_. _ __._ _ * _. . , _ . _. _ _ (_.(_)_) [ | )|(_. \/ (_)\_|(_](_](/, ._| ._| 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: 874 >> Extrasolar Outpost 037.b - Message #019 873 >> Extrasolar Outpost 037.b - Message #019 872 >> Zephyria - AUTOMATED PLANET INFO PING 871 >> GSS-28 Voyager - AUTOMATED BLACK BOX BOOT LOG 000 870 >> Arke - 3893-07-24-Log1 869 >> Sakura - Datalink fix - log 001 868 >> Acerion - Unregistered-Transmission-001 867 >> Lovelace - The Fountain of Youth (1) 866 >> Leaps And Bounds - terminal_fragments 865 >> Leaps And Bounds - penultimate, um 864 >> telitru - notci xi so 863 >> W3bK3rN3l Radio - wbknl-000024 862 >> Interzone - Captains Log Stardate 1433.094.1245 861 >> Interzone - The Planned Attack 860 >> Leaps And Bounds - wink-w-ink 859 >> Leaps And Bounds - & so on ..? 858 >> Leaps And Bounds - Is this thing on? 857 >> Interzone - Medical Log - Stardate 1433.001.0903 856 >> Interzone - Captains Log - Stardate 1492.360.12.00 855 >> Interzone - The beginning