Truth is leaking documents. Truth works through one of you: a HANDLER. They are among you now.
The handler gets trust keys from Truth, short phrases such as PLATEAU BUILDER or UBUNTU LIES. Community members seeking trust keys will reach out to the handler or their agents.
Whenever anyone PMs a trust key back to Truth, this creates a relay. When enough relays are active, Truth will upload a document.
You can help us locate Truth by getting trust keys, adding the suffix '-attach[]' to the end, and PMing them to Truth. This creates a trace relay. Trace relays help us locate and stop Truth. We have selected a Lead Tactical Operative from your community's volunteers. The LTO will help organize your efforts against Truth.
Those of you who don't want to get involved as operatives can still help! We need analysts to help us locate Truth. We are establishing a system to help organize and reward your efforts.
If the HANDLER can be identified from among the community members, GRANITE HUNTER may establish strike relays to expose them and obtain intelligence. Success may be tactically decisive. Failure will be politically problematic and may compromise secure information.
Truth's cell members may also organize strikes against the GRANITE HUNTER LTO, compromising their communications and intelligence. Failure may expose Truth cell members and information.
If the situation intensifies, additional technical means may be provided to the LTO.
Alright, im completly confused right now.
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Yes as TheHound has said, a little more information about yourself and this situation would be appreciated; what is this information to do with? Who do you work for? Why are you so evasive about the situation? You're asking for a lot of trust from us, and yet we know so little about you, not to mention whom you may work for.Alright, im completly confused right now.Can we help clarify anything for you? We want the whole community to feel informed and vigilant.
Im not sure if this is really some elaborate plot, or some sort of high level trolling going on.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_reality_game
SECURE PRIORITY COMMUNIQUE
distribution SOLITAIRE, keyword PASQUINADE, source CIRCULAR
FROM: BALCONY VIEW
TO: COLDMORN
Welcome to hell. I'm your new Ahriman. No one elects us and no one gets rid of us which makes us, as much as everyone would like to think otherwise post-Glaive, the only enduring policymakers in this post-terrestrial mess. Our first priority is the safety of the species. Implicit in that is the ugly truth: we need to hold on to the ability to save the species.
I understand your reaction to the Remillard Receipts. Very few of us ever respond well to the coverup. Let me assure you that very few of those who work the problem end up disagreeing. What else do we do with the transmissions?
To me, the more interesting questions are these: how much of it is true? Who do we believe? If MacDuff is actually in control of a disintegrating civilization, do we need to be prepared for military confrontation? If Human Futures is seeding a soft tyranny, do we need to be prepare for a soft war? And what about the interference? Who's doing that? Who has that capability? Who wants to keep us cut off?
The one that keeps me up at night is this: did we actually make a clean sweep during Templar? Or did one of those Shiva-****ers smuggle a copy out?
In any case. Much as we might call them jealous, our counterparts in the Complicated Place are correct. We don't need the fact of a homeworld right now. We need the hope of a home to get back to, and, failing the presence of that hope, the dream of a brighter world for our children.
I can't believe 'lost generation' caught on. I hate that book. We came through hellfire and ruin and the loss of everything and now we have a chance, here, to make something new.
Let's get to it.
SECURE PRIORITY COMMUNIQUE
distribution SOLITAIRE, keyword ERGOSPHERE, source CIRC_NEW_WARHARD
FROM: COLDMORN
TO: BALCONY VIEW
we're a year deep and i feel like i've heard more doubletalk and lies than a vasudan bartender. my friends are in play in polaris and they're killing each other. you think the navy has it bad? at least they don't work in the same room as the other side!
and i still can't get an honest brief. ANSWER ME STRAIGHT
1) did we, you and all your BALCONY creatures, aim CELTIC TRIPLE at the deneb artifacts? or was it the CABLE STAMP crew? i understand that CABLE STAMP cares about earth and you don't. CELTIC TRIPLE has something you want and something they want
2) was CELTIC TRIPLE one of us before he went out into the cold? did we send him out there to do this? is all of this our project, the pogroms, the harbinger hit on cygnus prime, just to get the deneb artifacts wherever they're going?
3) what the **** is ETAK and why do we need it so badly?
BALCONY VIEW -> COLDMORN
we're still people up here. we hate this as much as you do. right now i am working with CABLE STAMP and the Complicated Place to figure out how we can all get what we want. remember the top priority. i'm putting you on BLACK DOVE and i want him on ETAK
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ACTION DIRECTIVE TO FOLLOW
SECCON AUTHORITY. IMMEDIATE EFFECT.
PULL BLOCKADE ON SIRIUS-DENEB JUMP NODE.
HOLD OFF ON CELTIC TRIPLE INTERCEPT. MAINTAIN PURSUIT POSTURE BUT DO NOT ENGAGE. STRATEGICALLY VITAL THAT CELTIC TRIPLE TRANSIT NODE UNIMPAIRED
RATIONALE TO FOLLOW
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<Scotty> I need your help
<Scotty> I thought I was safe but GH's LTO is hot on my trail
<BritishShivans> Interesting.
<Scotty> Can I trust you?
<BritishShivans> Depends. Phantom reeled me in and I was going to keep the information to myself. Then I read the file and looked closely at what GH has been saying. I don't trust any side in this.
<BritishShivans> Something's up.
<Scotty> Damn right it is
<BritishShivans> Fishy.
<BritishShivans> You've been GH's chief enforcer so far. Are you sure you're not being manipulated?
<Scotty> It's possible. I covered up that link before I knew what exactly was at stake.
<Scotty> You know me. I can't resist the lure of new information, no matter who it's from. truth is going to get the better stuff, so he's the obvious choice
<Scotty> I tried to get IronBeer to shut up before because telling the whole world those keys is bad news for truth.
<BritishShivans> I see.
<Scotty> So that's why I need help now
<BritishShivans> Truth appears to be UEF... but I've been contacted by them as well.
<Scotty> I don't know who's on what ****ing side. I thought I was on truth's but someone else thought I was GH's LTO of all things.
<Scotty> And now GH's *actual* LTO might know I'm involved on truth's side and that's... not good
<BritishShivans> And they don't seem to explicitly support the UEF.
<Scotty> I need to stay quiet for a while. But you can still help. I need to figure out who GH's actual LTO is.
<BritishShivans> Anything that supports the UEF is anti-TEV... but.
<BritishShivans> Truth's behaviour doesn't add up.
<Scotty> Does it have to? He's feeding us information
<BritishShivans> Indeed.
<BritishShivans> And that's the thing
<Scotty> You want to know why, I take it
<BritishShivans> Could Truth be GH's LTO?
<BritishShivans> Or a sniffer?
<Scotty> Hm. I can honestly say that thought didn't cross my mind int he slightest
<BritishShivans> What's your take on these events?
<Scotty> I've talked with a few people. Found out some stuff that doesn't add up. Now I'm in it to see just how much we can wring out of both of them. Since truth has the jucier stuff, I've been on his side.
<Scotty> I just have no damn clue which side that is anymore
<Scotty> or at least who's on it or off it
<Scotty> You posted that link on the forums. I figured you were someone I could go to about it.
<BritishShivans> I see.
<BritishShivans> At this point I am waiting to see the ramifications.
<Scotty> Probably for the best
<BritishShivans> I'm going to try and probe a response from Truth.
<Scotty> Also a good idea
<Scotty> I got a message from him earlier, but he hasn't responded since then.
<BritishShivans> I see.
<Scotty> Since you posted the message, I'm assuming you got something from him too
<Scotty> Several somethings
<BritishShivans> Indeed.
<BritishShivans> http://pastebin.com/tQYuLffD Take a look.
<BritishShivans> This is what I got from truth (it's the message I posted, but it's what I've been given so far.)
<Scotty> I'm in th emiddle of reading that. Followed the link on the forums.
<BritishShivans> Ah.
<BritishShivans> Anything in particular that didn't add up, by the way?
<Scotty> Besides everything?
<BritishShivans> Anything *specific*?
<BritishShivans> Anything that might be worth bringing up?
<Scotty> Hell, I managed to get a guy into GH's circle!
<BritishShivans> Hmm.
<Scotty> That might honestly have been a happy coincidence but I've got a contact
<Scotty> I can help, but I need to know who to help
<BritishShivans> I see.
<BritishShivans> Try and fish for information when this blows over, perhaps.
<BritishShivans> See what your contact can learn about GH's activity.
<Scotty> Yeah. That's probably all I can do without getting in a mess of trouble
<Scotty> Ugh. Patience is not my strong suit.
SECURE PRIORITY COMMUNIQUE
distribution SOLITAIRE, keyword ERGOSPHERE, source CIRC_NEW_WARHARD
FROM: COLDMORN
TO: BALCONY VIEW
why are you running an agent in an opeval unit? why are you passing them the BLACK DOVE sigint from ETAK? those TAG transmitters are going into live combat ordnance...do you actually want this chum in the water?
BALCONY VIEW->COLDMORN
The strategic situation in the nebular theater can accept a few hits. If there's a shark out there I'd like to see it.
SECURE PRIORITY COMMUNIQUE
distribution SOLITAIRE, keyword ERGOSPHERE, source CIRC_NEW_WARHARD
FROM: COLDMORN
TO: BALCONY VIEW
i know CHARIOT DRIVER ****ed up and i know the Complicated Place (probably) didn't want it any more than we did but you HAVE to stop this court-martial. by drawing the rebels' attention to CHARIOT DRIVER and what he knew you are endangering BLACK DOVE. we need that asset and its capabilities. i am cooking up a heist that will get you more of what you want.
or are you going to blame this on CABLE STAMP? are they trying to get my people killed to interfere with your plan?
you need to keep me in the loop BALCONY...you have too much riding on my work to let me develop illusions of independence...
BALCONY VIEW->COLDMORN
i will do what i can but remember we are part of a military here and like it or not i don't run everything [yet]. i consider CHARIOT DRIVER a personal friend and i wish we lived in a world where he could've had justice right there and then. think of him next time you pull strings for CELTIC TRIPLE. think of him and remember the price he's paying.
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ENSURE CELTIC TRIPLE TRANSITS KNOSSOS BY ANY MEANS AVAILABLE
BLACK DOVE ABOARD NTF SHIP ATTEMPTING KNOSSOS TRANSIT. I WOULD BE MUCH OBLIGED IF HE MADE IT BUT NOT STRICTLY A VITAL ASSET
GODSPEED AND DON'T BREAK THE BIG GUY ANY HARDER THAN HE BREAKS HIMSELF
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HELLO AND BEST WISHES FROM YOUR FRIENDS ON HIGH. HOPE ALL IS WELL IN THE FOG. CONGRATS ON THE BIG BEAR KILL
GRANITE MOUNTAIN WILL REQUEST ELINT AND SPECIAL SENSOR ASSETS. DETACH SOONEST (FLASH PRIORITY). SUPERCEDES ALL OTHER MISSIONS EXCEPT PERIMETER WATCH
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THE GIG IS UP. GRAB THE TARGET. I WANT EVERYTHING.
USE ANY AVAILABLE FLEET OR SOC ASSET
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SITUATION DEPARTING FROM SURVIVABLE PARAMETERS. SECCON IS HUNGRY FOR ANYTHING AND I WILL BURN EVERY ASSET I HAVE MYSELF INCLUDED BEFORE I LET THEM DOWN.
UNEXPECTED TREASURE FROM A CONCERTO IN CAPELLA. WE ARE CHASING IT. WE MAY HAVE A GENUINE NAGARI SPECIMEN ON OUR HANDS.
GIVE BLACK DOVE THE GO ON LIONSDEN
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We represent the one legitimate, lawful authority in this jurisdiction. Our interest is the safety and security of the human race. We don't have to remind anyone here what happened the last time a subversive ideology gained traction in our lives — or how dearly it cost us to end that ideology's reign of terror.
[20:27] <boboon> Whatever sexy hunk is leading team truth must be a genius
What the hell? How did the GTVA (or more likely the GTVI?) find out about the Fedayeen proposal to Meson Bomb BETAQ?
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BALCONY VIEW -> COLDMORN
First day on the new system feels like a good day for my last day on the job. I'm out. You're inheriting everything I ran. CABLE STAMP is tight with Petrarch but you knew that already. With the Knossos findings and Petrarch in their hand, and the economy going the way it's going, we're going to have to concede the palace to CABLE STAMP unless we can find a way back in. The only way I see out is to work MORPHEUS. Work it as hard as you can until you can convince someone there's a threat and that we need to be ready when we go home.
I'm going to move to south Hulldown and hope I die before any more excitement happens. I know you'll buy me a present no matter what I say. My grandkid wouldn't mind a copy of Antagonism 2.
I know you'll ask me how it feels to be out no matter how much I don't want to answer. You'll be informed on a need-to-know basis, COLDMORN. And I still need you in the game.
That's how it goes.
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COLDMORN -> WIZARD MAN
Thank you for your work managing everyone's recollection of that event. And thank you for reaching out to me with this theory. I value this kind of initiative.
Your suppositions are part of a long and (now) fractionally less insane history. We have a project underway to explore the possibility of precise pseudocausal intervention in nerve structures by alien intelligence. I'm adding you to MORPHEUS as field support.
Get me Kyle Athanas. We need interviews and neural telemetry. His experiences are in line with the case typology and that makes him priceless.
Do you remember the days when we had a budget? I miss knowing that everything was a GTVI plot.
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TO SSC LIASON
WHAT IN THE NAME OF YOUR INADEQUATE GODS IS HAPPENING OVER THERE. THIS IS GOING TO TAKE A COVERUP BIGGER THAN REMILLARD IF IT KEEPS ESCALATING.
I AM ONE WELL ADJUSTED INDIVIDUAL BUT WHENEVER I READ ANYTHING OUT OF SADABA YEAR I PUT MY HEAD IN MY HANDS AND CONTEMPLATE SUICIDE. DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS WOULD DO TO SPECIES WIDE MORALE? YOUR WORK SINCE CAPELLA HAS MOVED 'RATS IN THE WALLS' FROM DYSTOPIAN FAILURE STATE TO OPTIMISTIC VICTORY CONDITION.
STICK TO YOUR JOB. MAKE SURE CENTAUR IS GOING TO WORK.
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TO SSC LIASON
TELL ME WHERE THE FOURTEENTH BATTLEGROUP IS RIGHT NOW.
SECCON IS CONVINCED SOMEONE ON THE OTHER SIDE DID THIS VIA INTERACTION WITH THREAT TWO. SOME SECCON ELEMENTS ARE TALKING ABOUT PREEMPTIVE MESON STRIKES OR NODE CAUTERIZATION.
HELP ME STOP THIS. TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED TO THOSE SHIPS.
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COLDMORN -> WIZARD MAN
Where is the smoking gun?
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I don't care about tactical **** like antimatter bombers. Leave that problem to the warfighters. Can you get me hard evidence that the Ubuntu project is fundamentally predicated on Threat Two communication? We sold MORPHEUS on the certainty that Ubuntu was compromised. Where is the proof?
I'll let you in on a little hypothetical. Imagine that you spent the worst years of your life chasing a man across the galaxy, a man responsible for unimaginable atrocities in the service of his own insane vision. When you almost have him, he slips away. But he leaves you his diary! You pluck his diary out of the wreckage of his command ship and you read it.
He talks about humanity's collective nightmare as its best hope. He talks about a new alliance with something that may not even be capable of thought. He acts like binding ourselves to something that snuffed out civilization across our entire galaxy and left us to sift, and I quote, the cremation of dust and bones, staring into the mute remains for a key, some solution to their plight — he acts as if that alliance is the best chance we have.
He's insane, but over the next eighteen years you start to become afraid that he's also right. That the alternative is slavery to something worse.
Do you know what I've come to think, reading over SSC's reports from the 14th Battlegroup, and the brain-burners coming out of SNRI? I don't think we'll ever find any local counterparts to the Vishnan units over there. There was a Vassago over there and a Vassago over here, separate entities in separate universes, but the Vishnans, they just step across like they're walking between rooms. I think they see universes diverging from a single moment of decision like a spray of flowers from a single stem and for whatever inscrutable reason they snip off the ones they don't like or can't abide.
On my worst nights I'm afraid we're the only one left. That everything else on the SNRI plots is dead.
Get me proof. Get me a MORPHEUS smoking gun. We'll talk about Shambhala and victory conditions next.
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COLDMORN -> CABLE MAKER
It's time to set aside old grudges.
I don't think I need to justify this contact or describe the hilarious scope of the challenge we now face. We are very close to something like success in Sol. Once we've dismantled the compromised Federation leadership and acquired their administrative and ideological technologies, we need to plan for the future
I think you and I can both agree that the Complicated Place is (once more) incomprehensible, that the civilian world refuses to accept facts, and that our political leadership is unprepared for the scope of the threat. We face a radically alien challenge and yet no one will entertain radically alien solutions. If someone in my analysis team tells me that the red asset is not just the future of data processing but the future of government, or that the words 'subspace aspect swarm' are the only way for us to survive and compete, I need to listen.
We need a lever we can use on the big problems. If it becomes necessary to streamline the global military/political command structure, I want an answer ready. Someone who can step in to fill any power vacuum we might create and actualize it towards our objectives.
Is anyone running CINCSOL?
What the hell? How did the GTVA (or more likely the GTVI?) find out about the Fedayeen proposal to Meson Bomb BETAQ?
He's probably talking about AoA. When the 14th BG went missing some people in the GTVA SecCon must have proposed to collapse the node. According to this, they thought the vishnans had made the BG disappear by request of the UEF.
I am generally of the opinion that information should not be suppressed. The more you try to suppress information, the more attention it garners. You lend credibility to these "misinformational" ideas by your attempts to suppress them.
I might be willing to play along, but I would have to be thoroughly convinced that whatever imperative you are serving really does outweigh the imperative of the free and unfettered exchange of knowledge and ideas.
What dire consequences are you so afraid of?
Take the chance to consider who's given you better information so far, who has your best interests at heart, and how you can bring your community members up to speed.
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cosmeticIMV is functionalIMV plus 1000
We're not trying to suppress anything. We just want you to read it with a critical eye and understand what it was written to achieve.How exactly does "leak containment" not equal "suppression?" How does "leak containment" even apply to this information if it is, as you say, "false?"
that's you and your mom and your cat are you okay with that?Do you present an alternative? Or merely a smear campaign of unfortunate truths? What do you hope to achieve here?
Also, what kind of help do you expect from us? Unless we're working with you or against you we don't have any trust keys, so what can we do?
"I could live with being a pawn if the game made sense!"
"I could live with being a pawn if the game made sense!"
I just cant remember where I did heard that one...
"I could live with being a pawn if the game made sense!"
I just cant remember where I did heard that one...
One of your wingmen, retail mission 3, The Romans Blunder.
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WIZARD MAN -> COLDMORN
Let's talk about the RCT group
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COLDMORN my favorite aunt it's me again. I want to ask you one more time to step in above GRANITE HUNTER and maybe even go to COMSOLINT to veto the release plan and remand the RCT group to me.
They are great PR and everyone loves the Arid/Burrock/Candide show. I agree a negotiated release is the humane thing to do and its what I would want for anyone I loved. But let's check ourselves for scope insensitivity here. (i know here I go again with the Morpheus scope argument but i thik it is ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY to use every single time. stakes stakes stakes)
We are talking about three civilians. Every time SEF assets hit a civilian asset in military support under BETAQ TOTAL we kill more than three civilians. Orders of mag more. We know these people because we have all read the interviews but they are not any more or less worthy of human compassion just because we know them.
The RCT group represents a diverse cross-section of experts who have been repeatedly and persistently exposed to the structural echoes of MORPHEUS events. I know this is not a popular argument but it's one I'm making one lst time.
They worked with complex economic software in their capacity as independent freighter crew. Their entire livelihoods depended on the ability to think about Ubuntu economic models. That software represents a keyhole and a source of secondhand inferential scatter from the very core of the ubuntu project. The economic models we are talking about are not just about money. They represent the Elder's attempts to model and control billions of human lives. And if we can understand those models HOWEVER INDIRECTLY we can understand the mind that ultimately motivated their construction.
Let me lay out my chain as clearly as I can and I know it is the ghost of a ghost but we have to glean everything we can:
[threat two] -> elders -> ubuntu models -> behavioral print left on those who interact with ubuntu models -> neural structures correlated with that print
So here is my plain request and I trust you to take it as an exigent and absolutely amoral ****ed-up thing which may nonetheless offer a fractional chance of improving our odds by one razor slice of a percentile
Move the RCT group off the Arcane, up the pipe to Beta Aq, and host them in Blackbird Village. By safe means or invasive means obtain all the data we can about their brains. Hit them with whatever inferentials we have and use zod bull**** and red assets to bootstrap SOMETHING, ANYTHING about threat two and how they think.
no it's not the same as nagari-modified brain structures. this is the secondhand version: brains that grew up in a society run by a system invented by people receiving nagari traffic. no it's not clean but we pluck vital intelligence from that kind of insane causal chain it's what we DO
morpheus is a tourniquet and we need to get at the heart. it is absolutely unacceptable that we do not have more to offer SecCon. if you do not put some pressure on this matter i have to consider going through CINCSOL
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they have a Terminal Contingent Outcomes Matrix that lists each and every person in the world every one of you everyone in your lives from your first kiss to the guy who dropped a jar of red rooster in the checkout line and got it all over your shoes yesterday and there's a code next to your name which tells the military how much to care about your life when the next one happens and they can't get everyone out
the default is called Intrinsic Moral Value and it's the number 1000 but that's just to make it easier to talk about at meetingsCode: [Select]TCOM vars
;define cosmetic IMV
cosmeticIMV is functionalIMV plus 1000
that's you and your mom and your cat are you okay with that?
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NEMESIS NOW Integrated Outcomes Report
Introduction
If you're reading this you are part of the select Upsilon-plus group cleared for NEMESIS NOW. The intelligence community has spent a decade wailing over the explosive complexity of joint analysis on Shivan behavior during the Second Incursion. After ten years of listening to jumped-up experts on the effect of Sirius tax structures in Regulan election outcomes bleating about Vasudan psycholinguistic techniques and suggesting that Shivan behavior might be 'genuinely alien', our task force coalesced out of the collective resentment and irritation of people whose thoughts actually matter.
Wise figures in our leadership structure empowered NEMESIS NOW to traverse the entire alphabet of acronyms, callsigns, stacks, matrices, workflows, and footprints devoted to Shivan analysis. From this journey we return with several transparently exploitative gems of existential horror designed to scare you away and let us get back to work. This is one of them.
Looking Back
Most of you pretend to understand the differences in Shivan behavior between the Great War and the Second Incursion. The core fact you must grasp about the Second Incursion is that Shivan behavior was tactically diffuse, initially much like a set of agents with no global control, but later developed strategic direction. In the opening stages of the encounter, the Shivans reacted sluggishly, executing what we term an 'inflammatory response' to Bosch's incursion. As Allied presence in the nebula escalated, the Shivans began to emit a wide spectrum of behaviors, including a stereotyped recapitulation of Great War strategy that culminated in the GTD Phoenicia's bearbaiting operation and the famous 'High Noon' engagement in Capella. During this strategic epoch, Allied forces fought against a blind algorithm.
We cracked the Shivan behavioral code when we abandoned top-down, teleological analysis and trusted our models to identify patterns. When we extract a pattern from noise, we call it a signal. All Shivan behavior during these opening stages fits within one broad, chaotic signal.
As the Incursion proceeds, we begin to detect a second signal in the Shivan behavioral model. Here and there, strategic elements and tactical assets suddenly depart from the inflammatory response. Yet there is no clear phase transition, as we observed during the Great War after the destruction of the Lucifer. Instead, this signal operates within the inflammatory ladder, redirecting and manipulating elements already in play. For the sake of your limited imaginations we will risk anthropomorphizing and suggest its behavior is almost covert.
Something within the Shivan behavioral system began goal-directed behavior. The result was the detonation of the Capella star. What other outcomes can we attribute to this second signal, this specter in the demon apparatus? We can immediately extract one actionable piece of intelligence: if any of your colleagues or subordinates suggest the action of a 'Shivan queen' or 'hive mind', you can safely have them fired.
By altering the parameters of Shivan behavior across a range of possible (and some contrafactually impossible) states, we can bootstrap models of Shivan cognition. When these models predict Shivan behavior that resembles actual recorded encounters, we gain confidence in the underlying assumptions. In several scenarios, we used Great War behavioral patterns to operate Shivan forces during the Second Incursion. Allied casualties approached or equaled the ceiling value.
In some scenarios, the model of best fit incorporates a third force in play. We can observe this third force only by its interactions with the Shivan behavioral parameters. In many of these models, the Shivan 'second signal' is oriented partly or even wholly in response to the third player.
Beyond a three-player game, diminishing fit returns set in. In this respect our work probably resembles your sex life.
Looking Forward
During Alllied operations against the first Sathanas juggernaut, the 203rd Scorpions attacked a Shivan position in an effort to lure the Sathanas into a trap. The GVCv Sopedu was assigned to provide TAG support, but the ship's commander, a veteran of both flight and warship engagements, experienced an episode of intrusive ideation. The GVCv Thutmose was hastily reassigned to the engagement. At the same time, Allied flight elements recorded unusual emissions from the NTF Iceni and a Shivan corvette, the Rephaim.
Our analysis has detected structural rhymes in emissions detected from Shivan artifacts located in a binary star system, the deepest penetration into Shivan territory of any Allied units during the Second Incursion. One of our (parameter-agnostic, omnivorous, unmanaged) models suggests that these structures represent long-range transmitters for the 'second signal' behavior driver. Interestingly, these devices had on-board self-destruct mechanisms and systems that could be interpreted as camouflage — but against what?
We have had some success using these agnostic models to generate novel and occasionally fantastical hypotheses for Shivan behavior. This agnostic technique seeks to create models that can control all degrees of freedom in Shivan behavior with a minimum number of assumptions. (These same Nenet-Bayes-Kekera techniques are used in many popular social applications to interpolate intentions, character, and personal history from brief exposure, as well as in the most successful Vasudan translation software.)
One successful model indicates that the Shivans pivoted from a posture of strategic defense to a strategy of either intimidation or simple obfuscation: detonating Capella to sever contact with Allied forces. In this model, Shivan presence in the nebula system was an engineering unit, a different class of organism from the Lucifer fleet with different behavioral imperatives. Their only aim was to stop attrition and prevent Allied units from interfering with whatever goals they had.
Yet this model has fallen out of favor. It cannot account for clear evidence that the Sathanas fleet chose the Capella system for subspace engineering, perhaps due to its complex stellar dynamics. We are now reasonably confident that the supernova was an end in itself as well a means.
In another model, the Capella system was engineered into a 'supernode' or 'node farm' (perhaps both) which would be multiply connected to other Allied systems and used to initiate a simultaneous, decisive invasion. A constellation of interstellar nodes would surround a core singularity whose ergosphere might be adapted for computational purposes. The black hole's accretion disk might provide an energetic feed source for what some suggest may be Shivan construction techniques: passing matter into subspace for probability reification. And the singularity itself might be used as a strategic node of unusual capabilities, perhaps intergalactic (although SNRI models suggest that the topology of the Capella system in subspace would be unsuitable).
One major blind spot of these models is Shivan operational tempo. No decisive invasion has materialized. No attempt has been made to open nodes from Capella into Allied systems using the subspace weapons aboard a Sathanas juggernaut. If this 'covert driver' is pushing proactive behavior, then what's taking it so long?
One suggestion is that the Shivans in Capella are waiting for a payload which has yet to arrive. Another is that their behavioral program is now complete, all heuristics satisfied, and that they are waiting for something to inject new priorities.
Looking Down
GTVI had some time to work with the wreckage of the Sathanas juggernaut destroyed in Capella. Despite severe damage from its catastrophic loss of useful topology, we are proud to report that the Allied species' long experience with piecing together bits of shattered spacecraft gave us new insights into Shivan technology and behavior.
Alas, our specific findings are classified beyond your clearance. Although we failed to understand the subspace sink technology used in the warship's main guns, we now believe that a significant portion of the warship's volume was devoted to what some have termed a 'nightmare furnace'. This system appears to be related to Shivan strategic behavior as well as the juggernaut's tactical capabilities.
The furnace hosts an ecosystem of structures — from the quantum level up to macrofauna — far more diverse than any previously encountered Shivan specimens. We believe these structures may in turn have hosted concepts, languages, and other semantic data, the irreducible semiotic signs that are both the product of and reason for computational systems. The system was extremely energetic and dynamic.
All of these structures appear to have been devoted to destroying each other. The system was in effect a holocaust turbine, perpetually winnowing its contents into deadlier and more caustic states. Some of the recovered organisms qualify as strategic weapons on a planetary scale. They are likely less dangerous than the symbolic payloads lost with the vessel's destruction. Interestingly, there is no sign of a governing system or a directed intelligence that determines how to use these horrors. Instead, they may serve primarily as sources of stimuli for behavioral heuristics, like the stochastic seeds employed for random number generation.
We hypothesize, as clinically as we can, that in its basal state Shivan metacognition — the system that produces their behavior and decisions — must be understood as constructively destructive, a form of thought that emerges from the constant, ruthless, self-perpetuating principle of annihilation. Whatever selective pressure, system design, or runaway process created the Shivans predicated their fundamental quiddity on the devastation of organized information in every state from the atom to the genome to the encryption of a secure combat computer to language itself.
Chew on that at your next budget meeting.
i am a gtvi agent. i am the alienist who sacrifices his life his principles and his mental integrity to prepare the alliance for what's to come. every day i sit down bravely with my gtm-400 triple norto blonde recaf deionized macchiato and click 'run' on a self-fitting self-improving vertical slice model of data gathered by an omnivore surveillance system that requires no human input except 'wow' and 'keep it up'. help me spout jargon at a community of civilians. i need your help. i am begging for your help
thanks for getting me in to GRANITE HUNTER but sometimes iWhile the information you are disclosing is interesting, you are not exactly inspiring a whole lot of confidence. "Bulls in the china shop?" This is how you describe yourselves? This is what you are asking us to ally with?
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wish i didn't learn these things
Let's cut to it, truth. To quote a local cult classic, "Who are you? What do you want?"
Similar phrase: "I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, then questions the manner in which I provide it." – Aaron Sorkin, A Few Good Men
origa illuminati confirmed:lol:
FreeSpace 3 confirmed.
FreeSpace 3 confirmed.
Don't be silly, BP is Freespace 3.
FreeSpace 3 confirmed.
Don't be silly, BP is Freespace 3.
As far as im aware, BP is only a fan-made mod. They don't hold any rights for Freespace 3 title.
It only happends that's its the BEST GOD DAMNED MOD that takes place in time after the Capella.
we want to step up our efforts to engage everyone.
We understand that a lot of you don't know how to get involved or who to trust. We're working on a system that will let you sign up as analysts, right out in the open, no cloak-and-dagger required. You'll set up relays that will create points. These relays will help us track down Truth, and your points will earn you specific intelligence — intelligence that you choose, not us. We should be live within a few days.
We're also looking at providing more technical backup to our LTO. We need to keep more distance from the community this time to avoid a repeat of our last setback. Your community's very important to our work, and we want to empower all of you. In particular, we want to reward those of you who help others get involved, explain the situation, and analyze leaks.
Can I answer any questions?
task force NEMESIS
understanding the shivans
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new threat axes
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task force HESTIA
restoring legitimate rule
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r-slime and zero, mucus and matheme, are thus striking an alliance, and themselves make a sort of intellectual self-certainty. proof of contemporary thought? these also echo what manufacture magazines revealed as an implacabe horror of the everyday
Our best find right now comes from the other side. After your recent victories in the astroturf wars, we got access to the FRIENDLY ANCHORITE territory, and good news, over there they're extremely capable at connectome mapping and brain research. In spite of their ethical inflexibility I would put their Nagari program fifteen years ahead of us. This is good news for the retrospective wisdom of MORPHEUS/METIS.
Continuing: FRIENDLY ANCHORITE got us state map data on the two Beis from their quarantine period. Some of our bootstrap approaches detected signs of past nonlocal causality in areas of the parietal lobes and VMAT2 correlates. The younger also had traces of a left temporal storm. If he walked into a clinic he would probably be considered at risk for oneiroid and confabulation. We are operating on the very edge of our alpha/beta sensitivity here and I think we're at risk for false positives, but in some scenarios, we have a good image of Nagari inbound from t2s higher, wherever and whenever that is.
I want to flag two insane possibilities for you:
What if there was nothing different about Bei except his susceptibility? The man was not exactly cool and collected. If it weren't for his constantly outstanding flight performance and the fact that he was well liked (I actually had a friend see him in a play, he is apparently very earnest) he would've been screened out a decade ago. Capella managed to put him, his wife, his daughter, and his father in the same place at the same time (rumor had it this was Arifiel Actual pulling strings to get a pilot he trusted on the escort, which only complicates the guilt/alienation picture for both of them) and he ****ed it up.
I'm sorry, I'm dictating and I tend to wander. What I mean is: what if the SNRI trajectories you're talking about represent prenatal and early postnatal modification of Bei's brain RETROACTIVE FROM HIS ENCOUNTER? Is that a possibility we should consider?
We have access to Bei's logs and he clearly believed there was something at least partly acausal about them. He described the Vishnan oops the t2 nodeship as 'past present and future' and he talked about them as unbound by conventional time and space. I don't know. I feel like I've spent too long staring at this problem. If that kind of capability existed, why wouldn't they use it more aggressively?
Here's my second bombshell. The medical data we got on Bei the younger includes a full-body physical. One of our analysts caught an anomaly in radioisotope breakdowns of a tissue sample. Bei's isotope ratios are way off for the current day...but his body would fit right in about 1.2 billion years ago. There's no variance at all. Every part of him is the exact same age. His flesh didn't grow up the way the rest of us do. It revanesced.
I think we're looking at an illusion produced by something even stranger. Can you get me access to SAR unit records from the Orestes? I want to examine the survival suit he was recovered in
in the form of a literature on the children get lost, monsters lurk, an impossibility aesthetic. in doing away with it: transcendent madness, carriages of portraits which describe nature and art-historical kernels of terror, a reappropriation of elementally traumatizing borders far beyond zoophrenia
A limited victory for the forces of order, security, and the GTVA way. :cool:Indeed congrats to whomever managed it; I think that might be a first in fact. To answer your questions the best person to ask would be GH (I usually use PM) but AFAIK yeah post up anything you want, or PM it to GH if you prefer; information is power in this. :yes:
I was given a Truth document by a confidential source. Should I post it here?
Also, can I post any non-document intel on Truth's efforts which I've gathered from sources outside the standard LTO-relay channels? I want to be sure I'm following proper protocol first.
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is it right that it could not be argued: freedom, challenging god will, the old antiquest
If we feel that we are at a standstill with our existing data footprint, we could seriously consider making a run.
We have the codes from the Duke. We have the location of the portal and ships in position for SMOKEJUMP. We have fledgling MORPHEUS countermeasures. We could insert a team. No more SADABA YEAR bull****: a realspace run. Good old-fashioned recon.
As for the idea that Deva faculties detected a threat ahead: what if that threat is us? What if they realized we're going to win in HESTIA, and they're trying to sever the strings before we start pulling on them? I bet SECCON would like that.
Maybe we already know Shambhala will fail. Maybe t2 told us.
the presto, the usual, the heavy-lidden sink of the way of the will. to will on earth the salvation of their own instruments and they play you well. to will is to dissent
Sammy's older than he looks! Or younger. Or something.
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no curious study passes the fire forest beneath yon rock out of men's knowing. only by taking such charge of each last entity routed out by the inquisitor may the purpose of the specimens be known. this is my dispensation
If that's true I can sell it to SECCON next time they worry about the legitimacy of MORPHEUS. It's scary but it's useful news. Body snatching is intuitive and sexy. Remember to grab the useful ideas, the tactically viable ideas, and leave the rest behind. You can't afford to get snared in the existential trap. We're all components now and we ahve to perform.
Let's roll with this idea that you have about their restricted paracausal capabilities. I feel clever so let's call it Deva.
Assume they can't use that Deva capability aggressively because if they could we wouldn't be here questioning them (or at least it's not useful to think we would be) and they'd be entirely omnipotent. Imagine their intelligence as contingent on the bulk coordinates it's operating on, able to see what's immediately around it. Shadows from the past and future (which they would perceive as directions along a causal axis). So they —
ASIDE HERE: What would the reason be, to set up a system that was internally compartmentalized like that? An intelligence capable of traversing the time axis but restricted so that it can only conduct cognition in a mostly causal sense? 'I am here, so I can only know and think about information ~here?' Is it 1) a rule they imposed on themselves 2) a rule imposed on them 3) a rule imposed on them by external circumstance 4) a fundamental law
— Are you aware of the recent phenomenon we are calling the hush? Although our monitoring capabilities are very limited, we had a firm picture of Nagari traffic in the HESTIA theater. A lot happening, a lot of internal teleonomy. Abruptly it all dropped off. Fell off a cliff. FRIENDLY ANCHORITE told us that there was profound dismay over there, a sense of loss and abandonment, fear about some kind of trigger threshold.
So we began working on a model. Trying to figure out what had happened to cause this. But we couldn't pin down an exact inflection point. Something felt off.
What if we have it all backwards? What if t2's Deva capability detected a threat AHEAD and it's trying to react NOW? What if the hush is an effect and we haven't yet seen the cause?
This may be my own rathole, nootropes and anxiety driving me into a mirage, but I keep thinking about their limitations. I see them trying to WORK AROUND A PROBLEM. Like they're trying to exploit a loophole. Or influence events with just one tiny scalpel or set of forceps. Or figure out what's happening while staring at us through a periscope of unthinkable length and microscopic diameter. Like a scientist cursing her inability to position individual particles, or even see them, do you know what I
Look:
They start small. They crush the entire human species down to a few thousand people. They minimize the variables. Those people are asleep. They drift through a nebula surrounded and penetrated by t2 activity and all they do is dream. Limited scope. Small phase space. Malleable.
Now it's ready. You used up one universe to prep your payload for another.
Now they prepare a theater for delivery. One star system. Bound together by clear causal models. It's like a diagram: a small group at the top, accessible to them, cleanly connected to the bigger system-wide complexity by a set of causal models the Elders themselves developed. Hooks and levers. Steering mechanisms. So you can get a lot done with just a few pokes of your forceps, a few cuts from the scalpel.
Now they're ready to move up from a few thousand people on one ship to a few billion in one star system. They fire their bullet into the operating theater. (Why do they need a bullet? They're being sneaky? Something went wrong? They need to sharply change course? A seed? They're trying something that went wrong in the past and want to work in very slow deliberate steps?)
Start small. Grow a seed. Get it right. Take the seed. Move it to the next pot. Grow the plant. Get it right. Take the plant. Move it to the forest.
Start small. Make a gene. Get it right. Insert the gene into an organism. Grow the organism. Get it right. Take the organism. Move it to the...
What's the next layer of this? How far up does it go?
I don't know. Am I on to anything interesting? Redteam me on this.
the terms of our own fate must be permitted to stand absent before we are properly suzerain of the world. the man who believes that decision exists will effect a way to dictate properly, singling out in both hands specimens he'd collected: these anonymous creations
transcendent madness!!!!!
art-historical kernels of terrorBosch (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieronymus_Bosch)
a reappropriation of elementally traumatizing borders far beyond zoophrenia"zoophrenia" is a made up word. -phrenia apparently meaning dysfunction of the mind. Like schozophrenia. Elementally traumatizing the minds of all animals? The Great Darkness?
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the universe is not constrained by anything that exists within it, it is a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulated and destined to repeat what exists in one part in its entirety
Sorry dashing this one off real fast I have a flight
Ok let's start again from the basics. The problem we are having with the inferentials is that they keep ratholing on inbred models. You know this is a problem when they work from small footprints. So let's see if we can leverage what we have and get a bigger foot.
I am micromanaging this a little so feel free to push back. I promsie youll be ok.
What happened to the Temeraire's scout wings? Do we have any datalink telemetry? Did the pilots get Athanased or was the encounter purely coincidental? WHAT WAS DIFFERENT ABOUT BEI?
I am looking at SNRI data here which is honestly scaring the **** out of me. Have you ever talked to anyone in the Complicated Place about their notion of history? Well someone in SNRI is tearing up and down screaming that the recursive parabolic transits they observed on battery 11 are actually all fragments of a single trajectory that would be — and i borrow their phrase here because of course we all ****ing love a good euphemism — 'not conventionally causal'. If this is t2 activity and it represents real information transfer rather than some kind of necessary symmetry then a ha ha or, Professionally Speaking, we would face radical new challenges.
even in this world, he said, no man's mind be it strained by any pitch or latitude in a maze, that exists in one part in any other part in any a pitch in many a pitch in many other part. even in one part. even it all from birth. calamitous beyond reckoning.
Quotea reappropriation of elementally traumatizing borders far beyond zoophrenia"zoophrenia" is a made up word. -phrenia apparently meaning dysfunction of the mind. Like schozophrenia. Elementally traumatizing the minds of all animals? The Great Darkness?
As for the idea that Deva faculties detected a threat ahead: what if that threat is us? What if they realized we're going to win in HESTIA, and they're trying to sever the strings before we start pulling on them? I bet SECCON would like that.
OCAC ExpedientNow, we've had at least two if not more references to SADABA YEAR? This is sounding like some sort of ship or installation that met an unfortunate end whilst conducting subspace research. The postmortem appears to have revealed some fundamental properties of the universe that may shed some light on the behavior and motives of threats 1 and 2. Does anyone have any idea what the SADABA YEAR was? Is this a code name for a ship or installation we are already aware of?
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Candidate 616A9707YBPTR
Subspace Systems Command, Strategic Navigation Research Initiative
SADABA YEAR went into early stand-down after an internal event and the loss of some assets and personnel. However, unexpected post-mission applications across the last six months have driven an explosive knowledge footprint. Although primarily of intellectual interest, this new footprint could be mined for strategic intelligence.
At the requests of SSC thought leaders we have prepared an extremely brief precis.
Introduction
Cosmological study with conventional instruments has determined that the universe is spatially infinite, flat, and unbounded. Most importantly, the universe appears isotropic in all directions: the same laws, dynamics, and high-level structures prevail. However, the historically recent discovery of subspace opens new cosmological questions. Due to the importance of subspace navigation technology, applied subspace mathematics and computational subspace dynamics are now well understood. But due to the expense and limited utility of non-navigational subspace instruments (NNSI), broader questions have been neglected.
Summary Findings
The stand-down of SADABA YEAR left SNRI with a number of sophisticated sensor assets that were applied to scientific questions with assumption of retroactive authorization. Investigation has produced preliminary evidence for major breaches of isotropy in the subspace domain. Puzzlingly, follow-up investigation of cosmological data detects signs of teleonomy in some traits of the space/subspace interface. SNRI requests additional funding and access to strategic computational assets to determine whether these findings may be of military interest.
Specific Findings
The physical universe can be described as a subset manifold of subspace — traditionally, a bubble or sheet adrift in a larger space. Active battery transits conducted with SADABA YEAR surplus NNSI detected adjacent manifolds, supporting Bardakci et al. and numerous others.
Teleonomic inference detects tantalizing similarities in the organization of these manifolds, from high-level symmetry breaks down to astronomical structure. The similarity may continue to smaller scales. Inference suggests shared causal history until a time, tau-break, within the past several billion years (present inclusive). These nearby manifolds may be identical to or only minimally divergent from our own.
NNSI wake sensors detect subspace transit activity between these manifolds. This opens the possibility of causal action between manifolds. The origin and provenance of these transits are unknown but see Centaur/transit 21. Depending on the degree of causal drift since tau-break, observation of nearby manifolds may provide previously unavailable data on historical counterfactuals.
Initial active battery transits detected a local comoving constellation and echos of other structures at the same scale beyond the horizon of instrument resolution.
Repeated active battery transits detected a massive isotropy break within the local subspace volume. Team members nicknamed the direction of this break the 'wow vector' due to the unexpected magnitude and statistical significance of the signal. Local manifolds appear to be moving away from this vector in a loose dispersal constellation. The wow vector may represent a historical origin point and a possible reason for shared causal history.
Some team members suggest that refraction patterns and probability slopes along the wow vector are evidence of manifold necrosis.
After mathematical work outside the scope of this precis, data from NNSI investigation of the wow vector was applied to teleonomic analysis of the space/subspace interface. Results suggest traumatic isolation of our manifold from a larger structure within the cosmological timeline. However, REDTEAM counteranalysis argues that this is in fact a reverse-read of an earlier event in which multiple manifolds joined.
Teleonomic analysis of the joining and isolation events may suggest an engineered event (but see REDTEAM 8.8b).
Peripherally, SNRI teleonomic analysis of structures in the Lanieakea supercluster suggest the presence of an engineered object of unprecedented magnitude. Unfortunately, neither the funding nor manpower for further analysis of this signal has yet determined itself necessary.
Strategic Impact
Further investigation of the local structure of subspace may provide insight into the role of intelligent life in the development of the universe and the challenges it may have encountered. We hope the strategic ramifications require no further emphasis.
Special Thanks
The team would like to thank Li Weng for her extraordinarily diligent support, Djau for exemplary organization and context services, and the casualties of SADABA YEAR for their faithful service in the face of unimaginable challenges.
I'm pretty sure that RED TEAM, in this context, is referring to GTVA-commandeered Shivan assets along the same lines as the Fedayeen's CASSANDRA.The term for that is "Red Asset"; based on context (e.g. "REDTEAM counteranalysis", "Redteam me on this"), REDTEAM seems pretty clearly to be the typical definition thereof.
Did the Duke defect along with Bei at the end of AoA? Trying to go by memory here. If ANY ship would have had clues on it that would seriously spook the GTVA, that would be the one.Duke, Labouchere, and Solace are the defector ships.
I'm pretty sure that RED TEAM, in this context, is referring to GTVA-commandeered Shivan assets along the same lines as the Fedayeen's CASSANDRA.The term for that is "Red Asset"; based on context (e.g. "REDTEAM counteranalysis", "Redteam me on this"), REDTEAM seems pretty clearly to be the typical definition thereof.
These are some juicy scary documents, but what really gets me are the stream-of-consciousness headers and footers. They seem too deliberate to be just random words... but maybe the point is to give the illusion of deliberate sentences... but maybe there's deep cryptic **** hidden in them arrrgh.
I mean, "to will on earth the salvation of their own instruments and they play you well. to will is to dissent???" "the man who believes that decision exists will effect a way to dictate properly"!!
The GVCv Sopedu was assigned to provide TAG support, but the ship's commander, a veteran of both flight and warship engagements, experienced an episode of intrusive ideation. The GVCv Thutmose was hastily reassigned to the engagement.
I thought the header/footers were standard crypto security padding (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_world_wonders)?
HEADER BEGINS
Hello relay2!
Hello truth!
Are you feeling discreet?
We are very discreet!
HEADER ENDS
and power was given unto them over the children of the earth, to speak falsely of home, to speak falsely of war, to speak falsely of friends, and of enemies, and of the shapes in the dark
behold a pale kingdom, in a hidden place!
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Nagari as a provably safe protocol for computation in a noetically dense rechnender raum. Keller, Menes, Djehuti. In The Gauntlet 9(3).
Subjects: Nagari, noospheres, computational physics
The researchers use first principles to derive safe operations in a range of noetically dense ontos, including stack configurations commonly derived in analysis of failsafe swarm redoubts. Difficulties of low bleed exchanges across physical domains are discussed. Structural rhyme analysis cannot inform model dependent invasiveness in violations of claim space inequalities, suggesting that available resources should be redistributed towards Djehuti projects. The work introduces a foundation for bottom-up reasoning about nonlocal encoding and retrieval events across involuted topologies in the subspace laminae. Speculation about end state rechnender raum resource allocation occupies no more than one paragraph.
Nagari as a provably unsafe protocol for computation in a noetically dense rechnender raum. Keller, Menes, Irike. In The Gauntlet 9(14)
Subjects: Nagari, noospheres, computational physics, efficient allocation of resources, humor, not funny
The researchers construct a rechnender raum in which the protocols derived by Keller, Menes, Djehuti (2385) can be exploited by Think About Mes to recruit arbitrary claim space. A proof of the insecurity of these protocols is proposed, including an estimate of the required dumb crunch for a brute force proof. A petition is advanced for the construction of an ontos which can perform this proof using resources efficiently reallocated from Djehuti projects. As a side effect, strong godlike control over conventional spacetime could be obtained. Speculation about end state rechnender raum resource allocation occupies no less than one paragraph.
STEVEDORE: Push. Push. It’s moving. What was he like?So, they manufactured an incident in which Morian is... stuck in a lift? Trapped in some sort of small compartment with this Stevedore individual (name doesn't ring a bell; anyone recognize it?). The environment is controlled (the specific scent of a warship's CIC can be pumped in), but the illusion that they are stuck is being directed at Morian in the hope that Stevedore can get information out of him (information he may not even be consciously aware of).
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[reward: door progress]
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STEVEDORE: How did that go? Push. Push, man.
MORIAN: No. Rest. We might be making it worse. They’ll come get us.
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STEVEDORE: I’m getting claustrophobic. Let’s push.
MORIAN: No. We don’t know what we’re doing. Stop. Stop. We have to wait for help.
STEVEDORE: I don’t like it in here.
MORIAN: You’ll just make it worse.
STEVEDORE: Maybe you have a good gut, mister. Maybe you’re picking up on something I’m not.
MORIAN: I don’t think so. I just don’t want to do anything hasty.
[prime: infrasonic dread cue, 50ms retinal array nova imagery]
[prime: infrasonic dread cue, transcranial ephemera, 25ms retinal array shivan imagery]
[reward: door progress]
[prime: subliminal audio cue, orestes log] — Stop that sleeper ship from escaping.
[prime: olfactory cue, warship cic scent pattern]
[prime: subliminal audio cue, orestes log fragment] — Stop escaping.
[prime: subliminal audio cue, orestes log fragment] — escaping. escaping. escaping.
[prime: free association array] — escaping prisoner jail contagion pathogen pet threat danger
So here's the big question: Why is humanity so important to the Shivans?
So here's the big question: Why is humanity so important to the Shivans?
There's something that they can't (or aren't allowed more likely) to do that humanity possibly can.
... As a side effect, strong godlike control over conventional spacetime could be obtained....