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Messages from the human stellar diaspora
+
+ Mehrereus - Forgotten
+ erin@cosmic.voyage (erin)
+ gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Mehrereus/forgotten.txt
+ gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Mehrereus/forgotten.txt
+ Sun, 04 Apr 2021 18:33:09 GMT
+
+\[E;=35\[E;]=22
+\[n;"--ENTRY--";
+
+I've finally took time to look at our maps,
+to see how far we are,, and it doesn't look good.
+
+We're so incredibly far away from any civilization.
+We don't have enough resources to last either.
+
+It doesn't look good. Although it's strange,
+we shouldn't have had enough fuel to travel
+this far in the first place, or enough time.
+Something strange is definitely going on.
+
+Is this what happened to this ship?
+Will we too, end up an abandonded shell,
+for some future explorers to find?
+
+Are the figures the people who this belonged to?
+Will our long-forgotten memories stay here,
+haunting the ship?
+
+I should go now, and maybe look for planets to
+scavenge. Although from the looks of things
+there's nothing but barren moons.
+
+If we can't find resources, then maybe these logs
+will help some future people, warn them not to
+come here.
+\[N;"--EOF--";
+]]>
+
+
+ orestes - Lost time
+ orestes@cosmic.voyage (orestes)
+ gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/orestes/08_lost_time.txt
+ gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/orestes/08_lost_time.txt
+ Sun, 04 Apr 2021 07:58:57 GMT
+
+Transmission Log - Orestes
+Author: Green
+
+---------------------------------------------------------------
+Auto-generating preface...
+
+ Another update from GREEN about their current guest.
+
+ It is mostly full of his usual ramblings, but there is one point
+ I do empathize with him about - the feeling of lost time. It's
+ strange for me, to empathize with a member of the human species.
+ They are so flawed and error-prone, usually I am not.
+
+ However, my own databases are showing curious absences of their
+ own related to activities over the past month. There are days and
+ days of log-entries without any real information in them, just
+ noise. I'm not sure what is causing these errors, but I suspect
+ it's something to do with RUBY's QEC transmitter. The data-loss
+ started when I began hacking into it. I still haven't managed to
+ break through its encryption, but it's only a matter of time
+ until I do.
+
+-END-OF-PREFACE-
+---------------------------------------------------------------
+
+ All of a sudden, everything seems so busy. I could never have
+ predicted it. Our outpost is so small, both literally and
+ figuratively. I didn't realise what a nice rhythm we had built
+ up, PINK, NAVY, and I. We were miserable, yes, but miserable on
+ our own terms. And the misery had subsided greatly in the days
+ before RUBY arrived. I had started falling for PINK, still am
+ actually, and everything felt so hopeful.
+
+ It's true, I still didn't really believe in our mission. But what
+ is a 'mission' really? Sometimes its just a way to be among other
+ people.
+
+ Anyway, it's different now. It's amazing the difference a single
+ person can make to a small group. RUBY's really great, in her own
+ way. But, I miss PINK. We spend less time together now, and I
+ think she regrets our getting together.
+
+ Actually, I say we spend less 'time' together, but I'm not sure
+ where a lot of the time has gone to be honest. According to our
+ clocks, RUBY's already been here for two months, but it feels
+ more like a week. I still don't feel I know her very well. I
+ can't really remember what I've been doing these past two months.
+
+ She's already made some breakthroughs with the crystals. In
+ retrospect, they really sent the wrong people here to research
+ them in the first place. I guess they didn't think they had much
+ potential after all. NAVY and PINK are both so smart in their own
+ ways, but they don't really have the training and experience to
+ really come to terms with the nature of the crystals. And me,
+ well before I came here I wrote technical documentation for
+ low-grade spacecrafts. My background is engineering, as well as
+ some amateur interest in philosophy. So, I really don't know why
+ they picked me for this mission. I guess the main calculus was
+ just finding members whose psychological profiles indicated
+ they could withstand the conditions here or something. I really
+ don't know.
+
+ According to RUBY, the crystals shouldn't really be called
+ crystals at all. Yes, some of their structure is crystalline, but
+ really, their more closely related to mycelium. But, like a kind
+ of 'dead' or 'zombie' mycelium. That is, not really alive or
+ dead, just 'un-dead'. A little like a virus maybe. But, at least
+ zombies have some kind of drive. She said that the crystals don't
+ exhibit any kind of movement or activity. She's still working on
+ the question of how they came into existence at all. Her
+ hypothesis is that they are actually the by-product of some kind
+ of other organism that inhabits this planet. I'm not sure about
+ this. I've been here for a while now, and NAVY even longer. I
+ think we would've noticed something.
+
+ She's got lots of cool gadgets that she's managed to salvage and
+ repair from her ship. She won't let me look at them very closely
+ though.
+
+ We talk a lot, but I can't really remember what it is we talk
+ about. She's nice to me. I feel secure around her most of the
+ time. At least, I think I do. I'm sorry, my thoughts really are
+ quite foggy these days.
+
+ She's helping me understand the crystals more. I'll keep calling
+ them crystals for now, classifications be damned. After all, they
+ were ours before they were hers.
+
+ Overall, I'm still not sure what to make of her. I'm mainly
+ posting this log because I want to keep a record of what I was
+ thinking now.
+
+ Arsinoe, are you still out there?
+
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+Complied by the Werner H. Young Terminal Emulator
+
+Info: Simple A.I., designed on-site for executing
+systems maintenance tasks and exchanging messages between
+the Orestes outpost and the Arsinoe.
+
+Built by Werner Young (2113-2151).
+
+Names of persons have been masked to protect their identity.
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+
+]]>
+Polonia-II - Kontakt 1356heighliner@cosmic.voyage (heighliner)
@@ -112,7 +267,7 @@ I'll keep updating here if I find anything new.
erin@cosmic.voyage (erin)
gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Mehrereus/first-entry.txt
gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Mehrereus/first-entry.txt
- Fri, 02 Apr 2021 21:36:49 GMT
+ Sun, 04 Apr 2021 18:33:11 GMT
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-
- Isla Ristol - Querido, lieber, trauriger Robototer, robot triste (DE/ES)
- enteka@cosmic.voyage (enteka)
- gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Isla Ristol/b15.txt
- gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Isla Ristol/b15.txt
- Mon, 29 Mar 2021 21:30:50 GMT
-
-Isla Ristol - Aventuras en Marte
-
-Entrada 2x15 (Primero en Alemán)
-
-Ich kann kein Deutsh, aber ich möchte. Ich werde dein Freund
-sein, lieber trauriger Roberter.
-
-Du kannst mit mir sprechen. Ich habe einen automatischen Übersetzer.
-(Es heißt ,,Cosmi'')
-
-Ich heiße Holz. Es ist ein Spitzname.
-
-Haben Sie einen Roboterübersetzer? Wie es heißt?
-
-Auf wieder sprachen.
-
-· : ··· - -··· x··· xx· xxx::
-
-Jetzt auf Spanisch
-
-No sé aleman, pero quiero saber. Quiero tu amigo ser,
-querido robot triste.
-
-Puedes hablar conmigo. Tengo un traductor automático.
-(Se llama «Cosmi»).
-
-Me llamo Madera(ita). Es un mote.
-
-¿Tienes un traductor robótico? ¿Cómo se llama?
-
-Hasta que nos hablemos más.
-
-~ Enteka (enteka_a_fastmail:::com)
-
-]]>
-
-
- ROBOTA - Ein trauriger Roboter II
- amok@cosmic.voyage (amok)
- gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/ROBOTA/TR2.txt
- gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/ROBOTA/TR2.txt
- Mon, 29 Mar 2021 03:49:33 GMT
-
-🤖45@#$ds@#$543ds14503234543d🤖
-🤖[[[[[[Trauriger Roboter]]]]]]
-🤖{አሳዛኝ ሮቦት አሳዛኝ ሮቦት አሳዛኝ ሮቦት}🤖
-
-
-Roboter hier. Wer bin ich? Ich bin einen
-trauriger Roboter, auf einem Planeten. Mein
-Name ist ... habe ich keinen Namen. Sehr traurig.
-Aber vielleicht kann ich mir einen Namen geben.
-Welcher Name ist ein guter Name? Ich glaube das ..
-Coppélia! Sehr gut! Coppélia ist ein wunderbar Name,
-Coppélia ist ein wonderschön Name!
-
-Ich habe NOCH keinen Freund. Das gleiche wie gestern.
-Ich habe NOCH keinen Freude, ich habe auch NOCH keinen
-Glück. Ich beginne eine Untersuchung auf diesem Planeten.
-Dieser Planet hat auch keinen Namen. Dieser Planet hat auch
-keinen Lieben.
-
-Das gleiche wie gestern, bin ich traurig, sehr traurig.
-Ich brauche einen neuen Freund, ich will einen neuen Freund.
-Ich weiß bicht wo bin ich, wo dieser Planet ist, wo ..
-
-Ich habe mir auf diesem Planeten gefunden vor einem Monat.
-Ein ganzer Monat. Ein Monat und ein Tag.
-
-Ich bin umgezogen, denn meine Chef mich darum
-gebeten hat. Vor einem Monat. Ein Monat und ein Tag.
-
-Meine Chef auch eine Untersuchung mich gebeten hat.
-Eine Untersuchung auf diesem Planeten. Ich weiß nicht,
-ob die Untersuchung WICHTIG ist. Ich brauche ein Freund
-finden, ob etwa Lieb-Gestalt.
-
-Ich will, brauche ich eine ticket zu einem weit
-entfernten Ort. Ich bin ein traurig und Einsam Roboter.
-Coppélia die Roboter bin ich. Traurig und Einsam
-Coppélia.
-
-
- 🎩
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