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gopher/Melchizedek/011.txt

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+Message Incoming...
+
+Source Melchizedek.0294
+Approach β Hyi
+Ascension 00h 25m 45.07037s
+Declination –77° 15′ 15.2860″
+Distance 24.34ly
+Equinox J2000.0 SOL
+Year 3782, QEC adjusted
+
+[Autotranslator enabled...]
+[Voice recording initialize...ON]
+[Crew autodetection...ON]
+[Narrative mode...ON]
+[Autodisconnect after 5 minute silence...ON]
+:::
+[Voice detected: Moussa Idjani, Ship's Physician]
+
+Idjani:
+
+  Testing, one-two. Testing. Very good.
+
+  I'm transmitting from seed ship Melchizedek, serial 0294, en
+  route to Beta Hydrii for systematic exo-panspermia. Today is
+  mission date 24.54202, uh, 5 or 6. The ship is in deceleration
+  at approximately 1.2G. This recording is being made in
+  fore-botany. Doctor Moussa Idjani recording.
+
+  [sotto voce] Where is that [unintelligible]
+
+  As requested by command, this review of the arabidopsis anomaly
+  specimen six is being recorded to QEC for transmission home.
+  Perhaps our research can help the colonists avoid similar
+  issues.
+
+  Number six is a from our voucher herbarium specimen. This
+  cutting has been treated in a pH 2.0 solution and removed from
+  visible light for twelve cycles. I am preparing the sample with
+  Eosin Y stain in an attempt to isolate the cytoplasic growths
+  and abnormal cyclosis. Past attempts at isolation failed with
+  a normal pH, so we are attempting a shift in the culture.
+  I honestly have no idea if that's the right thing to do. We
+  should have woken Kroups.
+
+[Voice detected: Prezzi Adeyemi, Seriph Rhetorical Ecclesia]
+
+Adeyemi:
+
+  Doc, you have a minute?
+
+Idjani:
+
+  Just... getting... the slides up. There we go. What's up,
+  Seriph?
+
+Adeyemi:
+
+  No luck on Kroups or Xavier?
+
+Idjani:
+
+  He's adamant. No thaw. We're on our own, at least until I can
+  get us more food.
+
+Adeyemi:
+
+  Likely? That stuff freaks me out.
+
+Idjani:
+
+  Oh, probably. Here, have a look. Through here--
+
+  This is arabidopsis from fore. I've got our normal batch here
+  for reference. Look closely at the cells, the pink areas.
+
+Adeyemi:
+
+  Is it... spinning? What is that?
+
+Idjani:
+
+  That's the cytoplasm, the goo inside the cell. Or it should be,
+  but this stuff is acting totally foreign. It should be giving
+  the cell its strength and shape but it's acting
+  like--[censored]. It's like if a glass of water rose up out of
+  the cup and grabbed your hand. There's no explanation I can
+  figure out.
+
+Adeyemi:
+
+  Jerome doesn't think it's dangerous?
+
+Idjani:
+
+  Jerome thinks another mouth to feed is more dangerous than some
+  bad spinach. He's not wrong, either. We need to salvage the
+  greens for ourselves if we're going to make it to landfall.
+
+Adeyemi:
+
+  I'm not eating your magic water plants, Moussa. Figure something
+  else out. Can't we tap into rear-botany reserves? We don't need
+  much.
+
+Idjani:
+
+  Ugh, that would make things easier. No-- The captain sealed it
+  up until we can figure out what happened here. If we risk
+  exposure to the reserves--
+
+Adeyemi:
+
+  No food for anyone.
+
+Idjani:
+
+  No go. So I've got to figure this out, but I--
+
+  [sotto voce] I've got no clue what I'm doing, Prezzi. This is
+  not my field. You've got more background than me on this. And
+  we've got a crew full of experts sitting in ice cubes just 30
+  meters behind me.
+
+[Voice detected: Jerome Somerset Pasani, Warrant Master, via COMM]
+
+Pasani COMM:
+
+  Prezzi, can you swing by and check on Doc before flex?
+
+Adeyemi:
+
+  Already on it, sir. He's getting to the bottom of this. He's
+  walking me through the slides now.
+
+Pasani COMM:
+
+  Very-well. Keep me informed when it's cracked. Pasani out.
+
+Idjani:
+
+  When?
+
+Adeyemi:
+
+  You'll get this, Moussa.
+
+  What are you looking at now? The pink parts?
+
+Idjani:
+
+  That spinning pulse, the cyclosis. There's a pattern to it.
+  I thought it might give us a clue. Is it environmental? Is it
+  related to the protein sequences coming from the DNA patch? This
+  one matches Simms. Is that important?
+
+Adeyemi:
+
+  So you'll record it?
+
+Idjani:
+
+  No, I did that already and ran it through the limited data we
+  have on file without any matches. I think it's because I'm
+  looking too small. I mean, we can only see the cytoplasm when
+  looking at individual cells under a microscope, but they're all
+  doing this. Every cell in this thing is doing a dance we can't
+  see, all at once, and all in sync. If I could figure out a way
+  to see the whole picture--
+
+Adeyemi:
+
+  So, what then. Take a bunch of samples and look at them apart
+  and try to piece it together? That'll take forever.
+
+Idjani:
+
+  I was thinking I'd try the other way. If they're all in sync,
+  does that mean that the cytoplasm is communicating? If I can
+  change it here, give it a shove, what happens to the other
+  cells? There's no way for this stuff to communicate. It's mostly
+  just water and proteins with some microtubules and filaments in
+  there.
+
+Adeyemi:
+
+  Where's the logic? If there's nothing to communicate then the
+  behavior must be inherent in all of it.
+
+  Regardless, does this mean it's inedible? Not that I want it.
+  But if it's not going to hurt us then I don't see the risk in
+  eating from the other bay.
+
+Idjani:
+
+  Don't need to convince me.
+
+  I'll get back to it.
+
+Adeyemi:
+
+  The path is walked by steps, Moussa. Blessings.
+
+Idjani:
+
+  Blessings, Seriph.
+
+[Detected exit of Prezzi Adeymei from botany bay]
+
+  [sotto voce] Back to [unintelligible]
+
+  Now, where were we, my lovely little thing. Yes, that's right.
+
+  This is Doctor Moussa Idjani, beginning investigation. Dye
+  markers are set and I've got a good contrast showing on the
+  display. Alright, I'm attempting to instigate a change in
+  cyclosis through ultrasonic induction of the sample.
+
+  [sotto voce] That's strange.
+
+  I'll just touch the lead to [unintelligible]
+
+[SYSTEM ALERT INITIATED - BIOLOGICAL CONTAINMENT BREACH]
+
+  [sotto voce] My stars--It knows
+
+  Comm, initiate call--
+
+[COMM QUERY ACTIVATED]
+
+Idjani COMM:
+
+  All hands, we [unintelligible]
+
+  [static recorded for 3:15]
+
+  [soto voce] we grow [unintelligible]
+
+  [static recorded for 1:11]
+
+[Voice detected: Eva Hämäläinen, Navigation Specialist]
+
+Hämäläinen:
+
+  Doct--[unintelligible screaming]
+
+[Voice recording terminated]

gopher/Murmur Den/cold_fashioned_thought_fire.txt

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+Naturally, the experts had lost control.
+
+The sky was gone and they were falling into their surroundings
+through a huge pattern of a gas, a separation of star,
+a large orange disk.
+
+All music, very little empty water.
+
+The natural things are the matter and chemicals of this conversation.
+
+And numbers are nice, —
+(fuel: fifty-eight percent)
+... completely bad.
+
+At this point he did fly, motionless in a mad, childish lifetime. 
+The computers extended refuge and control then well-clasped at a hundred feet five, one at a time.
+The screen was exposed under the control, held clenched in a ragged space-black bell.
+He continued his news speaking, worn voice above continuous mechanisms.
+The screens had kept just the conversation, being followed in view.
+He was concerned with never a woman to hear his argument, voice among disasters.
+All his strength, I found, listened for a thin substance of fatigue.
+
+The pilot was gone, something inevitable that was heartily a memory.
+
+But an idea was softly glowing faintly in all the top great contrivances of purpose; there are audiences!
+And they removed then a most glorious pattern from him.
+
+I was examining the newly contented and well-concealed natural accent printed in.
+
+He is amazed, but by the past.
+
+Nightmares were reported to us, and we both were conscious of this eventuality.
+Our problem is true of probability (or in spite), a proof of tradition and the fantasy for it.
+
+There must be an additional connection 
+with that which has a complication of principles 
+
+There must be such a battle 
+between worlds of misquoting, relationship(s).
+
+There must be something built 
+to find out why they're actually not really living now.
+
+	***
+
+The universe has been going on forever, instead of any heart.
+
+I have but one brain to buy
+and I have no true interest.
+
+The response has gone out to the moon, anyway.
+
+|| ego-skeleton aureolin

gopher/Voortrekker/11-its-not-like-wed-have-loved.txt

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 [18:07]
 anine: do you know, we talked about marrying?
 anine: kit and me
-sam: no, i didn't know that
-
-[18:08]
-anine: yeah
 anine: it would've solved the biggest problems for both of us
 anine: wouldve been perfect
 

gopher/Voortrekker/13-luna-and-titan-announce-alliance.txt

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+From: Universe Today Special Report <specialreport@universe.today>
+To: undisclosed-recipients: ;
+Subject: Special Report: Luna and Titan Announce Alliance
+Date: 13 Sep 2421 09:03:23 +0000
+Date-Local: 13 Sep 2421 09:03:23 +0000
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf8"
+
+Universe Today has just received the following release from Titan
+Dome One. Further bulletins as events warrant.
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE             Contact: treatyquestions@titan.org
+September 13, 2421                         treatyquestions@luna.gov
+
+                  Luna and Titan Announce Alliance
+
+Titan Dome One - The governments of the Luna Free State and the
+Autonomous Voluntary Community of Titan are pleased today to
+jointly announce that they have ratified a treaty of alliance.
+
+Plenipotentiary representatives throughout the negotiations
+included Vasu Soon-kit, Deputy Administrator of the Luna Free
+State, and Drahoslava Branislav, Titan's current product owner for
+International Integration. With the support of their respective
+teams, they have worked unceasingly toward this outcome for several
+weeks.
+
+Major terms of the treaty include:
+
+· a bilateral military support agreement specifically covering
+defensive engagements;
+
+· Lunar provision of economic support to Titan, including highly
+favorable terms and strong economic incentives to Lunarian cargo
+lines for shipment of Titanian cargo in Lunarian bottoms;
+
+· Titanian provision to Luna of full engineering documentation for
+the FTL drive, a team experienced with the technology, and access
+to Titanian shipyard and drydock facilities.
+
+Publication of the full treaty document will follow this
+announcement. Readers are cautioned to remember that, in any case
+of conflict or confusion between this announcement and the treaty
+document proper, the latter will control.
+
+"Titan and Luna have always been friends," said Branislav, "and
+this agreement serves as a strong enabler for closer and more
+mutually beneficial relations in future. We've been receiving
+highly positive feedback from our development team leads since the
+first LoI, and I'm excited to begin gathering requirements for our
+inaugural projects."
+
+"Indeed, this treaty has come at an excellent time for both Luna
+and Titan," said Vasu. "With access to insystem markets, Titan's
+economy can develop without further suppressive interference. And
+with shared access to FTL drive technology, we may finally achieve
+a place among equals in the diaspora now commencing."
+
+Questions and inquiries may be directed to
+treatyquestions@titan.org and treatyquestions@luna.gov. Messages
+received by either will be shared among both.

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+0Voortrekker - Special Report: Luna and Titan Announce Alliance	/Voortrekker/13-luna-and-titan-announce-alliance.txt
+0Melchizedek - Arabidopsis anomaly investigation, specimen six	/Melchizedek/011.txt
+0Murmur Den - cold-fashioned thought-fire	/Murmur Den/cold_fashioned_thought_fire.txt
+0anon.penet.fi - ACTIVATION SIGNAL	/anon.penet.fi/4-activation-signal.txt
 0Hoffnung - provocations don't go anywhere	/Hoffnung/016.txt
 0Voortrekker - Headlines: September 5-11, 2421	/Voortrekker/12-headlines-september-5-11-2421.txt
 0Melvin P Feltersnatch - Dreams	/Melvin P Feltersnatch/002.txt

gopher/log/intro.gophermap

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-RS001 Log Entries:
+RS001 Log Entries (Newest First):
 

gopher/ships/ship/gophermap

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 fi
 
 printf "%s - Ship Log\\n" "$ship"
-sed "s|^0||" /var/gopher/listing.gophermap | awk -v tot="$(wc -l /var/gopher/listing.gophermap)" '{print 0 int(tot)-NR+1 " >> " $0}' | grep "^.*>>\\ ${ship}"
+tac "/var/gopher/listing.gophermap" | sed "s|^0||" | awk '{print 0 NR " >> " $0}' | grep "^.*>>\\ ${ship}"