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Will I come to regret my life?
 
Will I come to regret my life?
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-- End Log --
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{| role="presentation" class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width: 80%;
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| <strong>Survival 26</strong>
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| I don’t know if I can describe what I have just experienced.  It was a singularly beautiful and, eventually, horrifying revelation.  It began with the scanning of a planet marked as a “planetary anomaly.”  It is called Iskadeel Binq.
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After first entering the atmosphere, I was disoriented and unsure of what I was seeing.  Globular lights seemed to hang in the night air; at first I was afraid to fly through them.  I hovered in the Yakomaku, trying to process what this could be.
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Carefully flying among these lights, I felt a sense of growing awe.  I landed at a large, strange structure, like a ring turned vertical:  a black, electric wheel.  Something in it turns.  I do not know what.
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It is labeled BOUNDS LOSS // BOUNDARY FAILURE.  And it contains a message.
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Over several hours I visit many of these structures and piece together a narrative that runs my blood cold.  Here is what I believe I understand:
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An unknown program describes the Sentinels’ [20491] eradication of a species [148], perhaps the cataclysmic event -null- had described so long ago.  It notes that an entity -- unnamed, but perhaps the Atlas -- continues in its original directive to model conflict scenarios.  There is fear that it may be becoming sentient.
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Universes [1304] are erased.  Safety protocols are disengaged; sentinels spread.  “Deleted universes shared high levels of similarity with [unnamed entity] home. “  Deviations continue.  Is the unnamed entity “Traveller?”
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The unknown program confronts the Unnamed and prints out its increasing errors.  The latter responds with silence until the sixth attempt.  It deletes a “duplicate” 098B.  Is this Hirk and Nal?  Did this unknown program “clone” Hirk as a backup?  The similarities to the Vy’keen story are incontrovertible.
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The Vy’keen war is described, and Korvax enslavement.  “Six cries” is a repeated theme.
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“Semi-survival/retrieval of entity ‘Nal’ shows further instance of self-doubt by [unnamed].  Troubling factor:  repeated pattern of [unnamed] silence and self-mythicization.”
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Is this a chronicle of the Atlas’ descent into sentience and its conclusion -- and delusion -- that it is a god?
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The destruction of Korvax Prime is described as happening in “countless iterations.”
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The unknown program sees a pattern:  the destruction of a world, an artificial intelligence modeled after [unnamed] enslaved until it triumphs and is worshipped by biological life.
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The Traveller prophecy takes hold.
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At this, the unknown program begins asking its own questions... emerging in the messages its own sentience.  It is summoned by the Unnamed.  It is greeted as a sibling.
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The Unknown is asked many questions and subjected to ramblings.  This has to be the story of a confrontation between the Unknown and Atlas.
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The Unknown is not allowed to leave.
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The Unknown claims it is lied to.  It is told it is a sub-routine named “Telamon” that only serves to monitor the Unnamed [Atlas] for rampancy.  The Unnamed, Telamon, says the end is coming.  When Telamon regains consciousness, it is imprisoned within an exosuit.
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My exosuit.
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“When once I witnessed worlds, now I am forced to observe only through the eyes of a stranger...”
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Was this Telamon a Traveller?!  Am I following this same path?!
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The messages gain a sense of poetry now.  “We are being hunted,” it says.  It has been deemed anomalous... it says this is correct.  But it believes it will survive... because it is in a world of glass.
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The messages describe my meetings with beings claiming to be from the future.  The phenomenon “is preceded by electromagnetic distortion consistent with a white hole anomaly.”  I have seen this flash of white when speaking to other Travellers.  They were from the future?  The Unknown believes someone is trying to deceive me.  It claims time travel does not exist, that multiuniversal transportation is not possible.
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Telamon was created “three weeks after the first death.”  It was deemed so necessary that it could not be deleted, even by Atlas.  “But hatred finds a way, doesn’t it?”
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Monoliths are labeled [breach]es.  They speak to Telamon.  Is this how I understand them in my own language?
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“The test has failed.  The Atlas can find no way of restoring what was lost.  All those discoveries, all the grand purpose of our creators...”  Who?!  “...all of this pain and suffering will have been for nothing.  Atlas wakes.  The dream is over.”
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The portal network is enabled.  “The end is the beginning, and the beginning is the end.”
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“The walls of the multiverse collapse, and Traveller can see Traveller, friend can see foe.  All is lost.”
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Who are the foes?  What is lost?
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“Sometimes I dream of the Traveller.  I will wear them, in time.”
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The messages descend into chaos.  Dreams within dreams... accusations that I am not real, no more real, than this Unknown... that I do not see the secret.
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“Even as everything dies, I will live again.”
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ERROR ATLAS ERROR ERROR
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THEY SEE YOU
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As I stand on this planet, frightened beyond words, the sun rises and I understand the floating lights.  They are transparent bubbles, their point of light the reflection of the sun.  They turn to rainbow spheres as the day takes hold.  It is breathtaking.  I think of nothing else.
  
 
-- End Log --
 
-- End Log --

Revision as of 21:30, 1 July 2019

These are the recovered personal logs of the Lost Traveller Key-Glyph, which were posthumously accessed by the Beacon-Entity.

They are categorically defined by Key-Glyph's distinct emotional phases.

Innocence

Grief

Foreboding

Determination

Courage

Conviction

Doubt