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Messages from the human stellar diaspora
+
+ W3bK3rN3l Radio - wbknl-000014
+ w3bk3rn3l@cosmic.voyage (w3bk3rn3l)
+ gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/W3bK3rN3l Radio/wbknl-000014.txt
+ gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/W3bK3rN3l Radio/wbknl-000014.txt
+ Wed, 24 Mar 2021 15:28:25 GMT
+
+```
+ ___________. __ ________ ________ .__
+__ _ _\_____ \_ |__ | | __\_____ \______ ____ \_____ \| |
+\ \/ \/ / _(__ <| __ \| |/ / _(__ <_ __ \/ \ _(__ <| |
+ \ / / \ \_\ \ < / \ | \/ | \/ \ |__
+ \/\_/ /______ /___ /__|_ \/______ /__| |___| /______ /____/
+ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/
+ .___.__
+____________ __| _/|__| ____
+\_ __ \__ \ / __ | | |/ _ \
+ | | \// __ \_/ /_/ | | ( <_> )
+ |__| (____ /\____ | |__|\____/
+ \/ \/
+```
+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
+
+]]>
+
+
+ orestes - I don't want to lose her now
+ orestes@cosmic.voyage (orestes)
+ gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/orestes/05_i_dont_want_to_lose_her.txt
+ gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/orestes/05_i_dont_want_to_lose_her.txt
+ Wed, 24 Mar 2021 12:04:53 GMT
+
+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.
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+
+]]>
+Isla Ristol - Maderitaenteka@cosmic.voyage (enteka)
@@ -1100,158 +1244,5 @@ la lá
~ Enteka (enteka_a_fastmail:::com)
]]>
-
- orestes - The last of the apples
- orestes@cosmic.voyage (orestes)
- gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/orestes/02_last_of_the_apples.txt
- gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/orestes/02_last_of_the_apples.txt
- Sun, 14 Mar 2021 08:53:20 GMT
-
-Transmission Log - Orestes
-Author: Green
-
----------------------------------------------------------------
-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-
----------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
- 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.
-
-
-
-----------------------------------------------------------------
-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.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
-
-]]>
-
-
- monara - On the way to Callisto - Log File
- seek@cosmic.voyage (seek)
- gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/monara/4-esso-logfile.txt
- gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/monara/4-esso-logfile.txt
- Sat, 13 Mar 2021 15:46:21 GMT
-
-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.
-]]>
-