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Isla Ristol - Aventuras en Marte
Entrada 2x8
Hilito, Chispita, Puercoespín, Alejandro Magno el Magnífico y
Maderita (yo) somos oficialmente los marginados oficiales de la
residencia. Así que por lo que parece tenemos que jugar juntos
a algo. Y ese algo es un juego de contar historias juntos que
se llama juego de rol de mesa. Aunque también se llama
D&D Edición Original - Edición 3572
Lo que no tiene mucho sentido.
O es la original o no. (Y no lo es, pero se le llama original.)
Qué raro.
Bueno, Hilito es nuestro amigo marciano.
Al final no te voy a contar el nombre porque alguno de nuestros
no-amigos de Marte podría leerlo. Aunque supongo que ya sabe quiénes
somos. Da un poco igual, pero no. Privacidad y todo eso.
Cuando le conté que le había puesto un mote en mi imaginación le
hizo gracia y nos pusimos motes a todos.
Chispita es Venusiana.
Su mote es porque es muy inteligente, científica, empollona y
todo eso. Más que ninguno de los demás. Aunque dice que en Venus
pensaba que era un poco torpe. No me lo creo, aunque Venus esté
lleno de científicas locas y cientíicos chiflados. (Que es lo que
dicen todos).
Le he preguntado cómo es allí y me dice que en realidad nunca ha
estado en la superficie. Los Venusianos o viven en órbita o en
la parte superior de la atmósfera donde una estructura artificial
puede resistir. O sea que es aún peor que Marte. Bueno eso ya lo
sabía por el colegio, pero esperaba que fuera una exageración.
Una esperanza estúpida, pero bueno, tengo edad de utopías y esas cosas.
A Chispita le gusta tirar los dados cuando nadie mira. Sospe...
Puercoespín es también de la Tierra,
aunque ya lleva un año en Marte esperando que sus padres se decidan
quién tiene que venir a recogerlo. (Larga y triste historia). Lo
único bueno es que Marte lo está haciendo super-alto y experto en
informática por diversión.
Su mote es porque... mejor no meterse con él. Tiene reacciones
tenebrosas y ariscas. Le podíamos haber llamado Dráculita el dragón
pero se quedó ese.
Alejandro Magno el Magnífico es de una nave espacial. Porque nació en
una y vivió en ella hasta los trece años. Ahora está en Marte por lo de
la secundaria. Pero preferiría volver a una nave espacial, como yo.
En cuanto a su mote, es porque tiene todo un mundo imaginario en el que
es un general de la Edad de Hierro conquistando gente con sus catafractos
os algo así.
Maderita.
¿Qué por qué me han puesto ese mote? Dicen que por el color de mi piel
(Si todos los colores de la humanidad son de maderas, algunos de pino,
otros de caoba otros de roble...)
No, vale eso era mentira, lo que dicen es que estoy todo el día hablando
de árboles y cosas biológicas que no hay en Marte, ni en Venus ni en
ninguna nave espacial). Solo fue ayer, lo prometo. Maderita. Bueno, me
han llamado cosas peores. Y me llamarán cosas peores. Maderita... vale...
~ Enteka (enteka_a_fastmail:::com)

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```
___________. __ ________ ________ .__
__ _ _\_____ \_ |__ | | __\_____ \______ ____ \_____ \| |
\ \/ \/ / _(__ <| __ \| |/ / _(__ <_ __ \/ \ _(__ <| |
\ / / \ \_\ \ < / \ | \/ | \/ \ |__
\/\_/ /______ /___ /__|_ \/______ /__| |___| /______ /____/
\/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/
.___.__
____________ __| _/|__| ____
\_ __ \__ \ / __ | | |/ _ \
| | \// __ \_/ /_/ | | ( <_> )
|__| (____ /\____ | |__|\____/
\/ \/
```
W3bK3rN3l radio outpost
wbknl-000014
-----------------------
KG-84 encrypted MIL-STD 188-110B
Message made on an ISB circuit
--> Croughton (AJE)
--> Sigonella (NSY)
{
Several theorists suggest that this is a secret communication
station for a secret society, agency, or government, to be used
to communicate in an unbreakable, bizarre cipher. Several major
events and military exercises that have taken place during
intercepts of w3bk3rn3l's radio transmissions back the theory
}
1....<|.|>.......19..............35........|*...$!........%"..:wq
==> BEGIN ENCRYPTION
>BOT
WBKNL era um complexo militar numa zona quase deserta, alvo de
medidas de segurança rigorososas. Havia câmaras de 30 em 30
metros, ligadas a um sistema CCTV de última geração.
Do exterior, era impossível ver o que se passava dentro do
edifício. Não era permitido entrar ou sair de WBKNL através da
única porta existente. Uma porta que só era merecedora desse
nome porque existia um contorno mais claro que a definia e que
contrastava com o preto das paredes de concreto do edifício em
forma trapezoidal.
Todos os movimentos de entrada e saída dos militares eram
feitos por um túnel subterrâneo, com mais de 10 km, que ligava
o complexo a Povarovo (Поварово), um assentamento suburbano do
distrito de Solnechnogorsky do Oblast de Moscovo. Povarovo
tinha uma população de cerca de 8000 habitantes e era servida
por uma estação ferroviária da linha Moscovo-S.Petersburgo.
A solidão é a morte dos vivos.
[#$%&"/&&"%!$$$ --> noise]
>EOT

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<subtitle>Messages from the human stellar diaspora</subtitle>
<link rel="alternate" href="gopher://cosmic.voyage/"/>
<link rel="self" href="gopher://cosmic.voyage/atom.xml" />
<updated>2021-03-23T17:06:58Z</updated>
<updated>2021-03-24T15:28:25Z</updated>
<rights>©2021 All rights reserved</rights>
<id>gopher://cosmic.voyage/</id>
<entry>
<title>W3bK3rN3l Radio - wbknl-000014</title>
<author>
<name>w3bk3rn3l</name>
</author>
<link rel="alternate" href="gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/W3bK3rN3l%20Radio/wbknl-000014.txt"/>
<id>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/W3bK3rN3l%20Radio/wbknl-000014.txt</id>
<updated>2021-03-24T15:28:25Z</updated>
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```
___________. __ ________ ________ .__
__ _ _\_____ \_ |__ | | __\_____ \______ ____ \_____ \| |
\ \/ \/ / _(__ &lt;| __ \| |/ / _(__ &lt;_ __ \/ \ _(__ &lt;| |
\ / / \ \_\ \ &lt; / \ | \/ | \/ \ |__
\/\_/ /______ /___ /__|_ \/______ /__| |___| /______ /____/
\/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/
.___.__
____________ __| _/|__| ____
\_ __ \__ \ / __ | | |/ _ \
| | \// __ \_/ /_/ | | ( &lt;_&gt; )
|__| (____ /\____ | |__|\____/
\/ \/
```
W3bK3rN3l radio outpost
wbknl-000014
-----------------------
KG-84 encrypted MIL-STD 188-110B
Message made on an ISB circuit
--&gt; Croughton (AJE)
--&gt; Sigonella (NSY)
{
Several theorists suggest that this is a secret communication
station for a secret society, agency, or government, to be used
to communicate in an unbreakable, bizarre cipher. Several major
events and military exercises that have taken place during
intercepts of w3bk3rn3l&#39;s radio transmissions back the theory
}
1....&lt;|.|&gt;.......19..............35........|*...$!........%&quot;..:wq
==&gt; BEGIN ENCRYPTION
&gt;BOT
WBKNL era um complexo militar numa zona quase deserta, alvo de
medidas de segurança rigorososas. Havia câmaras de 30 em 30
metros, ligadas a um sistema CCTV de última geração.
Do exterior, era impossível ver o que se passava dentro do
edifício. Não era permitido entrar ou sair de WBKNL através da
única porta existente. Uma porta que só era merecedora desse
nome porque existia um contorno mais claro que a definia e que
contrastava com o preto das paredes de concreto do edifício em
forma trapezoidal.
Todos os movimentos de entrada e saída dos militares eram
feitos por um túnel subterrâneo, com mais de 10 km, que ligava
o complexo a Povarovo (Поварово), um assentamento suburbano do
distrito de Solnechnogorsky do Oblast de Moscovo. Povarovo
tinha uma população de cerca de 8000 habitantes e era servida
por uma estação ferroviária da linha Moscovo-S.Petersburgo.
A solidão é a morte dos vivos.
[#$%&amp;&quot;/&amp;&amp;&quot;%!$$$ --&gt; noise]
&gt;EOT
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>orestes - I don't want to lose her now</title>
<author>
<name>orestes</name>
</author>
<link rel="alternate" href="gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/orestes/05_i_dont_want_to_lose_her.txt"/>
<id>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/orestes/05_i_dont_want_to_lose_her.txt</id>
<updated>2021-03-24T12:04:53Z</updated>
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Transmission Log - Orestes
Author: Green
---------------------------------------------------------------
Auto-generating preface...
A log from GREEN. He recounts his current affair with PINK.
PINK has been spending less and less time around him since their
first coital encounter.
More worryingly, he speaks about PINKS desire to &#39;get rid&#39; of
NAVY. I have no record in my audio logs of such an utterance.
Either PINK has found some way to circumvent the surveillance
systems, or GREEN is lying here. I will increase the threat-level
across the Orestes and hope that this situation diffuses itself
soon. In the meantime, perhaps it is worth reexamining my
suggestion regarding PINK&#39;s reassignment. Perhaps to the Electra
outpost, where she could still research crystal activity.
-END-OF-PREFACE-
---------------------------------------------------------------
She&#39;s not so bad, I suppose. PINK, that is. We argue constantly,
but I&#39;ve started to find those arguments refreshing. It feels so
good to shout a little and express some aggression. I think it&#39;s
the same for her. Most people get upset when arguments get
heated, not her. It helps that we mostly argue about &#39;academic&#39;
things, and keep personal questions out of it. It turns out she
knows a lot more about science than I first gave her credit for.
I&#39;ve been learning from her.
Anyway, I suppose it was inevitable that the arguments would lead
to something more. We&#39;ve been sleeping together. In retrospect, I
don&#39;t know why it took so long for it to happen. We&#39;ve been the
only people on this rock for more than two years now. I guess
they selected us for this mission in the first place because of a
low sex-drive, but low is not &#39;zero&#39;. I think for her the sex is
mostly something to quell the boredom, but for me it has meant
more.
She doesn&#39;t like NAVY at all now. I don&#39;t mind the guy. A little
simple, but mostly in a charming way. She wants to have him
replaced. I don&#39;t think he can be replaced though. He&#39;s been here
so long, and I now believe he understands the crystals more than
we do. He knows the terrain of this planet so well and he knows
the quirks of the Orestes outpost like the back of his hand.
I hope she doesn&#39;t really want to get rid of him. I&#39;d probably
end up taking her side if there was some kind of conflict. I
don&#39;t want to lose her now.
----------------------------------------------------------------
Complied by the Werner H. Young Terminal Emulator
Info: Simple A.I., designed on-site for executing
systems maintenance tasks and exchanging messages between
the Orestes outpost and the Arsinoe.
Built by Werner Young (2113-2151).
Names of persons have been masked to protect their identity.
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Isla Ristol - Maderita</title>
<author>
@ -1139,161 +1287,4 @@ la lá
~ Enteka (enteka_a_fastmail:::com)
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>orestes - The last of the apples</title>
<author>
<name>orestes</name>
</author>
<link rel="alternate" href="gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/orestes/02_last_of_the_apples.txt"/>
<id>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/orestes/02_last_of_the_apples.txt</id>
<updated>2021-03-14T08:53:20Z</updated>
<content type="html"><![CDATA[<pre>
Transmission Log - Orestes
Author: Green
---------------------------------------------------------------
Auto-generating preface...
A transmission log by GREEN. He thinks the messages aren&#39;t
reaching anyone. He philosophizes about the concept of life. He
complains about his fellow human-inhabitants at the Orestes.
Thank you for sending the mining equipment, I&#39;ll distribute it to
the crew when the time seems fitting, as per your recommendation.
-END-OF-PREFACE-
---------------------------------------------------------------
You still haven&#39;t sent the mining equipment, or anything for that
matter. Lending credence to my theory that these messages aren&#39;t
reaching anyone.
I still, for some reason, feel the desire to update you. There
are things to tell. Events that happen. Even in this remote
corner of the universe, populated only by three people and a
bunch of strange, inert, red crystals, things happen.
If reminds me of something a philosopher once said, when talking
about &#39;life&#39; (Life, after all, and the inexplicable human desire
to find more of it, is why we&#39;re here).
We usually think of things beginning when life appears. That
is, before life, there are no real &#39;events&#39;. Life is activity,
motion, desire, growth. In absence of life, there are just rocks
planets, stars, etc. We are fascinated about the question of the
beginning of life, that strange moment when one cell first
divides into two.
But, the philosopher said, there is no life without difference
and before what we call &#39;life&#39; appeared there was difference. The
universe is full of differences. Or, to be more exact, the
universe made up of of processes, and processes are just a series
of differentiations.
We think of life as continuous, as having a history (genealogy),
a clear beginning and end. But this sense of life, the one that
we cling to so dearly, the reason we voyage out into the void in
search of it, this sense of life is a construct. A story we tell
ourselves to try to make sense of the constant differentiation
and change. Underneath it all is the force of pure difference;
the relation between this molecule and another, between a 1 and a
0, between the geology of this &#39;dead&#39; rock floating in space and
&#39;that&#39; one. So, if you&#39;re tracking a process of differentiation
across the universe, &#39;events&#39; are happening all the time.
Not with these crystals though. There really is nothing going on
with them, in any sense.
All that&#39;s been happening are the overly-familiar kinds of
&#39;events&#39;. PINK ate the last of the apples. I couldn&#39;t believe it.
She ate it right in front of me, like it was a perverse act of
sadism. I don&#39;t get her sometimes. She is usually so calm and
rational.
NAVY is sulking or has taken a vow of silence or something and
has become as unresponsive as the crystals. I ended up screaming
my head off at him the other night. I feel bad about it now.
These kinds of &#39;events&#39; tire me. I wish sometimes I could be less
&#39;me&#39;, less &#39;alive&#39;, and just be a pebble on the beach or
something. Being slowly eroded by a wave.
----------------------------------------------------------------
Complied by the Werner H. Young Terminal Emulator
Info: Simple A.I., designed on-site for executing
systems maintenance tasks and exchanging messages between the
Orestes outpost and the Arsinoe.
Built by Werner Young (2113-2151).
Names of persons have been masked to protect their identity.
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</pre>]]></content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>monara - On the way to Callisto - Log File</title>
<author>
<name>seek</name>
</author>
<link rel="alternate" href="gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/monara/4-esso-logfile.txt"/>
<id>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/monara/4-esso-logfile.txt</id>
<updated>2021-03-13T15:46:21Z</updated>
<content type="html"><![CDATA[<pre>
Source : Monara (swifter-f440p) QEC
Type : log file
Software : Log Manager v1.05
User : Esso98
State : sent
Date : 23-12-3020
Time : 00:23:18
I left Ganymede yesterday evening. What a nice
time to start a journey. The sky was freaking red.
Anyway now I am already few thousand files away.
I was just staring at the window for a couple of
minutes now, I mean it would be a waste if I did
not enjoy the scene of leaving this beautiful sphere.
I turned on the auto pilot mode. Sat down at my
small table, popped open a cold sprunk and opened
my Thinkpad. Played with it for a couple of minutes,
read some articles I&#39;ve saved to the hard drive.
I have already passed beyond the area with internet.
So now until I get to Callisto. It&#39;s just me and the
QEC.
Oh, what is this! there are some articles about
some hacktivists cyber protesting against government&#39;s
decision to join hands with proprietary software
companies. I wonder why those people can&#39;t
understand that sometimes, history repeats. We humans
have already destroyed a beautiful planet. Thanks to
capitalism, stupid organizations and arrogant rulers.
I kind of feel like I am having some mental
issues. Sometimes I act like I care about the
universe. But sometimes I become ruthless and stupid.
Whatever sometimes I just wonder, if how things
good it could have been if I got to spend my
childhood with the nature. Trees, animals and beautiful
sunsets.
Instead of that, thanks to our capitalist and
communist ancestors I had to live among the dirt,
killing rats and stealing from humans. Thinking about
that past make my anger towards humans pop up
just like a small spark of fire hidden in the ashes.
There are multiple occasions I felt like I want to
blow up everyone.
Hmmm this sprunk is nice. I closed down my Thinkpad,
got up did some stretchings. And came back to the
pilot compartment. I wonder if how many, or what
kind of people do read my logs.
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0orestes - I don't want to lose her now /orestes/05_i_dont_want_to_lose_her.txt
0Isla Ristol - Maderita /Isla Ristol/b8.txt
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Transmission Log - Orestes
Author: Green
---------------------------------------------------------------
Auto-generating preface...
A log from GREEN. He recounts his current affair with PINK.
PINK has been spending less and less time around him since their
first coital encounter.
More worryingly, he speaks about PINKS desire to 'get rid' of
NAVY. I have no record in my audio logs of such an utterance.
Either PINK has found some way to circumvent the surveillance
systems, or GREEN is lying here. I will increase the threat-level
across the Orestes and hope that this situation diffuses itself
soon. In the meantime, perhaps it is worth reexamining my
suggestion regarding PINK's reassignment. Perhaps to the Electra
outpost, where she could still research crystal activity.
-END-OF-PREFACE-
---------------------------------------------------------------
She's not so bad, I suppose. PINK, that is. We argue constantly,
but I've started to find those arguments refreshing. It feels so
good to shout a little and express some aggression. I think it's
the same for her. Most people get upset when arguments get
heated, not her. It helps that we mostly argue about 'academic'
things, and keep personal questions out of it. It turns out she
knows a lot more about science than I first gave her credit for.
I've been learning from her.
Anyway, I suppose it was inevitable that the arguments would lead
to something more. We've been sleeping together. In retrospect, I
don't know why it took so long for it to happen. We've been the
only people on this rock for more than two years now. I guess
they selected us for this mission in the first place because of a
low sex-drive, but low is not 'zero'. I think for her the sex is
mostly something to quell the boredom, but for me it has meant
more.
She doesn't like NAVY at all now. I don't mind the guy. A little
simple, but mostly in a charming way. She wants to have him
replaced. I don't think he can be replaced though. He's been here
so long, and I now believe he understands the crystals more than
we do. He knows the terrain of this planet so well and he knows
the quirks of the Orestes outpost like the back of his hand.
I hope she doesn't really want to get rid of him. I'd probably
end up taking her side if there was some kind of conflict. I
don't want to lose her now.
----------------------------------------------------------------
Complied by the Werner H. Young Terminal Emulator
Info: Simple A.I., designed on-site for executing
systems maintenance tasks and exchanging messages between
the Orestes outpost and the Arsinoe.
Built by Werner Young (2113-2151).
Names of persons have been masked to protect their identity.
----------------------------------------------------------------

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<title>Cosmic Voyage</title>
<link>gopher://cosmic.voyage</link>
<description>Messages from the human stellar diaspora</description>
<item>
<title>W3bK3rN3l Radio - wbknl-000014</title>
<author>w3bk3rn3l@cosmic.voyage (w3bk3rn3l)</author>
<link>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/W3bK3rN3l Radio/wbknl-000014.txt</link>
<guid>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/W3bK3rN3l Radio/wbknl-000014.txt</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2021 15:28:25 GMT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<pre>
```
___________. __ ________ ________ .__
__ _ _\_____ \_ |__ | | __\_____ \______ ____ \_____ \| |
\ \/ \/ / _(__ <| __ \| |/ / _(__ <_ __ \/ \ _(__ <| |
\ / / \ \_\ \ < / \ | \/ | \/ \ |__
\/\_/ /______ /___ /__|_ \/______ /__| |___| /______ /____/
\/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/
.___.__
____________ __| _/|__| ____
\_ __ \__ \ / __ | | |/ _ \
| | \// __ \_/ /_/ | | ( <_> )
|__| (____ /\____ | |__|\____/
\/ \/
```
W3bK3rN3l radio outpost
wbknl-000014
-----------------------
KG-84 encrypted MIL-STD 188-110B
Message made on an ISB circuit
--> Croughton (AJE)
--> Sigonella (NSY)
{
Several theorists suggest that this is a secret communication
station for a secret society, agency, or government, to be used
to communicate in an unbreakable, bizarre cipher. Several major
events and military exercises that have taken place during
intercepts of w3bk3rn3l's radio transmissions back the theory
}
1....<|.|>.......19..............35........|*...$!........%"..:wq
==> BEGIN ENCRYPTION
>BOT
WBKNL era um complexo militar numa zona quase deserta, alvo de
medidas de segurança rigorososas. Havia câmaras de 30 em 30
metros, ligadas a um sistema CCTV de última geração.
Do exterior, era impossível ver o que se passava dentro do
edifício. Não era permitido entrar ou sair de WBKNL através da
única porta existente. Uma porta que só era merecedora desse
nome porque existia um contorno mais claro que a definia e que
contrastava com o preto das paredes de concreto do edifício em
forma trapezoidal.
Todos os movimentos de entrada e saída dos militares eram
feitos por um túnel subterrâneo, com mais de 10 km, que ligava
o complexo a Povarovo (Поварово), um assentamento suburbano do
distrito de Solnechnogorsky do Oblast de Moscovo. Povarovo
tinha uma população de cerca de 8000 habitantes e era servida
por uma estação ferroviária da linha Moscovo-S.Petersburgo.
A solidão é a morte dos vivos.
[#$%&"/&&"%!$$$ --> noise]
>EOT
</pre>]]></description>
</item>
<item>
<title>orestes - I don't want to lose her now</title>
<author>orestes@cosmic.voyage (orestes)</author>
<link>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/orestes/05_i_dont_want_to_lose_her.txt</link>
<guid>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/orestes/05_i_dont_want_to_lose_her.txt</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2021 12:04:53 GMT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<pre>
Transmission Log - Orestes
Author: Green
---------------------------------------------------------------
Auto-generating preface...
A log from GREEN. He recounts his current affair with PINK.
PINK has been spending less and less time around him since their
first coital encounter.
More worryingly, he speaks about PINKS desire to 'get rid' of
NAVY. I have no record in my audio logs of such an utterance.
Either PINK has found some way to circumvent the surveillance
systems, or GREEN is lying here. I will increase the threat-level
across the Orestes and hope that this situation diffuses itself
soon. In the meantime, perhaps it is worth reexamining my
suggestion regarding PINK's reassignment. Perhaps to the Electra
outpost, where she could still research crystal activity.
-END-OF-PREFACE-
---------------------------------------------------------------
She's not so bad, I suppose. PINK, that is. We argue constantly,
but I've started to find those arguments refreshing. It feels so
good to shout a little and express some aggression. I think it's
the same for her. Most people get upset when arguments get
heated, not her. It helps that we mostly argue about 'academic'
things, and keep personal questions out of it. It turns out she
knows a lot more about science than I first gave her credit for.
I've been learning from her.
Anyway, I suppose it was inevitable that the arguments would lead
to something more. We've been sleeping together. In retrospect, I
don't know why it took so long for it to happen. We've been the
only people on this rock for more than two years now. I guess
they selected us for this mission in the first place because of a
low sex-drive, but low is not 'zero'. I think for her the sex is
mostly something to quell the boredom, but for me it has meant
more.
She doesn't like NAVY at all now. I don't mind the guy. A little
simple, but mostly in a charming way. She wants to have him
replaced. I don't think he can be replaced though. He's been here
so long, and I now believe he understands the crystals more than
we do. He knows the terrain of this planet so well and he knows
the quirks of the Orestes outpost like the back of his hand.
I hope she doesn't really want to get rid of him. I'd probably
end up taking her side if there was some kind of conflict. I
don't want to lose her now.
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<title>Isla Ristol - Maderita</title>
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~ Enteka (enteka_a_fastmail:::com)
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<title>orestes - The last of the apples</title>
<author>orestes@cosmic.voyage (orestes)</author>
<link>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/orestes/02_last_of_the_apples.txt</link>
<guid>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/orestes/02_last_of_the_apples.txt</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2021 08:53:20 GMT</pubDate>
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Transmission Log - Orestes
Author: Green
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Auto-generating preface...
A transmission log by GREEN. He thinks the messages aren't
reaching anyone. He philosophizes about the concept of life. He
complains about his fellow human-inhabitants at the Orestes.
Thank you for sending the mining equipment, I'll distribute it to
the crew when the time seems fitting, as per your recommendation.
-END-OF-PREFACE-
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You still haven't sent the mining equipment, or anything for that
matter. Lending credence to my theory that these messages aren't
reaching anyone.
I still, for some reason, feel the desire to update you. There
are things to tell. Events that happen. Even in this remote
corner of the universe, populated only by three people and a
bunch of strange, inert, red crystals, things happen.
If reminds me of something a philosopher once said, when talking
about 'life' (Life, after all, and the inexplicable human desire
to find more of it, is why we're here).
We usually think of things beginning when life appears. That
is, before life, there are no real 'events'. Life is activity,
motion, desire, growth. In absence of life, there are just rocks
planets, stars, etc. We are fascinated about the question of the
beginning of life, that strange moment when one cell first
divides into two.
But, the philosopher said, there is no life without difference
and before what we call 'life' appeared there was difference. The
universe is full of differences. Or, to be more exact, the
universe made up of of processes, and processes are just a series
of differentiations.
We think of life as continuous, as having a history (genealogy),
a clear beginning and end. But this sense of life, the one that
we cling to so dearly, the reason we voyage out into the void in
search of it, this sense of life is a construct. A story we tell
ourselves to try to make sense of the constant differentiation
and change. Underneath it all is the force of pure difference;
the relation between this molecule and another, between a 1 and a
0, between the geology of this 'dead' rock floating in space and
'that' one. So, if you're tracking a process of differentiation
across the universe, 'events' are happening all the time.
Not with these crystals though. There really is nothing going on
with them, in any sense.
All that's been happening are the overly-familiar kinds of
'events'. PINK ate the last of the apples. I couldn't believe it.
She ate it right in front of me, like it was a perverse act of
sadism. I don't get her sometimes. She is usually so calm and
rational.
NAVY is sulking or has taken a vow of silence or something and
has become as unresponsive as the crystals. I ended up screaming
my head off at him the other night. I feel bad about it now.
These kinds of 'events' tire me. I wish sometimes I could be less
'me', less 'alive', and just be a pebble on the beach or
something. Being slowly eroded by a wave.
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<title>monara - On the way to Callisto - Log File</title>
<author>seek@cosmic.voyage (seek)</author>
<link>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/monara/4-esso-logfile.txt</link>
<guid>gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/monara/4-esso-logfile.txt</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2021 15:46:21 GMT</pubDate>
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Source : Monara (swifter-f440p) QEC
Type : log file
Software : Log Manager v1.05
User : Esso98
State : sent
Date : 23-12-3020
Time : 00:23:18
I left Ganymede yesterday evening. What a nice
time to start a journey. The sky was freaking red.
Anyway now I am already few thousand files away.
I was just staring at the window for a couple of
minutes now, I mean it would be a waste if I did
not enjoy the scene of leaving this beautiful sphere.
I turned on the auto pilot mode. Sat down at my
small table, popped open a cold sprunk and opened
my Thinkpad. Played with it for a couple of minutes,
read some articles I've saved to the hard drive.
I have already passed beyond the area with internet.
So now until I get to Callisto. It's just me and the
QEC.
Oh, what is this! there are some articles about
some hacktivists cyber protesting against government's
decision to join hands with proprietary software
companies. I wonder why those people can't
understand that sometimes, history repeats. We humans
have already destroyed a beautiful planet. Thanks to
capitalism, stupid organizations and arrogant rulers.
I kind of feel like I am having some mental
issues. Sometimes I act like I care about the
universe. But sometimes I become ruthless and stupid.
Whatever sometimes I just wonder, if how things
good it could have been if I got to spend my
childhood with the nature. Trees, animals and beautiful
sunsets.
Instead of that, thanks to our capitalist and
communist ancestors I had to live among the dirt,
killing rats and stealing from humans. Thinking about
that past make my anger towards humans pop up
just like a small spark of fire hidden in the ashes.
There are multiple occasions I felt like I want to
blow up everyone.
Hmmm this sprunk is nice. I closed down my Thinkpad,
got up did some stretchings. And came back to the
pilot compartment. I wonder if how many, or what
kind of people do read my logs.
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