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 A beast of a ship, containing about 150 crew members out of its maximum 300.
 The MSS Endereon was built as a battle ship, but the war ended shortly after
 construction finished. It now serves as a merchant and research vessel.
+Aboard the ship is a woman named 2M. She is a programmer and has been writing
+logs to the QEC.

gopher/MSS Endereon/Endereon003.txt

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+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ SQUIGGLY_LOGGER
+ SQUIGGLER: 2M
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Don't judge me! I'm just trying to see what else I can change, damn it.
+
+I know people outside of this ship can read these, through the QEC. As such, I
+should probably explain some things. You already know I'm a programmer aboard
+the MSS Endereon, a ship with many purposes. We're flying through various star
+systems to find extraterrestrial life. The bio-guys and the astronaut explorer
+fellows go down to each planet, collect samples and data, then leave. I try to
+follow along with the daily happenings. We reach new places almost every cycle
+thanks to our mysterious (to me, at least) FTL technology. During my off-time,
+I'm allowed to wander around the ship and view the samples that are being
+stored in bio-containment.
+
+There's some really, really weird stuff in bio-containment.
+
+Apparently, a few kilocycles ago, they found a plant on some planet that
+reminded them of Earth, the birthplace of humanity as we know it. I don't
+remember much about the incident - I'm only 9, after all - but the plant is
+still in bio-containment. It's surrounded by soundproofing material. Why, you
+might ask, does a plant need soundproofing? Is it sensitive to loud noises?
+No. It's not for the plant, it's for us.
+
+The plant screams.
+
+It's just constantly screaming. I hate the thing. Sometimes my boss asks me to
+help out by refilling the auto-waterer, and every time I get close, I can hear
+it scream. I feel like the biologist dudes only put it in containment in the
+first place as a prank, or maybe as the world's funniest / least funny alarm
+clock. It's not even a weird or interesting plant to look at, either, it looks
+similar to the snapdragon flowers in the Mental Wellness Garden. I think the
+plant has a tongue, but I'm no biologist.
+
+I'll keep whoever reads these updated on the stuff that's going on as I tinker
+with this old-as-balls logging software. Who in their right mind would make
+software that works like this? I still hate it!
+
+~~~~~~~~~
+ END LOG
+~~~~~~~~~

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+--------------------------------
+ SQUIGGLE-FREE LOGGING SOFTWARE
+ SENDER: 2M
+--------------------------------
+
+"Merry meet" Susan, Speaker Elect of... something~
+
+I have a few questions.
+
+1. Excuse my language, but what the F[THE REST OF THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN
+PROHIBITED FROM BEING SENT DUE TO FOUL LANGUAGE]
+2. You're talking like some sort of lowkey cultist. Not that that's bad or
+anything, and that's also not a question, but what-have-you.
+3. Is this "2M Supernova" thing a joke?!
+
+I asked Boss about this "Lucky Homes" thing, and also about whoever you and
+Starbloom are. He doesn't know. I calculated our distance from your
+coordinates, and we are approximately 300 megaparsecs apart. I will literally
+never see this "2M Supernova" you speak of.
+
+Anyway, so you want to know about the screaming snapdragon? I personally don't
+know much about it, other than that it's incredibly annoying and screams at
+around 110 decibels almost constantly. It screams louder when it's being
+transferred to new soil or being trimmed, to the point where the ship's local
+deaf guy is usually the one to do it. It is about twice as tall as the
+garden's Earthly snapdragons and is apparently somewhat chemovorous, mostly
+metabolizing the chemicals in the dirt.
+
+I decided to go back to its containment chamber to see what else I could tell
+you about. It has a tongue, as I suspected. It was also retrieved about 10
+megaparsecs from your current location, if that helps. I can also attach its
+gene file to this log that your folks can analyze, if that's what you're into.
+
+ATTACHED FILES:
+[stupid_dumb_plant.dna]
+
+---------
+ END LOG
+---------

gopher/Starbloom/009.txt

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+Message Incoming...
+
+Source Starbloom Communal Distributive Projection
+γ Aquarii [Lucky Homes]
+Ascension 22h 21m 39.37542s
+Declination –01° 23′ 14.4031″
+Distance 178.211ly
+Equinox J2000.0 SOL
+Year 2448, QEC adjusted
+
+[Autotranslator enabled...]
+
+Susan, Speaker Elect of Cheer Systems, 14th Pod
+:::
+Merry meet, SQUIGGLY_LOGGER 2M~
+
+Your latest message on the QEC has drawn the interest of our most
+illustrious botanical artist, Brunhilda Ogandabe. You may have
+heard of her seminal work, "Anthergenesis", which famously started
+the Qvinci civil war and also inspired the cure for space lupus in
+the same year. She has relayed to us a message of peace and
+curiosity about this vociferous antirrhinum. Is it a genetic
+hybrid of some sort or a naturally occurring variety in your
+region of space? Would you be willing to further describe it and
+its origins for us?
+
+The Starbloom Communal Distributive Projection also wishes to
+relay its gratitude for your help by performing a ritual in your
+honor. Even as you read this, our cats are triggering the
+antimatter detonation to silence a star in your name. Look toward
+the Lucky Homes in a few millennia, local time, and you may
+witness the 2M Supernova. May her radiant energies echo across the
+galaxy with the joy of thanksgiving.
+
+Blessed be.
+.

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+0Starbloom - SQUIGGLY_LOGGER	/Starbloom/009.txt
+0MSS Endereon - test_title	/MSS Endereon/Endereon003.txt
 0Forge Relay Point - broadcast_1	/Forge Relay Point/broadcast_1.txt
 0Forge Relay Point - introduction	/Forge Relay Point/introduction.txt
 0MSS Endereon - Trying Something Out	/MSS Endereon/Endereon002.txt