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+Hello there! Can you hear me? I know you
+can... There's a reason I came back to
+QEC...
+
+So I'm en route to Tausa III for the 4
+month long trading trip. The system is
+on the edge of the galaxy, at the tip of
+the Perseus Arm. The ship is preparing
+for the next jump just a few hundred
+parsecs away from destination.  It's
+quiet, motionless here.. well, except
+the humming of the ship's drive. Stars
+are scarce and dim here at the edge. But
+the disk-shaped galaxy itself are
+magnificent!
+
+As there haven't been much going on,
+except the bureaucratic reports back to
+the Trade Union, I have fully indulged
+myself into Info Archaeology, one of my
+many hobbies, to dig up a little about
+this queer sub-routine called the
+Quantum Entanglement Communicator, or
+QEC. 
+
+And I'm surprised that there's a lot
+about it than what it appeared to be.
+
+So I found this sub-routine buried deep
+in the info stack, well beneath the
+Ivanova Layer in the ship's comm system.
+It was curious to find any sub-routine
+so isolated from the rest of the ancient
+ones down the Ivanova Layer. In fact, I
+was so intrigued that I went for the
+trouble and cost to do a U-scan in the
+Know-Core for QEC.
+
+The scan cost me 3.9 B.Joule. But it's
+well worth it.
+
+The earliest record of QEC that the Core
+found was in the 22nd century (using
+standard Info Archaeology chronology).
+There were a few documents mentioning
+the term scattered on the
+soon-to-collapse "Internet". The origin
+of the word is unknown, but I strongly
+suspect it was much earlier.
+Nevertheless, the use of the term seems
+to be in the so called "science fiction"
+setting. So I think this is a pure
+coincidence that it has the same name as
+the sub-routine that I'm using to send
+this message.
+
+The first truly relevant record of the
+QEC appeared much later, in the 26th
+century. According to the manifest,
+QEC's fundamental design is similar to
+the μ-Link we use in the present day.
+What's interesting is that QEC's design
+facilitates decentralized,
+low-bandwidth, high-resiliency
+communication. And that sounds a lot
+like the Langston movement which has
+lasted over 600 years now! So maybe
+there's a connection between the two.
+
+And that brings back to my opening of
+this message - I highly suspect that, at
+present day, there are people who still
+use the QEC somewhere! And that
+propelled me to write in it. 
+
+I hope you will receive it. Write back,
+and tell me what do you know about QEC?

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