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(_.(_)_) [ | )|(_. \/ (_)\_|(_](_](/,
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Humanity has expanded to the stars. Earth is a distant memory.
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We journey into the darkness not in a great migration--as many
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thought--but in small communities, drifting far and traveling at
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relativistic speeds, dividing from each other by unfathomable
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distance and time. Our only connections are the thin tethers of
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the Quantum Entanglement Communicator (QEC). These precarious
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devices bridge the vast distances with near-instantaneous
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communication, but provide only enough bandwidth to the ancient
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relay hub for simple, plain-text messaging.
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Here are the annals of Relay Station 001, housed at the Sun-Earth
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Lagrange point L4 in the SOL system. Found within are the records
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of transmissions from the oldest and farthest flung ships to have
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left Earth of old. These are pen-pal letters, reports, updates,
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cries for help, and calls into the darkness. What is delivered to
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the system is unfiltered. Some of it is intelligible. For some,
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common language has drifted too far for clear translation.
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Due to time-debt of relativistic travel, dates of individual
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reports may not coincide linearly between ships. Records are
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stored chronologically as received at RS001 from each expedition.
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/ \ cosmic.voyage is a tilde community based
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/ _ \ around a collaborative science-fiction
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|.o '.| universe. Users write stories as the people
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|'._.'| aboard ships, colonies, and outposts, using
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| | the only remaining free, interconnected
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,'| | |`. network that unites the dispersed peoples of
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/ | | | \ the stars.
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