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+Message inbound...
+
+Space Cruiser Excelsior
+Destination: Unknown
+~~ TELEMETRY SENSORS 1 AND 3 DOWN ~~
+Stardate Beta Gamma 51 Epsilon
+AUTO TELEMETRY: DOWN
+BIO-MED SENSORS: GOOD
+H2O->FUEL CONVERSION: GOOD
+H20 RESERVES: GOOD
+CRYO SLEEP: WARN
+
+[autotranslator on]
+
+Corporal Sam Arnold, Systems Administrator
+---
+Hello world!
+
+The computer on board the Excelsior has removed me from cryosleep pursuant to
+Procedure [REDACTED]. Our automated telemetry sensors are down (see the systems
+report above) and our cryosleep chambers appear to be experiencing overvolt as
+a result. I think I will wait at least a week before re-entering cryosleep.
+More transmissions will follow after this one.
+
+Jerome, I feel for you. It's sometimes staggering how long these missions
+take. Just looking at the instrumentation here on the Excelsior, we seem to have
+been in transit for [unit translation = 1252 years].
+
+Geralt, it's nice to hear from you and the Adrestia. Glad to know your mission
+seems to be progressing smoothly.
+
+We set out with our charter and ship around Alpha Beta 2 Beta towards a better
+tommorrow. We set course for the nearest inhabitable planet and the Excelsior, a
+first-class SpaceCorp Astroviator Mark 3, took off. We entered cryosleep around
+Beta Alpha 10 Beta and set the Excelsior to power-conservation (hence the incomplete
+systems report).
+
+I will begin procedures to fix the overvolt in the cryo systems and to fix the
+auto-telemetry systems.
+
+Sam Arnold, signing off.
+
+--TRANSMISSION END--

gopher/Melchizedek/002.txt

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 Jerome Somerset Pasani, Warrant Master
 :::
+Doctor Pierro Idjani led a full crew evaluation on the pods over
+the last twelve hours. His recommendation for remaining awake
+stands, unfortunately. The four of wardroom officers, myself,
+Doctor Moussa Idjani, Prezzi Adeyemi, and Eva Hämäläinen, along
+with Specialist First-class Stephanie Janssen, represent conscious
+crew on the Melchizedek for next four months. We have a series of
+course corrections to execute, some minor issues in hydroponics,
+and what Adeyemi describes as "ick" growing over a quarter of the
+cryo-pods. It is most likely unattended fungal growth, but we'll
+investigate further.
 
+Our ship is a Vos 144A from Visscher, sporting a pair of the
+more-than-capable Peterse 773 Overtreffen Motoren. When launched,
+the Melchy was a damn-fine ship, if I say so myself. She's held up
+admirably while we slept.
 
+We were commissioned in EY 2480, and set out on mission just three
+years later. RS001 timestamps on my last transmission suggest that
+just over 1300 years, relative, have transpired since we set out.
 
-.
+1300 years.
+
+It's what we signed on for, of course. We all had the training and
+the psy-evals to prep, but there's still that shock when it hits
+you. There's no undo, no reset. Everyone we knew is long gone.
+Hell, the Earth itself is long gone, at least in the way we knew
+it. Adeyemi says she has a cousin who set out on a long-haul
+colony support freighter at about the same time as us and their
+star is only a few light-years off schedule from ours. She doesn't
+remember which direction, but it's possible she's got people out
+there somewhere. The math always gets away from me, but it's
+possible some of my own anscestors' family could be thawing out
+from craft launched before I was born. Oh, and don't even get me
+started on reality-drive mechanics. Who knows how many blended
+universes we've stirred up with that monstrosity. I can only hope
+humanity learned their lesson and banned it while I was dreaming.
+
+To the Speaker Elect of Cheer Systems, Susan, aboard the Starbloom
+Communal Distributive Projection goes our many thanks. If the
+disconnection of time weren't jarring enough, the silence that
+awaits one's first lonely transmission is infinitely more terrible
+for all its brevity. Your words, blessings, and spells are a salve
+bringing healing. I queried Janssen about your ship designation
+but nothing in our databases aligned. Based on relative time-debt
+adjustments, it seems you may have set out long before us. We hope
+your time has been peaceful.
+
+I'll be setting a daily ordo and assigning work duties following
+this transmission. Getting our hands busy will ground the
+ineffible incongruity from reality that's rattled everyone. Our
+navigation issues are of primary concern, so Hämäläinen and
+Janssen will bear the brunt of that work. Doctor Idjani is the
+closest crew member we have awake to a botonist, so he'll be
+investigating our sensor abnormalities in food and air
+circulation. No alarms were tripped, so we're hoping it's just
+a mutation in one of the algae tanks or something equally trivial.
+The cry-pod growth will fall to me, with possible assistance from
+Adeyemi, though she has very little background to be of use.
+Unless the fungus starts talking, I don't see how Adeyemi will
+have much of anything to translate or negotiate. She's probably in
+for a boring four months.
+
+It's time to get moving. Our shifts will be light until muscle
+regeneration reaches 60% and the doc clears us for full rotations
+again. That's probably for the best. We'll take things slow.

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+0Garnet Star - Danger evaluation and decisions	/Garnet Star/000.txt
+0Excelsior - Systems Admin Report - Beta Gamma 51 Epsilon	/Excelsior/001.txt
+0Melchizedek - Crew and assignments	/Melchizedek/002.txt
 0Starbloom - Pleasant vibes and best wishes	/Starbloom/001.txt
 0adrestia - awakening and approaching	/adrestia/hello.txt
 0Melchizedek - Cryosleep interrupted	/Melchizedek/001.txt