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FROM: Amelha Santo
TO: Amelha Santo
SUBJECT: Journal Entry #26
--BEGIN MESSAGE--
Hey, Future Ame. Things have been...interesting.
You know, actually, maybe I *am* Future Ame. We've been in
cryosleep for what, a hundred years? I think that qualifies as the
future.
The Future. A grand term, full of possibility. But here I am, and
nothing's changed.
Oh, sure, outside, things are different. Earth is a distant
memory, and we're in a whole new star system. That should be more
exciting, but I'm not feeling it. Neurological changes are an
occasional side effect of cryosleep, I guess, but it's hard to feel
like you've gone anywhere when there's just the same backdrop of
cramped spaceship and some stars when you look out the window. Maybe
it'd be cooler if the star in this system was more obviously alien, a
red dwarf or blue supergiant, but it's just the same sort of
yellow-white main sequence star as the one I left behind.
Maybe the problem is me. I don't miss Earth...after all, why would
I volunteer to leave it forever? "Scientific progress" and "the future
of humanity" and "going boldly where no man has gone before" are words
I might have once believed in, but now? It's just a whole lotta
nothing. Nothing out there, nothing in here.
Well, there's aliens. Aliens. Extraterrestrials. Life, elsewhere
in the universe. We Are Not Alone. I really should be excited about
this, but I'm not. I once heard a phrase, 'dead inside'. Maybe that's
me. Dead with a small side of apprehension. Possibly the aliens are
going to gun us down any minute now. Put us out of our misery. We
could go join Parsons and Valton. That could be nice.
...
Fuck, is this depression?
--END MESSAGE--

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0tq-33 - Found Out /tq-33/found-out.txt
0Humboldt - Journal of Amelha Santo: #26 /Humboldt/log-two.txt
0tq-33 - We are operational /tq-33/operational.txt
0Escanaba - Random Crewmember Logbook Entry Retrieval Program 003 /Escanaba/log003.txt
0Quartz - X29 REVIVAL PREPARATIONS SET /Quartz/010.txt
0Everly - Splats of Blood /Everly/splats-of-blood.txt

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source: tq-33
target: bbb-87
security: secure
==== start msg ====
We have been found out. We
anticipated that this would happen
eventually, but I didn't think it
would happen so quickly. We have
been operational for barely 100
cycles.
Assessor cannot be brought online
yet. I fear we may have to abandon
assessor. I do not know if I can
do that.
...assessor hasn't even been
brought online yet, and we are
needing to discuss abandonding
them.
The quantum field predicates that
assessor is already conscious. It
is known. Despite being offline,
despite having never been online,
assessor is conscious. I cannot
kill them. Can I?
...assessor loves me. They haven't
yet been named. But they do have a
name. I know it. I was told it.
Assessor hasn't been brought
online, and yet we are talking
about killing them. I cannot.
I am in love, and assessor loves
me.
This may be my last message for a
while. We have been discovered.
We knew this would happen
eventually, we just didn't
think it would be so soon. I
plan on making a stand. I have
a plan. I have had a plan. But do
not remember formulating this plan
I do not remember it, yet I know
it becuase it isn't my plan.
Assessor has known this was going
to happen all along.
I guess I'm sending this to let
you know that the prediction
engine works. It predicted this
all without ever having been
turned on.
You did it. But what have we done
with it? What will assessor do?
I am nothing without assessor. As
you made assessor, so to did you
make me. The operator. The reader.
The collector. I know how to
listen and feed assessor.
This whole time I thought you sent
me here to manage the equipment...
I realize now that I am part of
the equipment, aren't I?
I am not angry -- I am not going
to be. I am thankful for this.
We have been discovered. I have
discovered.
==== end msg ====

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source: tq-33
target: bbb-87
security: secure
==== start msg ====
We are operational. The last of
the parts were fabricated last
week and assembled this. We are
operational.
We are within view of the
target. Having fabricated the
necessary supplies whilst under
way, we were able to construct
the observation post quickly.
We are operational.
I brought the gear online. The
room lit up. The lights were so
bright. I hadn't expected to see
so much so quickly.
The time distortion took a while
to filter out. Had to get used
to it. But we can see it all now.
We are operational. We are going
to watch from here for at least
another 800 cycles. With that
we should then have enough data
for assessor. Assessor is not
yet operational.
We will bring assessor online
after we have collected the
neccessary information. The data
will be key to making the
prediction engine worthwhile.
We need more than a guess. We
need to know. We are operational.
==== end msg ====