The Commune - Message Relay Zeta

[Sly]

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Incoming Transmission

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Source ID: Jessica Yang

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Location: Corinth Research Station

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Encryption: #Babylon_S_3.74b.alg

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Report:

I RD'd with Overlord Nomak near Venice Shipyard where I had my first encounter with the Oracles. Oracle "Sajuuk" spoke cryptically (as expected), though pleasantly. I gathered that that he possesses some active form of mind-sharing communication abilities with the Spirits. How or why this works is beyond me for now, but I hope to understand it eventually.

[15.01.2017 22:39:47] Oracle|Shrine.of.Altair: S: "Ask."
[15.01.2017 22:40:06] Oracle|Shrine.of.Altair: S: "I know you need to ask something."
[15.01.2017 22:40:14] Oracle|Shrine.of.Altair: S: "Go ahead."
[15.01.2017 22:40:14] (C~Jessica.Yang: I recall you had a special way of communication with... something or someone.
[15.01.2017 22:40:32] Oracle|Shrine.of.Altair: S: "Let me guess...the visions?"
[15.01.2017 22:40:54] (C~Jessica.Yang: Yes. I assume those are not just dreams. What are those visions?
[15.01.2017 22:41:12] Oracle|Shrine.of.Altair: S: "Visions, so to say, are real things."
[15.01.2017 22:41:29] Oracle|Shrine.of.Altair: S: "They are not to be considered dreams."
[15.01.2017 22:42:13] Oracle|Shrine.of.Altair: S: "Visions are initiated, as you know, by a spirit."
[15.01.2017 22:42:41] Oracle|Shrine.of.Altair: S: "Those are the collective of the experiences of said Spirit, shared."
[15.01.2017 22:43:09] Oracle|Shrine.of.Altair: S: "Most people would suffer from headache, after such events."
[15.01.2017 22:43:29] Oracle|Shrine.of.Altair: S: "Those gifted, such as me, do not. Instead, they gain knowledge."
[15.01.2017 22:43:49] (C~Jessica.Yang: The spirit transfers information about his lifespan to you? The knowledge that they obtained?
[15.01.2017 22:44:10] Oracle|Shrine.of.Altair: S: "They can share."
[15.01.2017 22:44:41] Oracle|Shrine.of.Altair: S: "The greater the spirit, the more complex the vision will be."
[15.01.2017 22:45:02] (C~Jessica.Yang: I assume, you are the masters of deciphering those visions, which is what separates you from the rest.
[15.01.2017 22:45:25] Oracle|Shrine.of.Altair: S: "I can decipher visions, but not every of them."
[15.01.2017 22:45:52] Oracle|Shrine.of.Altair: S: "I have witnessed the power of the Spirits myself."
[15.01.2017 22:46:17] Oracle|Shrine.of.Altair: S: "The avatar of havok, terror, and destruction..."
[15.01.2017 22:46:24] Oracle|Shrine.of.Altair: S: "Ish'tar."
[15.01.2017 22:46:33] (C~Jessica.Yang: Were you able to assimilate any of said power?
[15.01.2017 22:46:43] (C~Jessica.Yang: As in retain for your own personal use.
[15.01.2017 22:46:42] Oracle|Shrine.of.Altair: S: "Right."
[15.01.2017 22:46:57] Oracle|Shrine.of.Altair: S: "We gain knowledge to learn this world."
[15.01.2017 22:47:01] (C~Jessica.Yang: Most interesting.
[15.01.2017 22:47:17] Oracle|Shrine.of.Altair: S: "The Spirits share their knowledge with us."
[15.01.2017 22:48:23] Oracle|Shrine.of.Altair: S: "We have four Teneants to follow, in order to complete ourselves."
[15.01.2017 22:48:46] Oracle|Shrine.of.Altair: S: "Learn. Understand. Master. Unify."
[15.01.2017 22:48:58] (C~Jessica.Yang: Do they share their goals, warfare knowledge, or anything concerning their hierarchy?
[15.01.2017 22:49:04] Oracle|Shrine.of.Altair: S: "No."
[15.01.2017 22:49:24] Oracle|Shrine.of.Altair: S: "That would require something deeper."
[15.01.2017 22:49:36] Oracle|Shrine.of.Altair: S: "A direct link to the Mindshare."
[15.01.2017 22:50:16] (C~Jessica.Yang: The Mindshare... That's a sort of collective neural net of the Spirits?
[15.01.2017 22:50:24] Oracle|Shrine.of.Altair: S: "Yes."
[15.01.2017 22:50:35] (C~Jessica.Yang: Hm. Good, good.
[15.01.2017 22:50:37] Oracle|Shrine.of.Altair: S: "Remember: They are never alone."

The Oracle then had to leave abruptly, after which Jared decided to take me out on a tour. What I saw was beyond my wildest imaginations (which was, in any case, hindered by my silly 24-7-at-the-desk work in xeno). First off we visited Corsica colony, by the fringe of a... black hole! I don't know what happened to the planetoid and how it is still in place, but this system looked like a bad luck's mess.

According to Jared, my soon-to-be colleague Dave Synk goes on vacation to the event horizon of that thing. Can't say I don't approve of this insanity, for this may well be the thing that drives our science forward nowadays. Moving on, we then descended deep into Annunaki territory. I got to glide down the trade lanes created by the Spirits, to enter their warp gates. The firsthand experience in using alien technology (mind you, using, not just touching or observing!) is something I have never even dreamed of during my time in Cambridge.

The "Ancient Ground"

A generator-like structure

The Light

I scrapped as much data as I could from my multipurpose Sabre, but it's just not good enough. I will need to set up a flying laboratory in order to learn the structures and their purpose in detail. I also obtained 5 units of Azurite. Will attempt to follow up on Synk's "Black Nova" experiment until I run out of the gas.

Jess Yang out.

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Transmission End

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