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exactly like root beer when you slide across it. Shoot, let me
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exactly like root beer when you slide across it. Shoot, let me
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back up, though. There's so much to catch you up on.
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back up, though. There's so much to catch you up on.
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First off, I'm on planet 3, not 4 where most of the Melchi crew is
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First off, I'm on planet 3, not 4 where most of the Melchy crew is
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stationed. Eva and I and a handful of others are doing survey work
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stationed. Eva and I and a handful of others are doing survey work
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to prep for phase two of the system seeding. If you haven't been
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to prep for phase two of the system seeding. If you haven't been
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following along, that means that we get to live in the lush beauty
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following along, that means that we get to live in the lush beauty
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Message Incoming...
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Message Incoming...
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Source Melchizedek.0294 Shuttle 004
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Source Melchizedek.0294 Shuttle 001
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Near β Hyi, 3rd Planet
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Near β Hyi, 3rd Planet
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Ascension 00h 25m 45.07036s
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Ascension 00h 25m 45.07036s
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Declination –77° 15′ 15.2860″
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Declination –77° 15′ 15.2860″
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Hämäläinen:
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Hämäläinen:
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[Add finnish here].
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Uuh! Olet raivostuttava ja mahdoton enkä voi kuvitella enää
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sekuntiakaan sitä ilman.
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Janssen:
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Janssen:
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Liquid matter ratio is a bit low, as is to be expected from
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Liquid matter ratio is a bit low, as is to be expected from
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number four. Nothing abnormal showing on the readouts: pH is
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number four. Nothing abnormal showing on the readouts: pH is
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about 6.6. No blood, mucus, pus, undigested meat fibres. What we
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about 6.6. No blood, mucus, pus, undigested meat fibres. What we
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have here is some grade A healthy poo, my friends. Yessir,
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have here is some grade-A healthy poo, my friends. Yessir,
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botany is going to love us.
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botany is going to love us.
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Our lovely Melchy has the transfer equipment built in, which is
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Our lovely Melchy has the transfer equipment built in, which is
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Sorry. Sorry.
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Sorry. Sorry.
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Um. We need to get on the ship, and we need to move quietly.
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We need to get on the ship, and we need to move quietly.
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Simms:
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Simms:
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Message Incoming...
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Source Melchizedek.0294
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Near 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 24.35ly
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Equinox J2000.0 SOL
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Year 3782, QEC adjusted
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[System encryption enabled.]
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[Autotranslator enabled...]
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Stephanie Janssen, Specialist First-class
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:::
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To all Earth vessels: we've taken command of the Melchizedek.
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Our captain, Jerome Pasani, is missing. Our crewman, Sandy Kroups,
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is missing too. We are going after them and we're gonna bring them
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home. Or to Beta Hydrii, I mean. New home.
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Our Seriph Rhetorical turned her back on them, so we've removed
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her from command. There's twelve of us on board:
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- Stephanie Janssen (Me)
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- Eva Hämäläinen
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- Dr. Spinelli
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- Dr. Reed
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- Hildar Simms
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- Maureen Hendrix
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- Paul Wall
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- Sandra Gould
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- Lillie Cleveland
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- Donna Fernandez
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- Alonzo Alvarado
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- Edgar Marquez
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Paul, Alonzo, and Edgar are here under duress. Is that the right
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term? They didn't want to be on the ship when we took it, but now
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they're stuck with us. So note that or something in case we get in
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trouble later. We're almost certainly going to get in trouble
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later. If there is a later. There's almost certainly going to be
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a later. Probably.
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Eva is navigating us back along the path that Sandy used to get to
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the anomaly. Also, we're calling it the anomaly now. I suppose
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it's good to have names for things.
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Eva said that we don't need to actually follow the whole path that
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the shuttle took last time since we know they didn't run into
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anything for a while. They read out their position when they got
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anomaly'd. Anomalized. When they saw the thing. So we're going to
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cut across the diagonal, kinda. It's still orbitals so there's
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curves and parabolas, but we're cutting across them too. It won't
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take us as long as it could have, but we'll still be out here
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a bit. That's okay. We have food and water. Maureen fixed that up.
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fore gangway, sandwiched nicely up against some venting and
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coolant tubes. If we'd been flying that would have gotten pretty
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chilly, but instead it was just boring. Meanwhile some of the
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others were being amazing. Maureen changed around duty rosters and
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tasking so that the crew unknowingly re-loaded a bunch of stores
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onto the ship over the past couple days. On the one hand I can't
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believe no one noticed, but really, why would you question it? The
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crew gets all assignments to their pads and everything is
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monitored and orchestrated so you're helping each other without
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really seeing the big picture. Or not, I guess. Score one for us.
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Score two--or goal? I'm not big on sports--was all Eva. Whatever
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is out there it messed with DNA. It actually messed with Simms'
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DNA in particular, and he's been eager to return the favor. We
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have a lot of equipment that deals with sequencing, replication,
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and dispersal. They're important for seeding. Well, that's an
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understatement. They ARE the seeding. Them plus a bit of code and
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It's like this: suck out all the genetic material you can, give it
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a good mix, replicate it until you have a LOT, then force-mutate
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it along pathways tried and true back on earth. You spray that all
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over with a little secret sauce and, whammo, life. That's the
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basics anyway. It gets you the microorganisms you need to support
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later larger life-cycles. That's why we go in phases. Regardless,
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the machines are important, so we have a few extras and we have
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manufacturing to create more.
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to self-replicate and to replicate any shipboard equipment. Given
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enough time and raw materials they can duplicate the entire
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Melchizedek, but just the mechanical parts. Rare elements are
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still rare on other worlds, so finding Neodymium or something like
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that is not easy. Fuel for the grav sheer isn't limitless, if you
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see what I mean. But local craft? Oh yeah, we can make a bunch of
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and replicate the genetics equipment as priorities. Each factory
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Peace and love and righteous disobedience to you all!
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Susan, Speaker Elect of Cheer Systems, 14th Pod
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Susan, Speaker Elect of Cheer Systems, 14th Pod
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Merry Meet to all of our friends across our beautiful 'verse~
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Merry Meet to all of our friends across our beautiful 'verse~
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The friendship community of the 14th Pod wish you all a blessed
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* The DeLorian *
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<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>Melchizedek - Emergency Recording from Shuttle 001</title>
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<author>tomasino@cosmic.voyage (tomasino)</author>
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<link>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Melchizedek/027.txt</link>
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<guid>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Melchizedek/027.txt</guid>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2020 12:45:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[<pre>
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Message Incoming...
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Source Melchizedek.0294 Shuttle 001
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Near β Hyi, 3rd Planet
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Ascension 00h 25m 45.07036s
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Declination –77° 15′ 15.2860″
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Distance 24.37ly
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Equinox J2000.0 SOL
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Year 3782, QEC adjusted
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[Relay detected from Shuttle 001]
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[Autotranslator enabled...]
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||||||
|
[Voice recording initialize...ON]
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[Crew autodetection...ON]
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[Narrative mode...ON]
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[Autodisconnect after 5 minute silence...ON]
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:::
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** audio recording mode auto activated due to vocal stress **
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||||||
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** detection. relaying audio to Melchizedek.0294 base station **
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[Voice detected: Stephanie Janssen, Specialist First-class]
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Janssen:
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and a big butt!
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[Voice detected: Eva Hämäläinen, Navigator]
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Hämäläinen:
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That's not fair. It's genetics.
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Janssen:
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I don't care. It's not right. I'm not doing it.
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Hämäläinen:
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You'll be demoted, or worse. She'll--
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Janssen:
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I don't care! This is her doing, Eva. I'm not letting her get
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away with it. She's going to listen or--
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Hämäläinen:
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Wait--
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Janssen:
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--bash her face with a--
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Hämäläinen:
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Stephanie!
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Janssen:
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--vegetable mush--
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Hämäläinen:
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STEPH! Stop. Look.
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Janssen:
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Wha--shit. How long?
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Hämäläinen:
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I just saw--
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Janssen:
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Shush. Wait a sec. [inaudible]. --should do--
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[System transmission suspended. Standing by.]
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[System encryption enabled. Relaying audio to Melchizedek.0294
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base station in pass-through mode. ]
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Janssen:
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--it. Okay, we're good. How much got through?
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Hämäläinen:
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Only some nonsense and your screaming.
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Janssen:
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Good screaming? No, wait, nevermind.
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Hämäläinen:
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Steph, you can't do this. She's not going to change her mind.
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Seriphs don't do that. You're just going to get hurt and it's
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not going to help anyone. Least of all--
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Janssen:
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I can't do nothing. Please, Eva. It's wrong. It's just wrong and
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horrible. I keep seeing him out there, in the cold dark. You
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remember what that was like on the Melchy when we had each
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other. You remember how he got. And what if he's hurt.
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Hämäläinen:
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Ymmärrän. I know, I know.
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Janssen:
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She can't really stop us. What's she going to do? Hit me?
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Hämäläinen:
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Turn off your access? She can do that, you know.
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Janssen:
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She can do that?
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Hämäläinen:
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I think so. She'll tell the Melchizedek to ignore you, or put
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the locks on you. How is it said?
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Janssen:
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No way. That wouldn't fly. If we were in flight that could cut
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out my air or something. She can't just execute us.
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Hämäläinen:
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I don't know, Steph. I think she can do whatever she needs to
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do. She's Ecclesia. They don't change their minds and they don't
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stop. She'll cut you out and stop you, and then what? You'll be
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locked up and no good to anyone. No good to Jerome or Sandy.
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Janssen:
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No good to you?
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Hämäläinen:
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I'm not leaving you. Don't think like that. If you get locked up
|
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then I'm locked up.
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Janssen:
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No way. Prezzi won't leave us together.
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Hämäläinen:
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She is Ecclesia and does not stop, but I am not some balloon
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full of eels to be--
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[Moisture detected on control console 01. Disabling display.]
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Janssen:
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Eels? What the--
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Hämäläinen:
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|
You broke--the terminal is out. Are we still transmitting? Why
|
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|
are you looking at me like that? You are the one that spit all
|
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|
over the--
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Janssen:
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Eels! That's not a thing.
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Hämäläinen:
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Isn't that the saying for. Oh I don't know anymore. Yksi kieli
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|
ei ikinä riitä. What was I saying?
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Janssen:
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About eels or how you love me so much you'll fight the Church
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for me?
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|
[Silence recorded for 4:15]
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[Soto voce] smooth and soft like [unintelligible]
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[Silence recorded for 3:51]
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Hämäläinen:
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--[unintelligible screaming]
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[Silence recorded for 5:00. Automatic disconnect triggered.]
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** audio recording mode auto reactivated **
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[Voice detected: Eva Hämäläinen, Navigator]
|
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Hämäläinen:
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You know we can't do this.
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[Voice detected: Stephanie Janssen, Specialist First-class]
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Janssen:
|
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|
I have physical evidence to the contrary.
|
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Hämäläinen:
|
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|
||||||
|
Oh gross. No, I mean the rescue.
|
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Janssen:
|
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|
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|
[Audible sigh detected from Stephanie Janssen]
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
I know. She's going to win and they really are going to die out
|
||||||
|
there all alone and in the dark. Whatever that thing is…
|
||||||
|
|
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|
Hämäläinen:
|
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|
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|
No.
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|
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Janssen:
|
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|
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|
No? You just said--
|
||||||
|
|
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|
Hämäläinen:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
No, we can't do this… alone. We need a plan and we're going to
|
||||||
|
need Spinelli or Reed at the least. I think we can count on
|
||||||
|
Hendrix too and probably Simms.
|
||||||
|
|
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|
Janssen:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
You don't mean to ask then? You think we should--
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Hämäläinen:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
It's the only chance they have, right? You said it so. I believe
|
||||||
|
you. They're out there and they need help. If I let you run
|
||||||
|
ahead at Adeyemi then…
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
I'm not going to lose you. I just can't. Before this mission
|
||||||
|
I never thought this would be mine, that I would find someone
|
||||||
|
like you. Perhaps I'd not have agreed if I thought I had
|
||||||
|
a chance at it on Earth. But here you are. And these people are
|
||||||
|
family to me now. Jerome is your dad.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Janssen:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Work-dad. Not, like, my actual dad.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Hämäläinen:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Yes, and he is like a little brother to me. A very annoying one
|
||||||
|
who doesn't knock, but a brother.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Janssen:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Wait, so are you my work-aunt then? Cause that's--
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Hämäläinen:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
You're ruining this.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Janssen:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Sorry. [Cough detected] Go on.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Hämäläinen:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Uuh! Olet raivostuttava ja mahdoton enkä voi kuvitella enää
|
||||||
|
sekuntiakaan sitä ilman.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Janssen:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
That's the most beautiful thing I've ever heard and I don't
|
||||||
|
understand a word of it. You won't lose me. This plan will work.
|
||||||
|
What is the plan again?
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Hämäläinen:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
You are an impossible creature, my flower.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Janssen:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
That's what they say about me. Stephanie Janssen, Specialist
|
||||||
|
Impossible! Boop!
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Hämäläinen:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[Squeek detected]. Oh I'm gonna--
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[Laughing detected]
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[Silence recorded for 5:00. Automatic disconnect triggered.]
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[End of encrypted envelope.]
|
||||||
|
</pre>]]></description>
|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
<item>
|
||||||
|
<title>Starbloom - Election Day</title>
|
||||||
|
<author>tomasino@cosmic.voyage (tomasino)</author>
|
||||||
|
<link>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Starbloom/007.txt</link>
|
||||||
|
<guid>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Starbloom/007.txt</guid>
|
||||||
|
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2020 02:47:37 GMT</pubDate>
|
||||||
|
<description><![CDATA[<pre>
|
||||||
|
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 2447, QEC adjusted
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[Autotranslator enabled...]
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Susan, Speaker Elect of Cheer Systems, 14th Pod
|
||||||
|
:::
|
||||||
|
Merry Meet to all of our friends across our beautiful 'verse~
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The friendship community of the 14th Pod wish you all a blessed
|
||||||
|
election day. The cats have been in conclave now for four days and
|
||||||
|
will soon announce the human leaders that will govern our pods for
|
||||||
|
the next three years. As you know, the cat conclave is secret
|
||||||
|
affair, so we have very little information to share about the
|
||||||
|
process itself. We can only wish the very greatest of blessings
|
||||||
|
upon their efforts and call upon the spirits of Diana, Sinjorino,
|
||||||
|
and Alportas.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
This is also the very first year that the Dekaosan brothers and
|
||||||
|
sisters will witness this sacred rite of the Projection. Our
|
||||||
|
children have been braiding flower garments for them and mixing
|
||||||
|
the traditional taffy in celebration. Feline festivities abound.
|
||||||
|
There are chases and races and platonic napping piles all around
|
||||||
|
the habitat. Tonight the mewling of the stars will begin at
|
||||||
|
sundown and go until midnight. What an exciting time to be alive!
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
We here at the Starbloom Communal Distributive Projection
|
||||||
|
recognize that many of our kin across the stars may not benefit
|
||||||
|
from the blessings of feline guidance in the ways of government
|
||||||
|
and engineering. We humbly acknowledge our privilege in this
|
||||||
|
respect. We pray that our celebrations are seen as an affirmation
|
||||||
|
of good principles and orderly life and not as a testiment of
|
||||||
|
pride at your expense. If any of you are nearby, know also that
|
||||||
|
you are welcome with us here.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Blessed be, my brothers and sisters. May the stars shine upon you
|
||||||
|
always.
|
||||||
|
.
|
||||||
|
</pre>]]></description>
|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
<item>
|
<item>
|
||||||
<title>Malaluatori - Matter_Of_Time</title>
|
<title>Malaluatori - Matter_Of_Time</title>
|
||||||
<author>hannitori@cosmic.voyage (hannitori)</author>
|
<author>hannitori@cosmic.voyage (hannitori)</author>
|
||||||
|
@ -7304,7 +7669,7 @@ the BURN-O is over 9 feet tall!
|
||||||
<author>tomasino@cosmic.voyage (tomasino)</author>
|
<author>tomasino@cosmic.voyage (tomasino)</author>
|
||||||
<link>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Melchizedek/017.txt</link>
|
<link>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Melchizedek/017.txt</link>
|
||||||
<guid>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Melchizedek/017.txt</guid>
|
<guid>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Melchizedek/017.txt</guid>
|
||||||
<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2019 02:54:28 GMT</pubDate>
|
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2020 12:47:03 GMT</pubDate>
|
||||||
<description><![CDATA[<pre>
|
<description><![CDATA[<pre>
|
||||||
Message Incoming...
|
Message Incoming...
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
@ -7325,7 +7690,7 @@ so amazing! There's this slippery fungus mound nearby that smells
|
||||||
exactly like root beer when you slide across it. Shoot, let me
|
exactly like root beer when you slide across it. Shoot, let me
|
||||||
back up, though. There's so much to catch you up on.
|
back up, though. There's so much to catch you up on.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
First off, I'm on planet 3, not 4 where most of the Melchi crew is
|
First off, I'm on planet 3, not 4 where most of the Melchy crew is
|
||||||
stationed. Eva and I and a handful of others are doing survey work
|
stationed. Eva and I and a handful of others are doing survey work
|
||||||
to prep for phase two of the system seeding. If you haven't been
|
to prep for phase two of the system seeding. If you haven't been
|
||||||
following along, that means that we get to live in the lush beauty
|
following along, that means that we get to live in the lush beauty
|
||||||
|
|
|
@ -4,6 +4,6 @@ find "/var/gopher/" -maxdepth 1 ! -path "/var/gopher/" ! -path "/var/gopher/ship
|
||||||
do
|
do
|
||||||
entry_num=$(grep -c "^0${ship}" "/var/gopher/listing.gophermap")
|
entry_num=$(grep -c "^0${ship}" "/var/gopher/listing.gophermap")
|
||||||
if [ "$entry_num" != "0" ]; then
|
if [ "$entry_num" != "0" ]; then
|
||||||
printf "1%s (%s)\\t/ships/%s\\n" "$ship" "$entry_num" "$ship"
|
printf "1%s (%s)\\t/ships/%s/\\n" "$ship" "$entry_num" "$ship"
|
||||||
fi
|
fi
|
||||||
done
|
done
|
||||||
|
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