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I have flushed our quarry from its hide. This will not be like [[Crota]]. This time we are prepared. We face our nightmares reborn, but you and I have killed nightmares before. | I have flushed our quarry from its hide. This will not be like [[Crota]]. This time we are prepared. We face our [[nightmares]] reborn, but you and I have killed nightmares before. | ||
Our true enemy left something buried here, to watch and to whisper. I have gathered these clues—the logs of a doomed Golden Age expedition. They had no idea what they’d found. Their encryption will be no match for your Ghost. Learn what you can, swiftly. The Hive, too, are fascinated by this | Our [[true enemy|Black Fleet]] left [[something|The Lunar Pyramid]] buried here, to watch and to whisper. I have gathered these clues—the logs of a doomed Golden Age expedition. They had no idea what they’d found. Their encryption will be no match for your Ghost. Learn what you can, swiftly. The [[Hive]], too, are fascinated by [[this power|Darkness]]—and whatever fascinates the Hive means death. Discover what they plan, and we will silence their prayers forever! | ||
That sounded like the old Eris, didn’t it? The things that hurt us return, again and again. But we do not face them alone. | That sounded like the old Eris, didn’t it? The things that hurt us return, again and again. But we do not face them alone. | ||
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Unlearn your expectations, Xuan. And so learn readiness. | Unlearn your expectations, Xuan. And so learn readiness. | ||
Tomorrow we will begin the dig. I don’t understand the “extra-spatial” activity we detected, or the Clovis Bray scientists who speak of transmissions that “propagate through Calabi-Yau sixspace.” Maybe no one understands it. I have no expectations. I am prepared. | Tomorrow we will begin the dig. I don’t understand the “extra-spatial” activity we detected, or the [[Clovis Bray|Clovis Bray (corporation)]] scientists who speak of transmissions that “propagate through Calabi-Yau sixspace.” Maybe no one understands it. I have no expectations. I am prepared. | ||
<u>'''Still I wish I were not afraid.'''</u> | <u>'''Still I wish I were not afraid.'''</u> | ||
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EM triangulation led us to a lava tube beneath Site Three—when the drill broke through, it destroyed a rock formation, which I regret. But a morsel for geologists is nothing compared to the article itself. | EM triangulation led us to a lava tube beneath Site Three—when the drill broke through, it destroyed a rock formation, which I regret. But a morsel for geologists is nothing compared to the article itself. | ||
Tanis was right. It can’t be described without diminishing it. A black sphere—nothing could be simpler—and yet it is awesome, unspeakably complex, compactly infinite, full of as many things as it could possibly contain. We cannot spend long near it. Its electromagnetic flux is too subtle to burn through the fieldweave in our suits or cause any real harm, but we can’t assume it’ll stay that way. If the field spikes, it could force our nerves to fire, even drive us into seizure. High-Tesla magnetic fields do strange <u>things to the mind</u>. | [[Tanis|Tanis Lee]] was right. It can’t be described without diminishing it. A black sphere—nothing could be simpler—and yet it is awesome, unspeakably complex, compactly infinite, full of as many things as it could possibly contain. We cannot spend long near it. Its electromagnetic flux is too subtle to burn through the fieldweave in our suits or cause any real harm, but we can’t assume it’ll stay that way. If the field spikes, it could force our nerves to fire, even drive us into seizure. High-Tesla magnetic fields do strange <u>things to the mind</u>. | ||
Our priority is to shield the article. Then we can begin study. If Dr. | Our priority is to shield the article. Then we can begin study. If [[Dr. Yan|Liam Yan]]’s physicists are right, the EM transmissions are just a side effect of the object’s true purpose. | ||
==Entry Three== | ==Entry Three== | ||
<u>Where does it come from?</u> | <u>Where does it come from?</u> | ||
The surrounding rock is flood basalt, rich in potassium, phosphorous, and rare earth elements. It could be as old as the original impactor which blasted the Moon free of the Earth. Or it could be as young as the Ocean of Storms. Either way, it means the article arrived before the Traveler. Is there a connection? Could it be a beacon that led the Traveler here? | The surrounding rock is flood basalt, rich in potassium, phosphorous, and rare earth elements. It could be as old as the original impactor which blasted the Moon free of the Earth. Or it could be as young as the Ocean of Storms. Either way, it means the article arrived before the [[Traveler]]. Is there a connection? Could it be a beacon that led the Traveler here? | ||
If I had my way, we would encode the question in topological thoughts and broadcast it to the Traveler. But that would mean going public. And the terms of our agreement with Clovis Bray demand secrecy. | If I had my way, we would encode the question in topological thoughts and broadcast it to the Traveler. But that would mean going public. And the terms of our agreement with Clovis Bray demand secrecy. | ||
Do we have an ethical duty to break that agreement? If we have discovered a clue to the Traveler’s origins, certainly yes! Clovis Bray has buried its war against the Vex under a sarcophagus of secrecy and “existentially compromising information hazard”; they could do it again, here. Nowhere outside the retro-nationalism of the North American Empire does any private organization have such sweeping, selfish authority over knowledge which should belong to the whole human commons—and at least the twin eagles are voluntary society, answerable to higher law! Clovis Bray reeks of the old unregulated capitalism. | Do we have an ethical duty to break that agreement? If we have discovered a clue to the Traveler’s origins, certainly yes! Clovis Bray has buried its war against the [[Vex]] under a sarcophagus of secrecy and “existentially compromising information hazard”; they could do it again, here. Nowhere outside the retro-nationalism of the North American Empire does any private organization have such sweeping, selfish authority over knowledge which should belong to the whole human commons—and at least the twin eagles are voluntary society, answerable to higher law! Clovis Bray reeks of the old unregulated capitalism. | ||
But I will not be the first to break trust. I will not start the cycle of defection. | But I will not be the first to break trust. I will not start the cycle of defection. | ||