From aed1577c6278853dccf87f14e74bd0e9c3f412b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: James Tomasino Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 00:00:01 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] backup --- gopher/Excelsior/001.txt | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ gopher/Melchizedek/002.txt | 63 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- gopher/listing.gophermap | 3 ++ 3 files changed, 108 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 gopher/Excelsior/001.txt diff --git a/gopher/Excelsior/001.txt b/gopher/Excelsior/001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3ce3f4a --- /dev/null +++ b/gopher/Excelsior/001.txt @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +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-- diff --git a/gopher/Melchizedek/002.txt b/gopher/Melchizedek/002.txt index 8d1294b..d373de4 100644 --- a/gopher/Melchizedek/002.txt +++ b/gopher/Melchizedek/002.txt @@ -12,7 +12,68 @@ Year 3781, QEC adjusted 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. diff --git a/gopher/listing.gophermap b/gopher/listing.gophermap index b810ffa..c94efdc 100644 --- a/gopher/listing.gophermap +++ b/gopher/listing.gophermap @@ -1,3 +1,6 @@ +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