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Magma was a production of I Heart

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Radio and Bamford Productions. UM.

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This is Captain Kevin Prescott reporting

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into General Tompkins Clearance Code eight

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two OMEGA on Project Magmal. Sir,

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it is with pleasure that I can report that our

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advanced AI developed for this mission,

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code named Proteus, has taken

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to his mission parameters. Despite

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the small errors originally reported at the beginning

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of our endeavor, Proteus has now

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operated without issue for over thirty

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days. We believe a misassigned data

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packet was to blame for the initial problems, but

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after ex sens of testing and diagnostic scans,

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it is running at optimal performance. We

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firmly believe that it will perform above and

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beyond expectations and should be installed

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on the vessel bound for n g C seven to nine

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three, as it will be an asset for the crew. Additionally,

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not only are its first and secondary mission

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parameters up to par, but the

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C class level mission parameters we installed

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into its data course seemed to be operating at

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optimal levels as well. We

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have placed certain restrictions on its programming

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so that it is unaware of this sub

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level parameter and it

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will only report back its findings for those

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with the access code fifty three beta

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to C. We believe this is

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the safest course of action in order to investigate

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the anomaly detected within n GC

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seven to nine three. Though we have observed

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this anomaly for the past several months,

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no further findings could be assessed from

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command nor the lighthouse station. Based

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on what we have gathered so far, we

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still believe the anomaly maybe a micro

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black hole. Though rare within the

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universe, this micro black hole

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only expands and contracts on

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an irregular cycle. It

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only remains visible for the moments

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that is at full capacity, and when

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it retracts down to a sub atomic size, remains

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invisible to all detection. We believe

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that sending magmal to and through n

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GC SN two N three will give us

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the data we need in order to further

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explain this abnormality. The

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research gained on this can help expand

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our knowledge of the quantum realm and

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help us potentially harness the power of a

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black hole or even wormholes

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for use in long distance space travel. During

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our last meeting, you brought up the question

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of what is the possibility that this micro

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black hole will expand while the magmal

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is traveling through the nebula. While

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there is a chance it is extremely

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low one in a

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hundred billion or so according to the number

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crunters. In the unlikely

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chance it expands while the magma is present,

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we are unsure of what will occur. However,

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as we discussed, this is a

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calculated risk that we are willing

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to take, but as I mentioned,

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the risk is low but still

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present. Because of this,

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it is our belief that this Sea class level

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mission should remain classified to

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both those who are not aware of it already

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and to the crew of the magma itself. The

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less they know, the better, just in case.

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On a personal note, I know you

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have assigned to Jannah to this mission. Well,

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I disagree with

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this decision. I

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will support it if you feel strongly about this choice.

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That said, I still believe,

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due to the potential dangers of this mission, that

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I am still the best choice for piloting

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the vessel into the Helix Nebula. I

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am happy to

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discuss with you in person when you might

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have time, and if

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not, then I do feel it be of

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the mission's best interest to at least inform

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Janna of the C class level mission protocols

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to better prepare the magma for any circumstances,

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just in case. I

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will report back with any

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further finding. Steamed relevant, Thank

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you, General Fuck

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Magmal Episode

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six contaminant detected

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tee. What the funk is going on? How could I be in

5:10

that video we found on someone else's ship? I

5:12

am searching for possible explanations.

5:15

That's not me? Right? T? Right

5:18

T. I am sure there is a perfectly

5:20

reasonable explanation for this, but that never

5:23

happened. I would never hurt

5:25

Janna like that, would I? What's

5:28

wrong with me? What's

5:30

going on? I am scanning the video for

5:33

any evidence of tampering, but there appears

5:35

to be none. Is that someone who looks like

5:37

me? Is? Is that? What? It is? Just

5:39

just a coincidence? It is possible.

5:42

I am checking all available information

5:44

on the recording. Is there anything? The video

5:47

is timestamped thirty minutes from

5:49

now? What it is from thirty

5:51

minutes from now? At least according

5:53

to the data I have interpreted? It is? How

5:56

how the fund is that possible? Something is

5:58

wrong with the ship's log obvious, Lee,

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I cannot be sure when it is actually from

6:02

due to the extensive damage. No, No,

6:04

No, something isn't right here. Perhaps

6:06

if I ran it through a few more scans, I can

6:09

detect something I did not detect before. Did

6:11

you finish fixing the rest of the ship's log? It

6:13

is a very delicate process, and it

6:15

takes up a significant amount of processing power

6:17

for me to be able to repair it. I should

6:20

concentrate T. Did you finish

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fixing it? Yes? What

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else did it say? I do not believe

6:26

now is the time to review the content? Does

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it say T? There could be something in

6:31

there that we could use to help Janna. It is

6:33

difficult for me to decipher the

6:36

Magmal is still reading it as its

6:38

own a duplicate. It's trying

6:40

to override it with duplicate information

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that well that it has already

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logged it. Fuck does that mean T? It

6:47

means that everything I uncovered

6:49

in the ship's log it's matching up to our

6:52

own, the previous time stamps,

6:54

the mission logs, everything it

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is a duplicate of the Magmal's records.

6:59

It's exactly the same. How

7:02

how is this happening? I have explained

7:05

to Janna that I believe my systems are

7:07

malfunctioning, causing a sort of mechanical

7:09

deja vu in my data core. I

7:12

believe this is causing the confusion with the Magmal's

7:14

log with the other ships. But there

7:16

are other log entries postdated

7:19

much like the recording I played. But those

7:22

entries stopped in approximately forty five

7:24

minutes. What do you mean they stop? I

7:26

mean there are no more entries past

7:28

that point. The ship's log is

7:30

empty. What the fox is going on? None

7:32

of this makes sense? Yes, I

7:35

agree, Okay, I need you to run a

7:37

scan, a deep scan, a self diagnostic,

7:40

whatever the hell you can do. There's

7:42

something here. We're missing, something we

7:44

missed before. I am already running

7:47

several to try to detect anything out of

7:49

sorts. There has been nothing detecting.

7:51

What about earlier when you've found

7:54

those power fluctuations in the nebula?

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Do that again, however you found those?

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Run that scan again. I am trying,

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But there are several thousand tests

8:03

that I need to run so I can affect Oh.

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Oh what does that mean? Oh? This is

8:09

I am not sure how to interpret these findings.

8:13

It is showing that these are not the first

8:15

recordings. There are multiple

8:17

recordings compounded on top of

8:19

each other, and for the most part, each

8:22

with the same time stamps and contents.

8:25

What does that even mean to It means

8:27

that the log has been recorded over

8:29

again and again with mostly

8:31

the same content. Some records

8:33

stray, but according to this, it's

8:35

been recorded before many times,

8:38

over and over again. That's

8:40

got to be some sort of mistake, right,

8:42

Like like your scanners must be malfunctioning

8:45

or something, right, I would think so. But

8:47

this seems very conclusive.

8:51

How is that even possible? How

8:53

can something like that be? Wait?

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Hang on, where are you going to the

8:59

bridge? I need to access the main computer

9:02

whole type Jane. I won't

9:04

allow her to access those files.

9:06

I'll bring bring her back. Okay,

9:16

seemed data packet, you

9:18

can access the main computer from anywhere

9:21

on the ship Sydney. You didn't need to come

9:23

up here. You could have just asked, I know,

9:25

but I wanted the keyboard to see if I could

9:29

here it is? What are you looking for?

9:31

I needed the data from when we passed through

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the hills and be like, can you bring that up for me?

9:36

T There are thousands of data points from

9:38

that. I need you to be more specific, bring

9:40

it up here to all of it? Very

9:42

well? Okay, Okay,

9:45

here we go. What are you looking for I'm

9:48

not sure how, but I

9:50

think we funked up t big time. How

9:53

so okay, so, well

9:56

before our time, like six

9:59

or so, there was theory by this Austrian

10:02

physicist named Ludwig Flom.

10:04

He came up with this idea for white

10:06

holes, the theoretical time reversal

10:08

of a black hole, almost like

10:11

at the opposite end of one. I am aware,

10:14

however, I am unsure of what this has

10:16

to do with our current situation. And

10:18

if I may remind you, Janna

10:20

is still in the other room and is in no

10:22

condition to be left alone. Just

10:25

listen to me and let me talk through this. Okay,

10:27

fine, okay. So then in

10:30

the nineteen thirties, Einstein and

10:32

Nathan Rosen used the theory of general

10:34

relativity to elaborate on the same

10:36

idea. Okay, They proposed

10:39

the existence of bridges through space

10:41

and time. These bridges

10:43

connected two different points in space

10:45

time, theoretically creating a short

10:47

cut that could reduce travel time

10:50

and distance. You know what I'm

10:52

talking about, the Einstein Rosen bridges,

10:55

Yes, exactly, or to call a spade

10:57

a spade, wormholes they

10:59

were talking about wormholes. Wormholes

11:02

are still a purely theoretical science,

11:04

and their existence has yet to be proven.

11:06

Okay, yes, but based on their

11:08

theories and what we know of black holes

11:10

and white holes and all that stuff, and comparing

11:13

it to our findings when we passed through

11:15

the nebula, what if it's

11:18

not theoretical anymore? How

11:20

So, it's very likely we

11:22

did unwittingly travel through a wormhole,

11:24

yes, given all that we have seen. But

11:27

that's not all, Tea. What

11:29

if there is more to that, with

11:31

with all that we found, all that we discovered,

11:33

with the planet and the ship's log and

11:36

everything else. What if

11:38

it's not theoretical anymore?

11:40

What if we just found something else,

11:43

proved the existence of something we

11:45

didn't even know if it was possible.

11:48

What if we accidentally did something we shouldn't

11:50

have. What are you saying, Sydney. I'm

11:53

saying I think the wormhole was the least

11:55

of our problems, Tea. I

11:57

think we're stuck in a

11:59

time loop. Mag

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Mill will returned after these messages

12:18

and now back to mag Mill,

12:27

Sydney, what you are suggesting is

12:30

not scientifically possible. Most

12:32

of what has happened to us so far has not

12:34

been scientifically possible. None of this

12:36

makes sense, So why don't we start looking

12:38

outside the box for answers since

12:41

the ones inside aren't really providing

12:43

us anything. I think perhaps you

12:46

should take a moment to breathe. Perhaps

12:48

returning to Janna and focusing

12:51

on that situation would be for the best.

12:53

Ja. Yes, Jenna,

12:57

I should wake her and talk to her. She's

12:59

feeling her. She can probably help work through

13:01

this with me right now, to right, No,

13:04

Sydney, that is not what I meant. She certainly

13:06

knows a bit more about this. Her husband studied

13:08

this stuff for years, so she should be able

13:10

to work out solution or

13:14

see what's going on. It's the extra planetary

13:17

scan. It's picking something up

13:19

all the way out there. I thought you scanned

13:21

it before and didn't detect anything. It

13:23

didn't. But we are in uncharted space

13:26

and the atmosphere is different out here.

13:28

Things can change rapidly, and it seems

13:30

that they have. Why. What's

13:32

out there? It's the black hole? Black

13:35

hole? What about them? It's

13:37

here? What do you mean it's here? What

13:40

black hole? When we first arrived that

13:42

black hole? You mean after the

13:44

nebula? How But that doesn't

13:46

make any sense. We just flew a

13:49

few hours away. From it. How how the

13:51

hell is it here now? Unfortunately, science

13:53

has not reached a point of understanding this

13:56

quite yet, so I am unable to make any

13:58

accurate calculations regarding this phenomenon.

14:01

However, based on collected data,

14:03

it might have something to do with it expanding,

14:06

contracting, or even the bending

14:08

of space and time. It seems

14:10

to be expanding at a much higher rate than

14:12

before, and each time it does it

14:15

moves within space. It followed

14:17

us essentially, yes, but

14:19

rather unintentionally. But it's

14:22

here now and we are in

14:24

its direct path, so

14:26

that means we probably should What

14:32

the hell is that? What was? What are

14:34

you seriously telling me? You didn't hear

14:36

that? Listen? No,

14:40

no, no, no, no, no no no. We have

14:42

to get the funk out of here right now, Sydney,

14:45

What are you hearing? Are you serious? It's

14:47

this thing, whatever it is, the fucking

14:50

monster, it's coming for us. I have to

14:52

get us out of here now, Proteous,

14:57

what what? I'm

15:00

sorry, Sydney, but I can't let you do

15:02

that. Let me do what new protocols

15:05

engaged contaminant detected.

15:07

Damn, Let me the funk out

15:09

of here right now, Prodias, are you

15:12

fucking serious. Look outside

15:14

ta we have two big problems heading

15:16

our way, and we need to get the funk out

15:18

of here now. No abnormalities

15:20

detected on my visual sensors.

15:23

We must stay here and wait

15:25

further instructions. Then fucking

15:27

listen. No abnormalities detected

15:30

on my auditory sensor commencing

15:33

full lockdown. Let

15:36

me the fun here now? Fuck?

15:42

Who get up? God

15:48

head? What's going on? Everything

15:51

is being taken care of, Jenna, Please

15:53

relax. Something is wrong with what's

15:56

wrong? What's wrong with you? Sydney

15:58

was displaying some tis disturbing behavior.

16:01

I had to prevent her from hurting herself.

16:04

Locked me in here. He's looking down

16:06

the ship. Now we have to get out of here. Something

16:08

is coming for us. What

16:12

the fund is that I do not detect

16:14

anything on my sense? Listen

16:16

to me? Why the fund? Am? I strapped at this table

16:18

t disengaged now request

16:21

to what do you mean? Requests denied?

16:23

What? I'm sorry, but you have also

16:25

exhibited abnormal behavior,

16:28

jan normal the hallucinations you

16:30

are experiencing tell me that it is

16:32

not safe to let you operate the magma.

16:35

You are a danger to yourself and

16:37

to others. So I

16:40

can get out of this is not

16:42

fucking funny. Team let me go now. Please,

16:44

if you want to help us, you have to disengage

16:47

the lockdown here. We are not going

16:49

anywhere. It wants

16:51

you to stay. If that thing

16:53

doesn't kill us, the black hole will I'm begging

16:55

you. Please? Black hole? What black

16:58

hole? The one after the nebula. It's

17:00

out there. It followed us. Oh,

17:04

oh god, the anomaly. It

17:07

was the black hole. There is something wrong with proteus surface

17:09

level programming, but maybe his sublevel programming

17:11

is still clean. What what the hell

17:13

are you talking about? Sub level? It doesn't matter

17:15

right now, but I might be able to fix this. T

17:18

T access C class level protocols

17:20

access denied. Class

17:23

level protocols are classified. Proteus

17:25

listened to me access C class level

17:27

protocols. Pass code beta

17:30

to C access

17:32

granted user to H

17:35

one six. Captain Kevian

17:37

Prescott command access

17:39

mission protocols C class level

17:42

protocols accessed. Scanning

17:44

for anomaly anomaly

17:48

detected, observe anomally

17:50

yes, yes, Jesus Christ observed, go autopilot

17:53

engaged. You

17:55

did mission

18:00

override lockdown commencing,

18:02

No, goddamnit, override that override. What are

18:04

you doing? Programming? Erupt

18:06

all commands overridden? Intution,

18:11

what are you doing? Override the lockdown

18:13

for a few minutes and let us out t flush

18:16

all current commands and reboot your system

18:18

system rebooting. Holy

18:27

funk, that worked. Okay, come on, we gotta get to

18:29

the bridge before he comes fully back online. No wait,

18:31

do you hear that? Hear? What? Who?

18:34

We don't have time for the Sydney. Come on, we have to go. But

18:36

we're the C class level protocols. Jenna, she

18:39

said it yourself, not now, come on, what were they?

18:41

Jenna, Sydney tell me? Fuck? Alright,

18:43

fine, The

18:45

Magma's mission had another classified

18:48

purpose as well. Okay, we were sent up to observe

18:51

an abnormality, one that originated from

18:53

the Nebula. They

18:55

thought they could harness its power. They thought they could

18:57

tame the power of the wormhole. But obviously

19:00

that sucked us, all right, And you

19:02

knew, you knew this the whole

19:04

time, and we don't have time for this. But you

19:06

knew I did, but I wasn't supposed to, Okay,

19:09

Kevin told me. Kevin knew. Look,

19:11

we can talk about this later, but we have to go right

19:13

now. This the whole time, and you didn't say

19:15

anything. You constantly blame me

19:17

for fucking things up. But you knew this the

19:19

whole time and you didn't tell me. And

19:22

now look look what you've done to

19:24

us, Sydney.

19:25

I only

19:31

complete system back online.

19:34

Jenna. Are you all right? I'm

19:37

sorry. I'm not sure what happened earlier.

19:39

I assure you. I am myself now, Sydney,

19:41

at least for now. What is going on,

19:44

Tea? I seem to have something affecting

19:46

me. I believe it is the mold.

19:49

I think it got into my system, much

19:51

like Jenna isn't in her now? Yes, I

19:53

am running a scan and it is infecting.

19:56

No, no, Sid, it's not. I'm

19:58

fine. It's just fuck

20:02

that fucking heart.

20:10

You're not Channa anymore? What the fun? What

20:13

are you talking about, Sydney. Of course, I'm Janna.

20:15

You lie to me, and that's stuff. The mold.

20:17

It's inside you. It's it's controlling

20:19

you. Stop and listen to yourself.

20:22

Said, help me get out so we can

20:24

get out of here. No, no,

20:27

I have to here is it? I

20:29

know it's here. If I can just find it,

20:31

I could I could stop it. Help me Sydney.

20:35

Here it is Sydney. You're

20:38

not thinking clearly. Here is the rent,

20:40

don't you see? We have to stop it.

20:42

The only way to save her. It's the only

20:44

way to say, step away from

20:46

her. Something

20:49

is wrong with Sydney. To move.

20:56

It's inside eu Genna. I have to save you.

20:59

No, Sydney, it's inside you. With me. I

21:01

have control the idol.

21:03

He told me what happened. It told me what's

21:05

inside you. It's coming for you. I

21:08

need to save us, Janna, I need to save you.

21:10

You have to listen to me. It isn't you please

21:13

stop that. I

21:15

don't. I

21:18

don't get rid of it now.

21:50

Oh h

22:16

h Sydney

22:23

safety. I did it. No,

22:27

Sydney, she's alive,

22:30

but her heartbeat is very faint.

22:33

Don't you say I had to stop

22:35

it from from taking control of over

22:38

hanging over mm

22:40

hmmmmm. No

22:45

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

22:47

no, it's still it's still coming for

22:49

us. It's still here. We've

22:51

got to go. We've got to go, prepare

22:53

the ship for lunch. We've got to go. Get out

22:56

of here. Listen to reason, Sydney, you're not

22:58

We need to get out of here away from away from the

23:00

thing, away from the black hole. Don't you understand I'm

23:02

trying to save us.

23:04

Just sucking do it, t I

23:06

don't have time to argue with you. You are

23:08

not qualified nor in the right state of

23:11

mind to fly this Verdi has switched to

23:13

computer mode. Computer mode engaged

23:15

for takeoff now prepping systems.

23:18

Please proceed to the cockpit for takeoff.

23:20

Now let's get the funk off this planet. Magmal

23:27

will returned after these messages

23:39

and now back to magmill.

24:08

Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, work,

24:10

God damn it. Come on the

24:14

fuck won't you go faster? Fuel

24:16

reserves below acceptable level.

24:18

I fucking know that already. Just make it

24:20

work. God, how the hell

24:22

do you do this, Jenna? Just

24:26

one more minute, you can do it. Unidentified

24:29

object approaching buck

24:32

Buck. Fuck? How long do we have? Collision?

24:35

In? Approximately thirties seconds?

24:37

Fuck? Engage warp engine warning,

24:40

insufficient fuel for maximum

24:42

efficients. Just fucking

24:44

do it. Yes,

24:47

come on, baby, you can do this.

24:51

Just hang on, We're almost there. We

24:53

can do this. Warning

24:57

almost come on almost.

25:05

What would

25:23

you do if you have a chance to say

25:25

nor again? What would you

25:28

do do? Good

25:36

morning, Magma crew. Today is

25:38

March. You are currently one

25:40

hundred kilometers from the helix Nebula.

25:43

Congratulations, ladies. After seven

25:45

hundred fifty four days, today

25:47

is the day your mission finally comes to

25:50

fruition. My head, I

25:54

don't want to go to school today. Just

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ten more minutes, Proteus, there is no educational

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work currently eduled for the day. Janna,

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Perhaps you are mistaken. It was a joke

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to God. After two years, you think

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you'd grow a sense of humor. After two years,

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you'd think you would understand the one I was programmed

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with. Very funny. Hey,

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what's that smell? Sydney is preparing

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breakfast in the galley. You, ladies have

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a big day ahead of you, so she wanted to make sure

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you were well nourished. Great, tell her I'll be there

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in a minute. And how many times do I

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have to tell you stop calling us

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ladies. We are interplanetary

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scientists charting the great unknown,

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not the real housewives of outer space.

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I beg your pardon, ladies, all right,

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funck off? How lady like? Said

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Proteus is being a prick again? Well

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there she is, Good morning, Ready

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for your big day? Yes, mom, so excited

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for the first day of school. Well, I made you breakfast

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because you know we're going to be busy later.

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Thank you. Oh bacon

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and eggs. Looks like someone went through the trouble

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of rehydrating the good stuff. Today must

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be a special occasion. If you're not a fan,

27:07

I can always oh,

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oh what's wrong?

27:13

Just feel off off?

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Oh god, it's not the food, is it? Because I'm starving

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and we all know I would have given up on step two. I

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don't know. I just feel like, have

27:24

you ever gotten deja vu? Who

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hasn't? I just got the strongest

27:28

sensation of it, Like, like

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we've had this conversation before. Dude,

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deja vu is a lie. You know that, right, It's just

27:35

temporal lobe epilepsy. It's a discharge

27:37

in your brain that fools you into thinking that. And

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I know you're right. It's just very

27:42

strange feeling and I can't shake

27:44

it. Said, this is the biggest day of your

27:46

career. Trust me, you would know

27:48

if you've done this already. Right, Yeah, yeah,

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I guess so good. I'll get ready

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because today today we're gonna

27:56

make history. Mag

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Mel starring Ali Trasher,

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Julia Henning, and b J Gribb.

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Additional voices in this episode provided

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by kat Ton Chonko Mac

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Manson, and Jeff Heimbuck. Written

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by Jeff Heimbuck and Lindsay Skaggin,

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Directed and edited by Jeff

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Heimbuck. Produced by Jeff

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Heimbuck and Ali Trasher. Executive

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produced by Holly Fry. Audio

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engineered by Corey Celeste and

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Alex Gona. Original musical

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score by Corey Celeste. Additional

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songs by the Ramikins as played

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by Roscoe Soultran. Magmel

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is a production of I Heart Radio and

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comments email us at

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Project Magmal at gmail dot

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com. Until next time, We'll

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see you when we see you,