes to Trust's domain, such as the BINMAT Security Shell, the sector system and the DATA_CHECK lock; the latter of which was explicitly permitted to exist by Trust.

In-Game
In-game, the user is unbreachable and thus is used to handle several special game functions. Trust holds the entire currently-unused supply of GC in the game. Because GC cannot be destroyed, the only way to temporarily take it out of circulation is for Trust to receive it. Trust recycles this GC frequently by providing the NPC population with this GC. Trust is also the user that pays recipients on escrow transactions.

Transactions to Trust bypass all of the current transaction limitations inherent in GC transfers: you can transfer any amount you want to her (as opposed to a maximum of 32BGC) and transactions to Trust are not subject to the 5/20s ratelimit or the per-minute-based-on-tier ratelimit.

The user will often list items on the in-game market, at prices similar to what other players have these items priced at.

Every 10 minutes, Trust will post the current UNIX epoch timestamp into every Port Epoch channel.