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{{quote|Investigate a mysterious broadcast that only you and your Ghost can hear.|In-game description}} | |||
'''Arecibo''' is an [[Adventure]] on [[Io]]. | |||
==Transcript== | |||
Start Location: The Rupture | Start Location: The Rupture | ||
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*'''Ghost:''' "There's another old quotation encoded here: 'Misdirected by accident or intent, intelligence can foster it's own ecstasies of growth and decay.' The wierd thing is this audio file was just updated. So... this can't be a time capsule. Someone's trying to talk to us. No, no. Some thing. This has to be an AI, right? An old *Golden Age AI, here on Eden.* Like [[Failsafe]]... | *'''Ghost:''' "There's another old quotation encoded here: 'Misdirected by accident or intent, intelligence can foster it's own ecstasies of growth and decay.' The wierd thing is this audio file was just updated. So... this can't be a time capsule. Someone's trying to talk to us. No, no. Some thing. This has to be an AI, right? An old *Golden Age AI, here on Eden.* Like [[Failsafe]]... | ||
The player continues on into | The player continues on into Terrabase Charon, where more music is heard. The player defeats still more Vex guarding a cave with yet another object inside. This is the same cave where Ghost Scan NE-TBC-2 is located: | ||
:::'''[[Human]] Transcript.''': [[Ghost]]: "I'm reading encryption here. Someone's been tampering with this access point to allow [[Exo]]s to interface with the [[Vex]] Network." | :::'''[[Human]] Transcript.''': [[Ghost]]: "I'm reading encryption here. Someone's been tampering with this access point to allow [[Exo]]s to interface with the [[Vex]] Network." | ||
:::'''[[Exo]] Transcript.''': [[Ghost]]: "Don't ouch that thing! It looks like this access point has been modified to allow [[Exo|Exos]] to interface with the [[Vex]] Network. Let's just. Leave it alone, for now." - NE-TBC-2 | :::'''[[Exo]] Transcript.''': [[Ghost]]: "Don't ouch that thing! It looks like this access point has been modified to allow [[Exo|Exos]] to interface with the [[Vex]] Network. Let's just. Leave it alone, for now." - NE-TBC-2 | ||
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The Vex inside the cave listening to the music are dormant and non aggressive. | The Vex inside the cave listening to the music are dormant and non aggressive. | ||
*'''Ghost:'''"They're asleep. The music must have hypnotised them. | *'''Ghost:''' "They're asleep. The music must have hypnotised them. | ||
The player scans the object. | The player scans the object. | ||
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The player defeats the Vex. | The player defeats the Vex. | ||
*'''Ghost:''' "Weaponised music... Creepy quotations... All signs point to [[Rasputin]], but. I don't understand how he could be here. | *'''Ghost:''' "Weaponised music... Creepy quotations... All signs point to [[Rasputin]], but. I don't understand how he could be here." | ||
::Follow the music. | ::Follow the music. | ||
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The player examines a closed hatch between them and the music, which upon opening reveals a storage facility containing hundreds of the defensive drones. An active drone is floating in the air immediately in front of the player, causing a musical except from Tchaikovsky's 6th Symphony to be played while the screen flashes with red. | The player examines a closed hatch between them and the music, which upon opening reveals a storage facility containing hundreds of the defensive drones. An active drone is floating in the air immediately in front of the player, causing a musical except from Tchaikovsky's 6th Symphony to be played while the screen flashes with red. | ||
*'''Ghost:'''"Ah, that music... it hurts... just... give me a second... It says... 'Never ask for anything! Never for anything, and especially from those who are stronger than you. They'll make the offer themselves, and give everything themselves.' | *'''Ghost:''' "Ah, that music... it hurts... just... give me a second... It says... 'Never ask for anything! Never for anything, and especially from those who are stronger than you. They'll make the offer themselves, and give everything themselves.'" | ||
Something then happens to Ghost. | |||
*'''Ghost:''' "I don't understand. Wait. Something's happening... Gah! Red sand! [[Mars]]! [[Hellas Basin|Ice caps]]! Ahhhhh!... Hey! Sorry, I spaced out for a second there. What were we doing?" | |||
Adventure ends | Adventure ends | ||
==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
*This mission contains several quotations. | |||
:The first quotation, "''Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams''", is a quote from the 11th Century Japanese text, the Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu. This work is notable in the context of the historical development of the novel, but noticeably despite the number of characters and events that take place entirely lacks the conception of a plot, and besides the quotation itself, may serve as an in-joke reference to the much lambasted story of ''[[Destiny]]''. | |||
:The second quotation, "''Misdirected by accident or intent, intelligence can foster it's own ecstasies of growth and decay''", is actually a paraphrase of a statement by Octavia Butler in her 1993 environmental dystopia SciFi book ''The Parable of the Sower'', which reads: | |||
::"''Intelligence is ongoing, individual adaptability. Adaptations that an intelligent species may make in a single generation, other species make over many generations of selective breeding and selective dying. Yet intelligence is demanding. If it is misdirected by accident or by intent, it can foster its own orgies of breeding and dying.''" - Chapter 4 (p. 29). | |||
:The third quotation, "''Once war has been undertaken, no peace is made by pretending there is no war''", is taken from page 365 of the Mahabharata, an epic Sanskrit poem of central importance in Hinduism. | |||
The | :The fourth quotation, "''Never ask for anything! Never for anything, and especially from those who are stronger than you. They'll make the offer themselves, and give everything themselves''", as translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, is from book two of Mikhail Bulgakov's 1967 book, ''The Master and Margarita''. | ||
The | *The music used at the end of the mission which contains the Bulgakov quote is an excerpt from the later half of Tchaikovsky's 6th Symphony, First Movement, which is consistently used as a thematic reference for the [[Warmind]] [[Rasputin]] in various missions, notably in the [[Siege of the Warmind]] and strongly suggest Rasputin's authorship of all the quotations and control over the devices. | ||
*Arecibo is a town or county in Puerto Rico where the radio telescope is located. | |||
The | *The name of the mission, "Arecibo", is likely a reference to the [[wikipedia:Arecibo_message|Arecibo message]] which was a radio message created by Frank Drake and Carl Sagan designed as a message to possible extraterrestrial life. | ||
The | *The channel that Ghost first hears music on, J-1869, is a reference to the month and year that the real-life Rasputin was born on, January 1869. | ||
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