_. _ __._ _ * _. . , _ . _. _ _ (_.(_)_) [ | )|(_. \/ (_)\_|(_](_](/, ._| ._| 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: 803 >> Extrasolar Outpost 037.b - Message #013 802 >> Extrasolar Outpost 037.b - Message #012 801 >> Extrasolar Outpost 037.b - Message 800 >> Extrasolar Outpost 037.b - Message #011 799 >> Exploration Base 003 - Message #3579 798 >> Extrasolar Outpost 037.b - Message #010 797 >> Extrasolar Outpost 037.b - Message #009 796 >> Extrasolar Outpost 037.b - Message #008 795 >> Extrasolar Outpost 037.b - Message #007 794 >> Extrasolar Outpost 037.b - Message #006 793 >> Extrasolar Outpost 037.b - retract message 792 >> Extrasolar Outpost 037.b - Message #004 791 >> Extrasolar Outpost 037.b - Extrasolar Outpost 037.b - Message #003 790 >> Extrasolar Outpost 037.b - Extrasolar Outpost 037.b - Message #002 789 >> Extrasolar Outpost 037.b - Message #001 788 >> Accipiter - CHAT LOG 2517-04-22 787 >> telitru - notci xi re 786 >> Accipiter - Augmentation 785 >> Accipiter - TRANSMISSION RELAY 2517-04-22 784 >> Pizo - Emphatically happy!