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@ -8,50 +8,69 @@ DESTINATION..................QEC
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ENCRYPTION.......MANUAL OVERRIDE
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Day of Journey........TWO MONTHS
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Day of Journey...THIRTEEN MONTHS
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POST LAUNCH
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Location of Recording....ENGINES
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Location of Recording.......CREW
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QUARTERS
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Begin Transcript
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Engineer Thomas Coldsmith
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Mother Marilyn Fenoff, 3rd Order
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Ach, that bloody flop Ragnar must have had both thumbs in his eyes when he agr-
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eed to this bloody ship. Even as a wee lad I woulda been able to tell this buc-
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ket of bolts is not worth the scravin credits. And the fool diddun buy this de-
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ath trap, oh no. The flamin' gallah has indentured himself for ten years inste-
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ad.
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We have arrived at our destination. We must wait the usual week in quarantine
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before then having to subject ourselves to customs. This voyage has been most
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enjoyable, I have spent a great deal of time with my Daughter, and the rest of
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the crew are very dear to me.
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I swear if the bastard hadn't of saved my hide I woulda told him to shove his
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ship into the nearest black hole. He's a lucky man, that's for sure. I don't t-
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hink anyone else would have the skills to take this flying abomination and make
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it right besides me.
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My Daughter, I am very proud of her. She is on her way to becoming a Mother, a-
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nd perhaps the greatest Mother yet. The years prior to the transfer, what othe-
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rs refer to as the 'transition', are all about preparing the mind. It is not an
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easy task to store the exact records of our species origin. The human mind has
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simply not evolved to hold millennia of information. Not once did dear Brunhild
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complain. Not once did she waver in her studies or her mental exercises, and n-
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ow... well, she has astounded me once again.
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What was I going to say... I wonder if the still is done... Oh, that's right.
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The transfer of history starts the *moment* a psychic connection is made betwe-
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en a Mother and her Daughter. Even with all the preperations, a Daughter's mind
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will resist the sudden influx of knowledge and the Mother must force her to ac-
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cept the flow. It can be painful and exhausting for the Daughter, but if she f-
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alters then she will never again be able to receive the Past. Most of the time
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the Daughter's mind is broken beyond repair anyway. I myself once lost a daugh-
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ter. Her sweet face still haunts my dreams at night.
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We are only several weeks away from dear Kassabar. When we connected to the pl-
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anets infonet I started lookin for jobs worthy of my time. Found one that looks
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like a bit of fun: retro-fitting racing darts. Apparently they use artificial
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gravity generators to hold a few hundred asteroids together and scatter race
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markers throughout. Brave and studpid lads then navigate through the ever chan-
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ging course. Sounds like a wee bit o' fun if I do say so myself.
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But this will not be the case with Brunhild. She has firmly and thoroughly gra-
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sped the reigns in our connection. Whereas normally I would have to force the
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flow of knowledge, instead it feels like she is bottomless pit, a blackhole of
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knowledge sucking the Past out of me faster than I can feed her. This is kind
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of mental prowess is the thing of myth, spoken between the lesser Mother's in
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their times of gossip. Even now as I record this log, I can feel the ever pres-
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ent pull at the back of my mind.
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I managed to land a job in one of the pit crews. Only a *little* bit of exager-
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ation in my application.
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On other matters, I should recount my progress with the captain's request. I h-
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ave given the ship a thorough sweep during our thriteen month voyage. The Anta-
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ron government did, indeed bug our ship. They have done an impressive job. The
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tracking devices are so small that they fit between the seems of the welds. Th-
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ey are nigh on impossible to get out while under voyage. To make matters that
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little bit harder, there are several trackers throughout the ship. With the he-
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lp of a ray phaser, I was able to decode their circuit crystals. They have a f-
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ailsafe and if even one is disabled the others will start transmitting instant-
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ly. This means we MUST remove them all at the same time.
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*Coldsmith laughs heartily*
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The captain is insistent that I have the capability to manage such a difficult
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task claiming no one can match my years of experience. Unfortunately for him,
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it is those years of experience that tell me the task is impossible. However,
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one small mercy, the trackers are completely passive except for a short burst
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once a day. Decoding the contents was easy enough for a child, and the burst c-
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ontains nothing more than a location. We are not having our conversations sent
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back for analysis.
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I'm not sure what the others have lined up. Speaking of others, bloody Hasig n-
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early gave me a heart attack last meal. Apparently Fenoff believes Hasig is re-
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ady to become a Mother, so she has began the year-long transition. I've heard
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of them before, but it was my first time seeing a Daughter with the blood red
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eyes. I knocked over a full stein of my favorite homebrew. That damned Lomere
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just laughed as if it was the greatest joke in the world. Not only did I have
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to appologize for my rude outburst, Fenoff insisted I did, I lost the last of
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that scravin' vintage.
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*A moment of silence passes*
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It's going to be hard to look at those eyes for an entire year. But I already
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have the next batch going in the still so I won't have to do it alone.
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Now that we have arrived at Kassabar I must find suitable work. Brunhild must
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not perform any duties while she is recieving the Past. As such whatever I do
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needs to be able to support the two of us. I do not intend to rely on captain's
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mercy while we are here, as Brunhild is entirely my responsibility, as it shou-
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ld be.
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END RECORDING
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0Needle - Black box - 03 /Needle/Black box - 03.txt
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0Needle - Black box - 02 /Needle/Black box - 02.txt
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0Needle - Black Box - 01 /Needle/Black box - 01.txt
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0Archer-51 - MAYDAY /Archer-51/9.txt
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