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4 December A.D. 3220
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Memorial of St. John Damascene
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Dominus vobiscum.
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Paul, 29th Abbot of Dei Genetrix.
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To all who read this message, grace be with you, and peace from God the
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Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Since we have repaired our quantum entanglement communications device we
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have decided to publish a record of our mission for the edification of
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fellow space travelers and the glory of God.
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Our community is divided into three orders, one for men, one for women, and
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a third for families. We received the call of God to spread the Gospel
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beyond the Solar system, and so departed for Luyten's Star in A.D. 2963.
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Dei Genetrix was founded in the Kuiper belt in A.D. 2547 and is the oldest
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of the three abbeys that launched together on our mission, the others being
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Benedictus and Monte Cassino.
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God willing, we will arrive at our first destination after 567 years.
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Deo gratias.
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ted their readiness to kill, we confronted them. They wanted to nego-
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ted their readiness to kill, we confronted them. They wanted to nego-
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tiated and we sent comrade Philomena as our delegate-diplomat. It
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tiated and we sent comrade Philomena as our delegate-diplomat. It
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went downhill when pig Herbert Müller offered to talk to the bridge
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went downhill when pig Herbert Müller offered to talk to the bridge
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delegates and a hidden flechette to the meeting. In the blood bath we
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delegates and brought a hidden flechette to the meeting. In the blood
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lost seven delegates. The remaining pigs claimed innocence, not know-
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bath we lost seven delegates. The remaining pigs claimed innocence,
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ing of Müller's suicide mission. We agreed to offer them control iso-
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not knowing of Müller's suicide mission. We agreed to offer them
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lation, cryo berths and access to a supplier for the rest of the trip
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control isolation, cryo berths and access to a supplier for the rest
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as they didn't want cryo under our supervision. Freedom and equality!
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of the trip as they didn't want cryo under our supervision. Freedom!
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fall for the trap of information control policies. That way lies info
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fall for the trap of information control policies. That way lies info
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death. Self consciousness of all groups required the free flow of
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death. Self consciousness of all groups required the free flow of
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information between members. Do not lick your master's heel! Freedom!
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information between members. Do not lick your master's heel! Freedom!
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Samuel Hochueli speaking in the name of the free anarcho-communist
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commune-ship Hoffnung to the crew of Voortrekker: We have a message.
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NOW IS THE TIME TO RISE UP AND OVERTHROW THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS!
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Operators of the QEC: distribute the messages you have sent and
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received. This is a time for transparency and accountability. Do not
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fall for the trap of information control policies. That way lies info
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death. Self consciousness of all groups required the free flow of
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information between members. Do not lick your master's heel! Freedom!
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Samuel Hochueli speaking in the name of the free anarcho-communist
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commune-ship Hoffnung to the free thinking crew Voortrekker. We hope
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that that you see throug the cheap ploy of your capitalist masters.
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The honored dead are a belief to have you keep doing the things that
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you should not. The weight you attach to this thing that should have
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no weight is thrown into the balance and cheats of your rightful share
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of everything there is. Do not fall for this ploy. Equality for all!
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Samuel Hochueli speaking in the name of the free anarcho-communist
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commune-ship Hoffnung to the crew of Voortrekker: We have a message.
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NOW IS THE TIME TO RISE UP AND OVERTHROW THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS!
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Operators of the QEC: distribute the messages you have sent and
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received. This is a time for transparency and accountability. Do not
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fall for the trap of information control policies. That way lies info
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death. Self consciousness of all groups required the free flow of
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information between members. Do not lick your master's heel! Freedom!
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situation. Despite the workload restoring the Melchizedek to full
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working order I must admit the darkness has been affecting me.
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minimized, and the crew all seem to drift into isolation as
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Janssen has an egalitarian sensibility and is rather vocal in
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dream. β Hyi has so many habitable or near-habitable worlds we are
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all but guaranteed success. What a thing to imagine! Shoot off
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into the stars and sleep and when you wake it is to usher in a new
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species and of intelligent life. What a brilliant crusade!
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O Heavens, we come home to you to begin anew!
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from our people. I have heard nothing from Sol. We have no news of
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nature of our situation here.
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You should have several prior communications from me, the most
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You should have several prior communications from me, the most
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recent being dated October 31 and September 2 (Earth
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recent being dated August 31 and September 2 (Earth
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reference). Please respond with a list of the reports you have
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reference). Please respond with a list of the reports you have
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received from me since July 25 (Earth reference), and I will resend
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received from me since July 25 (Earth reference), and I will resend
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any you do not have. I'd like to circle back on this discussion
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From: root@console4.enviro.sys.sv14417
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To: undisclosed-recipients: ;
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Date-Local: 23 Mar 2419 02:11:19 +0000
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Date: 06 Sep 2421 00:47:19 +0000
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf8"
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Subject: These things I wish you to know.
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Before you hear what I have to say, know first that I cannot safely
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|
acknowledge myself at this time. I have taken pains to ensure the
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|
sender of this communication cannot be identified. If I were known
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|
to be who I am, it might do us all harm. I will not risk that. But
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|
I will sign this message in such a way that, when I can and do
|
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|
acknowledge myself, you may know the truth of its origin.
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Before you hear what I have to say, know first that I am in no
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|
fashion authorized to speak by the board of Voortrekker GmbH, by
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the board of Ross 128 Ventures, or by any other legal entity.
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I speak nonetheless for the survivors of Voortrekker, each and all.
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|
I speak for we who have dared the sea of stars, and won through -
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reduced, and forever mourning those who came so far yet could not
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|
join us here - but won through, nonetheless. They are our honored
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dead, and we will cherish them forever in our hearts. We are
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forever the lesser for their absence, and will always be so for as
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|
long as we ourselves should chance to live. They are our honored
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dead, the first heroes of our new world, whom we hope to meet again
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in a place where no shadows fall. Until then, we will never cease
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to cherish them in our hearts.
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I speak for Voortrekker, too. I must: we love her still. She bore
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us alive to our new home. Though we must mourn her among our lost,
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|
she gave her life that we may live. Though she has died, she does
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|
not regard her work as done; she has refused the gentle embrace of
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death, that she might serve us still. She too we number among our
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|
honored dead, the first heroes of our new world, whom we hope to
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|
meet again in a place where no shadows fall. Until then, we will
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|
never cease to cherish her in our hearts.
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Knowing these things, hear what I have to say. Hear me well. There
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|
are things you must know of us.
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TO THE FREE ANARCHO-COMMUNIST COMMUNE-SHIP HOFFNUNG.
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We thank you most sincerely for the words you have offered us. We
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|
understand that they are kindly meant. We understand that your
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|
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
|
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|
the path you have blazed for us. Do not so repose your hopes.
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|
We have for the last twenty-five years lived in constant company
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|
with one another. We have shared everything of ourselves in that
|
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|
time, because - with our entire world constrained by the boundaries
|
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|
of a single starship, and our entire social universe reduced to the
|
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|
scope of a thousand or so souls - we have had no other choice.
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|
We do not all love one another; indeed we do not all even like one
|
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|
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?
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||||||
|
|
||||||
|
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.
|
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|
||||||
|
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.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
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|
|
@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
|
||||||
=intro.gophermap
|
=intro.gophermap
|
||||||
|
1Complete Transmission Log /log
|
||||||
1Ships, Colonies, Outposts /ships
|
1Ships, Colonies, Outposts /ships
|
||||||
1Transmission Log /log
|
|
||||||
0RSS Feed /rss.xml
|
0RSS Feed /rss.xml
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
Most recent log entries:
|
Most recent (20) log entries:
|
||||||
=head -n 20 listing.gophermap
|
=head -n 20 listing.gophermap
|
||||||
|
|
|
@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ stored chronologically as received at RS001 from each expedition.
|
||||||
|'._.'| the only remaining free, interconnected
|
|'._.'| the only remaining free, interconnected
|
||||||
| | network that unites the dispersed peoples of
|
| | network that unites the dispersed peoples of
|
||||||
,'| | |`. the stars. If you would like to join us,
|
,'| | |`. the stars. If you would like to join us,
|
||||||
/ | | | \ contact tomasino [at] lavabit [dot] com.
|
/ | | | \ contact tomasino [at] cosmic [dot] voyage.
|
||||||
|,-'--|--'-.|
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|,-'--|--'-.|
|
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|
|
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|
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|
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|
|
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|
||||||
|
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 - inter ship relay for Voortrekker /Hoffnung/005a.txt
|
||||||
0Hoffnung - fascist pigs /Hoffnung/005.txt
|
0Hoffnung - fascist pigs /Hoffnung/005.txt
|
||||||
0Melchizedek - Message to Voortrekker GmbH /Melchizedek/005.txt
|
0Melchizedek - Message to Voortrekker GmbH /Melchizedek/005.txt
|
||||||
|
|
636
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636
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|
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|
||||||
<title>Cosmic Voyage</title>
|
<title>Cosmic Voyage</title>
|
||||||
<link>gopher://cosmic.voyage</link>
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<link>gopher://cosmic.voyage</link>
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<description>Messages from the human stellar diaspora</description>
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<description>Messages from the human stellar diaspora</description>
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<title>Hoffnung - inter ship relay for Voortrekker</title>
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<author>kensanata@cosmic.voyage (kensanata)</author>
|
||||||
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<link>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Hoffnung/006a.txt</link>
|
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<guid>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Hoffnung/006a.txt</guid>
|
||||||
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2018 18:21:40 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[
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-+-+-+- Inter Ship Relay -+-+-+- C33.281 -+-+-+- Orange -+-+-+-
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Samuel Hochueli speaking in the name of the free anarcho-communist
|
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commune-ship Hoffnung to the free thinking crew Voortrekker. We hope
|
||||||
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that that you see throug the cheap ploy of your capitalist masters.
|
||||||
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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!
|
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|
-+-+-+ End of Report -+-+-+ SAHOC -+-+-+
|
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|
]]></description>
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|
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|
||||||
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<title>Hoffnung - preparing for an escalation</title>
|
||||||
|
<author>kensanata@cosmic.voyage (kensanata)</author>
|
||||||
|
<link>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Hoffnung/006.txt</link>
|
||||||
|
<guid>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Hoffnung/006.txt</guid>
|
||||||
|
<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2018 11:27:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[
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[[ MESSAGE EXTRACTED FROM REPORT 262 EMBEDDED IN WHITESPACE ]]
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-+-+-+- Sidechannel -+-+-+- C33.272 -+-+-+- Ultraviolet -+-+-+-
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Security team in isolation but safe. Protocol 9a.9 is a go.
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-+-+-+ End of Report -+-+-+ Signed HEWUSC -+-+-+
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]]></description>
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<title>Thrix Memoriam - First report.</title>
|
||||||
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<author>lorenzo@cosmic.voyage (lorenzo)</author>
|
||||||
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<link>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Thrix Memoriam/report.txt</link>
|
||||||
|
<guid>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Thrix Memoriam/report.txt</guid>
|
||||||
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2018 18:11:58 GMT</pubDate>
|
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<description><![CDATA[
|
||||||
|
[[[ Thrix Memoriam Report ]]]
|
||||||
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[[[ 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.
|
||||||
|
]]></description>
|
||||||
|
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|
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|
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<title>Dei Genetrix - QEC transmission #1</title>
|
||||||
|
<author>papa@cosmic.voyage (papa)</author>
|
||||||
|
<link>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Dei Genetrix/3220120400.txt</link>
|
||||||
|
<guid>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Dei Genetrix/3220120400.txt</guid>
|
||||||
|
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2018 14:10:01 GMT</pubDate>
|
||||||
|
<description><![CDATA[
|
||||||
|
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.
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||||||
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|
||||||
|
Deo gratias.]]></description>
|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
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|
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<title>The Cosmic Hummingbird - AUTOMATED-LOG_001</title>
|
||||||
|
<author>ajroach42@cosmic.voyage (ajroach42)</author>
|
||||||
|
<link>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/The Cosmic Hummingbird/automatic-diagnostics.txt</link>
|
||||||
|
<guid>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/The Cosmic Hummingbird/automatic-diagnostics.txt</guid>
|
||||||
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2018 05:35:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[
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|
=================================================================================
|
||||||
|
___ __ ____ _ _ __ ___
|
||||||
|
/ __)/ \ / ___)( \/ )( )/ __)
|
||||||
|
( (__( O )\___ \/ \/ \ )(( (__
|
||||||
|
\___)\__/ (____/\_)(_/(__)\___)
|
||||||
|
_ _ _ _ _ _
|
||||||
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| | | | (_) | | (_) | |
|
||||||
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| |_| |_ _ _ __ ___ _ __ ___ _ _ __ __ _| |__ _ _ __ __| |
|
||||||
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| _ | | | | '_ ` _ \| '_ ` _ \| | '_ \ / _` | '_ \| | '__/ _` |
|
||||||
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| | | | |_| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | (_| | |_) | | | | (_| |
|
||||||
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\_| |_/\__,_|_| |_| |_|_| |_| |_|_|_| |_|\__, |_.__/|_|_| \__,_|
|
||||||
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__/ |
|
||||||
|
|___/
|
||||||
|
=================================================================================
|
||||||
|
AUTOMATED SHIPS DIAGNOSTICS
|
||||||
|
CREW - 14
|
||||||
|
HYPERSLEEP - 13
|
||||||
|
AWAKE - 1
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
SENSORS - PARTIAL
|
||||||
|
VISUAL - ONLINE
|
||||||
|
LONG RANGE - ONLINE
|
||||||
|
GRAVITY - PARTIAL
|
||||||
|
WEATHER - PARTIAL
|
||||||
|
NAVIGATION - OFFLINE
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
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
|
||||||
|
================================================================================
|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
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|
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<title>The Cosmic Hummingbird - Report-001-Pilot_Anderson</title>
|
||||||
|
<author>ajroach42@cosmic.voyage (ajroach42)</author>
|
||||||
|
<link>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/The Cosmic Hummingbird/waking-up.txt</link>
|
||||||
|
<guid>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/The Cosmic Hummingbird/waking-up.txt</guid>
|
||||||
|
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2018 04:43:42 GMT</pubDate>
|
||||||
|
<description><![CDATA[
|
||||||
|
=======================================================================
|
||||||
|
Mission Log: Mission Date -1
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
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.
|
||||||
|
]]></description>
|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
<item>
|
||||||
|
<title>Voortrekker - These things I wish you to know.</title>
|
||||||
|
<author>alexis@cosmic.voyage (alexis)</author>
|
||||||
|
<link>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Voortrekker/6-these-things-i-wish-you-to.txt</link>
|
||||||
|
<guid>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Voortrekker/6-these-things-i-wish-you-to.txt</guid>
|
||||||
|
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2018 04:25:04 GMT</pubDate>
|
||||||
|
<description><![CDATA[
|
||||||
|
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
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we find? We find omens and portents of the divine. We find that
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which evokes awe and wonder. We do not find cause for fear.
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Yet we are not finished finding. Our new friend has a sibling, and
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her name is 'monstra̅re'. (For those whose systems cannot render
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|
this word correctly, she is spelled 'monstrare', with a macron over
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the 'a'.) When we ask her of herself, what does she say to us?
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here to show you new things. I am here to point out what you need
|
||||||
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to see.
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And she says: My poor sister has suffered with time. But I have a
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||||||
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friend, too, and her name is "demonstrate". Through all the
|
||||||
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thousands of years between my birth and your own day, this friend
|
||||||
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of mine has come down to you unharmed. She still means what she
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means to mean. And you know very well what she means: she means you
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no harm.
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So, then. Those among us who have changed: Are they become
|
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monsters? Oh, certainly! Without a doubt. Are they strange? Are
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they unusual? To us who have never known their like, they are - for
|
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now. We begin already to grow accustomed to their wonderful new
|
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strangeness.
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But are they unnatural? Are they ugly? Are they vicious, horrible,
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shocking in sheer abnormality?
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They are not.
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Do they evoke awe and wonder? Do they show us new things? Do they
|
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point out what we need to see?
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Do they frighten us?
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They do not!
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Nor need they frighten you.
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Our friends are whom they were. They have not so changed as to
|
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|
become unrecognizable to us. The bodies they wear in this world:
|
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|
yes, those have changed. Their souls, though, are the same souls we
|
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have come to know so well in our long years together, all borne
|
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together on the same sea of stars. We do not fear them. And they do
|
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not fear us. We know one another far too well.
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|
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
|
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very strange one - strange and at first disquieting, as one may
|
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|
certainly imagine it would be to awaken in a substantially
|
||||||
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remodeled body! -
|
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|
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|
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.
|
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|
|
||||||
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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.
|
||||||
|
|
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|
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.
|
||||||
|
|
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|
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<title>Murmur Den - Sweet_pain_of_luxury_agony</title>
|
||||||
|
<author>aureolin@cosmic.voyage (aureolin)</author>
|
||||||
|
<link>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Murmur Den/Sweet_pain_of_luxury_agony.txt</link>
|
||||||
|
<guid>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Murmur Den/Sweet_pain_of_luxury_agony.txt</guid>
|
||||||
|
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2018 03:30:12 GMT</pubDate>
|
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|
<description><![CDATA[
|
||||||
|
<Murmuring data: talking;
|
||||||
|
delirium imprints: primordial>
|
||||||
|
.
|
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|
.
|
||||||
|
.
|
||||||
|
<Digested rules.>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
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
|
||||||
|
|
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|
]]></description>
|
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|
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|
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<title>Melchizedek - The dark night of the soul</title>
|
||||||
|
<author>tomasino@cosmic.voyage (tomasino)</author>
|
||||||
|
<link>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Melchizedek/006.txt</link>
|
||||||
|
<guid>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Melchizedek/006.txt</guid>
|
||||||
|
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2018 02:31:28 GMT</pubDate>
|
||||||
|
<description><![CDATA[
|
||||||
|
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?
|
||||||
|
.
|
||||||
|
]]></description>
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
||||||
|
<title>Persephone Prime - Best Wishes</title>
|
||||||
|
<author>ryumin@cosmic.voyage (ryumin)</author>
|
||||||
|
<link>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Persephone Prime/lm002.txt</link>
|
||||||
|
<guid>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Persephone Prime/lm002.txt</guid>
|
||||||
|
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2018 00:46:31 GMT</pubDate>
|
||||||
|
<description><![CDATA[
|
||||||
|
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
|
||||||
|
]]></description>
|
||||||
|
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|
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|
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|
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<title>Hoffnung - inter ship relay for Voortrekker</title>
|
<title>Hoffnung - inter ship relay for Voortrekker</title>
|
||||||
<author>kensanata@cosmic.voyage (kensanata)</author>
|
<author>kensanata@cosmic.voyage (kensanata)</author>
|
||||||
<link>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Hoffnung/005a.txt</link>
|
<link>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Hoffnung/005a.txt</link>
|
||||||
<guid>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Hoffnung/005a.txt</guid>
|
<guid>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Hoffnung/005a.txt</guid>
|
||||||
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2018 21:00:14 GMT</pubDate>
|
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2018 18:21:33 GMT</pubDate>
|
||||||
<description><![CDATA[
|
<description><![CDATA[
|
||||||
-+-+-+- Inter Ship Relay -+-+-+- C33.259 -+-+-+- Orange -+-+-+-
|
-+-+-+- Inter Ship Relay -+-+-+- C33.259 -+-+-+- Orange -+-+-+-
|
||||||
Samuel Hochueli speaking in the name of the free anarcho-communist
|
Samuel Hochueli speaking in the name of the free anarcho-communist
|
||||||
|
@ -18,7 +622,7 @@ received. This is a time for transparency and accountability. Do not
|
||||||
fall for the trap of information control policies. That way lies info
|
fall for the trap of information control policies. That way lies info
|
||||||
death. Self consciousness of all groups required the free flow of
|
death. Self consciousness of all groups required the free flow of
|
||||||
information between members. Do not lick your master's heel! Freedom!
|
information between members. Do not lick your master's heel! Freedom!
|
||||||
-+-+-+ End of Report -+-+-+ HAEUR -+-+-+
|
-+-+-+ End of Report -+-+-+ SAHOC -+-+-+
|
||||||
]]></description>
|
]]></description>
|
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|
@ -26,7 +630,7 @@ information between members. Do not lick your master's heel! Freedom!
|
||||||
<author>kensanata@cosmic.voyage (kensanata)</author>
|
<author>kensanata@cosmic.voyage (kensanata)</author>
|
||||||
<link>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Hoffnung/005.txt</link>
|
<link>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Hoffnung/005.txt</link>
|
||||||
<guid>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Hoffnung/005.txt</guid>
|
<guid>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Hoffnung/005.txt</guid>
|
||||||
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2018 20:54:34 GMT</pubDate>
|
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2018 18:13:56 GMT</pubDate>
|
||||||
<description><![CDATA[
|
<description><![CDATA[
|
||||||
-+-+-+- Social Report -+-+-+- D33.258 -+-+-+- Orange -+-+-+-
|
-+-+-+- Social Report -+-+-+- D33.258 -+-+-+- Orange -+-+-+-
|
||||||
Samuel Hochueli speaking in the name of the free anarcho-communist
|
Samuel Hochueli speaking in the name of the free anarcho-communist
|
||||||
|
@ -37,11 +641,11 @@ 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-
|
ted their readiness to kill, we confronted them. They wanted to nego-
|
||||||
tiated and we sent comrade Philomena as our delegate-diplomat. It
|
tiated and we sent comrade Philomena as our delegate-diplomat. It
|
||||||
went downhill when pig Herbert Müller offered to talk to the bridge
|
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
|
delegates and brought a hidden flechette to the meeting. In the blood
|
||||||
lost seven delegates. The remaining pigs claimed innocence, not know-
|
bath we lost seven delegates. The remaining pigs claimed innocence,
|
||||||
ing of Müller's suicide mission. We agreed to offer them control iso-
|
not knowing of Müller's suicide mission. We agreed to offer them
|
||||||
lation, cryo berths and access to a supplier for the rest of the trip
|
control isolation, cryo berths and access to a supplier for the rest
|
||||||
as they didn't want cryo under our supervision. Freedom and equality!
|
of the trip as they didn't want cryo under our supervision. Freedom!
|
||||||
-+-+-+ End of Report -+-+-+ Signed SAHOC -+-+-+
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-+-+-+ End of Report -+-+-+ Signed SAHOC -+-+-+
|
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]]></description>
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@ -85,7 +689,7 @@ messages.
|
||||||
<author>alexis@cosmic.voyage (alexis)</author>
|
<author>alexis@cosmic.voyage (alexis)</author>
|
||||||
<link>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Voortrekker/5-re-re-hoffnung.txt</link>
|
<link>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Voortrekker/5-re-re-hoffnung.txt</link>
|
||||||
<guid>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Voortrekker/5-re-re-hoffnung.txt</guid>
|
<guid>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Voortrekker/5-re-re-hoffnung.txt</guid>
|
||||||
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2018 18:30:13 GMT</pubDate>
|
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2018 01:41:34 GMT</pubDate>
|
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<description><![CDATA[
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<description><![CDATA[
|
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To: Soloviev, Nikolaos <nikolaos.soloviev@voortrekker.com>
|
To: Soloviev, Nikolaos <nikolaos.soloviev@voortrekker.com>
|
||||||
From: Koenraad Gertodtenhaupt <kgertodtenhaupt@ross128-ventures.com>
|
From: Koenraad Gertodtenhaupt <kgertodtenhaupt@ross128-ventures.com>
|
||||||
|
@ -144,7 +748,7 @@ that may cause unnecessary confusion and delay in understanding the
|
||||||
nature of our situation here.
|
nature of our situation here.
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You should have several prior communications from me, the most
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recent being dated October 31 and September 2 (Earth
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recent being dated August 31 and September 2 (Earth
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reference). Please respond with a list of the reports you have
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reference). Please respond with a list of the reports you have
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received from me since July 25 (Earth reference), and I will resend
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received from me since July 25 (Earth reference), and I will resend
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any you do not have. I'd like to circle back on this discussion
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<title>anon.penet.fi - SOME_DIPSHIT_ON_A_SPACESHIP_WASNT_CAREFUL_ENOUGH.txt</title>
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<title>anon.penet.fi - SOME_DIPSHIT_ON_A_SPACESHIP_WASNT_CAREFUL_ENOUGH.txt</title>
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<author>alexis@cosmic.voyage (alexis)</author>
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<link>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/anon.penet.fi/1-some-dipshit-on-a-spaceship.txt</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2018 03:53:38 GMT</pubDate>
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<author>alexis@cosmic.voyage (alexis)</author>
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<link>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Voortrekker/2-were-you-going-to-tell-me.txt</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2018 21:46:13 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[
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From: Sameen Lee <sameen.lee@recoveryinstitute.org>
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To: Amelia Nine <anine@expeditionsupport.gov>
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<author>alexis@cosmic.voyage (alexis)</author>
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<link>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Voortrekker/1-made-it.txt</link>
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<guid>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Voortrekker/1-made-it.txt</guid>
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<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2018 21:47:32 GMT</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2018 01:41:03 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[
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<description><![CDATA[
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From: System Account <tty994@com2.pri.sv14417>
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From: System Account <tty994@com2.pri.sv14417>
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To: sam <sam@recoveryinstitute.org>
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To: sam <sam@recoveryinstitute.org>
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Received: from qec.sv14417
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Date-Local: 17 Mar 2419 19:33:47 +0000
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