gopher://cosmic.voyage Messages from the human stellar diaspora alexis@cosmic.voyage (alexis) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Voortrekker/12-headlines-september-5-11-2421.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Voortrekker/12-headlines-september-5-11-2421.txt Tue, 01 Jan 2019 23:45:58 GMT To: Nikolaos Soloviev Delivered-To: Nikolaos Soloviev Received: from qec2.helio.earthsys.gov by qec.sv14417 with ESMTPS id 4D4A053AB9513878 for Received: from relay4.qec1.ganymede.earthsys.gov by qec2.helio.earthsys.gov Received: from relay2.qec6.rs001.l4.earthsys.gov by relay4.qec1.ganymede.earthsys.gov Received: from mta192.sendcast.net by relay1.local.rs001.l4.earthsys.gov Subject: Headlines: September 5-11, 2421 Date: 12 Sep 2421 00:03:21 +0000 Date-Local: 29 Mar 2419 03:27:21 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf8" HEADLINES FOR SEPTEMBER 5 - SEPTEMBER 11, 2421 ⦿ MOON-TITAN TREATY "ABSURD" CLAIMS ANDERS MAXWELL September 5 (UPI) - Former president of Earth, Anders Maxwell, in a September 4 appearance on "This Week Tonight" discounted persistent rumors that the governments of Luna and Titan will soon announce an alliance. "Look," a visibly agitated Maxwell said. "Even if we're going to grant these secessionist, scofflaw regimes the courtesy of being called governments, there is no chance they're going to throw in together. After all the time and effort they spent insisting they owed nothing to Earth and should be allowed to do just as they please regardless of any effect it might have on the mother planet, to imagine that either of them might turn around now and give the other, or anyone, a veto over any action they might choose to take - it's frankly absurd." Maxwell dismissed claims of increased traffic between Titan and Luna as merely economic in nature. "Smuggling, that's what they're doing," Maxwell said. "Dodging the Titan embargo. Well, we'll see about that. I have it on good authority that the General Assembly is considering a bill to extend that embargo to Luna. Let's see how they do when neither of them has any more access to insystem markets, and all they can do is sell to rock-hopping belter scum and those layabout Martian miners." Reached for comment, a spokesman for Public Information noted that Maxwell has recently returned to public life from a five-year term of custodial supervision imposed following his impeachment for peculation, and no longer has any role in government. "We appreciate Mr. Maxwell's prior service, despite its ignoble end," the spokesman said. "His current statements are those of a private individual, and cannot be taken as representative of any position Earth's government may or may not have on this or any other matter." ⦿ MILITARY BUILDUP RUMORS "FALSE" SAYS PUBLIC INFORMATION September 6 (UPI) - In response to rumors of a military buildup ahead of a widely predicted Moon-Titan treaty announcement, a spokeswoman from Earth's Office of Public Information addressed a press conference with this firm statement: "The President has recently become aware of rumors swirling around various in- and out-system bulletins about potential responses to the political situation between Earth, Earth's moon, and the FTL research colony on Titan. "Let me be clear: Rumors of a military buildup are categorically false. We are actively investigating these claims, and expect soon to report that we have identified their origin. In the meantime, our representatives to Earth's moon and the Titan colony have been instructed to communicate to their counterparts our most sincere wishes for continued peaceful relations." The spokeswoman declined to entertain questions. ⦿ MARTIAN STRIKE ENTERS MONTH 4; "STRONG MEASURES" SAYS GOVERNOR September 7 (MNN) - Today begins the fourth month of the Martian mining guilds' general strike, with no sign of substantive concessions from either side. Martian governor Reinhard Ritter, backed by a squad of armed guards, made an appearance outside Red Rock Guild headquarters to warn guild leaders that they are "risking strong measures" unless they resolve to come to the negotiating table very soon. "The Martian Trust has listened in the past to your legitimate concerns, and we will do so again," Governor Ritter said in a prepared statement. "We understand that a degree of give and take is necessary for a productive working relationship. However, we will not forever tolerate work stoppages, sabotage, and other undisciplined manifestations of directionless unrest. I beseech you: Do not make it necessary for the Trust to investigate options beyond amicable resolution." A representative of the Red Rock Guild responded, in a statement directly to Mars Newsnet, that Governor Ritter's claims amount to "a self-serving denial of the lethally dangerous working conditions, and the lack of medical and economic support for the hard-working Martian labor force, which have driven us to take these measures in defense of our lives and our loved ones." Asked for comment on these statements, the Martian Trust headquarters in Chicago said only that they have complete confidence in Governor Ritter's ability to "effectively resolve" the situation, and that the governor has the full support of the Martian Trust. Shortly before press time, a self-described spokesperson for Ceres Hollow sent a recorded statement which, as far as could be understood, expressed strong support for the Martian guilds' position, and threatened "dire consequences" should the Martian Trust resort to coercion. Reached for brief comment on the retaliatory claim, retired wing general and military analyst Nathan Coopersmith described it as "nonsense". ⦿ GREEN GANYMEDE "SEVERELY IMPACTED" BY JOVIAN WEATHER EXTREMES September 7 (UPI) - In the latest blow to the prospects of the Green Ganymede Project, radiation flares produced by fluctuations in Jupiter's upper cloud layers have "severely impacted" the viability of the project's pilot farm domes. "We're still working to understand the full extent of the damage," the project's engineering head said today. "It will take some time to be certain, but at this point we're not confident that any of this season's crops will survive. We're already seeing germline mutations and outright inviability of some specimens across all our species, including the radiation-hardened cultivars." The joint project between Earth and Earth's moon has seen a number of setbacks over recent months. This is the seventh crop failure in the project's two years of operation, and commentators across the inner planets have suggested that farming on Ganymede may prove fundamentally unworkable. Supporters argue that not enough time has passed to make any final determination possible, and a spokesman for the External Resource Administration said that Earth's position in the project will not change as a result of this latest bad news. "We have identified the largest single cause of Earth's resource crisis as the investment of resources in outer system colonies," the spokesman said in a prepared statement. "The Green Ganymede Project offers a real prospect of redressing this imbalance by enabling the outer system to return some measure of those resources and help speed Earth's recovery. We will work to ensure the project succeeds in every way we can." In after-hours trading today, Archer DuPont Monsanto stock dropped over three percent on the news. ⦿ FERTILITY SOCIETY: 2421 "WELL BELOW EXPECTATIONS" SO FAR September 8 (UPI) - The Fertility Society of Earth today reported that total births thus far across the planet are less than half the society's target projection for the year to date. Analysts say this tracks with the general birthrate trend over the last fifty years, but the Society strikes a cautionary note: "As Earth's economy, climate, and biosphere continue to recover in accord with government projections," said a Fertility Society spokeswoman, "it is disappointing that our citizens' birth rates continue to lag behind. Sustaining and expanding our current growth requires that we produce a sufficient labor and tax base to do the work that lies ahead. If we will not make the necessary sacrifices, we cannot expect to maintain the preeminence throughout the system that humanity's cradle deserves." Shortly before press time, the Internal Resource Administration released this prepared statement: "In line with economic goals for 2422 and the first half of this decade more generally, next year's individual responsibility surcharge will increase by 25% for citizens filing singly and 15% for members of married couples filing jointly. An increase to family subsidy refunds is currently under consideration. As always, we remind the populace of Earth that the surest way to prosperity, for each of us and all together, is a large and healthy family." ⦿ WYOMING RIOTS "FALSE REPORTING" SAYS POPULATION ADMINISTRATION September 8 (UPI) - A spokesman for the Population Administration's Landmass Optimization Office stated today that recent claims of rioting among newly rehoused residents of the Wyoming New Prospects Facility are "false reporting". "While some isolated incidents have occurred among members of the August and September intake classes, these incidents are just that: isolated. The recent claims by fringe commentators of a general outbreak of violence contain no truth whatsoever, and such false reporting only imperils the vitally important goals of the optimization project as a whole. Our targeted intervention teams are as always prepared to ensure the safety and security of all residents both within the New Prospects Facility and outside it," the spokesman said in a prepared statement. When asked about reports of ongoing resource shortfalls among private contractors tasked with supplying subsistence supplies and agricultural equipment to the facility, the spokesman declined to confirm or deny, stating that federal privilege applies to all information about contract negotiations in progress. ⦿ ROSS 128 VENTURES DENIES CRASH CLAIMS: "PREPOSTEROUS" September 9 (Investors Daily) - At a press conference this morning, Koenraad Gertodtenhaupt, a senior vice president of Ross 128 Ventures, LLC, stated firmly that there is no truth in recent Lunar claims of a colony ship crash. The ship in question is 'Voortrekker', a prototype torch ship which for the last 25 years has been en route to the nearby star Ross 128. For the past several weeks, various sources close to the Lunar government have claimed that 'Voortrekker' did not, in fact, recently land on its target planet, but instead crashed there with the loss of much of its crew. In a brief statement at the entrance of the historic Chrysler Building, where the Ross 128 firm has its offices, Gertodtenhaupt said: "The board of Ross 128 Ventures wishes most firmly to dissuade these rumors regarding our friends aboard Voortrekker. The ship made planetfall just over a month ago, and her former crew are hard at work in the early stages of developing one of the first permanent human habitations outside Earth's own solar system." "We are in regular QEC contact with our friends at Ross 128," Gertodtenhaupt continued. "at all levels up to and including Nick Soloviev, the chairman of Voortrekker's own board. Nothing we have heard inclines us to confirm the dangerous and irresponsible rumors spread by sources on Earth's moon who should know better than to claim such falsehoods are true news. Such actions can only complicate the colonists' work, and strike fear into the hearts of their families and loved ones back home." Gertodtenhaupt took no questions before reentering the building. ⦿ SYSTEMWIDE WAGNER REVIVAL "SUSPENDED" AMID ASSAULT CLAIMS September 10 (UPI) - In the wake of sexual malconduct allegations made against conductor Watanabe Fezile by several musicians now under his baton, the Three Planets Reinforced Symphony announced today that their interplanetary tour is "suspended", with Watanabe and his accusers recalled to Earth for talks potentially leading to arbitration of the claims. "We regret the necessity of this action," said a spokesman for the Three Planets board. "We must, however, treat these claims with utmost gravity, and we're sure our audiences will understand." 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By acting in any way on the basis of or in relation to Market Watch content, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless Universe Today, Inc., as well as any and all sponsors and content providers from any claim, suit, action, tort, or liability arising from such use. ⦿ IN SPORT (Various network services) - Olowokandi, Prakash, Davidova "favorites" in Wings Tourney Claims of racism swirl around proposed belter exclusion - Rocket League semifinals conclude with two-week Mercury heat "Exhilarating", one surviving competitor says - Legacy football doping claims prompt new investigation Latest augmentation challenge thrown out by Rules Committee - 6 dead, 19 hurt after network jammers make hash of 97th Manx TT Douglas fires reported "mostly contained"; drones banned - Venus aerobrake stunt succeeds: pilot Espinoza honored, arrested Pallas Commune demands extradition, pays out 12 to 1 - Ironman Lunar Triathlon transition area snaps: "shocking" Organizers: "How do you even do that in a pressure suit?" - Ganymede Polar Bear Swim postponed for 36th consecutive year Afterparties proceed as planned ⦿ QUOTE FOR THE WEEK "War is fear cloaked in courage." - William Westmoreland To update your content preferences, message HELP to headlines@universe.today. ]]> tomasino@cosmic.voyage (tomasino) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Melvin P Feltersnatch/002.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Melvin P Feltersnatch/002.txt Tue, 01 Jan 2019 20:31:21 GMT yam655@cosmic.voyage (yam655) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Liberty Eagle/Interaction-101a.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Liberty Eagle/Interaction-101a.txt Sun, 30 Dec 2018 18:42:59 GMT government on has been overthrown by now. To be very clear, we're a forced immigration vessel fully composed of the poor and indigent. The government cut their water rations and only gave them access to specially produced foodstuffs that utilized the simple sugar in the tardigrade. This meant that humans could be dried out and kept in dry storage. Need a place to house the homeless? The government used warehouses without temperature control. They were also always without power during peak power usage periods. You can't do that with cold storage. It means our settler population to energy consuption rate is radically different to a lot of ships out here. Well, I guess they're potential settlers right now. The public was sold a 60% survval rate for those who dried on the streets. According to our gear-to-settler cargo, though, I'm guessing someone was thinking closer to a 30% survival rate. Our ship is equipped with the medbay nanobots, and the research indicates they help. The security precautions on them cause them to self-distruct pretty easily, though, so we'll see if any survive to the planet. I can't comment on whether they've helped reduce the mortality of the crew so far. That's a different matter, though. We are not the only vessel of this type. We were most definitely not the first. They've been storing folks for decades. The legal system is complex, and if you are targetted by the police, they can find a crime you've committed. They don't have to make the charges up, because the laws are written so that most people have already committed the crimes. It's just a matter of making it official. Most crimes are considered "minor" and this allows the voting population to feel safe by how few major crimes occur. All minor crimes result a "slap on the wrist," a 0.3% fine, and you're back out the door, only needing to inform your boss and landlord of your crime. Of course, most jobs and leases have clauses allowing termination for criminal behavior. This also means there are a lot of little check-boxes asking if you've been convicted of any crime. Nobody is legally required to give a criminal either housing or a job, and generally nobody does either one. After all, the government makes sure that everyone has access to plenty of food, so there's no need to take pity those that choose to be criminals. This results in people drying out in the streets, then being swept up and stored in warehouses. This worked well, until 40 years before launch when activists started asking for people to be revived. Those that dried on the streets had no right to be revived, but we used to actually have jails and low security prisons. Those were cleared out when Chlorizo was still in office. She dried them all out and moved them to storage facilities. There was a huge tax refund that year due to the savings and her popularity was at a peak, though it was later that year that her administration fell apart. We had been told that dry-storage jail time mapped to live-storage jail time at a 90% penalty due to the lack of aging. A person with a one-year sentance in live-jail would be gone 10 years in dry-jail, but reappear having not aged a day. This was supposed to prevent recidivism as it separates them from any bad-influence by years. The idea was easily sold to the public. The problem was the government never revived anyone. It didn't take long before folks were saying the technology was flawed and that the rate of revival for those drying in the streets was a lot less than they advertised. We knew it mostly worked in controlled environments. My sister and I wanted data to expose the issue. We'd each suffered our own tragedies and only really had each other. The cause helped keep us focused and prevented us from dwelling on our past. Once we were inside and found out what was going on, we knew the only way to be safe from the administration was to let folks know from out here. What neither my sister nor I fully appreciated at the time was that from the administration's perspective, it never mattered if we reached our destination. They didn't want to colonize other planets, they just wanted folks to die somewhere else. We will be lucky if any of the ships from ever successfully complete their mission. We were just one of the five shift missions, quick compared to some, and within the first two shifts our ship was almost lost. I've been working my butt off to try to share this with folks. I know Molly couldn't get it done during her shift. That's a whole other mess, though. The message is out now. I hope you see this on the surface, sis. I miss you. So there you go, . President and his party was in power when we left. President and their party were in power when they started designing the ships, and the discredited President Chlorizo and her party were in power when they started the Homeless Storage Sugar program. It isn't a one-party issue. It isn't a one President issue, as all three parties have had multiple terms in office since Chlorizo started things up 60 years before launch. Maybe if things were caught during President Chlorizo's term charges could have been filed. Every one of the major political parties are implicated. At this point the government just needs overthrown. Not "brought up on charges." They've already fixed the laws and nothing they did was "illegal." The entire government needs overthrown. Preferably executed. -- Your pal, Sal -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= If the QEC audience has any other questions for Sal or another member of the crew, please let us know! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ]]> yam655@cosmic.voyage (yam655) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Liberty Eagle/Episode-101.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Liberty Eagle/Episode-101.txt Mon, 31 Dec 2018 04:46:37 GMT tomasino@cosmic.voyage (tomasino) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Melchizedek/010.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Melchizedek/010.txt Sun, 30 Dec 2018 04:55:30 GMT alexis@cosmic.voyage (alexis) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Voortrekker/11-its-not-like-wed-have-loved.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Voortrekker/11-its-not-like-wed-have-loved.txt Fri, 28 Dec 2018 18:46:10 GMT sam To: anine (Amelia Nine) To: sam (Sameen Lee) Delivered-To: Sameen Lee Received: from relay3.qec7.rs001.l4.earthsys.gov by mta1.recoveryinstitute.org with ESMTPS id CACAEDA29A5ECB for Received: from relay2.qec5.ganymede.earthsys.gov by relay3.qec7.rs001.l4.earthsys.gov Received: from host3.qechat.earthsys.gov by relay2.qec5.ganymede.earthsys.gov Date-Local: 06 Sep 2421 19:22:07 +0000 Date: 06 Sep 2421 19:22:07 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf8" Subject: Chat Log anine <-> sam [18:39] anine: hey sam: hey! sam: how's it going out there? haven't heard from you anine: been super busy! finally settled down a little anine: we heard back from gliese, not as bad as we thought anine: all still concerned over ross but watch & wait seems to be the plan anine: anyway, not what we're here for, i'm glad you heard from kit! [18:02] sam: me too! anine: and i'm glad you answered her. if you want to know what i think, you waited longer than you should've to do that. sam: you're right. sam: i hope you don't mind i sent your love too anine: no! Not at all anine: i would've asked you to already but i wasn't sure if [18:03] anine: i mean it's been so long, i wasn't sure sam: come on, you know kit, she can't have changed THAT much anine: yeah but i always thought, you know anine: eh, forget it [18:04] sam: what anine: no it's nothing sam: no it's not. sam: talk to me [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 [18:09] sam: your idea or hers? [18:10] anine: hers anine: you know i'd never have suggested it sam: me either anine: and she really tried anine: she tried sO HARD [18:11] anine: but she coudlnt anine: couldnt stand it, i made her stop anine: i could see it was killing her but she wouldnt stop until she had a panic attack anine: even aftert hat she wanted to try again [18:12] anine: i wouldnt let her anine: we both felt terrible about it anine: but then i went and got married anyway anine: because anine: it was easier that way, i could deal better than she could and it did solve a lot of problems for me [18:13] sam: the same ones she had anine: yes anine: and wouldnt so lve [18:14] anine: I mean if she'd just go to therapy anine: it's not like we'd have loved her any less sam: no sam: but she wouldnt have wanted to be with us after that sam: and you know wjy she wouldnt do it anyway [18:15] anine: yes anine: she wouldn't compromise the way i ddi anine: did* anine: she held on to herself in a way i couldnt anine: and god knows i HATED her for that [18:16] anine: for a long time anine: i mean she had it so much worse than me and she just anine: WOULDNT anine: i mean anine: she made me feel like [18:17] sam: you felt like a coward [18:18] anine: yeah anine: that she could deal and i couldnt [18:19] anine: and then she joined voortrekker and that was even worse anine: here she was, ready to go to another STAR STYSTEM anine: because maybe there it'd be better anine: and i mean [18:20] anine: we had such a hard time selling the no kids requirement anine: i think that was as much as anything what decided her anine: and, i don't know [18:21] anine: i just never felt like i could face her after all that [18:22] sam: so that's why you didn't come see us before she left anine: between that and the fight anine: yeah [18:24] sam: look, i'm not supposed to tell you this, okay sam: but you need to hear it [18:25] sam: the last night kit was here before she went to join the ship sam: we stayed up all night talking sam: and that came up anine: oh shit anine: oh no [18:26] sam: NO sam: stop sam: listen sam: you know what she said? sam: she said she wished she was as brave as you [18:27] anine: what sam: YES sam: she didn't see it as you making a cowardly compromise sam: i know that's how YOU see it sam: but that's wrong sam: and kit KNEW that was wrong sam: you did what you had to do [18:28] sam: to have the best life you could with this bullshit government youre stucck with sam: kit respected that sam: and she wished you'd decided to come sam: so she could tell you she was sorry she couldn't help you [18:29] anine: on bulslhiy anine: l anine: loko i appreciate you tryign anine: to make me feel better but anine: come on we both know thats bullshit [18:30] sam: Dry your eyes and think a minute. sam: You know me better than that. [18:32] anine: Yeah. [18:33] anine: I'm sorry. sam: nothing to apologize for [18:34] sam: im sorry i didn't tell you before. sam: if i'd known you felt this way about it sam: but i shouldve told you. sam: i'm sorry. [18:35] anine: its ok anine: i need a minute anine: brb [18:49] anine: you here? sam: still here. anine: look ive got a bunch of leave saved up sam: you've got some leave right? sam: haha anine: YES haha [18:50] anine: so like i said things have settled down around here anine: why dont i come see you before next friday sam: can you get away? anine: yea theres a luna shuttle leaving night after next anine: ive been "mentioning" im going to stop on luna after i rotate out [18:51] anine: to see what i can find out unofficially about the gliese mission sam: makes sense, ill tap my contacts over at the extrasolar office sam: maybe get you something to take back, save you some time sam: at least let them know youre coming [18:52] anine: ok sam: its a good excuse anine: haha yea anine: even with joseph anine: hes mad anyway with all the work lately [18:53] sam: not going to cause more problems? anine: than i already have? maybe anine: but you'll make me feel better about them anine: wont you sam: you know i'll do my best [18:54] anine: your best is mighty good, lover sam: pas devant le CQE, ma cherie! anine: haha ok ok [18:55] sam: save it for when you're here. anine: oui, madame! [18:56] sam: i wish i didn't sam: but i do still have some work left today anine: i'll leave you to it, then. anine: you'll tell me if you hear more from kit? sam: of course sam: i can tell her you want to hear from her [18:58] anine: not yet i think sam: okay sam: let me know when you're ready [18:59] anine: thank you! sam: de rien. anine: and [19:00] anine: send her my love? sam: of course. [19:01] anine: off to go break the news anine: and be properly apologetic. sam: good luck! anine: i'll be thinking of you! [anine: Quit: it really does help..] [sam: Quit: ] ]]> ols@cosmic.voyage (ols) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Skibug/001.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Skibug/001.txt Fri, 28 Dec 2018 15:59:29 GMT SOURCE Skibug.c9 TRMSN 1546012756 MODE bcast QEC The good aboard the Skibug reach out as allies Communication is not easy Please let us know someone is out there <---[ END SEMPITERNITY SIGNED TRANSMISSION ]---> ]]> ryumin@cosmic.voyage (ryumin) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Persephone Prime/la003.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Persephone Prime/la003.txt Fri, 28 Dec 2018 13:31:07 GMT jan6@cosmic.voyage (jan6) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/6a616e36/0-99.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/6a616e36/0-99.txt Thu, 27 Dec 2018 23:14:49 GMT aewens@cosmic.voyage (aewens) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Dekaoso Prime/0001.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Dekaoso Prime/0001.txt Thu, 27 Dec 2018 20:06:31 GMT morsecodemedia@cosmic.voyage (morsecodemedia) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Razarac/001-we-are-alive-holy-seashells-we-are-alive.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Razarac/001-we-are-alive-holy-seashells-we-are-alive.txt Thu, 27 Dec 2018 19:10:14 GMT solderpunk@cosmic.voyage (solderpunk) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Shin-Salyut 6/02-station-tour.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Shin-Salyut 6/02-station-tour.txt Thu, 27 Dec 2018 15:31:27 GMT aewens@cosmic.voyage (aewens) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Tom/0002.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Tom/0002.txt Wed, 26 Dec 2018 15:21:10 GMT alexis@cosmic.voyage (alexis) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Voortrekker/10-re-fw-re-not-alone.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Voortrekker/10-re-fw-re-not-alone.txt Tue, 25 Dec 2018 13:15:06 GMT To: Amelia Nine Delivered-To: Amelia Nine Subject: Re: Fw: Re: Not alone! Received: from relay11.qec2.ganymede.earthsys.gov by mta4.expeditionsupport.gov with ESMTPS id 7D3B7EFA7D82 for Received: from relay1.qec4.rs001.l4.earthsys.gov by relay11.qec2.ganymede.earthsys.gov Received: from mta1.recoveryinstitute.org by relay2.local.rs001.l4.earthsys.gov Date-Local: 06 Sep 2421 15:42:31 +0000 Date: 06 Sep 2421 15:42:31 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf8" Sure! Just finishing up the day right now. Give me a couple hours? ------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sameen Lee To: Amelia Nine Date: Monday, September 6, 2421 3:32pm Subject: Fw: Re: Not alone! You got Kit's latest - here's my answer. Want to chat? ------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sameen Lee To: Chris Maldonado Date: Monday, September 6, 2421 2:51pm Subject: Re: Not alone! (I hope you get this OK. I know there's some kind of information control going on out there. Whoever's in charge of it, I hope they decide to let this through...) Of course I want to hear from you, Kit! Of course I do. And I'm sorry I haven't sent you anything before now. I was so, so glad when I heard you made it through okay! But I was scared you might still be angry with me, too. I didn't make it easy for you, back before you left. You were right to blame me for that. I thought you might not be feeling quite yourself when you sent that first message. I didn't want to use that to put you in a false position. I'm sorry for that. But, yes! I want to hear from you. I want more than that. I want to be with you! I wanted to come with you when you left. I couldn't and I hated myself for that. I knew you needed to go. I didn't want you to. And I made it hard for you because I couldn't deal with that. I still don't know how. But talking with you, even this way, makes it a little easier. I hope that doesn't make it harder for you. And I'd love to know more about what it's like out there, too. Anything you want to tell me. It sounds very strange. Your legs - your new legs? What is that even like? What else changed? I can guess from some of the things you said, but I don't want to guess. I want you to tell me. Will you do that? It's okay if you won't. Whatever you do want to tell me, I want to know! I'll hope to hear from you soon. It might be a little while before I can write more to you. Things are very busy here lately and it looks like they'll keep getting more so. But as soon as I can. I'm sorry if it takes me a while. But please don't worry if it does. Amelia sends her love, and her hopes that we can all be together again some day. It'll be a long wait. But she misses you and she knows you're worth waiting for. I do, too. I know it's hard for everyone there, and I know how you get when there's work you need to do. But you've been through a lot, you know. As much as you can, take care of yourself and get your strength back. I don't want to get out there to find you've wasted away to a shadow of your proper self! That will make me very cross. Until next time, Amelia sends her love, and so do I. - Sam ]]> kensanata@cosmic.voyage (kensanata) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Hoffnung/015.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Hoffnung/015.txt Sun, 09 Dec 2018 00:00:43 GMT cmccabe@cosmic.voyage (cmccabe) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Minnow/x001ma-3s.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Minnow/x001ma-3s.txt Mon, 24 Dec 2018 19:17:09 GMT tomasino@cosmic.voyage (tomasino) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Melchizedek/009.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Melchizedek/009.txt Mon, 24 Dec 2018 05:48:46 GMT khuxkm@cosmic.voyage (khuxkm) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Excelsior/005.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Excelsior/005.txt Mon, 24 Dec 2018 03:59:43 GMT tomasino@cosmic.voyage (tomasino) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Oleander/003-sister-mariam.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Oleander/003-sister-mariam.txt Mon, 24 Dec 2018 03:34:33 GMT fosslinux@cosmic.voyage (fosslinux) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Nemesis/003-automated-report.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Nemesis/003-automated-report.txt Sun, 23 Dec 2018 07:14:02 GMT fosslinux@cosmic.voyage (fosslinux) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Nemesis/002-mayday.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Nemesis/002-mayday.txt Sun, 23 Dec 2018 07:00:51 GMT kensanata@cosmic.voyage (kensanata) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Hoffnung/014.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Hoffnung/014.txt Sat, 08 Dec 2018 23:50:57 GMT kirch@cosmic.voyage (kirch) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/The Steel Lady/historical_log.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/The Steel Lady/historical_log.txt Sat, 22 Dec 2018 15:11:46 GMT aewens@cosmic.voyage (aewens) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Tom/0001.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Tom/0001.txt Thu, 20 Dec 2018 16:18:33 GMT demosthenes@cosmic.voyage (demosthenes) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/adrestia/dilation.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/adrestia/dilation.txt Thu, 20 Dec 2018 04:55:40 GMT tomasino@cosmic.voyage (tomasino) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Melvin P Feltersnatch/001.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Melvin P Feltersnatch/001.txt Thu, 20 Dec 2018 03:57:16 GMT fosslinux@cosmic.voyage (fosslinux) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Nemesis/001-mapping.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Nemesis/001-mapping.txt Thu, 20 Dec 2018 03:54:51 GMT tfurrows@cosmic.voyage (tfurrows) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Xero Carbon Wells/log3.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Xero Carbon Wells/log3.txt Wed, 19 Dec 2018 19:21:20 GMT alexis@cosmic.voyage (alexis) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Voortrekker/9-not-alone.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Voortrekker/9-not-alone.txt Mon, 17 Dec 2018 22:56:57 GMT To: Sameen Lee Delivered-To: Sameen Lee Received: from relay7.qec1.rs001.l4.earthsys.gov by mta1.recoveryinstitute.org with ESMTPS id x124so177123a067 for Received: from relay3.qec2.ganymede.earthsys.gov by relay7.qec1.rs001.l4.earthsys.gov Received: from qec8.helio.earthsys.gov by relay3.qec2.ganymede.earthsys.gov Received: from qec.sv14417 by qec8.helio.earthsys.gov Date-Local: 23 Mar 2419 14:21:02 +0000 Date: 06 Sep 2421 12:57:02 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf8" Subject: Not alone! You always did say I didn't have much common sense, Sam. You'd be laughing yourself silly at me right now! You will be. Here, let me tell you about it. After I sent that last message, I wasn't sure what to do or where to go. I wanted to find out whether or not anyone else had made it, but I was scared to go out of Main Control - scared to let anyone else see me, really. I didn't know what they'd think, if they'd be afraid of me. If anyone was left to be afraid of anything. Also, I fell out of the chair trying to get up. So even if I did go out, it'd be hard to get anywhere - I didn't remember any of the lifts working, and there were a lot of ladders between me and anywhere I'd want to go, and if I couldn't navigate a mostly flat deck, what was I going to do to myself if I tried a ladder? Fall and break my head open, I figured. So I stayed where I was. For a little while, I told myself. Just until I was able to get around better. One thing about the length of Ross's solar day, it really messes with your sense of time. You live on Earth all your life, and you get used to a certain cadence of sunrises and sunsets. Extend it by a factor of almost three, and after a while your circadian rhythm just throws up its hands and goes off to sulk in a corner of your head. Sure, we trained for it aboard ship, prior to landing, but it's amazing how much that didn't actually help, you know? Somehow you can just feel that ship's lighting isn't real, isn't quite the same, and it doesn't get right down into you the same way. Besides, I had enough else on my mind. A little while after I sent you that last message, I found myself suddenly ravenous! No surprise, I think, considering how long I'd been out and hadn't had anything, and how extensively active my metabolism must've been throughout, to make the changes I found when I woke up. Lucky for me, nobody'd found time to raid the ration lockers in Main Control. So I did, and very thoroughly - for the first third of a sol after I talked to you last, eating and sleeping was about all I could think about doing. That, and trying to get up on - well, call them my 'feet' for the sake of talking about them, although they're not really that. I don't really think I can explain how strange it was at first. Maybe it helps to say that - assuming you're still basically the same shape you were when I left - the closest analogue your body offers to my new limbs of locomotion is your tongue. But it's not a very close analogue! They're not squishy like a tongue, or damp. Kind of scaly, but that makes sense, considering; ordinary skin doesn't really have the stretch, and my best guess is that the integument that's replaced it is much more heavily collagenous. I'll have to biopsy myself at some point and see if I'm right about that. Anyway, it took me most of a sol, and a lot of false starts, to get to a point where I could 'walk' mostly all the way across Main Control without falling over or holding on to something the whole way. 'Walk' isn't really the word, though. I used one of the comm cameras to get a look at my gait from the outside, and it's a lot more - undulatory - than it used to be. Have you seen those old educational videos, from back when the oceans were still mostly alive, where they'd show an octopus walking across the seafloor on its tentacles? Honestly, it's every bit as weird as it sounds. But I'm getting used to it pretty fast, now that I'm actually able to use them in a way that isn't totally embarrassing, and I'm starting to think they might be able to do a lot more than legs and feet ever could. That'll be a while yet, though. Anyway, that's what I was doing - practicing 'walking', and trying to get a better sense of how to not fall over - when I found out I'm not the only one who survived after all. With how much concentration it still takes to stay up on my new legs, I don't know why I didn't fall over when I heard the hatch iris open! If I'd had to turn to look, I'm sure I would have. But it wasn't a main hatch, just the starboard-forward emergency access, and it was right in front of me, and I just sort of froze and waited to see who'd come through. Turned out, it was Jen from engineering. You know, with the red hair? I'm sure I talked about her before - we spent some time together on the trip. I wish you could've seen her face! A perfect picture of shocked surprise. And I don't guess I blame her, really - I've seen myself, remember, with the comm camera, and I have to admit, I'm something of a sight these days. Especially since the only thing I had to wear was that silly gown, remember, that I woke up in, and I hadn't bothered to put it back on after it fell off. Why bother, really? Well, I might've been less of a surprise to Jen if I had, anyway! And I was pretty shocked, too. I hadn't known anyone was still alive at all! Certainly anyone I'd been close to. But mainly I just...I just wanted to hide. I mean, I'm a little embarrassed about it now, but at the time it made sense. You kind of think about how a moment like that might go, you know? How you'll make your long and painstaking way down the ladders from Main Control to one of the decks where you can get access outside, or at least expect to find people, and when you get there, you'll see someone, or they'll see you, and there'll be that moment of recognition where they realize you're still alive, and...oh, I don't know. But whatever it is, it isn't being suddenly surprised by a former lover while you're stumbling around Main Control, mother naked, on four thick tentacles instead of the two standard-issue human legs you were born with. Of course I was struck all in a heap! And of course so was Jen, poor thing. She stared me in the face for what felt like half a minute, her eyes and mouth as round with shock as mine must've been. She looked like she was about to say something, but before she did, she looked down and saw the rest of me - all the rest of me, as I am now - and... You never got a chance to meet Jen before we left, I don't think. A shame - you'd have liked her a lot. Will like her a lot, if you join the third expedition and come out here with us. She's one in a million - I mean, what would you expect, in a situation like that? A scream, right? Or a gasp of horrified shock, panicky flight, something like that, right? Not Jen. She took her time about looking me up and down, and then looked me in the eye again. She looked she was about to say something, but before she did, she started giggling, and then laughing. I could feel my cheeks get hot, and I put my hands on my hips and got ready to say something sharp, but before I could think of it, she was hanging on to the access ladder with one hand, leaning on the deck with the other, and just cackling helplessly - and before I knew it, I was laughing too, hard enough that I barely remembered how to sit down before I fell over again. And we just stayed like that for a minute, cracking each other up in the weirdest way, and it just felt right somehow. Like I'd been waiting for that moment, that laugh, ever since I came to from the coma. I don't know, does that make sense? I'm not sure it does, but right then it made more sense than anything that'd happened since we crashed. And then she asked me what a girl like me was doing in a nice place like this. That's Jen - jokes five hundred years stale, but she makes up for it other ways. And it's apropos, anyway. But the important part is, it turns out no one actually died! The people we thought were dead were in deep coma like me, I guess so far down their pulse and respiration weren't perceptible - either that, or those of us still up were so far out of it, between fever and exhaustion, that we couldn't tell the difference. I wouldn't care to guess either way, honestly. From what Jen tells me, we still have about sixty in coma - everyone else is at least awake, if not yet up and doing. And even more - I'm not the only one who changed! There's about two dozen more like me, Jen says. Well, more or less like me, anyway - no one's really made a detailed study of us yet, but apparently the tentacles are reliably always there, if not all the other changes. And now I have another reason to get better on my new feet - once I'm out of here and back with everyone, I can start getting some idea of how we've changed and what the similarities are, and why, and - oh, there's just such a lot to learn here! I will say, I'd have thought people who didn't change would have a hard time getting used to those of us who have, but Jen says no, that people do naturally think it's a little weird, or unusual, or at least unexpected, but nobody seems to have a problem, particularly. Jen says there were a couple of people who might have, but Director Soloviev - I hadn't known he'd made it through the crash, but apprently so - he's made it clear that, as far as he and the remaining board are concerned, we're still the same people, and if we happen to be physically different now from how we were before, he doesn't see why that should make a difference in how anyone sees us or treats us, including ourselves. That we have enough problems just picking up the pieces of our expedition, and we don't need to give each other more on top of that. I wouldn't have expected anything of the sort from him, but I guess almost dying twice over must have an effect on everybody, and maybe this is the effect it's had on him. I asked Jen if she'd help me out one of the main hatches, but she says none of the lifts are working, and neither of us likes the idea of trying to get me down all the ladders between here and outside, not before I get myself figured out enough to manage better. For that matter, neither of us can figure out how anyone got me up those ladders in the first place! But she did stay with me a while, once she'd got done the work that'd brought her here, and help me get a little more used to the changes. Got under my arm and had me lean on her while she walked me around the deck, but that didn't last long - too much of a workout, I started getting something like runner's cramps. Only worse, and twice as many! But Jen's really nice - I said you'd like her - and she helped me down, then had me stretch out my 'legs' so she could work some of the knots out. She's got strong hands, too. It was really nice. And she's coming back tomorrow - next Earth day, not next sol - to see me again, and help me get more familiar with myself. Pretty soon I'll be back with everyone and ready to help make a proper home out of what we've got left from the crash. Look, Sam, about what I said before. Not that I didn't mean every word, but...I'm sorry if I opened an old wound, or stirred up something you'd rather have let lie. Please understand, I was alone and afraid and not really feeling quite right, and I didn't know quite what to say, so...I guess I said what I was feeling, and I haven't stopped feeling that way but I hope you're not mad with me for saying it. I do miss you, and I never did stop loving you, and I do hope you'll join the third expedition, or find a quicker way, and come find me here. Come join us here. I think you'd like it here. But if you don't want to hear any more from me, about that or about anything, that's okay too. I'll stop if you say so. But, regardless, I'd like to hear from you. Please? ]]> kensanata@cosmic.voyage (kensanata) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Hoffnung/013.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Hoffnung/013.txt Sat, 08 Dec 2018 12:56:43 GMT aewens@cosmic.voyage (aewens) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Malkonkordo/0006.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Malkonkordo/0006.txt Mon, 17 Dec 2018 20:56:16 GMT tomasino@cosmic.voyage (tomasino) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Oleander/002-sister-hajar.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Oleander/002-sister-hajar.txt Mon, 17 Dec 2018 04:35:11 GMT khuxkm@cosmic.voyage (khuxkm) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Excelsior/004.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Excelsior/004.txt Sat, 15 Dec 2018 04:21:56 GMT tomasino@cosmic.voyage (tomasino) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Oleander/001.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Oleander/001.txt Fri, 14 Dec 2018 23:34:53 GMT morsecodemedia@cosmic.voyage (morsecodemedia) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Razarac/001-hello-world.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Razarac/001-hello-world.txt Fri, 14 Dec 2018 20:19:29 GMT kensanata@cosmic.voyage (kensanata) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Hoffnung/012.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Hoffnung/012.txt Sat, 08 Dec 2018 12:51:50 GMT tomasino@cosmic.voyage (tomasino) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Melchizedek/008.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Melchizedek/008.txt Wed, 12 Dec 2018 03:54:40 GMT aureolin@cosmic.voyage (aureolin) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Murmur Den/no_culture_perfectly_one.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Murmur Den/no_culture_perfectly_one.txt Wed, 12 Dec 2018 02:47:01 GMT . . . Scraps upon scraps about recent information is comes question, "World reflection is words/truth: language frozen?" Ignorance! Illusion ugly in its judgments, simulatory advertising! Ignorant shall trust of kompüter! Those of you transmitting in system timeless carried not impulses nor fast love. *** I know that he found a line, an address, and self-denial perfectly cold. Suddenly, in a short pause, the idea was predictably irresistible. Neither certain, dimly to relay experience no fragments, brains relay of/in rhythm the only tendrils, the lures at underscoring_curiosities; nameless began the languages. They relay sorrow, struggling, mind a bit too advanced of carnal talk, another to relay want feelings broken delicate mysterious lives obtained to whispers deep hour relay a rare message: "If green your love pallid, hope permanently alone in earth's drenched edges, cerebral seas rose, the green earth, brain loving memories, mourning the green the many know was relayed, ages obscure, the flame of millions powerless, palpable Earth relics entombed." (Mention unnoticed, but carefully Their free language rasping the pain.) By details, it relayed everything, gilded my reflecting a him: the one(s) you'll regard with a smile. Somebody going still timeless into little dead me. (It's everyone who has been musing hysterically behind the surfaces.) There were concepts to the lovely, perfectly timeless black. I ache; the disappointments light, ache delicate. Looking, universe beauteous suddenly. My face in my cloud: void howling, text silent. || ego-skeleton aureolin ]]> aewens@cosmic.voyage (aewens) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Malkonkordo/0005.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Malkonkordo/0005.txt Mon, 17 Dec 2018 17:52:07 GMT tfurrows@cosmic.voyage (tfurrows) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Xero Carbon Wells/log2.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Xero Carbon Wells/log2.txt Tue, 11 Dec 2018 16:38:42 GMT ryumin@cosmic.voyage (ryumin) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Persephone Prime/lm003.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Persephone Prime/lm003.txt Tue, 11 Dec 2018 07:42:59 GMT khuxkm@cosmic.voyage (khuxkm) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Excelsior/003.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Excelsior/003.txt Mon, 10 Dec 2018 22:22:02 GMT morsecodemedia@cosmic.voyage (morsecodemedia) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Razarac/001-ship-systems.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Razarac/001-ship-systems.txt Tue, 11 Dec 2018 16:15:20 GMT kensanata@cosmic.voyage (kensanata) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Hoffnung/011.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Hoffnung/011.txt Mon, 10 Dec 2018 21:23:02 GMT aewens@cosmic.voyage (aewens) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Malkonkordo/0004.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Malkonkordo/0004.txt Mon, 10 Dec 2018 17:59:42 GMT tfurrows@cosmic.voyage (tfurrows) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Xero Carbon Wells/log1.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Xero Carbon Wells/log1.txt Mon, 10 Dec 2018 16:35:54 GMT solderpunk@cosmic.voyage (solderpunk) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Shin-Salyut 6/01-poyekhali.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Shin-Salyut 6/01-poyekhali.txt Sun, 09 Dec 2018 20:40:04 GMT tomasino@cosmic.voyage (tomasino) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Melchizedek/007.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Melchizedek/007.txt Sun, 09 Dec 2018 02:51:47 GMT kensanata@cosmic.voyage (kensanata) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Hoffnung/010.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Hoffnung/010.txt Sat, 08 Dec 2018 12:49:46 GMT aewens@cosmic.voyage (aewens) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Malkonkordo/0003.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Malkonkordo/0003.txt Sat, 08 Dec 2018 17:21:28 GMT anonpenetfi@cosmic.voyage (anonpenetfi) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/anon.penet.fi/3-beware-the-projection.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/anon.penet.fi/3-beware-the-projection.txt Sat, 08 Dec 2018 14:55:59 GMT tomasino@cosmic.voyage (tomasino) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Starbloom/004.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Starbloom/004.txt Sat, 08 Dec 2018 14:47:18 GMT tomasino@cosmic.voyage (tomasino) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Starbloom/003.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Starbloom/003.txt Sat, 08 Dec 2018 14:33:09 GMT aureolin@cosmic.voyage (aureolin) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Murmur Den/listen_of_the_screens.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Murmur Den/listen_of_the_screens.txt Sat, 08 Dec 2018 07:53:23 GMT Laughing his words, broken but free. || ego-skeleton aureolin ]]> ryumin@cosmic.voyage (ryumin) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Persephone Prime/la002.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Persephone Prime/la002.txt Mon, 10 Dec 2018 07:19:11 GMT khuxkm@cosmic.voyage (khuxkm) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Excelsior/002.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Excelsior/002.txt Sat, 08 Dec 2018 07:45:30 GMT FUEL CONVERSION: GOOD H20 RESERVES: GOOD CRYO SLEEP: WARN [autotranslator on] Corporal Sam Arnold, Systems Administrator --- The Excelsior's cryo-sleep issues seem now to be almost non-existant, no matter what the systems readout is saying up above this message. As far as I can tell, one of the cryo berths appears to have been brought undervolt after an emergency burn was executed by the Excelsior for course correction. It has been fixed as of Beta Delta 23 Epsilon. The overvolt issue, on the other hand, took some more negotiation with the hardware. It has been fixed as of Beta Delta 29 Epsilon. Reading the messages on the QEC, I'm honestly afraid of what I'm reading. To the revolutionaries aboard Hoffnung, I'm honestly sickened by what I read from you. Killing people on a mass scale who have done nothing to attempt to harm you (to the best of the knowledge I can recieve) besides having ideological differences is terrible on so many scales. I cannot condone any kind of behavior like that. To Malkonkordo, I cannot condone a war with the Starbloom Communal Distributive Projection (not that I have any power over you to prevent it). Susan and the others have simply been well-wishers. Even if they may have grossly misrepresented your knowledge, you should not go to war with them, for the same reason that Hoffnung's revolutionaries should not have killed 22 soldiers. Of course, not all of these messages are bad. To Dei Genetrix, may God bless you on your mission and may He see you safely there. To Melchizedek, may you find lasting peace, wherever you may find yourself and your crew. To Pilot Anderson aboard the Cosmic Hummingbird (and I agree that that name is definitely an eccentric one), may your recovery be swift. As for my own mental sanity, I have been developing programs on the Excelsior's powerful mainframe to pass the time. As stated in procedure [REDACTED], I must stay awake for 3 months before going back to sleep. Since I woke up on Beta Delta 21 Epsilon, I must wait until Beta Eta 21 Epsilon before I may re-enter cryosleep. I was hoping that the QEC messages could keep my faith in technology and sentient creatures alive. I was mistaken. Oh, and to the Voortrekker? May all be well with you. However you define "well". :) -- TRANSMISSION END -- ]]> aewens@cosmic.voyage (aewens) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Malkonkordo/0002.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Malkonkordo/0002.txt Sat, 08 Dec 2018 02:56:09 GMT kensanata@cosmic.voyage (kensanata) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Hoffnung/008.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Hoffnung/008.txt Fri, 07 Dec 2018 23:33:04 GMT tomasino@cosmic.voyage (tomasino) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Starbloom/002.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Starbloom/002.txt Fri, 07 Dec 2018 22:40:51 GMT anonpenetfi@cosmic.voyage (anonpenetfi) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/anon.penet.fi/2-vulnerability.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/anon.penet.fi/2-vulnerability.txt Fri, 07 Dec 2018 21:20:29 GMT aewens@cosmic.voyage (aewens) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Malkonkordo/0001.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Malkonkordo/0001.txt Sat, 08 Dec 2018 01:10:22 GMT kensanata@cosmic.voyage (kensanata) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Hoffnung/007.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Hoffnung/007.txt Fri, 07 Dec 2018 13:12:04 GMT alexis@cosmic.voyage (alexis) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Voortrekker/8-get-your-house-in-order.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Voortrekker/8-get-your-house-in-order.txt Fri, 07 Dec 2018 04:20:44 GMT To: Soloviev, Nikolaos Delivered-To: Soloviev, Nikolaos Received: from qec4.helio.earthsys.gov by qec.sv14417 with ESMTPS id sf66xrm9zcgfgi for Received: from relay1.qec5.ganymede.earthsys.gov by qec4.helio.earthsys.gov Received: from relay2.qec1.rs001.l4.earthsys.gov by relay1.qec5.ganymede.earthsys.gov Received: from outbound.exclusiveservices.net by relay9.local.rs001.l4.earthsys.gov Date: 06 Sep 2421 07:47:22 +0000 Date-Local: 23 Mar 2419 11:11:22 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf8" Subject: Get your house in order Kolya. What is going on out there? To your earlier question: I have your reports. I don't see anything in them that excuses such a shocking lack of concern for your fiduciary responsibility to your shareholders and ours. Yes, the circumstances of your landing on Ross 128 b were suboptimal. The ship wasn't meant to crash like that. Allowances have been made...but, speaking in all frankness here, the information we have about the circumstances of that crash itself gives us to question your priorities. And worse. Look, Kolya, I'm sorry to have to say this so plainly. I wouldn't say it at all if you didn't need to know. But our analysts, and those over at the Expedition Support Program, have been over the SCARS data from Voortrekker with a fine-tooth comb, and they are unanimous that it can only be the result of extensive failures in maintenance procedures during the trip. Put simply, the board has begun to question your competence in your role. Put bluntly, they think you went space-happy and got careless, and let your people get careless, and ultimately let seven hundred of them get killed and let the survivors get sick, go nuts, and imperil every last cent of the billions that went into sending you all out there in the first place. They want to replace you. They'd have issued the orders already, except that we haven't heard from your deputy and we don't know who's still alive out there. They're going to hold off until they can be reasonably sure they won't be making things out there still worse by acting. But as soon as they can, Kolya, they'll pull the plug on you. Unless, that is, you get your house in order before then. You've got a little time - but only a little. If you're going to stay on top, you need to use that time wisely. If, when all this shakes out, you can show the board that you've acted in their interests and produced a result that's conducive to their investments successfully maturing, then they'll be as positively disposed to you as they are negatively so now. They don't care who's in charge out there - only that whoever it is looks after their interests. If you can show them you're doing that, then they'll be fine letting you keep your job. But I'm telling you right now, you'd better do a goddamned stellar job of it. Because right now, I can tell you, there is very little worse they could be thinking and saying about you than they already are. Damn it, Kolya, we've worked well together in the past, and I'm telling you this in the hopes that maybe you'll straighten up and fly right before it's too late. This latest message from what's left of your ship, from whoever it was who wrote all that nonsense about love and friendship and so forth...And your private key getting compromised! How the hell did that happen? Have you lost all sight of security? Have you had a snowden on board for 25 years and never realized? What is going on? At this point we can only assume that nothing that's been entrusted to you is safe. And I don't have to explain to you in detail why my board finds that a frightening prospect. These are powerful men and women, Kolya. They don't like being frightened, and they're apt to behave rashly when they become so. Right now, they've got plenty to be concerned about already. These treaty rumors that keep going around - if something like that happens, it'll destabilize the entire system. Idiot colonists thinking they can go their own way without consequence, and the government's response is likely to be intemperate. And on top of all that, you're scaring the hell out of them, and that could be a problem for all of us. Get your house in order. Do it quickly and completely. Don't let any more weird nonsense, or any more leaks, come out of your people. Take them in hand and keep them that way. Make sure they understand what consequences it could have for their contracts if they keep acting out in ways that we hear about back home. No one cares what they get up to among themselves as long as they remember to do their jobs and don't scare people back here. They can have all the love-ins they want, and their families can keep getting paid every week, as long as we don't hear about it, and they do the work they contracted to do. Otherwise...well, it won't be a good situation for anyone. Tell them. Make them understand. And you get yourself in order, too. I don't know what you think you've been doing out there up to now, but you need to remember that discipline, as well as its converse, flows down from the top. You've been in charge of these people for 25 years. If you show them that playtime is over, they'll follow you. You don't have much time. But it's enough, if you get to work right now. I hope you will, Kolya. But you need to understand that I'll act in the interests of Ross 128 Ventures. Don't put me in the position of having to do something we'll both regret. Koenraad Gertodtenhaupt Senior Vice President, Business Development Ross 128 Ventures, LLC "Developing new worlds" kgertodtenhaupt@ross128-ventures.com ]]> alexis@cosmic.voyage (alexis) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Voortrekker/7-key-compromise.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Voortrekker/7-key-compromise.txt Fri, 07 Dec 2018 04:20:44 GMT To: Koenraad Gertodtenhaupt Cc: Voortrekker Mission Support Delivered-To: Koenraad Gertodtenhaupt Received: from relay7.local.rs001.l4.earthsys.gov by inbound-1.exclusiveservices.net with ESMTPSA id 772525wpro10k1ex10d5 for Received: from relay4.qec8.ganymede.earthsys.gov by relay1.qec2.rs001.l4.earthsys.gov Received: from qec5.helio.earthsys.gov by relay4.qec8.ganymede.earthsys.gov Received: from qec.sv14417 by qec5.helio.earthsys.gov Date: 06 Sep 2421 07:21:11 +0000 Date-Local: 23 Mar 2419 10:45:11 +0000 Content-Type: multipart-alternative; boundary="__4gngb4li5euq647g0t9x_15486932_" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Key compromise --__4gngb4li5euq647g0t9x_15486932_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf8" Koenraad: I've attached a new public key from my new keypair, replacing the one which was leaked. As to how that happened: Late yesterday I found out one of our systems engineers did in fact survive, and I asked her to look into it. Her report, her précis of which I've attached, indicates that the commands to retrieve my private key from my secure storage came to Voortrekker via QEC. She couldn't tell where they originated, other than somewhere in Sol, but she's very definite that they did come from Sol. I've included Expedition Support on this message, to the attention of their analysts. Combining their efforts with those of your own people, I hope you'll quickly identify the source of this troubling leak, and I look forward confidently to receiving your confirmation that no such breach of security can recur. In the meantime, you understand that I must protect the interests of the Ross 128 Ventures board and shareholders, as well as my own people here, and there is no telling what mischief might befall us next if I do nothing. Accordingly, I've asked my engineer to have our systems reject commands received via QEC for now. We've kept read access enabled, so you can still request and receive data from our systems, but no commands sent from home will be carried out at this time. This is a short-term measure only, to be reversed once confidence in security back home has been restored. As I said before, I look forward confidently to receiving such confirmation from you soon. Nikolaos Soloviev Director of the Board, Voortrekker GmbH (a wholly owned subsidiary of Ross 128 Ventures, LLC) nikolaos.soloviev@voortrekker.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jennifer Story To: Nikolaos Soloviev Date: 23 Mar 2419 06:31:19 +0000 Subject: Re: Private key breach Short version: It wasn't anyone here. The commands came in via QEC. Long version: Our network isn't in great shape since the crash. That's on me - I've been mostly looking after the sick and injured, not the systems, and with most of our department gone I guess there wasn't anyone else doing that either. I should've checked closer. Anyway. Great shape or no, I didn't think Jim would've left things in a state where just anybody could get into your account. I checked anyway, but I didn't find anything suggestive in command history or logon records. Not even in the audit logs, and as far as I know, the only one with enough access left to tamper with those would be me. Not saying I didn't, boss. I won't ask you to trust me blindly on something this big. But ask around - I've spent almost all my time working in the infirmaries we've set up, you'll find plenty of people who can vouch for my whereabouts almost all the time since the crash. Five minutes here and there in the head isn't enough time to do the kind of work it'd take to invisibly tamper with those logs. So either I'm telling you the truth, or I'm so implausibly skillful at blackhat stuff that I'm an idiot to be out here at all instead of back home living large on the billions I could've stolen without half trying. Anyway. Nothing I could find to suggest it was any of us, so the next place to check was QEC logs. Here's what I found: 2419-03-22T21:19:08.119+0000 info [qec:recv] New message 1a04892cf9: received from qec1.helio.earthsys.gov 2419-03-22T21:19:08.121+0000 info [qec:recv] message 1a04892cf9: encrypted compressed data, 1204 bytes message 1a04892cf9: origin header: undefined message 1a04892cf9: envelope type header: command script 2419-03-22T21:19:08.124+0000 info [qec:recv] message 1a04892cf9: handing off to remote command shell (pid 330918) 2419-03-22T21:19:09.089+0000 audit [fs:enc] private store unlocked: nikolaos.soloviev (pid 330918) 2419-03-22T21:19:10.042+0000 audit [fs:enc] private store locked: nikolaos.soloviev (pid 330918) 2419-03-22T21:19:13.988+0000 info [qec:send] New message 1a04892cfa: from pid 330198 2419-03-22T21:19:13.989+0000 info [qec:send] message 1a04892cfa: encrypted compressed data, 2847 bytes message 1a04892cfa: destination header: undefined 2419-03-22T21:19:13.994+0000 info [qec:send] message 1a04892cfa: sent to qec1.helio.earthsys.gov (I stripped out the headers where they didn't change.) I know you don't read computer, boss - this is here for you to send back home. Because, in people, it means that's where whoever hacked us did it from Sol. I can't tell who it was - that "origin header: undefined" means whoever did it didn't identify themselves, which - well, I won't say it's impossible, obviously it happened. But I don't know how to do it and, as far as I know, I don't know anyone who does. Anyway, whoever it was, the commands they sent must've included a key in your signing chain, because look at those audits from the encrypted filesystem around 21:19:10. It unlocked your private filestore and left it that way for almost a second. That's when it pulled out your key, and who knows what else - we don't normally run in debug mode because it takes a lot of storage and exposes PII, so we don't know what other files might've been accessed. I checked the access times, but didn't see anything from that time span, because of course I didn't: whoever did this would know we'd be checking, so they tampered with those too. I'm about out of ideas, but they've got a lot more engineers who can look at this back home than we have here. I saw a few people from my department in the infirmary, but they're all still out, so for right now all you've got to work with here is me, and I'm just a junior engineer. Send this stuff home, boss. Maybe they can figure it out. If you or they have any more questions I might be able to answer, you know where to find me - right now, that'll be in the infirmary, sacked out for a few hours, and then I'm back to looking after the ill. There's nothing else I can do with this anyway. Sorry, boss. I'd give you more if I had it. But you need somebody better than me on this. 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To Voortrekker, to whom no name is given: I shall tell you what you have shared with this moment of my life form; I shall tell you what we experience, and let themselves live. I shall accept your inquiries in advance. I shall descend into the consequences; I shall write out the consequences of moral failure. The situation was a rare agony. I looked even far away, looking around for the full reports, for another little interpretation. Ignorant braining, imagine body details! "It crept into a burst of darkness, I sensed a strange, imposing red-green." Keep going; that is true. "My face grew acquainted. I groaned by shiver, warm; body was perfectly trimmed, perfectly, -- no other little monsters -- absurdities occupied for a few minutes." It is hard to trust you, despite our impulses in the preliminaries. Yeah--I cannot trust a man. (Neither does anyone talk like a man.) "The fool was an old-fast, bright man with a numbness in his tone. In the meantime depression, he stared beyond details--and more seriously. There was talk about clustering tenants; our arrangements used information on the influence of life away from a certain symbol of ambitions." (Is that how civilization had completed the full regard of these ancestors of institution?) "Somebody complied with their brains and addresses. Somebody stepped in their bodies and addressed you, leaving me a winking tune in a delicate situation. The menace of the longevity had driven him into a bad shape." *** (I shall take him back; we shall do the same with his papers and advice.) || ego-skeleton aureolin ]]> lorenzo@cosmic.voyage (lorenzo) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Erinnerung/init.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Erinnerung/init.txt Wed, 05 Dec 2018 02:18:03 GMT kensanata@cosmic.voyage (kensanata) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Hoffnung/006a.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Hoffnung/006a.txt Sat, 08 Dec 2018 23:50:16 GMT kensanata@cosmic.voyage (kensanata) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Hoffnung/006.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Hoffnung/006.txt Sun, 02 Dec 2018 11:27:28 GMT lorenzo@cosmic.voyage (lorenzo) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Thrix Memoriam/report.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Thrix Memoriam/report.txt Wed, 05 Dec 2018 02:23:26 GMT papa@cosmic.voyage (papa) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Dei Genetrix/3220120400.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Dei Genetrix/3220120400.txt Tue, 04 Dec 2018 14:10:01 GMT ajroach42@cosmic.voyage (ajroach42) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/The Cosmic Hummingbird/automatic-diagnostics.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/The Cosmic Hummingbird/automatic-diagnostics.txt Tue, 04 Dec 2018 05:35:01 GMT ajroach42@cosmic.voyage (ajroach42) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/The Cosmic Hummingbird/waking-up.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/The Cosmic Hummingbird/waking-up.txt Tue, 04 Dec 2018 04:43:42 GMT alexis@cosmic.voyage (alexis) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Voortrekker/6-these-things-i-wish-you-to.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Voortrekker/6-these-things-i-wish-you-to.txt Fri, 07 Dec 2018 04:35:24 GMT aureolin@cosmic.voyage (aureolin) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Murmur Den/Sweet_pain_of_luxury_agony.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Murmur Den/Sweet_pain_of_luxury_agony.txt Tue, 04 Dec 2018 03:30:12 GMT . . . Tincture my night, slow picture; brain deeper! Broadcast more in my monstrous, beauteous body, slackening arms white. + ...Loss of the fragments depictioning: Synthetics people silent, breathing, bad those gaunt reproductive systems... Screaming in the space, laughing his madness: Is my mind a stagnant, far-born dream reflecting off in memories? *** Simulations? Love short of code. Poems: our labor for little. || ego-skeleton aureolin ]]> tomasino@cosmic.voyage (tomasino) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Melchizedek/006.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Melchizedek/006.txt Tue, 04 Dec 2018 02:31:28 GMT ryumin@cosmic.voyage (ryumin) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Persephone Prime/lm002.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Persephone Prime/lm002.txt Tue, 04 Dec 2018 00:46:31 GMT kensanata@cosmic.voyage (kensanata) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Hoffnung/005a.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Hoffnung/005a.txt Tue, 04 Dec 2018 18:21:33 GMT kensanata@cosmic.voyage (kensanata) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Hoffnung/005.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Hoffnung/005.txt Tue, 04 Dec 2018 18:13:56 GMT tomasino@cosmic.voyage (tomasino) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Melchizedek/005.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Melchizedek/005.txt Mon, 03 Dec 2018 19:35:51 GMT alexis@cosmic.voyage (alexis) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Voortrekker/5-re-re-hoffnung.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Voortrekker/5-re-re-hoffnung.txt Fri, 07 Dec 2018 04:34:21 GMT To: Koenraad Gertodtenhaupt Delivered-To: Koenraad Gertodtenhaupt Received: from relay3.local.rs001.l4.earthsys.gov by inbound-3.exclusiveservices.net with ESMTPSA id 515459ckfy5b1j3pjg1wrv277 for Received: from relay2.qec6.ganymede.earthsys.gov by relay7.qec2.rs001.l4.earthsys.gov Received: from qec1.helio.earthsys.gov by relay2.qec6.ganymede.earthsys.gov Received: from qec.sv14417 by qec1.helio.earthsys.gov Date: 05 Sep 2421 17:41:08 +0000 Date-Local: 22 Mar 2419 21:05:08 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf8" Subject: Re: Re: Hoffnung Of course I agree that this most recent communication is extremely concerning. We on the board of Voortrekker GmbH are of one mind that our investors' generous contributions will not be squandered in such fashion. But, Connie, you must understand, and help your board understand as well, that matters here are not entirely in hand at this time, and that such a state of affairs is only to be expected. It is, frankly speaking, all but a miracle that any of us survived, and certainly a testament to the skills and dedication of the shipwrights at Venture Yard. As a result, the entire board of Voortrekker GmbH survived the crash, as did a quorum of directors among the ship's own command structure. However, the illness that has arisen among all survivors of the crash has cast our situation here into some disarray. While I am working to regather the scattered strands of our hierarchy and organize the survivors of the crew into a functional and productive whole, this process can be expected to require a good deal of time and care. That said: You, and the board of Ross 128 Ventures, may find reassurance in the knowledge that I have already begun to implement the information control policies which we privately discussed prior to departure. As soon as I am able to ascertain whether any of our information systems engineers survive, I will act to ensure complete implementation of those policies and directives. Based on the tone of your prior communication, I must ask if you can confirm receipt of my prior reports, sent prior to the onset of the coma from which I've recently reemerged. My impression at this time is that the understanding back home, of events on Voortrekker and Ross 128 b, may be substantially incomplete, and I feel that that may cause unnecessary confusion and delay in understanding the nature of our situation here. You should have several prior communications from me, the most recent being dated August 31 and September 2 (Earth reference). Please respond with a list of the reports you have received from me since July 25 (Earth reference), and I will resend any you do not have. I'd like to circle back on this discussion once the board has been apprised of their content and had the opportunity to consider what instructions to provide. Thank you, and I look forward to hearing from you soon. Nikolaos Soloviev Director of the Board, Voortrekker GmbH (a wholly owned subsidiary of Ross 128 Ventures, LLC) nikolaos.soloviev@voortrekker.com ]]> ryumin@cosmic.voyage (ryumin) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Persephone Prime/la001.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Persephone Prime/la001.txt Mon, 03 Dec 2018 13:06:58 GMT kensanata@cosmic.voyage (kensanata) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Hoffnung/004.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Hoffnung/004.txt Mon, 03 Dec 2018 07:30:02 GMT anonpenetfi@cosmic.voyage (anonpenetfi) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/anon.penet.fi/1-some-dipshit-on-a-spaceship.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/anon.penet.fi/1-some-dipshit-on-a-spaceship.txt Mon, 03 Dec 2018 03:53:38 GMT aureolin@cosmic.voyage (aureolin) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Murmur Den/Ours_is_this_chimera.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Murmur Den/Ours_is_this_chimera.txt Mon, 03 Dec 2018 02:28:41 GMT . . . *** Dimly-related biological, we spite words. Answer? I'm my brain: external, extensive, timeless in our nothings, roots visible and free. Earth of old divides, howling still; in from strangeness, we question the world. Wild is dying, skin: external; genius: the dead. To understand a language gone in a culture of mind and shadow, his trembled concepts the same. || ego-skeleton aureolin ]]> alexis@cosmic.voyage (alexis) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Voortrekker/4-re-hoffnung.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Voortrekker/4-re-hoffnung.txt Mon, 03 Dec 2018 03:13:47 GMT To: Soloviev, Nikolaos Delivered-To: Soloviev, Nikolaos Received: from qec7.helio.earthsys.gov by qec.sv14417 with ESMTPS id 50l7ywwqav5d7r for Received: from relay1.qec1.ganymede.earthsys.gov by qec7.helio.earthsys.gov Received: from relay8.qec3.rs001.l4.earthsys.gov by relay1.qec1.ganymede.earthsys.gov Received: from outbound.exclusiveservices.net by relay3.local.rs001.l4.earthsys.gov Date: 05 Sep 2421 14:30:32 +0000 Date-Local: 22 Mar 2419 17:54:32 +0000 Content-Type: multipart-alternative; boundary="__sxlD3X9w6cUoikrDqaYb_00lgDbkZT_" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Hoffnung --__sxlD3X9w6cUoikrDqaYb_00lgDbkZT_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf8" Nikolaos, I'm very concerned about the latest from those mad Swiss aboard Hoffnung. They say they've "declared independence from shareholders" and reorganized themselves as some kind of absurd anarchist commune. You understand we don't want anything like that happening to our own extensive investment, and the board has asked me to obtain from you a detailed plan of action regarding your methods for preventing a similar revolt among your people out there. I haven't heard much from you lately, Nikolaos, and I hope you'll excuse me for saying that I'm concerned. I don't know what Hoffnung's command structure is like, but there has to be someone awake there who's expected to be responsible, and they've clearly abrogated those responsibilities. I'm certain, of course, that you won't do the same. We've worked very productively together in the past, you and I, and I don't see any reason why that shouldn't continue despite there now being eleven light-years between your office and mine. But the board needs reassurance, which I'm certain you can provide. Since we didn't have to resort to such expedients as live cryopreservation, the way Hoffnung apparently did, you should have your full security staff available to serve as resources in protecting our investment. Please find attached the access codes for Voortrekker's heavy weapons lockers. I hope you won't need them, but I want to make sure you have them in case some among the crew do get the idea to act rashly. I'm sure you will discourage such behavior as firmly as you find necessary. Remember the value of the assets with which you've been entrusted. Remember where your responsibilities lie. Remember that all of us back home are counting on you. I, and the Board of Ross 128 LLC, have the utmost faith in you, Kolya. 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[anine Quit: sec] sam: FUCK [6:54] [anine Join: back] anine: okay, i'm off the work network. anine: i shouldn't be telling you anything right now. anine: can i trust you? sam: thats a hell of a question from you right now [6:55] anine: i know, i'm sorry, okay? but this could be my job, or anine: look, forget it, you deserve to know. i shouldve told you already. sam: TOO FUCKING RIGHT. anine: i mean i know you and she broke it off but all the same. sam: who told you we broke it off sam: we had one fight sam: ONE FIGHT> [6:56] anine: okay okay let me get to the point i can't sit in this stall all day anine: but before i do that anine: i really am sorry, i should've trusted you, can you forgive me? [6:58] sam: not right now. [6:59] anine: fair enough. [7:00] anine: so like i said, something is very wrong with voortrekker and that planet. the scars data DOES NOT MAKE ANY SENSE. she said the pilot said something hit them that they didn't see? anine: their radar says they saw it. they tracked it all the way in from a half million kilometers out. it wasn't even moving that fast. [7:01] anine: they got lerts about it too. sscars event log shows initial proximity alert, then nine minutes later possible collision warning, then impact alarms nine minutes after that, thirty secondds alter the impact event. anine: alerts* anine: seconds* sam: what [7:02] anine: there had to be alarms going off all over main control, there is nO WAY they could not have known they were in danger, and even if they didn't sam: ok but they were in manual by then right anine: no anine: the nav systems were still running in program auto, theyd idn't go manual until after the hit anine: the ship should've taken ITSELF out of the way, they had to go out of their way to override it [7:03] anine: and SCARS doesn't show them doing it anine: and it would anine: that's what we don't understand, even if someone went crazy and saotasged the ship why do all that and not just disable the whole sender, we'd think it was lost or something then anine: sabotaged* [7:04] anine: so none of this makes any sense [7:05] sam: i guess not [7:06] anine: and then there's this weird stuff she sent sam: you can say her fucking name, okay? sam: it's been 25 years not like i'm still going to be mad anine: okay okaty anine: fine anine: this weird stuff KIT sent sam: thank you. go on [7:07] anine: i mean this disease she's talking about, that doesn't make sense either anine: nothing works like that, it's not even biomechanically plausible sam: she's a xenobiologist, you know better than her? anine: ok fine but we have those too and they say i'ts bullshit anine: and that last part anine: i had to look up muscular hydrostats sam: tentacles anine: yeah [7:08] sam: she says she shas four fo them instead of legs now anine: right anine: talk about bullshit, there is no way anine: i asked our people here anine: i called the xeno institute and asked people theret o anine: every one fo them said there is no way in any world that a human body can have tentacles [7:09] anine: something about hydrostatic presusre and circulation and sam: you're just saying words anine: i dont pretend to understand it but come on do you really think this makes any kind of sense anine: i don't know what's going on out there but it has to be some kind of mental thing sam: don't you dare sam: don't you FUCKING DARE [7:10] sam: i knew you'd do this as soon as i sent it to you sam: i don' tknow what's going on out there either sam: but you knew kit as well as i did sam: better anine: look i know i'm not sayingit's her FAULT sam: YOU FUCKING ARE sam: "some kind of mental thing [7:11] sam: you think she went stir crazy out there and did something to crash the ship and now she's making up crazy stuff sam: you probably thinks he killed the people whog ot sicka dn died anine: yeah about that sam: oh whAT THE FUCK anine: we're pretty sure they're not dead [7:13] sam: what [7:14] anine: you know they all had implanted biomonitors right? anine: all the expedition crews do, those are big ships and people can get lost or hurt and not be able to call for help sam: ok and sam: oh bullshit [7:15] anine: we get telemetry packet sfrom the ship on those anine: most of the trackers are still showing active anine: not the people who died in the crash, the ones she said got sick anine: 247 out of 313 right now anine: slow pulse, slow respiration, almost no brain activty [7:16] anine: they're comatose but alive anine: ti's the other ones that really worry us anine: they're NOT online anine: but the last signals we got were anine: i mean they don't make sense [7:17] sam: you are saying that a lot sam: it's your job to fucking make it make sense anine: i know, okay? i know that anine: were trying, we were going to cancel anyway for a call with xeno institute before i heard from you sam: but you werne't going to tell me anything? [7:19] anine: look i'm sorry okay i don't know anine: i don't know what to do anine: were probably going to have to call the garison and that's scary anine: something went wrong with the gliese mission i dont knwo but we keep getting stuff anine: i think theyre building a ship over in the navy dock, i cant see much from the shuttle but a lto of new work [7:20] anine: im just really scared right now everything is going wrong and earth is probably going to get involved anine: i didnt know what to do and i fucked it up anine: im so sorry i shouldve said something i just couldnt think im sorry [7:23] anine: please say something sam: sorry im crygn [7:24] sam: crying* sam: im sorry i got so mad just sam: whatever else is going on she's alive sam: i was sure she was dead anine: we dont know she's not anine: im sorry [7:25] anine: we dont have her tracker shes one of the ones we lost [7:26] sam: what does that mean anine: i dont know anine: look whatever i find out ill get it tok you ok anine: ill tell you anine: ill make sure you know [7:27] sam: look if the ganymede garrison and earth are getting involved sam: i mean i do WANT to know sam: but i want you to stay sfae too sam: saef* sam: SAFE fuck [7:29] anine: i miss her too [7:30] sam: look well figure it out ok? sam: when do you rotate out next anine: end of next week sam: ok sam: come see me then we'll talk it over anine: god and sleep on that lumpy couch of yours? anine: my bakck was killing me for a week [7:31] sam: not what i had in mind anine: oh anine: well [7:32] sam: look dry your eyes and go back to work sam: you dont want people looking at you funny right now anine: youre right anine: ok [7:33] anine: i'll come see you and we'll figure this out. sam: right sam: till then you take care, dont do anything stupid anine: me? [anine: Quit: bye] [sam: Quit: ] ]]> alexis@cosmic.voyage (alexis) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Voortrekker/2-were-you-going-to-tell-me.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Voortrekker/2-were-you-going-to-tell-me.txt Fri, 07 Dec 2018 04:31:41 GMT To: Amelia Nine Delivered-To: Amelia Nine Received: from relay6.qec3.ganymede.earthsys.gov by mta2.expeditionsupport.gov with ESMTPS id 11FEBBA088B for Received: from relay8.qec1.rs001.l4.earthsys.gov by relay6.qec3.ganymede.earthsys.gov Received: from mta1.recoveryinstitute.org by relay2.local.rs001.l4.earthsys.gov Date-Local: 02 Sep 2421 06:14:03 +0000 Date: 02 Sep 2421 06:14:03 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart-alternative; boundary="_000_14175761891450__" Subject: Were you going to tell me? --_000_14175761891450__ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf8" goddamnit lia were you even going to tell me there was a chance? --_000_14175761891450__ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: 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relay4.qec2.rs001.l4.earthsys.gov by mta3.recoveryinstitute.org with ESMTPS id x124so177123a067 for Received: from relay1.qec7.ganymede.earthsys.gov by relay4.qec2.rs001.l4.earthsys.gov Received: from qec4.helio.earthsys.gov by relay1.qec7.ganymede.earthsys.gov Received: from qec.sv14417 by qec4.helio.earthsys.gov Date-Local: 19 Mar 2419 06:54:32 +0000 Date: 02 Sep 2421 05:30:32 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf8" Subject: Made it... God, Sam, how I wish you were here. Maybe you could help me. You were always the best of company. None of us ever really expected to find anything complicated. Proks, maybe, if we were very lucky. More likely just smelly slurry that might have been something someday if we hadn't showed up first. But this? No. Never in a million years. Certainly not in twenty-three. Sorry. I know I'm not making sense out of this. I'll try again. They probably already have some of it from SCARS, but let me tell it to you my own way. What I heard, the midcourse corrections had us coming into the system weird. Not so weird we couldn't make orbit, but enough that we had to correct so the landing boats could reach Site One and back. Partway through the correction, we hit something. Or something hit us - I talked with one of the pilots before he died, he told me they didn't catch it on radar and that shouldn't have been possible, not with the damage it did. Had the idea it must've been directed, somehow. I don't know if that makes sense, but either way, it holed us. Holed us bad, and with the thrusters still firing. If they hadn't been, the fuel system would've been evacuated - we might've stayed up. But the blast gave us a vector we couldn't overcome on OMS thrust, and of course we'd exhausted the primaries. It wasn't a surprise when we hit the atmosphere. The surprise was that anyone walked away from the impact site. Just under three hundred of us. Doesn't sound like much of a miracle, but believe me, we were happy to take it until a better one came along. Wasn't even that bad a landing site, for all we didn't get to choose much - rolling sandy plains, some large body of water within eyeshot, maybe an hour's leisurely walk. We could do something with the place, once we got our feet under us. We didn't worry about the sickness at first. Barely even noticed it - most of us were more or less beat up, and not everyone had made it to a crash couch in time. We were all working thirty-hour days between broken bones and soft tissue trauma, inventorying what we had left by way of supplies, getting the worst toxic leaks from the wreck under control, and trying to jury-rig enough of a hab to keep the weather off - we hit smack in the northern temperate zone, and the climate isn't too bad, but about three hours out of every day we get storms you wouldn't believe. Fever, lower back myalgia, mild lower GI distress? We had two reactors still up, enough surplus power to run the handful of heads left with intact sequestration systems. Plenty of paracetamol and neoprox. We had so many problems trying to kill us, we were just glad this one wasn't. Then, all of a sudden, it was. Day Six, the sepsis syndrome caught us completely by surprise. Thirty-four dead in less than half one of Ross's long bright days - onset to lethality in minutes, the medics had never seen anything like it. The ones who died had been feeling worst, but we all had it by then, and still didn't know what it was. We found what tools we could for our one surviving biochemist, and she set to work trying to isolate the causative agent - with a lot of luck, maybe she'd figure out how to treat it before it killed us all. Probably would've been easier if she hadn't been hurting too badly by then to sit up. But she got far enough for us to pick up when she had to leave off. Light microscopy doesn't give you much structural detail, next to nothing about life processes, but we could see well enough what it looked like: something like an amoeba, sort of polymorphic that way, but with a trophism like nothing we'd ever seen and flagella it used like a mosquito uses its proboscis. We fed it whole blood and watched it suck the cytoplasm clean out of two dozen erythrocytes at once. Leukocytes it just *absorbed*, we're still not sure how - they'd hit the cell membrane and just, I don't know, just melt into the thing. And then it'd divide, and both daughters would do it all over again. We never saw the whole cycle take more than a minute. We had plenty of antiparasitics, of course - med bay wasn't what you'd call intact, but the starboard-aft hold had most of the backup supply, and enough came through the crash to supply we who were left for a long time. Nothing we had touched them, though. Not even the really exotic stuff that hadn't been approved for human use yet, and we just brought because who knew what we'd run into? They didn't even seem to notice. We weren't equipped any more for blood filtering or that kind of complex intervention, and supportive care was the best we could do - try to keep the fever down with ice packs and neoprox, keep the kidneys and liver and heart and lungs going, and hope some of us would start to pull out of it before the last of us up and about weren't up and about any more. I don't really know what happened after I went down. I think it was Day Ten? Eleven? There weren't many of us still up by that point. Just over a hundred had died, I think. One thing, we'd just gotten Eve shifted to a new pallet and I was trying to clean up the mess of the old one and keep her from getting too hot, both at the same time, and next thing, I was here, flat on my back in what's left of Main Control. Nine days gone, just like that. I didn't even know we'd gotten any power back on in here - I don't think we had, when I went down. Don't know why I'm here, either. We saw enough delirium before I went down, there may not even be a 'why'. I don't feel bad at all. I can see I've changed; whoever put me here put me in a gown first, and there's not as much of me under it as there would've been a couple weeks ago. It fell right off my neck when I tried to stand up. That didn't go well. I think I should be hungry, but I feel full, like I just ate. I wish I knew if anyone else was still here. I've been awake a few hours, I think, but I haven't heard anyone. I don't hurt, though, and I'm not burning up. Right now I'm still mostly okay with that. I really hope someone else is still here. I don't want to be alone like this. Getting up in the chair at the sender console was hard, but I did it, and I can still use a keyboard well enough. I thought it was important to try to let someone back home know what happened. I don't know if the followup expeditions launched on schedule, I don't remember hearing before and not much of the mission log made it through the crash. If they did - I was going to say, tell them to make turnover early and go anywhere else. Even back home would be better than this place, with its barren vistas empty of vegetation, its anonymous sea we never even found the time to try to name or go and see up close. Smeared along half a mile an arrowhead stain of ship debris, at its apex a shallow crater centered on the shattered remains of all our hopes and dreams, and in a nearby shanty village, rows of corpses - decaying? mummified? Who knows if anything else can eat us here? - whom no one had time or strength to bury. Go anywhere else but this ball of death and deceit whirling around its lonely star. There is nothing for you here. ...is what I was *going* to say. But - really, I don't know. As I sit here I can feel my strength returning to me, and with it grows the conviction that it really isn't bad here. Look at what this planet's done to me already! - and yet I survive. I still remember myself. And soon I'll be up and about again, able to see what may be seen and do what need be done. Yes: many of us died. People I knew. Friends I remember and mean never to forget. No few closer than friends - spend so many years closed up with only a thousand or so people, sooner or later those with whom you were recede in memory, making room for those with whom you *are*. Not you, Sam. I've never felt that way about you. How I wish you were here! But maybe you will be. If the third expedition hasn't launched yet. I know we talked about it. Well - fought about it. I've never stopped regretting that, and I hope while I've been gone you might have come to understand why I had to go. Maybe we could see one another again. I would like that very much. I think you could help me. And you were always the best of company. But what worse can this planet do to me than it has already done? What worse can it do to any of us who still survive? We came here not knowing what we faced - only that it could hardly be worse than what we left behind. And even still I feel that very strongly to be true. We could never be together there, Sam. Here, who'd be to stop us? I know it sounds frightening, what has happened to me. It *was* frightening. It was scary and painful and frequently disgusting, and that's just what I remember! But I don't hurt any more. I'm not sick any more. And I'm not afraid any more. You don't have to be, either. It's really not that bad - the body never remembers pain, you know. I remember that I hurt, but I don't remember *hurting*. Does that make sense? You can come here. Join the third expedition and come find me here. Come sooner, if you can. There might be a research ship. I miss you, and I hope you miss me. We can be together here, and though I'm feeling much stronger now, I still wish you were here to help me. I still can't hear anyone, and I don't want to think I'm alone here. Not forever, anyway. Besides - once I get more of my strength back, make up for what I've lost in the last little while, I think you might like seeing me. I think I do. And I'm sure I want to be close to you again. Well. That's enough for now, I think. I'm sure I'll have more to say later, but once you get this you'll know I'm still alive, and even though we couldn't send our landing report, there's really no reason not to send the followup expeditions. Not really. Some won't make it, but enough will. And if we weren't going to take that kind of chance, why come out here at all? I'm going to send this, with all the power the transmitter will take. It'll get to you eventually. Then I'm going to try to stand up again. I think I can manage it, now. It'd be easier if I still had legs, I suppose. But four limbs shouldn't be *that* much harder to manage than two, and I'm still enough of a biologist to remember how muscular hydrostats work. I think it's just a matter of figuring out which impulses go where...oh well. By the time you're here, I should be all finished embarrassing myself with them, I hope. I never stopped loving you, Sam. Please don't have stayed angry with me. I hope we'll see each other again. In the meantime, I'll see if anyone else is still alive. And with whoever's left, I'll start preparing for those who may come after us. By the time they get here, if they do, we'll be ready to make our new settlers a home. ]]> tomasino@cosmic.voyage (tomasino) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Melchizedek/003.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Melchizedek/003.txt Thu, 29 Nov 2018 01:26:46 GMT jabooty@cosmic.voyage (jabooty) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Franciscus/log001.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Franciscus/log001.txt Wed, 28 Nov 2018 05:04:37 GMT timotheus@cosmic.voyage (timotheus) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Garnet Star/000.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Garnet Star/000.txt Sat, 24 Nov 2018 01:25:34 GMT khuxkm@cosmic.voyage (khuxkm) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Excelsior/001.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Excelsior/001.txt Sat, 08 Dec 2018 07:50:22 GMT FUEL CONVERSION: GOOD H20 RESERVES: GOOD CRYO SLEEP: WARN [autotranslator on] Corporal Sam Arnold, Systems Administrator --- Hello world! The computer on board the Excelsior has removed me from cryosleep pursuant to Procedure [REDACTED]. Our automated telemetry sensors are down (see the systems report above) and our cryosleep chambers appear to be experiencing overvolt as a result. Pursuant to Procedure [REDACTED], I must wait a month before re-entering cryosleep. More transmissions will follow after this one. Jerome, I feel for you. It's sometimes staggering how long these missions take. Just looking at the instrumentation here on the Excelsior, we seem to have been in transit for [unit translation = 1252 years]. Geralt, it's nice to hear from you and the Adrestia. Glad to know your mission seems to be progressing smoothly. We set out with our charter and ship around Alpha Beta 2 Beta towards a better tommorrow. We set course for the nearest inhabitable planet and the Excelsior, a first-class SpaceCorp Astroviator Mark 3, took off. We entered cryosleep around Beta Alpha 10 Beta and set the Excelsior to power-conservation (hence the incomplete systems report). I will begin procedures to fix the overvolt in the cryo systems and to fix the auto-telemetry systems. Sam Arnold, signing off. --TRANSMISSION END-- ]]> tomasino@cosmic.voyage (tomasino) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Melchizedek/002.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Melchizedek/002.txt Wed, 12 Dec 2018 03:25:30 GMT tomasino@cosmic.voyage (tomasino) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Starbloom/001.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Starbloom/001.txt Fri, 23 Nov 2018 13:24:50 GMT demosthenes@cosmic.voyage (demosthenes) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/adrestia/hello.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/adrestia/hello.txt Wed, 21 Nov 2018 06:49:23 GMT tomasino@cosmic.voyage (tomasino) gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Melchizedek/001.txt gopher://cosmic.voyage/0/Melchizedek/001.txt Fri, 14 Dec 2018 16:37:18 GMT