THE QUANTUM INTELLIGENCER

MOUNTAIN VIEW, 2 DECEMBER — The siege lines have tightened. Engineers declare the fortress of scalable error-correction breached; what remains is a grinding engineering war of attrition. Observers measure progress by the metallic ring of two-qubit gate fidelities rising in the cold. No hidden citadel of physics is thought to stand in the way—only sweat, copper, and time. Forward scouts predict auxiliary sorties—simulation, chemistry—before the main assault on RSA redoubts. Command advises cryptographic outposts: expect continuous bombardment; no single cataclysm, merely unrelenting advance. If the walls fall silent in fifty years, they say, it will be because the wider war consumed civilization itself. —SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT —Elias Hartwell Dispatch from Lock Phase E1