From 175684b1af93a4c15b7c08067bd44551d66914b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: James Tomasino Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 00:00:01 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] backup --- gopher/Malkonkordo/0007.txt | 99 ++++++++++++++ gopher/Nemesis/005-relic.txt | 3 + gopher/Starbloom/005.txt | 60 +++++++- gopher/Tom/0003.txt | 53 +++++++ gopher/listing.gophermap | 3 + gopher/rss.xml | 258 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 6 files changed, 474 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode 100644 gopher/Malkonkordo/0007.txt create mode 100644 gopher/Nemesis/005-relic.txt create mode 100644 gopher/Tom/0003.txt diff --git a/gopher/Malkonkordo/0007.txt b/gopher/Malkonkordo/0007.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5648d5a --- /dev/null +++ b/gopher/Malkonkordo/0007.txt @@ -0,0 +1,99 @@ +---- +From: Starbloom Communal Distributive Projection +Destination: - +Position: - +Departure: - +Shipdate: 00002761 +Mode: Docked +---- + +# Status Update + +* Docked on Lucky Homes +* New captain in command + +# Status Report + +Captain's Log SD2761 + +Much has occurred our last status report. During our investigation of Enketu +Tri we discovered equipment upon the red planet neighboring it that we were +able to use repair our communication systems. Shortly thereafter, the Captain +contacted Dekaoso Prime to update them on the status of Malkonkordo, to have +their engineers power back on their quantum entanglement communicator (QEC) in +the event another incident like our's occurs, and to utilize their systems to +query the locations of Starbloom, Lucky Homes, and the Space Cruiser Excelsior. +He did manage to get coordinates to what we believe was the location of Lucky +Homes, but it looks like we presently did not have any known location of +Excelsior. Due to this realization, the Captain decided to handle the Lucky +Homes issue himself and requested a war vessel be sent out to search for +Excelsior. After this was done, the Captain commanded we make way towards Lucky +Homes to "pay them a visit". + +It was shortly after this took place that the events that unfolded on Dekaoso +Prime took place and was later reported on all channels (now including QEC) by +Alportas Majeston about the destruction of Dekaoso Prime by the Pertulit Empire. +The crew all coped with it in different ways, and one of our researchers aboard +Malkonkordo did so by trying to deduce how the Pertulits could have possibly +found the location of Dekaoso Prime. It was only then that they realized it was +our fault. Malkonkordo broadcasted over the QEC our current location relative to +a celestial body along with how long our date of departure. The Pertulits must +have been able to work backwards from that and discover the location of Dekaoso +Prime. + +Also during this time, there was a great divide that formed among the crew. On +one side were the fundamentalists that felt that we should continue on with +purging all life from the universe, and on the other were the pragmatists who +felt that the threat of the Pertulits returning was too large to ignore and +with the loss of Dekaoso Prime we should look to ally with others to have some +hope of being able to defeat them once and for all. With tensions already high, +the discovery of the role Malkonkordo played in all of this threw everything +into chaos. A civil war broke out throughout the ship between the two opposing +sides, but as the extremists took out one another, those who remained tried to +work out a way to bring peace as we have already lost enough Dekaosan life as +it was. + +Fortunately, as those on the fence were forced to pick a side it was discovered +that most of us were on the side of the pragmatists, many still able to recall +the stories of the Neniigo War. The fundamentalists were then given the +ultimatum to join the pragmatists or be eliminated. It did not take long after +this for the war to end, but by this point the Captain was nowhere to be seen +and assumed to be one of the casualties of war. There was a need for someone to +lead Malkonkordo, not just the next in command but someone who would represent +the new values of the pragmatists. That was when I, Kondukas Esperon, was chosen +to become the new captain of the Malkonkordo. + +During our next meeting to decide how to proceed with eliminating the Pertulits, +I was the one who proposed we use our new information of the location of Lucky +Homes try to contact them and work out an alliance and peace agreement. Many of +the fundamentalists who remained among us were against this idea and stood by +the sentiments of their previous captain, and so another culling upon the crew +was performed. In total we lost almost a third of our crew, but those who were +still here were all for the new cause of allying with Lucky Homes. + +Using our newly prepared communication equipment we reached out to the cats +and, after receiving the go-ahead from Quyst Trombone, Susan of Starbloom +invited the Malkonkordo to Lucky Homes. Upon our arrival we were greated by the +giantic cats that were about three times the size of the average Dekaosans. +Shortly after we finished with the docking process of the ship and getting +through the formalities of introductions, Kiu Serĉas came forth from the vessel +out of whatever hole he was hiding in and attacked one of the cats. Though only +shortly introduced, this began the first battle shared between Starbloom and the +crew of Malkonkordo as we fought Serĉas. While vastly outnumbered, he fought +like a true Dekaosan that would make Sinjorino proud if she still looked upon +us. However, he was no match for the foes that stood before him and his death +brought the Malkonkordo Civil War to its end, and strengthened the new bond +that has blossomed between Malkonkordo and Lucky Homes. + +In both honor of our arrival and celebration of our victory against the late +Captain, myself and the crew were invited to the 14th Pod's upcoming scholastic +event. Once celebrations have come to an end, we hope this new alliance will +aid in our ultimate goal of saving the universe from the Pertulit Empire, but +for now we have some poetry to listen to. + +Together, we will survive. + +~ Captain Kondukas Esperon + +---- +BAy2LOcmiS4n7gQeY18fvL1VHKfMUeiIPz+HDPEZYf8= diff --git a/gopher/Nemesis/005-relic.txt b/gopher/Nemesis/005-relic.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..27982c7 --- /dev/null +++ b/gopher/Nemesis/005-relic.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +Well, to be frank, everything was screwed. + +The main diff --git a/gopher/Starbloom/005.txt b/gopher/Starbloom/005.txt index b032264..54d1495 100644 --- a/gopher/Starbloom/005.txt +++ b/gopher/Starbloom/005.txt @@ -17,7 +17,63 @@ Merry Meet to all of our friends in this wide, beautiful 'verse~ Tonight we would like to share a very special message from Pod 14's secondary communal education initiative. Our schools have selected a few bright and passionate students to share their -talents in our festivites. What better way to welcome new friends +talents in our festivities. What better way to welcome new friends to the Lucky Homes than with a showcase of the arts! -These children have worked so hard! +These children have worked so hard! They're parading across the +gallery platform now. As our visitors can see, they've dressed in +costumes of their own creation. They were asked to imagine what +our new friends might look like and craft their own outfits in +kind. What a true spirit of inculturation! + +Miss Buzbis is rounding up our youngest performers now to the +front of the stage. These kids are part of the first class of our +secondary communal education initiative. For those of you who are +from far off lands, that would number them between five and seven +solar rotations back on old Earth. They have a special medley of +our traditional songs they'll be singing! How delightful. I'm so +sorry we can't broadcast the audio through the QEC. + +This welcome celebration goes back to the earliest founding of the +Lucky Homes, when our first pioneer ships reached the system. As +the first settlers arrived they had difficulty adjusting to the +local flora and fauna. It was only when the groups came back +together and formed the Starbloom Communal Distributive Projection +(just called Star-Com back then) that they were able to get all +the right resources to all the people. We celebrate this union +every year with family gatherings, lots of food and drink, and +a demonstration of the arts of love and peace. How lovely that +this year we get to share it with others as the start to a new +union! + +Oh look, that's Georgia Strutt dressed as the notorious +bungle-slug! What a brilliant voice she has. She's singing our +hymn for the abatement of rashes. It's a traditional piece +parent's sing to their youngest. How lovely. + +Pricilla Bartleby Hooper, coming on stage now, is one of our most +accomplished young artists. Her poetry won three top prizes in +interpod competition last year. She's expected to take on +a skaldic apprenticeship soon. Quite the over-achiever! Oh, let's +listen to the beginning of the epic poem she's prepared for +tonight's event. + + Giants move among the stars + traipsing in the dark + bloody stains + of what remains + a bite to match their bark + + ... + +What a vivid image to greet our friends! How lovely, indeed. + +The festivities will continue for half a cycle broken by food, +drink, and some group dances throughout. I hope our new guests +enjoy the party. + +Oh, brilliant! The cats are here. Now the fun can truly begin. + +Blessed be, my friends. May you all find peace in one another. +. + diff --git a/gopher/Tom/0003.txt b/gopher/Tom/0003.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7f8ac0f --- /dev/null +++ b/gopher/Tom/0003.txt @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +Okay, let me just start by setting the record straight: this was NOT my idea. +Also, I still have no idea how you convinced the General to sign off on this. + +Yes, I am aware he made it very clear my I am supposed to do here, but I am +also not the one who started the quantum communicator without asking if I'm +ready or not. + +Fine, fine! I will get on with it. I am Tom, head researcher of the quantum +physics department within the applied sciences division of one of the +military's research compounds. Which is just a long-winded way to that I do +science stuff for the military. I am sending this messag-- + +Oh, pardon me, how could I forget. I am also joined here by Merideth, my lab +assistant, and *we* are sending this messag-- + +Okay, what's wrong now? + +It's not my fault you don't have a long fancy title like me, bring it up with +your supervisor! + +While I may be your immediate supervisor, I am not about to change your title +just so everyone across time and space will think you are special. + +No, no, of course you are special. Alright, you can be -- the official +assistant of the quantum physics department. Does that work? Can I continue on +now? + +Ugh, there is no pleasing you. Fine, I am Tom the military science guy joined +with the *executive* assistant of the quantum physics department within the +applied scienes division, Merideth, and we are sending this message to +formally welcome communication from all who are listening among the stars. We +wish not to hid-- Do I really have to do this? This is such a long speech, and +literally anyone else on the base can read this off. + +You're right, yes, the General did appoint me himself to do this. Alright, +where was I... formally welcome blah blah blah listening stars. Ah, there it +is: We wish not to hide ourselves from you but to act in solidarity as one of +the many voices to be heard across time and space to join the cosmic +conversations and leave are mark as we all embark on this voyage together. I +look forward to joining you all and seeing where these events will take us. + +Merideth, why does this say that I am the one who will be handling all of this, +I don't have time to work on this and continue my research. + +What do you mean I no longer have to worry about my research, I just made a +huge breakthrough in our understandings of quantum mechanics! + +On what authority were you able to cancel my research, you're just a lab +assistant! + +Oh I just said you were the "executive assistant" so you would let me continue +the broadcast, you don't have any way to prove I even gave you that promotion. +It's just you and me inside this room and no one else is listenin-- Oh my God. diff --git a/gopher/listing.gophermap b/gopher/listing.gophermap index 03e66ed..227c612 100644 --- a/gopher/listing.gophermap +++ b/gopher/listing.gophermap @@ -1,3 +1,6 @@ +0Malkonkordo - Improvise, Adapt, Overcome /Malkonkordo/0007.txt +0Tom - Executive Welcome /Tom/0003.txt +0Starbloom - Union celebrations with new friends /Starbloom/005.txt 0Voortrekker - Final report, LRPF Quetelet /Voortrekker/16-final-report-lrpf-quetelet.txt 0Melchizedek - Casualty report /Melchizedek/012.txt 0bio station 72 - Assistance required within South Serpens cluster /bio station 72/000-assistance-required.txt diff --git a/gopher/rss.xml b/gopher/rss.xml index 36c77b6..73ad488 100644 --- a/gopher/rss.xml +++ b/gopher/rss.xml @@ -2,6 +2,264 @@ Cosmic Voyage gopher://cosmic.voyage Messages from the human stellar diaspora + + Malkonkordo - Improvise, Adapt, Overcome + aewens@cosmic.voyage (aewens) + gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Malkonkordo/0007.txt + gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Malkonkordo/0007.txt + Thu, 17 Jan 2019 19:22:57 GMT + + + + Tom - Executive Welcome + aewens@cosmic.voyage (aewens) + gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Tom/0003.txt + gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Tom/0003.txt + Thu, 17 Jan 2019 18:13:54 GMT + + + + Starbloom - Union celebrations with new friends + tomasino@cosmic.voyage (tomasino) + gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Starbloom/005.txt + gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Starbloom/005.txt + Thu, 17 Jan 2019 01:05:29 GMT + + Voortrekker - Final report, LRPF Quetelet alexis@cosmic.voyage (alexis)