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Transmission Log - Orestes
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Author: Pink
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Auto-generating preface...
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A log by PINK. She complains about her fellow human-inhabitant,
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GREEN. Unfairly, I believe. She has yet to grasp his true purpose
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among the group, as has he. Which is ironic, because the
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remainder of the log is about the importance of patiently
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observing in order to discern a deeper meaning. It seems her
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patience only extends in certain directions.
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She ends by mentioning a quasi-spiritual experience with the
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crystals. This is unfortunate. She is beginning to sound like
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NAVY. She was initially hired for her exceptional scientific
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mind, but perhaps the years spent in Orestes have begun to take
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their toll. Please send recommendations regarding potential
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replacements.
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-END-OF-PREFACE-
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I see GREEN has been at the logs again. Nine drafted. Seven
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deleted before sending. How juvenile he is.
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He never remembers to delete the ones he sent either. They're
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still sitting here on the terminal for anyone to read. Actually,
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that was probably his intention. And, for the record, I only ate
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the last apple because its been our 'last apple' for two years
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now and I was fed up listening to him go on about it.
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It is not his job to send these, he is not qualified for it. He
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isn't qualified for much, to be honest.
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The following is the actual update. Please disregard the previous
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logs by GREEN.
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The crystals show extraordinary promise.
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There's an old science fiction story, about a tiny species who
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visit earth to see whether intelligent life exists. These
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creatures are so small and with such a high rate of metabolism
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that they perceive the passage of time at a much higher rate
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than we do.
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So, when they arrive, all they 'perceive' are these static,
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statue-like creatures (us), that move so slowly it seems
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like they move without any will or purpose. The creatures leave
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earth and conclude there is no intelligent life there.
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Maybe they wait for like a year in their time, which is maybe a
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few seconds in our time. I don't know, I can't remember the story
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well, but I hope you get my point.
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GREEN is impatient, like those micro-creatures from the story.
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Intelligence can take many forms. If you observe something,
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anything, for long enough, a pattern emerges. I observe the
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crystals constantly. Whenever I can. I know that something is
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happening. Most likely, its happening underneath the surface.
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What we know for certain about the crystals has already been
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reported and is, admittedly, a little thin. Their behaviour
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remains unchanged - they brighten slightly with increases in
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atmospheric pressure. I initially described is as a 'glow', but
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I'd probably have to correct that. It's just a slight change in
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their shade of red. We were probably projecting some of our
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expectations when we described it as a glow. There are still the
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same amount of them, 133 withing 5km of our base. We've yet to
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travel and survey much farther with the equipment we have on
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hand. I admit, I am a bit disappointed that there is no real
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change in their population, but I still suspect some activity is
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going on somewhere, somehow, just slightly beyond our horizon of
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understanding.
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We also, of course, have NAVY's 'records' of the crystals. If I
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have some doubts about GREENS value to the mission, I am still
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absolutely dumbfounded by NAVY's presence here. Sometimes I
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wonder whether this is truly a scientifically-motivated
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expedition, or whether some higher-ups have notions about NAVY's
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claims regarding the 'elixir' qualities of the crystals...Anyway,
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I've gone on enough about these points in previous updates.
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Well then, why did I say that they show extraordinary promise?
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As I said, I observe them constantly, although 'observing' them
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isn't really the right term. I set up the equipment, and sit and
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wait. There isn't much to really keep track of here, so I often
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find myself spacing out a bit.
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Recently, during these periods, I've been having something akin
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to 'dreams'. I'm in a city. An empty city. And everything is
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tinted in the same red colour as the crystals. It's like the sun
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is setting and casting its glow over the city, only the glow
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doesn't follow the usual rules of light and physics. When I
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move around, go to shaded parts of the city, or even indoors, the
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glow remains.
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I just wander the city, for hours sometimes. There's nothing
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there. It's peaceful.
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My theory is that these are not simply hallucinations or
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daydreams, I believe the crystals may be communicating something
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to me.
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I know, I know. Just a moment ago I was complaining about NAVY's
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fanatical theories regarding the crystals. But this is different.
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It has already been established (albeit controversially) that
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psychic modes of communication can be initiated between humans
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and alien populations. The modes of communication in the universe
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are myriad (just look at the power of the QEC). Why couldn't it
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be scientifically viable that the crystals simply operate on a
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different wavelength than the one we usually operate on?
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There is more to tell, but I can hear GREEN shuffling around
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outside the room. He seems agitated about something. Signing off
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for now.
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- PINK
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Complied by the Werner H. Young Terminal Emulator
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Info: Simple A.I., designed on-site for executing
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systems maintenance tasks and exchanging messages between
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the Orestes outpost and the Arsinoe.
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Built by Werner Young (2113-2151).
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Names of persons have been masked to protect their identity.
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