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gopher/Melchizedek/013.txt

@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ Year 3782, QEC adjusted
 
 Jerome Somerset Pasani, Warrant Master
 :::
-
 I hesitated to use the QEC since we lost Moussa, worried what the
 others might think reading this. That was until Janssen so
 eloquently told me to take the, um, stick out of my rear. Prezzi
@@ -29,19 +28,24 @@ buckets and tin-cans of all shapes and sizes. There's been close
 calls before, but never--not on my watch. I just keep asking
 myself why? Why him? Why us?
 
---
+The deep doesn't give us answers. It just gives us more questions
+and a long, damn time to think about them. With botany dispatched
+from the Melchy there's nothing left to us but these questions.
+What the hell is happening out here?
 
-Our hydroponics specialist and our doctor of phytology, Hove
-Xavier and Sandy Kroups, have joined the crew awake. I regret that
-their rising was in mourning. Needs demand, we answer.
+In hopes of learning something, anything, our hydroponics
+specialist and our doctor of phytology, Hove Xavier and Sandy
+Kroups, have joined the crew awake. I regret that their rising was
+in mourning. Needs demand, we answer. They're tackling the food
+shortage with the seriousness it deserves, though I expect it's to
+keep their minds off everything that's happened while they slept.
+They keep each other's company and a distance from the rest of us.
+I can't blame them. We are not a cheery crew to be around at the
+moment.
 
-They're tackling the food shortage with the seriousness it
-deserves, though I expect it's to keep their minds off everything
-that's happened while they slept. They keep each other's company
-and a distance from the rest of us. I can't blame them. We are not
-a cheery crew to be around at the moment.
-
---
-
-With botany dispatched from the Melchy there's nothing left to us
-but questions. What the hell is happening out here? And why?
+We're just a few weeks out from Beta. The grav sheer drops in six
+days and we'll be back under thrusters. There's a star out there
+somewhere. It called to us from nearly 25 light years away. We are
+going to reach it and make a home here. Moussa's loss is going to
+mean something.
+.

gopher/RSS Revenant/1598.txt

@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ Repeat Transmission...
 
 PANPAN PANPAN PANPAN
 
-This is the RSS Revenant, I have lost contact with my base. I am 
-lost...
+This is the RSS Revenant, We have lost contact with our base. We 
+are lost...
 
 
 
@@ -24,14 +24,17 @@ problem - the Refreshlicator has ample supplies of stem-protons and
 is generating more at its expected rate.
 
 There's a potential Goldilocks system nearby, it may be our only 
-hope of getting back.
+hope of getting back...
+
+
+
 
 
 PANPAN PANPAN PANPAN
 
-This is the RSS Revenant, I have lost contact with my base. I am 
-lost. I was on routine patrol when bombarded with some sort of 
-radiation. I can only travel at half speed, at heading two three 
+This is the RSS Revenant, we have lost contact with our base. We 
+are lost. We were on routine patrol when bombarded with some sort 
+of radiation, can only travel at half speed, at heading two three 
 nine seven niner eight point six four two seven towards the nearest 
 star. If you can hear this, please assist!
 

gopher/RSS Revenant/1623.txt

@@ -1,12 +1,39 @@
 "MAIN SCREEN, TURN ON!"
 
-The interior of the cabin folded in on itself in a technicolor blur 
-Shapes appeared and merged around the object labeled "Semi-organic."
-It appeared to be an ammunition box, ornately decorated with gold.
-Machines whirred to life throughout the ship, as I began salvage 
-procedures.
+The front of the cockpit folded in on itself in a technicolor blur 
+around the small radar display. Shapes appeared, coming into focus 
+and merging around the object labeled "Semi-organic." It was about 
+the size of an ammunition box and beset with strange onyx orbs 
+nestled in loops of gold filigree, all reflecting the millions of 
+flecks of alien constellations.
 
+Machines whirred to life throughout the ship as I began salvage 
+procedures.  Cranium was halfway to the cargo hold before I could 
+be sure the airlock was sealed properly. Hex and I arrived just in 
+time to watch Mr Swarm disintegrate into an thousands of miniatures 
+of himself, climbing in and out of every crevice of the box. The 
+cargo-scanner showing no dangers on any of it's graphs, only a tiny 
+labyrinth of shades of gray.
 
+"Looks like ancient aliens left us some Swiss cheese, doesn't it?" 
+Cranium chuckled to himself, "fancy wrapper, must be expensive."
 
-Mr Swarm disintegrates into a thousands of miniatures, climbing in 
-and out of every crevice of the box. 
+Hex rolled her eyes.
+
+"It appears to be bio-mechanical" Mr Swarms chorused, "some sort of 
+neural networked computer, maybe? I didn't recognize any of the 
+crystalline structures, but the biology is..." Mr Swarm congealed 
+into a form a quarter his original size. A cacophony filled the 
+hull with a deep throbbing vibration. 
+
+"Turbulence! Turbulence!" blared over the ships loudspeaker.
+
+"I'm not sure what I did, but it doesn't seem to have liked it!" a 
+nearly full-sized Mr Swarm shouted over the din, tiny echoes 
+trailing behind him.
+
+"I'm sensing a strange aura - something old - something changing 
+like the sea" Hex shouted dreamily. We turned to look back at the 
+strange box, the noise slowly died away as we all stood in a 
+semicircle gawping in awe as it finished melting through the floor,
+leaving at an iridescent black sheen.

gopher/RSS Revenant/1624.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+"Computer security breech! Detecting corrupted files for 
+quarantine... NO FILES FOUND... Analyzing attack vector...
+DIRECT HARDWARE ACCESS... Analyzing hardware signatures...
+ANOMALY FOUND, DETECTING BUS ADDRESS... 0xAE0D17... FINDING 
+LOCATION... G13"
+
+Mr Swarm and Super Hex rushed down a small ladder and counted 
+across to find throbbing black slime bubbling from the vents and 
+around the edge of the door -- thin gooey strands pumping to and 
+fromi a larger blob gently pulsating on the ceiling, a stripe of 
+rainbow lights blinking from somewhere deep inside of it. Hex 
+gingerly poked it with her screwdriver, her hand jerked back with a 
+spark, leaving the screwdriver spinning towards the floor.
+
+"Trajectory found," the computer declared, "ENGINES: ONLINE."
+
+Hex and Mr Swarm looked at each other. The ship lurched forward, 
+knocking them to the floor.
+
+Cranium ran into the cockpit and started pressing buttons on a 
+small panel, with me close behind. A series of commands was given 
+to the AI, the response to each was the same "USER ACCESS: DENIED."
+
+"We're being jammed up here, what's happening in the datastore?" I 
+said into the intercom. 
+
+"It's black-rasberry," crackled Hex, "it's all over the 13th 
+datablock, and the overhead conduit"

gopher/Space Beagle/t+3KaTanneIsAPragmatist.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+t+3 KaTanne Is A Pragmatist
+
+So I ran her down in the hallway full of questions.
+KaTanne, Katanne, have you read Hegel?
+You're not Neo Nietzachean are you?
+Do you believe The World is all that is the case?
+Did Husserl eat a phenomonological briscuit?
+She turned quickly and slapped me firmly across the face.
+"I don't care about any of that shit!", she said.
+"Come to your senses."
+Thank God, I thought, she's a pragmatist.
+"Sorry", I said. "I let some of the messages on the QEC get me going."
+"Don't worry about that." she replied.
+"We're in space. They're in space. That's why we have the QEC."
+"Space can mess with your head."
+"I know." I replied. "And it's been messing with theirs."
+"Solipsism, Nihilism, even Realism."
+"I'm fine. Nexialists are not susceptible to philosophical overload."
+"We see the world as it is and we see space as it is."
+"Or soon will be. The vacuum of space is subject to rapid fluctuations."
+"You better come with me." she said.
+"We'll go to hydroponics and dig some vegetables."
+"Nothing like some dirt under your fingernails to convince you
+that earth is real. Even in space."
+See. She's a pragmatist.
+She's beginning to get to me.
+I wonder if she enjoys hypnosis.
+

gopher/Voortrekker/23-operational-signal-01-1.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+We, your friends and archivists, wish you to know: This message was
+originally transmitted over QEC via the anonymous resender
+satellite named "anon.penet.fi" by its unknown maintainers. While
+previous such messages have been archived under that satellite's
+own channel, it is lately the sense of the meeting that relevant
+messages, where possible, be included alongside the events in whose
+context they may best be understood. Thus do we present this
+message here.
+
+As with all messages from "anon.penet.fi", no headers or other
+metadata were provided in the original transmission. While
+additional information has since become available, we feel that to
+include it here would betray the spirit of our project. Accordingly,
+we present this message, and will present future such messages,
+verbatim as originally transmitted.
+
+                                 ~
+
+THIS IS AN OPERATIONAL RESPONSE
+
+THIS IS AN OPERATIONAL RESPONSE
+
+THIS IS AN OPERATIONAL RESPONSE
+
+THIS RESPONSE IS DESIGNATED 01/1
+
+REMOTE UNIT WITH THE DESIGNATION:
+
+: 932BB4979009B4564977E63F66AB2855.003
+
+REPORTS:
+
+INSUFFICIENT INFORMATION TO EVALUATE MENTAL STATE OF EXPN DIR
+SOLOVIEV. NO ALTERATION OR GROSS DERANGEMENT APPARENT. EXPN DIR
+SOLOVIEV HAS STATED THAT ALTERED PERSONNEL ARE TO BE TREATED
+NORMALLY. EVALUATE THIS AS INTENDED TO SUPPORT EFFECTIVE
+DEVELOPMENT OF COLONY.
+
+COLONY GOVERNANCE CURRENTLY OPERATING AS ESTABLISHED IN FOUNDING
+DOCUMENTS OF VOORTREKKER GMBH WITH EXPN DIR SOLOVIEV ACTING AS
+CHIEF EXECUTIVE AND CHAIRMAN. THUS FAR NO INDICATION OF DISAPPROVAL
+AMONG BOARD MEMBERS OF ACTIONS TAKEN BY EXPN DIR SOLOVIEV. MOST
+BOARD MEMBERS OBSERVED WORKING AMONG EXPEDITION PERSONNEL IN
+ESTABLISHMENT OF COLONY INFRASTRUCTURE. EVALUATE THIS AS INTENDED
+TO BOLSTER MORALE AND GRANT EXPN DIRECTOR SOLOVIEV LATITUDE TO
+RESPOND TO EMERGENT SITUATIONS WITHOUT DELAY FOR CONSULTATION.
+
+THUS FAR NO INDICATION OF MISSION COMPROMISE. COLONY ESTABLISHMENT
+PROCEEDS AT RATE EXCEEDING MODELS FOR SEVERE REDUCTION OF AVAILABLE
+PERSONNEL. EVALUATE THIS AS RESULT OF ALTERED PERSONNEL
+DEMONSTRATING INCREASED CAPACITY FOR PHYSICAL LABOR WITH SHORTER
+COMPLETION TIME AND LOWER RESOURCE REQUIREMENTS COMPARED TO HUMAN
+EQUIVALENT WORK OUTPUT.
+
+SUMMARY: EXPN DIR SOLOVIEV APPEARS MAKING BEST OF SITUATION AT
+HAND. COLONY GOVERNANCE APPEARS STABLE. MISSION IS NOT COMPROMISED
+AT THIS TIME. HUMANS STILL IN CHARGE ON ROSS 128 B. RECOMMEND NO
+ACTION AT THIS TIME.
+
+APPEND:
+
+SOME PERSONNEL EXPRESS CONCERN REGARDING POTENTIAL CONTRACT
+NONPERFORMANCE PENALTIES DUE TO SCHEDULE OVERRUN CAUSED BY
+UNPLANNED DEATH OF MANY PERSONNEL. REQUEST ANY INFORMATION
+AVAILABLE REGARDING EVALUATION OF CONTRACT STATUS IN LIGHT OF
+RECENT EVENTS. PERSONNEL WORK OUTPUT LIKELY TO BE STRONGLY AFFECTED
+BY UNCHECKED RUMOR. WE NEED TO GET AHEAD OF THIS. PLEASE ADVISE
+SOONEST.
+
+THIS IS AN OPERATIONAL RESPONSE
+
+THIS IS AN OPERATIONAL RESPONSE
+
+THIS IS AN OPERATIONAL RESPONSE

gopher/listing.gophermap

@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+0Voortrekker - OPERATIONAL SIGNAL 01/1	/Voortrekker/23-operational-signal-01-1.txt
+0RSS Revenant - Swiss Cheese	/RSS Revenant/1623.txt
+0Space Beagle - t+3 KaTanne Is A Pragmatist	/Space Beagle/t+3KaTanneIsAPragmatist.txt
+0Melchizedek - Mourning	/Melchizedek/013.txt
 0Kachchhi Khameer - Found QEC!	/Kachchhi Khameer/1_init.txt
 0RSS Revenant - Semi-organic	/RSS Revenant/1622.txt
 0Voortrekker - Yes. [Was: Re: Is Amelia okay?]	/Voortrekker/22-yes-was-re-is-amelia-okay.txt

gopher/ships/The sun never sets on hope/gophermap

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