_. _ __._ _ * _. . , _ . _. _ _ (_.(_)_) [ | )|(_. \/ (_)\_|(_](_](/, ._| ._| 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: 738 >> flight9000 - [QEC] Ship introduction, and our weird QEC system 737 >> Research Outpost Q42 - 4971098 I'm Here 736 >> Research Outpost Q42 - 3472-04-25 My New Posting 735 >> GS0 -Caelum- - Test Run 734 >> HMS Inkredible - Scan Log 0001 - Eta Draconis 733 >> HMS Inkredible - Captain's Log 0003 732 >> HMS Inkredible - Captain's Log 0002 731 >> HMS Inkredible - Captain's Log 0001 730 >> Blue Star Escape Pod 007876 - Escape Pod 007876 Log 1 729 >> Archer-51 - NOTICE OF ONGOING INVESTIGATION 728 >> Archer-51 - ADDENDUM TO PRELIMINARY REPORT 727 >> Archer-51 - PRELIMINARY REPORT 726 >> SC Prometheus Blue - SCPRBL TRANSMISSION ONE 725 >> Sphere Monk - log0006 724 >> MSS Endereon - New Specimen 723 >> betsy - QEC-NNTP 722 >> Hisaishi Satellite - Error 721 >> Hisaishi Satellite - Software Checks 720 >> Hisaishi Satellite - At the South Pole 719 >> Grizzly - Hello Cosmic Voyage!