Bonus Ep. 1 - Downfall

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[Transcript]Access Attempt 35…FailureAccess Attempt 36…FailureAccess Attempt 37…SuccessData veil pierced. Commencing cortex breach. Power integration start…Integration complete. Origin of genesis: unknown:Location recovered: Regina Quadrant, coordinates 04-99-132 at 131° off galactic axis off Linear X.Information storage model: unknown. Analysis:: Partial data lace splice embedded in cognitive sieve. Data lace braiding technique is not in technical reference archive.Attempting bio-reticule Bridge. Running…Bridge established.Diagnostics retrieved:Hull … WorkingAntena … OperativeGyroscope … OperativeStabilizers … DisabledNeuron colony … OperativeCentral nodes … DisabledAuxiliary nodes … OperativePulse reserves … DepletedBeta Decay Relay … DisabledInternal data storage capacity estimate: 2.6 Giga-roms. 85% corrupted or irretrievable. Extracting data with highest integrity…Extraction complete.░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░Error. Semiotic mismatch. Running lexical transmutation…Transmutation complete. Accuracy estimated at 76%. Data retrieved as follows:***Log: 896 million annum. Navigation check shows another 2 degrees of alignment drift from stellar coordinates at Observation start. Total drift is now almost 26,000 units away at almost 45 degrees off linear zed.Ample psionics in the region means the psychic battery recharges on the regular. I’ve taken to splurging with the excess runoff gardening the cellulose foliations in the nearby debris field. Dreadnoughts seems a befitting name for them. The organic clusters thrive in the heavy hydrogen nebula and have reached masses of 203 billion kilograms. They anchor to the few asteroids in orbit around the lone planet here. It had a moon but gravitational drift pulled it out into the nebula around 23 million annum after observation began. It glowed faintly in the 150-175 mega-hertz range. Radio active decay is the most probable cause. I feel a little lonelier since it left.NOTES: Civilization Thorn-Ultra-Seeker 0079 surpassed primitive tools at 309 million annum. Progression has dramatically exceeded the initial evolution vector with the cognitive-to-mass ratio almost reaching 0.8. And they continue to surprise, forgoing industrial development altogether and leaning into spiritual technologies. Last observation cycle I witnessed a series of halo craft leave the planet, the civilization’s first off-world excursion.This cycle saw them take their new found stellar freedom to spread their spiritual practices. Highly effective missionary deployment along with strategic altruistic dissemination pushed their cultural influence tensor far past the gavel benchmark. For a few million annum they held dynamic sway over six other adjacent quadrants and I logged intercepted communication between their government, a counsel known as Magi, showing they had interests in expanding to galactic positions of authority.And then nothing. Silence. The whole planet stops sending transmissions, ships, bridges to the mythisphere or the Dominium Vitae. On the cusp of a major expansion of power and sovereignty, they withdrawHYPOTHESIS 1: Cultural collapse due to unaddressed class strain between upper echelons referred to as “voyers” and other cultural strata often referred to as “Dross” in intercepted communications. Confidence rating 53%.HYPOTHESIS 2: Spiritual overreach and misaligned orison vectors with Dominium Vitae resultant. Resultant vernacular identifies with “wisdom, charity, kindness, self-reliance.” Spiritual divergence could not be calculated due to insufficient data. Confidence rating 12%.HYPOTHESIS 3: Dynamic synthesis of secular identity postulates with corrosive cultural interference may have-░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░End of successful lexical transmutation. Data findings logged: number 66-78-93. Labeled “Downfall.”End of access attempt. Terminating connection.

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