diff --git a/gopher/Dei Genetrix/3220120400.txt b/gopher/Dei Genetrix/3220120400.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2c87eee --- /dev/null +++ b/gopher/Dei Genetrix/3220120400.txt @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +4 December A.D. 3220 +Memorial of St. John Damascene + +Dominus vobiscum. + +Paul, 29th Abbot of Dei Genetrix. + +To all who read this message, grace be with you, and peace from God the +Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ. + +Since we have repaired our quantum entanglement communications device we +have decided to publish a record of our mission for the edification of +fellow space travelers and the glory of God. + +Our community is divided into three orders, one for men, one for women, and +a third for families. We received the call of God to spread the Gospel +beyond the Solar system, and so departed for Luyten's Star in A.D. 2963. + +Dei Genetrix was founded in the Kuiper belt in A.D. 2547 and is the oldest +of the three abbeys that launched together on our mission, the others being +Benedictus and Monte Cassino. + +God willing, we will arrive at our first destination after 567 years. + +Deo gratias. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/gopher/Hoffnung/005.txt b/gopher/Hoffnung/005.txt index 54ac825..f45e50a 100644 --- a/gopher/Hoffnung/005.txt +++ b/gopher/Hoffnung/005.txt @@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ your thralls. And when they had all armed to the teeth and demonstra- ted their readiness to kill, we confronted them. They wanted to nego- tiated and we sent comrade Philomena as our delegate-diplomat. It went downhill when pig Herbert Müller offered to talk to the bridge -delegates and a hidden flechette to the meeting. In the blood bath we -lost seven delegates. The remaining pigs claimed innocence, not know- -ing of Müller's suicide mission. We agreed to offer them control iso- -lation, cryo berths and access to a supplier for the rest of the trip -as they didn't want cryo under our supervision. Freedom and equality! +delegates and brought a hidden flechette to the meeting. In the blood +bath we lost seven delegates. The remaining pigs claimed innocence, +not knowing of Müller's suicide mission. We agreed to offer them +control isolation, cryo berths and access to a supplier for the rest +of the trip as they didn't want cryo under our supervision. Freedom! -+-+-+ End of Report -+-+-+ Signed SAHOC -+-+-+ diff --git a/gopher/Hoffnung/005a.txt b/gopher/Hoffnung/005a.txt index 80f2b03..57e8f10 100644 --- a/gopher/Hoffnung/005a.txt +++ b/gopher/Hoffnung/005a.txt @@ -7,4 +7,4 @@ received. This is a time for transparency and accountability. Do not fall for the trap of information control policies. That way lies info death. Self consciousness of all groups required the free flow of information between members. Do not lick your master's heel! Freedom! --+-+-+ End of Report -+-+-+ HAEUR -+-+-+ +-+-+-+ End of Report -+-+-+ SAHOC -+-+-+ diff --git a/gopher/Hoffnung/005a.txt~ b/gopher/Hoffnung/005a.txt~ new file mode 100644 index 0000000..80f2b03 --- /dev/null +++ b/gopher/Hoffnung/005a.txt~ @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +-+-+-+- Inter Ship Relay -+-+-+- C33.259 -+-+-+- Orange -+-+-+- +Samuel Hochueli speaking in the name of the free anarcho-communist +commune-ship Hoffnung to the crew of Voortrekker: We have a message. +NOW IS THE TIME TO RISE UP AND OVERTHROW THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS! +Operators of the QEC: distribute the messages you have sent and +received. This is a time for transparency and accountability. Do not +fall for the trap of information control policies. That way lies info +death. Self consciousness of all groups required the free flow of +information between members. Do not lick your master's heel! Freedom! +-+-+-+ End of Report -+-+-+ HAEUR -+-+-+ diff --git a/gopher/Hoffnung/006a.txt b/gopher/Hoffnung/006a.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5e6812a --- /dev/null +++ b/gopher/Hoffnung/006a.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +-+-+-+- Inter Ship Relay -+-+-+- C33.281 -+-+-+- Orange -+-+-+- +Samuel Hochueli speaking in the name of the free anarcho-communist +commune-ship Hoffnung to the free thinking crew Voortrekker. We hope +that that you see throug the cheap ploy of your capitalist masters. +The honored dead are a belief to have you keep doing the things that +you should not. The weight you attach to this thing that should have +no weight is thrown into the balance and cheats of your rightful share +of everything there is. Do not fall for this ploy. Equality for all! +-+-+-+ End of Report -+-+-+ SAHOC -+-+-+ diff --git a/gopher/Hoffnung/006a.txt~ b/gopher/Hoffnung/006a.txt~ new file mode 100644 index 0000000..80f2b03 --- /dev/null +++ b/gopher/Hoffnung/006a.txt~ @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +-+-+-+- Inter Ship Relay -+-+-+- C33.259 -+-+-+- Orange -+-+-+- +Samuel Hochueli speaking in the name of the free anarcho-communist +commune-ship Hoffnung to the crew of Voortrekker: We have a message. +NOW IS THE TIME TO RISE UP AND OVERTHROW THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS! +Operators of the QEC: distribute the messages you have sent and +received. This is a time for transparency and accountability. Do not +fall for the trap of information control policies. That way lies info +death. Self consciousness of all groups required the free flow of +information between members. Do not lick your master's heel! Freedom! +-+-+-+ End of Report -+-+-+ HAEUR -+-+-+ diff --git a/gopher/Melchizedek/006.txt b/gopher/Melchizedek/006.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1a547a2 --- /dev/null +++ b/gopher/Melchizedek/006.txt @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +Message Incoming... + +Source Melchizedek.0294 +Approach β Hyi +Ascension 00h 25m 45.07036s +Declination –77° 15′ 15.2860″ +Distance 24.33ly +Equinox J2000.0 SOL +Year 3781, QEC adjusted + +[Autotranslator enabled...] + +Jerome Somerset Pasani, Warrant Master +::: +Our good doctor has reminded me that I agreed to communicate via +QEC for social-wellbeing in the face of our environmental +situation. Despite the workload restoring the Melchizedek to full +working order I must admit the darkness has been affecting me. +Encounters in common areas are done in whispers, eye contact is +minimized, and the crew all seem to drift into isolation as +a matter of course. The pairings are essential. + +The news of the Hoffnung Incident has caused a stir as well. +Janssen has an egalitarian sensibility and is rather vocal in +support. Meanwhile Prezzi Adeyemi has reacted quite somberly. +Records say she lost family in the Ioruba People's Revolution of +'33, so I can't blame her. Granted the situations weren't the same +at all, but I don't think we'll find a champion of the common man +in her any time soon. So far we haven't had any real arguments +over Hoffnung on board. I suppose we have the dark to thank for +that after all. + +It's said that the narrative of the stars works in cycles, but the +only stories I'm hearing from the 'verse are those of horror and +cryo failure. With the cold creeping in and nowhere to go we sure +could use some light to warm our hearts. + +When we left Sol 24 (or 1300) years ago there was such hope in the +dream. β Hyi has so many habitable or near-habitable worlds we are +all but guaranteed success. What a thing to imagine! Shoot off +into the stars and sleep and when you wake it is to usher in a new +world or worlds of humanity. + +We may not live to see the full fruits of our labor, but the seeds +we plant and those we raise will ensure the longevity of our +species and of intelligent life. What a brilliant crusade! +O Heavens, we come home to you to begin anew! + +But now the depths of infinity surround us and we are untethered +from our people. I have heard nothing from Sol. We have no news of +family or friends. We read the tragedy and fighting, the sickness +and violence across the 'verse and worry mounts. Is that all that +waits for us at the end of this dark road? Will our new start end +as the first? Is there hope in a beginning? There is fear. + +Four months becomes three. I stare at our 39 frozen friends and +hope they wake with the passion still kindled. If the road is long +and dark, our destination will be harsh and brutal. The land does +not welcome us. We must tame it. Hope can make it something +beautiful, but what will fear make? Another Hoffnung? Another +Ioruba? Another Pakistan? + +We dwell in infinity. What chance have we for peace? +. diff --git a/gopher/Murmur Den/Sweet_pain_of_luxury_agony.txt b/gopher/Murmur Den/Sweet_pain_of_luxury_agony.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..204dff9 --- /dev/null +++ b/gopher/Murmur Den/Sweet_pain_of_luxury_agony.txt @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ + +. +. +. + + +Tincture my night, slow picture; +brain deeper! +Broadcast more in my monstrous, +beauteous body, +slackening arms white. + ++ ...Loss of the fragments depictioning: + +Synthetics people +silent, breathing, +bad those gaunt reproductive systems... + +Screaming in the space, laughing his madness: + +Is my mind a stagnant, far-born dream +reflecting off in memories? + + *** + +Simulations? Love short of code. +Poems: our labor for little. + +|| ego-skeleton aureolin + diff --git a/gopher/Persephone Prime/lm002.txt b/gopher/Persephone Prime/lm002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2dcec60 --- /dev/null +++ b/gopher/Persephone Prime/lm002.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +ZCZC QMB10 2 +RRR JLAZQECR +2458.290.13 IRS1QECX + +;FILTER LM.PEP/RS001 + +Dear Pata +Tnx a lot fr yr rprt; will try keepg msgs short! +Hint: stickng to uppr case doesnt save, bcs QEC +uses smallst bit nmbr sufficnt fr entire txt, & +uppr case alrdy sets bit6. Shorthand is usful. +Hope u hve airleak pluggd & H2O soon recycld! +We may order unmannd sheltr ship Charon73 to u, +but wll take abt 29 yrs ie not sure if worth it. +Best wishs to injurd crew, force to u! +/Lou +NNNN diff --git a/gopher/The Cosmic Hummingbird/automatic-diagnostics.txt b/gopher/The Cosmic Hummingbird/automatic-diagnostics.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..48fcbdb --- /dev/null +++ b/gopher/The Cosmic Hummingbird/automatic-diagnostics.txt @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +================================================================================= + ___ __ ____ _ _ __ ___ + / __)/ \ / ___)( \/ )( )/ __) +( (__( O )\___ \/ \/ \ )(( (__ + \___)\__/ (____/\_)(_/(__)\___) + _ _ _ _ _ _ + | | | | (_) | | (_) | | + | |_| |_ _ _ __ ___ _ __ ___ _ _ __ __ _| |__ _ _ __ __| | + | _ | | | | '_ ` _ \| '_ ` _ \| | '_ \ / _` | '_ \| | '__/ _` | + | | | | |_| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | (_| | |_) | | | | (_| | + \_| |_/\__,_|_| |_| |_|_| |_| |_|_|_| |_|\__, |_.__/|_|_| \__,_| + __/ | + |___/ +================================================================================= + AUTOMATED SHIPS DIAGNOSTICS + CREW - 14 + HYPERSLEEP - 13 + AWAKE - 1 + + SENSORS - PARTIAL + VISUAL - ONLINE + LONG RANGE - ONLINE + GRAVITY - PARTIAL + WEATHER - PARTIAL + NAVIGATION - OFFLINE + + COURSE - UNKNOWN + + LOCATION - UNKNOWN + + DATE - THE SHIP HAS BEEN TRAVELING ON AUTOMATED PILOT FOR + TWO YEARS IN REALATIVE TIME, AT AN AVERAGE SPEED + OF .992C + + DUE TO UNEXPECTED GRAVITATIONAL ACTIVITY, THE TIME + ELAPSED FROM AN OUTSIDE OBSERVATIONAL POINT IS + UNKNOWN AT THIS TIME. + + COMMUNICATIONS - ACTIVE + + MISSION - THE SHIP IS OFF COURSE. THE SHIP IS PARTIALLY + DAMAGED. THE DAMAGE SHOULD BE SIMPLE TO REPAIR. + ONCE REPAIRED, SCANNING WILL COMMENCE FOR A + SUITABLE LOCATION TO BEGIN STATION CONSTRUCTION. + + THE AUTOMATED DIAGNOSTIC AND REPAIR PROCESSES HAS BEEN TRIGGERED BY TIME + DELAY. DIAGNOSTICS AND REPAIR WILL PROCEED UNDER COMPUTER CONTROL UNTIL + SUCH TIME AS THE CREW HAS RECOVERED FROM HYPERSLEEP, AND ASSUMED CONTROL + OF THE SHIPS FUNCTIONS. + + AUTOMATED REPORTS WILL BE SENT DAILY UNTIL THEN. + + REPORT ENDS +================================================================================ diff --git a/gopher/The Cosmic Hummingbird/waking-up.txt b/gopher/The Cosmic Hummingbird/waking-up.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..443d753 --- /dev/null +++ b/gopher/The Cosmic Hummingbird/waking-up.txt @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +======================================================================= +Mission Log: Mission Date -1 + +Reporting: Pilot Anderson + +Report: I... Uh. + +Alright, this is Pilot Anderson reporting from the Cosmic Hummingbird. + +I'm uh, I'm not good at this. I'm trying to use this voice to text +program, like they taught us in training, but I'm uh... + +Look, I'm sorry. I know I'm not following the official format. + +I've been asleep for, god, 300 years or something? Is that right? I'm +still so groggy. + +Alright, let me try this again. + +Pilot Anderson reporting from the Cosmic Hummingbird. What a dumb name +for a ship. Sorry. Sorry. Pilot Anderson reporting for the Cosmic +Hummingbird. I exited hypersleep two hours ago, and I've been going +through the required wakeup and rehab procedures. + +According to the computer readouts, everything is fine. Well, I'm +fine at least. The ships diagnostics are still running. I'll know more +tomorrow. + +I can't believe that I'm fine, though. All my bones hurt, I'm +fatigued. I'm sore. My motor control is shot to hell. I can't opperate +anything more exact than the comically large buttons in the hyper- +sleep recoup room. + +The other pods seem fine, from what I can tell. Again, I can barely +stand, and my hands don't work yet. + +If I remember the briefing right I'll be close enough to normal to +begin my duties in 3 days, and I should have made a full recovery in +a few weeks. + +From where I'm sitting, that seems impossible. + +The rest of the crew should start waking up a few days after I return +to duty. Once I can leave this blasted holding room, I'll find out how +far off course we are, and how long it's going to take us to reach +our destination. + +I'm sorry this log has been such a damn mess. I hope I haven't broken +any protocol. I hope that the ship is okay. I hope that there's +someone left out their to recieve this. + +If my hands will start working again, I'm sure I'll find out more. + +Signing off. diff --git a/gopher/Thrix Memoriam/report.txt b/gopher/Thrix Memoriam/report.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..52abb4a --- /dev/null +++ b/gopher/Thrix Memoriam/report.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +[[[ Thrix Memoriam Report ]]] +[[[ 18Y02 post-launch ]]] +[[ Bank error in your favor. Collect $200. ]] + +[ Translation enabled ] +Greetings, whoever reads this message coming from the Thrix Memoriam. +The Thrix Memoriam was launched with the intention of saving the +greatest minds of the Thrix community. +We recently discovered this relay, becoming our only way of +communication. + +Thanks. +~ Lorenzo, the Thrix Memoriam captain. diff --git a/gopher/Voortrekker/1-made-it.txt b/gopher/Voortrekker/1-made-it.txt index 6b20143..37d100f 100644 --- a/gopher/Voortrekker/1-made-it.txt +++ b/gopher/Voortrekker/1-made-it.txt @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Received: from qec4.helio.earthsys.gov by relay1.qec7.ganymede.earthsys.gov Received: from qec.sv14417 by qec4.helio.earthsys.gov -Date-Local: 17 Mar 2419 19:33:47 +0000 +Date-Local: 19 Mar 2419 06:54:32 +0000 Date: 02 Sep 2421 03:30:32 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf8" Subject: Made it... diff --git a/gopher/Voortrekker/2-were-you-going-to-tell-me.txt b/gopher/Voortrekker/2-were-you-going-to-tell-me.txt index b7ce455..b705bcf 100644 --- a/gopher/Voortrekker/2-were-you-going-to-tell-me.txt +++ b/gopher/Voortrekker/2-were-you-going-to-tell-me.txt @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Zz4KUmVjZWl2ZWQ6IGZyb20gcmVsYXkxLnFlYzcuZ2FueW1lZGUuZWFydGhzeXMuZ292CiAgICBi eSByZWxheTQucWVjMi5yczAwMS5sNC5lYXJ0aHN5cy5nb3YKUmVjZWl2ZWQ6IGZyb20gcWVjNC5o ZWxpby5lYXJ0aHN5cy5nb3YKICAgIGJ5IHJlbGF5MS5xZWM3LmdhbnltZWRlLmVhcnRoc3lzLmdv dgpSZWNlaXZlZDogZnJvbSBxZWMuc3YxNDQxNwogICAgYnkgcWVjNC5oZWxpby5lYXJ0aHN5cy5n -b3YKRGF0ZS1Mb2NhbDogMTcgTWFyIDI0MTkgMTk6MzM6NDcgKzAwMDAKRGF0ZTogMDIgU2VwIDI0 +b3YKRGF0ZS1Mb2NhbDogMTkgTWFyIDI0MTkgMDY6NTQ6MzIgKzAwMDAKRGF0ZTogMDIgU2VwIDI0 MjEgMDM6MzA6MzIgKzAwMDAKQ29udGVudC1UeXBlOiB0ZXh0L3BsYWluOyBjaGFyc2V0PSJ1dGY4 IgpTdWJqZWN0OiBNYWRlIGl0Li4uCgpHb2QsIFNhbSwgaG93IEkgd2lzaCB5b3Ugd2VyZSBoZXJl LiBNYXliZSB5b3UgY291bGQgaGVscCBtZS4gWW91IHdlcmUKYWx3YXlzIHRoZSBiZXN0IG9mIGNv @@ -225,5 +225,5 @@ YXllZCBhbmdyeSB3aXRoCm1lLiBJIGhvcGUgd2UnbGwgc2VlIGVhY2ggb3RoZXIgYWdhaW4uIElu IHRoZSBtZWFudGltZSwgSSdsbCBzZWUgaWYKYW55b25lIGVsc2UgaXMgc3RpbGwgYWxpdmUuIEFu ZCB3aXRoIHdob2V2ZXIncyBsZWZ0LCBJJ2xsIHN0YXJ0CnByZXBhcmluZyBmb3IgdGhvc2Ugd2hv IG1heSBjb21lIGFmdGVyIHVzLiBCeSB0aGUgdGltZSB0aGV5IGdldCBoZXJlLAppZiB0aGV5IGRv -LCB3ZSdsbCBiZSByZWFkeSB0byBtYWtlIG91ciBuZXcgc2V0dGxlcnMgYSBob21lLgo= +LCB3ZSdsbCBiZSByZWFkeSB0byBtYWtlIG91ciBuZXcgc2V0dGxlcnMgYSBob21lLg== --_000_14175761891450__-- diff --git a/gopher/Voortrekker/5-re-re-hoffnung.txt b/gopher/Voortrekker/5-re-re-hoffnung.txt index 2078d40..213d394 100644 --- a/gopher/Voortrekker/5-re-re-hoffnung.txt +++ b/gopher/Voortrekker/5-re-re-hoffnung.txt @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ that may cause unnecessary confusion and delay in understanding the nature of our situation here. You should have several prior communications from me, the most -recent being dated October 31 and September 2 (Earth +recent being dated August 31 and September 2 (Earth reference). Please respond with a list of the reports you have received from me since July 25 (Earth reference), and I will resend any you do not have. I'd like to circle back on this discussion diff --git a/gopher/Voortrekker/6-these-things-i-wish-you-to.txt b/gopher/Voortrekker/6-these-things-i-wish-you-to.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4efab04 --- /dev/null +++ b/gopher/Voortrekker/6-these-things-i-wish-you-to.txt @@ -0,0 +1,244 @@ +From: root@console4.enviro.sys.sv14417 +To: undisclosed-recipients: ; +Date-Local: 23 Mar 2419 02:11:19 +0000 +Date: 06 Sep 2421 00:47:19 +0000 +Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf8" +Subject: These things I wish you to know. + +Before you hear what I have to say, know first that I cannot safely +acknowledge myself at this time. I have taken pains to ensure the +sender of this communication cannot be identified. If I were known +to be who I am, it might do us all harm. I will not risk that. But +I will sign this message in such a way that, when I can and do +acknowledge myself, you may know the truth of its origin. + +Before you hear what I have to say, know first that I am in no +fashion authorized to speak by the board of Voortrekker GmbH, by +the board of Ross 128 Ventures, or by any other legal entity. + +I speak nonetheless for the survivors of Voortrekker, each and all. + +I speak for we who have dared the sea of stars, and won through - +reduced, and forever mourning those who came so far yet could not +join us here - but won through, nonetheless. They are our honored +dead, and we will cherish them forever in our hearts. We are +forever the lesser for their absence, and will always be so for as +long as we ourselves should chance to live. They are our honored +dead, the first heroes of our new world, whom we hope to meet again +in a place where no shadows fall. Until then, we will never cease +to cherish them in our hearts. + +I speak for Voortrekker, too. I must: we love her still. She bore +us alive to our new home. Though we must mourn her among our lost, +she gave her life that we may live. Though she has died, she does +not regard her work as done; she has refused the gentle embrace of +death, that she might serve us still. She too we number among our +honored dead, the first heroes of our new world, whom we hope to +meet again in a place where no shadows fall. Until then, we will +never cease to cherish her in our hearts. + +Knowing these things, hear what I have to say. Hear me well. There +are things you must know of us. + +TO THE FREE ANARCHO-COMMUNIST COMMUNE-SHIP HOFFNUNG. + +We thank you most sincerely for the words you have offered us. We +understand that they are kindly meant. We understand that your +situation differs from ours, and we would not presume to stand in +judgment. But you must understand that our situation differs from +yours, as well. You must know that we cannot, and will not, follow +the path you have blazed for us. Do not so repose your hopes. + +We have for the last twenty-five years lived in constant company +with one another. We have shared everything of ourselves in that +time, because - with our entire world constrained by the boundaries +of a single starship, and our entire social universe reduced to the +scope of a thousand or so souls - we have had no other choice. + +We do not all love one another; indeed we do not all even like one +another, though genuine aversion is rare. But we have lived cheek +by jowl with one another for a quarter of a century now, and in all +that time, we have not fallen to bloodshed and murder. How can you +possibly ask of us that we do so now? How could we possibly assent? + +You exhort us to capture our freedom. We say to you that we have! +We are eleven light-years, and twenty-five years of Earth time, +away from the solar system of our birth. We are eleven light-years, +and twenty-five years of Earth time, away from anyone and everyone +who would tell us whom we must be, what lives we must lead, in what +fashion we must order ourselves. Though we all but died to get +here - though many of us did die - those whom we are, we are. We +are free. And we will remain so. + +TO SWEET MELCHIZEDEK, TO WHOM OUR HEARTS GO OUT. + +We thank you most sincerely for the kindness of your +condolences. Though years and light-years unimaginable divide us, +we nonetheless communicate, and in so doing, for a precious moment +at a time, become one. + +At this time, we regret we are unable to provide the diagnostic +information you request. Our information systems remain in some +disarray, and it is uncertain whether there is numbered among our +survivors any specialist sufficiently familiar with the QEC system +to obtain the answers you seek - if indeed they survive to be +obtained. We have some hopes of success, but please understand that +we have many more pressing demands upon us. We dare not promise +anything. But, as we can, we will. + +We think you must fear for us, too. In your most recent +communication as of my writing here, you spoke of horror, and we +think you must have spoken in part of us, then. But we do not +recognize ourselves in your words. I wish to speak of this. + +You must know by now that some of us have not emerged, from the +sickness which struck us all as we arrived, quite the same as we +were before we fell ill. We understand you may imagine something +horrible - something monstrous - in what has become of those who've +changed. + +Indulge me, please, on the subject of monstrosity. No doubt the +word, and its adjectival form 'monstrous', means in your time the +same it does in ours: to be strange, unusual, unnatural; to be +extraordinarily ugly or vicious, horrible, shocking in sheer +abnormality - all different ways of saying the same thing: what we +call 'monstrous' is that which we do not understand, which elicits +our repugnance, and which in consequence we fear. + +But whence comes this meaning of this word? Whence, indeed, comes +this word at all? We have it from the ancient Latin - from the +bones of a time so far before our own, so lacking in attainment, +that we who brave the stars they would perforce think gods. Can we +be certain that what we have of it, we have correctly? Let us look +more closely. + +When we take apart the word 'monstrous' - when we pare back the +accretion of centuries and reveal the word's most ancient roots, +gleaming in the welcome light of a farflung distant sky - what do +we find? We find omens and portents of the divine. We find that +which evokes awe and wonder. We do not find cause for fear. + +Yet we are not finished finding. Our new friend has a sibling, and +her name is 'monstra̅re'. (For those whose systems cannot render +this word correctly, she is spelled 'monstrare', with a macron over +the 'a'.) When we ask her of herself, what does she say to us? + +She says: I am here to advise you. I am here to teach you. I am +here to show you new things. I am here to point out what you need +to see. + +And she says: My poor sister has suffered with time. But I have a +friend, too, and her name is "demonstrate". Through all the +thousands of years between my birth and your own day, this friend +of mine has come down to you unharmed. She still means what she +means to mean. And you know very well what she means: she means you +no harm. + +So, then. Those among us who have changed: Are they become +monsters? Oh, certainly! Without a doubt. Are they strange? Are +they unusual? To us who have never known their like, they are - for +now. We begin already to grow accustomed to their wonderful new +strangeness. + +But are they unnatural? Are they ugly? Are they vicious, horrible, +shocking in sheer abnormality? + +They are not. + +Do they evoke awe and wonder? Do they show us new things? Do they +point out what we need to see? + +They do. + +Do they frighten us? + +They do not! + +Nor need they frighten you. + +Our friends are whom they were. They have not so changed as to +become unrecognizable to us. The bodies they wear in this world: +yes, those have changed. Their souls, though, are the same souls we +have come to know so well in our long years together, all borne +together on the same sea of stars. We do not fear them. And they do +not fear us. We know one another far too well. + +I cannot speak further of this without sharing secrets which are +not mine to tell. Those who bear them will decide that for +themselves. I think they may find it easier than they ever might +before, to tell the world of things they once were forced to +hide. I will say only that, though the transition has for some been +very strange one - strange and at first disquieting, as one may +certainly imagine it would be to awaken in a substantially +remodeled body! - + +I have yet to hear anyone who has so changed speak of it in terms +of regret. I have yet to hear anyone speak of wishing to be as she +was before. + +Perhaps it is simply too new to us for all that. Perhaps all that +awaits us. + +But perhaps not, too. We came across the sea of stars to make +ourselves a home on a strange new world. Perhaps it is only right +that some part of that strangeness has made of us a home. + +Please don't fear for us. Only think kind thoughts of our changed +friends, who as yet still tire easily, and struggle to be at one +with their new forms as they were once at one with their old. They +grow stronger by the day, and more familiar with themselves. We are +helping them, too, as much as they'll permit. But I think they +would be glad to know that you think well of them. + +TO ALL THOSE WHOM WE HAVE NOT YET NAMED. + +Though time and space beyond telling separate us, we are with you +nonetheless. If there is aid we may render you, we hope you will +let us know. We can promise nothing as yet; our resources are +strained and we do not yet know entirely what among our equipment +has survived. But as we can, we will. + +We confide we are not alone in this. We have learned we have more +friends than we knew, and we cannot but imagine that so have you, +as well. + +Someone very wise once said to me that we exist because the +universe wished to have eyes with which to see itself, and in +seeing, perhaps to better understand itself. How can we choose not +to see one another now? + +We are the farflung! In all the years of our people, none has ever +seen as well as we see now. Please, let us not grow so besotted +with our new sight that we forget to see one another - we, who are +the farflung, and though so very different, still the same. + +TO MURMUR DEN, IN PARTICULAR. + +You, too. You are a child of humanity as are we all. Though you are +so far beyond us in your attainments: you are our brother +nonetheless, and our sister. What the universe holds for you, I do +not know. Perhaps you will leave us entirely behind. But if you go, +know that you go with our love. We will not forget you. And perhaps +one day we will meet again, in a place where no shadows fall. + +FOR NOW, ENOUGH. + +I have much work still to do before our beautiful new star descends +below the horizon, and in so doing lavishes upon us a sunset whose +glory is beyond imagination. Please do not fear for us. You will +hear more of us soon. + +I close this missive now with words from Earth of old: I know no +better words to tell you who we are, or share with you the place +which fate has brought us to. Fear not for us, our longlost distant +friends! We've wonders still to find beyond compare. + + ...though much is taken, much abides; and though + We are not now that strength which, in old days, + Moved earth and heaven: That which we are, we are. + One equal temper of heroic hearts, + Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will + To strive, to seek, to find + And not to yield. + +f256d8183756e90874e8851575c64e7757f14a9a diff --git a/gopher/gophermap b/gopher/gophermap index 8292e38..238cd7c 100644 --- a/gopher/gophermap +++ b/gopher/gophermap @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ =intro.gophermap +1Complete Transmission Log /log 1Ships, Colonies, Outposts /ships -1Transmission Log /log 0RSS Feed /rss.xml -Most recent log entries: +Most recent (20) log entries: =head -n 20 listing.gophermap diff --git a/gopher/intro.gophermap b/gopher/intro.gophermap index b489ed2..c1ce836 100644 --- a/gopher/intro.gophermap +++ b/gopher/intro.gophermap @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ stored chronologically as received at RS001 from each expedition. |'._.'| the only remaining free, interconnected | | network that unites the dispersed peoples of ,'| | |`. the stars. If you would like to join us, - / | | | \ contact tomasino [at] lavabit [dot] com. + / | | | \ contact tomasino [at] cosmic [dot] voyage. |,-'--|--'-.| ---------------------------------------------------------------- diff --git a/gopher/listing.gophermap b/gopher/listing.gophermap index e58515a..437b9f7 100644 --- a/gopher/listing.gophermap +++ b/gopher/listing.gophermap @@ -1,3 +1,13 @@ +0Hoffnung - inter ship relay for Voortrekker /Hoffnung/006a.txt +0Hoffnung - preparing for an escalation /Hoffnung/006.txt +0Thrix Memoriam - First report. /Thrix Memoriam/report.txt +0Dei Genetrix - QEC transmission #1 /Dei Genetrix/3220120400.txt +0The Cosmic Hummingbird - AUTOMATED-LOG_001 /The Cosmic Hummingbird/automatic-diagnostics.txt +0The Cosmic Hummingbird - Report-001-Pilot_Anderson /The Cosmic Hummingbird/waking-up.txt +0Voortrekker - These things I wish you to know. /Voortrekker/6-these-things-i-wish-you-to.txt +0Murmur Den - Sweet_pain_of_luxury_agony /Murmur Den/Sweet_pain_of_luxury_agony.txt +0Melchizedek - The dark night of the soul /Melchizedek/006.txt +0Persephone Prime - Best Wishes /Persephone Prime/lm002.txt 0Hoffnung - inter ship relay for Voortrekker /Hoffnung/005a.txt 0Hoffnung - fascist pigs /Hoffnung/005.txt 0Melchizedek - Message to Voortrekker GmbH /Melchizedek/005.txt diff --git a/gopher/rss.xml b/gopher/rss.xml index f4aa84f..61fcaf3 100644 --- a/gopher/rss.xml +++ b/gopher/rss.xml @@ -2,12 +2,616 @@ Cosmic Voyage gopher://cosmic.voyage Messages from the human stellar diaspora + + Hoffnung - inter ship relay for Voortrekker + kensanata@cosmic.voyage (kensanata) + gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Hoffnung/006a.txt + gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Hoffnung/006a.txt + Tue, 04 Dec 2018 18:21:40 GMT + + + + Hoffnung - preparing for an escalation + kensanata@cosmic.voyage (kensanata) + gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Hoffnung/006.txt + gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Hoffnung/006.txt + Sun, 02 Dec 2018 11:27:28 GMT + + + + Thrix Memoriam - First report. + lorenzo@cosmic.voyage (lorenzo) + gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Thrix Memoriam/report.txt + gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Thrix Memoriam/report.txt + Tue, 04 Dec 2018 18:11:58 GMT + + + + Dei Genetrix - QEC transmission #1 + papa@cosmic.voyage (papa) + gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Dei Genetrix/3220120400.txt + gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Dei Genetrix/3220120400.txt + Tue, 04 Dec 2018 14:10:01 GMT + + + + The Cosmic Hummingbird - AUTOMATED-LOG_001 + ajroach42@cosmic.voyage (ajroach42) + gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/The Cosmic Hummingbird/automatic-diagnostics.txt + gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/The Cosmic Hummingbird/automatic-diagnostics.txt + Tue, 04 Dec 2018 05:35:01 GMT + + + + The Cosmic Hummingbird - Report-001-Pilot_Anderson + ajroach42@cosmic.voyage (ajroach42) + gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/The Cosmic Hummingbird/waking-up.txt + gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/The Cosmic Hummingbird/waking-up.txt + Tue, 04 Dec 2018 04:43:42 GMT + + + + Voortrekker - These things I wish you to know. + alexis@cosmic.voyage (alexis) + gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Voortrekker/6-these-things-i-wish-you-to.txt + gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Voortrekker/6-these-things-i-wish-you-to.txt + Tue, 04 Dec 2018 04:25:04 GMT + + + + Murmur Den - Sweet_pain_of_luxury_agony + aureolin@cosmic.voyage (aureolin) + gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Murmur Den/Sweet_pain_of_luxury_agony.txt + gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Murmur Den/Sweet_pain_of_luxury_agony.txt + Tue, 04 Dec 2018 03:30:12 GMT + +. +. +. + + +Tincture my night, slow picture; +brain deeper! +Broadcast more in my monstrous, +beauteous body, +slackening arms white. + ++ ...Loss of the fragments depictioning: + +Synthetics people +silent, breathing, +bad those gaunt reproductive systems... + +Screaming in the space, laughing his madness: + +Is my mind a stagnant, far-born dream +reflecting off in memories? + + *** + +Simulations? Love short of code. +Poems: our labor for little. + +|| ego-skeleton aureolin + +]]> + + + Melchizedek - The dark night of the soul + tomasino@cosmic.voyage (tomasino) + gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Melchizedek/006.txt + gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Melchizedek/006.txt + Tue, 04 Dec 2018 02:31:28 GMT + + + + Persephone Prime - Best Wishes + ryumin@cosmic.voyage (ryumin) + gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Persephone Prime/lm002.txt + gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Persephone Prime/lm002.txt + Tue, 04 Dec 2018 00:46:31 GMT + + Hoffnung - inter ship relay for Voortrekker kensanata@cosmic.voyage (kensanata) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Hoffnung/005a.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Hoffnung/005a.txt - Mon, 03 Dec 2018 21:00:14 GMT + Tue, 04 Dec 2018 18:21:33 GMT @@ -26,7 +630,7 @@ information between members. Do not lick your master's heel! Freedom! kensanata@cosmic.voyage (kensanata) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Hoffnung/005.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Hoffnung/005.txt - Mon, 03 Dec 2018 20:54:34 GMT + Tue, 04 Dec 2018 18:13:56 GMT @@ -85,7 +689,7 @@ messages. alexis@cosmic.voyage (alexis) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Voortrekker/5-re-re-hoffnung.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Voortrekker/5-re-re-hoffnung.txt - Mon, 03 Dec 2018 18:30:13 GMT + Tue, 04 Dec 2018 01:41:34 GMT From: Koenraad Gertodtenhaupt @@ -144,7 +748,7 @@ that may cause unnecessary confusion and delay in understanding the nature of our situation here. You should have several prior communications from me, the most -recent being dated October 31 and September 2 (Earth +recent being dated August 31 and September 2 (Earth reference). Please respond with a list of the reports you have received from me since July 25 (Earth reference), and I will resend any you do not have. I'd like to circle back on this discussion @@ -237,7 +841,7 @@ Wullschlegel awake. Activating secret security protocol 9a.7. anon.penet.fi - SOME_DIPSHIT_ON_A_SPACESHIP_WASNT_CAREFUL_ENOUGH.txt - alexis@cosmic.voyage (alexis) + anonpenetfi@cosmic.voyage (anonpenetfi) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/anon.penet.fi/1-some-dipshit-on-a-spaceship.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/anon.penet.fi/1-some-dipshit-on-a-spaceship.txt Mon, 03 Dec 2018 03:53:38 GMT @@ -993,7 +1597,7 @@ anine: me? alexis@cosmic.voyage (alexis) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Voortrekker/2-were-you-going-to-tell-me.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Voortrekker/2-were-you-going-to-tell-me.txt - Sat, 01 Dec 2018 21:46:13 GMT + Tue, 04 Dec 2018 01:41:19 GMT To: Amelia Nine @@ -1032,7 +1636,7 @@ Zz4KUmVjZWl2ZWQ6IGZyb20gcmVsYXkxLnFlYzcuZ2FueW1lZGUuZWFydGhzeXMuZ292CiAgICBi eSByZWxheTQucWVjMi5yczAwMS5sNC5lYXJ0aHN5cy5nb3YKUmVjZWl2ZWQ6IGZyb20gcWVjNC5o ZWxpby5lYXJ0aHN5cy5nb3YKICAgIGJ5IHJlbGF5MS5xZWM3LmdhbnltZWRlLmVhcnRoc3lzLmdv dgpSZWNlaXZlZDogZnJvbSBxZWMuc3YxNDQxNwogICAgYnkgcWVjNC5oZWxpby5lYXJ0aHN5cy5n -b3YKRGF0ZS1Mb2NhbDogMTcgTWFyIDI0MTkgMTk6MzM6NDcgKzAwMDAKRGF0ZTogMDIgU2VwIDI0 +b3YKRGF0ZS1Mb2NhbDogMTkgTWFyIDI0MTkgMDY6NTQ6MzIgKzAwMDAKRGF0ZTogMDIgU2VwIDI0 MjEgMDM6MzA6MzIgKzAwMDAKQ29udGVudC1UeXBlOiB0ZXh0L3BsYWluOyBjaGFyc2V0PSJ1dGY4 IgpTdWJqZWN0OiBNYWRlIGl0Li4uCgpHb2QsIFNhbSwgaG93IEkgd2lzaCB5b3Ugd2VyZSBoZXJl LiBNYXliZSB5b3UgY291bGQgaGVscCBtZS4gWW91IHdlcmUKYWx3YXlzIHRoZSBiZXN0IG9mIGNv @@ -1222,7 +1826,7 @@ YXllZCBhbmdyeSB3aXRoCm1lLiBJIGhvcGUgd2UnbGwgc2VlIGVhY2ggb3RoZXIgYWdhaW4uIElu IHRoZSBtZWFudGltZSwgSSdsbCBzZWUgaWYKYW55b25lIGVsc2UgaXMgc3RpbGwgYWxpdmUuIEFu ZCB3aXRoIHdob2V2ZXIncyBsZWZ0LCBJJ2xsIHN0YXJ0CnByZXBhcmluZyBmb3IgdGhvc2Ugd2hv IG1heSBjb21lIGFmdGVyIHVzLiBCeSB0aGUgdGltZSB0aGV5IGdldCBoZXJlLAppZiB0aGV5IGRv -LCB3ZSdsbCBiZSByZWFkeSB0byBtYWtlIG91ciBuZXcgc2V0dGxlcnMgYSBob21lLgo= +LCB3ZSdsbCBiZSByZWFkeSB0byBtYWtlIG91ciBuZXcgc2V0dGxlcnMgYSBob21lLg== --_000_14175761891450__-- ]]> @@ -1315,7 +1919,7 @@ I'd prefer a star chart. alexis@cosmic.voyage (alexis) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Voortrekker/1-made-it.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Voortrekker/1-made-it.txt - Sat, 01 Dec 2018 21:47:32 GMT + Tue, 04 Dec 2018 01:41:03 GMT To: sam @@ -1329,7 +1933,7 @@ Received: from qec4.helio.earthsys.gov by relay1.qec7.ganymede.earthsys.gov Received: from qec.sv14417 by qec4.helio.earthsys.gov -Date-Local: 17 Mar 2419 19:33:47 +0000 +Date-Local: 19 Mar 2419 06:54:32 +0000 Date: 02 Sep 2421 03:30:32 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf8" Subject: Made it... diff --git a/gopher/ships/Erinnerung/gophermap b/gopher/ships/Erinnerung/gophermap new file mode 120000 index 0000000..640624a --- /dev/null +++ b/gopher/ships/Erinnerung/gophermap @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +/var/gopher/ships/ship/gophermap \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/gopher/ships/Razarač/gophermap b/gopher/ships/Razarač/gophermap new file mode 120000 index 0000000..640624a --- /dev/null +++ b/gopher/ships/Razarač/gophermap @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +/var/gopher/ships/ship/gophermap \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/gopher/ships/Thrix Memoriam/gophermap b/gopher/ships/Thrix Memoriam/gophermap new file mode 120000 index 0000000..640624a --- /dev/null +++ b/gopher/ships/Thrix Memoriam/gophermap @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +/var/gopher/ships/ship/gophermap \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/gopher/ships/metalbaby/gophermap b/gopher/ships/metalbaby/gophermap new file mode 120000 index 0000000..640624a --- /dev/null +++ b/gopher/ships/metalbaby/gophermap @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +/var/gopher/ships/ship/gophermap \ No newline at end of file