In Greensboro, NC, the two tall buildings housing the corporate headquarters of CS Enterprises are dark and quiet. Not only is it a Saturday afternoon, but most of the staff is down in Sweetwater. A lone janitor is cleaning up. It seems useless, since almost no one will be in tomorrow. Jimmy the Janitor has been a CSWA employee for over a decade; he knows the ropes. Jimmy uses one key on his set of almost a hundred to open the large doors to Chad Merritt's corner office. He does just a cursory cleaning, dumping the trash, dusting around piles on the desk. He accidentally hits a key on the keyboard, and the screen lights up, showing Merritt's computer desktop. Jimmy quickly finishes up, killing the lights and locking the door. Just a typical lazy North Carolina Sunday.

At least it was. A black window emerges in the middle of the desktop, appearing like a rogue black hole in the midst of a field of matter. Green letters flash across the dark space, only to be answered:

ACCESS DENIED

Virtual silence returns, but only for a moment. Asterisks appear like deformed stars on the black background.

ACCESS DENIED

The odd characters appear again and again on the screen, only to disappear and be answered by the same two words, over and over again.

ACCESS DENIED

The same green characters repeat again and again, filling the black space with short lines of green. The pages scroll until the field of green finally changes, just slightly.

ACCESS GRANTED

The black hole disappears, replaced by matter again. Important matters...