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93 lines
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*** {Default ship banner} ***
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From: Proxima
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To: Nil
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Priority: Nil
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X-*: Nil
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Loc: Radar Error
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Sender: Unregistered User
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======BEGIN TRANSMISSION======
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Quantum Enta?
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We were hit by meteroids 2 hours and 55 minutes ago (the #549 attack). Will
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report back on that a bit more later once I get the hang of this quantum enta
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thing...
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Darcy was doing some ship maintainence in Elect when I screamed and found a
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spider-looking creature in my cabinet, the strange thing is that it wasn't
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really moving... at all. How in space did this freakish get in there? At the
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time of transmission it still is, in fact, sitting quite still a few
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lactoinches away from my door handle. (lactoinches is a metric unit me and
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Darcy made just for fun, joking at Earthlings not being able to settle on a
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single, shared metric system). We would have to check the cams, do a scan in
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med, and get a bio sample of it later, after I figure out this transmission
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thing. Getting help is our first priority! We used to have Lieutenant Kevuq
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always in Sec on cams but unfortunately he passed from an accident which I
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will explain with the #549 meteroid strike...
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Darcy rushed over to my quaters and took no notice in what I said about the
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spider thing, and says she found something that could help us. There it was,
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she held up the quantum enta thing and gave it to me. I flipped it over and
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saw "Quantum Enta" written and a few blank spaces of nothingness after it.
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We searched old dictionaries but could not figure what "enta" meant, so I
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decide to open this thing and see what happens, and here I am, sending a
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message! I don't know where it would go, or how it does its thing, but I'm
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sure it should work I just know it.
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The dictator seems to only support voice or thoughts (as I put it), but I
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managed to connect my K-25 to one of its legged wirings, I honestly don't know
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if my tiny keyboard is going work, but I shall hope for the best. The keyboard
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layout of course, as Earthlings call it, is a colemak-inspired custom layout.
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With the enter key at the middle top and the escape key at the immediate left.
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The downside to the keyboard approach is, of course, is the extreme lag,
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however I'm quite good with touch typing so I can just type really fast
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without needing it to show up immediately. I still have to test out voice and
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thought dictation, that's one more thing on my list, right after finding out
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what in space "Enta" means, which in turn, is after finding out about the
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spider creature. Darcy thinks Enta the name of the person who invented it, but
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if it was the case, shouldn't it be something along the lines of "Entian
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Quantum Communicator"?
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Human Written Supply Report
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[ there is, of course, a partial or full, automated system report, but I still
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have to figure out how to have it automatically get logged here ]
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. food and nutrients to last for 256 Earth days
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. drinkable water to last for 244 Earth days
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. other water to last for 7 Earth years
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. core energy (reactor, elect, engines, nav, comms) to last for 3,093,458
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Earth years
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. utility energy (weapons, sec, med) to last for 74,397,220,901 Earth years
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. Miscellaneous supplies to last for 881,234,927,059,538,586,734,845,837,563
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Earth years
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. 6 (reusable) ice beds, with three spare, and one in med (emergency only)
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I guess we're obviously doomed, with food and water able to last less than a
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single tiny Earth year, there is no way to reach the Alpha in time. Speaking
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of time, I've lost track of date around 4 suns ago, but this quantum enta
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thing may be able to save us, which is why I need some ship or outpost to send
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us supplies! Please, we don't want to fail our captain... Captain Leo,
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Lieutenant Kevuq, Officer Luciana, and two others I do not want to talk about
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suffered from an explosion that destroyed most of our supplies, why, they were
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originally able to last for millennials! Oh Albert Einstein-- Now it's only
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me, a few robots, and poor Darcy left on the ship. She's only a college student!
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Of course, I still don't really know if this thing is going to work, but as I
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said above, I shall hope for the best. The Proxima is currently travelling at
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6x light speed, 2 light years away from Alpha Centauri. Yes, we weren't able
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to fix our steering system, so we are, basically, blindly moving in space,
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which my captain used to say, is the last thing you'd ever want to do.
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That's all for now, more in about 21 hours.
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======END TRANSMISSION======
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