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+===
+Author: Green
+Date: May 23, 2172 (Earth Standard Time)
+Location: Orestes Outpost
+===
+
+It's been two years since Ruby's departure. I thought it was about
+time I returned to this dusty old terminal and hacked something out
+to send into the void.
+
+We panicked for a while after she left. We were confused about
+where she would have gone, how she went. Well, let's just say that
+I was confused. The other two went off the rails. They weren't
+worried too much about Ruby, only about their precious crystals.
+Once again, it's been a living hell sharing this little rock with
+them. If I didn't have Olive keeping me sane, the whole place would
+have fallen to pieces.
+
+Olive is two now. She can say "Daddy". She is resilient. She needed
+to be.
+
+Something happened recently that finally pulled us together again.
+We discovered a stash of mining equipment, along with a broken
+drone rocket, all sent from Arsinoe. It turned out they were
+getting some of our messages after all. Fuckers.
+
+Anyway, we were angry when we found out about this little delivery
+that was so malicious kept from us by our A.I. I mean, we couldn't
+really believe it at first, it sounded like too much of a cliche.
+
+To make things worse, we realised our communications system with
+Arsinoe had a little built-in preface module that allowed the A.I.
+to editorialise about our messages and open a backdoor channel to
+Arsinoe. We can easily check any outgoing network traffic from the
+outpost, but since the A.I. messages were piggy-backed on ours, we
+never noticed it was communicating. All we saw were our outgoing
+logs. We are still confused about the fact that the A.I. seemed to
+be 'responding' to messages from Arsinoe. We have no record of any
+incoming traffic here for three years.
+
+We all agreed to temporally disable the WHYTE A.I. It's been a bit
+burdensome. We now have to manually monitor and update the systems
+around the outpost. Navy drew up a rota and everyone's been pulling
+their weight so far. It's starting to get better. We've united
+behind our common frustration with WHYTE and the Arsinoe.
+
+Most of the communication functions of the base were heavily
+integrated with the WHYTE, so we're sort of in the dark now. We
+have no access to any outside information at all. I finally managed
+to rewrite some of the terminal code to allow us to transmit
+messages outward using the QEC at least. If Arsinoe is still out
+there (doubtful), it may see the messages indirectly. Not that we
+can see its responses.
+
+I'm mostly just sending this out now for posterity.
+
+Having said that, I've kept the name 'masking' protocol. I never
+understood why it was there in the first place, but I figure it
+must have been for a reason. So, just to be safe, I'm keeping it.
+I'm still Green, for now.
+
+We should be able to survive here indefinitely. Our garden is still
+producing well and there are enough rations to feed four for eight
+years.
+
+We've started digging. Navy has some theory about a hidden room
+somewhere on the planet. Neither Pink or I really believe him about
+it, but there isn't much else to do here. I've studied the mining
+equipment thoroughly, and I think I can keep it running for a
+while. We should be able to get pretty deep, but it will take some
+time with the way the rocks are here.
+
+Pink has pretty much ignored Olive since she was born. It's like
+she doesn't really exist for her. It depresses me. I think she will
+come around eventually, but it's been hard for Olive, going without
+attention from her mother, and hard for me too.
+
+I hope we find something down there.
+
+===
+Sent via the QEC
+