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