Origins/Major Influence: Reboot Camp (Paranoia Mission)
Description: Something has happened in this Complex to have caused a crash. Perhaps it was the result of a rogue Troubleshooter team. Perhaps PURGE was responsible. Perhaps there was a coding error made by an incompetent ULTRAVIOLET. What's important is that The Computer knew that a crash was inevitable and established a backup system that will be activated in the event of a crash. The crash happens, the backup system is activated, everything goes well right? There was one slight problem though: the backup systems do not actually have all the memories that Friend Computer originally had. Friend Computer is still its old paranoid self, it just suffers from amnesia.
"You! Identify yourself! Friend or traitor? I’m going to give you a test, and don’t think for a second that I don’t have the answers. Now: Who am I? Where am I? What am I supposed to be doing here? What are you doing here? Have we met before?"
This sort of amnesia makes Friend Computer prone to all sort of con artists and liars (i.e, everyone in Reboot Complex) who will attempt to get in The Computer's good graces by coming up with an elaborate lies. Friend Computer knows that, and yet will latch onto any story that is plausible, justifying that story until it becomes increasingly obvious that the story is untenable, and then turn on the unlucky citizen who came up with that story. The only good news is that everyone is more focused on trying to get their story adopted as the official truth rather than refuting your story. They will swear up and down that your story is true so long as you swear up and down that their story is true. And Friend Computer will attempt to make sense of all the conflicting stories, and this may drive The Computer insane in the process. Those that do not go with the early consensus are quickly purged, unless they come up with an even more outlandish tale that causes The Computer to doubt the consensus.
The system could work fine temporarily, sort of, so long as everyone agrees on what story to tell to Friend Computer. But, sadly, people do not. And it's not about just everyone dividing up spoils equally, citizens can reasonably disagree about the fate of this Complex. Some people want to destroy the dome and let people see the Outdoors, other people want to accept Communism wholesale. And maybe the ULTRAVIOLETs are trying to kill each other during the chaos, in an attempt to become the last UV alive (and thus the only person left with the ability to reprogram The Computer to his liking). This is certainly going to be a brutal and bloody struggle.
Eventually, Reboot Complex will stabilize, and some measure of "official truth" will be created and established. But until that stabilization occurs...
Spy From Another Alpha Complex: The spy reports directly to Friend Computer and serves as The Computer's major sort of verification of all these conflicting stories and lies. Reboot Complex's goal is to figure out the truth, the reality, and is trusting on you to tell that truth. If you fail in your mission objectives, you could lie to Friend Computer, buying you some extra time.