_. _ __._ _ * _. . , _ . _. _ _ (_.(_)_) [ | )|(_. \/ (_)\_|(_](_](/, ._| ._| Humanity has expanded to the stars. Earth is a distant memory. We journey into the darkness not in a great migration--as many thought--but in small communities, drifting far and traveling at relativistic speeds, dividing from each other by unfathomable distance and time. Our only connections are the thin tethers of the Quantum Entanglement Communicator (QEC). These precarious devices bridge the vast distances with near-instantaneous communication, but provide only enough bandwidth to the ancient relay hub for simple, plain-text messaging. Here are the annals of Relay Station 001, housed at the Sun-Earth Lagrange point L4 in the SOL system. Found within are the records of transmissions from the oldest and farthest flung ships to have left Earth of old. These are pen-pal letters, reports, updates, cries for help, and calls into the darkness. What is delivered to the system is unfiltered. Some of it is intelligible. For some, common language has drifted too far for clear translation. Due to time-debt of relativistic travel, dates of individual reports may not coincide linearly between ships. Records are stored chronologically as received at RS001 from each expedition. ---------------------------------------------------------------- | / \ cosmic.voyage is a tilde community based / _ \ around a collaborative science-fiction |.o '.| universe. Users write stories as the people |'._.'| aboard ships, colonies, and outposts, using | | the only remaining free, interconnected ,'| | |`. network that unites the dispersed peoples of / | | | \ the stars. |,-'--|--'-.| ---------------------------------------------------------------- >> How to Join Cosmic Voyage >> Complete Transmission Log >> Ships, Colonies, Outposts >> RSS Feed >> Atom Feed Most recent log entries: 896 >> Stormsong - Chat Log 895 >> Stormsong - Status Report 001 - Darkstar 894 >> GWRP Site 23 - known Lifeforms of Site 23 12.2 893 >> Stormsong - Darkstar 892 >> Stormsong - To : Markus - Hopes and Expectation 891 >> Stormsong - First Steps. 890 >> Stormsong - Arrival. 889 >> SNCF68B - Nurse 888 >> Sakura - Newsgroup: qecnet.tech.ships - msg001 887 >> Lantashi Dance - AI Status Report 886 >> Shattered Siege - do not board 885 >> Yume963 - saved? 884 >> Interstellar Monitoring Station 142 - Ping N.002 883 >> telitru - notci xi pa no 882 >> Interstellar Monitoring Station 142 - Power Up 881 >> Hopes and Expectations - log-00003-warmsound 880 >> NH17 - Quantum Archive - 1715339227 - automatic transcript.txt 879 >> NH17 - Quantum Archive - 1714386685 - Raya's story 878 >> Hopes and Expectations - log-00002-roadtonowhere 877 >> NH17 - Quantum Archive - 1714045312 - we fixed it