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<title>Cosmic Voyage</title>
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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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<pubdate>Tue, 27 Nov 2018 23:00:01</pubdate>
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<title>Garnet Star - Danger evaluation and decisions</title>
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<author>timotheus</author>
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<link>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Garnet Star/000.txt</link>
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<pubdate>Sat, 24 Nov 2018 01:25:34</pubdate>
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<description><![CDATA[<pre>
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-- MESSAGE START ----------------------------------------------------
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SECKEY:jxQA6hMXG%3#r9nfh%tdxo!REj%uGz
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8.26y out, sys LTS-1483 ___) | |_| \__ \ || __/ | | | | \__ \
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TIMFLETCHER44@TRICOR
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:: BEGIN ::
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It's always a hard call, deciding if it's safe to pull the family out
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of cryo. I was fortunate that the AI determined this anomaly to be
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minimal risk and didn't prio-thaw me. I've heard horror stories from
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Kell, the Lead Scientist aboard. His first tour out to Bernards
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Star.. the things that went wrong on that bucket. It's why I chose to
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sign up with TC, they pay less than everyone else but at least they
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spare no expense on the goodies on board. With this being an 46.2y one
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way trip, I feel much better knowing everything is state of the art.
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Oh right, my family. Everything is tip top, so I initiated the thaw
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about four hours ago. Just ten to go until process is complete. If
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I'm going to be out for four weeks, I'd love to have them with me.
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In my spare time I'm still looking into cryo optimizations. There's
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got to be a short cut between wake cycles that the system could
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handle.
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Anyway, part of the reason I'm sending this; anyone else running into
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the same issue? Our onboard long-range sensor array is giving us data
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on LTS-1483 that is very, very different from what the probes sent
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back. Granted it was over 35 years old, but still. How did it miss an
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entire planet? All the orbits are different from what we thought.
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Kell is sweating bullets that III (our intended home) is off enough
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that it may be not viable.
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Not much I can do about it. Definitely no reason to wake the Captain
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or Governor yet; we're following our protocols for this. Worst case
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scenario, we go back to cryo, and when we're closer we wake again and
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use closer scans to determine if we go to one of our other choices.
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Tim Fletcher
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Chief Engineer @ Garnet Star
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=TRICOR034615734=
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-- MESSAGE END ----------------------------------------------------
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<title>Excelsior - Systems Admin Report - Beta Gamma 51 Epsilon</title>
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<author>khuxkm</author>
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<link>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Excelsior/001.txt</link>
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<pubdate>Sun, 25 Nov 2018 22:20:10</pubdate>
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<description><![CDATA[<pre>
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Message inbound...
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Space Cruiser Excelsior
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Destination: Unknown
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~~ TELEMETRY SENSORS 1 AND 3 DOWN ~~
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Stardate Beta Gamma 51 Epsilon
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AUTO TELEMETRY: DOWN
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BIO-MED SENSORS: GOOD
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H2O->FUEL CONVERSION: GOOD
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H20 RESERVES: GOOD
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CRYO SLEEP: WARN
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[autotranslator on]
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Corporal Sam Arnold, Systems Administrator
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Hello world!
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The computer on board the Excelsior has removed me from cryosleep pursuant to
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Procedure [REDACTED]. Our automated telemetry sensors are down (see the systems
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report above) and our cryosleep chambers appear to be experiencing overvolt as
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a result. I think I will wait at least a week before re-entering cryosleep.
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More transmissions will follow after this one.
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Jerome, I feel for you. It's sometimes staggering how long these missions
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take. Just looking at the instrumentation here on the Excelsior, we seem to have
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been in transit for [unit translation = 1252 years].
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Geralt, it's nice to hear from you and the Adrestia. Glad to know your mission
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seems to be progressing smoothly.
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We set out with our charter and ship around Alpha Beta 2 Beta towards a better
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tommorrow. We set course for the nearest inhabitable planet and the Excelsior, a
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first-class SpaceCorp Astroviator Mark 3, took off. We entered cryosleep around
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Beta Alpha 10 Beta and set the Excelsior to power-conservation (hence the incomplete
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systems report).
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I will begin procedures to fix the overvolt in the cryo systems and to fix the
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auto-telemetry systems.
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Sam Arnold, signing off.
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--TRANSMISSION END--
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<title>Melchizedek - Crew and assignments</title>
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<author>tomasino</author>
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<link>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Melchizedek/002.txt</link>
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<pubdate>Sun, 25 Nov 2018 03:42:50</pubdate>
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<description><![CDATA[<pre>
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Message Incoming...
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Source Melchizedek.0294
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Approach β Hyi
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Ascension 00h 25m 45.07036s
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Declination –77° 15′ 15.2860″
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Distance 24.33ly
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Year 3781, QEC adjusted
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[Autotranslator enabled...]
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Jerome Somerset Pasani, Warrant Master
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:::
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Doctor Pierro Idjani led a full crew evaluation on the pods over
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the last twelve hours. His recommendation for remaining awake
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stands, unfortunately. The four of wardroom officers, myself,
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Doctor Moussa Idjani, Prezzi Adeyemi, and Eva Hämäläinen, along
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with Specialist First-class Stephanie Janssen, represent conscious
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crew on the Melchizedek for next four months. We have a series of
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course corrections to execute, some minor issues in hydroponics,
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and what Adeyemi describes as "ick" growing over a quarter of the
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cryo-pods. It is most likely unattended fungal growth, but we'll
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investigate further.
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Our ship is a Vos 144A from Visscher, sporting a pair of the
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more-than-capable Peterse 773 Overtreffen Motoren. When launched,
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the Melchy was a damn-fine ship, if I say so myself. She's held up
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admirably while we slept.
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We were commissioned in EY 2480, and set out on mission just three
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years later. RS001 timestamps on my last transmission suggest that
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just over 1300 years, relative, have transpired since we set out.
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1300 years.
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It's what we signed on for, of course. We all had the training and
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the psy-evals to prep, but there's still that shock when it hits
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you. There's no undo, no reset. Everyone we knew is long gone.
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Hell, the Earth itself is long gone, at least in the way we knew
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it. Adeyemi says she has a cousin who set out on a long-haul
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colony support freighter at about the same time as us and their
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star is only a few light-years off schedule from ours. She doesn't
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remember which direction, but it's possible she's got people out
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there somewhere. The math always gets away from me, but it's
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possible some of my own anscestors' family could be thawing out
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from craft launched before I was born. Oh, and don't even get me
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started on reality-drive mechanics. Who knows how many blended
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universes we've stirred up with that monstrosity. I can only hope
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humanity learned their lesson and banned it while I was dreaming.
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To the Speaker Elect of Cheer Systems, Susan, aboard the Starbloom
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Communal Distributive Projection goes our many thanks. If the
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disconnection of time weren't jarring enough, the silence that
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awaits one's first lonely transmission is infinitely more terrible
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for all its brevity. Your words, blessings, and spells are a salve
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bringing healing. I queried Janssen about your ship designation
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but nothing in our databases aligned. Based on relative time-debt
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adjustments, it seems you may have set out long before us. We hope
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your time has been peaceful.
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I'll be setting a daily ordo and assigning work duties following
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this transmission. Getting our hands busy will ground the
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ineffible incongruity from reality that's rattled everyone. Our
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navigation issues are of primary concern, so Hämäläinen and
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Janssen will bear the brunt of that work. Doctor Idjani is the
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closest crew member we have awake to a botonist, so he'll be
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investigating our sensor abnormalities in food and air
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circulation. No alarms were tripped, so we're hoping it's just
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a mutation in one of the algae tanks or something equally trivial.
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The cry-pod growth will fall to me, with possible assistance from
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Adeyemi, though she has very little background to be of use.
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Unless the fungus starts talking, I don't see how Adeyemi will
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have much of anything to translate or negotiate. She's probably in
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for a boring four months.
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It's time to get moving. Our shifts will be light until muscle
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regeneration reaches 60% and the doc clears us for full rotations
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again. That's probably for the best. We'll take things slow.
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<title>Starbloom - Pleasant vibes and best wishes</title>
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<author>tomasino</author>
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<link>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Starbloom/001.txt</link>
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<pubdate>Fri, 23 Nov 2018 13:24:50</pubdate>
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Source Starbloom Communal Distributive Projection
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Approach γ Aquarii [Lucky Homes]
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Ascension 22h 21m 39.37542s
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[Autotranslator enabled...]
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Susan, Speaker Elect of Cheer Systems, 14th Pod
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Hi there, Jerome.
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We read you loud and clear out here in the lucky homes. We're all
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really sorry to hear about your drift problems. Our Pod 14
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non-denominational coven voted to cast a spell to help you on your
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way! Blessings and hope.
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<title>adrestia - awakening and approaching</title>
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<author>demosthenes</author>
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<link>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/adrestia/hello.txt</link>
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<pubdate>Wed, 21 Nov 2018 06:49:23</pubdate>
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<description><![CDATA[<pre>
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bablefish transcript:
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adrestia /---\
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approaching Ł332 gue sector 8 / u u \
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xxx telemetry redacted xxx \_ /
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ansibel yr 4823 \__/
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[transcript follows...]
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geralt regis riavande, first writ scribe
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status nominal. all values within acceptable norms.
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cleared to begin final approach.
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our 150 year journey from í54 re is finally coming to a close. over the
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past 10 days, the crew has been slowing awakening from their second-longest
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slumber (the longest being 50 years during the middle of our voyage).
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i've just awoken today; my head still spins. sea legs seems an appropriate
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term, grabbed from the annals of history: a time when humans still traveled
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by boat and ship across the former oceans. somehow, the atmospheric
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conditions generated large waveforms on the water's surface, creating a
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rocking motion aboard the boats that could range from largely imperceptible
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to catastrophic. in any case, i'll be looking for the caffeine supplements.
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the rest of the crew seems to be in similar conditions, catching up on their
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latest ansibel messages from family and friends. a handful will be staying
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at Ł332 gue, while the rest of us carry on after a refueling stayover of 4
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rotations.
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<title>Melchizedek - Cryosleep interrupted</title>
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<author>tomasino</author>
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<link>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Melchizedek/001.txt</link>
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<pubdate>Fri, 23 Nov 2018 02:44:15</pubdate>
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Message Incoming...
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Source Melchizedek.0294
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Approach β Hyi
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Ascension 00h 25m 45.07036s
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Year 3781, QEC adjusted
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[Autotranslator enabled...]
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Jerome Somerset Pasani, Warrant Master
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:::
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Cryogenic stasis was interrupted for wardroom officers and
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Specialist Janssen as of 0430. We have drifted slightly off
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planned course due to unexpected thermal radiation from
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a celestial event the crew is monitoring. The β Hyi system has
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been increasingly active in recent months and Janssen believes the
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solar radiation has unbalanced our infrared venting, causing
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a 0.002° drift. Over the intervening time, this was enough for
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autopilot to raise the alarm.
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Melchizedek is quiet and in good working order. Her full crew of
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44 are stowed safely and all systems are green. Lower-fore botany
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systems show some minor abnormalities which are marked for
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follow-up. Bot arrays all read nominal with no traceable
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degradation in standby power.
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We have slowed our descent to just over 1G in anticipation of
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work-shifts. This will put us slightly ahead of schedule if we
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remain at present deltas. Still, we're just over four months from
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system and there is some debate whether it would be advisable to
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reenter cryo this close to the destination. Our food-stores are in
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good order, especially for just the wardroom. Doctor Idjani
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suggests we remain out of stasis for at least two weeks before
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being reassessed regardless.
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QEC has been adjusted for our drift and seems in working order,
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though we haven't received any new transmissions from relay one in
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quite some time. If the crew do remain awake in the months ahead,
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you can rest assured of further updates. Anyone awake out there?
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